Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
I really loved A.E. Stallings’s tour of the graves of poets in Athens [“Austerity Measures,” September 2012]. A gorgeous piece. With your use of the inside front cover to feature poems of recently deceased former contributors to Poetry, who could forget that we are all grave-bound? But it was good of Stallings to remind us all the same.
That said, I did take great heart from the blankness of the inside covers of the September issue. (Am I the only poet who gets the willies from that particular feature?) I can only assume none of us had died in the interim, myself included.
Born in 1968 in Newry in Northern Ireland, Conor O’Callaghan grew up in Dundalk, a town just south of the Irish border. He served as writer-in-residence at University College, Dublin, taught at Wake Forest University, and co-held the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University. Currently, he teaches at Sheffield Hallam University in England, where he teaches courses in creative writing...