Refresh yourself on the last batch of picks here.
New and Recommended Poems
- Lucia Perillo contributes to The New Yorker. Last month, Folio Found recommended her recent collection Inseminating the Elephant.
- “A Correction” by Idris Anderson in Agni.
- Also in The New Yorker, Richard Wilbur writes “A Prelude.“
- Poetry features a handful of works from Eleanor Ross Taylor, who was awarded the Ruth Lilly Prize last month. The selection is solid, start perhaps with “Where Somebody Died.” We’ll be posting more on Taylor, but her Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 (Southern Messenger Poets)
is well worth a read.
- In the New Criterion, Adam L. Dressler writes of “The Lacedaemonian boy.“
- Mary Jo Salter won Poetry Northwest’s Theodore Roethke Prize for her “Unbroken Music” and “From a Balcony, Lake Como.”
- Robert Pinsky examines two Robert Frost poems at Slate, asking: Was Frost a Modernist?
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