Litmag Roundup

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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Litmag Roundup

Refresh yourself on the last batch of picks here.

New poems:

• In the annual Fiction Issue, The Atlantic includes a poem, By The Sea, from my old poetry teacher, Maura Stanton. Check out her most recent collection, Immortal Sofa.
• The issue has a lot of poetry worth reading. A few more: Jane Hirshfield – The Conversation, Grace Schulman – Antiques Fair, Carl Dennis – Friendly.
• Christina Hutchins has Into Your Pocket featured in The Missouri Review.
• Barry Goldensohn writes after Breughel in AGNI.
• After this poem in Slate about an encounter with a student, I think Erika Meitner’s next course at Virginia Tech to fill up immediately. HarperCollins is releasing her second book, Ideal Cities, as part of the National Poetry Series later this year (preorder a copy here).
• Michael Shally-Jensen’s The Black Stones, first prize for the Literal Latte Poetry Award.

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