What poetry books have you been reading lately?
Michael Dennis. Curtis LeBlanc. Billeh Nickerson. Hmm. All males. But this is probably more owing to the fact that I was needing to write reviews for new books by each of them. Oddly, because I’ve been trying to clean my office space, this has meant sorting, rearranging, and giving (not enough) books away. During this process (and probably one of the reasons it’s taken me so long to accomplish) I’ve encountered some wonderful anthologies that had managed to lose themselves on a hard-to-reach shelf. As a result I’ve discovered or rediscovered a number of writers including such amazing poets as Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth McCallister, Donald Justice, Susan McMaster, and Edward Hirsch. This, of course, then leads me in turn to finding their books—often on my own shelves, where they may not have been read for a while—but sometimes sending me to the library or my local independent bookstore.
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