In preparation for Monday’s show, I thought I’d pose the question (without trying spark an academic riot)
Who would you consider an important poet right now, and why? Feel free to leave a top five list but what’s most important is that we know why you consider these poets important. In what significant ways has their work affected you? Who is that poet you keep by the nightstand? Or maybe you haven’t found that poet yet because the kind of poems you like to read nobody’s writing. We want to know. Please leave comments.
On Monday’s show I’ll be exploring this subject with poet Carolyn Joyner and Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Hope you’ll join us.
Stay tuned.
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