Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Great Regulars: It was a banner year for poetry.

There were new collections from old masters like Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Jean Valentine and Richard Wilbur, as well as accomplished books by younger poets like Dorothea Lasky and Maureen McLane. Now, in mid-December, my pile of 2010 volumes read and unread has begun to teeter; I share with you a handful of the ones I did get to that have stayed with me.

from Meghan O'Rourke: NPR: Word Power: The Year's Best Poetry

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