Tuesday, November 01, 2011

News at Eleven: There was a sobering point when I had to

start looking at individual poems themselves and saying, I love this poem and think it's brilliant, but is it a poem that changed anything, is it a poem that is emblematic of its time, and did it really have an impact? If someone were to dig up a time capsule of the 20th century and it had this--these were our stories, these were our songs, these were our fears--what poems would represent that?

from The Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: Rita Dove on Editing a New Poetry Anthology
then The Seattle Times: Don't miss Rita Dove's intro to poetry anthology

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