Great Regulars: Michael Robbins is the rarest kind

of poet: one who wakes up famous one morning (wait, I'm still going) before his first book is even out. When his poem "Alien vs. Predator" appeared in The New Yorker in January 2009, it went, well, sort of viral.

from Michael Lista: National Post: On Poetry: Alien vs. Predator, by Michael Robbins

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