Comments on: in part about love

By: Allison Benis White

Allison Benis White — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:50:35 +0000

Jenny Browne mentioned that you opened your reading at Trinity with a poem from Self-Portrait with Crayon. Thank you! I really appreciate you sharing my work in that (“interested” and “packed”) forum.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:19:19 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. They published “To Autumn” in the first issue with space available after the poems came in, so no ironies of timing intended as far as I know, though perhaps some arise (see Louise Gluck’s poem that ends “It is spring! we are going to die!”– she also has a poem entitled “To Autumn” by the way).

The stanzas in “An Atlas” are Moore-ish, I suppose, though no more so than they are Clampitt-like… the latter learned so much from the former!

By: Walker Pfost

Walker Pfost — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:23:46 +0000

Or theirs. Damn.

By: Walker Pfost

Walker Pfost — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:23:12 +0000

I appear to have poems in the current issue of ILQ

How odd that they published “To Autumn” in the February issue. Was this your idea? Or yours?

(Also, were you deliberately channeling Marianne Moore in “An Atlas of the Atlas Moth”? Also also, “The Soul” was killer. Killer.)

By: Equivocal

Equivocal — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:51:28 +0000

“An Atlas of the Atlas Moth” and “The Soul” are real beauts, S. Really. I’d have to weigh in for those, and for Susan Stewart’s “Porter’s Pass”, tho it’s true I haven’t read much of the issue yet.