by envisionmg | Apr 23, 2018 | Poetry, Poetry Collections
“Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo’s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities...
by envisionmg | Apr 17, 2018 | Poetry, Poetry Collections
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * “With allusions...
by envisionmg | Apr 16, 2018 | Essays, Michelle Recommends, Poetry
“That’s what great poetry is. A superb serenity in the face of chaos. Wise enough to play the fool.” [From “Reading Philosophy at Night”] “The poem is an attempt at self-recovery, self-recognition, self-remembering, the marvel of...
by envisionmg | Apr 4, 2018 | Poetry, Poetry Collections
Poems – Elizabeth Bishop “Elizabeth Bishop is one of America’s greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike. The poems that make up Bishop’s small and select body of work display honesty and humor, grief...
by envisionmg | Apr 2, 2018 | Poetry
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry – Robert Haas “From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form, traditional and modern, for students,...
