![]() ![]() Known for his erudition, wit, and dexterity with form and meter tackles contemporary themes with classical grace. ![]() His biography at the Poetry Foundation website describes him as a poet And my friend Milla van der Have launched her first poetry chapbook. Charles Martin and Andrew Hudgins came with fellow Sewanee Writers’ Conference teacher Erin McGrath to read at the American Book Center. Luckily, I live in Amsterdam where a good poetry reading is always around the corner. I need more of a prod to delve into a poetry collection. I read as widely as I can, though my tastes seem to run naturally toward fiction, long and short, grand old masters and new kids on the block. ![]() It’s raining now and my field has turned green once more. Then came the long drought in which I read little and wrote less. That was when my dream was to become a poet like them. Back in the day, my favorites were Ai and Tess Gallagher, Charles Wright and Yusef Komunyakaa. But it’s been a while since the last time I seriously read poetry. A poet is someone willing to bare her soul. ![]()
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