RIP C.D. Wright, 1949-2016

C.D. Wright was one of my--and many other poets'--heroes. Here's a brilliant overview of her work by Stephen Burt.

Requiescat in Pace Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012

The Los Angeles Times obituary of one of my poetry heroines can be read here. Her collection, The Dream of a Common Language, was one of the first books of poetry I ever bought.

L.A. Times on US poet laureate Merwin's environmental credentials

Read it here.

In a previous life...

I was delighted to come across online a reference to a previous incarnation, Carrie Etter as editor of Out Loud: The Monthly of Los Angeles Area Poetry Events; the article was published in The Los Angeles Times in 1990. Finding this piece was like the time I was reunited in high school with someone I'd known from my early elementary years, who told me I used to write plays and make fellow students act in them (!). I shake my head and think, No, that wasn't me, and on further thought realize, No, yes, that probably was me.