I just read and enjoyed your article “10 Young Americans Change the Face of American Poetry” and liked your choices. Here’s a challenge: how about “10 Not-So-Young Americans Change the Face of American Poetry”? Like a number of poets I was not able to get deeply into writing until the demands of career and child-rearing abated, but there are a lot of us out there writing strong work and taking risks and being published as widely as the poets you cover here. We may not look as good in the author photos, but we are doing important even exciting, even ground-breaking work! Thanks for considering it. Rebecca Foust,
I just read and enjoyed your article “10 Young Americans Change the Face of American Poetry” and liked your choices. Here’s a challenge: how about “10 Not-So-Young Americans Change the Face of American Poetry”? Like a number of poets I was not able to get deeply into writing until the demands of career and child-rearing abated, but there are a lot of us out there writing strong work and taking risks and being published as widely as the poets you cover here. We may not look as good in the author photos, but we are doing important even exciting, even ground-breaking work! Thanks for considering it. Rebecca Foust,