![]() Natalie Diaz -2021 Pulitzer prize winner.Ģ2. Accused of plagiarism by William Logan.Ģ1. Bill Freind -edited book of essays on the poetry of Araki Yasusada-a poet thought by many to be Kent Johnson’s creation.Ģ0. ![]() In an interview, he strongly objected to “deforestation.”ġ8. Michael Robbins -influenced by James Schuyler. John Beer -his parody poem, “The Waste Land” is a real achievement.ġ7. Robert Baird -reviewed William Logan’s Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods in the NY Times, claiming Logan was attempting to play nice (to balance out his literary reputation) with a book of over-fastidious literary research.ġ6. Cal Bedient -with David Lau, edits Lana Turnerġ5. Fiona McCrae -director and publisher, Graywolfġ4. I knew her when she was a shy poet/translator at Iowa when we both worked for Paul and Hualing Engle’s International Writing Program.ġ1. Marilyn Chin -Jury Chair for the 2021 Pulitzer. Jonathan Galassi -FSG poetry editor who will publish Mazer’s Delmore Schwartz, much of it seen for the first time.ġ0. Studied with Seamus Heaney at Harvard along with Ben Mazer.ĩ. Michael Wiegers -Editor in Chief, Copper Canyon Press.Ĩ. In general, the too-much-white-space poetry of Poetry still sucks.ħ. Su Cho -took over Poetry magazine editorship duties after Share was forced to quit. Share was recently forced out of his position at Poetry.Ħ. Don Share -the last poetry editor of the now defunct Partisan Review, a position Delmore Schwartz once held. ND launched Delmore Schwartz when Delmore and founder James Laughlin were companions in their twenties.ĥ. Ben Mazer and the New Romanticism (2021) is a critical study of Mazer’s work from Spuyten Duyvil press.Ĥ. Also an editor, Mazer is bringing out The Collected Poems (with never published material) of Delmore Schwartz. Ben Mazer -Randall Jarrell’s living example: the Romantic Modern. William Logan -in an era of “too many poems” (Marjorie Perloff) there’s always criticism and reviews-Logan’s the great guilty pleasure, still the most mentioned.ģ. The best minds in poetry said, “great idea!” It hasn’t happened.Ģ. Kent Johnson -this well-known avant hoaxster asked for reviews to be anonymous 10 years ago. Let’s look back at the previous names, reputable or controversial, who made the list as number one. My own subjectivity is involved in the process. We need the haystack to find the needle.Ī final point is that Scarriet putting poets on the list makes them hot. I guess a secondary reason might be that I seek poetic or critical genius, or signs of it, at least. I just feel-damn- someone ought to do it. ![]() I don’t like to summarize poets’ subjective lives (who cares, really?)-their travels, their membership in hipster guilds, their predictable neo-liberal politics, their fragile creds, their backroom alliances-frankly it bores me to tears. I don’t know if the Hot 100 is fruitful-or merely feeds resentment and idle curiosity. Therefore no one else really bothers to do what Scarriet does here, taking a long vertical look to judge harshly and succinctly poets in the moment. Those who do make this list (most aren’t read much, either) are afraid to look down. Those toiling in the poetry trenches struggling to be read don’t look up. Scarriet’s Hot 100 has been going on for over 10 years.
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