Sonnets: Anis Shivani’s Soraya and Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
First Two Books: Nick Flynn
Discussion of Two Poems by Walt Whitman
First Two Books: Robert Bly
Two Books by Sharon Olds
First and Newest Books: Robert Hass
Influences, Part 2: Major Jackson, Brenda Hillman, and Anis Shivani
Influences, Part 1: James Wright, Charles Bukowski, and Nick Flynn
Pairing: Carolyn Forché and Major Jackson
Pairing: Charles Bukowski and Audre Lorde
Pairing: Adam Zagajewski and Eavan Boland
Pairing: Adrienne Rich and James Wright
Discussion of Four Poems by Emily Dickinson