It was great to see that Alan Gilbert has a short piece on Eileen Tabios' new blog Poets on Adoption: here's the link his entry at the Poetry Foundation site.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harr...-and-adoption/
I'm only one of many poets (posted or soon to come) writing about this issue. Some are birth parents or adoptive parents, others adoptees, and the issues covered are wide-ranging: transnational adoption, the effects of closed adoption, gender issues, historical and legal contexts, & much more.
The range of styles and aesthetic choices is similarly wide, but this is not a hobbyist's blog. The poems (& much of the accompanying prose) is thoughtful, revealing, and genuinely literary.
Here's the link to the full blog if you'd like to take a look. My own page also links to an interview I did earlier this year for Sorina Higgins'
Iambic Admonit blog and to Estella Lauter's new review of
Trials of Edgar Poe, kindly posted at
Verse Wisconsin. (Thanks Wendy & Sarah!)
http://poetsonadoption.blogspot.com/