I don't think I can speak to what is the most interesting thing going on in poetry, but only to what I find most interesting, which is mainly the return of many things that have been out of fashion for a long time, things like wit and humor, in poets such as Wendy Cope, Gail White, Billy Collins, Tony Hoagland, David Kirby, A. E. Stallings, Julie Kane, R. S. Gwynn. Or direct engagement with human emotions in contemporary daily life, as in Rhina Espaillat, Deborah Warren, Catherine Tufariello, Sharon Olds, Linda Pastan, Allison Joseph, and many of the aforementioned poets. Or lyrical beauty in rhyme and meter, which I find particularly in Stallings, but also in several other formalists writing now. There are great writers in every era, but certain of my tastes have been starved for a long time, so it has been wonderful to discover some contemporaries that satisfy them.
Susan
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