I’d like to muse a bit on the epistolary poem. The typically conservative, overly-stylized, and impersonal neo-formalism of the eighties and early nineties is now mostly behind us,
Alfred Corn is the author of nine books of poems, the most recent titled Contradictions. In 2008 the University of Michigan Press published Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007.
Mark Jarman’s latest collection of poetry is Epistles (Sarabande Books, 2007). Sarabande Books will publish his new and selected poems, Bone Fires, in 2011.
Lee Upton’s novella, The Guide to the Flying Island, was a winner of the Miami University Novella Competition. She is the author of five books of poetry,