Status Updates From The Best American Poetry 2009

Your body a dead language

“Cinderella’s Last Will & Testament” by Debbie Yee

(cont. from last)

- "Forty" - Pamela Sutton
- "Ultimately Justice Directs Them" - Craig Morgan Teicher
- "Liturgy" - Natasha Trethewey
- "No Pegasus" - Ronald Wallace
- "Cinderella's Last Will and Testament" - Debbie Yee
- "Never to Return" - Matthew Zapruder

Finished. Will write review later.

- "Insomnia" - Linda Pastan
- "On Mercy" - Kevin Prufer
- "Turn" - Keith Ratzlaff
- "Tonight No Poetry Will Serve" - Adrienne Rich
- "Subject, Object, Verb" - James Richardson
- "A Blind Astronomer in the Age of Stars" - Pattiann Rogers
- "This Tape Measure Made of Light" - John Rybicki
- "Love" - Martha Silano
- "Like a Monkey" - Mitch Sisskind

(cont. next)

(cont. from previous)

- "Tell the Bees" - Sarah Lindsay
- "The Happy Majority" - Thomas Lux
- "Boarding: Hemaris thysbe" - Joanie Mackowski
- "Lingering Doubts" - J.D. McClatchy

Read G-M. It had me in the first half, not going to lie, but in the second half I found a lot to like.

- "Definition of Terms" - Michael J. Grabell
- "Arthur Englander's Back in School" - Richard Howard
- "How to be Eaten by a Lion" - Michael Johnson
- "To Yahweh" - Tina Kelley
- "What I Think of Death, if Anyone's Asking" - Maud Kelly
- "Why do you keep putting animals in your poems?" - Lance Larsen

(cont. next)

Read A-F. Favorites so far:

- "Concerning the Land to the South of Our Neighbors to the North" - Mark Bibbins

- "The Book of Steve" - Catherine Carter

- "The Great American Poem" - Billy Collins