Recommended Reading: One Poet's Notes

In case you missed it, Edward Byrne of the Valparaiso Poetry Review has recently posted, at his One Poet's Notes blog, about

• the life, poetry and recent death of W.D. Snodgrass
• the poetry of William Stafford (one of my favorite poets)
• Edgar Allan Poe's writing
• Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, including Barack Obama's comments on that address as the time was nearing for Obama to give his own inaugural address
• Elizabeth Alexander's inaugural poem "Praise Song for the Day".

As far as I'm concerned, Mr. Byrne is swinging for the fence and batting 1000. Take a few minutes to take in these essays. You'll be glad you did.