John Ashbery is a remarkably exciting poet who pushes the reader to the frontiers of their own imagination through a constant challenge of vivid, shifting imagery. Reading Ashbery is an exercise in attention and openness - one must be entirely prese

 Maggie Nelson is an American poet-critic-theorist who has lived and worked on both coasts. Her work is fascinating in it’s shimmering specificities, the way she continually reaches through actual occurrence to brush the essence with her fingertips.

 David Whyte is an English poet deeply in touch with the subtle realities of his existence while still firmly grounded in the world where nature, work, and society intersect. This intersection is, for him, the essence - He is quoted as saying that al