In part because a character in my new novel is a poet - which I am not - I've been reading a lot of poetry lately. It's amazingly inspiring. And I just came across this quote by Vladimir Nabokov which I find myself heartily agreeing with: "You have to saturate yourself with English poetry in order to compose English prose."

One of the books through which I have been saturating myself lately is John Felstiner's Can Poetry Save the Earth. I heard John read from this not long ago; if you ever have the chance to hear him read, I highly recommend it! He reads poetry the way it ought to be read. You can hear him read "The Well Rising" by William E. Stafford on this interview on NPR. - Meg