POETRY REVIEW

Each week I look for the deluge of letters thanking you for the full-page poetry roundup review you ran in September. Did it never come? Maybe when we poets write prose we are better at whining than at praising.

I appreciated the reviews. They were concise and knowledgeable; I carry the torn-out page in my wallet for reference when I visit the bookstore.

WILLIAM SLATTERY, LOS ANGELES. We don’t usually run letters that pat us on the back, but we did get more than 30 letters thanking us for the poetry roundup. We’ll continue to do them from time to time.--Ed.