I only get mail once every two weeks, so It might be old news to some of you—but the 55th anniversary edition of The Hudson Review rocks. Where else can you find George Bush's NEA chairman analyzing Run DMC's prosody and presenting 3 of his own new poems?
There's also a set of short reviews and 6 sonnets by Sam Gwynn, poems by Mark Jarman, Louis Simpson, David Mason, Emily Grosholz, and Robert McDowell, an essay on Auden by Joseph Epstein, and more that I haven't yet had time to read. But the most exciting thing is a CD with readings by W. S. Merwin, Anthony Hecht, Louis Simpson, X. J. Kennedy, Maxine Kumin (one of my favorites), Catherine Tufariello, Sam Gwynn, Philip Levine, Galway Kinnell, Hayden Carruth, Daniel Hoffman, Marilyn Nelson, Robert McDowell, Emily Grosholz, Dana Gioia, Mark Jarman, David Mason, Ginger Andrews, Frederick Morgan, and Michael Donaghy (whew!). I heard Donaghy read "Black Ice and Rain" at West Chester 3 years ago—it's just as magical here.
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