on Stray by Stephanie Danler

Stephanie Danler is from California. And like much of one dominant image of the state, her words are wet-haired, sandy, and moody beyond even her own sense of belief. After a decade away, spent out East, she returned to California …

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Russell Banks

 

Tribute to Stanley Plumly

I think of those many beautiful poems Stan wrote in memory of his friends. For instance, his poem “Kunitz Tending Roses” for Stanley Kunitz:

Still, there he is, on any given day,
talking to ramblers,

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