"These letters continue in the tradition of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. Unlike Rike's letters, this is a collection of many different established poets communing by letter with younger, emerging poets. These letters bear advice, philosophical discourse, theoretical strategies, dreams, weather reports, questions, answers, and, poetry. What happens here is a kind of call and response by letter. And as in Rilke's letters, these missives are lively, urgent, wise, erudite, witty, political and absolutely necessary to a contemporary discussion of the current state of the making of poetry." — Joy Harjo
"In the age of the quick email, it is wonderful to pick up the heft of Letters to Poets, by poets, and for poets. Here are epistles that demonstrate that the pleasures of poetry are clustered around the pleasures of thinking with others." — Juliana Spahr
Anselm Berrigan & John Yau
Brenda Coultas & Victor Hernández Cruz
Truong Tran & Wanda Coleman
Patrick Pritchett & Kathleen Fraser
Hajera Ghori & Alfred Arteaga
Jennifer Firestone & Eileen Myles
Karen Weiser & Anne Waldman
Jill Magi & Cecilia Vicuña
Rosamond S. King & Jayne Cortez
Judith Goldman & Leslie Scalapino
Traci Gourdine & Quincy Troupe
Brenda Iijima & Joan Retallack
Dana Teen Lomax & Claire Braz-Valentine
Albert Flynn DeSilver & Paul Hoover