I want to be friends with Pearl London

Bless the Provo City Library and their little podium displays of new nonfiction! Last week I randomly picked up Poetry in Person edited by Alexander Neubauder just published this March. The book compiles (and condenses) over 25 years of 90 minute conversations with poets. Pearl London taught at the New School and began a course called "Works in Progress." She invited poets to bring a poem in revision, or newly revised, and discuss their "vision and revision" with her and her students. As a result, these conversations are much more intimate and worthwhile than interviews (and I love interviews!). The poets are candid, personal, and useful in so many ways. So many different modes of expression, advice, and theory.

If only every classroom was like this! If only every day (and conversation) was like this! It makes me want to devour the world. It makes me want to give the world something great.

If nothing else, every writer should buy this book as a reference.