April is National Poetry Month…reading the April 2014 edition of Poetry Magazine I learned that Maxine Kumin had died in February at her home in Warner New Hampshire. So while not a glad note to sound early in National Poetry Month, it is one that nonetheless gives us pause to celebrate her wonderful poetry and prose, a brief overview of books by and about her:
- The Roots of Things: Essays
- Where I Live: New & Selected Poems, 1990-2010
- Still to Mow: Poems
- Jack and Other New Poems
- To Make A Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living
- Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry
- The Light Within the Light: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz by Jeanne Braham
- Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin edited by Emily Grosholz