Los Angeles Review of Books
Heart-Shaped Box: LARB Poetry Valentine Edition by Dan Beachy-Quick, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Natalie Diaz, Alex Dimitrov, Eloise Klein Healy, Sean Hill, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Dana Levin, Adrian Matejka, Jill McDonough, Lynn Melnick, John Murillo, Meghan O'Rourke, Jessica Piazza, Sarah Vap and Matthew Zapruder
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY from LARB Poetry! We've forgone the usual pipe cleaners, plastic googly eyes and Elmer's glue and decided to send you a heart-shaped box full of poets talking about poems they love. Click on each "Valentine" and read and listen. Feel free to send these poems along to someone and to add your thoughts on a poem on our comments page. Though we have recently heard otherwise, poetry's complicated heart keeps beating. It's because of poets like these and readers like you. Thanks.
— Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Joshua Rivkin & Elizabeth Metzger for LARB Poetry
[Click on a poet:]
Dan Beachy-Quick on Emily Dickinson
Reginald Dwayne Betts on Reginald Shepherd
Natalie Diaz on Federico García Lorca
Eloise Klein Healy on Christina Rosetti
Adrian Matejka on Pablo Neruda
Jill McDonough on Elizabeth Bishop
John Murillo on Etheridge Knight
Meghan O'Rourke on Wallace Stevens
