Linda Pastan
The former Poet Laureate of Maryland, Linda Pastan has received the 2003 Ruth Lilly Award. Since her celebrated new and selected poems, Carnival Evening, she has published The Last Uncle (Norton, 2002), Queen of a Rainy Country (Norton, 2006) and Traveling Light (Norton, 2011). She has been a frequent contributor to Shenandoah and was three times nominated for the National Book Award.
Reading List
Cinema Verité
The movie I grew up in was in black and white, or sometimes in the sepia memory tints things with. The soundtrack was a Victrola playing “I’ll Get By.” The stars were a father with his important mustache; a maid …
November
Into this furnace of color a cold rain starts to fall, as if to warn the populace of leaves to pack and go, the armies of winter are on their way.