Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
I must admit, I was initially perplexed by your poetry reviews by fiction writers (September, 2004). However, when I began reading the reviews, especially the ones on Henri Cole and Alice Fulton, I realized you are far more brilliant and visionary than I am. Fiction writers do not have a stake in the poetry business, and will likely be more honest. Superb out-of-the-box thinking. Keep it up.
Victoria Chang (she/her) is the author of The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022); the nonfiction book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (Milkweed Editions, 2021); and Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the …