Poets on Poets

2001 Poetry winner Stephen Dunn died on June 24 at the age of 82. In 2016, he wrote about his influences in this reminiscence for the Pulitzer Prize centennial.

What Yusef Komunyakaa learned from a poet — and fellow Pulitzer winner — moved by the dignity of work.

In the work of a poet from an earlier generation, Rae Armantrout finds common ground – and points of departure.

In the briefest of Robert Frost’s lyrics, Kay Ryan finds the poet, as ever, saving himself.