One of our own:
America’s newest Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan

Unless you subscribe to The Atlantic or The Paris Review, you’ve probably never heard of Kay Ryan — and we suspect, Ryan prefers it that way. Because although Ryan has been awarded some of the most prestigious poetry prizes in the country, she remains a sort of literary loner. Until today. This week she was named the country’s 16th Poet Laureate by the librarian of Congress. Her style has been described as ”carefully positioned” and “spare.” “An almost empty suitcase, that’s what I want my poems to be, few things,” Kay Ryan told The New York Times this week. “The reader starts taking them out, but they keep multiplying.” A video of Ryan, along with links to her work, after the jump.

  
• Poet Kay Ryan is named poet laureate [Associated Press]
• I Go to AWP by Kay Ryan [Poetry Foundation]
• The Biggest Little Poems by David Kirby [NY Times]

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