Epistolary Poems: Assignment 2 examples

The Poetry Foundation has a great link to epistles/epistolary poems (also called letter poems or verse letters):  click me!

Here are a few poems from the first Latino winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets (most prestigious American award for a 1st book of poetry), Eduardo Corral, who is reading in DC tonight while we cover the letter poem:

1. "To Robert Hayden"
2. "To the Angelbeast" and an interview that gives us insight into the title's allusion to Hayden's poetry 

Also, check out "Love Letter (Clouds)" by Sarah Manguso.

And, Dorothea Lasky's "Poem to an Unnameable Man."

Because I write many epistolary poems, and because these two are linked, I am sheepishly using here are two examples: "To Mockery:" and "To Failure:"

Here is another "To Failure," this time from a famous poet -- the poet Philip Larkin.

To further my teacherly ego, here is a poem from Verse Daily, originally published in Columbia Poetry Review, where I was editor (and chose this poem for publication): "Black Iris"

To seal the ego -- um, I mean -- deal, here is a poem published by a grad-school mate, Ian Harris: "XOXO Los Angeles"