Witter Bynner Winners Laureate Kay Ryan Introduces Davis, Szybist

摘要

U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan had many insightful and incisive things to say about poetry, in her introductions of the two 2009 Witter Bynner poetry fellows, Christina Davis and Mary Szybist, at the Library of Congress recently.rnRyan expounded, for instance, on the way poems should be read and appreciated. "I'm going to read that again," Ryan said, after reading a poem by Davis. "I didn't do a great job, plus I just think it needs a second reading. And let me say, parenthetically, I think all poetry needs at least two readings. If you read a poem and you said you got it and thought it was nice, then either it wasn't a poem or you're not through with it yet.