Slate Hits the Poetry Trifecta

It feels like April when I read Slate today, what with all the poetry reviews. Dan Chiasson considers the Marxist verse of Anne Winters, dwelling on "the frisson between subject matter and poetic language." Adam Kirsch--who I'm starting to see everywhere lately, from his home perch at the New York Sun to an excellent New Yorker piece recently--digs into the new Derek Walcott, while James Longenbach looks back at Richard Wilbur, praising his best poems "not because they may or may not be stylish at any given moment but because they keep the English language alive." Incidentally, that Kirsch piece in The New Yorker I admired? Also about Wilbur. And if those two articles pique your curiosity, you can see what all the fuss is about next Monday (12/6), when the 92nd Street Y pays tribute.