Wyatt Prunty is an American poet and literary scholar who founded and directs the Sewanee Writers' Conference at the University of the South. He contributed poetry criticism and reviews to The Weekly Standard between 2006 and 2012, covering contemporary and modern poets with a focus on craft and formal tradition.
The Open Door begins with Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” and zooms from there, highlighting 100 years of modern poetry, including that of Louise Bogan, Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, H. D., T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and…
Master of Disguises by Charles Simic Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 96 pp., $22
A Phone Call to the Future
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus
The world according to Heaney and Strand.
Selected Poems