I didn’t find a lot of information about today’s poet. Robyn Sarah is a Canadian poet and short story writer. She has taught English literature at Champlain Regional College and won a CBC Literary Award for poetry in 1990. It is possible that things will not get better than they are now, or have been known to be. It is possible that we are past the middle now. It is possible that we have crossed the great water without knowing it, and stand now on the other side. Yes: I think that we have crossed it. Now we are being given tickets, and they are not tickets to the show…

James Fenton is a British poet, journalist, art critic, and theater reviewer. He has written many books and in 1994 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. His volumes of poetry have been published sporadically and Stephan Metcalf in the New York Times said “I can’t help hoping that Fenton will slough off a little more frequently the pose of left-handed diffidence that has admittedly served him so well, and accept the mantle of his greatness, overbearing as it might be.” Don't talk to me of love. I've had an earful And I get tearful when I've downed a drink or two. I'm one of your talking wounded.…

Patricia Hampl is an American writer, lecturer, and memoirist. She first became known for A Romantic Education, the memoir of her Czech heritage. She also has written several volumes of poetry. She says of her writing “I think my fundamental instinct, the thing that brought me to writing as a child and beyond, was and remains a sense of wonder, a luminous amazement at existence.” You are stepping off a train. A wet blank night, the smell of cinders. A gust of steam from the engine swirls around the hem of your topcoat, around the hand holding the brown leather valise, the hand that, a moment ago, slicked back the…