George Witte is the author of two books of poems: Deniability (Orchises, January 2009) and The Apparitioners (2005).
3. What other poetry-related blog or website should I check out?
Check out Contemporary Poetry Review at http://cprw.com/index.htm . Some of the most thoughtful and clear-eyed reviews and longer considerations of poets past and present can be found here.
4. Who is the most exciting young/new poet I’ve never heard of, but whose work I ought to find and read?
Ander Monson—see his poems in the Spring 2008 edition of Prairie Schooner.
9. What lines from a poem you first read years ago still haunt you now?
“Is this all? Is this the way we learn/Something? This is the way we learn.” –last lines of “The Ambassadors” by Weldon Kees
13. This is the Best American Poetry blog. What’s the best non-American poetry you’ve read lately?
Georges Szirtes, a London-based Hungarian poet and translator.