where the writers are

Sara Kaplan's Reading Interests

Favorite Books

Collected poems of James Dickey, Richard Hugo, and Robert Lowell. Lucky Jim, Lord of the Flies, Atonement, Chaucer, Catcher in the Rye, American Pastoral, Jane Austen, The Road

What I'm Reading

Nick Carbo, Kevin Young, Anne Radcliffe, Dante, Natasha Trethewey, Robert Hass, Rae Armantrout, Angie Estes, Cormac McCarthy

Favorite Authors

Robert Lowell, Robert Wrigley, Wallace Stevens, James Dickey, David Schloss, Jim Reiss, Reetika Vazirani, Annie Finch, Zadie Smith, Stephen Crane, William Yeats, Seamus Heany, Martin and Kingsley Amis, Kenneth Koch, B.H. Fairchild, Louise Bogan, Rilke, Isaac Beshevis Singer, John Ashbery, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Bly, Hart Crane, Robert Frost, Mark Doty, Carolyn Forche, Louise Gluck, Ted Kooser, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Delmore Schwartz, W.S. Merwin, David Lehman, Robert Pinsky, Roethke, Karl Shapiro, James Wright, Franz Wright, Natasha Trethewey, James Tate, Richard Wilbur, Nick Flynn, Mark Strand, Cormac McCarthy, Kim Barnes.

Influences

Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Robert Wrigley, David Schloss, Jim Reiss, Reetika Vazirani, and Annie Finch