Alexandria Peary is New Hampshire’s new poet laureate , and she’s ramping up her work as the state’s official advocate for poetry and the literary arts more broadly. As part of her work as poet laureate, she’s been reading work sent to her by New Hampshire poets. NHPR’s Peter Biello spoke with Peary about this effort and about her new collection of poetry, The Water Draft . Read Alexandria Peary's Top Five Reading Recommendations: 1. Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in poetry. "The Idea of Order at Key West" has to be one of the best poems in English, point blank. 2. Laura Mullen's The Tales of Horror. I recommend anything by Laura Mullen, one of the most important contemporary American women poets writing today. This book is fun and dynamic. 3. Charles Simic, New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012. A book by a master of imagery, an addictive read. 4. Calvino, Invisible Cities. Calvino's prose poetry (though genre-wise this book has also
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