Growing up in Michigan, I never ever thought that I’d ever pine for snow but I do. Cornbread is in the oven. Big pot of soup on the stove. (Recipe sounds gross but it is good. I add more water and more bay leaf.) Yeah.
Some random links to poets at RateMyProfessor.com: Mark Jarman, Kay Ryan, Diane Wakoski. Nothing political meant with those choices. 
I just happened to know where they taught and you have to do searches via school on that site. So it was easier just to look up those schools. Here’s some news:
- Internment camp to state poet laureate
- Simon Armitage, a fellow Yorkshireman, addresses the shamanic qualities in Ted Hughes’s poetry (fixed link sorry)
- Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
- Graphic poem draws EHS students parents”™ ire
- U. of I. magazine named ‘Best New Literary Journal’