Reprise: "When you start writing, all these people are helping you"

Three poems by Gary McLouth

(Originally published on How to Grow a Poem in August, 2023)

The English Lake Poets--Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and the others--are high on the list, as are the American Transcendental poets, most famously (in our time, at least) Emerson and Thoreau and Margaret Fuller. But the introspective poems of Theodore Roethke are on that list as well, and sc…