Dear Editor,
I was disappointed to see no heading for books of poetry in the last issue of the Concord Insider. Yes, there were two mentions of poetry, but they were embedded under the headings of “Nonfiction” and “Local authors.” I missed the first reference to poetry until I went back over all the headings and then spotted it under nonfiction – that catch-all usually reserved for books of historical, political and social interest. Unless you mean to suggest poetry is nonessential, why not give poetry its own heading? Aren't poets such as Walter Butts (New Hampshire's new Poet Laureate), Rhina Espaillat (perhaps our greatest living sonnet writer), Robert Crawford or Midge Goldberg – to name a but a few of the many New England poets – worth mentioning?
Sincerely,
Don Kimball
