Mutual Congratulations

John Gallaher, winner of BR’s 12th annual poetry contest, has a new review up… of a book by another of our favorite people, Rae Armantrout, whose poems “Win” and “Money Shot” were featured in our January/February 2009 issue.

On his blog, Nothing to Say & Saying It, Gallaher writes that Armantrout’s poems are

both objective and subjective, in a constant state of assertion and interrogation [which] makes for a richly complex perspective, one teetering at the very brink of elusiveness, a vantage point of seeing and saying that is truly hers alone.

As for Armantrout, who judged our 2009 poetry contest: she has just received a National Book Award nomination for her collection, Versed.