EVERSON IN POETRY, MAZER ON EVERSON

Poetry's website relaunch has made the back issue contents more easily available than ever before... such contents as Landis Everson's poem from the October 2006 issue, "What's Wrong":

What you are struggling with," said
the psychologist, "is
a continuous song, something like
a telephone's tone. [...]

Not serendipitously, but sadly, I came across two poems written in memoriam for Everson while reading this  Saturday, and a third in Stephen Sturgeon's Trees of the Twentieth Century when a friend and I were paging through and talking about the collection on Sunday.

I think of a short poem by Greg Delanty:

For many are not here who were here before.

In Dark Sky Magazine last month, Ben Mazer wrote about his relationship with Landis, and how his collection January, 2008 grew out of the grief he felt when the older poet died in 2007.