with a certain alienated majesty

Whatever you're doing, stop doing it; whatever you're reading, stop reading it, and look at the essay by Ange Mlinko in the current issue of Poetry. It is an essay I know I could never have written, and not only because "father" doesn't mean what "mother" means (though that too). Nonetheless, it's in some sense an essay I have long been trying, and always failing, to write, and not only because it describes some of my favorite not-yet-world-famous poets and poems.

If you are a parent yourself ...