Bryan Coffelt's The Whatever Poems

Sun didn't start until nearly July, rain came yesterday, so the 2-month summer is almost a memory whose madeleine for me is Bryan Coffelt's The Whatever Poems. Though he's Portland's now, Coffelt's a founding member of the Ashland School, which surely has as much right to the name as Ashbery's "soi disant Tulsa School" ever did. Draw a loose circle around poets like Maurice Burford, Jess Rowan, Lacey Hunter, Mike Young, and Willie Ziebell, throw in a rejuvenated West Wind Review, check the So...