The Poetry Daily 2012 Poets’ Picks include contributions from MFA faculty members Debra Allbery, Jennifer Grotz and Mary Szybist, as well as alumna Adrian Blevins (poetry, ’02).  Click the links below to read each poet’s commentary on the poem of their choice:

Debra Allbery:
To Seem the Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Adrian Blevins:
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] by Christopher Smart

Jennifer Grotz:
The Book by Henry Vaughan

Mary Szybist:
I heard a noise … by Anonymous