Baron Wormser and the Papago Indians

Former Maine poet laureate Baron Wormser has his 10th collection, Impenitent Notes, on the contemporary best seller list this week at number 5, having wormed its way (get it?) between Mary Oliver’s Thirst and Swan. Also debuting on the list this week is Native American poet Ofelia Zepeda’s 2008 collection from University of Arizona press, Where Clouds Are Formed (number 14). Sepeda is also the author of the first grammar textbook of Tahono Oadham, the language of the Papago Indians whose lands run from Southern Arizona to Northern Mexico. Caroline Kennedy's She Walks in Beauty is tops on the anthology list.