The New Yorker profiles Rae Armantrout

Dan Chiasson says Armantrout is "the most genuinely experimental poet to get the Pulitzer since John Ashbery won the triple crown in 1976":

When the announcement for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry is made, it’s news. But, inside the bubble of the poetry world, it doesn’t feel noteworthy. Things were different this year. The winner was Rae Armantrout—a poet unknown outside poetry circles but very well known within . . .