Ok, so it was on a Wednesday and not in the Sunday paper. And one of the books was by Billy Collins, which barely counts. But they basically set aside a whole column inside of the Style section to review five books of poetry.

After having repeatedly complained that the New York Times was not giving much love to poetry, I felt like I should recognize the WaPo for giving up some real estate to the art form.

They even included a review of a relatively new poet – writing about The Needle, only the second book of poetry by Jennifer Grotz.

New York Times‘ poetry editor, David Orr: are you listening?