Bill Knott I just read in Coldfront that Bill Knott passed away on Wednesday due to complications from surgery.  What a loss for his friends and for American “verse culture.” Bill liked to give the impression that he was leading a posthumous existence—ignored, washed up, inconsequential—when in fact he was well known (though no Mary Oliver or Robert Hass), creatively engaged (poetry, appreciations, screeds, visual art), and influential in ways that might inspire envy in other poets of his generation (he was born in 1940).Read More