Alta Poetry 2020
We continued our love affair with poetry, publishing works from Anastacia-Reneé, Sara Borjas, Robert Frost, Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, D.A. Powell, Tess Taylor, and Matthew Zapruder.
If, as Gary Snyder says, “three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering,” then we posit that poetry is a key for escaping it. In 2020, we celebrated our passion for poetry with compelling verse from some of the West’s best poets.
Editor’s note: Some of these poems were included in Alta articles.
Beth Spotswood is Alta's special projects director. In addition to her work for Alta, Spotswood has contributed to 7x7 Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Discovery Channel, Slow News Day, KGO Radio, SFist and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she had her own weekly column in the Thursday edition of the newspaper. Spotswood's work in Alta has been recognized by the San Francisco Press Club, Los Angeles Press Club, and the FOLIO Awards.
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