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I get so excited whenever I “discover” a new poet. Even better, when the poet lives in Virginia (Falls Church, to be exact)!

Have you heard of Eleanor Ross Taylor? Even though she published her first collection of poetry in 1960, received many awards, and has kept company with the likes of Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell and Robert Penn Warren, she’s managed to stay largely under the radar all these years.

I suspect she won’t be able to keep a low profile very much longer, as 2010 has been a banner year for her. In March, she received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. And then in April, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She’s been compared to Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and Emily Dickinson.

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