Two new essays on Jarrell have recently appeared in print. "Lost and Found," by Ellen Bryant Voigt appears in Southern Review 38.2 (Spring 2002) and Joseph Thomas's "'Levels and Opposites in Randall Jarrell's The Bat-Poet" in a special issue of The Children's Literature Association Quarterly 27.1 (Spring 2002) devoted to children's poetry and co-edited by Anita Tarr and Richard Flynn.

An online interview with poet Eleanor Ross Taylor appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. Here is the journal's description of the interview which is available both in transcript and real audio formats:

On March 14, 2002, Susan Settlemyre Williams of Blackbird met with poet Eleanor Ross Taylor in Ms. Taylor's home in Charlottesville, Virginia. Their discussion ranged from Taylor's early life as a poet, her marriage to Pulitzer-Prize-winning fiction writer Peter Taylor, her literary friendships with Randall Jarrell, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and others, to her views on the work of today's poets and her own evolution as a writer.

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