The Nation is proud to announce the 30th Anniversary Reading of Discovery/The Nation. The annual contest, for poets whose work has not been published in book form, was founded by Nation poetry editor Grace Schulman as a fusion of The Nation's Poetry Prize and the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center's Discovery Award. The winners for 2004 are James Arthur, Hailey Leithauser, Mitch Roberson and Anne Pierson Wiese. This year's judges are Richard Kenney, Brad Leithauser and Rachel Wetzsteon. As in the past, manuscripts are judged anonymously. Distinguished former winners of Discovery/The Nation include Susan Mitchell, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, Sherod Santos, Arthur Smith, Emily Heistand, Debora Greger, Roseanna Warren and David St. John. Past judges include Yehuda Amichai, James Merrill, Anthony Hecht, Mark Strand, Louise Glück, Michael Harper and Audre Lorde. This year's Discovery/The Nation event, featuring readings by the four winners, is scheduled for 8:15 on Monday, May 10, The Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue.

Blindness and Transparency

I can't say. Is it better to close your eyes,
or to go unseen?

Better to live unlit and ostrich-like
(a beached, unlikely survivor, the burier of an unhatched head), or

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