But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Doubleday.  
Cap of darkness: including looking for the king of Spain & Pachelbel's Canon. Black Sparrow Press.

She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial comments linking New Formalism with Reaganism. Diane Wakoski (born August 3 1937) is an American poet. Wakowski is primarily associated with the deep image poets as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.