In Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet (University of Illinois Press, 2023), the late Dana Greene (1942-2023), a dean emerita of Oxford College of Emory University, whose books include Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life and Elizabeth Jennings: The Inward War, capitalizes on revealing new material to tell the poet’s story from Kenyon’s own perspective. The first major Jane Kenyon biography since 2002 (1), this layered biography goes well beyond others: Much of Kenyon’s narrative had been previously told from the viewpoint of her well-known husband—the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Donald Hall—but in this reexamination, readers may come to a greater appreciation of Kenyon’s work as an entity that is distinct and separate from his influence.