Jonathan Farmer is the editor in chief and poetry editor of At Length and Critic at Large for the Kenyon Review. He has written about poetry for publications that include Slate.com, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Poetry Foundation. He teaches middle and high school English and lives in Durham, NC.
Book Review
Mar/Apr 2018
“Within Stone / the Mind Writhes”
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 736 pp. $40.00. For those who know Frank Bidart’s poems, the idea of him as a great […]
Nonfiction
Jan/Feb 2016
Who Know in Singing Not to Sing: Poetry and Decorum in the Fallen World
Once upon a time, it was common to talk about decorum in art. These days, not so much. Neither the literary nor the social applications of the term sit well […]
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
“All We Can Say”: On Politics
If politics is, or was, or was rumored to be, the art of compromise, political poetry, as we typically understand it, is not. Political poetry is more often poetry of […]