October 14, 2019
Monstering the Essay
This is the second in a series, Adventures in Composition and the Essay. Last year I taught a hybrid creative writing class and a monster-themed composition class at Fordham. My […]
October 3, 2019
The Most Essential Item in the Writer’s Toolbox: A Conversation With Lise Funderburg
After reflecting on her origins in ingenious ways in her own work, Lise Funderburg has now edited the book, Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents. In this project, she curates […]
September 28, 2019
On Being a Pedestrian in a World of Drivers
I can drive. That is, I’m physically capable of driving, but I just don’t. There are many factors that have contributed to this state of affairs, including having lived most […]
September 20, 2019
Motherhood So White: A Conversation With Nefertiti Austin
As she puts it herself, Nefertiti Austin “writes about the erasure of diverse voices in motherhood.” This is deeply important work, which is why you need to read her new […]
September 17, 2019
“Sexy, Messy, Scary, Fun, Overwhelming, and Precarious”: A Conversation with Carley Moore
Carley Moore is a writer, mother, and teacher, and all of these roles find their way into her terrific new novel, The Not Wives (Feminist Press). The book brings together […]
September 12, 2019
Adventures in Composition and The Essay
This is the first in a series, Adventures in Composition and the Essay. Since I’m teaching the most composition courses I’ve ever taught in a single semester (three), I have […]
August 20, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and the Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Five
This is Part Five of a series. Read parts one, two, three, and four. Ultimately, the brawl between the seen and the said that goes on in the poem causes […]
August 16, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Four
This is Part Four of a series. Read parts one, two, and three. In one example of this simultaneously spatially and temporally mobile impulse, Lippi depicts a future image of […]
August 13, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Three
This is the third post in a series. Read parts one and two. We can see Browning leaping back-and-forth in another instance of the poem’s ongoing battle between word and […]
August 7, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi” Part Two
This is Part Two. You can read Part One here. Any marriage of the visual and verbal in poetry contains its share of arguments. This struggle between the painted and […]
July 31, 2019
The Struggle Between the Visual and Verbal in Robert Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi”
A paradigmatic ekphrastic poem, such as W.H. Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts, with its central description of how the everyday life of the painting goes on as usual in Breughel’s […]
July 23, 2019
Flannery O’Connor and Kierkegaard
What could make a woman resign herself to her own death and that of her family? The answer to this question emerges through reading southern writer Flannery O’Connor and the […]