David Wojahn’s most recent collection of poetry, For the Scribe, appeared from the Pitt Poetry Series in 2017. His previous collection, World Tree (Pittsburgh, 2011), was the winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the low-residency MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Book Reviews
July/Aug 2018
“Our Abidance Along with Theirs”
Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character by Kay Redfield Jamison. Knopf, 2017. 532 pp. $29.95. Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by […]
Nature's Nature
May/June 2016
A Cache of Photos of the Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
—after J.T. Tanner & Rice Miller The feet, gladiator tridents, creeping up the sleeve of J. J. Kugh, who stands implacably still. Adolescent, fearless, feathers a-bristle, he can afford to […]
Nonfiction
Sept/Oct 2015
Devotion and Witness
Before the Door of Cod: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry, Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, eds. Yale University Press, 2013.425 pp. $35.00. Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English 1500-2001. […]
Book Reviews
Spring 2014
Doorstops and Leave-takings: Four Poets
Bewilderment. By David Ferry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.113 pp. $18.00, paperback. Collected Poems. By Jack Gilbert. New York: Knopf, 2012. 428 pp. $35.00, hardcover. Poems 1962-2012. By Louise […]
Book Reviews
Spring 2008
By Increments
The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007. By Albert Goldbarth. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2007. 370 pp. $26.00, hardcover. The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems. By Bruce […]
Poetry
Autumn 2005
Dithyramb and Lamentation
Its walls were breached; the people groan…In its boulevards, where feasts were celebrated, scattered they lay…What power have we now against the deluge? —Lamentation on Ur I. PHOTO OF A […]
Poetry
Winter 2000
Kill Born, Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn
The two officers say they will appeal. The kid, one Jeremiah Mearday, says he was just on his way to the drugstore for some cold meds. The cops say they […]
Poetry
Winter 2000
Cartouche
Valley of the Kings, 1997 First, destroy the face. The hands & sandaled feet—blunt them as well. & within the ochre-daubed cartouche, chisel to smithereens the great floating eye of […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1998
Survivalist Selves
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. 85 pages. $19.00, hardcover. Loose Sugar by Brenda Hillman. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1997. 115 pages. $12.95, […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
The Shades
I. Peter at the Psychological Clinic, 1908 That Peter lit a cigarette was evidenceof a something-like-human intelligence. He’d dressed himself, and laced his roller skates,donned a child’s tuxedo and a […]
Poetry
Winter 1990
‘It’s Only Rock and Roll but I like It’: The Fall of Saigon, 1975
The gutteral stammer of the chopper blades, Raising arabesques of dust, tearing leaves From the orange trees lining the embassy compound: One chopper left, and a CBS cameraman leans From […]
Poetry
Winter 1990
Matins: James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the South, 1958
"Please, Please, Please" on the charts permits Four canary yellow sequined suits And a hulking Coupe de Ville—bought on credit— For the Alabama-Georgia roadhouse circuit. Half last night they drove […]
David Wojahn
David Wojahn’s most recent poetry collection, World Tree, was published in 2011 by the University of Pittsburgh Press and was the winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall […]