G. C. Waldrep’s most recent collections are Archicembalo (Tupelo, 2009), winner of the Dorset Prize; Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2011), in collaboration with John Gallaher; and a chapbook, St. Laszlo Hotel (Projective Industries, 2011). He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he edits the journal West Branch and teaches at Bucknell University. He also serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.
Nov/Dec 2020
American Goshawk
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. I strode into the woods in a brute faith, certain the forest would give me what I needed. If there was a mathematics […]
Fall 2013
The Recovery Project Project
As an all-but-recovered social scientist with a PhD in history, I often find myself wondering just how the social system we associate with “poetry” works. There are the journals; there are the presses—large and small; there is AWP, think of it what you will.
Spring 2012
“Go Quotiently”: Contemporary British Poetry from Shearsman
To read much contemporary British verse is—for an American poet—a dreary, disheartening affair. Vast swaths of careful prosody retailed by the major houses (especially Faber) run the gamut from the quotidian to the banal by way of the Minor Epiphany—which in practice is virtually indistinguishable from the Minor Disappointment—and the occasional turn of Audenesque wit, deprived of Auden’s wild and unpredictable ear.
G. C. Waldrep
G. C. Waldrep’s most recent books are feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the long poem Testament (BOA […]