Hannah Brooks-Motl is an MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Republic, District, This Land, and on the Poetry Foundation Website. With Stephen Burt she helped edit the book Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden (2005).
Spring 2013
The Smallest Space:
Lyric Aphorism
in Contemporary Poetry
I. In “Man Carrying Thing” Wallace Stevens made one of his most infamous declarations: “The poem must resist the intelligence / Almost successfully.” Those lines can seem to describe, and […]