Joseph Campana is a poet, arts writer, and scholar of Renaissance literature. He is the author of The Book of Faces and Natural Selections (2012), which received the Iowa Poetry Prize. His poems appear in Slate, Poetry, Conjunctions, Guernica, and elsewhere, and he has received grants from the NEA, the HAA, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently he is completing a collection of poems entitled The Book of Life. He teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing in the Department of English at Rice University.
Poetry
Summer 2008
Sheltering Bough
Shelter won’t come from the sky. Look: how the trees sway to stand. But they never let you down, and in the dream so closely mirroring this night, storms would […]
Spring 2016
A Shirt Loves a Body
A shirt loves a body the way a bracelet kisses a wrist, kisses the tender flesh stretched over tendon and vein: a whole world
Winter 2009
Review of Marjorie Garber’s Patronizing the Arts
Princeton University Press, $24.95 (hardcover) If one of the great paradoxes of art is that creation incites destruction, perhaps no period of cultural making proved that point more clearly than […]