May 31, 2019
Why American Poets Ought to Translate More Poems
As literary translators go, I am mostly a fraud, and thus beset by a fear that all frauds—from TV psychics to reality TV presidents—share: to be exposed by those who […]
March 21, 2018
Ways To Be Marvelously Supportive (or Critical) of Community Focused Projects
We can show support within our community in countless ways. From donating money or resources, to sharing our skill sets, helping with publicity, building collaborations among wonderful organizations, problem solving […]
July 21, 2016
Histories of Our Faces
I recently returned home from teaching for two weeks in the Between the Lines program at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in Iowa City. The session in which I taught […]
January 31, 2016
Crossing That Line
Yesterday afternoon was a day I’d been anticipating for almost a year — the high school students’ orientation for the joint Writers in Baltimore Schools and Johns Hopkins University Writing […]
April 3, 2015
Technical Difficulty
I’m excited to be blogging for The Kenyon Review, especially at the start of the much-anticipated and oft-maligned National Poetry Month. Personally, I love reading blog posts that serve as […]
May 5, 2014
Interview with Jacob Cooper
“The first composer / could hear only what he could write,” reads the entirety of W.S. Merwin’s “Memory of Spring.” Anyone who has labored alone to make a thing might […]
October 6, 2012
Unwriting the Books of the Dead: Anne Carson and Robert Currie on Translation, Collaboration, and History
Before Anne Carson took the odes of Gaius Valerius Catullus as cartographical tools for navigating the all-too-unmappable space of her brother Michael’s death, Louis Zukofsky translated them. In the preface to […]