March 29, 2017
Confessions of a Collector
I received my first painting as a gift from grandparents (art collectors themselves) when I was four. They had commissioned a Louisiana artist to paint a small oil on canvas […]
July 29, 2016
“Still unknown objects that belong together”: Poetry and assemblage
I recently recorded a poetry craft talk for The Writing University Open Courses program, which will implement another session of its “How Writers Write: Talks On Craft and Commitment” series […]
September 23, 2013
Futurism Revisited: An Interview with Marjorie Perloff, Part I
[This interview, which will be published in parts, was preceded by an introduction; you can read that here.] The Kenyon Review: I was interested to learn that F. T. Marinetti was […]
June 11, 2012
A Humument: a lesson in un-reading (i)
(This post is the first segment in a series on Tom Phillips’s A Humument. The others—including an interview with Phillips—will appear later this month.) Though billed as “a treated Victorian […]
April 16, 2010
Make It New?
Preeminent poetry critic Marjorie Perloff came to campus this week. The lecture I attended, “Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century,” argued towards the idea of “genius” […]