February 27, 2017
Innovation in Conversation (Part IV): Speaking with Randall Mann, Richie Hofmann, Phillip B. Williams, and Chen Chen
Over the past few months, I’ve spent time here at The Kenyon Review blog with the art and thought of contemporary poets engaged in formal innovation, focusing in particular on […]
July 1, 2016
First Person Plural: Part V (Genealogy)
Over the course of multiple posts, I’ve focused on poems that explore the first person plural – “we.” Most recently, I looked at Camille Rankine’s poem “Genealogy,” a poem that, though […]
March 30, 2016
The Books that Made Us: Weetzie Bat and Behind the Attic Wall
I sat next to her in German class my sophomore year in college, this girl who wore thermals under t-shirts and lined her wrist with jelly bracelets. She loved makeup […]