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 28, 2015
Poetry and Play (Part II): An Exegesis Mashup
OFTEN I AM PERMITTED TO RETURN TO A MEADOW / HOMO LUDENS as if it were a scene made-up by the mind, that is not mine, but is a […]
July 20, 2015
Poetry and Play (Part I)
When I was in Amsterdam earlier this summer, the Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga came up in multiple conversations about poetry; more specifically, his 1938 book Homo Ludens: Proeve […]
May 26, 2015
Soundings: Poetry and Process
Sounding: the action or process of measuring the depth of the sea or other body of water. Sounding: information or evidence ascertained as a preliminary step before deciding on a […]