October 17, 2018
W.D. Snodgrass’s “Heart’s Needle”
With their radically revealing autobiographical tone and their excavation of trauma, the poems in W.D. Snodgrass’s collection, Heart’s Needle, are undoubtedly confessional. What’s interesting about the poems is that this […]
February 23, 2015
Rotten, Rotten, Rotten
We’re seven weeks into the winter semester—and my students have written some terrible poems. It’s OK; I’ve asked them to. We’ve been reading W. D. Snodgrass’s De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems […]