September 29, 2018
New Origins
Poetry may often come to us in small packages and brief passages, but poetry is rooted in our big human questions: who are we? how (and why) did we get […]
June 3, 2017
Thea Brown’s “Principia” (Poetry in Public: Part IV)
Earlier this year, I spent some time thinking about the interplay between hearing poets read aloud (the experience of voice and embodied presence as event) and encountering their work on […]
October 14, 2016
Poetry and Leadership: Part I
This post is an adaptation of a talk I gave at last weekend’s Imagining America National Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The medium of poetry is language—not some alternate language to that […]
February 16, 2016
Life of a Poem, Part II
In my last post, I spent some time with the first line of George Starbuck’s poem “Of Late.” “‘Stephen Smith, University of Iowa sophomore, burned what he said was his […]