by admin | Jan 16, 2016 | Criticism, Events, Poems |
I’ll be at the University of Chicago for two events Tuesday Jan. 19 and Wednesday Jan. 20 2016: on Tuesday I’ll be reading poetry and talking about my (very nonscholarly) versions of Callimachus at 7pm, and on Wednesday I’ll be giving a critical talk in the History and Forms of Lyric series, at 4:30pm. The talk is called “How to Make an Anthology, or the Literary History of the Present.” If you live in Chicago perhaps I will see you...
by admin | Apr 3, 2015 | Criticism |
I wrote about the poet Terrance Hayes, and also about Yona Harvey, for the New York Times Magazine. I’m rather happy with how it came...
by admin | Nov 16, 2014 | Criticism, Interviews |
Over at the Paris Review blog, I have the delightful privilege of carrying on an extended conversation with Matthea Harvey, whose new book would be rather amazing even if it didn’t also include visual art: I’m pretty sure it’s her best...
by admin | Nov 16, 2014 | Criticism |
Newest of all, at Cold Front I explain why you should strongly consider reading the poetry of Morris Stegosaurus. It says things about identity and fandom, or randoms, that nobody else has quite figured out how to...
by admin | Nov 16, 2014 | Criticism |
Every few years Laura Kasischke publishes a new book of poetry and I try to explain why she’s so good, and also why that book is not just like her last book (because, so far, they never are). This year the book is The Infinitesimals and it speaks directly to why there is poetry instead of no poetry at all. Here’s the author reading aloud on...
by admin | Nov 16, 2014 | Criticism |
I’ve been thinking about superhero comics, too, and writing about them: Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona’s Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), for example. I’ve also been listening to a podcast about them, and it’s so good that I wrote about that too: Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men. (It is totally plausible to me, as a teacher, that if you want to learn how to explain something complicated or how to do a compelling, fun podcast you will love this podcast even if you don’t care about the X-Men. But I’m not really in a position to know.) Oh, and I read artsy non-superhero comics too. I even tried to explain them this summer in Artforum (subscriber login may be...
