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Essay and Interview

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Nothingism

Poetry at the End of Print Culture

By Jason Schneiderman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the form and significance of poetry in a digital age

The Imaginary Present

Essays in Quantum Poetics

By Amy Catanzano
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the questions of the universe through poetry and science

How to Draw a Circle

On Reading and Writing

By Dan Beachy-Quick
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)

poetry & parenting

By Nathaniel Perry
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Thinking about parenting through the lens of poetry

To Go Into the Words

By Norman Finkelstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

The Game Changed

Essays and Other Prose

By Lawrence Joseph
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays on poetry by the most important poet-lawyer of our era

Diary of a Poem

By Andrew Hudgins
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

A humorous and insightful collection of essays on poetry and its process

Two Minds of a Western Poet

By David Mason
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet

Unauthorized Voices

Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1987-2009

By Marilyn Hacker
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Editor of the acclaimed Poets on Poetry series collects her own essays on the subject

The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive

Essays and Commentaries

By Martin Espada
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet

Coming After

Essays on Poetry

By Alice Notley
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience

First Loves and Other Adventures

By Grace Schulman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Award-winning poet explores the exhilaration of reading

Poetics of Dislocation

By Meena Alexander
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

A prominent poet brings the experience of the world to her struggles to find her place in America, and explores what the many cultures in this country mean for poets practicing their craft

Orpheus in the Bronx

Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry

By Reginald Shepherd
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Essay and Interview, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays by the distinguished contemporary poet and writer Reginald Shepherd explore among other subjects personal history, the meaning of beauty, and gay poets

Ed Dorn Live

Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes

Edited by Joseph Richey
By Edward Dorn
Introduction by Peter Michelson
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Collects the commentary of the later years and last days of one of America's most powerful and unique poets

Poetry and What is Real

By Richard W. Tillinghast
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Selected Prose

By John Ashbery
Edited by Eugene Richie
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Art, Architecture
Series: Poets on Poetry

Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time

The Answers Are Inside the Mountains

Meditations on the Writing Life

By William Stafford
Edited by Paul Merchant & Vincent Wixon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

A gathering of poems, articles, aphorisms, writing exercises, and interviews from this prolific and venerable author

Barrier of a Common Language

An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry

By Michael Dana Gioia
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

The latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series from the acclaimed poet, critic, and current chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

The Metaphysician in the Dark

By Charles Simic
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

From one of America's foremost contemporary poets, a scintillating, surprising collection of essays on everything from poetry and art to the fine art of sausage-making

Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto

Poetry and Identity

By David Alan Mura
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays and interviews on the relationship of color and the literary canon

The Castle of Perseverance

Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry

By Thomas M. Disch
Subjects: Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Eminently readable and refreshingly candid essays on literature and culture, by a master of many literary genres and forms

A Boundless Field

American Poetry at Large

By Stephen Yenser
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Reflections on the state of poetry and criticism by a master of both genres

Body and Soul

Essays on Poetry

By Mark Foster Jarman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

How a poem tells a story, and the importance of narrative as core of a poem's body and key to its soul

Negative Capability

Contemporary American Poetry

By Linda Gregerson
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Appraises the work of significant American poets in engaging and erudite essays by a leading critic and scholar

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