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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws ... [Read More]

A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Tom Millay reviews Anthony Domestico’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist ... [Read More]

The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science

February 2, 2018February 2, 2018

David Currell reviews recent books on a timely classic. Imagine this review beginning with ... [Read More]

Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness. Alexandra Barylski interviews Ocean Vuong

January 5, 2018January 16, 2018

Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the Whiting ... [Read More]

The Poetry of Divinity: Defending Religious Poetry

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018

Tom Millay reviews Kevin Hart’s Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry Kevin Hart is not one to boast. Nothing in ... [Read More]

An Unreliable Alchemy

November 10, 2017January 3, 2018

Irina Dumitrescu on the enchantment of books, early reading experiences, and the stories that shape us One day the world shifted, and no ... [Read More]

Neo-Latin Seizes its Day

August 30, 2017September 3, 2017

A review of Victoria Moul’s edited collection A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of ... [Read More]

Landscapes of the Soul

August 17, 2017August 18, 2017

A review of Angel Hill Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate level. The public readily ... [Read More]

Leonard Schwartz & Kathleen Eamon Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis

August 15, 2017August 18, 2017

Poet Leonard Schwartz and philosopher Kathleen Eamon discuss Schwartz’s new book “The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis.” ... [Read More]

Haunted Bodies: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

June 21, 2017June 26, 2017

Alexandra Barylski on Molly McCully Brown’s The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded What sin warrants a blown brain, a lame body? ... [Read More]