Metromania: Poetry, Academy, Anarchy
Poetry's visibility in America.
Department: The Literary Life
Yeets and Kates: The Poetics of Pronunciation
If pronunciation is going to be saved anywhere, it will be in poetry, where the sound has something to do with the meaning of what is written, even in the loosest way.
Metromania: The Problems Poets Are Trying to Solve
On poetry's fractured audience.
Art of Reading American Mavericks: Wild Rides With Revolutionaries
In the sort of yarn that appeals to this author, you can feel the ground shake from artillery barrages, hear the call of bugles, and smell fires burning.
Metromania: The National Conversation, Po-Biz Style
The various venues for criticism and discussion of poetry.
Getting Clear: Dan Wakefield's Creative Path
On journalist-turned-novelist Dan Wakefield.
Metromania: The Vendler/Perloff–Standoff Handoff
On the disagreements of poetry critics Helen Vendler and Marjorie Perloff.
The Mystery of Consciousness: A Tribute to the Poet Edgar Bowers
Despite their usual lack of overt emotion, Bowers's poems can be heart-wrenching, profoundly moving in ways that flashier verse can never approach.
Metromania: A Pride of Independents
Amiri Baraka and Harold Bloom share an emphasis on content and character.
The Art of Reading Lorrie Moore: Keeping Our Wit About Us
How Lorrie Moore incorporates humor into her work.
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