SOME OF IT IS LINKED BELOW

Some Essays

• “What the Hell Is the Presidency For?”

• “Some Notes on Literary Power and Shane McCrae’s The Language of My Captor”

• “Signifying Nothing”

• “A.O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons”

• “Material that Walks and Sings: On Gwendolyn Brooks and Goodness”

• “That they are there: On George Oppen and the Role of Poetry”

• “How Much Does ‘Does Poetry Matter’ Matter?”

• "Impersonations of Ordinary”

• “‘Everything only connected by “and” and “and”’: On Elizabeth Bishop and Disappointment”

• “Who Know in Singing Not to Sing: Poetry and Decorum in the Fallen World”

• “‘All We Can Say’: On Politics”

• “The Way We Talk About Poetry Is the Problem”

• “When I Mean I”

• “They Tell Me Nothing’s Gone': On Robert Lowell, Life Studies, and Recovery

A Couple Poems

• “Temper”

• “Reunion”

• “Haw River Meditation”

Some Reviews

• José Olivarez

• Robert Hass

• Charif Shanahan

• Claudia Rankine and Claudia Rankine

• Patricia Smith

• Athena Farrokhzad

• V. Penelope Pellizon

• Kathleen Ossip

• Carl Phillips

• Brian Teare

• Dana Levin and Monica Youn

• Frank Bidart