Prof/Chair of English @FloridaState; "Cambridge Intro to American Poetry," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies" & "Locus Solus: NY School Poets" blog
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28 Oct 2022
My new book -- "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945" -- has a cover! (It's Grace Hartigan's 1957 painting "Billboard"). The book should be out in December, and is now available for pre-order here): amazon.com/Cambridge-Introdu…
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Apr 30
In my advice column for @thedrift_mag this month, I wrote about attention, what it is and isn't, why we feel like ours is totally broken, and what you can do to fix it
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It's neat to see that Sianne Ngai chooses the speaker of Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" as one of "Three Pivotal Characters from American Literature" in this piece in the New York Times (alongside Pynchon's Oedipa Mass and Morrison's Sula). nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Apr 15
Very many thanks to @LRB for giving me the chance to write on James Schuyler.
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❛ In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition...
Poet James Schulyer, who died #OTD in 1991.
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Apr 10
wrote an essay about parquet courts’ still-excellent “human performance,” which came out ten years ago (?!?!) this wednesday. feel old yet?????
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I wrote about mortality, meter, and Robert Frost’s midlife crisis for @yalereview. yalereview.org/article/kamra…
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Harvard University, to their eternal glory, has provided online recordings of hundreds of authors who have graced their stages over the past century.
We are talking Siegfried Sassoon (!), Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, E.M. Forster, and more.
Dive in!
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Mar 26
This week's best new song roundup features Styrofoam Winos’ Frank O’Hara-inspired boogie, Jim Legxacy’s bout with death and success, Gelli Haha’s candy-covered club banger, and more. pastemagazine.com/?p=422389
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What Happens When We Die? This Wallace Stevens Poem Has Thoughts — A. O. Scott on Stevens’s “Of Mere Being” nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Mar 25
Emerson meets Wordsworth in 1833
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"Literary Attention: From the Twentieth Century to the Present," a special issue of Poetics Today edited by Yael Levin, is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/eAIMNer
Buy this issue using code SAVE30 for a 30% discount: buff.ly/EuPujP6
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Mar 19
James Schuyler’s poems don’t propel you outward. They slow you down. Mae Losasso on why he’s the poet for our distracted moment.
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Feb 16
I profiled Richard Hell for @PoetryFound. poetryfoundation.org/article…
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Feb 16
Casey Wasserman is not the only music mogul in the files. Virgin Records founder Richard Branson has an extensive history with Epstein that is being downplayed by his spokespeople. Read the first comprehensive timeline of their relationship below:
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Feb 13
Richard Hell's novel Godlike has been re-released by NYRB Classics. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory, inevitable Rimbaud and (Tom) Verlaine references (and other noms de plume), the New York School, and his fearlessness of influence.
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Jan 25
One of the best things anyone’s ever written about the band 🖤
Jan 24
in honor of heated rivalry making ‘i’ll believe in anything’ a sudden hit, i wrote this week’s time capsule essay on apologies to the queen mary. i love you wolf parade
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Jan 24
in honor of heated rivalry making ‘i’ll believe in anything’ a sudden hit, i wrote this week’s time capsule essay on apologies to the queen mary. i love you wolf parade
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Jan 24
Wolf Parade’s Apologies to the Queen Mary keeps finding new people to haunt pastemagazine.com/?p=419380
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Jan 10
Bob Weir, the singer, songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of the Grateful Dead who for decades was one of the driving forces behind the revered band and their legacy, has died at age 78 rollingstone.com/music/music…
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