Academic Confessionalism
Stephanie Rose Adams and I recently concluded that strands connecting every bit of especially bad verse—take nearly all the poems …
October 2011
Greg Nicholl’s “Errors in Cross Circulation”
Again, a piece that occupies a quizzical niche: Nicholl’s “Errors in Cross Circulation,” featured in the summer issue of Salamander, …
POTM: Richard Wilbur’s “The Beautiful Changes”
The Beautiful Changes One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies On …
Jacob Shores-Argüello’s “Crimea, An Unexpected Freeze”
In terms of delivery, Shores-Argüello’s “Crimea, An Unexpected Freeze” is shoulders above a good deal of contemporary verse. Its composition reads …
