Category: Poetry

Don’t miss the reading by John Irwin & Wyatt Prunty on Thursday, February 25

The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars will host a reading by two long-time friends and JHU Press authors, John Irwin and Wyatt Prunty, on Thursday, February 25, at 6:30 p.m.  The reading, reception, and book signing take place in Gilman Hall, Room 50, on JHU's Homewood campus.  The event is free and open to the…

Christmas “snugness”

In his book  Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature, Jerry Griswold explores five sensations particularly important in childhood. In the excerpt below, he examines “snugness” and its particular association with Christmas.   “Cozy Time” Turning from space to time, we can note that there are certain occasions especially apt for an evocation of…

Eliot prose receives Modernist Studies Association prize

This post re-publishes portions of a story by Maureen McGavin that appeared online at the Emory News Center.  Read the full story here. The second volume of a JHUP's monumental digital work, The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, coedited by Emory University's Ron Schuchard and involving the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship…