Category: Poetry
With the Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference underway, we challenged our JHU Press authors to write on the theme “Kill your darlings.” We asked: What poem, line, stanza, or piece of brilliant work have you sacrificed for the greater good? Has this piece or well-turned phrase found its way into another poem, short story,…
Chapter and Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. guest post by David F. Elmer When I first had the idea for my new book, The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the…
Guest post by Peter Filkins The 50th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s suicide on February 11, 1963, will no doubt cause many to pause and think what might have been if she had lived to write beyond the age of thirty. Many will reflect on the patriarchal forces she struggled against, or the role of her…
Guest post by Jonathan F.S. Post The recent generous review by David Yezzi of The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht in The Wall Street Journal happily calls attention to a number of high points in the book, including the funny anecdote Hecht tells of events surrounding his time as a juror on the Bollingen Prize…
Guest post by Jonathan F. S. Post As with most beginnings, it is difficult to recall the precise origins of this project, except to say that it began with a telephone call to Helen Hecht. I had been unable to attend the New York City memorial service for her late husband, Anthony Hecht, in early…
Chapter & Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by X. J. Kennedy Most of my poems begin in bed. I’ll wake up in the morning with a line or a couple…
Chapter & Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by X. J. Kennedy Most of my poems begin in bed. I’ll wake up in the morning with a line or a couple…
Chapter and Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. guest post by Edward McCrorie You translate for many reasons, no doubt, but I think the most important are a strong response to the author’s…
Chapter and Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. guest post by Edward McCrorie You translate for many reasons, no doubt, but I think the most important are a strong response to the author’s…
Poets and children's literature aficionados no doubt know that celebrated American writer X.J. Kennedy turned 83 this week. A textbook and children's lit author, poet, teacher, and translator, Kennedy has earned many literary awards throughout his distinguished career, from the 1961 Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets (now known as the James Laughlin Award) and the Los Angeles…