DIRT: Laurie Taylor explores its material & symbolic meanings. Stephanie Newell, Professor of English at Yale University, traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban...
When I was a small child of, I think, about five or six, I staged a competition in my head, a contest to decide the greatest poem in the world. There were two finalists:...
Join acclaimed scholar and Shakespeare Association President Ayanna Thompson on Zoom for a conversation about issues of race and Shakespeare including the changing practices...
Amity Gaige’s Sea Wife and Claudia Rankine’s Just Us were listed in the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York...
In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter...
William Blake’s Color Theory
Quantizing Color in William Blake’s Illuminated Books studies the artistic output of the Romantic poet and painter, William Blake (1757-1827)....
Margaret Spillane in The Nation:
“Costa Gavras’s classic antifascist thriller reminds us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning...
