Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of ...

Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its variety and complexity. This engaging and accessible book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the rich body of ...

S. Eliot, and especially Ezra Pound, whose mantra “make it new” encapsulates this energetic thrust. While modern American poetry is indeed a broad, disparate field, embracing a range of practices and ...

Based mostly in universities, these groups have gradually become the primary audience for contemporary verse. Consequently, the energy of American poetry, which was once directed outward ...

The Didactic Muse: Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary American Poetry Willard Spiegelman Writing with the vigor and elan that readers have come to expect from his many astute reviews and essays, ...

Mark and Seamus turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poems the personal becomes not only political, but epic. This episode is from series two of ...

Mark and Seamus look to that great poet of winter and snow, Wallace Stevens, considering his anecdote-proof life, the capitalist economy of his imagination, and his all-American poetry of precise ...

At DePauw, I lead creative writing workshop at all levels and also teach First-Year Seminar and literature courses on contemporary American poetry and Asian American poets and writers. As a teaching ...