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Petrarch’s Hangover: An Argument in Five Sonnets

By Monica Youn Posted Feb 7, 2019

An exploration of disproportion in the Petrarchan sonnet structure, looking at a James Joyce-designed necklace and poetry from the 14th century to the present.

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Poetry of the City with Victor Hernández Cruz

By Rigoberto González Posted Jan 31, 2019

An exploration of “the collusion and collision of peoples and cultures” in the poetry of Victor Hernández Cruz.

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Poetry of the City with Cynthia Cruz

By Rigoberto González Posted Jan 24, 2019

A look at a poem by Cynthia Cruz, who uses “the fragment and a truncated rhythm” to depict a speaker at odds with a city’s opulence.

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Poetry of the City with Federico García Lorca

By Rigoberto González Posted Jan 18, 2019

A look at Federico García Lorca’s poem “City That Does Not Sleep” and its “bleak critique of modernity and capitalism.”

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Poetry of the City with C. P. Cavafy

By Rigoberto González Posted Jan 10, 2019

An examination of a poem by C. P. Cavafy in which “the city triggers memory, keeps receipts, and preserves the details of personal tragedy and transgression.”

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Poetry of the City with Walt Whitman

By Rigoberto González Posted Jan 2, 2019

Rigoberto González explores the poem “Mannahatta,” Whitman’s ode to “a skyline made of iron and cement.”

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Poetry of the City with Percy Bysshe Shelley

By Rigoberto González Posted Dec 27, 2018

A look at Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias” as a cautionary tale of the end of a great king and his empire.

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Transforming Nature with Tommy Pico

By Carl Phillips Posted Dec 17, 2018

A look at how Tommy Pico reveals “stereotypes about a culture’s relationship to nature” in his book-length Nature Poem.

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Transforming Nature with Marilyn Nelson

By Carl Phillips Posted Dec 12, 2018

Carl Phillips looks at how Marilyn Nelson presents “a racialized landscape” in her poem “My Grandfather Walks in the Woods.”

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Transforming Nature with James Schuyler

By Carl Phillips Posted Dec 3, 2018

Carl Phillips explores James Schuyler’s poem “The Bluet,” revealing “a thanksgiving of sorts, for friendship itself, for human company.”

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