Published: Oct 14th, 2014
Here’s a preview of my new “Epic Encounters” essay on teaching the modernist long poem for Journal of Modern Literature (37.4). This Gladiator-inspired movie poster of Paterson, by Cory Hunter, is reproduced by… Read More
Published: Oct 2nd, 2014
It’s that time of year again when chillier morns and earlier sunsets hearken us back to pubs, pints, and poetry. No Oktoberfest Library is complete without a requisite pull of modern and… Read More
Published: Aug 23rd, 2014
Shelley famously declared that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” I find that women poets are often community organizers in the literary world. The collective that formed Kalliope (1978-2005), an internationally acknowledged journal of… Read More
Published: May 30th, 2014
This week’s passing of Maya Angelou—a woman with gravitas and grit—brought forth a new kind of poetry community on social media. When poets take on an afterlife in their writing,… Read More
Published: Apr 13th, 2014
This weekend I did the PechaKucha 20×20 for the first time, joining a worldwide phenomenon where PowerPoint meets stand-up. If you’ve lived long enough in these times, you’ve experienced that… Read More
Published: Feb 21st, 2014
I wrote this piece for Poetry & Popular Culture to coincide with W. H. Auden’s birthday. Casagrande member Cristobal Bianchi visited UF this year and spoke about the Bombing of… Read More
Published: Feb 14th, 2014
Auden remains one of our most compelling love poets, so I’ve assembled a dozen of his lines from the poems listed below. (I’ve also altered the original punctuation.) Happy… Read More
Published: Feb 1st, 2014
Organ virtuoso Cameron Carpenter performed at my university last night, where I had the pleasure of hearing and seeing him for the first time. His punk elegance (soft Mohawk), genderbending… Read More
Published: Jan 27th, 2014
Last night I got to Talk-Back with other edgy women at the Hippodrome Theatre in downtown Gainesville. The event: a post-screening panel discussion on Gender, Feminism & Pop Culture: Riot… Read More
Published: Jan 1st, 2014
This academic year I offered fall courses to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death and her novel, The Bell Jar. (My last Plath course coincided with the… Read More