Poets on Poetry (Series)

Poets on Poetry collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

Series Editors
Editor, 2021-2026
Derek Pollard, dpollard@mailfence.com

Founding Editor
Donald Hall

Editors, 2012-2019
Marilyn Hacker
Kazim Ali

Editors, 2006-2011
Marilyn Hacker
Annie Finch

Editor, 1994-2006
David Lehman

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Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds

Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire

By Wendy Xu
Subjects: Writing, Fiction, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Pushing the boundaries of what poetry can hold

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure

Essays and Conversations

By Philip Metres
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Resistance through writing

Nothingism

Poetry at the End of Print Culture

By Jason Schneiderman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the form and significance of poetry in a digital age

The Imaginary Present

Essays in Quantum Poetics

By Amy Catanzano
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the questions of the universe through poetry and science

Radical Poetics

Essays on Literature & Culture

By Khadijah Queen
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Expanding theoretical practice to return radicality to its original meaning from the Latin—forming a root

How to Draw a Circle

On Reading and Writing

By Dan Beachy-Quick
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)

poetry & parenting

By Nathaniel Perry
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Thinking about parenting through the lens of poetry

Ghosts and the Overplus

Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

By Christina Pugh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Celebrating the voices, current and past, that surface in lyric poetry

To Go Into the Words

By Norman Finkelstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

Working Time

Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place

A Beat Beyond

Selected Prose of Major Jackson

By Major Jackson
Edited by Amor Kohli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Race and Ethnicity, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Foregrounding the possibilities of human song

From the Valley of Bronze Camels

A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

"What makes art 'modern' and what does 'urgent' mean now?"

On Burning Ground

Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry

By Sandra Gilbert
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

Collected Prose

By Robert Hayden
Edited by Frederick Glaysher
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet

The Spiral of Memory

Interviews

By Joy Harjo
Edited by Laura Coltelli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Native American Studies, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry

The Passionate Spectator

Essays on Art and Poetry

By John Yau
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Insightful essays on art and poetry by the acclaimed writer, critic, and curator

The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls

Essays on the Cultural Life of Poetry

By Tony Hoagland
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Tony Hoagland’s essays, full of sharp wit and astute observations, draw out the poetry hiding everywhere in American culture.

The Sound of Listening

Poetry as Refuge and Resistance

By Philip Metres
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Philip Metres’s essays demonstrate the necessity of poetry in uncertain times

Someone Shot My Book

By Julie Carr
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

Ecstatic Émigré

An Ethics of Practice

By Claudia Keelan
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition

Toward a 21st Century Poetics

By Rigoberto Gonzalez
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

The Mirror Diary

Selected Essays

By Garrett Hongo
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Poets on Poetry

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

The Little Death of Self

Nine Essays toward Poetry

By Marianne Boruch
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Marianne Boruch indulges in the joy of the short leap between poetry and the essay

Condition Red

Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

By Yusef Komunyakaa
Edited by Radiclani Clytus
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A new prose collection by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa

How Long Have You Been With Us?

Essays on Poetry

By Khaled Mattawa
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

The latest volume in the Poets on Poetry series collects 12 essays by the internationally acclaimed poet, translator, and critic Khaled Mattawa

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