Guest Posts

The following is a list of our recent guest posts:

Why Write a Memoir When a Poem Does It So Much Better?  (July 4, 2012)
Michelle Gillett compares memoirs to personal poems and finds that the energy and staying power is in poetry.

Vague and in Vogue: On Teaching Poetry to Teenagers  (July 18, 2012)
Ben Berman explains why he urges his students to grapple with complexity and nuance instead of settling for certainty.

Who Wrote It, and Why Does That Matter? (July 25, 2012)

Instead of devoting anthologies to segments of our diversified population — gays, women, Hispanics, etc. — Rhina P. Espaillat asks why not simply highlight the best writing . Then she answers her own question.

Twisting New England Tradition (August 13, 2012)

Martha Carlson-Bradley looks at the poems of Emily Dickinson in the light of her New Enland heritage.

New Poetics of Nature & Place (November 5, 2012)

Dawn Paul’s essay is about contemporary poets who write outside the pastoral tradition with a new view of the wilderness and new forms and contexts for nature poetry.

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