Category: Poem Readings

It was my pleasure to welcome Diana Khoi Nguyen to Wheaton for a reading last week. And I just thought to include my introduction here. Thanks so much to Diana! The students were absolutely enthralled by her presentation. I have always been fascinated by poems that account for the enormity of their subject matter. An…

I’ll admit, I’ve submitted multiple panel proposals to AWP, and they’ve all been rejected. Maybe it’s because I can never come up with a pithy panel title. Or maybe it’s that writing the panel description has felt like old Twitter, where you had just 140 characters. And I want to include all the things I…

For several years, I have been working on reading methods that extend a poem past its “poetic speaker.” Not that reading for speaker is unhelpful or unnecessary. I just don’t see it as part of the end game in my reading process. Or I’m interested in having complex models for when I come across an…