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A Postcard from the Volcano by Wallace Stevens Children picking up our bones . . . READ MORE
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During the first six weeks of the semester, each of my Introduction to Criticism students composed three “close readings” of three poems of… READ MORE
After several weeks of reading Cleanth Brooks’s essays, my Intro to Criticism students turned to The Barbara Johnson Reader (2014) and the… READ MORE
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My students and I nearly read the entirety of Cleanth Brooks’s The Well Wrought Urn (1947) over the last four weeks. We… READ MORE
This fall, I’m leading a graduate seminar related in part to my first book project (still a work in progress), Learn | Read… READ MORE
Is it possible to love a novel for all the wrong reasons? Yesterday, I finished A.S. Byatt’s Possession (1990) for the first time—”a… READ MORE
[The following is a slightly modified letter I sent to one of my classes this semester at USD. The names of… READ MORE
Wallace Stevens gives me words to think and feel and speak the sky. Part of my survival strategy thus far… READ MORE
*shakes dust off of blog* Finnegans Wake (1939) riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings… READ MORE
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The Beautiful Changes One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies On… READ MORE
Sketching a Present 