Anecdotal Evidence

In 1995, R.L. Barth published the chapbook Samuel Johnson: Selected Latin Poems Translated by Various Hands , with contributions by ten poet...

I remember one afternoon as a boy while in the neighbor’s back yard falling in love with the word of . A common preposition suddenly seemed ...

“He is almost as important to me as Shakespeare, and I think of him almost as the second most important writer in English, absurd as that mi...

“H-hour, 0800. Long jets of red flame mixed with thick black smoke rushed out of the muzzles of the huge battleships’ 16-inch guns with a no...

While looking for nothing I found a genuine curiosity: an interview with Tom Wolfe focused on poetry. The interview was conducted in 2011, s...

In 1848, James Russll Lowell published the book-length poem A Fable for Critics . It’s the work of a cocky young man. Lowell was twenty-eigh...

If pushed to choose my favorite literary form, I would reluctantly reject novels and aphorisms and settle on the essay which, in the right h...