“It’s the Language, Stupid.”
Matthew Zapruder discusses the role of language and meaning in poetry and his book of criticism, Why Poetry. {listen}
Matthew Zapruder discusses the role of language and meaning in poetry and his book of criticism, Why Poetry. {listen}
Our series dedicated to the women's movement continues with the changing cultural roles of the 1970s, when women poets refused to be marginalized or tokenized, and public poetry readings and…
How we use poetry to find meaning and to bring disparate aspects of life together. {listen}
New Letters Alleging Abuse are Only Shocking if You Haven't Been Listening {read}
“I can say that sooner or later poets figure out that there are no new ideas, only the same old ones — and that nobody who loves poetry reads it…
In the seventh century B.C., the poet Semonides of Amorgos wrote a catalog of unmanageable women. First, there are the women who resemble pigs, "resting in filth and growing fat."…
…Although studies reliably find that women read more than men, when a book is written for and consumed by women, or made popular by women, it is seen again as…