...Paul Tulloch © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 13 Poems from the “Being at Work” Poetry Challenge The “Being at Work” Poetry Challenge started off as a small attempt to add to the historical compendium of work poetry a cross...

... purport to offer. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 social media poetics Internet poetry Steve Roggenbuck digital realism digital poetics Works Cited Barthes Roland . (1973) 1975 . The Pleasure of the Text . Translated by Miller Richard . New York : Hill and Wang...

... apertures through which the American body politic is projected, namely, speech acts. The stakes in examining speech acts, for which I turn to poetry and the work of Solmaz Sharif and Rob Halpern, involves thinking about the commons. For one, because liberal democratic identity revolves around a deliberative...

... the ideology of American individualism at the heart of contemporary sense making. The author argues that the limitations of this political project are instructive and relevant beyond the confines of a scholarly interest in poetry, which are revealed through readings of Harryette Mullen. Mitchell Gauvin Laying...

...Andrew Rippeon This article brings together print-material histories (from typesetting and typewriting to Twitter) to consider such seemingly disparate textual practices as concrete poetry, Twitter bots, Insta-poetry, and political tweets. With initial attention to Donald Trump’s infamous “covfefe...

..., seeking instead to expose the term lyric as an ideological reading practice that separates the text from its historical context. This essay examines some of the ways in which four new books on poetry by Siobhan Phillips, Joel Nickels, Christopher Nealon, and Oren Izenberg contribute to lyric theory...

...Darko Suvin Poetry is approached as topological cognition, with its furthest horizon being communism. In alienated times, the poet-creator participates in politics as an antipolitics, by suturing conceptual thought to immediate sensual experiences. The author develops this horizon by emancipatory...

...Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article examines the poetry of Danez Smith as a practice of commoning. It introduces the concept of the uncommons as a way of thinking about how African American literature, culture, and political practice develop egalitarian forms...

... of painting, photography, and poetry in her work. Other figures discussed include John Donne, James Coleman, Gerhard Richter, and Hannah Arendt. The interview culminates with some thoughts on the concepts of flesh and of analogy, the topic of the book she is currently writing. © 2011 Virginia Tech 2011...

... or sixty years. Smith describes her foray into feminist activism in the 1960s; her love of English poetry but disaffection with the intellectual provincialism of English departments in the 1970s; her increased occupation during the 1980s and 1990s with problems of aesthetics, linguistics, and value theory...

...Martin Puchner In response to Max Brzezinski’s critique of my role in the New Modernist Studies, an alleged movement whose founding document I am said to have authored ( Poetry of the Revolution [2006]), I use this movement as a test case for the two methods under discussion (the question of how...

... characters who experience sensations, but he also arouses a variety of sensations by means of poetic craft, from line to line, image to image, and sound to sound. As a result, his poetry functions here as a kind of hinge between the Thomistic account of sensory perception and Adorno’s articulation...

... advocacy through several communication modes, all of which involved writing and careful research. Fiction, poetry, letters, essays, and talks all played a part in his lifelong support of the animal world. When scrutinized, Galsworthy’s views not only are consonant with much modern thought but also...

... to Ruysch’s floral bouquets and referencing the (fetal) anatomical dioramas created by her father, Frederik Ruysch. The poet aims to mobilize the creative mode of linguistic inquiry, poetry, to build a new vocabulary for attending to and grieving both living and nonliving things without reinforcing modern...

... ara (passageways or routes) for critically reflecting on their multispecies relations and on how those relations may be made more just. Through the discussion of ancestral narrative, as well as poetry, prose, and visual artworks that center the perspectives and characteristics of tuna, the essay...

... at the University of California, Irvine, and the associ- ate editor of THRUSH Poetry Journal. Find him @phlat_soda. Helene Achanzar is a Filipina Canadian poet and educator. She was awarded the John and Renee Grisham Fellowship at the University of Mississippi, where she served as senior editor of Yalobusha Review...

... © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 Contributors Creative Mark Belair works as a drummer in New York City. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Alabama Literary Review, Atlanta Review, the Cincinnati Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry East...

... © 2013 by Virginia Tech 2013 Contributors Creative Christopher Citro’s poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Poetry East, Arts and Letters Prime, Fourteen Hills, Cincinnati Review, Cortland Review, Tar River Poetry, Harpur Palate, and else- where. He won the 2006...

... manuscript was a finalist for the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and Four Way Books Levis Prize. She is the recipient of an Artist Trust GAP Grant. Ronda s journal publications include Blackbird, 2River, Sycamore Review, Missouri Review, and Palette Poetry. She has been on Public Radio KUOW s All Things Considered...