2022 National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, and in celebration, we've curated a list of insightful Twentieth-Century Literature articles that focus on poetry.
Dadaism and Classicism in The Waste Land
Patrick Eichholz
Twentieth-Century Literature 67:3, 2021
Profile Epistemologies, Racializing Surveillance, and Affective Counterstrategies in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen
Katherine D. Johnston
Twentieth-Century Literature 65:4, 2019
Using the Rotted Names: Wallace Stevens’s Racial Ontology as Poetic Key
Mark Mayer
Twentieth-Century Literature 65:3, 2019
The Queer Afterlife of Gossip: James Merrill’s “Celestial Salon”
Chad Bennett
Twentieth-Century Literature 64:4, 2018
Famine Memory and Contemporary Irish Poetry
Marian Eide
Twentieth-Century Literature 63:1, 2017
The Muse in the Museum: Cultural Institutions and Aesthetic Experience in H.D.’s Asphodel and Trilogy
Frank Capogna
Twentieth-Century Literature 62:4, 2016
Mothers and Marimbas in “The Bight”: Bishop’s Danse Macabre
Frances Leviston
Twentieth-Century Literature 61:4, 2015
On Holding and Being Held: Hart Crane’s Queer Intimacy
Julie Taylor
Twentieth-Century Literature 60:3, 2014
Re-Sounding Folk Voice, Remaking the Ballad: Alan Lomax, Margaret Walker, and the New Criticism
Derek Furr
Twentieth-Century Literature 59:2, 2013
Salvaging Dialect and Cultural Cross-Dressing in McKay’s Constab Ballads
Paul Peppis
Twentieth-Century Literature 59:1, 2013
Rita Dove’s Poetic Expeditions
Reena Sastri
Twentieth-Century Literature 58:1, 2012
The Last Quatrain: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Ends of Ballads
Karen Jackson Ford
Twentieth-Century Literature 56:3, 2010
A “Synchronous but More Subtle Migration”: Passing and Primitivism in Toomer’s Cane
Paul Stasi
Twentieth-Century Literature 55:2, 2009
Elegy under the Knife: Geoffrey Hill and the Ethics of Sacrifice
David Sherman
Twentieth-Century Literature 54:2, 2008
“Fission and Fusion Both Liberate Energy”: James Merrill, Jorie Graham, and the Metaphoric Imagination
Claudia Ingram
Twentieth-Century Literature 51:2, 2005
