Whether on the floor

Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital, there is no body of professional expertise and no anthology of case studies which can supplant the force of character which provides both a sense of direction and a means of fulfillment. It … Read more

After my grandfather died

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather’s death and I thought my grandfather had … Read more

The immediate success of

The immediate success of the war poem anthologies … proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse … There has never before, in the world’s history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain … Read more

I often notice how

I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts – how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I’m particularly interested in … Read more