Holy, holey sonnets
This was how winter quarter began for the Divinity School’s long-running Wednesday Lunch lecture series: with English professor Richard Strier standing behind a podium in the Swift Hall common room...
View ArticleTo the editor
It’s been 100 years since Harriet Monroe founded her “small monthly magazine of verse” on the tenth floor of the Fine Arts Building.Tags: Poetry
View ArticleIliad out loud
For Mark Eleveld, MLA’10, and Ron Maruszak, MLA’10, the realization was inescapable: Homer, the blind bard, ancient Greece’s greatest poet, whose epics on the Trojan War and its aftermath founded the...
View ArticlePoetic appeal
It’s been a century since Harriet Monroe—an editor, poet, and former Chicago Tribune freelance correspondent—founded her “small monthly magazine of verse” in Chicago. Poetry’s inaugural issue came out...
View ArticleThe dark art of poetry
The spring 2013 issue of Dialogo featured a Q&A with poet Rosanna Warren, Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought. The conversation...
View ArticleFollow that hippie
In an episode of the NBC comedy 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin warns Tina Fey to never follow a hippie to a second location. Sage advice if you want to stay safe. But if you don’t mind getting a little...
View ArticleA man from a manly planet
Campbell McGrath, AB’84, has published nine poetry collections, including In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (2012), Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2009), Seven Notebooks (2008), and...
View ArticleCall of the wild
Last September Natalie Shapero, JD’11, was awarded a 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine, one of the most prestigious prizes for poetry in America. It came soon...
View ArticlePoetic alumna
One familiar characteristic of poetry is its phoenix-like refusal to die permanently. Poetry has fought an uphill struggle through almost the entire lifetime of one member of the University of...
View ArticleWhat to make of it
The poet Maureen McLane, PhD’97, was warming up to a fiery, forceful rant. About poetic ideals and independence, the politics of imposing aesthetic standards on an art form (“I think it’s for shit, and...
View ArticleThree poems
The poems in Maureen McLane’s newest collection, This Blue, released in April, are slippery and allusive, searching and sometimes political. Three are excerpted here: In “Replay / Repeat” the ancient...
View ArticleA mission of unsettlement
Poet and essayist Rosanna Warren, the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, joined UChicago in 2011; she taught a course before going on...
View ArticleUnmistakably mine
Mark Strand was always my winter poet. All that absence and negation, the sense of time past, the frozen ground and the white moon, and the always ever presence of death—sometimes droll or doting or...
View ArticlePoetry in motion
It all started on a spring break road trip in 2013. Cameron Okeke, AB’15, a member of PhiNix Dance Crew, claimed from the passenger’s seat that he could dance to anything that had rhythm. Shaan...
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