Category: Poetry
By Hilary S. Jacqmin, JHUP Staff How did you become a writer? What drew you to poetry specifically? What were your early poems like? It’s hard to imagine that my early poems weren’t a lot like those of many others. Long on adolescent angst and abstraction. A little lonely and sad with a healthy twist…
In honor of Arbor Day, we share two poems from Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry, edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby. PLANT A TREE by Lucy Larcom He who plants a tree, Plants a hope. Rootlets up through fibers blindly grope; Leaves unfold into horizons free.…
Guest post by Michael C. C. Adams As I write, the temperatures in the lower midwest that I call home are below Antarctica’s. This is Lincoln country, where he lived and worked until leaving for Washington. And here he returned in death. Much has been written about the assassination, from maudlin verses to conspiracy theories.…
We're celebrating Poetry Month on the Blog in April with selections from recent books in the Johns Hopkins: Poetry & Fiction series. First up, three poems by Wyatt Prunty from his new volume, Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise. Robert Hass calls Prunty "a classic poet in the tradition of Frost, Wilbur, Merrill, and Justice," and…
We're celebrating Poetry Month on the Blog in April with selections from recent books in the Johns Hopkins: Poetry & Fiction series. First up, three poems by Wyatt Prunty from his new volume, Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise. Robert Hass calls Prunty "a classic poet in the tradition of Frost, Wilbur, Merrill, and Justice," and…
Chapter and Verse is a series that features JHU Press authors and editors discussing the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by Angela Sorby In 1863, when her fellow (if less fervent) anti-slavery advocate Abraham Lincoln announced the first federal observation of Thanksgiving, Lydia…
Chapter and Verse is a series that features JHU Press authors and editors discussing the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by Angela Sorby In 1863, when her fellow (if less fervent) anti-slavery advocate Abraham Lincoln announced the first federal observation of Thanksgiving, Lydia…
Guest post by Natalie Gerber On Thursday at noon, Wallace Stevens’ poetry will be the focus of a program sponsored by the U. S. poet laureate Charles Wright. The program, which is free and open to the public, will present two poets, Jennifer Michael Hecht and Peter Streckfus, celebrating Stevens’ birthday by reading selections from his work…
Guest post by Michael Wolfe Over a three-week period in July, Johns Hopkins University Press hosted an epitaph writing contest on the Goodreads website, which you may still access and review here. The Press proposed the contest as a way to mark the shortlisting by PEN/America of my recently published book, Cut These Words into My Stone, a…
Guest post by Michael Wolfe We were honored this spring when Michael Wolfe’s wonderful book, Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs, made the long list of nominees for the 2014 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation. We were thrilled in June when the book landed on the short list of five nominees. To…