Hannah Brooks-Motl
Hannah Brooks-Motl was born in Wisconsin and earned an MFA at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of the chapbook The Montaigne Result (2013), and the full-length collection The New Years (2014). Her criticism has appeared in Bookforum, the Kenyon Review Online, and The New Republic/The Book. With Stephen Burt she helped edit Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden (2005).
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Articles By HANNAH BROOKS-MOTL
- Elizabeth Drew Barrow Stoddard: “One morn I left him in his bed”
The child elegy and the 19th-century poetess. - George Eliot: “I Grant You Ample Leave”
A poet's poem from a novelist-poet. - George Herbert: “Love (III)”
A 17th-century poet’s project invites its readers to the table - Gwendolyn Brooks: “kitchenette building”
The Chicago poet transports readers into a dream deferred. - W.S. Graham: “Dear Bryan Wynter”
How a poem brings language to loss and speaks to the dead.
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POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
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