Major Jackson on Countee Cullen & the Thematics of Race March 28, 2013: Major Jackson has penned a piece at the Boston Review called "Countee Cullen and the Racial Mountain," in which he addresses the conflict of race for black poets, as if "merely wrestling with words and the mysteries of existence hasn’t been considered enough." This is where Countee Cullen ("the Black Keats," as he was nicknamed) comes [...] by Harriet Staff

Lindsay Turner’s Questions Concerning the Matter of Being Female in I’ll Drown My Book December 27, 2012: Lindsay Turner adds her name to the hat of I'll Drown My Book reviewers, and it's one that aims directly at gender. At the Boston Review, her primary concern is: "If conceptual writing aims to do away with the subject, why gather female writers?" More: ...[T]he paradox explored by I’ll Drown My Book is not exactly the paradox of [...] by Harriet Staff

Object lessons of recent American poetry June 22, 2010: Stephen Burt posits a "turn among poets to reference, to concrete, real things" in the Boston Review: Almost all literary movements and moments expire in a crowd of imitators: what Hoagland called, disparagingly, “the skittery poem of our moment” may be about to slip into just that crowd. Yet Hoagland’s nominee for its replacement—what [...] by Harriet Staff