Tag: Harlem Renaissance
Teaching US Poetry from 1900-1950
I started teaching modernism as a graduate student, leading discussion sections for Walt Litz at Princeton in ’91. When I arrived at W&L in ’94, I resolved to teach much more diverse syllabi: I put the version of modernism I’d studied in conversation with… Continue Reading “Teaching US Poetry from 1900-1950”
“The wonder is that you are here”: poetry, community, and Anne Spencer
One of my favorite visiting-writer stories involves a New York-based author who, while guzzling artisanal cocktails in a local restaurant, said something like, “I don’t know why anyone would bother to write if they don’t live in Brooklyn.” That was a hilariously awful remark… Continue Reading ““The wonder is that you are here”: poetry, community, and Anne Spencer”
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