Top Books on Wallace Stevens’ Poetry
June 22, 2018
The name of the American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) is not as familiar as other poets of his generation like Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings. He’s best known, not just… READ MORE
June 22, 2018
The name of the American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) is not as familiar as other poets of his generation like Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings. He’s best known, not just… READ MORE
May 18, 2018
A long poem? Really? Edgar Allan Poe said there was no such thing, and Ernest Hemingway dismissed it with a swift coup de grâce worthy of one of his matador… READ MORE
April 13, 2018
At some point, I knew I was close to finishing the manuscript for Approaching the Fields, the poems were coalescing around themes of family, place, and history. Specifically, I was… READ MORE
April 6, 2018
In LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature, I attempt to depict the complexity of the Choctaw writer’s work—its intellectualism, its humor, its powerful invocations of… READ MORE
March 2, 2018
The poems in Out of Speech are an outgrowth of my fascination with the visual arts. Before I had ever written a poem, I sketched and painted. I was a… READ MORE
February 26, 2018
The 2018 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference will take place from March 7-10 in Tampa, Florida. A number of our authors will be attending the conference to sign… READ MORE
January 12, 2018
When I first started writing what would become Tramp, I had no idea what it would grow into. Playing with late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century newspaper articles about women who… READ MORE
November 17, 2017
It’s rare that I write a poem that doesn’t in some way draw upon the work I have read by other poets, writers or artists, be they living or dead,… READ MORE
October 13, 2017
The poet Lucille Clifton once said that with her poetry, “I hope to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” When I wrote the poems in my new book Girl… READ MORE
February 1, 2017
LSU Press is delighted to announce the release of Kelly Cherry’s new book, Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer, which explores in verse the life of the Father of the Atomic… READ MORE