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![Knopf, 2015 $19.94 (hardback) by James Crews There is some new and dazzling force at work in The Beauty, Jane Hirshfield’s latest and much-anticipated collection of poetry. Yet I must […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/files/2016/04/Jane_Hirshfield-115x115.jpg "Review of The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield")
Review of The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield
Posted on April 20, 2016 | No CommentsKnopf, 2015 $19.94 (hardback) by James Crews There is some new and dazzling force at work in The Beauty, Jane Hirshfield’s latest and much-anticipated collection of poetry. Yet I must […] -
![Review by Scott Edward Anderson When telling someone else’s story – perhaps even one’s own – it is hard not to do so from a certain perspective or position. Two […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/files/2016/01/Anderson1-115x115.jpg "The Art of Losing: Love Lives of Elizabeth Bishop")
The Art of Losing: Love Lives of Elizabeth Bishop
Posted on January 28, 2016 | No CommentsReview by Scott Edward Anderson When telling someone else’s story – perhaps even one’s own – it is hard not to do so from a certain perspective or position. Two […] -
![by Scott Elliott One of the most dubious-sounding pieces of advice teachers of creative writing sometimes hear themselves offering their students is “make sure you don’t know where you’re […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/files/2014/11/DSC_0002-web-01-115x115.jpg "Courting the Place Where Anything Can Happen: Openness to the Unexpected")
Courting the Place Where Anything Can Happen: Openness to the Unexpected
Posted on November 6, 2014 | No Commentsby Scott Elliott One of the most dubious-sounding pieces of advice teachers of creative writing sometimes hear themselves offering their students is “make sure you don’t know where you’re […] -
![By Thomas Aslin This morning I searched through my file cabinet before latching onto a file of letters and postcards from the late poet Walter Pavlich. One card, mailed from […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/files/2014/05/walter-115x115.jpg "Lessons of Time, Velocity, and Hard Music: Remembering Walt Pavlich")
Lessons of Time, Velocity, and Hard Music: Remembering Walt Pavlich
Posted on May 26, 2014 | No CommentsBy Thomas Aslin This morning I searched through my file cabinet before latching onto a file of letters and postcards from the late poet Walter Pavlich. One card, mailed from […] -
![Copper Canyon Press, 2013 $18 paper by James Crews I am sad to say that, perhaps like many readers, I had never heard of Tom Hennen until a poet-friend […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/files/2014/01/Tom_Hennen-590x-115x115.jpg "Review of Darkness Sticks to Everything by Tom Hennen")
Review of Darkness Sticks to Everything by Tom Hennen
Posted on January 23, 2014 | No CommentsCopper Canyon Press, 2013 $18 paper by James Crews I am sad to say that, perhaps like many readers, I had never heard of Tom Hennen until a poet-friend […] -
![by David Axelrod Whenever you enjoy finding your way through a writer’s entire work, reach the end of it because he or she is no longer alive, and you can […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/files/2012/09/Europe-08-098-115x115.jpg "Once More to the Cradle")
Once More to the Cradle
Posted on September 28, 2012 | No Commentsby David Axelrod Whenever you enjoy finding your way through a writer’s entire work, reach the end of it because he or she is no longer alive, and you can […] -
![by David A. Axelrod In his recent blog posts to this site, “Is Myth Still Relevant to Poetry,” James Crews revisits Tony Hoagland’s essay, in Real Sofistikashun, about the “skittery” […]](https://www.eou.edu/basalt/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "An Occupation")
An Occupation
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No Commentsby David A. Axelrod In his recent blog posts to this site, “Is Myth Still Relevant to Poetry,” James Crews revisits Tony Hoagland’s essay, in Real Sofistikashun, about the “skittery” […] -
Is Poetry Gay?
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No Commentsby James Crews On a flight from San Francisco to Chicago a few years ago, I happened to be reading a book of poetry—Charles Wright’s Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems. […] -
National Poetry Month: The Health Report by Travis Mossotti
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsAnd so another April begins. A month where the poetry community in America, fractured and bitter as it may be, feels compelled by nationalistic pride or obligation to reassess the […]