Curriculars

Poem of the Week: e.e. cummings, “my father moved through dooms of love”

The profound sense of nonsense

Oct 1 •

Christopher Lockett

Poem of the Week: Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”

The elegiac villanelle

Sep 21 •

Christopher Lockett

Poem of the Week: Robert Frost, “Design”

Darker because of the white

Sep 16 •

Christopher Lockett

Poetry and the Vocabularies of Possibility

On the irreducibility of art

Sep 15 •

Christopher Lockett

Curriculars: 28 Years Later

In which my nerding out truly begins

Jul 2 •

Christopher Lockett

Curriculars: The Relative Weird, Part Four—Genre as Metaphor

Lovecraft Country

Apr 26 •

Christopher Lockett

Curriculars: The Relative Weird, Part Three—Genre and (as) Myth

Narrative as inevitability

Apr 24 •

Christopher Lockett

Curriculars: The Relative Weird, Part Two—Writing Back to Lovecraft

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Apr 10 •

Christopher Lockett

Curriculars: The Relative Weird, Part One—Horror as Privilege

Also: on teaching American Literature in the present moment

Apr 9 •

Christopher Lockett

Curriculars: China Miéville and the Banality of Weird

The eldritch ain't got nothin' on social media.

Feb 3 •

Christopher Lockett

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