James Schuyler writing in his diary, 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine
From James Schuyler’s Diary (August 5, 1968)
Fairfield Porter, “Islands” (1968) Here is an excerpt from James Schuyler’s diary on August 5, 1968, written 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce H…
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Somebody should adapt this Merwin poem, that’s what I think
The Artemis loop to the moon reminded me of this you wrote and it's still very good, thank you thepointmag.com/reading-room... A new couple hundred thousand mile trip to the moon to go find writing from years ago, I suppose the loop continues lol
Lunar Phase | The Point Magazine
This is the third column in Reading Room, a biweekly collective column on reading and life. The column will go in rounds, with the four […]
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"The impersonal regularity of meter suggested to Frost an allegory for the boundedness of mortality." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.
Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
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The instant obliteration of our congressionally mandated development assistance agency—by the world’s richest man and his cabal who “gave zero fucks” (Musk’s exact words) about the mass deaths they caused—is a historic atrocity that should stain everyone who touched it, forever.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
"Frost was being clever and bitchy when he called Eliot's modernist epic 'an Anthology of the Best Lines in Poetry,' but he was also onto something." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.
Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
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Between 1916 and 1949, The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost. In honor of National Poetry Month, revisit them here — alongside a new essay by Kamran Javadizadeh.
Robert Frost in The Yale Review
The entire collection of poems by Robert Frost originally published in The Yale Review .
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The Yale Review published twenty-eight poems by Robert Frost. In a new essay, Kamran Javadizadeh goes into our archive and finds a poet reckoning with mortality, rivalry, and the limits of form.
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"Through a closed door, in Frost's lovely image, we might hear the idiomatic rhythms of human language in the wild." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.
Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
yalereview.org
"This is how meter is like mortality. Our lives are bounded by birth and death and punctuated along the way by the kinds of markers that biology and custom have established as roughly universal." Kamran Javadizadeh on Robert Frost.
Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
yalereview.org
I admire Kamran Javadizadeh’s writing so much. For lovers of Frost’s astronomical imagery, there’s a great section on how the stresses in the lines of “I Will Sing You One-O” vary in a way that shows “earthly clocks hurrying to synchronize with their celestial counterpart.” 🔭
Kamran Javadizadeh@kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 5mo agoI wrote about mortality, meter, and Robert Frost’s midlife crisis for @yalereview.bsky.social. yalereview.org/article/kamr...
I wrote about mortality, meter, and Robert Frost’s midlife crisis for @yalereview.bsky.social. yalereview.org/article/kamr...
Kamran Javadizadeh: “Robert Frost at Midlife”
An analysis of three poems by Robert Frost, including “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” that first appeared in The Yale Review in 1923
yalereview.org
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting. NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
James Merrill. “No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today’s / Dusk room aglow / For the last time / With candlelight. / Faces love lit, / Gifts underfoot. / Still to be so poised, so / Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.”
I blame the last @havehashad.com call for dropping me into an obsessive George Oppen rabbithole (but am secretly grateful). This discussion from Close Readings with @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social is an excellent starting point:
David B. Hobbs on George Oppen ("Ballad")
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Last night, four acclaimed poets and scholars joined LOA LIVE for a fascinating personal discussion on revered critic and professor Helen Vendler. Watch @notquitehydepark.bsky.social, Dan Chiasson, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, and Christopher Spaide reflect on the influence of this towering figure.
Helen Vendler’s Sixth Sense
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On Tuesday, 12/2, join acclaimed poets and scholars Stephanie Burt, Dan Chiasson, Christopher Spaide, and @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social for a lively evening of reflections on the genius and influence of revered critic Helen Vendler, whose last essays were just published by LOA. RSVP for free!
Helen Vendler’s Sixth Sense
Poets and scholars Stephanie Burt, Dan Chiasson, Christopher Spaide, and Kamran Javadazideh reflect on a giant of poetry criticism
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I’m so sad to hear that the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died. I knew her only slightly. When her friend Louise Glück died, two years ago, she and I spoke on my podcast about fate, and loss, and poetry. I think about that conversation all the time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück (
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 11/10/2023 · 1h 5m
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Monday! Rutgers! Cake! Come along!
Kristin Grogan@kristingrogan.bsky.social · 10mo agonext Monday is the home turf launch for my book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. With responses from the wonderful @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and brilliant Rutgers grad students Lena Crown and Colton Hicks. Come along if you're local? RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
next Monday is the home turf launch for my book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. With responses from the wonderful @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social and brilliant Rutgers grad students Lena Crown and Colton Hicks. Come along if you're local? RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Seminar / book party: Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch
Come celebrate the publication of Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work with a seminar discussing the Introduction and Chapter 5: Lorine Niedecker and the Work of R...
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Inger Christensen, from alphabet (trans. Susanna Nied)
Strong truth here from @himself.bsky.social. Civil society has to get its act together and coordinate for the greater good, even if that's not its usual mode. Universities most especially.
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 11mo ago"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
A reminder that we’re hiring a poet at Villanova this year—tenure-track job, wonderful department, close proximity to Philly. Poets, please think about applying! jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
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Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
jobs.villanova.edu
It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
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