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Callaloo's Dr. Charles Rowell receives PEN/Mora Magid Award
On May 8th, I was honored to accept the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing award on behalf of Dr. Charles Rowell, the founder and longtime editor of Callaloo. Callaloo started with Dr. Rowell’s vision for Black literature, namely for the inclusion and...
The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst
To accompany our podcast interview with Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross about the forthcoming Poe Studies issue celebrating 20 years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle, we have assembled a Poe-focused...
The Painted Poem
Measuring only 5 ½ x 9 7/16 inches, Giovanni Boldini’s 1879 painting Return of the Fishing Boats, Étretat, has long been one of my favorites at The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. Indeed, there are far greater paintings by Monet, Renoir, Degas, and...
A Tell-Tale Anniversary: 50 Years of Poe Studies
The 2017 volume of the journal Poe Studies marked the 50th publication of the journal dedicated to the author near and dear to our hometown of Baltimore. The annual issue included a cluster of papers on "Poe and Nineteenth-Century Medicine." Washington State...
Modernist Literature and Communist Ideology: A Look into Red Modernism with Mark Steven
I first started writing Red Modernism for the same reason I write most things: to work through a problem whose answer, tantalizing as it might be, just doesn’t come easily. The problem, in this case, evolved from a contradiction between my enthusiasm for...