Contemporaries

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to converse with one another more directly and informally than in traditional academic publications. These curated conversations, or “clusters,” range from sets of relatively autonomous short essays on a common theme to extended epistolary exchanges.

C.D. Wright in Context

Introducing “C.D. Wright in Context”

Alicia Wright

Deep River Pedagogy

Carolyn Bergonzo

C.D. Wright: University Poet

Amish Trivedi

Love Without Optimism: C.D. Wright and the Tradition of American Sentimentality

Annie Bolotin

“Words appeared / by which she wanted to live”: C. D. Wright’s Realism

Stephanie Burt

The Medium-Close Poetics of C.D. Wright’s One Big Self

Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth

“Hateful words survive in sticky clumps”: Forms of Whiteness in C. D. Wright’s One With Others

Christopher Spaide

The Dialogue of the Eye: Wright, Truitt, and Martin

Kelly Hoffer

On the Inside: Prisons and Paratexts in One Big Self

Olivia Milroy Evans

“Licked by Many Other Tongues”: C.D. Wright’s Deepstep Come Shining

Kate Partridge

“Moving Under My Dress”: C.D. Wright and Clothing

Rachel Trousdale

Relative Poetics: On C.D. Wright, Appropriation, and the Decentered Self

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Past clusters