Modernist Crucible

Posts taking a look at the various innovations in arts and letters at the beginning of the 20^th Century and the subsequent development of a Modernist esthetic. William Carlos Williams is a primary focus in the development of an American canon outside of institutional hegemony.

Wheelbarrow Chickens Weather by Pat Nolan

W.C.W. and his buddies shifting gears with a sometimes sticking clutch  by Lucille Friesen

Delete Punctuation

Showing Vs. Telling, Toward a Rhetoric of the Page, by Tim Hunt 

Showing Vs. Telling, Part II by Tim Hunt 

Showing Vs. Telling, Part III  by Tim Hunt 

Plagiarism and the Poetry of Ulalume González de León  by John Johnson

Rothenberg Poetry University  

Bill & Lou, Part I by Tom Sharp

Bill & Lou, Part II by Tom Sharp

Rene Taupin’s Andre Salmon by Tom Sharp

Provincialism and The Gentrification of Anglo American Poetry, Part I

Provincialism and The Gentrification of Anglo American Poetry, Part II

Provincialism and The Gentrification of Anglo American Poetry, Part III

Sour Grapes by Pat Nolan