Essays & Assays
Here you'll find an ever-growing collection of essays, articles, interviews and various discussions on "things poetic," "thing literary," and other themes. Please bookmark this page and visit it often, as we hope to plaster the ether with all sorts of fascinating opinions on our favorite topics . . .
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THT's Second Interview with Richard Moore
"I remember ..." an essay by Urmila Subbarao
"The Totems of Poetry,"
an essay
by Dr. Joseph S. Salemi
Archive
"Can
Poetry Matter?" an essay by Dana Gioia
"Hearing from Poetry's Audience," a follow-up to "Can Poetry
Matter?" by Dana Gioia
"Poetic Meter in English: Roots and Possibilities," an essay by
Richard Moore
"On Rhyme," an essay by Richard Moore
"The Mystique of the Difficult Poem," an essay by Steve Kowit
"The
Professionalization of Poetry," an essay by David Alpaugh
A book review of the second edition of Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust,
edited by Charles Adés Fishman, reviewed by Michael R. Burch.
A book review of
Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, reviewed by Laurel Johnson.
A book review of Richard Moore's Buttoned Into History, reviewed by
Eleanor Goodman
Interview of Michael R. Burch by Judy "Joy" Jones of On The Road With Judy
Jeffrey Woodward's
essay on
Amy Clampitt published by Umbrella
Jeffrey Woodward's valuable resource for poets and poetry lovers entitled
"An Annotated Checklist of English Versification,"
which currently appears on The Barefoot Muse
"'Fine, even beautiful,' just not for us," a brief piece about a poetry
submission gone awry
"The
Journey to Unity," an essay by Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen
"The
Self: A Consideration," an essay by Richard Moore
A collection of essays by Jack Butler
"Are
Women Underrepresented in the Small Press?" a dueling essay by Charles P. Ries
and Ellaraine Lockie
"Thomas
Stearns Eliot, an Early Re-assessment for the New Century"
an essay by Joe Ruggier
"I, Human," an essay by
Esther Cameron with a brief introduction by Michael R. Burch
"The
Balancer: Yeats and His Supernatural System," an essay by Richard
Moore
"Romanticism Then and Now," a collection of Romantic poetry from
caveman days to the present, with an introduction by Michael R. Burch
A response to "Poetry is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?" by Michael R. Burch
"All Gay Today,"
an essay by Zyskandar Jaimot
Interview with Richard Moore
Interview with Tony Marco
Links to essays by Elie Wiesel
What
Really Makes Us Free
Are We Afraid Of Peace?
When Passion Is
Dangerous
Have You Learned the Most Important Lesson of All?
How
Can We Understand Their Hatred?
We Choose Honor
For more information about Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel, click here.
Esther Cameron's Point & Circumference Homage
to Paul Celan has a number of excellent essays
And here's a link to the excellent Norton Poets Online poetry page for Paul
Celan (hint: read the poetry first!)
Esther Cameron personally recommends the University of Wisconsin's Paul
Celan page
A review of THT's Holocaust
Poetry, by Esther Cameron
The Powow River Anthology
looks to be a landmark publication,
featuring some of the best contemporary poets working in meter and rhyme. Please
check it out and order forthwith!
A Commentary on THT featured poet Nadia Anjuman by Laurel Johnson
A book review of Harvey Stanbrough's Beyond the Masks, reviewed by
Freada Dillon
A book review of Tom Merrill's Outlaw's Retreat, reviewed by Laurel
Johnson of Midwest Book Review
A book review of Mary Keelan Meisel's 42 Poems in Rhyme & Meter, reviewed
by Laurel Johnson of Midwest Book Review
A book review of Emery Campbell's This Gardener's Impossible Dream, reviewed by Ethelene Dyer Jones
A book review of Joe Ruggier's Pope Caesar's Wake, reviewed by Laurel
Johnson of Midwest Book Review
A website review of The HyperTexts, reviewed by Laurel Johnson of Midwest
Book Review
A book
review of the third revised edition of Joe Ruggier's This Eternal Hubbub,
reviewed by Laurel Johnson
A book
review of the third revised edition of Joe Ruggier's This Eternal Hubbub,
reviewed by Mike Burch
A
book review of Esther Cameron's The Consciousness of Earth, reviewed by
CarrieAnn Thunnell
A book review of
Esther Cameron's
The Consciousness of Earth,
reviewed by Michael R. Burch
A
review of Joe Ruggier's "From Door-to-Door to CD-ROM" by Esther
Cameron
A review of Joe
Ruggier's Songs of Gentlest Reflection, by Mary Rae
A review of Joe Ruggier's
Songs of Gentlest Reflection, by Michael R. Burch