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    By Armen Davoudian January 30, 2023

    It’s easy to get lost in debates around form and content, or form and function, or form and freedom, or form and fill-in-the-blank—arguments for the importance of one side over...

    Sepia toned black on white etching on paper depicting the back of a person seated at a table, with piles of books  and a bookshelf, and a partially open door.
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    By Karthika Naïr January 23, 2023

    चीन ओ अरब हमारा, हिन्दोस्ताँ हमारा रहने को घर नहीं है, सारा जहाँ हमारा खोली भी छिन गयी है, बैंचें भी छिन गयी हैं सड़कों पे घूमता है, अब कारवां हमारा Chin-o-Arab hamara, Hindustan...

    Watercolor painting depicting black dots in various streams of circular movement against white background.
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    By Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué January 9, 2023

    To call a literary work “unreadable” is to make a rather flexible aesthetic judgment. Most commonly, one means they didn’t like that work, found it too boring, too gruesome, badly...

    three-legged m, concrete poem by Adam Saroyan.
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    By Austin Allen December 19, 2022

    Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part essay. To read the first two installments visit these links: Part I and Part II. The ice caps are melting: criticism has failed....

    View of ocean and blue skies, with waves lapping up against rocks. Large Tafoni rock in foreground right.
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    By Timothy Yu December 15, 2022

    Part of the appeal of poetry as criticism, which I discussed in my last post, is the idea of a poem that can explain itself, with no intervention needed from...

    A square of woven lines of film and thread, black, blue, grey, reds and pinks, in geometric patterns.
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    By Alina Stefanescu December 12, 2022

    Then, again, one day, the one who was once young will learn that somewhere at the other end of this very earth the older one has died. At first she...

    Color woodcut with abstract rendering of a purple night sky and figures/stars/moon in black/green/white/orange/red/yellow  in the foreground.
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    By Austin Allen November 28, 2022

    Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part essay. To read the first installment visit this link. Here’s a distinction I try to honor: criticism may sometimes have a professional...

    Decorative doors made of steel, brass, copper, and bronze.
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    By Timothy Yu November 14, 2022

    For any writer, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge brings moments of painful recognition at every turn. Richard Holmes’s magisterial biography of Coleridge is replete with examples of the Romantic...

    screen print with two blurred wide columns in greens and blues against a green background
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    By Alina Stefanescu November 7, 2022

    In Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read, critic Terry Eagleton declares: “A critique must establish a certain distance from its object in order to appraise it.”...

    Abstract screenprint with black lines and shapes in shades of blue/purple/green, with some white and yellow.
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    By Austin Allen October 24, 2022

    Asking how my criticism relates to my poetry is like asking how my obsessions relate to my compulsions. It’s a question I’m much too glad to answer. I like Jhumpa...

    Multi-colored cubist-inspired oil on canvas painting of a clown, blues, greens, reds, oranges.
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