Works

Raritan, “Hardly Typical,” excerpt from A Shadowed Place

PN Review, “Biala in Provincetown,” review of Provincetown Summers, 2018 Janice Biala exhibit at PAAM

Yale Review, “Correspondences and Affinities,”  on the Baudelaire translations of Walter Benjamin and Richard Howard

PN Review, “The Way Grass Grows,” Janice Biala, Ford Madox Ford and Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos

Yale Review, “Biala and Ford Madox Ford’s Buckshee: The Summer at Benfolly”

Arion, “Questions and Comments from the Audience,” essay-review of NYU-Gallatin production of Anne Carson’s Antigonick

Yale Review, “Edwin Denby’s New York School,” essay-review of Denby’s poetry

Raritan, “Christopher Logue’s Homer,” essay-review of Christopher Logue’s War Music, etc.

Literary Imagination, “Exhilaration and Derangement,” essay-review of Robert Pinsky’s Democracy and the Voice of Poetry, Jersey Rain, etc.

Arion, “A Lament for Loraux,” essay-review of Nicole Loraux’s The Mourning Voiceand Daniel Mendelsohn’s Gender and the City in Euripides’s Political Plays

Arion, “H.D.: Pound’s Sulpicia,” essay on the Roman poet Sulpicia and her presence in Ezra Pound’s Cantos

Literary Imagination, “Horaces,” essay-review of Horace in English, Carne-Ross and Haynes, editors, David Ferry’s The Odes of Horace and Sidney Alexander’s The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace

Partisan Review, “Merwin in Limbo,” essay-review of The Poet’s Dante, Hawkins and Jacoff, editors; W. S. Merwin’s translations of Purgatorio and The Song of Roland

Raritan, “Art and Artifice,” essay-review of Richard Howard’s Trappings

American Letters & Commentary, “Reasons for Living Happily,” essay-review of Francis Ponge’s Selected Poems, translated by C.K. Williams, John Montague, et al.

Pequod, “Body and Soul,” essay-review of Robert Pinsky’s The Inferno of Dante

Western Humanities Review, “The Wild Man and the Sophisticate,” essay-review of David Ferry’s Gilgamesh and Dwelling Places.

Threepenny Review, “Friends of Aphrodite,” essay-review of Jim Powell’s Sappho: A Garland

Pequod, “Sex and Violence,” essay-review of After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, Hofmann, Lasdun, editors, and of David Slavitt’s The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Western Humanities Review, “By Forms Confin’d,” essay-review of Daryl Hine’s Ovid’s Heroines

On the Seawall, On David Yezzi’s Late Romance: A Poet’s Life, biography of Anthony Hecht

On the Seawall, On Again, The Dawn, poetry by Grace Schulman

On the Seawall, On The Lascaux Notebooks, fiction and poetry by Phillip Terry

On the Seawall, On 533 Days and Leaving, nonfiction and poetry by Cees Nooteboom

On the Seawall, On Chasing Homer, a novel (with sound) by László Krasznahorkai

Best American Poetry Blog, “One Thousand Words about Harry Mathews”

Literary Matters, “English Without Borders,” review of Michael Schmidt’s Fifty Fifty

Literary Matters, “Other People’s Children,” review of Kate Daniels’s In the Months of My Son’s Recovery

Bryn Mawr Alumnae Magazine, “A Poet Comes Back Home“

Provincetown Arts, review of Nicholas Delbanco’s Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays

Provincetown Arts, review of Charles Bernstein’s All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems

Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, Terrence Diggory, editor.  Individual entries on Edwin Denby and Rudy Burckhardt’s In Public and Private and Mediterranean Cities; on the poet Vincent Katz; and on Katz-Burckhardt’s Boulevard Transportation.

Boston Review, microreview of Gilbert Sorrentino’s New and Selected Poems

Provincetown Arts, “Janice Redman: Mystery and Process,” art review

Bryn Mawr Alumnae Magazine, “A Mother’s Meter”

Boston Review, microreview of Cees Nooteboom’s The Captain of the Butterflies

Boston Review, microreview of Richard Wilbur’s The Catbird’s Song

Boston Review, microreview of Jonas Mekas’s There is No Ithaca

Agni Review, poetry review of Jeredith Merrin’s Shift

Agni Review, poetry review of Dzvinia Orlowsky’s A Handful of Bees

“Ezra Pound and The Washington Spectator,” in The Routledge Companion to Ezra Pound, Steven Yao, editor

“Sulpicia in Performance,” in Sulpicia: A Woman’s Voice from Ancient Rome, Giulio Celotto, editor

Vanitas, “Pindar’s Maiden Songs,”  translation and reconstruction of the Pindaric “daphnephorikon” with extended discussion and commentary

Salmagundi, “Benjamin the Poet,” essay-review of Gershom Scholem’s book of poems, The Fullness of Time, and Walter Benjamin’s untranslated Sonette

Literary Imagination, “The Recently Discovered Lyric of Sappho,” with commentary. Also featured in “The Poet’s Choice” column of The Washington Post

The American Voice, “The Comtessa de Dia,” translations from the Provençal with commentary

Translation of extant poems of Sulpicia, in Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry:
An Anthology of New Translations, William Batstone and Diane Rayor, editors,
Garland Publishing (reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review  96.04.15)
Revised versions set to music by composer Jessica Krash as Sulpicia’s Songs,
recorded on CD, Past Made Present, available on Spotify

Pequod, translation of Nicole Loraux’s essay, “The Mourning of the Nightingale”

Pequod, translation of Walter Benjamin’s poem, “Sonnet 52”

Salmagundi, translation of Tzvetan Todorov’s column, “Letter from Paris: Racism,” reprinted in The New Salmagundi Reader, Syracuse University Press, 1996

The Longnook Overlook, Volume One, 2014, editor and contributor (poems, fiction, essays, translation, drama)

The Longnook Overlook, Volume Two, forthcoming 2024, editor and contributor (poems, fiction, essays, interview)

“The Voice of Sulpicia and Others,”performance of Jessica Krash’s “Sulpicia’s Songs,” with reading of Beatrice of Die, followed by discussion, Wellfleet Public Library

“Sulpicia’s Songs,” available on Spotify:

Past Made Present: Music of Jessica Krash (Albany Records, 2018)

Videos of the Wellfleet performance:
Jessica Krash website

Also on YouTube

Noelle McMurtry website

Also on Vimeo

Word Suite, performance with cellist Phoebe Carrai at Cotuit Center for the Arts

Word Suite, performance with cellist Phoebe Carrai at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Ezra Pound International Conference, University of Edinburgh, group reading

Ezra Pound International Conference, Kyoto, Japan, virtual group reading

Taylor Books, Charleston, WV, with Elizabeth Savage

Wellfleet Library, Wellfleet, MA, with Cynthia Zarin

Ezra Pound International Conference, University of Pennsylvania, group reading

Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Catholic University, members reading

“A Packet for Ezra Pound,” Dorf Tirol, Italy, group reading, Ezra Pound International Conference

Bowery Gallery, New York City, solo reading

Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Cambridge, MA, with Vincent Katz

Meeting House Reading Series, Truro, MA, with Toby Olson

Calliope Reading Series, Falmouth MA, group reading

Wellfleet Library, Wellfleet, MA, with Keith Shaunessy

The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, “Discovery”/The Nation Prize Winner, NYC

“What is a Poem?” month-long course taught five Fridays through Wellfleet’s Open University, Wellfleet Library

June 2023 30th Ezra Pound International Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK
“Ezra Pound and The Washington Spectator”

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers Conference, Yale University, New Haven presentation of paper, “Setting Sulpicia’s Songs,” seminar run by Diana Senechal

29th Ezra Pound International Conference, Kyoto, Japan
Zoom presentation of talk, “Bos Amics:  Ford Madox Ford’s notes and annotations
to his copy of Pound’s Lustra,” panel run by Krista Rascoe

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers Conference, Vanderbilt University presentation of paper, “Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow, Revisited,” seminar run by Karl Kirchwey

27th Ezra Pound International Conference, University of Pennsylvania, presentation of paper,
“H.D. and Ford Madox Ford in Kensington and the Hereafter”

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers Conference, Catholic University, Washington, D.C. presentation of paper, “Correspondences: Baudelaire’s Fleurs du mal and the Translation Tasks of Richard Howard and Walter Benjamin,” seminar run by Adelaide Russo

“The Voice of Sulpicia and Others,” performance of Jessica Krash’s “Sulpicia’s Songs,” with reading of Beatrice of Die, followed by discussion, Wellfleet Public Library

26th Ezra Pound International Conference, Brunnenburg, Dorf Tirol, presentation of paper, “Ford, Biala, Pound and the philosophy of the Kitchen Garden,” panel run by Stephen Romer

“The Summer at Benfolly,” talk on the painter Janice Biala and Ford Madox Ford,
given in conjunction with the exhibit “Biala: Vision and Memory”
at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, New York

CUNY- Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation
talk on translating two women poets: Sulpicia and Beatrice of Die

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers Conference, Claremont-McKenna
presentation of paper, “Sulpicia in Performance,” panel run by Alison Keith

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers Conference, Boston University presentation of paper, “Translation as Performance,” seminar run by Don Share

22nd Ezra Pound Conference, Venice Italy, presentation of paper,
“Pound’s Confucian Circle,” session run by Emily Mitchell Wallace

“A Toast to H.D.,” Poets Dinner, MLA Convention, Franklin Inn Club, Philadelphia

Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Conference, Cambridge, MA –
presentation of paper, “Edwin Denby’s New York City,” seminar run by Phillip Lopate

Columbia University, School of the Arts – lecture, “Yves Bonnefoy’s Shakespeare,
Graduate Seminar on Translation (Richard Howard, professor)