Featured – Critical Readings

CR Episode 95: Frank O’Hara and Modernism

20 September 2021 S. P. Cooper

The panel reads three poems by mid-twentieth century American poet, Frank O'Hara, and examines his connexions to other forms of artistic modernism and post-modernism, including not only prose poetry, but abstract expressionism, cubism, and Dadaism.

The Strangeness of the Good by James Matthew Wilson

Review: James Matthew Wilson’s The Strangeness of the Good (Angelico Press, 2020)

6 July 2021 S. P. Cooper

James Matthew Wilson, one of the foremost Catholic poets of the twenty-first century, traces the thread of faith through affecting meditations and personal experiences in this collection, his follow-up to the well-regarded The Hanging God (2018).

The Lost Forms of the English Language

11 October 2020 S. P. Cooper

Dost thou long for the ability to conjugate verbs in Early Modern style? Hast thou found thyself perplex'd by the difference between 'thou' and 'you'? Then thou shouldst look no further, for thou wilt find herein the edification that thou seek'st.