Chris Spaide

“Hateful words survive in sticky clumps”: Forms of Whiteness in C. D. Wright’s One With Others – Post45 And black is the funereal color of the prison system’s regime of death, which infiltrates the home as a worker’s uniform, “the executioner’s corduroy hood.” Capital punishment works well for a racist ...

For @cspaide.bsky.social, C.D. Wright’s considerations of region and race form significant vectors for taking up her work. Dignity, in its complexity, is the key word for Wright’s political poetics. post45.org/2025/11/form...

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Contemporaries – Post45 Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster!

Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social

ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!

post45.org/contemporaries

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Poem: My Life in the New Millennium Joshua Clover begins with hating people and loving cats, quickly adding juxtapositions and surprises.

I’m just saying that I can die knowing I was fact-checked by the New York Times about whether or not I was a communist

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/magazine/poem-my-life-in-the-new-millennium.html

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Poets We Lost in 2024 Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

I got to talk about Helen—as a teacher, colleague, and friend—on the podcast Poetry Off the Shelf; many thanks to Helena de Groot for this marvelous episode on HV and Marjorie Perloff: www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/164604...

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Christopher Spaide, remembrance of Helen Vendler in “As You Leave the Room: A Memorial Tribute: Marjorie Perloff & Helen Vendler,” The Wallace Stevens Journal 48, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 285

Christopher Spaide, remembrance of Helen Vendler in “As You Leave the Room: A Memorial Tribute: Marjorie Perloff & Helen Vendler,” The Wallace Stevens Journal 48, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 286

Christopher Spaide, remembrance of Helen Vendler in “As You Leave the Room: A Memorial Tribute: Marjorie Perloff & Helen Vendler,” The Wallace Stevens Journal 48, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 287

Christopher Spaide, remembrance of Helen Vendler in “As You Leave the Room: A Memorial Tribute: Marjorie Perloff & Helen Vendler,” The Wallace Stevens Journal 48, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 288

hi bluesky: I have a remembrance of Helen Vendler in the latest issue of the Wallace Stevens Journal:

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