Langdon Hammer

Langdon Hammer, the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English at Yale, is the poetry editor of the Scholar and the author of James Merrill: Life and Art.

The Art of Falling

The force of gravity in the lyrics of Andrew Motion

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 3, 2024

Florida Baroque

The tropical verse of Ange Mlinko

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 3, 2024

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

Shades of grief in the verse of Catherine Barnett

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 4, 2024

Song Gatherer

The ghostly Cantares Mexicanos, as rendered by Edgar Garcia

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 4, 2023

Louise Glück at Midnight

Remembering the poet who craved a listener

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday October 19, 2023

A Quicksilver Maker

The worldly verse of Lorna Goodison

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 5, 2023

In the Aftermath of Civil War

The art of observance in the lyrics of Vidyan Ravinthiran

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday June 1, 2023

Drunk on Dub

The new Caribbean sounds of Ishion Hutchinson

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday March 1, 2023

Bearing Witness Beyond Despair

The art of dislocation in the verses of Wong May

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday December 1, 2022

Ways of Being

Intimations of living and dying in the lines of Forrest Gander

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday September 1, 2022

Stanzas From a Locked-Down World

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday June 1, 2022

Voicing the Ineffable

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday March 1, 2022

Lifelines

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday December 1, 2021

The Shadowy and the Sensory

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday September 2, 2021

On School Street

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 7, 2020

Reclaiming Beauty and Dignity

By Langdon Hammer | Friday October 9, 2020

In a Dark Wood

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 1, 2020

The Freedom in Confinement

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday June 2, 2020

Living in the Song

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 2, 2020

The Fantastical Real

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 2, 2019

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