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.

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

Form, fragment, and memory in the lyrics of Terrance Hayes

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday June 1, 2022

Voicing the Ineffable

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday March 1, 2022

Afterlives

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 4, 2019

Starbursts

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 4, 2018

A Blessing and a Curse

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 5, 2018

At Home in Baltimore

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Sound and Sense

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 5, 2017

Shorter Means Sweeter

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 6, 2017

Just Saying

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 5, 2016

Hold Up a Poem

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 6, 2016

The Fruit of the Real

By Langdon Hammer | Monday February 29, 2016

Appetites

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 7, 2015

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