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.

Voyagers

The sensation of being situated across time and space in the verse of John Kinsella

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 2, 2026

To Urbino We Go

Piero’s faces and the verse of Mary Jo Salter

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 1, 2025

The Ancients Among Us

The present and the past in the verse of John Tripoulas

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 2, 2025

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 3, 2025

The Art of Tuning In

Celebrating 20 years of poetry in the Scholar

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 2, 2024

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

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

The Gathering Storm

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Raging Toward Heaven

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 3, 2019

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

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