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.

Against the Norm

Etymologies of disability and race in the verse of Suji Kwock Kim

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 1, 2026

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

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

By Langdon Hammer | Monday September 8, 2014

Plangent Encounters

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday March 11, 2014

Creative Paralysis

By Langdon Hammer | Friday December 6, 2013

Dying Is Hard to Do

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday September 12, 2013

Vision Guided by Craft

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday March 20, 2013

Old Gods and Young Ghosts

By Langdon Hammer | Friday December 7, 2012

The Voice Is Ready to Sing

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 4, 2012

The Parson’s Tale

By Langdon Hammer | Friday June 1, 2012

Taming Grief

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday March 1, 2012

Hearing Mandelstam

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday November 30, 2011

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