Seth Perlow teaches American literature, poetics, and media studies at Georgetown University. His current book project, “The Poem Electric,” traces a lineage of experimental writers who use electronics to differentiate poetic thought from rationalism. He edited Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition (2014).
Seth Perlow
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Poetry in Times of Crisis
Even on a college campus, you rarely spot a poem out in the open. When you do, it’s often a sign that something terrible has happened. In the days after the 2016 presidential election, I came across more than one printout of the W. H. Auden poem “September 1, 1939” posted on office doors and […]
