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Mark Scroggins

Mark Scroggins is a poet, biographer, and critic. His recent books include the poetry collection Pressure Dressing, the essay collection The Mathematical Sublime: Writing About Poetry, and a selection of the erotic poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey, and Manhattan.

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In Nature, a Poet Finds a Visionary Language

by Mark Scroggins April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

The poems of Cody-Rose Clevidence are shot through with a sense of nature’s vitality and with the possibility that the numinous, even the divine, may inhere in that nature.

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Can Poetry Make a Difference?

by Mark Scroggins March 29, 2022March 29, 2022

Contemporary politically committed poets have made a cottage industry of agonizing over the question of whether their Leftist bona fides actually make any difference.

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When the Ancient Greeks Go Rogue

by Mark Scroggins February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

David Hadbawnik and Anne Carson aren’t aiming to produce new schoolroom translations of the classics; they’ve reimagined these ancient texts in the light of our violent and chaotic contemporaneity.

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A Brilliant Poetry Star Who Burned Out Too Quickly

by Mark Scroggins January 20, 2022January 21, 2022

Jack Spicer’s poetry can be deeply funny and playful but it has a consistent undercurrent of sadness.

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Scottish History Echoes in the Writings of Two North American Poets

by Mark Scroggins November 17, 2021November 17, 2021

Poets Shara McCallum and Karen Solie channel Scotland through historical fiction and the deep-seated malaise of modernity.

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The Mythology of the Cross-Country Motorcycle Trip in Ed Roberson’s Early Poems

by Mark Scroggins October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

Ed Roberson’s motorcycle ride from Pittsburgh to the Pacific is a quest-romance, an exploration of American culture and American mythology.

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A Medieval Mystic as a Muse for Two Poets

by Mark Scroggins September 15, 2021September 15, 2021

Some 600 years later, Margery Kempe’s disquieting sobs continue to confound and provoke.

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Making Poetry From Mallarmé’s Mistakes

by Mark Scroggins August 28, 2021August 27, 2021

Ellen Dillon’s verdict on Mallarmé’s pedagogical text? Pretty shaky.

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British Poetry’s New Avant-Garde

by Mark Scroggins July 24, 2021July 23, 2021

British poetry is really as energetic and varied as its American counterpart.

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Poetry at the Intersection of Art and Twitter

by Mark Scroggins June 19, 2021June 18, 2021

The poems in Ken Babstock’s Swivelmount convey a sense that the whole truth of reality is tantalizingly just beyond one’s grasp.

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Douglas Kearney’s Poetry of Performance

by Mark Scroggins May 22, 2021May 27, 2021

Kearney’s language — exquisitely torqued and modulated, sheering from the formal to the vernacular — reminds us that we are in the hands of a masterful performer.

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A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty

by Mark Scroggins April 17, 2021April 16, 2021

The poems in Jean Day’s Late Human carry a sense of having arrived at a moment when nothing feels quite right.

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