Steven Knepper
@StevenEKnepper
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Author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond. Co-author of Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Intro Editor of New Verse Review
Joined May 2023
For years, my father fell asleep watching a documentary about a man who lived a solitary life in a hand-built cabin in Alaska. This is my strange poem about that strange nightly ritual. Many thanks to THINK journal for giving it a home.
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Listen to this really good interview with Steve Knepper, including a reading of his very fine poem, "Breech." https://t.co/krTKQQx7St via @goodreasonradio
withgoodreasonradio.org
A new anthology of poems, including one that reflects on the weight of a whale, gathers voices from science, the arts, and Indigenous communities to create a portrait of nature in America.
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Deborah Warren reviews a new translation of the Aeneid by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright. "McGill and Wright explain how their pentameter line manages to lose one hexameter foot without sacrificing any content: about every fifth line they allow themselves an extra one." More👇
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"One of the rarest gifts in modern poetry is that for narrative. The legacies of imagism and modernist fragmentation seem to have stifled the special talent that can tell stories in measure." --Robert Morgan, "Midquest and the Gift of Narrative" (1997)
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"Break On Through (to the Other Side)" needle drop when they first go through the wardrobe
"This is not your mother's or your grandmother's Narnia. The music in it is unbelievably contemporary music. I’m not gonna say specifically, but things like Pink Floyd and The Doors." —IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond on Greta Gerwig's Narnia
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A thinker who deserves to be better known.
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I was honored to appear on the public radio show With Good Reason to talk about my poetry, growing up on a dairy farm, @newversereview and the great poets it has published (featuring @AmitMajmudar ), and much else! Link 👇.
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🚨KIERKEGAARD WAS NOT A FIDEIST 🗣️🚨
"Although most of Hume's influence has been in creating doubts and leading thinkers to question accepted religious views, he also played an important role in the development of fideistic orthodoxy, culminating in Kierkegaard's views." —R.H. Popkin, Introduction to the Dialogues
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This is a good one, folks.
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Us verse novelists have to stick together
Don't miss @DanielCowper and @jasonguriel discussing verse novels, writing routines, cities, and cinematic poetry! Link 👇.
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The Dark Secrets of the Writer Behind ‘Train Dreams’
nytimes.com
An adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella arrives at the same time as a new biography, unlocking one of his best-loved and least-understood books.
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Some small part of my parenting has been successful: my 14 yr old son came up to me this afternoon with a huge grin on his face. “It’s finally December!! You know what that means?!” I was thinking hmm, Christmas, school vacation…. until he cranked up “Long December” 🤩🎵
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An update about my trip to The Ohio State to present a paper at the ALSCW conference with a bunch of friends. I took a lot of pictures. BONUS: includes a list compiled by friends of metrical verse friendly publications! 🔗 in comments!
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Happy to share that two of poems are online today at Rust & Moth and will appear in the Winter 2025 issue as well: https://t.co/Y9nstQOHZg
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The humanities had already lowered its defences against AI when it became enamoured with the metaphor of the cyborg in the 80s. A robust humanism, refurbished for the 21st century, is what we need (of course, there is good humanism and bad humanism).
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Greatly enjoyed this discerning and engaging piece on Frost (and what sounds like a far-fetched/-flung critical reading) by @clarebucknell, one of the best in the business. Thank you, @LRB:
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Robert Frost’s poetry has a way of lifting its gaze – with a heightening of register, a grand image, a weighty...
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If Kiffin were a local, he'd have a promising future in Louisiana politics.
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I am honored to be part of the lineup for this great event!
Well friends, as promised, here it is! My first event organized State-side after all my major events in Maynooth. @ChurchLifeND @cosmostheinlost @RyanHaecker @AimeTim @a_bellantone @TRIERTIUM @tenshi_anna @EduardFiedler @NTOntologies @JoshuaFurnal @AimeTim @StevenEKnepper
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I've been reading this little book. I'm about half way through it. Good stuff so far. Very interesting and easy to read.
Coming in November--Byung-Chul Han's In Praise of the Earth: A Journey Into the Garden (@politybooks)
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