Erik Campbell

Biography

Erik Campbell’s first collection of poems, Arguments for Stillness, was published by Curbstone Press in 2006. His poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, the New Orleans Review, and New Delta Review. Since 2002, he and his wife have lived in Papua, Indonesia.

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ESSAYS / Spring 2007

The Accidental Plagiarist: The Trouble with Originality

By Erik Campbell

There comes a point in many a person’s life when things that Nietzsche said begin to make good sense. This is not necessarily a propitious sign. Understanding or simply identifying with Nietzsche doesn’t typically fill one’s life with joy...

POETRY / Winter 2006

The Redemption of Tantalus

By Erik Campbell

In lieu of the breakfast I knew he couldn’t
Chew, we spent the morning smelling

Brief flowers and giving a try at dangling
Our agonies to passersby.

 

ESSAYS / Fall 2005

Shirtless Days: On Living and Writing in the Jungles of Papua

By Erik Campbell

In Papua, Indonesia, fifty miles south of the largest gold mine in the world, a little Muslim girl is staring at me. She’s been at it for two minutes and twenty seconds now; I know this because I’ve been timing her. There she is, not...