Willard Spiegelman

Biography

Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and editor in chief of the Southwest Review. The author of several books on poetry, his recent work includes How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry (Oxford, 2005) and Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt (Columbia, 2005).

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ESSAYS / Summer 2012

Kay Ryan’s Delicate Strength

By Willard Spiegelman
ESSAYS / Spring 2012

Has Poetry Changed? The View From the Editor’s Desk

By Willard Spiegelman

Hope springs eternal, especially for aspiring poets. They want their voices to be heard; they want to appear in print as well as to write their poems. One wonders: who will listen, who will read?

ESSAYS / Winter 2005

Rita Dove, Dancing

By Willard Spiegelman

So how come there aren’t more dancing poets? The title of Rita Dove’s new volume promises a little more than the contents deliver, but one should be grateful for what lies within. Her earlier Grace Notes (1989) showed Dove’s interest in...