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Review Of Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, And The Canon, Tracy A. Fernandez Rysavy Feb 2026

Review Of Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, And The Canon, Tracy A. Fernandez Rysavy

Feminist Pedagogy

No abstract provided.


How Questions Of Editing Shape Our Learning: Introducing Students To Digital Manuscripts, Marlowe Daly-Galeano Feb 2026

How Questions Of Editing Shape Our Learning: Introducing Students To Digital Manuscripts, Marlowe Daly-Galeano

Feminist Pedagogy

This article presents a pedagogical approach for introducing literature students to digital manuscripts and editorial processes through hands-on engagement with archival materials. The teaching activity centers on May Alcott Nieriker's essay "London Bridges," using four different versions of the text—two handwritten manuscripts, one nineteenth-century periodical publication, and one contemporary republication—to illuminate how editorial decisions shape literary canons and student learning. The four-part assignment integrates literary analysis, manuscript transcription, variant identification, and editorial decision-making to help students understand the material conditions that determine which texts survive and become part of academic curricula. Through this assignment, students gain critical insights into the …


"In Her Own Words: Annotating A 19th-Century Southwest Florida Diary", Jordan L. Von Cannon Feb 2026

"In Her Own Words: Annotating A 19th-Century Southwest Florida Diary", Jordan L. Von Cannon

Feminist Pedagogy

No abstract provided.


A Godless Greek Mythology: The Desecration Of Greek Mythology For Children, Vanessa Russo Feb 2026

A Godless Greek Mythology: The Desecration Of Greek Mythology For Children, Vanessa Russo

CAFE Symposium 2026

This project analyzes how Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1851) socialized young American readers by immersing them in a fictitious New England Utopia. While some scholars assert that Wonder Book represents a shift from the didactic nature of nineteenth century children's literature to a style that prioritized entertainment and fostered imaginative play, Hawthorne’s rewriting, or rather his desecration, of six classic Greek Myths certainly had moral undertones that reaffirmed a simplistic Puritan ideal: a pure relationship with the Christian God, women embracing the ideology of the cult of domesticity and staying out of the political sphere, …


Conspicuous Technique: Black Avant-Garde Poetry And The Politics Of Aesthetics, Ryan Gato Feb 2026

Conspicuous Technique: Black Avant-Garde Poetry And The Politics Of Aesthetics, Ryan Gato

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study is comprised of two essays on the politics of aesthetics in postwar American black experimental poetry. Within the domain of contemporary poetry scholarship, this study serves three distinct yet interrelated purposes: 1.) to intervene within ongoing debates about the relation—or purported lack thereof—between black artistic practices and those of the historic and American avant-gardes by emphasizing the politics of aesthetics; 2.) to offer a critique of the usage of the discourses of postmodernism and of black aesthetics in the field by elucidating the historicity of their conceptual frameworks; and 3.) to provide an alternative to contemporary scholarship’s narrow …


Field Trip, Art Hill Jan 2026

Field Trip, Art Hill

Ontario Review

ART HILL of Birmingham, Michigan is the author of an essay on Malcolm Lowry which appeared in a recent issue of Canadian Literature.


Look To Thyself: Ignatow's Notebooks, Robert Leiter Jan 2026

Look To Thyself: Ignatow's Notebooks, Robert Leiter

Ontario Review

ROBERT LEITER is a free-lance writer and critic living in Philadelphia. His work has recently appeared in The Nation, Commonweal, Film Heritage, and The New Republic.


A True Lyric Poet: Marya Zaturenska, Robert Phillips Jan 2026

A True Lyric Poet: Marya Zaturenska, Robert Phillips

Ontario Review

ROBERT PHILLIPS, poet, fiction writer, and critic, has been book review editor of Modem Poetry Studieand has contributed essays and reviews to numerous periodicals. His books include Denton Welch, Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dreamchild, and The Confes sional PoetsHe lives in Katonah, New York.


A North American Vistion: Clark Blaise's Tribal Justice, Richard Hornsey Jan 2026

A North American Vistion: Clark Blaise's Tribal Justice, Richard Hornsey

Ontario Review

RICHARD HORNSEY received his Ph.D. in Canadian Literature from the University of Alberta. His poems have appeared in many Canadian magazines including The Canadian Forum, Fiddlehead, and The University of Windsor Review as well as in Poetry AustraliaHis first book of poetry, Going In, was published in 1972 and he is currently completing a second. He teaches at the University of Windsor.


Five Poets From Five Countries, Tom Marshall Jan 2026

Five Poets From Five Countries, Tom Marshall

Ontario Review

TOM MARSHALL, poetry editor of The Canadian Forum, has published books on A. M . Klein and D. H . Lawrence. His third collection of poetry, The Earth-Book, was published last fall by Oberon Press. He teaches at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.


The Canadian Heorine As Survivor: Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, Gloria Whelan Jan 2026

The Canadian Heorine As Survivor: Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, Gloria Whelan

Ontario Review

GLORIA WHELAN, also a former contributor, has published fiction and reviews in a number of periodicals including The Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, The Michigan Quarterly, and the Detroit Free Press. A collector of first editions of Henry James's books, she lives in Oxbow, Michigan.


Two Poems: Trying To Shovel Out; Snow Levels, Philip Legler Jan 2026

Two Poems: Trying To Shovel Out; Snow Levels, Philip Legler

Ontario Review

PHILIP LEGLER is the author of two books of poetry, Change of View and The Intruder. He is Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Northern Michigan University, and poems of his have appeared or will appear in Commonweal, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.


Papa, Mary Gregory Jan 2026

Papa, Mary Gregory

Ontario Review

MARY GREGORY lives and teaches in Westchester County, New York.


Three Poems: Chicano Dropout; Not Knowing, In Aztlán; Now That I'M In Spain, Tino Villanueva Jan 2026

Three Poems: Chicano Dropout; Not Knowing, In Aztlán; Now That I'M In Spain, Tino Villanueva

Ontario Review

TINO VILLANUEVA, who was born in Texas, is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston Uni- versity and teaches Spanish at Wellesley College. He has published in periodicals such as Caribbean Review, El Grito, Hispam erica, Revista Chicano-Riquena, and Magazín, and is the author of Hay Otra Voz Poems {1972). "Chicano Dropout" and "Not Knowing, in Aztlán" have been selected for a Houghton Mifflin anthology of Chicano literature.


Meridian, Kurt Brown Jan 2026

Meridian, Kurt Brown

Ontario Review

KURT BROWN is currently editing poetry for Aspen Leaves, a literary magazine issuing from Aspen, Colorado, where he lives.


Two Poems: Friend; Sunup, Naomi Clark Jan 2026

Two Poems: Friend; Sunup, Naomi Clark

Ontario Review

NAOMI CLARK has published poems in The Antioch Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Malahat Review, The Far Point, and elsewhere. She teaches at San Jose State University in California.


The Drunk Tank Judge, Charles Bukowski Jan 2026

The Drunk Tank Judge, Charles Bukowski

Ontario Review

CHARLES BUKOWSKI is the author of over twenty books of poetry and prose; the most recent is Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 (Black Sparrow Press, 1974), reviewed in the previous issue. He lives in the Los Angeles area.


From Desire To Decision (A Syllabic Synopsis Of A Short Story), Ken Stange Jan 2026

From Desire To Decision (A Syllabic Synopsis Of A Short Story), Ken Stange

Ontario Review

KEN STANGE, a psychology lab instructor in North Bay, Ontario, edits Nebula Magazine and has poems published or forthcoming in The Canadian Forum, The Dalhousie Review, Event, Waves, and elsewhere.


The Man Who Changed Overnight, Fielding Dawson Jan 2026

The Man Who Changed Overnight, Fielding Dawson

Ontario Review

FIELDING DAWSON, a resident of New York City, is the author of The Dream/Thunder Road (stories), The Greatest Story Ever Told (novella), and The Sun Rises into the Sky (stories), and other books. "The Man Who Changed Over-night" will be the title story of a new collection of fiction to be published by The Black Sparrow Press this year.


From The Slag Of Creation, Richard Grossinger Jan 2026

From The Slag Of Creation, Richard Grossinger

Ontario Review

RICHARD GROSSINGER teaches at Goddard College in Vermont. His books include The Continents (Black Sparrow Press); and with his wife, Lindy Hough, he has edited sixteen numbers of a series of journals and books entitled lo.


Incubus, Kay Closson Jan 2026

Incubus, Kay Closson

Ontario Review

KAY CLOSSON has been published and/or accepted by The Penny Dreadful, Duck, Ghost Dance, and other periodicals. She lives on a fifty-acre farm in south-central Kansas.


From The Pavese Poems, Peter Stevens Jan 2026

From The Pavese Poems, Peter Stevens

Ontario Review

PETER STEVENS came from England to Canada in 1957. He has published poems, essays, and reviews in numerous periodicals, and his books of poetry include Nothing but Spoons (1969), Few Myths (1971), Bread Crusts and Glass (1972), and And the Dying Sky like Blood (1974), a cycle of poems for Norman Bethune. A former poetry editor of The Canadian Forum, he is a contributing editor to The Ontario Review and teaches English at the University of Windsor.


In Whom We Trust, Linda W. Wagner Jan 2026

In Whom We Trust, Linda W. Wagner

Ontario Review

LINDA W. WAGNER, a former contributor, teaches English at Michigan State University. She is the author of many critical essays, as well as The Poetry of William Carlos Williams (1964) and The Prose of William Carlos Williams (1970). She recently edited T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Criticism (McGraw-Hill, 1974) and Ernest Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism (MSU ' Press, 1974).


Nine Photographs, Brad Iverson Jan 2026

Nine Photographs, Brad Iverson

Ontario Review

BRAD IVERSON's work has appeared in many group and one-man exhibitions in the Detroit area, and he has published photographs in Afterimage and Camera ("Chair and Door"). His work is also represented in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Married, with two sons, he is currently Assistant Director of the Liberal Arts Honors Program at Wayne State University.


Three Poems: Hamilton; Camel Blue; Chepa Franco, Peter Wild Jan 2026

Three Poems: Hamilton; Camel Blue; Chepa Franco, Peter Wild

Ontario Review

PETER WILD teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona. His most recent collections of poems are New and Selected Poems (1973), Cochise (1973), and The Cloning (1974). He has published widely in Poetry, The Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, The Chicago Review, and elsewhere.


Sarto's Last Sketch, John Ower Jan 2026

Sarto's Last Sketch, John Ower

Ontario Review

JOHN OWER teaches at the University of South Carolina; his poetry has appeared in The Canadian Forum, The FiddleheadThe Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere; and his critical essays have been published in such periodicals as Mosaic, Canadian Literature, and Twentieth Century Literature.


Two Poems: Song For A High, Cold Wind; The Better Host, Peter Fellowes Jan 2026

Two Poems: Song For A High, Cold Wind; The Better Host, Peter Fellowes

Ontario Review

PETER FELLOWES teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at North Park College of Chicago, and was recently included in an American Poetry Review feature of outstanding younger poets.


At Auction, Jerome Mazzaro Jan 2026

At Auction, Jerome Mazzaro

Ontario Review

JEROME MAZZARO teaches at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he also edits Modem Poetry StudiesA former Guggenheim Fellow, he has published a number of books, including The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell, a translation of Juvenal's Satires, Changing the Windows (poems), and William Carlos Williams: The Later Poems.


We Begin These Affairs Lightly, M. L. Rosenthal Jan 2026

We Begin These Affairs Lightly, M. L. Rosenthal

Ontario Review

M. L. ROSENTHAL's most recent book of poems is The View from the Peacock's Tail (Oxford University Press, 1972); his Poetry and the Common Life was published last fall (Oxford). His earlier books include The Modem Poets: A Critical Introduction; The New Poets American and British Poetry Since World War II; Blue Boy on Skates (poems); and Beyond Power New Poems. He teaches at New York University.


To The Etruscan Poets, Richard Wilbur Jan 2026

To The Etruscan Poets, Richard Wilbur

Ontario Review

RICHARD WILBUR, Professor of English at Wesleyan University, has published a number of books, including The Poems of Richard Wilbur (1963) and Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations (1969); his translations of Moliere have been widely and successfully performed in the United States and England. Recently elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he lives in· Cummington, Massachusetts.