Articles & Book Reviews

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Book Review of Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing by Matthew Hart, Style (2013)

Matthew Hart's Nations of Nothing but Poetry contributes to the growing field of transnational criticism,...

 

The Grace of the Daily: Review of The Poetics of the Everyday by Siobhan Phillips, Twentieth Century Literature (2012)

Readers of Siobhan Phillips's Poetics of the Everyday will find her insights about the ordinary...

 

'My Sense of Property’s / Adrift’: Attitudes Toward Land, Property and Nation in the Poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Paideuma (2011)
 

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Langston Hughes's Counterpublic Discourse, Langston Hughes Review (2010)

In the Whitmanesque "Let America Be America Again," Langston Hughes adopts an oratorical voice in...

 

Wallace Stevens’ Savage Commonplace, Wallace Stevens Journal (2009)
 

Value, Commerce, and Economy in the Poetry of Marianne Moore, Paideuma (2004)
 

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National Forgetting and Remembering in the Poetry of Robert Frost, Texas Studies in Literature & Language (2004)

Westover examines Robert Frost's most uncanny and disturbing poems that enact a return of the...

 

Books

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The Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry (2004)

"In The Colonial Moment, Jeffrey Westover shows how five major poets - Marianne Moore, William...

 

Contributions to Books

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African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity, A Companion to Poetic Genre (2012)

There is no monolithic blackness nor a single tradition of sonnet writing among black writers....

 

Presentations

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Competing Forms of Representation and the Figure of the Orphan in William Carlos Williams’s Depression-Era Passaic, Fourth Biennial William Carlos Williams Society Conference/William Paterson University (2011)

In Life Along the Passaic, William Carlos Williams uses the discrepancy between realism and modernism...

 

The Shared Territory of the Word in Adrienne Rich’s 'School Among the Ruins', “Crossing Borders of Language” Panel at Lifting Belly High: A Conference on Women’s Poetry Since 1900/Duquesne University (2008)