The Tower is a new poem in eight parts by Christopher, and published by Levure littéraire. Check it out here.
Features and Media
ON THE MAP
March 15, 2014
Here are short videos of interviews with fifteen writers from the last residency. Watch it now on Youtube.
THE SAME GATE: A POETIC EXCHANGE
February 15, 2014
Check out the IWP's two new films about 13th century poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, from our symposium in Turkey, with poets and writers from Afghanistan, America, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and Turkey.
EVERY ATOM: WALT WHITMAN'S "SONG OF MYSELF" | MOOC
February 14, 2014
Enrollment is open, and free, for the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on Walt Whitman, which Christopher is co-teaching with the brilliant scholar, Ed Folsom. Join us, click here!
HOW WRITERS LIKE POETRY | MOOC
February 14, 2014
Enrollment is open, and free, for the Massive Online Course on writing poetry, which Christopher is co-teaching with Mary Hickman. This is part of The Writing University Open courses program. If you're interested, click here.
NECESSITIES
February 13, 2014
Christopher Merrill has published a new book of prose poetry, Necessities, now available at White Pine Press.
Necessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the spirit that could be discovered through language. Influenced by his reading of Kafka, Calvino, Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz, Charles Simic, James Tate, and other explorers of the marvelous, these poems are parables, which, with any luck, deepen with each reading. Check it out here.
TOUR OF CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM
February 10, 2014
Follow Christopher and the IWP's Overseas Tour of Cambodia and Vietnam, with the poets Jane Mead, Eleni Sikelianos, Amy Quan Barry, and Jon Davis, on Twitter (@CLMerrill), at www.Terrain.org, and on the IWP Website.
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW OF LANDMARKS
January 19, 2014
A review of LANDMARKS, the 20th anniversary issue of Two Lines, which Christopher co-edited with Susan Bernofsky. Read it here.
CHRISTOPHER JOINS THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HUMANITIES
January 15, 2014
Exciting news! President Barack Obama has appointed Christopher to serve on the National Council on The Humanities. Click to read the full article.
CHRISTOPHER'S READINGS OF HIS OWN WORK AND AGHA SHAHID ALI
December 18, 2013
On OnePausePoetry.org, Christopher reads selected poems from his own work and that of his late friend, Agha Shahid Ali. Explore here.