Christina Pugh

Oct 2, 2024 | theadroitjournal.org | Christina Pugh

When a reader once called me a research-based poet, I was startled. I had never thought of my poems in that way. Though I know that something I call “poetic thinking” drives my work, I had never written a poetry book based, for example, on historical manuscripts or an archeological site. Distinct from the empirical drive of research, poetic thinking feels more imaginary.

Apr 8, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Christina Pugh

Forget the Emily Dickinson you think you know, that hermetic author of bedeviling sense, “So Anthracite, to live - // For some - an Ampler Zero -.” Say goodbye to the Belle and Recluse of Amherst, Mythic Emily, and every other epithet that scholars, biographers, and critics have coined to stoke the public’s fascination with a human sphinx.