Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker ("Poet's Work")

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What kind of work is the work of poetry, and how does it compare with other kinds of labor? We have the perfect pairing of poem and critic to think through that question on this episode: Kristin Grogan joins the podcast to talk about Lorine Niedecker's "Poet's Work."

Kristin is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, where she works on poetry, poetics, modernism, American literature, modernism, gender, and sexuality. She is nearing completion of her first book, Stitch, Unstitch: Poetry, Modernism, and the World of Work. You can find Kristin's essays and articles in such journals as American Literature, Critical Quarterly, Post45, Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, and in several essay collections. With David B. Hobbs, Kristin edited a Post45 cluster on the poet Bernadette Mayer. You can find her contribution to that cluster, on Mayer and keeping a garden, here.

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