Erick Verran
Obiter Dicta (Punctum Books, 2021) • 🎮 @UofUEnglish • Book Reviews editor @quarterlywest
A Review of Kieron Walquist's Our Hands Hold Violence | Poetry Project Newsletter
A Review of Kieron Walquist's Our Hands Hold Violence | Poetry Project Newsletter
Atypical in the most literal sense, Our Hands Hold Violence, Kieron Walquist's National Poetry Series-winning debut, is full of nonce forms, single-use as a condom. Several are neatly tabular, while others remind you of etched metal or a tall stalk of hogweed along the roadside. Abecedarians, too, o…
"Wake Me Up Inside" | Diagram
"Wake Me Up Inside" | Diagram
A Review of Matthew Tuckner’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Hopkins Review
A Review of Matthew Tuckner’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Hopkins Review
Erick Verran reviews Matthew Tuckner’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, out in 2025 from Four Way Books.
A Review of Declan Ryan's Crisis Actor | Georgia Review
A Review of Declan Ryan's Crisis Actor | Georgia Review
Watching Leon Gast’s When We Were Kings as a college freshman, I hadn’t known who the winner was between defending heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali in their now-iconic 1974 matchup in Zaire. Then, this March, the BBC announced Foreman’s death at the age of seventy-six, and the world of crackling flashbulbs, Hunter S.
A Review of Camille Ralphs’s After You Were, I Am | Fence Digital
A Review of Camille Ralphs’s After You Were, I Am | Fence Digital
Ralphs must have driven her copyeditor nuts given that vowels, like teeth, are missing left and right; consonants chatter in a “tchilll[ing] wynd” and a noisesome dog is hated for “yyammerringg.”…
Five Poems | The Glacier
Five Poems | The Glacier
The Glacier Issue FourWinter 2025 Observing the Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024, in Secaucus, New Jersey after James Wright As the moon slid into its forecasted placehundreds of thousands of m…
Two Poems | Soft Union
Two Poems | Soft Union
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A Review of Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy | Literary Matters
A Review of Christian Gullette's Coachella Elegy | Literary Matters
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A Review of Yuki Yanaka's Chronicle of Drifting | Poetry Project Newsletter
A Review of Yuki Yanaka's Chronicle of Drifting | Poetry Project Newsletter
With the commandment against treating authors and their speakers as one and the same rarely heeded anymore, Yuki Tanaka’s Chronicle of Drifting (Copper Canyon, 2025) is something of a throwback. As much a sequence of masks as a wardrobe of moods, any one guise might be discarded for another in quick…
A Review of Armen Davoudian's The Palace of Forty Pillars | Gulf Coast
A Review of Armen Davoudian's The Palace of Forty Pillars | Gulf Coast
A Review of Karen Solie's Wellwater | On the Seawall
A Review of Karen Solie's Wellwater | On the Seawall
A Review of Jenny George, Carl Phillips, and Jacob Eigen | Cleveland Review of Books
A Review of Jenny George, Carl Phillips, and Jacob Eigen | Cleveland Review of Books
A Review of Nosferatu | The Drift
A Review of Nosferatu | The Drift
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"House of the Tragic Poet" | Tyger Quarterly
"House of the Tragic Poet" | Tyger Quarterly
Erick Verran HOUSE OF THE TRAGIC POET To be able to dream like this is certainly worth the trouble it took to get...
"Album Leaf" | Bayou Magazine
"Album Leaf" | Bayou Magazine
A Review of Kai Ihns's Of | Annulet
A Review of Kai Ihns's Of | Annulet
A Review of Corey Van Landingham's Reader, I | Los Angeles Review
A Review of Corey Van Landingham's Reader, I | Los Angeles Review
A Review of Callie Siskel’s Two Minds | Literary Matters
A Review of Callie Siskel’s Two Minds | Literary Matters
On Literary Matters
A Review of Frederick Seidel’s So What | Los Angeles Review of Books
A Review of Frederick Seidel’s So What | Los Angeles Review of Books
Erick Verran reviews Frederick Seidel’s “So What.”
"Minecraft's Atom" | Press Start
"Minecraft's Atom" | Press Start
A Review of Jane Huffman's Public Abstract | Rain Taxi
A Review of Jane Huffman's Public Abstract | Rain Taxi
A Review of Courtney Bush's I Love Information | Annulet
A Review of Courtney Bush's I Love Information | Annulet
Five Poems | Word For/Word
Five Poems | Word For/Word
"In Pursuit of Ourselves: Roleplaying (Self-)Control and the Doppelgänger Trope in Videogames" | Game Studies
"In Pursuit of Ourselves: Roleplaying (Self-)Control and the Doppelgänger Trope in Videogames" | Game Studies
"Poach" | Pangyrus
"Poach" | Pangyrus
"Autres Loups" | The Cortland Review
"Autres Loups" | The Cortland Review
"Rosarium" | Twelve Mile Review
"Rosarium" | Twelve Mile Review
A Review of Hannah Sullivan's Was It for This | On the Seawall
A Review of Hannah Sullivan's Was It for This | On the Seawall
A Review of Boris Dralyuk's My Hollywood | Michigan Quarterly Review
A Review of Boris Dralyuk's My Hollywood | Michigan Quarterly Review
"Special Ways of Being Afraid" | Abridged
"Special Ways of Being Afraid" | Abridged
A Review of Anders Carlson-Wee's Disease of Kings | Harvard Review
A Review of Anders Carlson-Wee's Disease of Kings | Harvard Review
"In this collector's gallery, the large skulls" | Bicoastal Review
"In this collector's gallery, the large skulls" | Bicoastal Review
A Review of Noah Warren’s The Complete Stories | Tourniquet Review
A Review of Noah Warren’s The Complete Stories | Tourniquet Review
"Kitchen Superstition" | The Reservoir: Communion
"Kitchen Superstition" | The Reservoir: Communion
A Review of Asteroid City | The Drift
A Review of Asteroid City | The Drift
A Review of Dan Chiasson's The Math Campers | Georgia Review
A Review of Dan Chiasson's The Math Campers | Georgia Review
"Continual Creation: Idealism, Metaphor, and the Representation of Spatiotemporality" | Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
"Continual Creation: Idealism, Metaphor, and the Representation of Spatiotemporality" | Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
"Father of Invention" | Subtropics
"Father of Invention" | Subtropics
Four Poems | Gargoyle Magazine
Four Poems | Gargoyle Magazine
"Artifact Functionality and the Logic of Trash in Videogames" | Postmodern Culture
"Artifact Functionality and the Logic of Trash in Videogames" | Postmodern Culture
Obiter Dicta | Punctum Books
Obiter Dicta | Punctum Books
Obiter Dicta | Punctum Books
"Negative Ecologies, or Silence’s Role in Affordance Theory" | Journal of Sound and Music in Games
"Negative Ecologies, or Silence’s Role in Affordance Theory" | Journal of Sound and Music in Games
"Bildung" | Massachusetts Review
"Bildung" | Massachusetts Review
"Unnoticed Burne-Jones: Ekphrasis in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway" | Virginia Woolf Miscellany
"Unnoticed Burne-Jones: Ekphrasis in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway" | Virginia Woolf Miscellany
"Explication of Events and Dialogues in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot" | Contemporary Aesthetics
"Explication of Events and Dialogues in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot" | Contemporary Aesthetics
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