Articles
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Baron's essay "More" is in Solstice Literary Magazine.
Click here to read Solstice Literary Magazine's interview with Baron.
Best American Essays 2014
Baron’s essay “Legend: Willem de Kooning” is in Best American Essays 2014.On Dickinson
an essay about Emily
Dickinson's presence and spirit
The Valor of My Tongue: Plath and Shakespeare
an essay published in the Summer 2013 issue of Plath
Profiles from Indiana University Northwest
On Vivian Maier
an essay about a
photographer who has set the standard for artistry in anonymity
Magical Thinking and
Modern Times
an essay about the kind of cultural quest for knowledge that leads to
ignorance
In Praise of Quentin Anderson
an essay published in Solstice, Spring 2012
An Essay/ Review about Mark Doty’s The Art of
Description: World into Word
first published in The Manhattan Review, Fall/Winter 2011-12
Vendler
versus Dove
a discussion about authority and the task of poetry anthologies
Thoughts on Race and Poetry in America
a response to Major Jackson’s essay “A Mystifying Silence: Big and
Black” that appeared in 2007 in The American Poetry Review. Given the recent
flap over Claudia Rankine’s response to Tony Hoagland’s poem, I am
surmising that the topic remains a vexed one and thought I would post
this as a token of my own grappling over the course of my lifetime.
The Arc of
Teaching a Poem
a teaching statement composed by Baron Wormser and Dawn Potter (also
posted on Dawn’s website)
Introduction to John Haines: Descent
the introduction to a collection of Haines’s essays, reviews,
chronicles, memoirs, and poems
The Wire and The Wasteland
an essay first published in The Manhattan Review, Fall/Winter 2009-10
Jack RIP
a remembrance of Jack Wiler
Three
Definitions
an essay about teaching three genres—poetry, memoir, and fiction
Foreword to We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
by Pamela Spiro Wagner, CavanKerry Press, 2009
On the Passing of Hayden Carruth
a remembrance
Mr. Unpleasant and Mr. Pleasant
an essay/review of William Logan and Billy Collins, first published in The
Manhattan Review, Fall/Winter 2007-08
Political
Poetry
an essay about Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead” and “Political
Poetry,” first published in The Manhattan Review, Fall/Winter 2006-07
Nonfiction Brouhaha
an essay about writing what’s “true”
On Revision
an essay about a process that doesn’t have to end