Jonathan Farmer, Author at The Millions

The Way We Talk About Poetry Is the Problem

Jonathan Farmer - 10.28.2021 | 3

Favoritism, shallowness, self-dealing, competition dressed up as virtue, flatterers dressed up as sages, coteries dressed up as the elect: none of that is new. But right now, it just seems so loud.

Jonathan Farmer - 10.28.2021 | 3

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Essays

When I Mean I

Jonathan Farmer - 5.21.2020

Maybe you think that the very act of writing distorts the self by forcing it into and through generic and linguistic conventions incompatible with the experience of selfhood as you know it.

Jonathan Farmer - 5.21.2020

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From the Newsstand On Poetry

Race and American Poetry: Dove v. Vendler

Jonathan Farmer - 12.28.2011 | 34

We can, should, and will continue to argue about artistic quality, but we should do so while remembering that poetry can only live in the minds of living readers, and that its value comes out of their encounters with individual poems, which are, thank god, incredibly various (both the poems and the encounters.)

Jonathan Farmer - 12.28.2011 | 34

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