Tag: Mike Chasar

January 7, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 Columbia University Press literary studies catalog. The past year was a challenging one on many fronts and we hope the books in this catalog reflect the various ways in...

January 7, 2021

Browse Our MLA Virtual Book Exhibit with Philip Leventhal

Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit for the MLA conference. I am Philip Leventhal, editor for literary studies, and while it is disappointing not to have the opportunity to see everyone in person at MLA this year, I...

April 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! Poetry Unbound, By Mike Chasar (introduction)

“By disclosing what are at once poetry’s most inscrutable and its most public aspects, Chasar reorients our understanding of poetry’s relation to the media, throwing gasoline on the fire of a question we have dodged for too long: what is...

April 23, 2020

Origin Stories

By Mike Chasar

“A persuasive, thoroughly researched, memorable, and often delightful book. Mike Chasar has excelled in his ambitious coverage of primary sources. Moreover, this is a book that addresses questions that come up frequently in the poetry world about where and why...

March 10, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Newsmakers, Poetry Unbound and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Newsmakers Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism Francesco Marconi Will the use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it—or its savior?...

September 3, 2014

Back to School with Anne Campbell — Mike Chasar

The following post is by Mike Chasar, author of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America. The essay was also published in Arcade: A little less than a year back, I wrote about Edgar Guest, the longtime poet...

November 14, 2013

Mike Chasar on Remembrance Day and the Case of the $400,000,000 Poem

The following post written for Veteran’s Day or Remembrance Day is by Mike Chasar, author of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America. The post was originally published on Arcade. I like to think of John McCrae’s “In...

April 9, 2013

Skin and Ink — Mike Chasar Gets a Robert Creeley Tattoo

“My adaptation of ‘I Know a Man’ … also links me to the popular reading practices I study and value—practices that respect and honor important texts not by preserving those texts in the unchanging museum space of an anthology, but...

December 17, 2012

Mike Chasar — Jingle All the Way: Saint Nick and the Poetry of Santa's Ring Toss

In the following post, Mike Chasar, author of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America, explores the ways in which a poem related to a Coca-Cola holiday promotion exposes how the commercial and non-commercial aspects of the holidays...

December 6, 2012

Mike Chasar and Jed Rasula on the Poetry Glut

“For me, the glut isn’t a glut so much as a fundamental condition of poetry in the long twentieth century … Realizing that means reassessing our histories of American poetry, the maps and guidebooks we produce about it, and the...

November 8, 2012

Mike Chasar on Burma-Shave Ads and Modernist Poetry

MUG AND BRUSH / OLD ADAM / HAD ’EM / IS YOUR HUSBAND / LIKE ADAM, MADAM? / BURMA-SHAVE One of the examples of the relationship between poetry and popular culture explored in Mike Chasar’s Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular...

October 23, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Poetry in America, Communism in China, Derrida, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America Mike Chasar The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party Ishikawa Yoshihiro War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics Emile Simpson...