All posts by Scott Challener

June 18th, 2010

How to Catch a Falling Knife

It is not easy to make interesting poems, yet How to Catch a Falling Knife is full of them. Part of the interest is apparent in the work the title performs: instead of shying from danger, these poems surprise by imagining their way fearlessly toward it. …more

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February 23rd, 2009

The Return of Sweetness

For Dante, Heaven sweetened souls; for Frank Bidart, who does not believe in Heaven, sweetness comes haggard, if it comes at all. …more

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Scott Challener teaches a course on Dante in the Writing Program at Boston University, as well as creative writing courses at Northeastern and Grub Street.

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