Poems Out Loud

Kamran Javadizadeh is an associate professor of English at Villanova University, where he works on the history of poetry and poetics, with a particular emphasis on the poetry of the 20th and 21st century United States. His first book, Institutionalized Lyric (forthcoming, Oxford UP), offers a new account of mid-century U.S. poetry, one that sees the increasingly institutional positioning of poetry, its sponsorship by universities and offices of state, and the sudden prominence, in the lives of poets and as a subject for poetry, of the experiences of breakdown and psychiatric institutionalization as two sides of the same coin. Javadizadeh’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Point, PMLA, Modernism/modernity, Arizona Quarterly, The Yale Review, and in several edited anthologies.