Anahid Nersessian is associate professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of&nbsp;Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment&nbsp;(Harvard University Press, 2015),&nbsp;The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life&nbsp;(University of Chicago Press, 2020), and&nbsp;Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse&nbsp;(Chicago, 2021). With Nan Z. Da, she founded and co-edits the Thinking Literature series published by the University of Chicago Press.&nbsp;

Anahid Nersessian

Michael Robbins is the author of the best-selling poetry collections&nbsp;Alien vs. Predator&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Second Sex, both published by Penguin, and a book of criticism,&nbsp;Equipment for Living:&nbsp;On Poetry and Pop Music (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2017).&nbsp;His third book of poems,&nbsp;Walkman, was published by Penguin Random House in June 2021.&nbsp;He is also the editor of a collection of Margaret Cavendish’s poems published by New York Review Books. He teaches creative writing and English at Montclair State University.
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Michael Robbins

Of Poets and Critics: A Conversation Between Anahid Nersessian and Michael Robbins

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Traveling Light: Farewell to Leonard Cohen

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

Anahid Nersessian is associate professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of&nbsp;Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment&nbsp;(Harvard University Press, 2015),&nbsp;The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life&nbsp;(University of Chicago Press, 2020), and&nbsp;Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse&nbsp;(Chicago, 2021). With Nan Z. Da, she founded and co-edits the Thinking Literature series published by the University of Chicago Press.&nbsp;