Christopher Kempf is the author, most recently, of What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems (LSU, 2021) and Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American Culture (Johns Hopkins, 2022). He is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois.
Christopher Kempf
Articles
My Poem with This Wailing in the Background
Christopher Kempf reviews Rachel Richardson’s “Smother” and Esther Lin’s “Cold Thief Place.”
Disaster Triumphant
Visiting Trinity Site, location of the Manhattan Project, Christopher Kempf is stunned by the failures of the American curatorial imagination.
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