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Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization, Fordham University Press (2019)
Books (In Production or Under Contract)
Some Flowers: poems, MadHat Press (forthcoming 2022)
The American House Poem, 1945-2015 (under contract with Oxford University Press)
Books (Edited)
Translation: Frédéric Neyrat, Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism, with Lindsay Turner, Lit Z Series, Fordham University Press (2017)
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
“Make It Now: Poetry at the End of Time in Jorie Graham and Ghayath Almadhoun,” Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture, ed. Peter Simonsen and Emily Hogg (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021): 176-188.
“The American Poetic Subprime: Contemporary Poetry, Race, and Genre,” New Literary History 51.3 (Summer 2020): 615-637.
“Poetic Dimensions, Critical Vocations,” Syndicate Lit, August 18, 2020: https://syndicate.network/symposia/literature/thinking-its-presence/
"Contemporary Poetry and Capitalism," American Literary History 31.4 (winter 2019): 860-869.
“A Global ‘We’? Poetic Exhortations in a Time of Precarious Life,” Cultural Critique 98 (2018): 72-94.
“Planetary Dejection: An Ode to Finance,” symploke (special cluster on “Materialisms”; 2017): 225-239.
“Amassing Harmonies” Essays in Criticism 66 (2016): 268-275.
“For a Global Poetics,” ASAP/Journal 1.3 (September 2016): 365-377.
"The No Prospect Poem: Lyric Finality in Prynne, Awoonor, and Trethewey," minnesota review 85 (2015): 144-152.
“Claude McKay’s Constabulary Aesthetics: The Social Poetics of the Jamaican Dialect Poems,” Modern Philology 111 (February 2014): 566-584.
“Poetry and Sociality in a Global Frame,” College Literature 41.4 (fall 2014): 129-135.
“Lyric and its Discontents,” minnesota review 79 (fall 2012): 78-90.
“Kathy Acker and the Ethics of Frivolity,” Studies in American Humor 3 (fall 2011): 83-104.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Accepted or Submitted)
“Lowell and War,” Robert Lowell in Context , ed. Grzegorz Ko?? and Thomas Austenfeld (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022)
“Claude McKay’s Lonely Planet: The Sonnet Sequence and the Global City,” Sonnets from the American , ed. Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming)
“Black Poetics and South-South Movement,” Diaspora and Literary Studies, ed. Angela Naimou (Critical Concepts Series, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
“‘A Little Room in a House Set Aflame’: American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-first Century,” Companion to American Poetry, ed. Mary Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen (Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming)
Journalism
“‘Roses full of flame’: The Poems of Claudia Jones,” Conversation with Jay Bernard, Young Poets Network (March 2, 2021): https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/features/roses-full-of-flame-the-poems-of-claudia-jones/
“Past Process: On John Ashbery,” Modernism/modernity Print Plus (July 15, 2021): https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/hunter-past-process
"Yeats at the End," Paideuma (forthcoming)
“The Many Beginnings of Louise Glück,” The Atlantic (October 10, 2020): https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/10/louise-gluck-nobel-prize-literature-beginnings/616688/
“On Not Knowing How to Dance,” Modernism/modernity Print Plus (February 28, 2019): https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/not-knowing-how-dance
“W.S. Merwin’s Poems of Ethical Care,” The Atlantic (March 20, 2019)
“The Story Behind the Poem on the Statue of Liberty,” The Atlantic (January 16, 2018
“Process Against Progress,” Modernism/Modernity Print Plus (April 26, 2018): https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/process-against-progress
“When Hamlet Starts Showing Up in Federal Court,”The Atlantic (June 13, 2018)
“Remembering Donald Hall, A Poet of Love and Loss,”The Atlantic (June 27, 2018)
“No Cure for That,” Cluster in memory of Stanley Cavell, ASAP/Journal (July 26, 2018): http://asapjournal.com/no-cure-for-that-walt-hunter
“The New Intellectuals,” The Atlantic (May 8, 2017)
"Speculations: New Irish Poetry," Jacket2 commentaries (spring 2015): http://jacket2.org/commentary/walt-hunter
Poetry (Published)
"The Swimmers," The Hopkins Review (fall 2021)
"False Dawn," The Atlantic (fall 2021)
"Ending the Residency," Literary Matters (spring 2021)
"Olomouc," Literary Matters (spring 2021)
"Autumn Song," Literary Matters (spring 2021)
“After Canto XIII of the Inferno,” The Atlantic (spring 2020)
“August,” Literary Imagination (June 2020)
“Holy Sonnets,” Literary Imagination (June 2020)
“A Letter,” Literary Imagination (June 2020)
“No Birds,” Literary Imagination (June 2020)
"Sonnet," Connecticut Examiner (2020): https://ctexaminer.com/2020/09/26/walt-hunter-at-the-merrill-house/
"Account," Oversound (2018)
"Summer Seminar," Oversound (2018)
"Named After the Sun," South Carolina Voices: Poetry and Prose (2018)
"Greenville" (with Lindsay Turner), The Spectacle (2018)
"Ecologue," Oversound (2017)
"Ecosplay," Oversound (2017)
“No Trees,” Prelude (2016)
“Distress Tolerance Handout 5,” Boston Review (24 April 2015): http://bostonreview.net/poetry/npm15-walt-hunter-distress-tolerance-handout-5
Reviews & Interviews
"Same Difference: Jacob Edmond’s Copy Poetics,” Los Angeles Review of Books (Sept 27, 2019)
“Inventing Appalachia: Meredith McCarroll’s Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film,” South Carolina Review 51.2 (spring 2019): 183-186.
“The History of Heroes Still to Come: An Interview with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi,” ASAP/Journal (June 25, 2018): http://asapjournal.com/the-history-of-heroes-still-to-come-an-interview-with-thenjiwe-niki-nkosi
“Five Questions for Frédéric Neyrat,” Interview for ASAP/Journal (April 13, 2017)
“Vulnerability in Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary Poetry,” Romantic Circles, audio interview (March 2017): https://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons/contemporary/pedagogies.commons.2016.contemporary.hunter.html
Review of Larissa Szporluk, Traffic with Macbeth, in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing 33.1 (winter 2013)
Encyclopedia entries: “Chiasmus,” “cross rhyme,” “monorhyme,” “tail rhyme,” Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. (Princeton UP, 2012)
Review of Zach Savich, Annulments, in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing 32.1 (winter 2012)
Review of Brian Henry, Lessness, in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing 32.2 (summer 2012)
Review of Donald Revell, The Bitter Withy, in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing 31.2 (summer 2011)
Digital Works, Videos, CDs & DVDs, Software (Published)
"Poetry After Language," ARCADE colloquy, co-edited with Marijeta Bozovic (fall 2015): https://arcade.stanford.edu/colloquies/poetry-after-language
Grants
James Merrill House Writer in Residence, Stonington, CT (September 2020)
TeachingForward Fellow, Clemson University (2019-2020)
Idol-South Research Award, English Department, Clemson University (2018)
Faculty Research Development Project Grant, Clemson University (2018)
Artist Fellowship (Poetry), South Carolina Arts Commission (2017)
Tier 1 SEED Funding Grant, Clemson University (2017)
Faculty Research Development Project Grant, Clemson University (2017)
Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship, Harvard College (2004-2005)
