Bill Christophersen

Poet and critic Bill Christophersen is the author of the poetry collections Where Truth Lies (Kelsay Books, 2020), Tableau with Crash Helmet (2018), The Dicer’s Cup (2017), and Two Men Fighting in a Landscape (2015). His poems have been published in Rattle, RHINO, New Letters, Hanging Loose, and Poetry magazine. A frequent book reviewer, his criticism has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Poetry, and Newsweek. He is the author of the literary studies The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown’s American Gothic (1993) and Resurrecting Leather-Stocking: Pathfinding in Jacksonian America (2019). Christophersen lives in New York and has taught at Fordham University. A traditional fiddle player, he has played with the Manhattan Valley Ramblers, the Fly-by-Night String Band, the Lazy Aces String Band, and the Mysterious Redbirds. Hell & High Water, his solo fiddle album, was released in 2008.

“No Shadow But Myself”: Remembering W.S. Merwin

Bill Christophersen

Where to begin commemorating the accomplishments of poet-translator-fictionist-essayist W.S. Merwin? His translations (of Dante, Mandelstam, Neruda and others) alone constitute a proud life’s work. His literary honors include the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, two Pulitzers, the National Book Award, the Tanning Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Ruth Lilly […]

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By Bill Christophersen