Professor of English Eric Weiskott, a scholar of poetry and poetics, has a new poetry chapbook, Chanties: An American Dream (Bottlecap Press, 2023). From the publisher: “His work is a shipboard reverie about the American boat we’re all in. Prose poems, lists, and lyrics find their sea legs while musing on a photograph of a lover left on shore. In a contemporary moment when the deep reaches of the forest already belong to IKEA, the ocean beckons. ‘The depths turn electric.’ Responding to the impasse of subjective expression in contemporary lyric theory, these poems are scored in a national ‘first-person choral.’ Inspiration comes from past and present voyagers on these waters: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Willis, Claudia Rankine, Ben Lerner, and Solmaz Sharif.” Weiskott is the author of Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650 and English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History, which won the 2018 English Association Beatrice White Prize. He co-edits the Yearbook of Langland Studies and his writing on literature, politics, and higher education has appeared in The Atlantic, Vox, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere.