Selected recent Publications
“It Has Been (And Is) My Pleasure”
Literary Matters, President’s Column, Fall 2017.
“The Art of Literary Study”
Literary Matters, President’s Column, Spring 2017.
“Heart Beats, Drum Beats, and Tidal Wave Sentences.”
Literary Matters, President’s Column, Winter 2017.
“Writing the South: Twentieth Century Southern Poetry”
The Cambridge History of American Poetry (2015): 795-820.
“You Say You Want a Revolution: The Blues, Poetry and Rock”
Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, Vol. XV, no. 3, 2013: 145-167.
“Southern Verse in Poetry and Song”
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South (2013): 72-87.
“Fate, Faith and Confession in ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ ”
Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture, Vol. IV, no. 1, Spring, 2011: 325-344.
“Amazing Grace: The Aesthetics of a Spiritual Quest”
Essays on David Bottoms, William Walsh, ed., McFarland, 2010: 45-56.
Books
Poetic Song Verse: Blues-based Popular Music and Poetry, Mike Mattison co-author, University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone, James Luther Dickinson, author.
Ernest Suarez, editor and “Introduction,” University of Mississippi Press, 2017.
James Dickey and the Politics of Canon: Assessing the Savage Ideal, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.
Southbound: Interviews with Southern Poets. Trey Stanford and Amy Verner, assistants. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Recent Lectures, Reading and Conference Paper
“Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men and Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms,” Robert Penn Warren Circle, University of Western Kentucky, April 25, 2019
“Myth Making, Personae, and Poetic Song Verse: The Rolling Stones,” ALSCW Annual Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nov. 1-4, 2018 (seminar co-moderator with Mike Mattison)
“Robert Penn Warren’s Ernest Hemingway: Literary Value during the Mid-Twentieth Century” (with Mia Ferris Artiga), Ernest Hemingway Annual Conference, Paris, July 23-29, 2018
“Blues-based Song Verse as Populist Poetry,” Göttingen University, July 13, 2018
“Southern Verse Today,” Georgia State University, March 21, 2018
“The Origins of Poetic Song Verse,” University of West Georgia,” March 14, 2018
“This is ‘The End’,” ALSCW Annual Conference, University of Dallas, October 28, 2017
“Poetic Song Verse: Blues-based Popular Music and Poetry,” University of Maryland, September 27, 2017
“Dave Smith: A Tribute,” AWP Annual Conference, Washington, DC, February 9, 2017
“Why Robert Penn Warren included Robert Johnson and the Rolling Stones in The Makers and the Making,” Robert Penn Warren Circle, April 2016, Guthrie, Kentucky
“Blues-based Popular Music and Poetry,” Virginia Beall Ball Lecture in Contemporary Poetry, Baylor University, March 2016