Christopher Kempf
Christopher Kempf is a Ph.D. student in English Literature at the University of Chicago, and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Recipient of a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, his poetry and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review Online, and The New Republic, among other places. He received his MFA from Cornell University. On Association
It is an acknowledged truth that the dominant mode in contemporary poetry is the associative. A cursory glance through the nation’s top journals, or at its most prestigious first-book prizes or its most celebrated contemporary anthologies—at those points, that is, … Continue reading