Journal
About Paiduema
Paideuma is an annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal with a focus on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Issues often include a symposium on a particular theme, a dossier of archival materials, and essays on poetics.
Symposia
Beginning with volume 44, Paideuma began publishing symposia on such topics as the social value of poetry, community, and literature and war.
Current Issue


Volume 50 / 2023 [2025]
Roland Greene, “Introduction: Poems We Live With”
Symposium: Poems We Live With
Charles Altieri, “Some Self-Reflexive Poems That Delight My Fading Golden Years”
Tyler Babbie and Katelyn Kenderish, “Prufrock on the Beach”
Massimo Bacigalupo, “The Life of Man”
Jennifer Bartlett, “Larry Eigner: Poems for the Everyday”
Anne Boyer, “The Postcard Poetry of Buck Downs”
Andrea Brady, “Fretting after Knowledge: Keats, ‘O Thou Whose Face Hath Felt the Winter’s Wind’”
Franklin Bruno, “on Soap”
Stephanie Burt
Joel Calahan, “We Say We Are Doing ‘The Work,’ and What We Mean When We Say It”
Chris Chen, “‘Who is the maniac, and why everywhere at the same time’: Amiri Baraka’s Das Kapital and the Riddle of Value”
Kate Colby, “Bernadette’s Bananas”
Rhea Côté Robbins, “Poetry Thief”
Ann Cotten, “Slit”
Jordan Davis, “Furious Song”
Amy De’Ath, “‘The Victorious Ones’ by Chris Nealon”
Paul Eaton, “Windows in/on Time: William Corbett’s Columbus Square Journal”
Jack Foley
Stephen Fredman, “From Pass Through [Starting from San Diego]”
Nora Fulton, “Dew”
Chris Funkhouser, “Baraka’s Frames”
Florian Gargaillo, “At Home and ‘Trapped,’ With Adelaide Crapsey”
Gary Geddes, “A Brief Walk Down Memory Lines”
Mary Ellis Gibson, “Brooks and Creeks”
Mushira Habib, “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Rankine!”
William J. Harris, “‘Those Winter Sundays’ by Robert Hayden”
Matthew Hofer, “Bookmarking Experience: Gael Turnbull, John Dewey, and the Unbound Aesthetic”
Walt Hunter, “Yeats at the End”
Ruth Jennison, “Sol Funaroff, ‘The Bellbuoy’”
Jack Jung, “Tall Tree”
Daniel Kane
John Keene, “Robert Hayden’s ‘Those Winter Sundays’”
Lynn Keller, “The Thin-Skinned Mind”
Eunsong Kim, “Resemble You”
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, “Dust-Choked”
Johsua Kotin, “Living with Complicity”
Joy Ladin, “‘And yet…And yet…’: Life, Loss, and Issa”
Tim Lilburn, “Hoping for Something to Appear”
James Longenbach, “Pater’s ‘Mona Lisa’”
Jill Magi, “‘I follow the contours of what I do not know’: Living with Göran Sonnevi’s ‘Burge, Öja; 1989′”
Shaul Magid, “To the Angels with Endless Questions: Reflections on Rilke’s ‘The Last Judgment from the Pages of a Monk’”
Meredith Martin, “Grief”
Leslie Morris, “The Unconcealed: Could Outdream Mental Abstraction”
Miriam Nichols, “Flight to Paradise: André Spears’s From the Lost Land and Ship of State”
Richard Owens, “Rough Notes on Nessmuk and Fatherhood”
Jared Pearce, “Driving the Line, Boss at the Wheel”
Seth Perlow, “Thirteen Ways of Living with a Poem”
Jed Rasula, “‘Der Panther’ by Rainer Maria Rilke”
Brian Reed, “Have You Seen the Sea? Han Dong and Daily Living in a Pandemic”
Margaret Ronda, “Friendship’s Forms: Niedecker’s ‘You are my friend’”
Claude Royet-Journoud
Linda Russo, “Breathable Worlds”
Siobhán Scarry, “Living with Oppen’s ‘The Poem’”
Andrew Schelling, “Winter Song”
Eric Selland, “The Cadence of Disclosure: Rereading George Oppen”
Maeera Yaffa Shreiber, “Shattered Vessels”
Courtney Weiss Smith, “Poetry, Pleasure, Phonics; Or, Living with Swift”
David Levi Strauss, “Change in the Weather: Wrong Stories, Wrong Photographs, True Poems: Reflections on a Poem by Duncan McNaughton”
Keston Sutherland, “Verity Spott’s Eighty-Eight Minute Massacre”
Keith Tuma, “Christina Rossetti’s ‘Remember’”
Ronaldo V. Wilson, “A Life of Letters, Always When and Now: After June Jordan’s ‘Poem About My Rights’”
John Yau. “A Short Poem I Wear on My Sleeve”
Benjamin Friedlander, “Afterword”
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Laura Cowan, “In Memoriam: James Longenbach”
History
Paideuma was founded in 1971 by University of Maine English Professor Carroll F. Terrell. Its original mission was to focus on Ezra Pound’s life and work. The word “Paideuma” is a Poundian coinage, adapted from German scholar and ethnologist Leo Frobenius, meaning “the tangle or complex of the inrooted ideas of any period.” read more
Staff
Editor: Benjamin Friedlander
Editorial Assistant: Ali Alfridi
Publications Specialist: Betsy Graves Rose