🌟✒️📔✨ We are so excited that this cluster, "C.D. Wright in Context," is at post45.org/contemporaries. Enjoy reading, enjoy your November Wednesday, & let's all read more C.D. Wright in the near future! Her poetry often offers us strange balms for strange times, & this cluster is a testament to that.

Rounding out the cluster is @jenssread.bsky.social—Wright’s biographer—whose essay shows how Wright’s poetry “decenters her experience” & "reveals herself fallible before the gaze of the reader.” Wright’s powerful poetry emerges from this complex, lyrical negotiation. post45.org/2025/11/cd-w...

For @rvtrousdale.bsky.social, there’s a particularity in how “C.D. Wright treats clothing as a liminal space or a semipermeable membrane between the self and the world,” especially in how clothing becomes a mode of expressing ambiguity & remembrance. post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

In @flannelkate.bsky.social's essay on C.D. Wright’s *Deepstep Come Shining,* there’s a strangeness & knowledge that emerges in the questions of belonging, community, and self-realization. The lyric sensibility that emerges, she observes, is “metamorphic.” post45.org/2025/11/lick...

Olivia Milroy Evans considers the materiality, historicity, and embeddedness of C.D. Wright’s poetry, especially as the idea of bearing witness intersects with the problems (and affordances) of lyric address. post45.org/2025/11/on-t...

In her meditation on intermediality, @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social brings together Agnest Martin, Anne Truitt, and C.D. Wright. This essay is a rhapsodic read, and takes up the loving and difficult work of aesthetics with an eye towards new (im)possibilities. post45.org/2025/11/the-...

For @cspaide.bsky.social, C.D. Wright’s considerations of region and race form significant vectors for taking up her work. Dignity, in its complexity, is the key word for Wright’s political poetics. post45.org/2025/11/form...

Reading the positioning of image—& ekphrasis as a mode—in C.D. Wright’s collaborations with the photographer Deborah Luster, @dr-b-i.bsky.social reformulates the form of testimony and witness that Wright undertakes in her poetry. post45.org/2025/11/the-...

Did you know that George Eliot and C.D. Wright share a commitment to theorizing the shape of realism on the page? We invite you to read @notquitehydepark.bsky.social on how Wright’s poetry extends the self in relation to others as a form of solidarity. post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

Annie Bolotin reads Wright’s poetry & its antiwar sentiments across several decades of U.S. militarism as a decision to “not idealize the power of love or poetry” & thus to “honor what each does in the world without expecting them to solve problems beyond their scope.” post45.org/2025/11/love...

For @amishtrivedi.bsky.social, C.D. Wright offers an important case study for understanding the role played by contemporary poets & their poetry in relation to academia; it’s a nuanced understanding of an awkward yet important cultural and artistic dynamic. post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

Carolyn Bergonzo offers a lyric homage to C.D. Wright, sketching out remembrance, strangeness, and communal connection, writing that “each poem” becomes “a way home that forces you // to cut across.” post45.org/2025/11/deep...

In her introduction, @aliciawright.bsky.social lays out the layers and constellations of influence, relation, and commonalities that shape the cluster’s engagements with C.D. Wright’s poetry, teaching, & thinking. post45.org/2025/11/intr...

Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social, fr. Carolyn Bergonzo, @amishtrivedi.bsky.social, Annie Bolotin, @notquitehydepark.bsky.social, @dr-b-i.bsky.social, @cspaide.bsky.social, @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, Olivia Milroy Evans, @flannelkate.bsky.social, @rvtrousdale.bsky.social, & @jenssread.bsky.social ! 🌟

Our intrepid Pod45 editor & producer, @michaeldocherty.bsky.social, did a magnificent job with the episode!