The New Criterion

Executive Editor

David Yezzi

David Yezzi is the Executive Editor of The New Criterion. A former director of the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Mr. Yezzi has contributed poems and criticism to The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, he is the author of The Hidden Model and, from Aralia Press, the chapbook Sad Is Eros.

article archive

The drama of promise | April 2009

A review of James Agee: Selected Poems, edited by Andrew Hudgins (American Poets Project).

Bacon's theater of the absurd | December 2008

On Francis Bacon at the Tate Britain, London.

I.M. Thomas M. Disch, 1940-2008 | September 2008

On the death of the author and poet.

Grammars of a possible world | April 2008

On the New Critics, then & now.

Geoffrey Hill's civil tongue | March 2008

On Geoffrey Hill's A Treatise of Civil Power.

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The Hidden Model (Triquarterly Books)

by David Yezzi

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Azores: Poems

by David Yezzi

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"Taking the Occasion," poems by Daniel Brown

The eighth annual New Criterion Poetry Prize winner reads selections from his book at an evening with the Friends of The New Criterion.

Posted on: 04/17/2009

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David Yezzi , Dan Brown

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The Milt Rosenberg Show: Free Speech in an age of Jihad

Roger Kimball, David Yezzi, and James Panero discuss the New Criterion special pamphlet "Free Speech in an Age of Jihad." From the Milt Rosenberg Show, WGN. Recorded live in the Chicago studios 8/14/2008.

Posted on: 08/27/2008

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Roger Kimball, James Panero, David Yezzi

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