Mike Chasar

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Mike Chasar

I'm an Associate Professor of English at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where I teach and write about American poetry, especially the intersections of poetry and popular culture. My books are a monograph, Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America (Columbia UP, 2012), and a co-edited collection of essays, Poetry after Cultural Studies (U of Iowa P, 2011). I also write and maintain the blog Poetry & Popular Culture. For the Fall 2015 semester, I'll be writing and doing research in residence at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

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Publications

Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America
Columbia University Press | 2012
Poetry after Cultural Studies
University of Iowa Press | 2011

Mike Chasar is reading

The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America
Little Dorrit
The City & the City
My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch