Kristin Dykstra's essays range from pieces for literary & cultural magazines to material for academic publication.

 

 

Sample Commentaries for Magazines & Journals

 

"Introduction: Gravity and Weightlessness." For "Out of Alamar: The Poetry of Juan Carlos Flores," a dossier in Chicago Review 61.3-4 (2018). Web companion includes introduction with excerpts from the dossier.

 

“The Sea Doesn’t Have to Be a Wall.”  Jacket2 magazine (Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania). 1 Dec. 2016.

 

“Intermedium.” 2015 A to Z commentary series on literary translation for Jacket2 magazine (Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania).

 

“NO:  The Translation of Angel Escobar.” The Volta: Evening Will Come 51 (Translation Feature, March 2015).

 

“Dispatch from Havana:  Ricardo Alberto Pérez.”  Jacket2 14 Oct 2013.

 

 

Sample Scholarly Book Chapters & Articles

 

“Triumphs of Verticality / Horizontal Reactivations,” on writing by Soleida Ríos. In La futuridad del naufragio. Orígenes, estelas y derivas. Ed. Juan Pablo Lupi and César Salgado. Leiden: Almenara, 2019. Print.

 

“EXCUSE ME MR. BORZUTZKY / If.” In American Poets in the 21st Century:  Poetics of Social Engagement. Ed. Michael Dowdy and Claudia Rankine. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. 106-120. Print.

 

“Finding a Way in Alamar.”  Review:  Literature and Arts of the Americas 82 (“Cuba Inside and Out,” 44.1, May 2011).  29-38.  Print.

 

"'A Just Image’: Poetic Montage and Cuba's Special Period in The Winter Garden Photograph."  Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature  41.2 (2008):  55-74.  Print.

 

 “On the Betrayal of Nations: José Alvarez de Toledo's Philadelphia Manifesto (1811) and Justification (1816).” CR: The New Centennial Review 4.1 (2004): 267-305.   Print.