Dustin Pickering

Untitled — A Poem by Dustin Pickering

Untitled — A Poem by Dustin Pickering

Dustin Pickering presents a short poem whose "general spirit"—as the poet suggests—"can resonate across different subjects." One of these, in the least, is the irremediable misery of those who do wrong to others.

Ode to a Concrete Shoe Statue — A Poem by Dustin Pickering

Ode to a Concrete Shoe Statue — A Poem by Dustin Pickering

Poet, writer and editor Dustin Pickering presents his poem "Ode to a Concrete Shoe Statue."

Review: William Orem's "Our Purpose in Speaking" (MSU Press) — by Dustin Pickering

Review: William Orem's "Our Purpose in Speaking" (MSU Press) — by Dustin Pickering

Dustin Pickering reviews “Our Purpose in Speaking” (MSU Press, 2018), the debut book of poems by Emerson College’s senior writer-in-residence William Orem, who recently won the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Award. Pickering consistently familiarizes readers with Orem’s poetry collection from a particular

Being and Time: Two Poems and a Note by Dustin Pickering

Being and Time: Two Poems and a Note by Dustin Pickering

Dustin Pickering brings us two poems inspired by his readings of Martin Heidegger's classic work "Being and Time." The poet has also provided a note to contextualize the two poems motivated by his philosophical engagement with Heidegger's text. The result is a unique literary instance where philosop