For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
David Auerbach is a writer and software engineer based in New York City. Among other publications, he has contributed to The Times Literary Supplement, n+1, Bookforum, The Quarterly Conversation, and The White Review.
Trying to figure out what marks contemporary literature as contemporary is a deceptively complicated job because the concept of contemporaneity at stake is itself...