Chris Arthur is the author of several essay collections, most recently Hummingbirds Between the Pages (2018). His awards include the Akegarasu Haya International Essay Prize, a Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award, the Gandhi Foundation’s Aitchtey Memorial Essay Prize, and the Sewanee Review’s Monroe K. Spears Essay Prize.
Photo: Stuart Lime Digital
In a series of vignettes, essayist Chris Arthur considers why “respecting what gives life is not a lesson to be learned indoors.”
In E. M. Forster’s A R...
Mobile, Alabama. Negative Capability Press. 2017. 202 pages.
Chris Arthur knows what an essay is: an attempt to reach a further, transcendent understanding through writing. Chris Arthur’s 2017 collect...
Since Horace’s original, many poets have written their version of an Ars Poetica. The best known is Archibald MacLeish’s. Can MacLeish’s poem cast light on the art of a different literary genre,...