Carl Denton graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Comparative Literature in 2019, where he received the Edward Eager Memorial Prize for poetry. He lives in Brooklyn.
Contact: carlfdenton@gmail.com
Essays:
They Should Waltz in Their Own Shit!: The Lives and Afterlives of Elfriede Jelinek
6,384 words – Cleveland Review of Books, 2025
Poet’s Dance: On “The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry”
1,829 words – Cleveland Review of Books, 2021
Apocalyptic Neuroses: László Krasznahorkai’s “The Last Wolf & Herman”
1,555 words – Cleveland Review of Books, 2020
Poems:
Adroit Journal, 2024
“The Fish Market,” “Lichenologies,” and “Dream Critique”
Tagvverk, 2024
8 Poems, 2020