After Dante

The section New Dante Worlds was established to foster creative contributions that demonstrate Dante’s continuing vitality and power to inspire the next generations of poets, writers, and artists. We inaugurate New Dante Worlds with After Dante, a poem by Nathalie F. Anderson.

Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound. She collaborated in 2021 with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America, and her new book, Rough, is forthcoming in 2024 from The Word Works. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume. She has also authored libretti for five operas, in collab-oration with Philadelphia composer Thomas Whitman. Anderson has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught as Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Literature, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.