Lots to chew on (and argue about!) in this symposium in PloughStack’s special issue for the 250th: Who is America’s Homer?

— Dana Gioia and A.M. Juster say it’s Robert Frost

— Christian Wiman and Jane Clark Scharl say we don’t have one

— Joseph Keegin says it’s Whitman

— Zena Hitz says it’s Melville

— Zito Madu says it’s William Carlos Williams

— Ross Barkan says it’s Hart Crane

— Homer translator Emily Wilson says it’s Tracey Chapman

— and Oxford Professor of Poetry Alicia Stallings says it’s Laura Ingalls Wilder