Samizdat Blog

Here at last is the long-awaited blogging of the John Matthias retirement festival at Notre Dame some weeks ago. I was invited to speak o...

Although I always thought I'd stick to the humanities in this blog (poetry, philosophy, and a bit of art), I find myself morally compell...

I'm getting around, at last, to looking at my notes from Don Reichert's Nature Morph , a show of his work at the Gallery of the Cana...

I've been thinking a bit about postmodernism and the avant-garde lately, and not just because I'm an effete and pretentious intellec...

Many things to blog, including the John Matthias retirement gathering at Notre Dame and a great show of Don Reichert's new works at the ...

I spent much of last Friday evening behind a martini glass, drafting an encyclopedia article about John Matthias and deep-chilling after a w...

Pawing through one of my notebooks I see that it's been two months since the "Around Zukofsky" conference held at the Universi...

Devin Johnston of Flood Editions must be the most dedicated person in a field that, by its very nature, attracts wide-eyed idealists and har...

(From left: a member of Donaghy's band, Donaghy, Richard Pettengill and Bob Archambeau during Donaghy's visit to Lake Forest College...

So there I was, flipping through the most recent copy of the ADE Bulletin (the MLA's publication for Department Chairs -- I'm not th...

"What does the London Punk Rock scene of the 1970s have to do with the bloody religious turmoil of seventeenth-century England?" a...

Hear ye, hear ye: Samizdat is dead! Samizdat is dead! Long live the Samizdat Blog! Yes, its official: I've folded up Samizdat after ten...