Samizdat Blog

Interesting weather fronts have been moving through some of my favorite layers of the blogosphere. Specifically, there's been an exchan...

Three new publications from yours truly are now available: "Rhymes with History: Joe Francis Doerr and Kevin Ducey" an article on ...

John Peck's Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems 1994-2001 arrived in the mail a couple of days ago, and while I've yet to give it t...

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...