Samizdat Blog

There's been some interesting feedback on the 1.0 version of the Contingent Manifesto, both by email and on the blogs. Patrick Durgin w...

This isn't the promised follow-up to the Contingent Manifesto -- but my colleagues on the organizing committee tell me it is time to get...

After all the speculation about the death, or at any rate the decadence, of indeterminacy in American poetry that came out of this week’s (f...

“Let’s make no bones about it, what both Bob & Josh are talking about is Language poetry,” writes Mark Scroggins in Culture Industry . ...

"What!?" you say, "an age is over? Did I miss something?" No, nothing is over, and you didn't miss anything. I...

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...