Monday, July 04, 2005

The Spontaneous Overflow of Je Ne Sais Quoi, or: How Not to Teach Creative Writing

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You may well be too careful, when making jambalaya, to rub your eyes vigorously after the indiscreet handling of cayenne peppers. But if yo...
Thursday, June 30, 2005

For the Fourth, Blas de Otero

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When, in the early nineties, I translated this poem by the mid-century Spanish poet Blas de Otero , it seemed to come from another world. N...
Saturday, June 25, 2005

What Good's a Goat?

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Eric Selinger and Mark Scroggins have started knocking another ping-pong ball back and forth across their blogs: this time it is a questio...
Friday, June 24, 2005

&NOW...William Gass

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Good news, everyone: William Gass will be headlining the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing/Lake Forest Literary Festival next year. ...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

Further Contingencies: Names, Adverbs, and a Discarded Dichotomy

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1. Names Mark Scroggins has named names : the luminaries of contingent poetry include: Ammiel Alcalay, Geoffrey Hill, Geraldine Monk, Peter...
Monday, June 20, 2005

A Flight Through Space That is Inhabited: Addendum to the Contingent Manifesto

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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...
Sunday, June 19, 2005

&NOW/Lake Forest Literary Festival Call for Proposals

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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...
Saturday, June 18, 2005

Contingent Manifesto 1.0

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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...
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Bleed-Over and Decadence, or: No Bones About It, They're Talking About Language Poetry

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“Let’s make no bones about it, what both Bob & Josh are talking about is Language poetry,” writes Mark Scroggins in Culture Industry . ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2005

The Age of Indeterminacy in American Poetry: 1962-2005

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"What!?" you say, "an age is over? Did I miss something?" No, nothing is over, and you didn't miss anything. I...
Sunday, June 12, 2005

Four Fascinations of What's Difficult

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Interesting weather fronts have been moving through some of my favorite layers of the blogosphere. Specifically, there's been an exchan...
Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Some New Publications and a Reading in July

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