Samizdat Blog

Kevin Andre Elliott, in dismissing the dichotomy of the School of Quietude and the Avant-Garde as tired and ready to be banished from lite...

Democracy for America, an outfit I've supported for a long time, has started an online pledge to send a message to candidates in the upc...

As those of you who've read my recent post on Stephen Burt's visit to Lake Forest know, I wasn't able to make it to Raymond Fede...

So there I was, surfing around to see what was up in Chicago poetry this month, when I came across chicagopoetry.com , and a surprising refe...

A genuine, unironic embrace of pop culture, especially music. Politics, on the left, and not just in the poems. Charm, pitched a bit more ...

John Latta's new blog, Rue Hazard is up and running, and everyone is required to go there immediately to read the excerpt from Patrik O...

Late yesterday I found this message in my email inbox regarding l'affair Fence (see post below). It came from David Park , a professor...

Ooosh. Semester has started early for me this fall, in part because of some administrative hoodoo that has moved the term up by a week, and...

Back in the eighties and nineties, when the world was young and English departments awash with French cultural theory, a good friend of mine...

Jeffrey Roessner knows more about my poetry than I do. Read his review of Home and Variations and you will, too. Roessner is one of those...

I'm back, I'm groggy, and I'm ticked off at Ron Silliman. Ron's been blogging away about Christopher Middleton, at one poin...

Sorry, folks, but I'll be taking a blog-hiatus until sometime in early or mid August, when I & my crew return to Chicago from Amster...