Samizdat Blog

Every now and then, the Academy of American Poets sends me a letter asking me to subscribe to their newsletter and receive sundry other b...

At times I can barely understand myself, living in the place called Brainwash. My visitors talk to me in headlines I reply with absurd prove...

"The border wars define the pallid center of the empire," writes Chris Hamilton-Emery in the latest PN Review . He's thinking...

Though I've never posted twice in one day before, I've got to leap in with this late-breaking newsflash: Ron Silliman has recanted. ...

I see by the ever-handy site meter that last week's ruminations on David Kellogg's proposed map of contemporary poetry generated a h...

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...