Samizdat Blog

A few days ago John Peck dropped me an email about my last post on Kevin Prufer's "Army Tales." He raises some interesting ...

Am I violating any copyright laws by reposting this poem from Poetry Daily ? I'm not sure. But Kevin Prufer is a poet I admire, and th...

Okay, I know that the most offensive thing in the following passage from the new White House plan for victory in the midterm elections (uh, ...

When I shuffle down my driveway Sunday mornings to pick up the newspaper Tony Soprano style (tee shirt, boxers, bathrobe, morning stubble an...

I trekked down to the offices of the Chicago Review the other day, students in tow, and picked up my contributor's copy of the latest i...

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...