Samizdat Blog

Since I've been getting a lot of hits from subscribers to Crain's Chicago Business , which mentions this old entry, I'm repostin...

I think it was because I've been thinking about war poetry lately that Simone Muench suggested I check out Brian Turner's Here, Bu...

Lots of interesting responses to the Berrigan/proper names business, including some interesting thoughts by Josh Corey. He tells us that, w...

Steve Burt (who should, as of yesterday, be a new father), writes in with regard to my Robert Hass post made about Robert Lowell calling fo...

Rejoice, oh subscribers to The Nation magazine! Amid the usual depressing/outrage-inducing catalog of the villainy , arrogance , venalit...

My "Imitations and Collage: From the Poems of Blas de Otero" is up on Sharkforum.org , a very cool site devoted to the art, music...

Back from Philadelphia, where I spent Christmas, and now in deep convalescence from a cold I picked up from my nephew (I don't know what...

I staggered free of the five-blog pile-on (see post below) and limped back up the stairs to my office. Closing the door and leaning against...

So there I was, a few days back, basking in the warm glow of Josh Corey’s kind words about my post on "Good Taste, Disinterest, and t...

"Working Progress, Working Title," John Matthias' poem about Hedy Lamarr, the invention of wireless and midi technology, Anth...