Samizdat Blog

Since I'm planning on heading down to Myopic Books for Gabriel Gudding's reading on the 12th, I thought I'd have a look at his...

The latest issue of the Notre Dame Review has made landfall in the nearby harbor, and from the hold of that mighty vessel come poems and pr...

Even after all these years, the beginning of a new semester always smacks me upside the head a little more than I expect it will, and I'...

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...