Samizdat Blog

Back (earlier than planned) from the Louisville conference, to which I've been going for a decade or more. Distilled from those many ye...

I'm escaping from Chicago and heading south, first to get my literary groove on in Louisville at the 20th Century Lit Conference , and t...

Back when I was an obnoxious, dismissive, egomanaical dipshit of a grad student, I used to love hanging out in the O'Shaughnessy Hall co...

Having seen this very blog and the old Samizdat site singled out for praise, I wish to state that while I am not worthy, I'm not turn...

You remember the theremin, right? The musical instrument developed by electronic music pioneer Léon Theremin in the 1920s? Most of us kno...

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...