Samizdat Blog

Summer's here, teaching is over and done, and for the last couple of weeks I've been dividing my time between representing the Chica...

Can we have a drumroll please? Thank you! Steve Gadd , everyone, the Samizdat Blog in-house drummer! And to what do we owe Mr. Gadd's ...

What's that you say? You couldn't make it to the symposium on my "The Poet as American in the Age of Identity Politics" p...

U of Chicago grad student Lee Glidewell, who's been co-ordinating the talk I'm giving Monday at the University of Chicago's Coun...

Steve Halle and Joanne Chapman have an interesting dialogue about poetry, intertextuality, and obscurity going over at Seven Corners . Here...

Stephen Burt , who has become ubiquitous in all print venues as a poetry critic, does all sorts of good things by way of getting the word ou...

I know, I know, it's been a while, but ol' Archambeau's been busy, running the &NOW Festival of Innovative Art and Writing ,...

The new issue of Fence is out, and the old squabble about the Quinne cover on one of last year's issues continues. Editor Charles Vall...

Okay, fans, you're in luck: this summer's Robert Archambeau World Tour is concentrated (so far) in the greater Chicago area, so you ...

Note: This panderometer seems to be set about a decibel too high, but it is the best I could find, what with the heavy demand these last few...

Since the Schmoozie award for most egregious self-promotion at or near the AWP was awarded a week ago (see my post of March 12), there's...

Back from Austin, covered in glory. Or maybe that's barbecue sauce. Be that as it may, I bring you the following observations about th...