Saturday, July 01, 2006

July Fourth State of the Union

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

The Poet Opines, Among Illustrious Peers

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I've been interviewed by Chicago Postmodern Poetry , Ray Bianchi's very sharp website. If you've tired of me, check out the ind...
Friday, June 23, 2006

By Popular Demand...

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I've been getting a lot of emails asking me about "Poem for a War Poet, Poem for a War," the poem that won the Illinois Arts C...
Monday, June 19, 2006

And That Was The And Now That Was

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Those of you who missed Shelley Jackson (pictured above with quotation marks) and the other fantastic people at the &NOW Festival, and t...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!

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Errata for the title of this post: For "King" read "Poet Laureate of the United States of America" -- or, rather, "...
Monday, June 12, 2006

As if We Were Not Surrounded: Irish Matters

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Many, many are the ignominious humiliations. There are, in fact, two points of ignominy for me to acknowledge. Firstly, it is my sad duty ...
Saturday, June 10, 2006

Another Chicago Magazine on Home and Variations

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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...
Sunday, May 28, 2006

&NOW...Now What

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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 ...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

For Whom and To Whom: Poetics of National Identity -- Or: What We Talked About in Hyde Park

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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...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

For a Limited Time Only...My Chicago Council on Advanced Studies Paper

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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...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Text as, or vs, Experience, with a Peroration Concerning the Availability of British Experimental Poetry in the U.S.A.

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Steve Halle and Joanne Chapman have an interesting dialogue about poetry, intertextuality, and obscurity going over at Seven Corners . Here...
Thursday, May 11, 2006

Experimental British Poetry: An Open Letter to Stephen Burt

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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...