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Since you insist, well, alright: here's the letter I'm sending to The New York Times in response to Christopher Caldwell's arti...

Having stuffed a fourteen-year-old issue of Global City Review in his pocket (it being the only truly pocket-sized journal), that he may ha...

1. In Which I Consider the Words of Johnny Rotten Would I sound too much like the kind of guy who spends several hours each week cross-inde...

Okay, peeps, I've been furiously writing away on a number of projects all month long -- none of which, as the date of my last post makes...

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...