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Ray Bianchi's got an interesting post up about César Vallejo , the great Peruvian poet, revolutionary, and denizen of Parisian bohemia (...

Welcome, welcome, please find a pew and be seated! Reverend Archambeau's sermon today is his much-anticipated exordium concerning inter...

So there I was, during one of the Balkan wars back in '99, preparing some teaching notes and exchanging email with Dubravka Djurić . I ...

When I was down in Tulsa last fall at the Modernist Studies Association convention, I ran into Barrett Watten in the corridor between the co...

It was very sad to discover, over on Pierre Joris ' blog, that Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe died on January 27th. A philosopher and a criti...

Last night, in a break from my usual wild-ass Wednesday night of ordering Chinese food and seeing what kind of Netflix residue has washed up...

So, while Sunday morning isn't exactly a matter of Wallace Stevens' "complacencies of the peignoir" chez Archambeau, I do ...

Last summer I posted a longish entry about poetry readings , the gist of which was "I, too, dislike them," at least much of the ti...

Live in Chicago! Minneapolis' very own Zach Barocas! Z. will be reading tonight at Powell's in Chicago, 2850 N. Lincoln Ave, starti...

Sometimes — not always, but sometimes — rebutting Ron Silliman's more extreme versions of his characteristic us-vs.-them poetic manichae...

Forgive me, gentle reader, for the hyper-academic title of this post, utterly, irredeemably formulaic as it is. A punchy little phrase, a co...