Samizdat Blog

Way back in 2000, Eliot Weinberger wrote a short, sharp, ever-so-slightly snarky piece called Canonizing the Sixties about the University o...

So let's say you're on sabbatical, and you've been drinking coffee by the quart and reading stacks and stacks of French cultural...

You know who's a good poet? Joel Felix . That's who.

So here's the first thing I learned this weekend: when you want opposition from a group, there's no response more unnerving than a k...

No doubt you're well aware of the mysterious process by which Franz Kafka wrote certain passages of the Kama Sutra . But did you know t...

The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century is so hand-searingly hot off the presses that you can't get it from Amazon.com yet...

Good Lord — I'm it! I've been tagged as a "thinking blogger" by Steve Burt . It was Ron Silliman who tagged the unsuspect...

This just in from Peter Riley, regarding my earlier post "British Poetry Wars: The Battle of Chicago." . Riley, whose open letter...

"Hey Archambeau — you made me bite my cereal spoon!" Those were the words with which I was greeted as I walked into my English Li...

What distinguishes most contemporary poetry from prose isn't meter or rhyme or even line breaks, but a self-conscious spareness and a sl...

Come one, come all, to the antiseptic white bauhaus moderne yet somehow charming space that is Series A 's venue at the Hyde Park Art Ce...

It shouldn't surprise us that the latest round of internecine British cultural warfare has occurred on American soil. I mean, this coun...