Samizdat Blog

Someone at Berkeley has had the wisdom to put their "Lunch Poems" series up online in both audio and video format — I discovered t...

I woke up the other day and realized something: this is, for however brief and shining a moment, where it's at. This being our fair ci...

This morning I gave a poetry reading at the University of Illinois — Chicago, one I didn't advertise with my usual shamelessness because...

Want to know what John Kinsella's reading up at Lake Forest was like? Talk to Josh . Want to know the qualities of the ideal critic? ...

It's been a good week for poetry in the vicinty of chez Archambeau. I trucked on down to the redoubtable Danny's Tavern reading se...

You're probably wondering when you should start making plans to follow my fall world tour. Well, wonder no more, teeming multitudes. A...

And live to tell the tale! Olivia Cronk Rob McLennan Simone Muench Ron Silliman Simon DeDeo

Remember this commerical for the Yellow Pages, starring none other than Charles Bernstein? Marshall McLuhan once said that you knew a mediu...

Good (if belated) news, everyone: John Ashbery's been appointed poet laureate of MTV ( really ). On balance, I've got to say I thin...

What's that, you say? Sorry, what? I'm having trouble hearing you over the deafening roar of my own semester's-starting-but-...

Sir Walter Raleigh wasn't a poet. There, I said it. I don't mean to diss the guy's verse-making chops: I think he wrote some v...

Hot news, folks: there's a new book out by John Matthias . It's called Kedging , which (for any of you unfortunate enough not to ha...