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Yeah, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking my friends are probably a bunch of stooges and degenerates. A plausible guess! ...

You know who's a good poet? Robyn Schiff . That's who. I dropped in on Robyn's reading up at Lake Forest yesterday, and really ...

Yes, Virginia, there is a definable post-avant, and its characteristic stylistic and ethical moves come, by and large, from particular gener...

So here's a press release from the Illinois Green Party, which won 10.4% of the vote in the 2006 gubernatorial election, and the right t...

About mid-way through reading fellow Canadian expat Todd Swift's essay "Canons to the Right," I caught myself humming the the...

Prepare to rejoice, poetry people: the next issue of Zach Barocas' Cultural Society is about to go live online. Incidentally, you may ...

So, this happened Friday: There it is: the great Chicago Poetry Marathon of '07, held during the Modern Language Association's annua...

Here's an offical-looking ad for the reading during the Chicago MLA. Please click on the image for a larger version, print out copies, ...

At last it can be told: Patrick Durgin, Jen Karmin, and your present humble blogger have cooked up a gargantuan poetry reading to take place...

My life and that of Joe Francis Doerr have run in parallel tracks in several respects: we both grew up in the west; we went to grad school ...

Fret not, gentle reader: I'm not here to lay some heavy, heady theory on you. Instead of wrenching hefty notions down from the Olympian...

No, peeps, no, you've got me all wrong. I admit the image above might lead you to believe I consider the availability of Old Milwaukee ...