Samizdat Blog

In a better world, you'd have been awoken this morning by the shouts of MFA students moonlighting as early-twentieth-century style knick...

I'm sort of lying low this season, as far as readings and conferences go — I've agreed to write too many things for print to take on...

I can hardly believe we're already into our fourth year of the Lake Forest Literary Festival, but the time is nigh, people. This year...

So check it out: Kelly Comfort, an amazing polymath who knows about Latin American modernism, Cuban writing, and German literature, has cook...

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, ...