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There's a short review of The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century in the Boston Review , in which you may read of my ...

Ring the bells and sound the trumpets! Fire up the timpani and sackbutts in celebration: the University of Chicago has finally made a full-...

After much work, with the kind help of the administration at Lake Forest College, and with the generous support of friends of the college, I...

What's that you say? You want to hear about Raymond Federman's triumphant reading at the Lake Forest Literary Festival? I'd lo...

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...