Samizdat Blog

A while ago David Orr had a very sharp piece in Poetry about the politics of poetry. He was interested in why it's such a perpetually ...

There's something primal and pre-rational in the fear I've always had of heights. Picture a sweaty, trembly Archambeau trying hard ...

It's been long enough for the news of David Foster Wallace's death to sink in. He died right around the time Reginald Shepherd died...

You know who knows how to be cool about spilling an exotic tropical tomato amuse bouche on his shirt during a reception for poets at the Br...

Wake up, dammit! It's a beautiful Sunday! The sun shining, the birds singing, with many a youth and many a maid dancing in the chequer...

Exhibit A: Action Yes logo, as deployed by Johannes Göransson and Joyelle McSweeney in their fabulous online journal of the same name : Exh...

Don't you think Johannes Göransson's Action Yes has the best name for a literary journal since Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. (which was...

So check this out: What makes people vote Republican? Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business R...

It saddens me greatly to hear of the passing of Reginald Shepherd. We lived a few blocks from one another in Chicago's Wrigleyville, bu...

Click for a larger, more printable view. Print many copies. Stand on a street corner. Pass them out like pizza coupons. Repeat!

It might have been the three bottles of Tsingtao, it might have been the extra-spicy shrimp chow fun, it might have been all those hours eye...

Okay, okay, okay. Sure. Since you've been after me about it for so long, I'll tell you. You're always asking me "how doe...