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Of all the responses I've received to "Poetry, Politics, and Leanings-Left" , Mark Yakich 's has been the most interesting...

So this gentleman has written a letter to the editor claiming I'm an "unreconstructed Marxist" on the basis of his reading o...

I recently discovered that two of my old high school pals, neither of whom I've seen in years, have both become poets: Oscar Martens an...

I'm down in New Orleans, to which I fled so I could grade my students' final essays while lounging in the Cafe du Monde and eating b...

Steve Halle's new book, Map of the Hydrogen World , is just out from Chicago's own Cracked Slab books, and you're out of your mi...

*DISCLAIMER: I woke up this morning with the urge to take this post down, because I think it may be taken the wrong way. But instead of ge...

I think I must be undergoing some kind of Frankfurt School hangover from the panel on Adorno I attended down at the Modernist Studies Associ...

I'm back in Chicago from the Modernist Studies Association blowout down at Vanderbilt, but I arrived with mixed feelings. It was good to...

I'm about to jet down to Nashville to speak on a panel about the New Criticism at the Modernist Studies Association's annual confere...

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 ...