Samizdat Blog

Although I had a hand in putting together the list of readers for the just-completed Lake Forest Literary Festival, I had to be out of town ...

Lila Elaine Archambeau, born this day. For me nothing. But that the child     Walk in peace in her basilica, The light there almost solid....

So there I sat this afternoon in some coffee dive near the University of Pennsylvania, cooling my heels and thumbing around in my newly-purc...

Although it seems like it was about a million years ago, it turns out it was only last November that an essay of mine on poetry and politics...

So there's this thing going down on Facebook where people ask their friends to post 25 random things about themselves. When I saw this,...

Come one, come all! (Except maybe you, Ben). Click for a larger view of the festival poster showing dates and times for our small army of f...

Just introduced the new writer in residence here at Lake Forest to the swanky suite of rooms in which she'll be writing and residing. I...

So there I was, lounging around on the couch, swilling coffee, munching a scone and beginning to suspect that this Sunday's New York Tim...

Alrighty then. So I've got about a half-dozen writing committments simmering in the critical kitchen, and several bits of administative...

The latest Cultural Society is up online, thanks to the efforts of the indefatigable Zach Barocas, who deserves some kind of medal for gett...

I've been tapping out a short essay about Belgian Surrealist poetry of the mid-twentieth century today (what, like you did something mor...

Just coming back to my senses after three days zonked out on the couch with the flu. It's always strange, coming back to health: I feel...