Samizdat Blog

The Sunday Poetry Series, run by Okla Eliiott, is predicated on a good idea: re-presenting poems that have already been published. And I...

This guy's good. It takes me 80 minutes to do this in my theory of literature seminar.

“The movement conservatives of our time seem the heirs of the French rather than the American Revolution.” &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp ...

[Warning: this post is much more about me and my life than my usual posts are. I don't blame you if you want to go read something else....

Andrea Brady has left a string of comments by way of response to my article “Public Faces in Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge...

Oh, sure. I understand: you've had it with my blogging. Who hasn't! And you'd like something new. Well, how about my opinion...

Many a keyboard has been tapped, and many an email sent zipping across the Atlantic, inspired by the recent one-two punch combo of the Cambr...

What, you ask, are the &NOW Awards, and what has this new anthology got to do with them? Excellent questions! I'm glad you asked! ...

Very sad news: Raymond Federman died this morning, after a long battle with cancer. I first met him when he came to the Lake Forest Literar...

Look out! The inaugural issue of the Cambridge Literary Review has just been unleashed. It contains (among much more) an essay by Stefan C...

Posterity deals some strange cards to the dead poets. Consider e.e. cummings — someone as lighthearted and playful as he was would probably...

Robert Archambeau: I was all set to blog about Nicanor Parra and Roberto Bolaño, but talked my ideas out late last night after too much cof...