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Randall Jarrell said his generation lived in the age of criticism; we apparently live in the age of citation. &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp ...

It’s probably because of what I’ve been teaching — Frankenstein ; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ; P.B. Shelley’s Alastor ; The Rime of the Ancie...

Live! Free! One Night Only! Yep. This Thursday I'll be part of a multi-poet extravaganza at the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chi...

Okay people, I know you. I know all about you. You've probably been wondering where you could check up on the genesis of the internet ...

It's the end of August, and I'm already back to teaching. Since I've got a seminar on Romanticism this fall, I've been tryi...

The other day I received an email in which the offending writer referred to me as "insistently upbeat and chipper." I think it wa...

One of the more common arguments one hears, regarding the relative lack of popularity of one or another poet, is that said poet's work i...

The poetry blogosphere has been wearing a black armband lately, as it mourns the demise of the comments stream at Ron Silliman's blog, a...

"How many poets does it take to screw in a light bulb?" asked a well-respected New York poet in a recent Facebook update. ...

The most important thing to remember about Don Draper, the lead character in the AMC series Mad Men , is that he's awesome. He's...

So there I was yesterday, doing what I do pretty much every morning around ten o'clock — lounging on the couch drinking coffee, listen...