Samizdat Blog

As someone once said, it's not easy being green, at least not in the United States.  Even here in Illinois, where the Green Party has ...

“He is one of those tormented spirits who seek in art the solution, not to the problem of success, but to the problem of the...

You know who's a good poet? Jesper Svenbro , that's who.

During my first hour in the Hôpital X I had had a whole series of different and contradictory treatments, but this was misleading, for i...

My colleague Josh Corey has been temporarily felled by some dread illness, and I've just been told I'm going to be pressed into...

Nester’s Complaint Daniel Nester first became a minor god in my pantheon back in 2003, when his book of poems about the legendary gl...