Samizdat Blog

Despite what the picture may lead you to believe, I haven't been interviewed by Ed Murrow.  No, people, it was  Johannes Göransson wh...

Rejoice, people!  Simone Muench and Philip Jenks' Disappearing Address , a book of collaborative poem-letters, has just hit the bo...

A while ago I went a bit overboard in examining the phenomenon of the hipster in terms derived from Nietzsche's study The Birth of Tr...

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...