Samizdat Blog

…the tintinnabuli style — especially in the simple form in which it exists in “Für Alina” — consists of two lines. The melody, which proce...

The latest issue of Cincinnati Review  is out, and it includes my essay "Emancipation of the Dissonance: The Poetry of C.S. Giscombe....

The leaves are dying, people, but the semester itself refuses to die, sprouting new, snarling dragon-heads of academic minutia like t...

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...