Samizdat Blog

So there I was, rooting around trying to put some order into the Augean stable that is my hard drive, when I ran across a little document ...

Not too long ago, a young European guy who was considering starting a poetry-oriented blog sent me a nice email asking if I had any advi...

…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...