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Monday, August 15, 2011

The Monkey, The Wrench, The Salt Companion

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My first book, published back in 1998, was Word Play Place , a collection of essays I edited about the poetry of John Matthias.  I'm h...
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Monday, August 01, 2011

"American Poetry Has Entered Its Big Hair Phase"

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Daniel Nester interviews Micah Robbins. Nester:  My latest shibboleth—I’d like to run it up the pole here for you and see what you th...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

When Poetry Mattered: Notes on Andrei Voznesensky

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Although it's been over a year since the death of Andrei Voznesensky, I've only just heard the news.  Voznesensky was one of the...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

An Impossible Position

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So there's this , an account in the Chicago Tribune  of how people feel about what's been going on at the Poetry Foundation.  If...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Robert Kroetsch, R.I.P.

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Robert Kroetsch—one of the most important Canadian writers of his generation—has died in a car accident at the age of 84.   I had the priv...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Kurt Vonnegut, Absurdity, and All Those Young Men in Chuck Taylors

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The other day I found myself down in a particularly dark and foreboding part of my unfinished basement, groping around in my auxiliary boo...
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