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Here’s the full text of  “So a Poet Walks into a Bar: The Poetry Reading as Rhetorical Situation,” my contribution to this year’s ALSCW co...

Here's the beginning of a longish review I wrote of Robert Morrison's  The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas   De Quince...

So two American poets laureate, a Polish poet, and a Harvard professor walk into an emergency room. It sounds like the set-up for some ...

Near the beginning of his strange, brilliant book Crowds and Power , the Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti claims that our most primal fear...