Samizdat Blog

Jeffrey Side has been doing good things for poetry for a long time via his organization The Argotist.  My favorite Argotist project ha...

A post I wrote about the appropriation of the symbolist poetics of Mallarmé and company by contemporary advertising and branding is up o...

I'm as skeptical of "top 50" or "top 100" lists as you are, chain-smoking over-caffeinated neurotic cynics that ...

What’s the matter with American poetry?  Apparently, the problem is Allen Ginsberg.  And Sylvia Plath.  And Susan Howe, and Alice Not...

“What,” ask the pundits, “do the Occupy Wall Street people want?” When they deign to answer their own question, they tend, if they are...