Samizdat Blog

I'm giving a talk to a gathering of some of the faculty of Lake Forest College this Wednesday.  It's called "Why You are No...

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 ...