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Great news!  You can now pre-order  ReReading the New Criticism , a book edited by Miranda Hickman and John D. McIntyre, to which I contri...

[This is a draft of a section of the Yeats chapter of a book I've been working on that has the working title Power and Poetics: A Soci...

A while ago Alfred Corn told me I was fundamentally an ekphrastic poet—a poet who wrote about works of art, including other poems.  For be...

You know who's a good poet?   Rich Smith,  that's who.

Wars, the persecution of heretics, the whole centuries-long history of Spain as the Islamic realm of Al-Andalus, the Chanson de Roland : t...

This just in from ace reporter Conner Stratman, who surveys the Chicago poetry scene over at THEthe Poetry : Lake Forest College is als...

Peter O'Leary, Robert Archambeau, Vincent Sherry and Joe Donahue, Louisville, Feb. 2012 (photo credit Mark Scroggins) Yesterday, ...