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Here's the text of the paper I'll be giving at the National Poetry Foundation's conference on the poetry of the 1980s ...

            Some come to praise, some come to bury, but all the poets and critics have come to comment on Jake Berry’s thorny, probl...

What do these things have in common? 1. Scientists discover that a gigantic corporation has consistently violated environmenta...

“You’ll need this!” read the felt pen letters scrawled, next to a thumbprint in what could have been blood, but...

My essay "The State of the Art," about American poetry in 2012, is out in a special issue of VQR, along with a great selection...

Great news!  The new issue of  The Cultural Society  is available, with work by: Dan Beachy-Quick Joel Bettridge Norman Finkelstein ...

Christopher Orr, writing for The Atlantic , says that Moonrise Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s best feature film since Rushmore , in no s...

Rejoice!  Thanks to the tireless efforts and editorial bravado of U.S. Dhuga and Ben Mazer, the inaugural issue of The Battersea Review...

I’ve been doing some research on T.S. Eliot’s brief journey through aestheticism on his way to becoming a religious poet and a moral...