Monday, July 09, 2012

The State of the Art of American Poetry: Now Online!

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The VQR has posted my essay from their special issue on American Poetry, "The State of the Art," at their website.   I do hop...
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Monday, July 02, 2012

Orono Conference Report: The Golden Lobster Awards!

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The National Poetry Foundation conference on the poetry of the 1980s has wrapped up, and the gathered poets, critics, and professors hav...
Monday, June 25, 2012

History, Totality, Silence

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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 ...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Academization of Avant-Garde Poetry?

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            Some come to praise, some come to bury, but all the poets and critics have come to comment on Jake Berry’s thorny, probl...
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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Knowledge in Chains: The Fate of Expertise in a Market Society

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What do these things have in common? 1. Scientists discover that a gigantic corporation has consistently violated environmenta...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

The Good, The Bad, The Unforgivably Canadian: Notes on Contemporary Cartoons

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“You’ll need this!” read the felt pen letters scrawled, next to a thumbprint in what could have been blood, but...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2012

American Poetry: The State of the Art

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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...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

New Work at The Cultural Society!

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Great news!  The new issue of  The Cultural Society  is available, with work by: Dan Beachy-Quick Joel Bettridge Norman Finkelstein ...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson's Lost Children

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