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"Bohemian Rhapsodies," a little thing I wrote about Roberto  Bolaño and  Jules Laforgue, has been out in print for a while but...

I'm almost done (for the time being) with the shameless plugging of my forthcoming book The Poet Resigns , due out in the spring.  B...

After a gathering of scholarly intensity of a kind not seen since the Second Vatican Council, my publisher has approved the jacket and c...

I've been working on a chapter about T.S. Eliot for a book whose current working title is Poetry, Autonomy, Society, and I...

This is the cover of a book of my essays, due out in a few months as part of the series in Contemporary Poetics from the University of Ak...

Bill Berkson, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch I was on the phone today with one of my great mentors, Michael Anania, talk...

Where — or perhaps the better question is ‘through what means’ — does one find knowledge?   I wasn’t expecting to end up asking this q...

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

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

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...