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Rereading the New Criticism , a book edited my Miranda Hickman and John McIntyre that includes a chapter I wrote on the ethical dimensi...

We've got good news, people, and we've got bad news.  Let's start with the bad: Hurricane Sandy has left NewYork in a bit of...

The medieval streets of Cambridge are haunted by the ghosts of all the great minds who’ve called the town home over the ce...

Hot news!  The latest Chicago Review  is out, devoted, for the most part, to the poetry of A.R. Ammons, including previously unpublished...

"How long have we been married?" I asked my wife Valerie not long ago.  "Our next anniversary," she relied after ...

A couple of weeks ago I was poking around in a local bookstore, and had just given up on the poetry section when I noticed a few tall, sve...