Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Who is a Contemporary Poet?: Giorgio Agamben and the Meaning of the Present

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What does it mean to be a contemporary poet?  I used to take a plodding, commonsensical view of the question — which led me to a litt...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

The (Old) Medium is the Message: Interpreting the Boston Bombing Spectacle

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When I turned on my television today, Marshall McLuhan’s famous saying “the medium is the message” hit me with the full force of a newspape...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

The Poet Resigns: Now It's Out—Here's What's In It

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Since I've already done an official book signing at the AWP conference in Boston, I imagine it's time to officially announce the...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

The AWP and the Literary Stock Market

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I’ve been back from the Boston AWP for more than a day, but I’m still not fully recovered from all that talking, listeni...
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Saturday, March 02, 2013

The Battersea Review and the Failure of Yeats!

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Hot soup, people—the  much-anticipated new issue of the Battersea Review is finally here! Marjorie Perloff on John Ca...
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Friday, March 01, 2013

Sharp (Poetic) Turns

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Mike Theune and his band of merry pranksters at Voltage Poetry  have been publishing a sharp series of short essays, for the most part o...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Nomad Poetics and Linguistic Primitivism: Gerald Bruns on Göran Printz-Påhlson

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Rejoice!   The latest issue of the Notre Dame Review is out, with work by all manner of worthies, including the great Ger...