Samizdat Blog

John Steinbeck was a whiz in front of a typewriter, but don't ever let him don the paper cap of a fry cook.  And kee...

Good news!  My book   The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World  is more available than ever — if you have access to Project Muse th...

The brouhaha over conceptualism continues, with more and more people chiming in. There's a roundup of current opinions over at t...

The Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, now in its sixth year, honors an author under forty years old with no m...

So there I was, rooting around on the Bureau of Public Secrets website , when I ran across Kenneth Rexroth's "On Wh...

I am, and will always be, a great lover of the poetry of W.H. Auden—and, come to think of it, of his prose and plays, to...