Friday, September 06, 2013

Liberalism, Crisis, and the Arab Spring

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If you believe in liberalism, Stephen Spender's journals can, at times, provide some disconcerting reading.   By liberal...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

An Elegy for Seamus Heaney

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Yesterday we heard the sad news of the death of Seamus Heaney. Today we have this, an elegy for Heaney by my friend and mentor John Mat...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

T.S. Eliot and the Vanishing Brahmin

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Hot news -- the new issue of the Battersea Review is out, and available online! It's got poetry by John Tranter, Alfred Corn, Pet...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

The Old School Tie: Privilege and the Literature of the 30s

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The first thing you notice, when you start reading the canonical literature of the generation of English writers who ...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

John Steinbeck's Hamburgers and Other Culinary Offenses of American Literature

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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...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World — Free Online Access, Sale Price on Amazon

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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...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Charmless and Interesting: What Conceptual Poetry Lacks and What It's Got

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The brouhaha over conceptualism continues, with more and more people chiming in. There's a roundup of current opinions over at t...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

"And the Winner is...": The 2014 Madeleine P. Plonsker Award Winner Revealed!

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The Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, now in its sixth year, honors an author under forty years old with no m...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Kenneth Rexroth's Other Worlds: Notes on "On What Planet"

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