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The Piquerary twins remain, for the English-speaking world, among the undiscovered gems of Belgian surrealist writing, despite the prese...

What could possibly be better than midcentury Belgian surrealist prose poetry?  Belgian surrealist prose poetry re...

Good news!  The new Cultural Society is up and running , including work by Graham Foust, Norman Finkelstein, Brooklyn Copeland, Peter O...

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

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...

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

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

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...