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A young English poet, fostered by an ancient and glorious university, starts writing startling, experimental verses, which find their...

Archambeau, Burt & Mazer before "Poetry: What's Next" at the Grolier Here, courtesy of Mark Schorr, is an audio rec...

“Poetry: What’s Next?” That’s the title of the first in a new series of critical talks to take place at the legendary Grolier Poetry...

Research continues in the vital field of descriptive poetic sociology, people, and my army of assistants labors ceaselessly in the fo...

"Poetariat" -- noun. The mass of unsung poets. Term copyright Robert Archambeau, 2014.

The other day Robert Pinsky said, a propos   an insightful essay on his work by David Kaufman in The Yale Review , "it's go...

Let's throw some big words onto the table: speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy, the digital humanities, and conceptua...

“We are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive,” wrote the Qatari poet Muhammad ibn al-Dheed al-Ajami, in a poem prais...

There's an interview with me up over at the Critical Margins  sit e.  The occasion is my book The Poet Resigns , but the discussion ...

"Who's the man?"—the question itself contains something like an answer, since it presupposes an overlap between authority ...

So the new semester has begun, and I find I'm teaching the Romantic poets again.   I'm always struck by the strange ...