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So you're looking for the latest in midcentury Afro-Caribbean women's surrealism?  You've come to the right place!  Well, al...

If you want to appreciate W.H. Auden, you’ve got to come at him with a good grasp of camp.  At least that's what I say at the start o...

Like all right-thinking people, you're wondering what's going on Tuesday night in Poughkeepsie.  An excellent question!  And ...

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...