Samizdat Blog

Gently Read Literature , the excellent little magazine edited by Daniel Casey, has folded up shop.  I only wrote for GRL  once, in th...

F é lix F énéon, in Signac's painting Skepticism about morality is what is decisive.   The ending of the moral interpretation o...

My teacher was not Satan, but he shared some qualities with Donald Sutherland's character in "Animal House." I was just...

John Matthias, the present humble blogger, and Steve Halle Last week Larry Sawyer launched America's only live poetry radio show, ...

"The infinite starry realm of scribbing, scrambling poets every now and then produces a new galaxy, that is a new movement or schoo...

Cubist painting puts a lot of people off, and, in a way, that's the point—but not in some sophomoric "let's shock our ...

The Roerich Museum, where the ceremony took place. I'm back from New York, where I was very happy to play a small part in this ...

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 ...