Thursday, June 26, 2014

No Brown M&Ms: A Model Contract for Literary Performances

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Those of you who have booked me for a lecture, poetry reading, radio spot, celebrity roast, bris, or beauty pageant have been getting...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Twenty Poets Talking: Poetry & Its Communities

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Gently Read Literature , the excellent little magazine edited by Daniel Casey, has folded up shop.  I only wrote for GRL  once, in th...
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Sunday, June 08, 2014

Félix Fénéon, or: Modernity is Flat

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F é lix F énéon, in Signac's painting Skepticism about morality is what is decisive.   The ending of the moral interpretation o...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2014

The Worst of Teachers, & How Not To Be Him

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My teacher was not Satan, but he shared some qualities with Donald Sutherland's character in "Animal House." I was just...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

On the Air and at the Poetry Foundation!

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John Matthias, the present humble blogger, and Steve Halle Last week Larry Sawyer launched America's only live poetry radio show, ...
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Friday, May 09, 2014

New Notes on the New Gnosticism

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"The infinite starry realm of scribbing, scrambling poets every now and then produces a new galaxy, that is a new movement or schoo...
Sunday, May 04, 2014

It's Not What's in the Picture, It's Where the Picture Puts You: Cubism in Focus

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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 ...