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Fame-addled rogue and liar Edward John Trelawny was by no means a reliable source of information on the Romantic poets on whom he inflic...

The composer Richard Strauss is often seen as a bridge figure, someone whose career takes us from the world of nineteenth century bourge...

Did I mention I'll be the final judge for the Great Lakes Poetry Prize?  The winner receives $500, and there are prizes for runners ...

"Springtime for Hitler," from The Producers Hooray!  After much delay, it looks like the new issue of The Battersea Review  ...

This just in from my pal Lucas Klein, who is on the scene in Hong Kong where people are in the streets in vast numbers protesting for de...

Like many people of my generation (I am, God help me, 46) I came to admire French theory in my grad school years.  One thi...

Perloff, Kirsch, Nikolayev, and a full house at the Grolier How many different timelines can we spin out for the future of poetry? The...

Poetry and masculinity have a complicated relationship.   In most times and places, the poetic canon, and the institutions support...

Often - mostly unconsciously - I'll model my identity of myself on some image that I've been pitched to by an advertisement. Wh...

One of the things to love about comic books is the sheer excessiveness of the things.   Part of this stems from the genre of...