Samizdat Blog

I swear to what gods may be, I know of no literary journal as committed to in-depth criticism and analysis of poetry as  The Battersea R...

The latest issue of the Spoon River Poetry Review  is out, and contains my essay "Inventions of a Barbarous Age: Rhyme in Contempor...

Rejoice! The new issue of the South Atlantic Review (vol. 77 nos. 1 & 2, for those of you compiling bibliographies) will soon find i...

Just in time for the new year, the latest issue of Pleiades  has arrived.  The current issue put me in a bit of a dilemma, since I didn...

“Invitation to the Voyage,” the dark jewel in the crown of Baudelaire’s prose poems, is many things.  For me, lately, it has become a...

It's always good to hear what intelligent people have to say about what one writes, so I consider it a great end-of-year treat to run...

Vince Sherry mesmerizing the present humble blogger with talk of modernist decadence Hot damn, people! Vincent Sherry, author of such...

No, not Orlando, Florida: Virginia Woolf's Orlando, which I've been reading for the first time in years.  As always, I've ta...

Sad news: Allan Kornblum, whom many of us knew as the presiding genius of Coffee House Press, has died.  I heard the news from Michael Cof...

John Berryman's centenary is just a few weeks behind us, and it has occasioned a renewal of interest in this troubled, troubling, and...