Saturday, February 14, 2015

Seven Romantic Poets Reviewed in Seven Lines: New at Lute & Drum

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New poetry by Nathaniel Mackey! Mark Scroggins (who else?) on Adorno and model soldiers!  A story by Magdalena Zurawaski! And much, much...
Friday, February 13, 2015

The Bourgeois Keats and the World of Capital

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Cockney? Sure.  Aesthete? Absolutely.  But John Keats also took many of his cues from the dominant culture of his time and ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

There's More than Corn in Indiana: New Poetry from the Midwest

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Hot news!   New Poetry from the Midwest , edited by Okla Elliott and Hannah Stephenson, is about to be unleashed on the world (the offic...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Auden! Eliot! Perloff! Lorca! Campiness! Revolution! Apollinaire! — The New Battersea Review Goes Live!

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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...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Inventions of a Barbarous Age: Contemporary Rhyme in Poetry

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The latest issue of the Spoon River Poetry Review  is out, and contains my essay "Inventions of a Barbarous Age: Rhyme in Contempor...
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Thursday, January 08, 2015

The Power of Poetry in the Modern World

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Rejoice! The new issue of the South Atlantic Review (vol. 77 nos. 1 & 2, for those of you compiling bibliographies) will soon find i...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Danny Devito Explains "The Poet Resigns"

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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...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Invitation to the Voyage: Notes on The Modern Poetic Image

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“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...