Friday, August 21, 2015

What Ever Happened to Gore Vidal?

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You know what would really bother Gore Vidal, were he living today? A lot of things—the persistence of homophobia, say, or the banali...
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Friday, August 07, 2015

A Stranger from the Sky: Sun Ra as Poet and Alien

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Hardly anyone thinks of Sun Ra as a poet.   A visionary outsider figure even in the realm of music, where his work is only occasional...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Where I Write: The Secret Backyard Writing Dojo Revealed!

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The good people at "Where do you write, my lovely?" (who appear to have an expansive definition of loveliness) asked me to wr...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Robert Creeley, Poetry Warrior

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Great news! The new issues of two of my favorite literary journals, The Laurel Review  and The Notre Dame Review , have dropped from the...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Coming This Fall: The Kafka Sutra

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Behold! The cover of my next book, The Kafka Sutra , due out this fall from MadHat Press.  The title sequence is one of the odder things ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

How to Be A Classic: Four or Five Versions of Edgar Allan Poe

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Even though the concept of a literary canon has been in tatters for decades, the fact of a literary canon still, for better or for wo...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2015

What I Like About You, David Yezzi: Reading "Crane"

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What I like about you, David Yezzi, is that you wrote the poem "Crane," which I read when I was working my way through the sma...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

What I Like About You, Kathryn Starbuck: Reading "Sylvia En Route to Kythera"

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What I like about you, Kathryn Starbuck, is that you wrote "Sylvia En Route to Kythera," which I read in the June 2015 issue o...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Camping Modernism: Timothy Yu's "Chinese Silence #92"

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"Hot damn!" I thought, when I finally cleared some time to pick up my June issue of Poetry , "It's Tim Yu!"  Tim...