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W.H. Auden—what's not to love? And I don't just love Auden's writing, I love the enormous body of writing about him—memoirs,...

Sheena, the Ramones inform us, is a punk rocker.  She wasn't always, though—I once tried to combine the history and prehistory of th...

Rejoice! The new issue of Valley Voices  is out, and it's a special issue devoted to the writing of Michael Anania.  You'll fi...

What is a critic supposed to do? If I know anything about critics, you could put a dozen of them around a café table and at the end o...

There is a photograph of Robert Duncan touches on something central to the man and his poetics.   Two things, actually.   When Michael...

This afternoon the latest issue of The Hudson Review  landed in my mailbox with the satisfying thump of old-school print media, and it...