Monday, August 15, 2016

Culture in the Provinces: A Very Short Note

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I like just about everything about Sweden, even the weather. I like their intellectuals, too, mostly for being both meti...
Friday, August 05, 2016

Moleskine Outtakes: Three Short Notes

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Like you, I love to have a small notebook in my pocket.  Me, I like Moleskines, preferably green (I am deeply superstitious about color)...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

The Snowflake or the Storm? Reading Ashbery's "The Skaters"

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You're probably yearning for a 2400 word reading of John Ashbery's "The Skaters," aren't you? Well, you're ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Calculated Oddities: Notes on Ashbery and Form

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So I've been editing down the manuscript of my book-in-progress Making Nothing Happen: Poetry in Society, Poetry for Itself , and ha...
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

New in the Journal of Poetics Research: Notes on Marc Vincenz's Becoming the Sound of Bees

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Rejoice! The latest issue of the Journal of Poetics Research , John Tranter's latest creation (you may remember him for running t...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Poem is Never Finished, Only Abandoned: W.H. Auden at Work

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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,...
Friday, July 08, 2016

Sheena and the Sugar Book

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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...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

James Joyce Was Born in Omaha

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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...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

So You’re a Critic—Now What? A Note on Barry Schwabsky and Critical Distance

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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...
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