Samizdat Blog

When did Buffalo become Buffalo ? If you're at all interested in the little demimonde of American poetry, you know that the unlik...

Poetry wars? What poetry wars? Henry King has written a very insightful review of my book The Kafka Sutra  in which he gets at my sense ...

The age of "alternative facts" demands an alternative approach to the humanities.  Or so I argue in a short essay called ...

"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your na...

Rejoice! There's a new collection of essays just now out on that great Canadian poet, novelist, and raconteur Robert Kroetsch.  A...

So Trump is now in the White House—what are we going to do about it? For starters, we can realize that he comes in as a weak and unpopul...

What's your poetry worth? And who's to say? Ernest Hilbert is a good guy to ask when it comes to these questions. Not only is ...

Remember that guy in the big London scene in Wordsworth’s Prelude —the battered old veteran begging on the streets, holding a sign th...

Those photos from Ankara, with the Russian ambassador lying dead on the floor? They're haunting, and not just because they depict an...

Whatever the reason—his insightful writing on Polish literature for the TLS , his poems, or the kind of courtesy he showed when we both ...

Rejoice! This troubled world has been blessed with two new lights in the darkness—the latest issues of The Battersea Review  and Plum...