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Not long ago the latest issue of the Hudson Review  hit the streets, with a little survey of new poetry I wrote inside.  It's called...

Hey hey! The good people at Copper Nickel have posted an essay I wrote for their print edition online.  It's called "Reggie Wat...

Rejoice! The new Hudson Review has dropped with a satisfying clunk into the mailboxes of subscribers and onto the magazine racks of the m...

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Rejoice! The new issue of Copper Nickel is out.  It includes an essay of mine called "Reggie Watts and Karl Pilkington Wrestle in H...

The laws of logic may well maintain that something cannot be simultaneously wrong and right—but the laws of poetry beg to differ.  The ...

Years ago, Ron Silliman wrote an essay called "Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World," where he claimed that popu...

The always-interesting journal Galatea Resurrects  has been kind enough to run a review of my recent book written with John Matthias an...

In the last years of his life, Pierre Bourdieu turned with increasing urgency to political questions.  Seeing in globalization an ever-g...

Poussin's paintings, Shakespeare's epitaph, Thom Gunn's existentialism, and many other things animate the elegantly written ...