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All sorts of asses ‘love’ poetry. Why not? It confirms them in the assininity of their deepest beliefs. It underlies the racial laziness, th...

One of the really wonderful things about the Beinecke Library's Beyond the Text symposium this weekend is the way in which it weaves tog...

The schedule for my junior seminar "Modernism and Childhood" is below. Comments welcome. * * * Modernism and Childhood This ...

It never occurred to me to peruse the USPS's fine selection of stamps online until a friend alerted me (today) to the existence of poet...

If some poetry boys exhibit pack behavior, so what? —Johanna Drucker, "Politics of It All?, The," The n oulipian Analects , ed. ...

         In the short legged, fit- ful advance, the gurgling and all the minutiae—we have the       classic multitude of feet. To what p...

The lemur-student can see    that an aye-aye is not an angwan-tíbo, potto, or loris. —Marianne Moore, "Four Quartz-Crystal Clocks,...

My name is Acutifolius : having sharp edges. Underside of each frond like a powdery line of Braille. (19) —Hillary Gravendyk, "Botani...

What's so eerie about Stephen Crane's Black Riders (1894) is that it's full of love poems, and they're seriously cheesy . ...

Literary history is not really about priority, but about agency; not who did it first, but who coordinated doing with knowing, poetry with p...

Via Ben Friedlander on Twitter, I was recently treated to Anne Boyer's " Damnatio Memoriae ." Please read it--it's short a...

I love these instances of poetry in the wild—moments when you see poetry being deployed to unlikely ends, or when you see the general public...

I've started many a blog post in the last few weeks, only to discard it, dissatisfied. I'm in a bit of a strange lull lately, despit...

I've seen this Businessweek article circulated a lot recently. The quotable quotation with which it's inevitably accompanied is th...

My fellow Fellows, Brendan Prawdzik and Jessica Fisher, and I will be presenting new work on April 26, 4-5:30 pm, 300 Wheeler ("the med...

At a conference in Orono, in 1996, I heard Robert Von Hallberg disagree with Ann Charters about Langston Hughes' poems, arguing that Hug...

Am I the meanest teacher? Maybe. I think I'm about to get a really terrible song stuck in my students' heads. But it's for Lear...

We all saw the numbers put out by VIDA recently. ( A propos , here's Pollitt pointedly noticing something about a position I happen to...

Name: ________________________________________ 2/17/2011 1. The author of “Tradition and the Individual Talent” is: (a) T. ...

The Holloway Series in Poetry Celebrates Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book (newly out from University of California Press) 7:00PM-8:30P...