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And now I have forgiven the Poetics list for all of its previous transgressions because it has brought us Kevin Killian's wonderful repo...

From the mailbag: the new special issue of MELUS on Filipino American literature, masterfully edited by Rocio Davis and including an essay ...

One of the Poetics listers who dismissed my discussion of racism is now crying "racism" himself because someone called him "...

Howdy folks. Long time no blog. Those of you unfortunate enough to still subscribe to the Poetics list have seen me involved in a little...

PinoyPoetics , which includes an essay of mine on Jose Garcia Villa, is now set for a fall release. Well done, Eileen and Nick! Details ...

Waitress, Bookclerk, Bagger for Alli Warren So then the jar ships with the bees inside and there is something like a forest of berrie...

This just in from Summi Kaipa : Howdy folks! Just wanted to let you know that I have organized an event that explores book arts and fea...

Poked Hambone for Alli Warren Deliver van quip toodle oo. Heart above foot. Nose neck strung hale like sugar high. Eggcrate popper ...

Hello again, California. Having been chased from Chicago by a violent storm, it's strange to recall what it was like to live in this la...

I could not help but be moved last night that as a contribution to our national mourning, TBS aired that great tribute to the Reagan era, Pr...

EARNEST YOUNG WHITE MAN WITH CLIPBOARD AND "NADER 2004" BASEBALL CAP AND BUTTON AND OTHER PARAPHENALIA: Would you like to sign a p...

Sun Raise Bulb for Alli Warren All day four in the morning window concluding. Oblivion stories. Flick off bacon outbound and then he...

Jonathan Mayhew on the Pound question: If the question were about Frank O'Hara and someone said, "I don't care about about ...

Barbara Jane gives us two good reasons to read Pound.

I honestly don't get what the big deal is if Jim Behrle or anybody else says that they don't read Ezra Pound. I read a lot of Pou...

I Am Now Civilized for Alli Warren It is no longer possible for anything to happen. Wall jump. On the scoreboard each bulb is lit in...

The Pursuit of the Scientific Life for Alli Warren Without a medium through which to propagate. Cream sodas. She married into a grat...

This week's New Yorker has a Talk of the Town piece on bloggers with book contracts , a periodic source of fascination/jealousy/hysteri...

I'd like to think that the major TV networks' declining to carry President Bush's "major" speech on Iraq on Monday was...

Robin's students were agog at the American Idol T-shirt she was wearing under her blazer in class today. None of them would admit to wa...