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Ron Silliman remarks that poetry contests "substitute an administrative social context for poetry in the place of a community one...To...

Let me join Stephanie in welcoming Del Ray Cross and his daily anachronizms to blogland.

Here's a question for everyone: Should poetry mags have contributors' notes? You know, those little things in the back pages that s...

I first read Noelle Kocot in the first issue of Lungfull I ever picked up. My immediate sense was that her poem ( "Palm Sunday, 1998...

From SHAMPOO editor Del Ray Cross: This is to happily inform you that I'm going to host an unprecedented 5th Anniversary SHAMPOO Celebr...

Weather change--at last--like a fever breaking. A string of 90-degree-plus days stretching back to May; this past week too hot for coherent...

Kasey on "hot ecleticism" : I'll leave myself open to the possibility that there is a way of valuing both Sharon Olds and Car...

[Note: I've belatedly realized that I stole the title of this post from Shin Yu Pai 's review of several Asian American literary ant...

Via Josh : The Chronicle of Higher Education tells us academics that if you ever want a job, don't blog . This is excellent advice, whi...

The north wall of my study in Chicago is dominated by an enormous, framed map of the London Underground , of about the same size you would s...

I've been meaning for weeks now to put up something about the 5th-anniversary issue of SHAMPOO , and have finally decided to overcome t...

The reviewing thread seems to have turned largely to a discussion of ethics/back-scratching, which I think is okay but, come on. This is a ...

But we had banded together to begin with out of a common knowledge and desire, and we would work this commonality to the ends of the earth, ...

Jordan wonders if we need a new "poetry paper of record," one that would do the job the NYT and Poetry aren't capable of do...

It didn't start well. I busted my butt to get downtown in time for Ann Lauterbach's 11 a.m. reading--an absolutely uncivilized time...

Since when does Charles Bernstein have a blog ? And is it a blog? I'm not really sure. It says "Web Log" at the top but it...

From "Stinky Town," in this week's New Yorker : Later, after driving through crowded Chinatown streets with his window down (...

I've spent much of the last two days at the Brandeis Book Sale , often billed as the world's largest used book sale. I can believe ...

Chicago's annual Printer's Row Book Fair is on Saturday and Sunday--an orgy of readings and performances and book vendors lining do...

Canadian Immigration Official: Have you ever been associated with a group that used, uses, advocated or advocates the use of armed struggle...