Modern Americans

“ As he forbade killing the deer, so also the boars; and he loved the tall stags as if he were their father. ”

  “Conjures the taste of the maraschino cherry from my father’s Manhattan on my childhood tongue and all that it intimated about the catast...

Since I found it, I keep thinking about Morgan Myers’s posting of The Waste Land in rainbow Comic Sans , most dissed of all fonts. Herodo...

“Property is      water” (Taken from “Poem of the End,” one of the best breakup poems ever written, even in translation. It’s the one with...

Still warm from the afterglow of Karen Weiser and Anselm Berrigan' s reading , Portland hosts Rachel Zolf, David Wolach , and The Oregon...

Karen Weiser and Anselm Berrigan light out for Portland this Friday, 10/15 to read at the swank “near Mt. Tabor” demesne of Jen Coleman ...

“'Our chief business at present,' said Marlborough , 'is to subsist.'”

I don’t know what to say about Michael Gizzi , except to collect some of what I’ve said elsewhere about his work. He hardly knew me from Ada...

The red reaches me at Attention Span 2010 .

         “and in bronze tangle square of light The master has said to you, Style”

I asked operaman ; now I’ll ask you. You know that scene in A Hard Day’s Night where Wilfrid Brambell , the “clean old man” from Steptoe an...

“ Part of me really likes the sort of freedom that comes with lower financial stakes. But there’s also part of me that wishes that we could...

Michael Cross just posted a text copy of one of my favorite recordings from the Bay Area Labor Day 2010 Event — David Brazil’s wide-rang...

Bruce Boone has a blog!

With the first-years all settling into dorm rooms, shocked to think it’s twenty years since Barrington closed.

“Shall we gather at the river? On second thought, let’s not.”

Nicholas Manning & I traded comments about Robert Graves , wondering how his opposition to some of the key strands of literary modernis...