Cliff Doerksen
Cliff Doerksen is a film critic for Time Out Chicago magazine, has a Ph.D in history from Princeton University, and is the author of American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age, a cultural history of the origins of commercial broadcasting in the United States. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.
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Articles By CLIFF DOERKSEN
- Poetry, Wartime, and Unwieldy Metaphors
Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Gary Snyder participate in a panel. - Therapy Waste Land
T.S. Eliot’s Tony Award–winning play revisited by a politically minded Chicago theater.



