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Keats owns autumn, as this post by Ange reminds us. Every Halloween I think also of Keats since this is his birthday. His last poem, which breaks off rather than...

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes words can be replaced, without loss, by any synonym or dictionary defintion. In poetry, though-- and in many cases outside poetry--...

Believe it or not, it’s a coincidence that this particular book cover made my Shout Out feature on Halloween. This is cult poet Beckian Fritz Goldberg’s fifth volume of poems....

About a month ago, the National Book Critics Circle sponsored a panel on the demise of the print journal and the rise of the online journal. Actually, it was a...

Approximately a month ago, around the end of September, I flew to Bergen, Norway, in order to perform at the Audiatur Festival—a multilingual extravaganza for the avant-garde, at which many...

Today is a national holiday in Greece, the day when Greeks celebrate the word "No!" More specifically, the "no" Metaxas gave to Mussolini in 1940, which precipitated Greece's involvement in World...

----------------- "Prose took the minstrel's verse without a squeeze His exaltation shocked both youth and crone The understanding critic firstly sees 'Ere meanings new to ancient tribes are thrown They both are right not untamed...

Why are there so few good poems about air travel? And are there any great ones? Is it just that it has been around for public transport less...

Odd encounter at a conference today (not the one Ange's been blogging, but a much smaller one): Scholar of contemporary culture, film and fiction #1 (pointing at me): "Is he an...

----------------- "Sonnet for Bonnie" from Nicholodeon by Darren Wershler-Henry Coach House Books, 1997 ----------------- "Sonnet for Bonnie" is a provocative brand of occasional verse—a love-poem that comments upon the vaunted history of the love-poem itself. Wershler-Henry...