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A couple of my fellow blogsters also have little ones underfoot, so I’m sure they will appreciate the problem of “toddler music.” (I need to track down Steve’s suggestion...

Ange Mlinko has suggested in her recent post that the avant-garde avoids an engagment with the sensuality of experience, when in fact nearly every variety of avant-garde practice takes delight...

I was reminded by several people (and the Writer’s Almanac) that today is T.S. Eliot’s birthday. T. S. Eliot was one of my first loves as a forming poet. Some...

I sent the following piece as a replacement (that for some reason was never posted) for a poem that was included in my Top Five love poems feature on the...

It's not clear to me that the Internet is the best medium-- in fact, it's clear that it is not the best medium-- for long-form reflective, evaluative or detailedly analytic...

Nada Gordon wrote in this comment box: Ange writes that,"the fiercest experimental writing... has always been related to experience in some way." Ange, could you expand on that? It seems to...

The title of my second collection of poetry, Other Fugitives and Other Strangers, comes from a line in the final stanza of the poem “Reasons” by the late Thomas James: I...

Like the Muses, they are attracted to talent and promising projects, and the presence of several at once probably means you are on to something big. Still, they can...

I heard a fascinating piece of gossip the other day. I heard that Helen Vendler doesn’t believe good poems are ambiguous! I call it gossip because I heard it secondhand from...

Ben Friedlander has remarked in a commentary here that "readers make tradition, and so abdicate their power when they accept blindly what tradition hands down." I agree with this statement,...