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I spent the day in the Golan Heights, in a ruined Syrian town, Quneitra, absolutely destroyed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War between the Syrians and Israelis. Before the Israeli...

Thank you for the outpouring of sympathetic notes regarding my relegation to the Siberia of academia. But quite frankly, I'm happy where I am. I prefer the coolness and...

We leave Montego Bay at about one o'clock. I warn novelist Joe Meno and his wife Koren who are in the car with me, my son and Cavell the driver,...

My wife and I had a baby girl six months ago, and, in terms of motherhood and parenting, all I can say is wow, and more wow. I never knew...

---------------------------- UBUWEB :: Spring 2007 ---------------------------- --- RECENT FEATURES --- Stan Brakhage: The Test of Time (MP3) A series of 20 half-hour long radio broadcasts by Brakhage recorded at KAIR, Univeristy of Colorado in...

Some of you reading this blog must have had this experience: someone asks you what you do and you say “I’m a poet” and they laugh uncomfortably, or say,...

Every May, for the past seven years, I have made my way to the south coast of Jamaica with one of my three children (they are on a rotation schedule)...

Earlier in the year, we asked Tom Sleigh to write one of those Journals (yeah, the ones that C. Dale Young is missing so badly) from Lebanon where he was...

Hope you caught Shanna Compton's podcast on our site this week about the poetry blogosphere. Here are links to the poets and blogs she mentions in it (via her...

Patti, you obviously have a readership and audience outside the academy. That's incredible. I don't. Simple as that. It's not my choice, but instead happens to be where the reception...