Live-Blogging the Debate: The Blogs to Read
I’ll be busy at one of the last Fall For the Book readings tonight so I won’t be following the debate as closely as I’d like. You, however, should follow along with these fine bloggers who will be...
View ArticleThe Perils of the Low Information Voter
The bailout plan fails in the House. And hey, the Dow closes in -700 territory. So that’s exciting. On the political side, I can understand the behavior of representatives who claim to be receiving...
View ArticleBrief Thoughts On Fiction
I don’t have a lot to say in response to Matt Zeitlin’s post on fiction and James Woods’ disdain for the “hysterical realism” of Rushdie, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, et al. I read more poetry than...
View ArticleA Question About Literature and Political Philosophy
And since people are thinking about literature I’ll take this opportunity to ask a question I’ve been considering recently: Why doesn’t more literary criticism make mention of rights-based liberalism?...
View ArticleIn Defense of Writing Programs
Actually, this isn’t technically a defense of writing programs; I don’t think writing programs need defending*. Rather, it’s a quick look at what I believe to be some of the unexamined (or at least...
View ArticleSaving Globalization from the Poets
Jeremy Schmall has a post over at HTML Giant that argues that poetry’s larger cultural irrelevance makes it a useful site of resistance against globalization. Schmall’s description of globalization...
View ArticlePoetry Blogs You Should Be Reading
In my long blogging absence I’ve negleted to highlight two great blogs about poetry and the process of writing poetry: 1. First Book Interviews: Keith Montesano interviews Rauan Klassnik in his 21st...
View ArticleWhither Pax?
When I first started this blog, I had hopes that I could make it a group blog–not just because it would make the writing load easier on myself, but because there are a lot of areas that I find very...
View ArticleThe End of Lost as an End to Mystery
[NOTE: This post contains spoilers about the series finale. The usual precautions apply.] Update: See also Tracie’s excellent re-cap/analysis over at Jezebel. I think Charlie Anders’s response to the...
View ArticleBeyond Goodwill and Language: Why Ecopoetics Should Embrace Policy Wonks
(This post is part of conversation with poet and friend Moriah Purdy. The first post can be read over at Here Now, Myriads.) Moriah has already provided some good working definitions of ecopoetics...
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