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Epicenters, Epitaphs, Convergences

Yesterday morning/mourning, getting ready for a long, largely satisfying slog of paper grading, I tucked into the behemoth of the late...

Imminent is now NOW! Vanzetti!

Hot off the press, a press that is like a furious furnace generating fiery forces of radical textual radiance--PM Press--my edition of...

Vanzetti: Literary Immortal

I am very excited about the imminent publication of Bartolomeo Vanzetti's short story EVENTS & VICTIMS by PM Press. I edited the work and...

The Flood Lights of Louisville

I just returned from the 46th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Predictably, most academic conferences are...

Dispirited? No! Dispatches!

The other night, I participated in a really dynamic reading at KGB Bar in Manhattan with authors Rose Schaap, Elena Alexander, and Jiwon...

(New) Book of Revelations!!

I have not yet read Leni Zumas's brand new novel Red Clocks but given the dazzling, dizzying narratives found in her short story...

One Year Later: May a Thousand Voices Bloom in the Underground and the Overgrowth of the Misbegotten

Powers that Be. Actually, We Be the Powers that Be. Let us Be! A year ago yesterday, the Inauguration....of a new volume of poetry,...

All Poets Are Thieves!

Welcome Part II (Prometheus: a thief of fire & chronic liver damage: poetic inspiration unbounded!) More than a decade ago, I composed a...

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The Small Prebend of Kilroot

...could be the title of a poem but is not...just yet. It describes the locale of Jonathan Swift after he was ordained an Anglican priest...