-Mar 26, 20181 minEpicenters, Epitaphs, ConvergencesYesterday morning/mourning, getting ready for a long, largely satisfying slog of paper grading, I tucked into the behemoth of the late...
-Mar 15, 20181 minImminent 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...
-Mar 8, 20181 minVanzetti: Literary ImmortalI am very excited about the imminent publication of Bartolomeo Vanzetti's short story EVENTS & VICTIMS by PM Press. I edited the work and...
-Feb 27, 20181 minThe Flood Lights of Louisville I just returned from the 46th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Predictably, most academic conferences are...
-Feb 3, 20181 minDispirited? 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...
-Jan 24, 20181 min(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...
-Jan 21, 20181 minOne Year Later: May a Thousand Voices Bloom in the Underground and the Overgrowth of the MisbegottenPowers that Be. Actually, We Be the Powers that Be. Let us Be! A year ago yesterday, the Inauguration....of a new volume of poetry,...
-Jan 19, 20182 minAll 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...
Jon CurleyJan 13, 20181 minThe 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...