Thomas Hardy: At the War Office, London                          I Last year I called this world of gaingivings The darkest thinkable, and...
Read MoreThe Jivin’ Ladybug is an exciting poetry journal I just came across via Silliman’s Blog. The link is to a poem by Will Alexander, and as always his hypnotic...
Read Morefrom the Paris Review Interview, 2005: GILBERT: “I think serious poems should make something happen that’s not correct or entertaining or clever. I want...
Read MoreAlfred Starr Hamilton to the Rescue! A while back New Jersey poet Lisa Borinsky tracked me down in my office to ask if I had any Alfred Starr Hamilton material. Why...
Read MoreThe serious scholarly activity of PhD poets, sane and measured as it is, or purports to be, is simply professionalism, ventriloquism, transvestism. In the arts there...
Read MoreOn False Naivete Not long ago i sent my curmudgeonly friend Philip a Kimya Dawson song I like, and he sent back a curmudgeonly reply, to the effect that he loathes...
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