Sean Singer: A Poem I Love
Melvin Dixon’s “Spring Cleaning” Melvin Dixon died of AIDS in 1992 and is one of our most underrated poets. “Spring Cleaning” alludes to what Ralph Ellison called “the jagged grain,”…
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More Than Just a Tussle
Skirmish kneads the world’s dough through peculiarities that maintain the engagement with strangeness and the fortune of language, both as a path to richness and to predicting what will be.
The Hottest Book in Charing Cross
I’ve long been convinced—see my Village Voice piece from a few years back—that the eventual maturing of in-store Print on Demand technology could spell the end for chain stores in…
The First Known Dust Jacket
Sunday’s Guardian reports a pretty nifty find at the Bodleian: the first known dust jacket.
Swinging Modern Sounds #10: The Interactive Playlist
The original idea for this blog was to find my way to things that were unreleased, self-released, and unsigned, and in this installment I’m going to take my mission seriously…
Total Torture Tutorial
Mixing up your OLC memos? Can’t keep your enhanced interrogations straight? Foreign Policy, which not too long ago implemented a generally improved web redesign, has this very useful (and terrifying)…
Jason Roberts: A Poem I Love
Donald Justice, “Men At Forty” Dear sweet god. This is a poem that renders an entire genre of novels unnecessary. What the hell is it that every meditation-on-middle-age is saying,…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Poetry is good for your face, but you need to make sure you rub it all the way in. Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog, is having some problems with commenters.…