The Poet Is Present
December 13, 2024
A conversation with Ryan Ruby, author of “Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry.”
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Back from the Underworld
December 12, 2024
The person who has fallen farthest from community might still be one worth saving.
Statues Also Speak
December 11, 2024
The past is not a silent, finished product.
Kicking an Open Door
December 10, 2024
Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything?
Two Pieces
Fuck this noise.
Trick Clock
December 05, 2024
On the job with a seasonal migrant worker.
University of Hindutva
December 04, 2024
Hindu supremacist organizations are coming for American college campuses.
Yo-de-lay-hee-hoo
November 27, 2024
“I had always lived in dreams, among the ghosts of language.”
No Ordinary Joe
November 26, 2024
In his selected letters, Joe Brainard reveals the human behind the saint.
The Consultant Con
November 25, 2024
The Democrats are a business masquerading as a party.
Be a Woman Once, Oh Lord!
I am a prisoner of a soul whose doors and windows are shut.
Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare
November 21, 2024
Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism is a conscious throwback to Cold War liberalism.