In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: the hilarious Hipster-Literary-Bro continuum, totally safe for work bookshelf porn, and books repurposed as decorative and functional iPhone docks and flask holders, among other things.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: Helen Vendler takes Rita Dove to task for being too inclusive in the new Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, which segues nicely into the harshest writer-on-writer and musician-on-musician insults in history, which takes us… Read More
For my last Mix Tape of the year on the Kenyon Review blog, here’s a look back at ten of my favorite literary tidbits from Mix Tape 2011—the sublime, the ridiculous, and a few things not easily classified as either.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: laugh at The Elements of Style rap, rail against others’ merry-and-bright attitudes by tearing down the mistletoe and playing some essential break-up songs (Stars! Roxy Music! Yo La Tengo!), and sample some other highs and… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: Rita Dove talks about what makes Ohio such fertile ground for writing, Sven Birkerts talks about writer’s block and the sheer joy of defeating it, and Samuel Beckett’s letters reveal that Godot’s identity was a… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: holiday gift ideas for the grammar geeks (not grammar geek’s!) in your life, haiku traffic signs in New York City, an anonymous paper artist strikes again, and much more.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog: a list of things to be thankful for, including literary turduckens, Paul Muldoon’s priceless close reading of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok,” unconventional homegrown libraries, and more.
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog, we take a look at what happens when a novel is found to be more or less completely plagiarized, when a former poet laureate gets shoved around by police, and when a writer decides to… Read More
In this week’s Mix Tape on the Kenyon Review blog, tricks and treats just in time for Halloween: a look at poet Anne Sexton’s lost vampire fiction, found poems from Craigslist “Missed Connections” in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, the unlikely friendship between an author… Read More
This week my good friend (and poet extraordinaire) Patrick Culliton invited me to be a part of his podcast, Talus or Scree. I recorded a poem for the Halloween episode, which you can listen to here. The poem, “Night of the Comet (1984),” is one of… Read More
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