Check out my latest essay — “In Other Words: Postmillennial Poetry and Redirected Language” — in the new issue of the journal Contemporary Literature.  It’s part of their “poetry of the previous decade” special issue edited by Michael Davidson, and it has lots of cool articles, including ones by Kaplan

My second book, Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics, will soon be available from the University of Alabama Press. You can see all the details on their site. Amazon is taking preorders, if you feel so inclined.

My review of Les Murray’s Taller When Prone and John Kinsella’s Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley is now available over at the Los Angeles Review of Books web site.  It’s at the bottom of a page that includes two other great reviews, Adam Plunkett on Hillary Gravendyk (a

A new review of mine has gone live over at the web site Review 19.  I talk up Sandra M. Gustafson’s Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic. Dan’l Webster, Davey Crockett, James Fenimore Cooper — what more could one want?

The newest issue of the Chicago Review has–in addition to previously unpublished essays by the brilliant critic Veronica Forrest-Thomson and prose vignettes (in translation) by the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk–my review of Cole Swensen’s Greensward (Ugly Duckling 2010), a small beautiful book about 18th century British gardens and the human/animal

The book (Re:)Working the Ground: Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan is now available from Palgrave. I have an essay in it titled “Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein from Writing Writing to Ground Work II.” Thanks to the editor James Maynard for doing such a fine job with

Cow Heavy Books has just published The Official Catalog of the Library for Imaginary Literature, a collection of blurbs for imaginary books that the writers would love to read.  People involved include Craig Dworkin, Shelley Jackson, Bhanu Kapil, Warren Motte, Diane Williams, and, well, me.  My blurb is for a