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1. American Poetry 2010–2015, A Brief Anecdotal History AT THE RETHINKING POETICS conference in June 2010, we heard the literary critic Marjorie Perloff discuss Vanessa Place’s Statement of Facts. She said that the book was a real page-turner, and that...

E.L. Doctorow, Literary Time Traveler Who Stirred the Past Into Fiction, Dies at 84 Bruce Weber 21 July 2015 E. L. Doctorow, a leading figure in contemporary American letters whose popular, critically admired and award-winning novels — including “Ragtime...

Introduction  ᚒ  State Us  ᚒ  Mathematics of the Unliving  ᚒ  Body-Phobia  ᚒ “I saw the body. I saw the blood.”  ᚒ  Conceptual Poetry as Minstrel Show  ᚒ  “Families”  ᚒ Genre as Political Ideology  ᚒ  Writing While Black  ᚒ  The Sublime of Authenticity...

It is far too early to tear down the barricades. Dancing shoes will not do. We still need our heavy boots and mine detectors. —Jane Marcus, "Storming the Toolshed" 1. Seeking Refuge in Feminist Revolutions in Modernism Last week, I spent two days at...

From the Forward, a May 7, 2004 editorial: President Bush attempted to sell the American public and the international community on the need for a war in Iraq, America’s most important Jewish organizations rallied as one to his defense. In statement...