March 30, 2016
Phife’s Islands
The third death of A Tribe Called Quest occurred last week with the passing of Phife Dawg. The first death came after The Love Movement, when the group broke up; […]
November 1, 2015
A Resident Ghost of Spain: On Camarón
Somehow, you can live in a place for months and fail to meet a resident ghost. After five months in Granada, Spain in 2003, I was well-acquainted with Lorca. I’d […]
May 20, 2012
The Reproductive Success of a Poem
There’s more than one way of conceiving of the “success” of a poem; one that’s never talked about is its biological/evolutionary success, that is: How effectively does it replicate itself? […]