Close Calls With Nonsense

I’ve been out having fun with Jessie and Nathan holed up in a cave proofreading the next two books doing stuff, while far away these things happened:

I have an essay about comic book superheroes in poetry in the most recent Michigan Quarterly Review, which also has a thoughtful and counterintuitive piece on the future history of reading by my colleague Leah Price. My essay has something to say about poems by Bryan Dietrich, and by Ray McDaniel, who has been writing about the Legion of Super-Heroes, who would take a long time to list explain.

The Harvard Crimson decided to run a story about my science fiction course. People seem to like it.

Slumberland Records has a website with a beautiful series of podcasts, but where’s the track listing?

WHRB’s Record Hospital, the Harvard-based rock show that runs each weeknight from late to way-late on 95.3fm in Cambridge and on the web, is running a 25th-anniversary retrospective this week. I just taped an hour of air devoted to 1991, the year punk broke and indiepop got in between the pieces.

I’ve just finished writing about David Baker’s way-uncool– but very good– new book, and I’m excited about Karen Weiser’s first full-length out soon from Ugly Duckling. I really hope I’m not the only reader in America who likes both of these books a lot.

There’s a new book by Michele Leggott which I’m going to have to order right now: did you know that there’s quite a lot about her online?

Oh, and about those books I’ve been down a rabbit hole proofreading: the Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, edited by Ben Mazer, is now available for reading-about-in-the-catalog, and for pre-order, I think; and The Art of the Sonnet, which David Mikics and I wrote together, is too.