Coming up! Lots of great folks reading (plus music!); I'll be there to hear. My piece on Lisel Mueller's life in northern Illinois is included in Andy Oler's excellent, necessary collection.
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Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine
Join us to celebrate Lingering Inland, an expansive anthology edited by Andy Oler. 73 original short essays explore locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary […]
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December 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Coming up! Lots of great folks reading (plus music!); I'll be there to hear. My piece on Lisel Mueller's life in northern Illinois is included in Andy Oler's excellent, necessary collection.
Out now! Very proud of my dear friend and colleague Martha Patterson. Excerpt here: www.hnn.us/article/a-ph...
September 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Out now! Very proud of my dear friend and colleague Martha Patterson. Excerpt here: www.hnn.us/article/a-ph...
Out now: "The essays and poems in this folio are a testament to how Arnold always gestured out beyond herself, drawing others . . . into her orbit. This folio is Chicago Review’s way of returning that gesture." www.chicagoreview.org/liz-arnold-f...
July 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Out now: "The essays and poems in this folio are a testament to how Arnold always gestured out beyond herself, drawing others . . . into her orbit. This folio is Chicago Review’s way of returning that gesture." www.chicagoreview.org/liz-arnold-f...
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Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Lingering Inland
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June 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
New from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. Includes my essay on Lisel Mueller's childhood under Hitler and how its terrors, and the refugee experience, inflected almost all her work, including poems of Midwestern "domesticity." Ed Linda Nemic Foster! www.amazon.com/Midwestern-M...
Midwestern Miscellany LIII.1 (Spring 2025)
Amazon.com: Midwestern Miscellany LIII.1 (Spring 2025): 9798991605922: Nemec Foster, Linda: Books
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May 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. Includes my essay on Lisel Mueller's childhood under Hitler and how its terrors, and the refugee experience, inflected almost all her work, including poems of Midwestern "domesticity." Ed Linda Nemic Foster! www.amazon.com/Midwestern-M...
After I visited Gabriele D'Annuzio's estate in Italy, I began doing research, and discovered the only book by an American on D'Annuzio's neo-fascist Fiume expedition was by Michael Ledeen. All the more shocking, then, to see Ledeen and his wife tweeting their support of the Jan 6 disinfo campaign.
May 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
After I visited Gabriele D'Annuzio's estate in Italy, I began doing research, and discovered the only book by an American on D'Annuzio's neo-fascist Fiume expedition was by Michael Ledeen. All the more shocking, then, to see Ledeen and his wife tweeting their support of the Jan 6 disinfo campaign.
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This obit of Michael Ledeen is missing an awful lot... like his relationship with Michael Flynn and the sordid role he and his wife Barbara played in the background of Jan 6.
Michael A. Ledeen, Reagan Adviser Involved in Iran-Contra, Dies at 83
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May 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This obit of Michael Ledeen is missing an awful lot... like his relationship with Michael Flynn and the sordid role he and his wife Barbara played in the background of Jan 6.
Relevant, alas. But the copious quotations of 16th-century language make the reading inspiriting.
May 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Relevant, alas. But the copious quotations of 16th-century language make the reading inspiriting.
My non-AI-scripted summer reading list of books by friends! All thriving, save Reginald Shepherd, a very kind person (tho he didn't suffer fools). His face always spoke, even when he held it still, as in this wonderful picture. Here I think he's ready to laugh. Looking forward to all of these.
May 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My non-AI-scripted summer reading list of books by friends! All thriving, save Reginald Shepherd, a very kind person (tho he didn't suffer fools). His face always spoke, even when he held it still, as in this wonderful picture. Here I think he's ready to laugh. Looking forward to all of these.
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The paradox of joy (which is our moral obligation in a world rife with reasons for despair), lensed through a Nick Cave song and a Lisel Mueller poem www.themarginalian.org/2024/09/05/j...
April 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The paradox of joy (which is our moral obligation in a world rife with reasons for despair), lensed through a Nick Cave song and a Lisel Mueller poem www.themarginalian.org/2024/09/05/j...
Notable that the NYT's "Read Your Way Around Chicago" featured no named poets after Gwendolyn Brooks, except Kathleen Rooney, who is cited for a novel. Yet the author calls current-day Chicago "the best poetry town in the country"!
May 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Notable that the NYT's "Read Your Way Around Chicago" featured no named poets after Gwendolyn Brooks, except Kathleen Rooney, who is cited for a novel. Yet the author calls current-day Chicago "the best poetry town in the country"!
Lisel Mueller, 1970, for #smallpoemssunday.
April 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Lisel Mueller, 1970, for #smallpoemssunday.
Can't wait for the semester to end, when I can catch up on the collection of 8 Lynne Sachs films on OVID.tv. Feature-length to short, including the lovely "Visit to Bernadette Mayer's Childhood Home."
April 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Can't wait for the semester to end, when I can catch up on the collection of 8 Lynne Sachs films on OVID.tv. Feature-length to short, including the lovely "Visit to Bernadette Mayer's Childhood Home."
The precise observations people trying to carry on lives subsumed in propaganda brings a chill of recognition, on nearly every page of Iris Origo's journal. "How it was" under Il Duce is how it is now.
April 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The precise observations people trying to carry on lives subsumed in propaganda brings a chill of recognition, on nearly every page of Iris Origo's journal. "How it was" under Il Duce is how it is now.
I think I know Lisel Mueller's work. Then a poem I never heard her read when I was a child pops up to surprise me. Today it's "The Art of Forgetting."
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I think I know Lisel Mueller's work. Then a poem I never heard her read when I was a child pops up to surprise me. Today it's "The Art of Forgetting."
Seen at the Fence Books table, AWP: Brian Young's "Site Acquisition" -- a wild book by my late, wild husband, who died in April, 11 years ago. They were down to their last copy!
April 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Seen at the Fence Books table, AWP: Brian Young's "Site Acquisition" -- a wild book by my late, wild husband, who died in April, 11 years ago. They were down to their last copy!
I think all American writers should be keeping journals/diaries of this presidency. As public censorship increases, the record of daily experience will be important—and contested—in the chronicles of our time.
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think all American writers should be keeping journals/diaries of this presidency. As public censorship increases, the record of daily experience will be important—and contested—in the chronicles of our time.
Coming this Saturday to AWP: "A Tribute to Elizabeth Arnold (1958-2024)." In celebration of a great American poet and dear friend.
March 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Coming this Saturday to AWP: "A Tribute to Elizabeth Arnold (1958-2024)." In celebration of a great American poet and dear friend.
Lisel Mueller at home, 1960s.
March 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Lisel Mueller at home, 1960s.
Spent a wonderful week with these folks in 2024. Highly recommended! Great people, time to do your own work, beautiful WI location, and . . . baby goats. residencyonthefarm.org
Residency on the Farm
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March 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Spent a wonderful week with these folks in 2024. Highly recommended! Great people, time to do your own work, beautiful WI location, and . . . baby goats. residencyonthefarm.org
All of my mother's poetry books are in there -- for which I'm supposed to be receiving royalties! (Four of my own little poems, too.)
March 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
All of my mother's poetry books are in there -- for which I'm supposed to be receiving royalties! (Four of my own little poems, too.)