time out!

I’m in Liverpool with the Irish poet and critic John Redmond. Check out his mysterious, rewarding new book of poems, which has both a Minnesotan (he used to live there, and to teach at Macalester) and a science-fictional/ computer game component.

My talk at Glasgow went quite well– thanks to the uni, and to Michael Schmidt, and to John Coyle and the School of Scottish and English Language and Literature (which goes by the alarming acronym SESSL, pronounced “sessile”). The relatively posh parts of