...now updated. Links to follow. Some future talks quite soon are now visible.

...now updated. Links to follow. Some future talks quite soon are now visible.
When you enforce the law, you look like an insane puppet. But in the end, others are relieved that you did so, which required that you are n...
What a nice chap. He was Oxford Professor of Poetry while I was there for the last couple of years, and hence at Magdalen, where I was. We h...
What an interesting experience. I'm revisiting material I taught an awful lot when I started out, about twenty plus years ago. It's ...
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Look at these beautiful holograms by Paula Dawson: She named them "Hyperobject: Homeland." They are extraordinary sponges/baskets ...
...from the Wordsworth Conference. Nick Roe, awesome biography of Keats, MCs.
I talk about MBV, my favorite band, in Hyperobjects . Our trip to Denver was a chance to see them, having last seen them in 1992, good heave...
Just like Plato haha I am about to teach my first class in a gymnasium. It's a good thing I regard poems as physical beings.
WHAT IS A LITERATURE MASTERCLASS? -Literature Masterclass is a community where all Literature majors (English and foreign languages) can dis...
The center for energy and environmental research in the human sciences is now operational!
We've had hot running water for over ten years, a tunnel that connects us to Peru--and we invented the cat.
No Terry, my old tutor, we Buddhists don't think that reality is an illusion . We think it is *like an illusion. Can you spot the differ...
Cumbria is as extraordinary as when I leapt up and down the hills as a child for the first fifteen years of my life. My grandparents lived t...
I was just interviewed for the excellent Rice Magazine by the excellent Lynn Gosnell. As I'm the first in this endowed chair--thank you ...
My trip to Scotland just now has inspired my essay for Jeffrey Cohen's new book, another in his growing stable of thoroughbred eco books...
It has been the most extraordinary Wordsworth Conference. Still here. Ten days. Cottage by a waterfall. Many many things to relate. Family s...
@Twitter needs to shape up . Wherever you go, there you are. Netiquette was in the past. Speech as the Buddhist call it, or style as the phe...
I just finished an essay for Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger for a book of keywords on ecology and energy. My essay is called “Ecology.” It...