As with nearly every other spot on the ever expanding tourist map, Versailles is a place no longer to be beheld, still less to be awed by, or disgusted by—depending on the strength go one’s constitution, and the romance attached to her sense of history—but a place to be captured, recorded, digitized, and filed: [...]

A letter I sent to the Editor of Poetry Magazine in response to a review written by (the usually very good) D.H. Tracy, about what is probably my favorite poetry book of all time. Read it on their website here: Letter to the Editor by Mischa Willett.

In August, I gave a poetry reading at the Phinney Ridge Community Center whose advertisement was designed by my talented friend Mark Selander at Machines and Humans. Several people commented on the poster, so I thought I’d post it. Check out more of Mark’s work here: www.machinesandhumans.com

Last month I attended a conference of the German Society for English Romanticism, held at the Catholic Academy in Duisberg/Essen, where: Julian Wolfreys asked “what is it about cities that tests the limits of representation?” in a paper about London maps. Rolf Lessenich gave a paper about Charles Lamb’s Elia as an anti civic-improvement piece: [...]

Upon first arrival in Germany, I wandered (not lonely as a cloud, rather in the good company of my wife) into an antiquarian bookstore on Wilhelmstraße where I have my offices at the University of Tübingen, and met the most congenial friend in Michael Raffel who was instantly welcoming and who gifted us there and then a copy of Byron’s Don Juan, and [...]