Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Asymptotic Oz: Fragments on Dub Poetics open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comAsymptotic Oz: Fragments on Dub PoeticsMark Scroggins muses on his poem Zion Offramp. 030
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Writing Jazz Wrong open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comWriting Jazz WrongPoet and jazz musician Al Basile discusses the creative process 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 11/06/2025The Lure of Machine Logic: On Will Alexander open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comThe Lure of Machine Logic: On Will AlexanderKPrevallet reviews Will Alexander's The Coming Mental Range 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 10/06/2025MADRID MADRID MADRID MADRID! Did we publish him? YES WE DID.open.substack.com"20 Epigrams and a Song of Despair": Poems by Anthony Madrid"She looked at the woodsman’s ax / and its edge…" 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"20 Epigrams and a Song of Despair": Poems by Anthony Madrid open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.com"20 Epigrams and a Song of Despair": Poems by Anthony Madrid"She looked at the woodsman’s ax / and its edge…" 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 04/06/2025The Fortnightly Interview: The Potential Power of the Smallest Poem open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comThe Fortnightly Interview: The Potential Power of the Smallest PoemKelvin Corcoran in conversation with poet Peter Riley 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Translation: Bring a Stone to Your Chest, New Poems by Franca Mancinelli open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comTranslation: Bring a Stone to Your Chest, New Poems by Franca MancinelliTranslated from the Italian by John Taylor 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The Fortnightly Interview: The Past Can Come at You Like a Dagger open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comThe Fortnightly Interview: The Past Can Come at You Like a DaggerSusan Blumberg-Kason in conversation with Robin Hemley, author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 03/05/2025The Fortnightly Interview: The Past Can Come at You Like a Dagger open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comThe Fortnightly Interview: The Past Can Come at You Like a DaggerSusan Blumberg-Kason in conversation with Robin Hemley, author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 19/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comRecollection, but Not in TranquilityDonald Gardner reviews 'Laptop': poems by Desmond Egan 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comFiction by Christine Hume: "Blazon""We finally found a still spot inside us, and we stayed there until it was over." 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 09/04/2025A Poem by Amy Glynn open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comA Poem by Amy Glynn"The past / is perfect because it’s not moving." 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Can the contemporary university—already a dystopic self-parody—be satirized? Find out at The Fortnightly Review!open.substack.comThe University of Closed Minds: On Julian StannardAnthony Howell reviews Julian Stannard's The University of Bliss 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Translation: Six Poems by Klaus Merz open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comTranslation: Six Poems by Klaus MerzTranslated from the German by Marc Vincenz 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Cassandra Atherton: Alice in Wonderland in Japan open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comCassandra Atherton: Alice in Wonderland in Japan“The first dollars used in postwar Japan are on women’s bodies.” 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Fiction by Lance Olsen: "hanging scene #1—“it’s on her”—goodbye" open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comFiction by Lance Olsen: "hanging scene #1—“it’s on her”—goodbye""you’ve got to love it all away—your life—your grief—" 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Three Poems by James Dowthwaite up at the Fortnightly Review! Check it out and subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comThree Poems by James Dowthwaite"In the soft breathing of the city’s hours, / the town heaves" 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Pierre Joris, 1946-2025: World Citizen open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comPierre Joris, 1946-2025: World CitizenMark Scroggins remembers the acclaimed poet, editor, and translator 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 08/03/2025The Bus to Hell: On Yuval Sharon—fresh from The Fortnightly Review!open.substack.comThe Bus to Hell: On Yuval SharonPeter O'Brien reviews Yuval Sharon's A New Philosophy of Opera 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 06/03/2025My novel Alice B. Toklas is Missing reviewed in The Evergreen Review! evergreenreview.com/alice-b-tokl...evergreenreview.comReview: Alice B. Toklas is MissingEvergreen Review 011
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 06/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comTwo Poems by Rae Armantrout"I've dreamed this before, / I shouldn't be surprised" 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Two Poems by Rae Armantrout -- now at the Fortnightly Review! Like and subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comTwo Poems by Rae Armantrout"I've dreamed this before, / I shouldn't be surprised" 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The Fortnightly Review relaunch is underway! Starts off with a fantastic interview where Pinsky talks about new poetry, W.B. Yeats, people being schmucks, New Jersey, and more! As the kids say... 'like and subscribe'! 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The Fortnightly Interview: Answering History with Robert Pinsky open.substack.com/pub/fortnigh...open.substack.comThe Fortnightly Interview: Answering History with Robert PinskyJoshua Corey chats with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky 163
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025My father was a serious weight lifter for a time in the 1950s, living on Venice Beach after he got out of the Marines. “There’s an honesty and a fairness to it—you get out exactly what you put in.” 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 01/01/2025And this concludes the "ART I LIKE" series of 50! 100
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 01/01/2025ART I LIKE #50: Jeremy Frey's baskets seen on a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. Always happy when basketry or quilting or glass-blowing gets a shout-out from a major arts organization. The play with form and pattern, the care of craft! Like pots, the baskets really come alive in groups. #art 131
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 31/12/2024ART I LIKE #49: Peter Reginato's sculpture is sproingy & colorful while still very modern. When he paints in enamels—pouring and dripping he makes his own visual language out of bars of color, loops, lobes, and lines. I love the alternating crowded and open spaces and—wow the color pallatte! #art 110
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 30/12/2024ART I LIKE #47: Cate Simmons, Persephone's Journey. Kara Walker's not the only artist breathing life into the old silhouette form. I proposed this for the annual English Department tee shirt one year, but a colleague really put her foot down about Virginia Woolf, so we went that way instead. #art 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I mean, I felt mostly pity for the curator, who was liking work that contemporary norms told him not to like and bowed to the norms. You've got to believe your eyes, people, not just whatever they told you in grad school( though that can help too when it doesn't become prescriptive). 020
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 29/12/2024ART I LIKE #46: In a film I once saw a curator ashamed to admit how much Emily Young's work won him over—carving stone was, in his opinion, old hat. Young likes the work to look old—fragments are part of the aesthetic. She also understands that stone by itself is hard to beat for beauty. #sculpture 140
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 28/12/2024This one's on loan to us while our Segedin is on loan to his retrospective at the National Museum of Veterans Art. If you can make it to that show it'll be worth it! 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 28/12/2024ART I LIKE #45: Leopold Segedin, Follow the Leader. Part of a series set in west side Chicago where Segedin grew up in. The women in this image belong in their environment, either matching its colors or complimenting them. The grey-suited men are as out of place in color as in gesture. #chicagoart 100
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 27/12/2024ART I LIKE #44: Birds, Eggs & Dominoes with Pyramid, 1963. Abercrombie was known as the "queen of the bohemian artists" in midcentury Chicago & had a vocabulary of figures—cats, moons, clouds, pyramids–that she turned into landscapes charged with meaning always about to be revealed. #surrealism #art 070
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Don't misunderstand—I mean it as sincere praise when I say Ramirez's art feels like a stunning evolution out of doodling and twitchy graphomania. The patterns feel like they're built intuitively, from the doing rather than from a plan. 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 26/12/2024ART I LIKE #43. Martin Ramirez doesn't get much play outside of the outsider art scene, but wow, does the work reward attention. He's obsessive about trains but what he's really great at is building up a composition out of curved lines that form ridges, tunnels, funnels of smoke. #art #outsiderart 1102
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 25/12/2024People always wonder why Jesus looks like a miniature adult in these things. The idea—ultimately Platonic, like a lot of Christianity—was that he must have been born perfect and complete, fully developed, unlike a regular child. 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 25/12/2024ART I LIKE #42 - Christmas edition. You want a nativity scene, you've got your pick of good ones. I like Fra Angelico's, partly because it has wonderful halos and glorious Byzantine gold, but it keeps the scene modest & low key. Also, it puts animals at the visual center. Why? Dunno. #art #nativity 110
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 24/12/2024ART I LIKE #41: Gustavo Perez is probably the leading ceramic artist in Mexico. His vessels bend, fold, crease & open up in surprising places, really capturing the fluid nature of clay before it's fired. All of this contrasts with the gloss and shine of flat colored glaze. Love it! #art #ceramics 082
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 23/12/2024If my good looks disturb you, you don't have to buy Archambcoin. 000
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 23/12/2024ART I LIKE #40: WW1 turned Louis Monza into a pacifist & his figures shelter in little pockets of safety in a strange world. Sometimes they're trapped, too. The colors in 1968's Nightmare seem at odds with the title. But the faces in the landscape are right out of De Quincey's opium nightmares. #art 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 22/12/2024ART I LIKE #39: Caspar David Friedrich's 1818 Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog has mystery & vast sublimity —but you know what's best about it? It graces the cover of a Mekons album that some of the band signed for me last night when they dropped by to pick up a Wesley Kimler collage. #artsurprise 030
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 21/12/2024ART I LIKE #38: I see Fred Greene Carpenter's landscapes from time to time & have a little one from his trip to the holy land. 1955's "The Valley of Hinom" takes us to a place of dark mojo in the Bible. Figures are stiff & formal, perspective flat, and that spash or sacrificial red ominous.#art 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Had one from this series on the walls of my childhood home. My dad loved Saper's (often gloomy) self-portraits, but my mother only really liked this one. 110
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 20/12/2024ART I LIKE #37: Arnold Saper, Satomi, etching 1970s. Saper loves to draw & his etchings—often self-portraits or dragonflies—usually have a loose line. Early ones like this have a more precise look. I love the contrast in values—the hair vs. all that white. I believe this shows his wife. #Canadianart 120
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 19/12/2024ART I LIKE #36: Remedios Varo The Juggler 1956. Varo's architecture remind me of de Chirico, except her space is alway more populated. One of her signature images is a small, confined space, often a carriage or vehicle sheltering us in a strange world. I'm sure her refugee experience plays into it. 010
Robert Archambeau @robertarchambeau.bsky.social · 18/12/2024ART I LIKE #35: Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate, 2006. I can't think of a more successful public sculpture from this century. Unlike with Chicago's big Picasso, people didn't need to learn to love this: they were in from day one. First you see the city reflected, then you walk up & see yourself. #publicart 050