“Criticism is parasitic literature,” writes Michael Robbins, the poet and critic, in his new book, “Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music,” a collection of his recent criticism, which I in ...

Michael J. Robbins Loving son, brother, uncle, and nephew LOWELL — Michael J. Robbins, age 52, died unexpectedly Monday, Jan. 4. at his home. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany, December 21, 1963, a ...

Michael Robbins called from the road. He explained he was driving back to Chicago from Mississippi, headed for his new apartment in Andersonville, white-knuckling at the wheel of a U-Haul too big for ...

is the author of two books of poetry and the essay collection Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music. In his new book, David Graeber examines the decoupling of work from meaningful activity.

Poet Michael Robbins suddenly became a name in the literary world in 2009 when The New Yorker’s then poetry editor Paul Muldoon plucked his “Alien vs. Predator” from the magazine’s voluminous slush ...

"My heart is lovely, dark and deep," Michael Robbins writes in a poem called "Plastic Robbins Band" in "Alien vs. Predator," his first collection. He's lying, shamelessly. Based on these buzzing, ...

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - The Robbins family has been a baseball factory at George County High School. Mason, Logan and Walker Robbins were all outstanding players on the mound and at the plate for the ...