§
A new Museum
of Contemporary Art
opens
in Detroit
§
Of Wharton Esherick.
the great
modernist wood-carver,
also a resident
of my home town
§
In praise of
Sylvester Pollet
& his
Backwoods Broadsides
§
Nate Wiley,
a saxman
who used to play
with Gil Ott
& who had his first CD
at the age of
75,
has died
§
Self-published
Canadians
break into
the nation’s largest
retail chain,
but only on its
(not inexpensive)
terms
§
The path
from Robert Creeley
to the Flaming Lips
leads thru
Mercury
Rev
§
More Creeley
set to music
§
Mário Cesariny
has died
§
Ferlinghetti’s
beret
§
The “incomparable”
(primarily in the gap
between hype & substance)
Poetry Archive
begins to add
Dead White Guys
to the collection
§
Miller Williams
& his daughter
Lucinda
§
“If you like bad poetry,
welcome to heaven”
(on Ginsberg’s early work)
§
Dancing with anyone
other than
Emmitt Smith
§
“tough-guy poet-criminal”
(that’s fiction)
amidst the
Whitbread
shortlist
§
Interviewing a writer
who makes
$50 million per year
§
Defacing
a work of art
that is also
a train station
