Silliman's Blog

Talking collage
with John Ashbery

Patchen Fest!

A great little note
on the origins
of the
School o’ Quietude
from Andover, NH

A profile of Artie Gold,
the late, great
Anglophone poet of Montreal

Talking
Noah
Eli
Gordon

“away with buttons lips underwater”

Noah Eli Gordon
on
Clark Coolidge’s
Bond Sonnets

You can find
Bond Sonnets
online here

Chris McCreary on Graham Foust

Mark Scroggins & John Latta
on
The Grand Piano

Talking with
Martín Espada

Same national poetry month,
different nation

A celebration of the centennial of
Parvin E’tesami,
a major woman poet
from Iran

My reign is done
& you can now
nominate
The Poet Laureate
of the Blogosphere 2007
here

Jilly Dybka & I,
as previous winners,
are not eligible

The Poet Laureate
of New Bedford, MA

An omnibus review
that covers
all the bases –
Michael O’Brien, Franz Wright,
Charles North, Elaine Equi
& more –
by William Corbett

Stephen Burt
on
The Imaginary Poets

A review of
Pam Rehm & Michael O’Brien

“While Ochester
is proud of the poets he's published,
he's not about to anoint any
of them as being
for the ages”

The eco-poetics of
Helen Dunmore

"it's a metaphor, you know,
it's not literally a novel about poets.
It's about poetic temperament in the world.
It's romantic.
It's about young idealists
coming up against
corruption and tragedy."

It came from Helvetica

A profile of
Erica Funkhouser,
one of the new
Guggenheim Fellows

Funkhouser’s PBS moment

Another Cody’s
bites the dust

In Atlanta,
the aptly named
Chapter 11
goes from 16 bookstores
to just one

Putting Baudelaire
into iambic pentameter

Ada Limón’s
big verse narrative

Brad Leithauser
on the social functions
of poetry,
1880-1950

Cat sells autobiography
for $1.25 million

Just getting to an open reading
can be an event

BillyBlog
(aka Bill Cohen)
has a big collection
of mostly signed
Poetry-in-Motion posters
& is running one a day
for the month of April

(click on them
to see versions
large enough to read)