Absurdism’s apotheosis:
Daniil Kharms
in The New Yorker
§
Clayton Eshleman
on translating
César Vallejo
§
Saigon 1964
or
Baghdad 2007?
A poem by
Tran Da Tu,
translated by Linh Dinh
Plus,
from Tinfish,
Linh Dinh on translation
§
Practical arithmetic
& the sport
of translation
§
Barrett Watten’s
Plasma, Parallèles, “X”
back in print
in French
§
Talking with
Stephen Vincent
§
Charles Simic,
”the people’s poet,”
also won
$100,000
the same day
he was named as Laureate –
not bad!
§
Levi Asher
has a scarier idea
for Poet Laureate
§
In
the Poet Populist
reads
for City Council
committee meetings
§
Aura
Estrada,
Columbia Ph.D. student
& critic of
Borges & Bolaño,
has died
§
The police raid
Poetry Foundation
party
§
A profile of
Amiri Baraka
§
The origins
of language
§
What’s in a word?
§
A profile of
Musa Okwonga
§
Conflict
in the
Cleveland slam scene
§
The National Slam
Championship
has come to Austin
§
A
of
”Soul poetry”
§
An interview with
Mary Ann Caws
§
The Waste Land
and its impact on
Spring and All
§
The world’s oldest
LGBT bookstore
turns 40
§
A review of
the selected works of
Shin Yu Pai
§
Aaron Douglas:
African-American Modernist
§
§
Jon Carroll
doesn’t think
Billy Collins
dumbs it down enough
§
Finding the balance
in
Russian-American
poetics
§
The Theresa Duncan-Jeremy Blake
suicides
get even stranger
Police seek help
identifying Blake’s body
§
Dannie Abse’
book
for his late wife
§
Noah Eli Gordon
reviews
Joseph Lease
§
Coming this fall:
a bpNichol reader,
The Alphabet Game
§
§
A contrary view
of Ed Dorn’s
Way More West
§
Poetry:
you may already
be a
winner
§
“Poetry is like a boat –
it has to float”
§
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Close Radio:
111 works
in streaming sound
from visual, conceptual
& performance artists
of the 1970s
§
Links to
3,687
visual poetry sites
§
& raise a glass
to the memory
of
Tommy Makem!
& to double-bassist
Art Davis!
