It’s already a finalist for
the National Book Award*
§
Doris Lessing
has won
the Nobel Prize for Literature
§
Tonight at Writers House
in
Bob Cobbing’s
”Suddenly Everybody Began Reading Aloud”
§
Video of
Rae Armantrout
reading in Berkeley
§
Talking film
with John Ashbery
§
The autobiography
of
Christian
Bök
§
Talking with
Geoffrey Gatza
§
The Colbert suffix
§
Charles Simic
on PBS
Laureate relishes
new challenge
& begins by attacking
Robert Creeley
($3 fee)
Simic to teach
at Baruch College
Simic reads
with Jack Prelutsky
If you like Simic,
you will love
Vasko Popa
§
“You don’t get
to be
poet laureate
for nothing”
§
Hounding Howl:
What the FCC?
(MP3)
Meanwhile,
at the Alberto Gonzales school
of pornography prosecution
§
Kerouac’s scroll
as Oulipo constraint
§
Speaking of Oulipo:
3by3by3
21 Stars Review
§
Debating
what poetry is
in
§
Jennifer Moxley
&
Maggie O’Sullivan
reading
at the Bowery Poetry Club
(MP3s)
§
Talking with
Jason Christie
§
§
In
Indigo
is putting hotels
on Boardwalk & Park Place
While readers
come to the USA
to buy books
§
Random acts of poetry
in
§
Writing poetry in the army
in
§
A writers’ workshop
at
Homeboy Industries
§
The return
of
Easy Rawlins
§
Reading Catullus 64
§
The only call for submissions
I know of
that quotes
Theodor Adorno,
seeking
”emergent poetry & prose”
§
More on the demise
of the hyphen
§
§
Prizes for
the
& more
Plus
the same ole same ole
in the
§
Writing like Sean O’Brien
is, he concedes,
“an affliction”
§
Fondly recalling
the poetry wars
of the 1960s
§
The bio of
” a skilful, harmless,
minor writer of light verse”
§
Joyce Carol Oates:
autobiography
against the grain
§
Adam Thorpe
doesn’t think
he’s easy reading
§
An anthology
of women’s poetry
from
§
The future of the book
may not include
bookstores
But in
a bookstore opens
§
One use for old books
§
A new opera,
Poet Li Bai,
debuts in
§
On the origins
of
The Life of Pi
§
The selected letters
of Ted Hughes
§
A profile
of Paul Durcan
§
High school students
producing
poetry on demand
§
§
Comparing Don Share
to Robert Lowell
§
Talking with
Li-Young Lee
§
Troy Jollimore’s blog
for Powell’s Books
§
A poet laureate
for Winona, Minnesota
§
An anthology
of
New York poetry
§
Frank Wilson
likes the Sony e-Book,
sorta
§
The continuing relevance
of books
§
Poet Tree
in
§
Talking with
Greil Marcus
§
A personal history
of the
Writers Festival
§
Violet de Cristoforo,
poet imprisoned
in
during WW2,
has died
§
Interviewing
Janet Malcolm
§
§
The best-selling suicide
of André & Dorine Gorsz
§
The Social and Political Views
of American Professors
(PDF)
§
Two serious views
on global warming:
pro & con
§
“one of the best new operas
in many years”
§
Billy Bragg
on the
power of music
§
§
§
With art
comes injury
§
Do museums matter?
If not, why
are they spreading
like kudzu?
§
Renoir
&
why the Barnes matters
§
* Strictly a
The selection panel was chaired by
(surprise!) Charles Simic
