(from left: cris cheek, Matthew Abess, Dr. Marvin Sackner, Maggie O’Sullivan, Charles Bernstein, unidentified)
Photo courtesy of Derek Love & PENNsound
Bob Cobbing:
Sockless in Sandals
(PDF)
Plus
Bob Cobbing at Penn
(last 3 weeks)
Plus plus
Bob Cobbing archives
at PENNsound
Plus plus plus
Bob Cobbing archives
on Ubuweb
§
Richard Owens responds
to my review of
Damn the Caesars
§
Howard Junker
reads Paul Muldoon
as editor
& has some interesting
observations
(why I call this
neophobia,
part 1)
§
Al Filreis
on anti-modernism
in 1960
(why I call this
neophobia,
part 2)
Al Filreis
on responses to
The Grand Piano
Al Filreis’
bookmarks
§
The New York Times’
list of “100 notable books of 2007”
contains just four volumes of poetry,
including one by Rae Armantrout
The three others
continue the hegemony
of what I once called
the “Gang of Eight”
(This year it’s just FSG & Ecco/Harper)
§
Erin Mouré’s
Transparency Machine
exhibit
§
Two books
from George Bowering
§
After 73 years
of publishing poetry,
Ruth Brin
tries a novel
§
Celebrating John Ashbery
in utter bafflement
§
Charles Bernstein
& Susan Bee
collaborating in 1971
§
Jim Harrison
on
Charles Bukowski
§
Vernon Scannell.
”drunk, boxer, and Army deserter,”
who “emerged a poet,”
has died
As has
Paul Roche
§
Kindle me this
§
Talking with
Kim Addonizio
§
Worth attending:
in
Geoffrey Young
reads
The Riot Act,
December 1
§
Worth attending
in
Big book
party/reading
for
The Collected Poems
of Philip Whalen,
Dec. 4
@ Moe’s
§
Worth attending
in NY:
David Shapiro
in conversation with
David Lehman
Dec. 11
@ The New School
§
Poets against the war
on the Monterey Peninsula
§
250 attend
marathon reading
in Traverse City, Michigan
§
In
20 years of poetry
at the Laughing Goat
§
22 poems
by 17 men
with one thing in common:
Guantanamo
§
Israeli verse
written in
European languages
§
A profile of
Nasreen Syed,
a Canadian poet
writing in
Urdu & Punjabi
§
African Asian Scottish
performance poet
§
Short profile of
Pham-Tien Duat
§
Slammin’
down under
§
From
Is English a foreign language?
§
A little YouTube vispo
from Nico Vassilakis
§
Poet Populist
isn’t an academic
§
Bringing Gulzar
to Bollywood
§
Bringing Western writing
into Arabic
at last
§
Performer murdered
during play
in
§
A profile of
David Solway
§
W.S. Merwin
at 80
§
Seamus Heaney
on the poetry
of
§
year of Quietude
(plus Galway Kinnell)
in review
§
Andrew Motion’s
Christmas recommendations
find Ted Hughes’s world
”as compelling as Yeats's,
but more instantly sympathetic
and approachable”
§
§
Robert Pinsky
offers
Merwin’s Neruda
§
Norman Mailer’s work
in the
New York Review of Books
§
Software
to guide you
through your
paint-by-the-numbers
novel
§
Jenny Holzer
gets literary
and
political
at Mass MoCA
§
Barry Schwabsky
on
Kara Walker
§
§
In a land where
the few hundred
publishing poets
of the 1950s
have begat
over 10,000 today,
the rise of arts culture
is inescapable
§
Peter Gay’s
pop modernism
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