Photo by Steve McNamara, courtesy of Jacket
Ange Mlinko
on
poetry & community
“Numbers trouble” –
A.E. Stallings
on
women & publishing
Emily Warn
on
essentialism & gender
(Essays all in response
to Spahr & Young (PDF)
in the new
Chicago Review
on the subject of gender,
diversity, anthologies,
Jennifer Ashton (PDF)
& [sigh]
Silliman’s Blog)
”Poetry Magazines & Women Poets”
by the editors of
The Chicago Review
(PDF)
Further commentary by
Stephanie Young & Juliana Spahr
&
Dale Smith
&
K. Lorraine Graham
&
Simon DeDeo
§
Mlinko’s blog archives
for the
Poetry Foundation
§
A review of
Lydia Davis’
Varieties of Disturbances
§
At a slam
in Kuala Lumpur
six of the seven contestants
are women
§
Ruth Stone
isn’t slowing down
§
A portrait of
Nikki Giovanni
§
§
Jackson Mac Low
in conversation
§
“Is the avant-garde
necessary?”
§
Christian Bök’s blogs
for the
Poetry Foundation
§
Bob Hass,
political poet
§
Campus librarians
fight surveillance
§
Bonnefoy
receives Czech prize
§
Talking with
Franz Wright
§
One Kansas Poet Laureate
looks at a predecessor
§
This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore article
comes from
Santa Barbara
§
But the Irish
book market
is doing okay
§
The bard
behind bars
§
Robert Pinsky
on
Reed Whittemore
§
“But is it poetry?
I can answer positively
in the negative.”
§
The
youth slam
§
What parts of the bookstore
to kill next
§
Visit to a rare book shop
§
Remembering
Jaun Elia
& the witch of
§
The Marine poet
of YouTube
§
Ted Hughes,
”eco-warrior”
§
A review of
Galway Kinnell
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Subtleties
of global English
§
Simon Armitage,
war poet
by proxy
§
The T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist
is pure
School of Snoozy-tude
§
Another review
of
Edmund Wilson
§
Bad books
about Homer
§
Kahlil Gibran,
from bad to verse
§
Galway Kinnell,
raconteur
§
Erica Jong
on
Fernando Botero
§
Auctioning art
in a bad economy
§
Michael Roth
on
John Brenkman
on
democracy post-9/11
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Is there anyone
who can report
on the reading
of Robert Grenier
& Aram Saroyan
at Beyond Baroque
November 2nd?