Photo by Leslie Poirier
In The Nation,
Joshua Clover
on Rod Smith
§
Doris Lessing’s
Nobel Prize acceptance speech
§
Barbara Henning
on
Brenda Coultas
§
Film’s relationship
to literature
Barrett Watten
on
I’m Not There
§
A haven for writers
in the Ivy League
Some local reaction
§
Susan Bee & Jerry Rothenberg:
The Burning Babe (PDF)
§
On the Road
on the bus
§
Relational poetics
Plus a replica
of Ketjak
§
I’m out, but Philly is in
& Reginald Shepherd’s blog
is both in & out
in Major Jackson’s
Poetry blog
(my favorite –
Gertrude Stein is out
Gertrude Schnackenberg is in
– pretty much says it all)
§
Individual
National Book Critics Circle
recommendations:
§
Nine months suspended sentence
for “terror poetry” in the
§
Turkish publisher on trial
for “insulting
§
Ghulam Farid
& the idea that poetry
”teaches spiritual democracy”
§
What winning the Nobel has meant
for Orhan Pamuk
§
Worth attending in NYC
December 11,
The Medead
by Fiona Templeton
§
Worth noting in NYC
December 19,
Shab-e She’r Poetry Night
at the Bowery Poetry Club
§
Tony Tost’s
Complex Sleep
§
Charles Simic
on his own poetry
§
In The New York Times,
David Orr
on Michael O’Brien
§
A striking
Battlestar Gallactica
writer
starts a blog
§
A good place
to meet writers
in
is on the picket line
§
The “godmother
of Canadian slam”
§
Ivan Blatný’s
Drug of Art
§
Paperspine:
Netflix for books?
§
The limits of Kindle
Cynthia Ozick &
Sam Lipsyte
consider Amazon’s ebook
§
§
The
in Spanish-language books
§
Life, death, art
on the border
§
The Butterfly’s Burden
by Mahmoud Darwish
§
Bukowski
in
§
Reading
Forugh Farrokhzad
§
Alan Brownjohn
reviews 4 books
in 5 paragraphs
§
Theodore Roethke
as a poet for children
§
Postmodern Bourgeois
Poetaster Blues
§
Is policy killing poetry
in the U.K.?
§
Publishers
to kiss up
to critics
§
Terry Teachout,
deeply confused
by the
two modernisms
§
Of two marriages:
Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore,
Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
§
Knowing
what not to read
And what to read twice
§
Shakespeare on the brain
§
Beyond celebrity poetry
with Ethan Coen
§
Considering
Daniil Kharms
§
Vu Cao
& Pham Tien Duat
have died
§
The Brits & science fiction
§
“Like being in the presence
of a couple of great
surrealists….”
§
Not liking Denis Johnson
§
Wendy Cope
wants to be
the RIAA
of bad poets
§
§
Talking with Kirsten Dierking
§
An echo
of Olson’s plaint
in Northumbria
§
This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore piece
comes from
Washington, DC
§
Bookstore readings
flourish in Marin
§
Unable to prevent
the implosion
of a
Cody’s Andy Ross
finally quits
§
§
A life of poetry
in
§
Trethewey to receive
honorary doctorate
§
§
If reading
were the same
as writing
§
§
In praise of bathos
Larkin’s “The Explosion”
§
§
§
Paul Brach has died
§
The “real” Richard Prince
§
Art skateboards
at Printed Matter
§
art market
§
Paul McCarthy’s
latest sculpture
§
Art
Fashion as high art
Design
§
§
Godard stole to make films
§
New work from
Margie Jenkins
§
Talking with
Radiohead
§
A profile of Peter Gay
§
Where blogging really counts
