Monday, March 03, 2008

A festschrift for Phil Whalen’s Collected Poems

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Barrett Watten on Lytle Shaw’s Frank O’Hara

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Talking with Ken Edwards

Edwards’ No Public Language:
Selected Poems 1975 – 1995

Edwards’ “UK Small Press Publishing Since 1960

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A history of the Bolinas scene, 1967-1980

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Reginald Shepherd thinking (at length)
about categories & implications

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70 million tune in
to Million’s Poet finale

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The man who begat
William Burroughs & Kathy Acker?

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Several responses to Kitasono Katue’s
Oceans Beyond Monotonous Space

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The St. Marks’ Poetry Project
has begun archiving
its Newsletter online

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A profile of Terry Ehret

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Eléna Rivera’s In Respect of Distance

In Respect of Distance (PDF)

Rivera reading the text (MP3)

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The poems of John Newlove, Robin Skelton
& Fraser Sutherland

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A profile of Staceyann Chin

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Poets & fish

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Pinsky quits Poet’s Choice

Mary Karr takes over

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The strangest list ever on which to find Robert Frost

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An Anthology of Bay Area Women Writers
(Part I)

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Pound’s birthplace

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A “poetry partner” for Philip Glass

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A profile of Shihan

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Bringing the bookstore into the curriculum

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Today’s death-of-a-bookstore article
comes from Vineland, NY

The end is near in Putney, VT

& more about Dutton’s in Brentwood

& then there’s Las Vegas

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Abandoning print, keeping peer review

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No tears for the Quill Awards

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The center of the universe

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Mahmoud Darwish’s Now, As You Awaken

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Robert Crawford’s Full Volume

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War and Peace by e-mail

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Responding to d.a. levy

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On discovering Patrick Kavanagh

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The Freudian poetics of
Promad Kumar Mohanty

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Republican appoints Robert Bly
Minnesota Poet Laureate

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Looking for more political poetry
on op-ed pages

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Ask Nabokov

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Robert Lowell at 91

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Against professionalism in the arts

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Why creative writing classes suck

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What are the best short poems?

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Crime writers worth reading

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A theory of bookshelves

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The importance of not writing

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What should boys read?

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Reading:what’s that?

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Horton hears an online profit?

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Hey, why aren’t we following the screenwriters?

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The bard of West Hollywood

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Talking with Campbell McGrath

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Poet campaigns for patron

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Hippos on Holiday

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What is a number?

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Jane Dalrymple-Hollo’s
game without rules

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A farewell to feminism?

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Krens quits the Guggie

Krensoverstayed his welcome

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Art consultants & their clients

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Touring Chelsea

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The eclipse of Bach

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Amusia

Oliver Sacks on amusia

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Scrabble with Stephen Malkmus

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TEDblog

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Daniel Libeskind’s patrons

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The New College death spiral
moves toward an end

The WASC Commission Report (PDF)

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Some exaggeration may have occurred

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Metaphor Fest

Plus a masters in metaphor

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Buddy Miles c’est mort

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Many links today
from the new
& truly terrific
Big Bridge