Counter-Revolution of the Word:
the rightwing attack on the avant-garde
Al Filreis on teaching & touching
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Aggression:
A Conference on Poetics & Political Antagonism
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Contemporary movements in Russian poetry
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On Briggflatts
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Bill
Corbett reviews seven new books
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Philly’s 24th annual
Black Writing Festival
& here
Omar Pérez,
literally is the son of Che
Talking with Pérez
Poems, more poems, a co-translation
A Pérez bibliography (with links)
Talking with Cuban poet José Kozer
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Leslie Scalapino reading at the
Talking on poetics
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The defining issue of digital publishing - search
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T.S. Eliot tops Google’s hot list
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Kindle the death of print? Puh-leeze….
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“Who said print is dead?”
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Catalogs are toast
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A Daemon of self-publishing
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The new EPC page
for Tony Towle
has lots of samples of his work
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Haunted by Jerry Estrin
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Kent Johnson in
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A note on Paul Blackburn
Robert Kelly on
the sound of poetry
Robert Sward & Jerry Rothenberg:
an exchange on
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is open until
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“If I’d taken college English seriously
I’d’ve become an accountant”
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She used to hate Emily Dickinson
& still doesn’t get it
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Auggie Kleinzahler on Scroggins’ Zukofsky
(subscription required)
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The Winterling Chapbook Project
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Is Carol Ann Duffy
the first woman
vapid enough
to be
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The avant-garde in Taipei
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Talking with Leslie Dick & Jonathan Lethem
about Philip K. Dick (PDF)
Lethem’s “You Don’t Know Dick”
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Bill Sherman on the history of poetry
(some but not all relating to Philly &/or the Post Office)
tho he seems not to know about this
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Talking with Émile Beneviste
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The immortal poet of Turkmenistan
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Kurt Cobain, lyricist
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Two books by Moniza Alvi
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The dictionary without definitions
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Where it’s McGonagall ahead of Dickens
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On editing PRECIPICe
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How to rescue criticism
And how not to.
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The motor theory of language
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Geof Huth on Bob Creeley, Hayden Carruth,
lapsed nephalism & more
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Problems of haiku in German
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In praise of the AlphaSmart
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Talking with Roy Fisher
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Linh Dinh on life in
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Talking with Peter Riley
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Isaac Rosenberg, 90 years after his death
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The last general indie bookstore in the
will close in 4 to 6 weeks
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Bookstores see no recession
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Jonathan Yardley on John Steinbeck’s enduring popularity
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Wombat, wombat, burning bright
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West Hartford’s laureate looks back at her reign
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“It will destroy Naipaul’s reputation forever”
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Nam Le’s The Boat
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The battle of the Chelsea Hotel
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Little droppings of poetic process
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Katha Pollitt on Charles Simic
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Orphan © and/or ripping off artists
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Writing students try to prevent open access to their mss.
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Jasper Johns & the poetry of the NY School
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“The art world is themeless…
heading in no direction”
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Who is Larry Gagosian anyway?
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The Guardian obit
Remembering Rauschenberg
Barbara Rose in the Wall Street Journal
David Byrne on Rauschenberg
LA Times appreciation
“an orchestrator for a platoon of assistants”
Jed Perl, debunking Rauschenberg’s work
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A favorite in this year’s Turner shortlist?
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Bourgeois at the Pompidou
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John Perreault on Jeff Koons
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The Barnes is doomed
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The sexual politics of the Bauhaus
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An architectural masterpiece
”complete with Wharton Esherick kitchen”
goes up for sale at Christie’s
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The nakba quilt
commemorates
the death of a nation
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The bachelor’s degree is obsolete
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University museum director dies in custody
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The utility of philosophy
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Terry Eagleton on anonymity
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New music on the Internet Archive
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David Byrne:
Architecture as music
(or is it vice versa?)
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Cronenberg vs. the censors
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Many links today
from the new Jacket,
excellent as always
