Filipina poets at the Library of Congress
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In DC on Monday night,
Rae Armantrout with Frank Bidart
at the Folger Library
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Poets’ panels produce pithy pronouncements
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Talking with Camille Roy
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William Burroughs & Jack Kerouac:
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
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How Jack Kerouac saved
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Alexei Parshchikov’s “Oil”
(with a complex translation history)
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Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
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Ange Mlinko on Susan Stewart
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The death of flarf
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Tuesday @ Belladonna in NYC,
Tracy Grinnell hosts “elder” Leslie Scalapino
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A group of Cave Canem alums
are writing a poem-a-day for a month
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The LA Times on Lowell & Bishop
Helen Vendler (MP3)
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Process, Damn the Caesars,
& Delaware Memoranda
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Can libraries be saved?
Where German libraries got their books
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John Olson on aliteracy
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Not books vs. the net,
books and the net
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Writers group protests Jordanian poet’s arrest
The charges: atheism & blasphemy
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An empty chair for the Burmese poet
Censorship in Myanmar
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Talking with Dan Tobin
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Abe Lincoln:
the man who loved poetry
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Poems for President Obama
Ray Bianchi on poetry
in the Age of Obama
J.D. McClatchy reads “Election Day”
on PBS Newshour
Big news = Big type
Some recent language
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Talking with Anne Waldman § Reading Tender Buttons § Nothing but quietude among § § The latest reviews from Cold Front § Talking with Gary Metras § Remembering James Liddy § Using Eliot to defend Jack Gilbert § Talking with David Grubb § § Against overcontrolling language § Rilke the modernist § Donald Hall’s new memoir § Talking with Clare Cavanagh § Talking with Seamus Heaney § Scroll down to see the latest from § Talking with Kevin Prufer § § Ha Jin’s The Writer as Migrant § Blogging “is the new Romanticism” § The novelist least likely to blog § Critic John Leonard has died § Carlin Romano on Toni Morrison § There’s no such thing as a free book § Remembering Studs Terkel remembering Howard Zinn on Studs § A threat to Maqbool Fida Husain § “The Great American Songbook: § The whole issue of § Screwing up Scrabble § The films of Robert Frank § Here today, Guam tomorrow § From The New Yorker
Publisher’s Weekly
“five best” poetry books of the year
Ceptuetics Radio
A Poem in Four Essays”
Turntable & Blue Light
is pretty damn impressive
