Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Five hours with “the famous Ed Baker

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Burmese blogger
sentenced to 20 years of prison
for a poem

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DuPlessis’ Creeley

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Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me

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Women & mentorship:
Jena Osman & Sarah Dowling

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Bucky Fuller, poet

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Mullen, Gander, Harjo
join Henry Threadgill,
Muhal Richard Abrams,
Kara Walker & 44 more
as USA Fellows

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Katy Lederer’s reading tour
of the Bay Area

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The poems & poets of Ghana

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Forty Acres” & a few clichés:
A Derek Walcott poem for Barack Obama

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Talking with Barry Gifford

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A quarrel with Ford’s O’Hara

The Frank O’Hara video page

Thursday night in Philly,
under a full moon,
a Frank O’Hara celebration

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The New Adventures of Walt Whitman

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The FBI vs. Norman Mailer

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One reader’s report of
The Academy of American Poets’
Poets’ Forum

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A profile of Auden

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John Latta on Kent Johnson

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Talking with Elise Paschen

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Craft vs. chance
(Ray Bianchi is being seriously irascible)

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The uses of Frost
in Tobias Wolff

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Geoffrey Gatza’s Not So Fast Robespierre

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A lot of student blogs track classroom reading –
CoPoBlog is one of the best

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“The community of the English language”

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On the origin & entanglements
of names

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The most irritating phrases

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Apex Art, the franchise

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The painting of Lari Pittman

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Leave It to Beaver & the Louvre
(not a combination you were expecting)

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David Larsen poetry videos

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Who’s afraid of…?

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The Troublesome Reign & Lamentable Death
of Edward II

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Unlikely hybrid, Dr. Atomic

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Miriam Mkeba has passed away

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Sensuous Biped

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Psychology, torture, rhetoric