Introducing Erica Hunt
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Untitled New York:
Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
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A large anthology of new Russian poetry
in the latest number of Jacket
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Grading Obama’s address as writing
A profile of John Favreau
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Intervalles 4/5
is an ezine of more than 1,000 pages
with everyone from
Tao Lin to Walter Benn Michaels
including videos & MP3s
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Talking with Rae Armantrout
in Spanish
Translating Armantrout into Portuguese
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Grigore Vireau has died
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Aussie author sentenced to 3 years
for insulting King of Thailand
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In praise of Frontier Press
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Ben Friedlander’s syllabus
for a course on
Robert Creeley
Recordings of Creeley’s Selected Poems
by poem
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Challenging Joe Safdie
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Economy dislodges
the hodge-podge at Dodge
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“Part of the cultural furniture”
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Barbara Jane Reyes
on ethnicity, poetry & politics
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Yusef Komunyakaa
on the politics of race
Mary Karr on Komunyakaa’s
”Ode to a Drum”
Komunyakaa’s Warhorses
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Are post-avants just smarter?
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A glimpse of the SoQ / avant feud
in the 1940s
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The “drug-addled poet Charles Olson”??
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Illegible? It must be modern
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Reviving philology
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Talkin’ Globish
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Reactions to Elizabeth Alexander’s
inaugural poem
Is Alexander a quietist?
Robert Frost on the podium, 1961
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Marilyn Nelson offers an inaugural poem
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An inaugural poem from Steven Fama
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& from Helen Losse
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More poems for the president
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And Pete Seeger sang the words of Woody Guthrie
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Even more poems for the new president
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The push for an arts czar
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Obama & the arts
(big collection of articles in the
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An arts president
or just high-brow kitsch?
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A poem (or not)
from George W. Bush
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“Blind translations”
(a.k.a homophonic)
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The New Authoritarianism (circa 1952)
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A profile of Ciaran Carson
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Zoot suits, low riders & Mina Loy
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Poems from the Amarushataka
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William Wordsworth gingerbread suicide
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Silliman goes too far!
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Remembering William Stafford
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Linh Dinh’s not-safe-for-work
poetry & video blog
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Post-racial Toni Morrison?
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Remembering Emma Bee Bernstein
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An appreciation of Rabbi Alan Lew
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Chris Hagen:
my favorite employee at Powell’s
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The pen is mightier than the laptop
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The place of innovative coinage in the grammar
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Thinking of Lorine Niedecker
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Reading FaceBook status updates
& assigning them to famous writers
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The 2nd NY Times review of
Lark and Termite
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In Meridian, Mississippi,
a newspaper apologizes
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Newspaper editors & publishers
are caught in the whirlwind
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The Printing Historical Society
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Mike Hickey elected
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T. Coraghessan Boyle:
”Faithless”
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Oxford hunts for new professor of poetry
(”second most important post”
pays £6,901)
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Jen Hadfield wins the T.S. Eliot Prize
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Talking with David Biespiel
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
comes to the screen
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Vispo from Andrew Topel
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Ray Yoshida has passed away
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Judith Hoffberg has died
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New York Times obit
An L.A. Times obit
Wyeth & the canon
Promoting Helga
Leonard E.B. Andrews,
Wyeth’s key collector,
died just ten days earlier
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Edward Steichen
at the
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Peter Weibel, Rewriter
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The fate of Robert Venturi’s
Lieb House
is uncertain
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Franklin Bruno on George Lewis’
history of AACM
(sub required)
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In Watermelon Sugar,
the dance
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Taken Out of Context:
American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics
(PDF)
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From 2000 to 2006,
1,006 male veterans in
took their lives
