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Jack Spicer’s “Golem”
Spicer celebration at SF Main Library
Saturday, Jan. 10
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Richard Seaver has passed away
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So has Carol Adair, Kay Ryan’s partner
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Partial MLA offsite reading
(85MB, Gordon thru Rothenberg,
available only to Saturday)
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Jessa Crispin talking with Clayton Eshleman
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A profile of the most popular
poetry contest in the world
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Anti-war poetry then & now
Among Gaza’s atrocities
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Doug Messerli
on
Emma Bee Bernstein
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Francisco Goldman on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
Natasha Wimmer on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
Listening to Goldman & Wimmer
on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
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Nazim Hikmet gets his citizenship back
(too bad he’s been dead for 45 years)
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When Langpo & flarf are not enough
Is “embarrassment” more important than
”offensiveness” to flarf?
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Talking with Arielle Greenberg
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Bashō finds an abandoned infant
& leaves it to die
Response to the video
Bashō: The Complete Haiku
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Always on: libraries in a world
of permanent connectivity
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Where Tom Hanks gets his
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Remembering Glenn Goldman
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How to kill a bookstore:
raise the rent to $1 million
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After 85 years,
Stacey’s to close in SF
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The indie bookstores of
Montpelier, Vermont
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Making used books pay
A renaissance for used books?
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2008: the poetry year in review
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Roberta Beary: one-minute poetry reading
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Still answering H.L. Hix’ “20 Questions”
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Pervasive communication environments
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Every book ever published
will end up online
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Is captcha poetry hipper than flarf?
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Remembering Dave Church
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Mark Doty, making it real
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Remembering Jason Shinder
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Linh Dinh’s Seven Contemporary Italian Poets:
Marco Giovenale
Gherardo Bortolotti
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Shakespeare’s church is becoming unsafe
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Writing & fame –
the case of Mishima
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Frank Wilson’s likes & dislikes for 2008
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rob mclennan on Asher Ghaffar
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Why spell-check sucks
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Publishing: the new austerity
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The “G” in FSG
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Magazine ads are drying up
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Readings at rush hour
at the train station!
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Talking with Mark Irwin
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Work needed for Poet’s Pause
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The oldsters turn out for
Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3
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Donald Westlake has died
Terry Gross talks to Westlake
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Celebrating W.D. Snodgrass
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Talking with Mark Gwynne Jones
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A poem-a-day for a decade
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Talking with Peter Bennet
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David Lunde’s Breaking the
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Worst poetry book covers, 2008
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Stanley Fish goes to the movies
(he gets Vertigo right)
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The fiction lineup for ought nine
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Hating all the new Canadian anthologies
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The state of the humanities
Humanities Indicators Prototype (HIP)
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In this recession, who will support the arts
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What happens to the arts
when critics disappear
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David Denby gets all snarky
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Philosophy at (in) the movies
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Making MOCA work
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Foulds wins a Costa
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Matisse’s model speaks
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Terry Teachout’s top 25
classical recordings of all time
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Grateful Dead analysis:
the relationship between
concert & listening behavior
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Betty Freeman & the music she commissioned
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What we can learn from Guitar Hero
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Magic may be over for
the Magic Theater
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Another at risk
in Beverly, Mass
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What will change
E V E R Y T H I N G ?
