A clash o’er millions at Poetry
Venture capital for verse
The NY Times
does an obit of its own
on Ruth Lilly
Who reads Poetry?
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Steven Fama’s
best of everything lists
for 2009
(winner: best “bests” list)
Best book jackets of 2009
Dennis Cooper’s favorites for ‘09
Pierre Joris’ “Boxing Day Favorites”
Why “best of” lists
always fail
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I saw the best minds of my generation
portrayed by James Franco, Jeff Daniels, Treat Williams
& Mary-Louise Parker
Or cast as a vinyl figurine
Jack Kerouac bobble head doll
Don’t forget Bill Burroughs
More Kerouac tchotchkes for the completist
Dennis McNally on the One Fast Move package
[scroll down]
(reg. req.)
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Authors protest Liu’s jailing
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Read globally
is the not-so-secret message
of Ray Bianchi’s first rant of the decade
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Unamuno:
Tragic Sense of Life
(reg. req.)
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Dubai Shaikh attends poetry contest
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Chalk one up for the lottery in the UK
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The poetry boom in Argentina
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Finding poetry in Chicago
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What if community is the problem,
not the solution?
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Talking with Eileen Myles
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Don Belton has been stabbed to death
Justice for Don Belton
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Jaromir Horec has died
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James Kavanaugh is dead
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Carl Phillips:
gay poets “need not apply”
for Missour laureate
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Hearing Coolidge’s Crystal Text
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The day e-book sales surpassed print at Amazon
Playlists will revolutionize publishing
Can e-books save publishing?
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ditch
is one of the most ambitious books
yet published in the Issuu format
(200 pp. of innovative Canadian poetry)
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The 2009 MLA offsite reading
(unedited zip of 2 audio files: 400MB)
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Remembering Rachel Wetzsteon
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Brutus’ poems will survive death
A NY Times “catch-up” obit
on Dennis Brutus
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Talking with Annie Finch
Annie Finch
on the goddess-centered Avatar
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Talking with Alan Halsey
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Ed Baker’s
Stone Girl Epic, vol. 2
vispo ebook
Stone Girl Epic, vol. 5
(being a 283-page poem)
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Bob Brown’s Words
Al Filreis on Bob Brown
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Robert Kelly’s
personal history of Brooklyn
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
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Talking with Sophie Robinson
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Charles Olson
gets a conference
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Pittsburgh’s poetry scene
has suffered 10 years of loss
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Tede Matthews Initiative
special events
at Modern Times in SF
Who was Tede & why he matters still
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Habermas
& the Unfinished Project of Modernity
(reg. req.)
Post-China modernity
won’t include the West
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Dawn Lundy Martin’s
A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering
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Jennifer Karmin:
How to write about Africa
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Linton Kwesi Johnson in Jamaica
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Han Shan’s Cold Mountain
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Poetry in the US Senate?
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The pun in the title of
Alfred “Kip” Yuson’s latest book
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Prospects of the rare book trade
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Friday, Jan. 8 @ 7:30 PM
Donna Stonecipher & Zachary Shomburg
at Open Books in Seattle
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The technology of letters
& end of a year
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Australia’s Bush Laureate awards
are down to the finalists
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Grass’ Stasi file is coming to print
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Talking with Ben Friedlander
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How e-books
change reading & writing
What reading does to the mind
UK literacy campaign is dumbing it down
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TSA bans reading
during international flights
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Talking with Anselm Berrigan
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Rachel Hadas in The New Yorker
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Invisible flaws too apparent
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Walter Bargen
has survived his 2-year term
as Missouri’s laureate
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Willis Barnstone’s New Testament
David Rosenberg’s Bible
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A live chat with Lydia Davis
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Herta Müller’s “discontinued people”
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Mahmoud Darwish’s If I Were Another
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Learning to accept rejection slips
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Paul Fry’s course on literary theory
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Using the typewriter
in the 21st century
The MLA & digital humanities
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A free whoopie cushion with every book
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Talking with Emily Warn
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Connecticut is out looking
for a new poet laureate
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Bob Stanley
is Sacramento’s laureate
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Recent changes in testosterone poisoning
in the American novel
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Robert Frost, taking attendance
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The path of poetry in Lancaster, PA
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Jenny Joseph’s Nothing Like Love
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Samuel Menashe,
concise poet
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Stanley Moss vs. God
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CA Conrad’s
Advanced Elvis Course
is the “most interesting” book
Tim Brown
read in ‘09
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Everything Geof Huth did in 2009
The 176 books of poetry,
8 anthologies, 8 journals
& 16 other poetry-related books
Eileen Tabios read in 2009
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150 books read in 2009
by Elizabeth J Colen
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AbeBook’s 2009 year in review
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Tony Trehy on freedom vs. constraint
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Boog Reader 4
is now online
(with 48 NYC poets,
& 24 DC poets)
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Japan’s best selling book in 2009:
1Q84
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The new Fact-Simile
has a big interview & feature with
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
plus other good stuff
(including Dale Smith on Rodrigo Toscano)
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Campbell McGrath in The New Yorker
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Talking with Michael Robbins
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Random sentence generator
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Tolstoy in Chechnya
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Blogging & the arts in Malawi
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Augusta Webster & the monolog
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Brent Goodman’s
The Brother Swimming Beneath Me
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On the “necessity” of bad reviews
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Editor & Publisher
suspends operations,
still hoping for zombiehood
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Rasskazy:
New Fiction from a New Russia
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Talking with Mitchell Parry
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Ten words you need to stop misspelling
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The lasting influence of
Eleanor Ross Taylor
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The Carrier’s Address
as a genre of poetry
Brown’s archive of same
Time to revive Christmas chaps?
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Luis Cernuda’s
Desolation of the Chimera
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Eric McHenry on
Phil Levine, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Bang & Patty Seyburn
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Women & jealousy in the poetry of Faiz
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Scarriet’s “brief history of poetry”
ignores 95%
of the New American poetry,
all of the Objectivists
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Philip K. Dick:
“How to Build a Universe
That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”
(reg. req.)
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Reb Livingston’s
Dream Poet Anthology
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Zadie Smith on how to read fiction
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Talking with Gregory Betts
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Writers put Edmonton on map
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Daniel Nester:
Not inappropriate, just annoying
(scroll down)
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Freud for thought
(hint: that’s how they pronounce
Freud St. in Detroit)
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John Casteen’s Free Union
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Alain Badiou:
Handbook of Inaesthetics
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Is GirlDrive secretly
(or not so secretly)
ageist?
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12 things that became obsolete
in the last decade
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Reasons to fuck poetry
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Talking with David Biespiel
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mIEKAL aND’s
“alphabets hold sekret”
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Minnesota literary news
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Rehabbing Chaucer
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Talking with Wendy Cope
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Talking with Edmund White
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A Queen’s Medal for Don Paterson
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The right wing hijacks a genre
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The next literary superstar:
Abraham Verghese
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Bruce Sterling:
State of the World 2010
Linh Dinh’s
State of the Union
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Save Lascaux!
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Arthur Danto:
“Concerning Mental Pictures”
(reg. req.)
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Alan Moore’s history
of 25,000 years
of erotic art
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14 years of mail art
& other collabs
between Reid Wood & Karl Young
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A Levine database
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Jacques Derrida:
The Truth in Painting
(reg. req.)
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Coming in February:
the medium is tedium
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John Berger
on reading images
(reg. req.)
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Last week for Wallace Berman
@ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in NYC
“Trippy West Coast Surrealism”
Is This Any Kind of Mother for an Orphan Foal?
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Quietism in painting
finds its perfect expression
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Schjeldahl on Orozco
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Daniel Buren:
“The Function of the Studio”
(reg. req.)
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Rome’s new Maxxi Museum
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Architecture’s empty stare:
the Dubai Burj
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Walter Behrendt:
“The Victory of the New Building Style”
(reg. req.)
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Lynn Behrendt sound files
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Alvin Curran remembers Maryanne Amacher
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Frank Wilson on Teachout’s Armstrong
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From Byron to My Chemical Romance
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John Lennon in Ann Arbor
for John Sinclair
John & Yoko’s “Mission Accomplished”
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30 years of Shylock
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Tom Clark on The White Ribbon
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Why right-handers sit
to the right of
the movie screen
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Deleuze, Cinema & National Identity
(reg. req.)
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David Harvey:
reading Capital now
(with links to a 13-video course
on same)
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Resolved:
to be more radical
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Readability -
“the single best tech idea of 2009”
says David Pogue
