Photo by Diane Church
Café Trieste, SF 1975: (L-R) Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Jack Hirschman, Michael McClure, Bob Kaufman
17 reasons why
I love the work of
Michael McClure
My complete reading
& concert with Marilyn Crispell
in Tucson, Saturday night,
including our collaboration
(135 MB)
The awesome POG / Chax
reading archives
also breaks files down
by reader / performer
Rae Armantrout
& the “poetics of WTF”
Thursday in Chicago:
Rae Armantrout vs. Gertrude Stein
events at the same time
Jessica Smith on women in poetry
Craig Santos Perez on Smith’s complaint:
“Why don’t more women do blog-centered writing?”
Laura Eve Engel & Mark Wallace
on gender & poetry
The same question
from a slightly different angle
Peep Show: 10 Women,
starting with Kate Schapira
“The Top 100 Books Every Woman Should Read:
(1) The Classics”
(2) “Noteworthy Novels”
(3) “Nonfiction”
Ruth Padel:
mea culpa
Talking with Terry Castle
PoemTalk:
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, CA Conrad,
Julia Bloch & Al Filreis
close read Jack Spicer’s
“Psychoanalysis: An Elegy”
The Tendencies:
a NY talk series
Talking with Rob Fitterman
Joan Retallack’s disappearing poetics
The Robert Creeley library sale
Talking with Geoffrey Gatza
about the Big Night Menu
Ange Mlinko
on the politics of
language learning
“What if Nancy were an acid freak?”
Strangeness @ Yale
The Toronto New School of Writing
Anthony Madrid reads Planisphere:
(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
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Billy Collins on
a “Lewis Carroll” for our time
2 poems by Richard Brautigan
& 2 others for him
Christopher Reid wins the Costa
How poetry conquered the Costa
The UC Santa Cruz
Poet-Critics Conference
Don’t be a publishing stereotype
Put this in your Kindle
Apple attempts
to do to publishing
what it did to music
The iPad is a tweener
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The Nook weighs more
than B&N admits
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Judy Prince
talks with Judy Prince
The Judy Prince feature
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Amazon vs. Macmillan
on e-book pricing
John Sargent’s letter to Macmillan authors
Macmillan causes Amazon to blink
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Book sales do not soar at Borders
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T.C. Boyle’s Wild Child
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Chinua Achebe, “Postcolonial Everyman”
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Robert P. Baird
on ethics & poetry
Responding to a “terrible confusion”
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Remembering James Kirkup
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Coleridge in love
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The Journal of Serendipitous
& Unexpected Results
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Anna Journey’s
If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting
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The Stock of Available Reality:
R.P. Blackmur & John Berryman
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Margaret Drabble on William Wordsworth
“Nutting”
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A 2002 interview with
Roberto Bolaño
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Mary Jo Bang’s Bride of E
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On Rachel Zolf & “grievability”
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Not the deepest interview
Robert Pinsky’s ever faced
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Edwidge Danticat
on the death of her cousin
in Haiti
The New Yorker
goes to Haiti, sort of
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Kaplan Harris on
the 2009 MLA Offsite reading
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This year’s poster for
National Poultry Month
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The Dodge Festival
has risen from the dead
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Philip K. Dick, the last decade
(1) (2) (3)
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Magazine fiction’s heyday
ain’t coming back
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Penguin remembers Robert Parker
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What is wilderness & what is it doing
in poetry?
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The widow Burns writes
Robert Burns to his “Love-Begotten Daughter”
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Steve Langan’s
Meet me at the Happy Bar
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Avrom Sutzkever, Boris Karloff & Yonia Fain
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Juan Sánchez Peláez:
“Excerpts from Creature of Habit”
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Christopher Isherwood’s
A Single Man
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WCW & “beauty”
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Are zombies
bringing Jane Austen
back to her roots?
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Talking with Matt Briggs
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An Omnidawn feature on Tobey Kaplan
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Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy:
from Canto
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Douglas Messerli on Raymond Federman
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Zachary Schomburg’s
Scary No Scary
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Three Variants of the Same Text
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Talking with Meredith Quartermain
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Alexei Khvostenko’s “The Suspector”
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Talking with Joanna Fuhrman
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Dick Tillinghast,
citizen of the world
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Remembering Bingo Gazingo
(nee Murray Wachs)
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Walter Mosley’s Tempest
goes onstage
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The Irish Times Poetry shortlist
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New poems by Bei Dao
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Talking with Andrei Codrescu
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The case for a “new Formalism”
(part 1) (part 2)
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A writer’s retreat in Tamil Nadu
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Gwynn O’Gara,
Sonoma County Poet Laureate
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SF laureate Diane di Prima
to give inaugural address
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In North Carolina,
Cathy Smith Bowers
is the new laureate
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The poetry of Ayatollah Khomeini
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Mark Doty’s “Pescadero”
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David Lehman:
“Wittgenstein’s Ladder”
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Lunch hour lit
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“Digress as you progress”
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Robin Blaser’s “almost perfect poem”
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Not much poetry in Powell’s
Staff Top 5’s for 2009
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Keeping Emerson around
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Joshua Cohen
on the future of phone books
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Denis Lehane
as a comic book
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Apocalypse then & now
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Some great recent vispo at
The New Post-literate
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The first “great book”
The Iliad & WWI
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A celebration of David Foster Wallace
(reg. req.)
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3 bookstores near closing
2 other indies are also closing
in Indianapolis
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New Haven indie bookshop
forces Hispanic employees
to speak English
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Getrude Stein
& the materiality of the signifier
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Karl Kirchwey on Louise Glück
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Introducing William Blake
Tate to show the hidden Blakes
Where to look for other Blakes
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2 poems by Yuli Gugolev
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Publish the poem, not the poet
is the quickest path to irrelevance
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Santōka Taneda’s haiku
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“an in-depth life-long seminar
in the essence of haiku”
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Walden by Haiku
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A trio of reviews in The Nation
including Mark Weiss’
The Whole Island:
Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
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On “Ozymandias”
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31 translations of a single poem
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Anne Sexton & the Brothers Grimm
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Just what Dante had in mind
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Menifee bureaucrats gag on “oral sex”
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And then there is lewd dancing
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Famous literary drunks & addicts
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Kingsley Amis’ boy
accuses Coetzee of having
“no talent”
He’s not fond of people
his own age either
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A BBC doc on Omar Khayyam,
broken into YouTube clips:
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
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The All-Star Poetry Olympics Superjam
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Talking with A.R. Ammons
(great interview!)
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Dubravka Djuric
on a caravan of 50 feminist women
through the former Yugoslavia
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Class, clique & GirlDrive
Jennifer Bartlett on GirlDrive
Emma Bee Bernstein
@ the DOVA Temporary
in Chicago
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Nick Thran on D-Sisive
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The Chinese Notebook,
by Demosthenes Agrafiotis & Michail Palaiologou
& a much earlier version by yours truly
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Eileen Myles on Gram Parsons
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An early defense of
Bob Dylan as a poet
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Top 10 rock-n-roll novels
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Fred Hersch’s “Post-Marsalis” piano
(in this sense, Eubie Blake
counts as post-Marsalis)
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“Mutt and Jeff”
of the Downtown Scene
From Just Kids
Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe:
“one of the best books ever written
on becoming an artist”
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Tuli Kupferberg, Steven Taylor, Matthew Arnold
Homage to Lee Crabtree
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5 tips on social media
for indie musicians
that poets could benefit from also
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NEA is looking
for an “Art Works” logo
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The prints of John Baldessari
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The Book Remembers Everything:
the work of Erica Van Horn
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Rothko coming to Broadway
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Anne Froelich Taylor
& why you didn’t know her
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Poetry in the movies
makes you cringe
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Brilliant 6-word Oscar reviews. Squirrel!
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RIP, Pasadena Playhouse
Jeanne Gang
& women in architecture
Historians remember Howard Zinn
So do activists
NY Times obit
Is walking obsolete?
There are lots of
great ideas
competing for 10 $50K
Pepsi Refresh Grants,
but renewing soil in
Pittsburgh & New Orleans
through sunflowers
is one of the very best:
vote each day in February
Allen Ginsberg:
“Sunflower Sutra”
