The gun runner?
Allegedly Rimbaud in Aden
(a machine translation into English)
Pierre Joris says this is a hoax
Jimmy Schuyler’s Other Flowers
On the poems of J.H. Prynne
Rae Armantrout, “as strong as a sonnet”
Watching Armantrout scumble
Vanessa Place on the “masculinist lyric”
Vanessa Place’s La Medusa
Place: Why conceptualism
is better than flarf
(hint: no. 15 is wrong)
Sina Queyras on the fear of difficulty
Is Hissa Hilal’s poetry any good?
Maghreb viewers react to Hilal
“Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, Baghdad reads”
Jordan Davis on Mahmoud Darwish
Al-Mutanabbi Street on the radio
Barbara Jane Reyes on Indivisible:
An Anthology of Contemporary
South Asian
American Poetry
Arundhati Roy investigated
over “ties” to Maoist rebels
Infinite Difference:
Other Poetries by UK Women Poets
Remembering Reginald Shepherd
PennSound recordings from A.L. Nielsen’s archives
Poetry in honor of Senghor & Cesaire
A poetry festival in Lagos
Rita Dove, reading
Talking with Marcella Durand
Remembering Lucille Clifton
Roberto Bolaño:
“Prefiguration of Lalo Cura”
Robert Duncan’s HD Book,
“the first volume of the collected writings,”
is coming this fall!
The 2nd part of Rachel Berchten’s
video preview of UC Press books
(good focus on Richard O. Moore here)
Allen Ginsberg’s tugboat ride
It’s been 5 years since Robert Creeley died
“My present purpose is to attack estrangement”
The gardeners of Gloucester
The nominations are in & you can vote
from among 22 candidates
for the 2010 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere
(voting ends April 29 at midnight)
764,448 “non-traditional” works
published in 2009
Tim Griffion on
Charles Bernstein’s All the Whiskey in Heaven
(reg. req.)
Talking with Eliot Weinberger
Ana Božičević:
5 poets who changed my life
Lambda Literary’s 5 Poets archive
Why National Poetry Month
is like
the Gay Male S&M Activists Leather Night
Craig Santos Perez:
“white hybrid aesthetics
is the rejection of being Ransom,
being Goldsmith, or being Silliman”
Josh Corey,
AWP, moment by moment
Laura Moriarty at AWP
An “AWP virgin” speaks up –
“They are all Brand New, baby chicks just hatching”
Henry Gould: “A Dissociated Writing Program”
AWP: the fashionistas!
K. Silem Mohammad’s intro
to the AWP panel on conceptual & flarf poetics
Schizopolis:
Mathew Timmons on the same flarf panel
Flarf, Arf, Arf, Arf
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
Flarf, Flarfier, Flarfiest
(Flarf flick film fest)
Martin Earl on documentary poetry
Talking rare books with Yoko Ono
Emily Dickinson & the crazies
Emily & the maid
Rigoberto González: non-events
Harryette Mullen & the Jackson Poetry Prize
Harryette Mullen: “We are not responsible”
John Updike reading Frank O’Hara
Joseph Massey’s Mock Orange
“The poems haven’t survived.
The marriage overtook the poems” –
Ted & Sylvia talk about their courtship
Conrad DiDiodato on Michael Mirolla
Emily Warn:
Tone is the glue for nerdy poets
Anne Boyer’s The 2000s:
A history of the future in advance of itself
Raymond Federman’s The Carcasses
Mark Wallace is “Against Unity”
(part one) (part two)
Charming Hostess & Ammiel Alcalay
at Small Press Traffic
From Alcalay’s “Local Politics:
The Background as Foreward”
Samuel Menashe at the Big NYPL
Mark Doty on the down low
The rest of the Granta sex issue
Tina Chang reading
POETEEVEE
with Anselm Berrigan, Jim Behrle,
Eileen Myles & CA Conrad
Larry Goodell:
a little history of the poetry scene
in Albuquerque
When The Paris Review was at its best
& its humiliating present
Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Goodbye! Goodbye! / Beached at last…”
Dickens had a dark side
Do we need professional critics?
How develop critics
with no “minor leagues”?
Paul Muldoon:
“I try to be trashy”
Muldoon giving
a possibly more serious
reading & talk
Simon Armitage & Paul Morley
deconstruct The Smiths
Paul Hoover on
the poetry of forgetting
Amy Sackville’s favorite book,
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
David Biespiel on Anne Bradstreet
Camille Dungy: “I grew up in the academy”
Poetry Society at 100
Paul Harding’s Tinkers
How a tiny press published the Pulitzer novel
Tide of affection for Harding’s Tinkers
Stephen Burt on Allison Benis White
First book for EU prez “Haiku Herman”
Shelly Taylor’s Black-Eyed Heifer
This month, adopt a poet
Eleanor Ross Taylor receives the Ruth Lilly Prize
$100,000 to a nonagenarian
Sonneteering
a chapbook anthology
Mary Oliver in Cleveland
Diane Wakoski’s The Diamond Dog
A Poetry Book Giveaway for National Poetry Month
April 21, “Edit: Performing Networked Publishing”
@ Writers House, Philadelphia
April 22 – 25th,
Post-Moot Convocation:
poetry + performance,
Oxford, Ohio
April 23, Stephen Rodefer in Boise
April 24, near Chapel Hill, NC:
Haiku Holiday
Phil Hall on Laurie Duggan
Dan Torop’s “TC-Compose-Verify, 2009”
The American Bookshelf:
democracy or oligarchy
Mary Robinson:
Sappho as a Romantic
Talking with Susan Rich
Poetry in Person:
25 Years of Conversations
with America’s [mostly Quietist] Poets
Canada gives it away once again
Everett Community College
rescues Poetry Northwest
Doing time?
PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee
has done 50 years
The authors are in eternity:
3 quietists cope with the presence
of Old Ez & the possum
Jorie Graham’s “Sundown”
Rosanna Warren at Hofstra
Talking with Heather Cousins
Tibetan Monks Ride the Escalator
4 cities claim the home of Li Bai
Alice’s Adventures Underground,
the original manuscript
Talking with Amber Tamblyn
Tyne Daly reads Auden
Charles Bukowski, family guy
Henry Miller, the secret of life
Walker Percy in a deranged world
Lathbury’s Salinger
Twain & Philadelphia
Norris Church is not
just Mrs. Mailer
Jane’s Fame:
How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Liberty Hill honors Walter Mosley
A big Hoohah
over racism & freedom of speech
in Gainesville, FL
Matthea Harvey reading
Feminist Press turns 40
Nina Bourne has died
Alfred Kazin
on William & Henry James
The International IMPAC Dublin award shortlist
On first looking into
The Chronicle of Higher Medication’s
National Poetry Month competition
iPad censoring “sperm” in Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick: NPR’s bookclub discussion
Digital reading spaces:
how expert readers handle book, the web,
& electronic paper
“The Kindle already looks and feels outdated”
A more substantial review of the Kindle as a reader
Publishing attorney &/or literary agent
in the age of digital reproduction
Scribd adds print-on-demand options
Looking for a bookstore in Queens
One more college town
with no indie bookstore
Copperfield’s CEO on the future of books
Betting on community as the key to
bookstore success
The return of radical bookshops
Ousting a bookstore
to open a bookstore
Women & Children First,
the bookstore
Poets House
aims to boost
poetry in libraries
Libraries are a lifeline
Library of Congress
to archive all tweets since ‘06
Boston Public Library needs help
Which books are most often challenged
by wanna-be library censors?
Digitally raising a dead journal
LRB at 30 – not dead yet
Searching for “Frances Farmer is My Sister”
Salon partners with McSweeney’s
Joy Ladin’s Transmigration
Talking with Louise Glück
Seamus Heaney:
The Power of T.S. Eliot
Scariett’s Po-Biz Hot 100
with a love note from Franz Wright
Billy Collins at Wells Fargo
Talking with Mary Karr
Acquiring Emma for $500K
Ander Monson:
turning the banality of nonfiction inside out
Top 50 Twitter feeds for the arts
The best presentation of his work
is on a great book of poetry
(not to be confused
with a volume we are eagerly awaiting)
Political art in Venezuela
Dennis Hopper:
Art is life
Using Wikipedia to save public art
The poetry of Luann
When the audience transgresses back
Asya Reznikov @ Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC
Save the Watts Towers!!
Can the Whitney afford to split?
The Getty received a record number of photos in 2009
The photographs of Miroslav Tichý
Banksy:
Exit through the Gift Shop
Andy Warhol:
Good for the Jews?
Is the art market ready to rebound?
Peter Schjeldahl: Revision Quest
Schjeldahl on Cartier-Bresson
Art collecting &/or real estate development
The market for vintage R.Crumb
Simpsons solve the Gardner heist
Talking to Lawrence Weschler
about Robert Irwin & David Hockney
Slogging through Rothko
Ryan McGinley:
nude in New York
Griffy’s Top 40 list
on how to write comix
The muralist’s loft
The Seagram Murals at the Tate
John Cleese:
from Oslo to Brussels by taxi
Death by Balanchine
blunt-force trauma
Meredith Monk weaves a spell
Reviving the poetry of Wladyslaw Szlengel
The godfather of hip-hop,
Gil Scott-Heron
Wagner: not a Nazi
Capitalism & its Other at Coachella
Remembering Malcolm McLaren
A literary tour for Natalie Merchant
Vermont lures top SF arts administrator
Playing chess with Stanley Kubrick
7 unprotected screenplays
by “famous intellectuals”
Werner Herzog making 3D doc
on Chauvet cave art
The books of filmmaker Guy Maddin
Who killed Laura Palmer?
Fredric Jameson’s Pre-Eminence
Seeing the State:
Transparency as Metaphor
(reg. req.)
Did language kill the president of Poland?
Russia’s role
in Kyrgyzstan’s “revolution”
Perry Anderson:
his positions have changed,
his certainty has not
George Lakoff:
the poll Democrats need to know about
Joseph Epstein:
Do as I say…
A neurolinguistic approach
to perfomativity in economics
(reg. req.)
Changing Christopher Walken’s diaper
