Madhubuti forced out at Chicago State
The finalists in Million Poets
Hissa Hilal finishes third in Million Poets competition,
comes away with just $817,000
Person of the Week: Hissa Hilal
Not everyone is impressed with Hissa Hilal
One-word lines in the work of Larry Eigner
Talking with Amish Trivedi
“Why poets should find jobs outside the academy”
Bob Perelman:
“For Emma Bernstein”
“Bernstein takes his place
in the mainstream of American poetry”
An open letter to poets who hate the MFA
AWP:
“Why have such a hate parade against the Language Poets?”
Christian Bök:
Marginalizing Canada at the AWP
Barbara Jane Reyes:
“this line between poetry and the world”
Rigoberto González:
30 years ago in Denver
Patricia Smith’s “Bull Bits”
Alan Gilbert:
an anti-AWP event at White Columns in NYC
with Dodie Bellamy, Tim Griffin & Kevin Killian
CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock’s
The City Real & Imagined
April 17 & 18:
The Philadelphia Free Library Festival
Tom Devaney, Susan Stewart & Elaine Terranova
on WHYY’s Radio Times
A podcast (with texts) of Tajiki poet Frazaneh Khojandi
Albuquerque’s poets’ skills are “nationally feared”
Close reading Creeley’s “Sky”
Albert Huffstickler Memorial Park
Writers house slated for Gloucester
Jack Kerouac in Florida
Laura Elrick & Rodrigo Toscano
on performing Hannah Weiner
In search of lost languages
Andrew Joron’s Trance Archive
Meeting Emily D
Rope horses, punch cows, write poetry
An 8-part series on
Poems for the Millennium 3
on KPFA radio in Berkeley
Lost literature: the ultimate neglectorinos
At the ♥ of contemporary poetics
Margaret Christakos:
Latches & hyphens & dashes, oh my
The danger of reading Frank O’Hara
on an 88-degree April 7, 2010
in New York City
Anselm Berrigan:
“I totally dig irrelevance”
R.S. Gwynn & The New Criterion
have hopes for the future of Dorothy Parker’s poetry
since all it would require is
“a wholesale rejection of modernism”
Manic D Press changes the world
32 poets on the process of reviewing
(I’m among them)
Protesting Glenn Beck one haiku at a time
April 13 @ University Press Books in Berkeley,
Richard O. Moore in conversation with
Brenda Hillman
(scroll down)
Also Tuesday, April 13 @ Yale,
Lyn Hejinian
April 16th through 18th in Bellingham, WA,
the Bellingham Reportory Dance Co.
will do Phrasings: in Words & Dance,
including Nico Vassilakis’ Vowelist
(viz this snippet read by Nico & John Olson)
April 17: Putting Creeley to music
in Kalamazoo
Sunday, April 18 in Brooklyn,
David Shapiro & Joanna Fuhrman
Lyn Hejinian again,
Monday, April 19 in Knoxville
April 19 @ St Marks,
a celebration of Miron Bialoszewski
& launch of Aufgabe 9
On modernist networks:
23 seminars scheduled for Victoria, BC in November
Talking with Camille Dungy
Ed Baker on a full moon
A profile of Michael Tregebov,
novelist & translator
Eileen Tabios’ Thorn Rosary
Entrepreneur’s estate endows
The Gary Snyder Endowed Chair
in Science & Humanities
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
goes to Stephen Kessler
Emma Trelles has won the
Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
Stan Persky wins 2010 Lieutenant-Governor’s Award
You can vote
for the Spinetingler Awards
Ken Tucker reviews 4 books of poetry for
Entertainment Weekly
Kamikazi death poems
Kenny Goldsmith:
The textual ecosystem
& on a writing of least resistance
Ron Slate on books by
Terese Svoboda & Mark Nowak
& one dedicated to Tom McGrath
A.E. Stallings on “The Explosion”
Lifting a paw against “major” reviews
Does LOA mean lol?
The Griffin Poetry shortlists
Upping the prize @ the Griffin
How would P.K. Page spend it,
given that she’s dead?
Somebody stole $450,000 from Naropa
Drafts of Whitman’s
“Come, said my soul”
Talking with Audrey Keiffer
Brenda Cárdenas,
Milwaukee’s poet laureate
At the bottom of Powell’s poetry page
is a tool with a number of
specialized poetry searches
Why The Four Quartets
was the biggest piece of kitsch
of the 20th century
Why memorizing poetry
is inherently right wing
How the paperback novel changed literature
Bob Brown in the NY Times
Talking with Gerald Locklin
Bringing poetry into the office
Rooms of one’s own –
the schematic
A room of one’s own
in Manhattan on a budget
Glyn Maxwell:
Preferring Leonard Bernstein to Auden
Starting a press in Kentucky
The arguments against Shakespeare’s authorship
of his own plays always comes back
to an argument about class
Hanging out with David Lehman
3-word sonnets, poems shaped like bears
Noise in the library
The selling of the James Copley library
Talking with the “happy librarian”
Discovering John Fante
Which holocaust art is legit?
Moira Roth:
Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker
“Yugoslavian poet Charles Simic”
Poetry in Person transcribed
Rereading Trout Fishing in America
Betraying Salinger
David Foster Wallace’s
earliest writing
The inner life of Penelope Fitzgerald
Believing in Flannery O’Connor
Good writers, bad men – does it matter?
Videos of the brothers Dickman
Does the best art arise from democracy or dissent?
Terry Eagleton
on the problem of monsters
50 best book people
to follow on Twitter
Samuel Beckett: Nothing
