Talking with Rae Armantrout
(check the audio!)
Armantrout on PBS Newshour’s “Artbeat”
Radio Rae Armantrout: On Point
A critique of Tom Ashbrook’s
On Point interview of Armantrout
A more charitable reaction to the same interview
John Gallaher on Chiasson’s Armantrout
Chiasson’s Lydia Davis
Christopher Reiner on Armantrout’s Pulitzer
B&N’s bookclub blog on Armantrout
An Armantrout resource guide for writers
Armantrout is just one
of the poets announced
for the 2011 US Poets in Mexico confab
Jeet Thayil’s “landmark anthology”
60 Indian Poets
Deaf American Poetry: An Athology
Endi Bogue Hartigan:
new poems
Marcella Durand, Jessica Lowenthal,
Jennifer Scappettone & Al Filreis
read Howe’s Dickinson
Albert Huffstickler: the way of art
Clayton Eshleman’s Anticline
“Ron Silliman Rocks”
(the real story is here)
Jonathan Lethem’s
farewell to Chronic City
How to destroy literature
without hardly trying
So here comes the bookless library
The Vilcek Prize
for persons born outside the US
but now practicing here
Poets & Writers’ funding for events
in select locations
The Vincent Ferrini / Charles Olson Writers Center
needs just $15K to become real
– you can donate here!!
Louis Zukofsky
& the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics
Why some poetry readings “do not suck”
Social Security head is a new formalist
A Google translation of Edoardo Sanguineti’s
quite detailed Italian Wikipedia entry
Andrew Duncan on groups & boundaries:
the field of poetry around 1995
Erica Kaufman on the work of
Macgregor Card & Karen Weiser
is the lead piece in
Boog City 63
Cross-examining a poem by D.A. Powell
Jonathan Franzen’s “Agreeable”
Dick Tillinghast’s Selected Poems
K. Silem Mohammad: The Front
Christian Bök:
Flarf: Arf Arf Afr
Rimbaud’s Voyelle
as interpreted by Bök
Paradise Lost: the performance
PennSound’s archive
of Segue readings
includes such recent readers as
Rob Fitterman, John Yau,
Alicia Cohen & Alice Notley
VoiceWorks’ web site has now gone live
A great roster of podcasts
from the SF Jewish Community Center
Oh tweet most fair…
Christian Peet on Vanessa Place’s
The Guilt Project
Traveling through America
by way of indie bookshops
Another indie bookseller
decides to launch press
Rare book dealers
about to get more rare
Talking with Gina Frangello
Andrew Joron’s “brilliant obsession”
This year’s honorary degrees
A second summer reading list
Kay Ryan’s exit interview
The autobiography of Mark Twain
Kerouac in Orlando
Brautigan: the documentary
Talking with David Meltzer & Michael Rothenberg
Emily Dickinson:
“her dire grammar
and her violent abuse
of prepositions, verbs
and apparently hanging subjects”
(this time with the proper URL)
The David Foster Wallace road trip
The 7 references to Sidney Peterson’s The Cage
in DFW’s Infinite Jest
“a day we write is completely different
than a day that we don’t write”
Lech Walesa & artificial intelligence
David Shields,
somewhere between the New Sentence,
Acker’s appropriations
& Markson’s index cards,
but getting a lot more PR
Mary Stegner has died
The afterlife of Stieg Larsson
“An authentic phenomenon”
Discoverability:
still a book’s biggest problem
Alternative values in small press culture
The irrelevance of the New York Times Book Review
ComiXology & the problems of ebook pricing
($9.99 = `1 ebook vs.
$8.99 = unlimited streaming
movies @ Netflix for one month)
Cory Doctorow:
stop charging for books
1 million iPads, but
only 1.5 million ebooks on them
When did Kindle become a baby seal?
The last typist is booted from The Writer’s Room
Should publishers “like”
Facebook’s new privacy grab
A book conference you can attend
in your bathrobe
The “continuity problem”
of Philip K. Dick
American prose & the King James Bible
How to write literary mashups
Michael Leong on Will Alexander’s
“complex sentence machine”
Is the Harvard Library the next to go?
Stephen Burt on A.R. Ammons
The late flowering of Derek Mahon
Poetry?
There’s an app for it
The Indie bookstore poetry best-seller list
is every bit as bad as B&N
Bruce Snider: not dead yet
Norman Fischer & Charles Bernstein on
Radical Poetics & Secular Jewish Culture
Robin Tremblay-McGaw on
Norman Fischer & Charles Bernstein
June 7 in Brooklyn,
Fischer & Bernstein continue the conversation
June 8 on the Lower East Side
Bernstein, Kenny Goldsmith & Jamie Saft:
Jewish Art for the New Millennium
May 26 @ the Poetry Project,
Rob Fitterman & Matvei Yankelevich
May 28 @ the Union League in Philly
Nikki Giovanni receives
the Lifetime Achievement Award
at Philadelphia’s 26th annual
Celebration of Black Writing
June 19 & 20,
Flow, Winged Crocodile,
a play by Leslie Scalapino
@ Poets House in NYC
June 21 @ the Poetry Project,
Leslie Scalapino
Craig Santos Perez on
Christian Peet’s Big American Trip
When you meet the poet
on your refrigerator door
Cussin’ index
Reading Irish poetry in Shanghai
The new typography
Packaging books like smokes
‘Twas Robert Creeley’s birthday last week
Maya Angelou is 82
A sentence by Raymond Chandler
Who was Charles Dickens?
Elaine Showalter on Muriel Spark
Halvard Johnson’s
The Perfection of Mozart’s Third Eye
Junot Diaz named to Pulitzer board
John Latta focuses on Michael Palmer
Matt Harvey,
Wimbledon’s poet-in-residence
Could you do better as Wimbledon laureate?
Hazel Smith, Joanna Still, Roger Dean:
Clay Conversations
The Lost Man Booker goes to J.G. Farrell
Talking with Sharon Olds
Alan Brownjohn:
Writing in & of rectangular frames
A Confederacy of Dunces
& its impact over time on LSU Press
Reading Joan Didion
University of California
gets William Saroyan archives
Talking with C.K. Williams
Charles Simic,
suburban flaneur
11 candidates in race
for Oxford Poetry Chair
How to campaign:
Facebook & booze
Cory Doctorow:
“Impossible to monetize obscurity”
& yet B&N adds a self-publishing service
Using e-works as teasers for novels
An evening with Bern Porter
(mp3)
Philly’s new monument
to ignorance & avarice
Arthur C. Danto:
Sitting with Marina
Zoe Strauss solo show
@ the Wexner in Columbus, OH
The Life of Leo Castelli
Leo & His Circle, chapter 1
A slide show of photos
of Castelli’s life
Curating Dennis Hopper
“the best photobook of the past 25 years?”
The French Job:
5 masterworks in a Paris heist
Awarding the Pritzker Prize on Ellis Island
Baryshnikov: Ballet is a “dead art”
Do pop lyrics have literary merit?
Lou Reed’s “Street Hassle”
& the challenge to postmodern poetry
“A lesser-known version of …
‘Loving Cup’ …
seems to me
the best thing the Stones ever did”
Exile on Villa Nellcôte
Eric Hobsbawm, jazz reporter
Stephen Cope’s latest
Conference of the Birds
Iran urged to free Jafar Panahi
The next Philip K. Dick movie
The wrap-up at Cannes
Palme d’Or goes to film by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Mad Men as critique of the family
What was Ayn Rand?
“Blow up the philosophy departments”
Slavoj Žižek to host SNL?
Cal State system cuts 18% of lecturers
The teachers’ unions’ last stand
In Spring & All, William Carlos Williams
characterizes poetry as
the “perfection of new form
as additions to nature” –
here Craig Venter
tries to go one step further
Not happy
about this latest venture
with ties to BP
Where is Spinoza
now that we need him?
Martin Gardner has died
The hand of Mateo Prunes
The sentimentalist
