Gevirtz’ “Orion”
Joanne Kyger’s notational noetics
Erica Hunt’s oppositional poetics
Interviewing Rae Armantrout
Dan Chiasson’s “goosechase of supposition”
John Latta on Chiasson’s
“post-trajectory hooey coming unstuck”
The Jim Brodey buried manuscript myth
Jim Brodey’s “Jack Kerouac”
Charles Olson
& the Nature of Destructive Humanism
Ray DiPalma & Michael Lally
@ the Poetry Project
Lally’s take on the same reading
Jerome Sala on Michael Lally
6 months after brain surgery
Nick Piombino at the Zinc Bar
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino
talks with Piombino
John Olson on
Alvaro Cordona-Hine & George Kalamaras
Aram Saroyan recalls the 1960s
Art Beck on Neeli Cherkovski
Jimmy Schuyler’s Other Flowers
“I read for aesthetic pleasure”
Toward the new novel yet again
Top online book trailers: the finalists
Chaim Grade: the archives open
A bookstore foregrounds translations
Translating covers, esp. in France
Rem Koolhaas rearchitects the book
Yang Lian, dream weaver
Too soon to write off the paperback
Language, nationalism & your URL
Xu-Bing’s A Book of the Sky
Ghérasim Luca’s Inventor of Love
Sarojini Sahoo’s The Dark Above
Tonight, May 19,
Amir Parsa,
live & streaming
from the Bowery Poetry Club
May 20th in London:
Voiceworks goes live!
May 21 – June 27 in Manhattan:
Waltzing in Quicksand: Poets in Collage
May 21 & 22 in Brooklyn
Translating French & American Poetry Today
May 23 in Brooklyn,
Andrew Levy & Charles Borkhuis
May 24 @ the 92nd Street Y in NYC,
channeling Bishop & Lowell
May 27 – 30 in Paris,
Festival de Poésie Sonore
June 17:
power breakfast in Portland
with the owners of Powell’s
Is the iPad
driving ebook piracy
& does it matter?
Circling the wagons,
bookseller associations
agree to merge
Bookseller Association prez
warns of bookstores
becoming irrelevant
Censors without borders
Wikipedia books?
Lit quiz: how bad can it get?
Writing the book is the easy part
Kevin Killian
won the SPD Spelling Bee
(not for the first time)
because he can spell “contrapposto”
Emily D: the outlaw of Amherst
“her dire grammar
and her violent abuse
of prepositions, verbs
and apparently hanging subjects”
Argentina aims to rediscover
its love of books
Flaubert & Florence Nightingale
The return of the Nightingale Museum
Talking with Carmen Gillespie
Tiziano Fratus’ Creaturing
Robert Hass’ The Apples Trees at Olema
Bertolt Brecht on the current economy
Talking with Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Alastair Johnston on Serendipity Books
Gerald Nicosia’s Jan Kerouac: A Life in Memory
An early story by Don DeLillo
James Meetze wins Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize
Geoffrey Hill’s Selected Poems
C.K. Williams exhausted
Sir Philip Sidney’s “Ring Out Your Belles”
National Book Award judges announced
What’s scary about “scare quotes”
Greil Marcus on turning points
Martin Amis:
“The British literati’s very own Princess Di”
Stephen Crane:
“When a Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers”
The work of journalism
in an age without compensation
Ezra Pound:
The ABC of Reading
What is bad writing good for?
Robert P. Baird on Latta’s Bernstein
Ron Loewinsohn:
Home Again, Home Again
Celebrate the anniversary of Larkin’s demise
with giant fibreglass toads
or something like that
Forster’s sexuality
What is forensic linguistics?
The way into Orwell is through the letters
Anne Valley-Fox’s How Shadows are Bundled
A short history of the SarcMark
Stephen Burt: art vs. laundry
Moira Egan’s The Silk of the Tie
Katherine Hastings’s Updraft
40 NEA fellowships for creative writing in 2009
& C. Dale Young & Aimee Nezhukumatathil
were the closest the NEA got to a post-avant
North Carolina:
Dead poets bash
stops in Fountain
Stephen Bett’s Extreme Positions
Talking with John McNally:
After the Workshop
Talking with Gary B. Fitzgerald
Bloomberg slashes NYC art spending
John Cage on the weather
Sonny Rollins & the future
Lower limit speech,
upper limit Steve Timms
Patti Smith on Bob Dylan
Brian Eno’s Brighton
Hey, CAConrad,
are you sure this is what
Kenneth Rexroth had in mind
when he read his poetry to jazz?
Noisenarcheology: Harry Partch
Robert Christgau on Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington & race in America
Handel & Hendrix: together again
Talking with John Waters
Design Now: function over form
The Poetics of Code
at the Streaming Museum
John Rosenthal’s photos of the Ninth Ward
Kevin Killian on Morris Graves
Alex Katz at the National Portrait Gallery
NY Times obit of Craig Kauffman
The coy art of the “mystery bidder”
The “most enigmatic” Renaissance master
Is the Turner Prize relevant?
SF MoMA a youthful 75
Wanda Phipps on Delirious Dances
Talking with Edisa Weeks
25 years of Helgi Tomasson
Some interesting talks come up at
London’s ICA
What is a philosopher?
Andreas Huyssen:
After the Great Divide:
Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism
A general theory of individuality
Critical Theories of the State
(reg. req.)
Noam Chomsky denied entry into Israel
Norman Fischer on Jewish identity
A salute to James Wagner
for the 19th of May
