Juliana Spahr:
Rethinking poetics
John Keene:
A Poem-Report
Rebecca Wolf:
The personal vs. “social poetics”
Stephanie Young’s “Repoport”
Marjorie Perloff’s response to Stephanie Young
K. Silem Mohammad’s post-conference thoughts
Nada Gordon:
“you can’t rethink poetics…very well…
in the same old theatre of power”
Joshua Clover:
“where all dialectical thought begins –
with Silliman’s blog”
(reg. req.)
Josh Corey:
on not rethinking poetics
On really not rethinking poetics:
the Oxford Poetry Professorship goes to Geoffrey Hill
After a rough campaign, a new professor
A year of campaigning
complete with dirty tricks
Michael Horovitz: Roger Lewis is unqualified
Paula Claire withdraws
A bitter battle for poetry prof
Why couldn’t it at least have been
Bette Davis eyes?
Is Flarf corrosive?
(close reading Sharon Mesmer)
Slow readers of the world, unite!
These are the sounds of silence
Toronto bookstore threatened with closure
Portugal bids an emotional farewell
to José Saramago
NPR obit on José Saramago
Talking with José Saramago
RIP Saramago
BBC obit
Businessweek obit
Saramago’s blog
(in Portuguese)
The Afghan Women’s Writing Project
Celebrating Dallas Wiebe
Susan Orlean:
#booksthatchangedmyworld
Real time:
#booksthatchangedmyworld
(reg. req.)
Natasha Trethewey, reading
Robin Tremblay-McGaw on Mahmoud Darwish
William Burroughs: How to write a best seller
The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative
Defining the New:
Experiments & Innovations in English Studies,
October @ Ohio State
In the Land of Invented Languages
rob mclennan on New American Writing
Rita Dove, reading
Talking with Jason Koo
From a collaboration between
Dan Beachy-Quick & Srikanth Reddy
The first poet to understand brand:
Walt Whitman
John Olson’s The Nothing That Is
David Foster Wallace:
“The point of books
is to combat loneliness”
Poetry, politics, the Post Office
Kerouac’s bridge to be torn down
Kerouac’s last typewriter is for sale
The apartments where O’Hara once lived
Robert Pinsky: Modernism & memory
The Trillium Book Award finalists
Tom Clark: 11 poems
Don Paterson on the future of poetry
Self-published books swamp the trades
Eileen Myles’ The Importance of Being Iceland
Kay Ryan in Key West
Street corner poets in San Francisco
Nadine Gordimer’s nonfiction
20 more under 40
Hardback sales rose 49% year-to-year in April
Jill Magi on mentoring
Vincent Katz on Ann Lauterbach
Robert Grenier on Larry Eigner
Henry Gould on Gabriel Gudding
Rusty Morrison’s Whethering
Dutch novel wins the IMPAC award
Chalk Editions’ free ebooks
Scholarly publishers
struggle with ebooks
Tina Chang, reading
Talking with Elizabeth Spires
Some summer reading
(from the Scottish Poetry Library)
Turn your favorite book
into a really stupid necklace
Two poems by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
John Gallaher’s Cake for the Groom
Lisa Jarnot’s Some Other Kind of Mission
Paolo Javier, Poet Laureate of Queens
Reading Anis Shivani backwards
William Logan:
6 Quietists
8 “essential” Quietists, UK edition
Billy Collins, reading in Key West
John Latta:
“To Stupidity” & 4 other poems
Who are the contemporary surrealists?
(Oxymoron?)
Gibran & the counterculture of the 60s
The Tao of Wendell Berry
Robert Creeley’s best work
is now available in French
On the Road Around the World
Protecting the world from Emily Dickinson
Many, many photos
of Emily Dickinson’s house
Burt Kimmelman’s As If Free
Matthea Harvey, reading
What Terry Pratchett’s writing
A profile of Carlos Ávila
Selling literary letters
A Twain manuscript goes for $242,000
Paul Muldoon, reading
A digital variorum edition
of Ezra Pound’s Cantos
Whatever happened to the e-reader tsunami?
Do you like your e-reader?
6 takes
Consumer Reports on e-readers:
simpler is better
A profile of Visant Abaji Dahake
A profile of Giovanni’s Room
Normal’s Books is anything but…
Boswell Books of Milwaukee
Simply Books of Pocklington, UK
Ben Lerner’s Mean Free Path
Blog of Poetry International 2010
A profile of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Jr.
Talking with Dani Couture
Pablo Medina on The Moe Green Poetry Show
Between translation & interpretation
Andrew Duncan on the School of London
Anatole Knotek’s Rotated Alphabet
How to survive as an independent bookshop
Will BP kill indie bookstores on the Gulf Coast?
BP Wants Twitter to Shut Down:
A Flarf in 22 Tweets
3 of Rane Arroyo’s last poems
An obit in the Guardian for David Chaloner
Ten poems read by David Chaloner
A profile of Harry Crosby
On John Clare
The secret archive of J.G. Ballard
“only poetry can counter
the Big Lie of power”
A profile of Peter Cater
Talking with Howard Norman
Launching the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Two books by Ben Mazer
A profile of Håkan Sandell
Talking with Laressa Dickey
The Writers Union of Canada
seeks Executive Director
(reg. req.)
John Kinsella’s Post-Colonial
John Kinsella’s Divine Comedy:
Journeys Through a Regional Geography
A profile of Stefan Hertmans
June 26 in Brooklyn,
Linebreak: Poetics of Iran
June 28 thru July 31,
Battery Park, Manhattan,
the 18th annual Poets House Showcase
June 30 in Berkeley,
Stephen Ratcliffe & Robert Grenier
Talking with Eric of Pimp My Novel
The 15th annual Poets Walk
over the Brooklyn Bridge
is a big fundraiser for Poets House
A profile of Anne Shaw
2 essays by Arpine Konyalian Grenier
Book apps get curiouser & curiouser
Apple reverses Ulysses
censorship ruling
The Jewish Ulysses
Jeanette Winterson
on her favorite picture of a woman reading
(note: it’s the Molly Bloom chapter!)
Winterson
on competing with coffee conglomerates
Reading Ulysses
one word at a time
(just keep clicking on the word)
What happens on Bloomsday
Why the manuscript for Ulysses
resides in Philadelphia
Poetry’s Ulysses:
All the Whiskey in Heaven
Charles Bernstein’s Experimental Writing Seminar:
Syllabus & Class Projects
Interview & reading in Australia
JBunce on Bernstein & the Obama anthology
Deconstructing Bernstein (in French)
A 24-hour read-in to protest library cuts
Volunteers shouldn’t run libraries
A profile of Robin Fulton
Talking with Elmore Leonard
2 new movies from the novels of
Philip K. Dick
Or perhaps Jim Thompson
Talking with Michael Winterbottom
about The Killer Inside Me
Will film of Atlas Shrugged
be even worse than the book?
A profile of Michael Riley
California says no
to publisher rip-offs
3 graves for Anthony Burgess
Tony Judt on words
Confessions of a first-edition junky
A profile of Allyssa Wolf
Justice Dept. to look at
use of surveillance of reading
in counter terror measures
Melville on surfing
Gulliver goes to Prague
A Gatsby sequel in Nicaragua
Jonathan Monroe’s Demosthenes’ Legacy
Jonathan Franzen on fiction’s neglectorinos
Rereading The Man Who Loved Children
Book titles if they were written today
Charlie Simic on
John Koethe, Rae Armantrout & Tony Hoagland
(subscription required)
Steinbeck’s papers up for sale
Derek Motion
(perfect name for a poet of a certain type)
has won the 2009 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Nicole Mauro’s The Contortions
Book thief with a “shopping list”
Man accused of stealing rare books
says they were left to rot
Wacko plot to steal a First Folio
Thief comes to court
in a silver limo
Contested Will:
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
And the one who faked him
Alan Loney’s Day’s Eye
Ernest Farrés’ Edward Hopper
Talking with John McPhee
A profile of George Stanley
On the essays of Grace Schulman
J.H. Prynne to Ken Edwards: in re Futures
Do book trailers sell books?
Stieg Larsson trailers
The quest for Nord noir
Stieg Larsson in pictures
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,
chapter 1
Steinbeck archive to be sold
Young Sherlock Holmes
First verse from Wimbledon laureate: thwok
Heather McHugh: Upgraded to Serious
Fictional characters, real diagnoses
Letters to fictional characters
Terry Eagleton on Craig Raine: Count the commas
Joshua Cohen on summer reading
A profile of Kathleen Fraser
In praise of tough criticism
What’s your favorite
underused software feature?
University presses:
surviving 2010
The death spiral at Borders
The latest from bookshelf porn
Eamon Grennan papers
go to Emory
Updike at work
The Updike archive
The Odd Couple:
John Updike & Christopher Lasch
Folger director set to retire
Why longform journalism?
At Oxford, most professors
don’t opt for open access publishing
Frances Williams’ “The Descent” beckons
Can novels have “director’s cuts”?
Alexandra Mullen on Slater’s Dickens
Former Penguin Canada chief
accused of sexual harassment
Reinventing Penguin’s penguin
Ekphrastic poetry is by definition
derivative
Anna Karenina survives the train
Walther Koenig Books in Berlin
Voyeurism, surveillance & the camera
Museum populism doesn’t work
The Northern Art Prize shortlist
David Levi Strauss:
From Head to Hand:
Art and the Manual
(reg. req.)
It’s Da Vinci’s world we’re visiting
Painterly tricks in the latest cameras
Caravaggio’s bones
The photos of Alexandr Hackenschmied
in its last days in Prague
Jenny Holzer in South Africa
The Paris Review interviews R. Crumb
On first viewing David Salle
Amidst all the budget cutting,
Philadelphia City Hall
adds an art gallery
Fabrications, in New Hampshire
Unmasking Banksy, Onion-style
Eric Fischl’s America Here & Now
First Rothko, now Tina Modotti
Talking with John Adams
Nat Hentoff: Still going
Bill Dixon has died
Natalie Merchant in West Chester
STNNNG leadman tries to be a poet
David Byrne:
architecture & music
LEGO Falling Water
Jonathan Wolken of Pilobolus has died
Mamet on Colbert:
“Theater is always dying”
Some thought on male culture
A spectre is haunting neoliberalism
So Facebook is dead,
but what comes next?
If you were waiting for a sign
