“stud lover boy”:
NY Times obit for David Markson
James Yeh on David Markson
Preparing to misspell Wittgenstein
David Markson: An Introduction
LA Times obit
RIP David Markson:
where postmodern meets pulp
2 new videos of
Leslie Scalapino reading
Lyn Hejinian:
Remembering Leslie Scalapino
Memorials for Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino: Dusie 8
CFP: A Dusie tribute of Leslie Scalapino
Washington Post obit of Peter Orlovsky
Howl premiers as memorial to Orlovsky
In Moscow, remember Voznesensky at Tufts
The Collected Poems of Pat Lowther
New poems from Elizabeth Robinson
What Marjorie Perloff said at Rethinking Poetics
Delirious Hem / Pussipo media page
Talking with Amy King
Jennifer Knox on an island with Brian Wilson
PhillySound on the Joe Milford Poetry Show
“David Lehman’s Incestuous Coterie:
Why the New Best American Poetry
Sucks Even More than
Its Twenty-One Predecessors”
45th anniversary of the big Beat fest
at the Royal Albert Hall
Tony Trehy:
Does the Cambridge School exist
when you are in Dortmund?
Steve Fama:
reading Revelator
Talking with Steve Dalachinsky
An elephant and a strict occasion
Jennifer Karmin: Interview with Barak Obama
Brian Kim Stefans:
Language as game play
Lara Glenum’s Maximum Gaga
Augmented reality, electrical installations & poetry
Norman H. Pritchard: The Matrix
Pritchard: EECCHHOOEESS
Zachary Schomburg on N.H. Pritchard
Spidertangle threads
on Pritchard & the black avant-garde
Roger Manderscheid has died
George Stanley’s Vancouver: A Poem
Bobby Byrd on Bill Deemer
An account of the Olson Conference
Kerouac & the mimeo revolution
Aimé Césaire: Soleil cou coupé
(selections, trans. by A. James Arnold & Clayton Eshleman)
Eshleman’s “Inner Parliaments”
John Olson: Five prose poems & some canned tomatoes
The sound of the printed letter
More drama over the Oxford chair:
the one female candidate quits,
claiming the fix is in for Geoffrey Hill
Rhina Espaillat’s keynote address
@ the West Chester Poetry Conference
Today in Paris:
Rachel Blau Du Plessis & Auxémery
Thursday, June 17 in Brooklyn:
Michael Hennessey, Kristin Prevallet, Frank Sherlock
June 18 to 20 in Paris,
Shakespeare & Co. Literary Festival:
Storytelling & Politics
June 25 in Paris:
Steve McCaffery, Karen Mac Cormack & Michèle Métail
An Updike conference in Reading, PA
October 1 – 3
MSA 12, November 11 – 14,
Victoria, BC
David Foster Wallace
on genteelisms
David Foster Wallace:
is he writing too much for a dead guy?
Bill Friend on Kent Johnson’s
appropriation of Kenny Goldsmith’s Day
George MacBeth’s “The God of Love”
Pierre Joris:
2 or 3 French takes
Words Without Borders:
The Queer Issue
Reading Bolaño in Tehran
Peter Culley’s
The Age of Briggs & Straton
Charles Borkhuis’ “Write What I Say”
The test of translation:
Heinrich Heine’s “Zum Lazarus”
Scott Watson on translation
Art Durkee
on Sidney Lanier’s “Marshes of Glynn”
Did Max Beckmann foresee 9/11?
Louis Zukofsky Facebook page
Dale Herd’s Dreamland Court
Kate Greenstreet’s The Last 4 Things
Anne Carson’s Nox
Art Beck on Neeli Cherkovski
Poets House
is serenaded in the New Yorker
John Taggart:
“Magdalene Poem”
Angela Gardner’s Views of the Hudson
4 Stan Apps essays on
PR for Poetry
Jenn Hawe:
Why I hate the term
“creative writing”
Conceptual Poetics v. Flarf:
Taking Sides
(review of a book that doesn’t exist)
Alberto Manguel’s A Reader on Reading
Anselm Berrigan:
from Notes on Irrelevance
Sharon Mesmer’s “Pandora”
Michael Farrell’s A Raider’s Guide
BEA’s 2010 survey of book-buying behavior
Bay Area loses one more bookstore
Bookstore Tourism is back!
DC’s Politics & Prose is for sale
When the library closes,
Cal State students create their own
Amazon spent $540,000
lobbying Congress in the first quarter of 2010
e-reader competition heats up
Ten questions on poets & technology:
Cati Porter
A look at iPad’s future:
average user has downloaded
2.5 books
What the iPad can’t do:
marginalia
Apple censors – then uncensors --
Oscar Wilde
Ulysses “Seen”
censored for the iPad
A stream of conviviality for Bloomsday
Michael Lista’s Bloom
Talking with Wendy Cope
The language police of Estonia
Herta Müller on the contemporary
Romanian Information Service
Xiaoda Xiao’s “Nixon’s Nose”
China defends
internet censorship policy
The rise & fall of Pearl Buck
Where to find Russia’s popular poets now
The strength of Canadian poetry
Giles Goodland’s What the Things Sang
Nico Vassilakis’ Language is Hell
Asher Ghaffar’s
Wasps in a Golden Dream
Hum a Strange Music
John Ashbery & Paul Muldoon
in Hell’s Kitchen
Ballard’s short stories
Joel Bettridge’s Reading as Belief:
Language Writing, Poetics, Faith
Brian Evenson’s Fugue State
Evenson’s Baby Leg
Stunt writing: how to
Eavesdropping as a literary technique
What’s more important to a poem?
Sincerity or Tone?
Can Symtext disrupt textbook market?
For-profit universities
are abandoning printed textbooks
Talking with Tom Healy
Vincent Katz’s “Poem to Accompany a Film”
Paul Guest’s memoir of quadriplegia
Geoffrey Nutter’s Christopher Sunset
Talking with Tacoma laureate Tammy Robacker
John Wooden:
how poetry shaped my career
Thank you, Ray Bradbury
A profile of Emma Trelles
that includes an interview
whose first question is
“What was the color of your prom dress?”
Julia Bloch’s “from Letters to Kelly Clarkson”
Paula Cisewski’s Ghost Fargo
Todd Swift’s The Awards Ceremony
O’Henry dead 100 years
Billy Liar at 50
Cliff Forshaw’s A Ned Kelly Hymnal
Paul Farley’s The Atlantic Tunnel
The garden roots of Emily Dickinson
Collector buys $10K book for $30
through Abe.Books.Com
Two early Stieg Larsson stories surface
Norman Mailer’s “woman problem”
Talking with Madison Smartt Bell
Who are you in the academic novel?
Salinger’s silence
Rumpus sows community
Nicole Cooley’s
“Compendium of Lost Objects”
Alan Gilbert’s “Almost Working”
Alan Ginsberg explains Timothy Leary
The death of The Exile
Barbara Kingsolver wins the Orange
Kingsolver: a life in writing
Amis:
awards only go to boring books
Poetry Inside Out
coming to schools in NYC
Responding to David Biespiel’s tantrum
against contemporary poetry
The Ahab Parallax: Moby Dick & BP
Herman Melville: Dead White Male
Boston says no to
One Book, One City
Alexandra Teague’s
“Adjectives of Order”
Tom Wolfe & Kurt Vonnegut, chillin’
The rejection letter of the future
Terry Southern in full
Marc Rahe’s The Smaller Half
Timothy Green’s American Fractal
Oe’s Changeling on familiar ground
Can you © the description
of an ongoing chess match?
Wild Life Rifle Fire – the trailer
The poetry of Palo Alto
Lisa Bickmore honored for “Dog Aria”
The National Federation of State Poetry Societies
just met in Memphis
Stanley Fish endorses
the back-a-classical-education movement
The hidden history of baby books
With friends like Martha Nussbaum,
do the humanities need enemies?
Talking with Bret Easton Ellis
(complete with out-takes)
Ellis gets to the sequel
Talking with Russell Goings
David Mitchell on Cloud Atlas
UC plays hardball
with rip-off journal pricing
Getting the librarians
out of the library
Cambridge will digitize rare books
Hobby Lobby’s collection of rare Bibles
The Collected Poems of Hart Crane
(reg. req.)
The 2010 Poets Forum
Oct 28 – 30 in NYC
How old can a “young writer” be?
asks Sam Tanenhaus, age 55
Best use of a great jazz musician
in a Shakespeare cartoon
Samuel Beckett remixed
There is no such thing
as mass culture anymore
John Giorno live
Dead animals “liberate” the Tate –
move to get museum to drop deal with BP
Cable TV as an NEA Grant
Andy Warhol: the last decade
Anish Kapoor casts his net
Jeff Adams at Braunstein/Quay
The art of display
in postwar LA
Getty museum chief dies suddenly
How do you “read” Tintoretto?
Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time:
Reflections on Cinema
(reg. req.)
Tarkovsky’s polaroids
Polaroid’s polaroids
@ Sotheby’s NYC
June 16 – 21
Self-publish or be damned:
photographers go it alone
Sigmar Polke has died
Polke’s impact
LA Times obit
Washington Post obit
Lester Johnson has died
David Hockney loves his iPad
Renoir the modernist
NYU’s architectural assault
on Greenwich Village
An archive of 75 silent films
is returning to the USA
Michael Lally on The Prince of Persia
Breathless at 50
Stan Brakhage made how many films?
By Brakhage: An Anthology, volume one
David Lynch’s interview project
Patti Smith’s Just Kids
Lullabies from Natalie Merchant
World’s oldest “passing fad” – jazz
Anthony Braxton’s
65th birthday extravaganza
Talking with Natalie Merchant
The essence of Orpheus
The Ellen Willis archives
The new Black public intellectual
White flight in higher ed?
& here too
Here comes Wal-Mart University
(sorta)
How to regulate for-profit colleges
A theory of digital objects
Saving the Chess Hall of Fame
The deadline for completing
Carnegie Mellon’s
Technology Assessment Survey for Arts Organizations
in June 18th!
To be happy, we must be pessimistic
An intel community view
of Israel’s flotilla assault
& its aftermath
The most popular educator on YouTube
Vlatko Vedral:
the origin of God
