Who’s that on the cover of Poetry this month?
After decades as one of Chicago’s signature poets,
Paul Hoover finally appears in Poetry
Area Sneaks’ Visual Poetry Forum
Talking with Bevery Dahlen
Bev Dahlen & the Writing of the Real
“the different body”
& “the ideal landscape
from which to write a poetry that is
broken, disjointed or fragmented”
Ange Mlinko: my poetry illiberalism
Lara Glenum:
Welcome to the Gurlesque
Abigail Child:
Form & Content
Lynn Behrendt:
For Leslie Scalapino
SPD remembers Leslie Scalapino
NY Times obit of Andrei Voznesensky
Jean Toomer & Our Poets
The Charles Olson Conference in Vancouver
is this week!!
Charles Olson Facebook page
Little Charlie Goes to Gloucester
An investigative poetics of West Bromwich
Laura Elrick’s Stalk & the poetics of spatial practice
Rodrigo Toscano & Natalie Knight:
Conditions of Poetic Production & Reception
(Parts 1 & 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5)
LA Times obit of Peter Orlovsky
David Amram remembering Orlovsky
Poetry is not all “tosh & twaddle”
The Wall Street Journal discovers flarf
Jim Behrle on flarf in the WSJ
Sharon Mesmer: Hello to the apocalypse
Flarf: the computer is the horizon
Flarf vs. hip-hop:
What’s the racial subtext?
Rob’s Word Shop comes to a close
10 questions on poetry & technology:
Chris Hamilton-Emery
Ren Powell
Collin Kelly
Amy King
Alan Davies on the need for negative criticism
Nick Piombino on the negativity
of Alan Davies
How language writing got its period.
Pedro Alvarez on John Ashbery
Talking with Harryette Mullen
Vanessa Place’s Allegory & the Archive
San Wei released from prison in Burma
Donald Sheehan has died
Remembering Rane Arroyo
Elliott Bay Books
has survived the move
from Pioneer Square
The 2010 Poets House Showcase is coming up
(hint: your book[s] should be there!)
31 new poemfilms
from Rabbit Light Movies
from Donald Revell (97 seconds)
to Lisa Robertson (11+ minutes)
Steve Benson:
Medium & Margin:
Multiplying Methodologies & Proliferating Poetics
Talking with Alice Notley
Rodrigo Toscano: “Great Awakening”
Eshleman’s energy
Peter Middleton:
The Longing of the Long Poem
John Wiener’s A New Book from Rome
A profile (with poems) of Richard Krech
The latest from
the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
includes lots on NZ-Australia collaboration
So who are the young British poets?
Pam Brown’s True Thoughts
Logan Ryan Smith: In a State
Trying to save vanishing languages
Malamanteau:
how fast can a word become a word?
Fady Joudah: “Who Has No Land Has No Sea”
Ron Slate: “Questionnaire to the Dead”
Swedish author Henning Mankell
was on the Gaza flotilla
More on radical poetics & secular Jewish culture
Reactionary poetics & secular Jewish culture
(Harvard v. Yale)
Talking with Jennifer Moxley
Anarchy & Derivative Poetics
in John Cage & Robert Duncan
The “working-class avant-garde”
Art & the modeling of a Commons
(“Corporations are people too”)
Michael McClure’s Mysterioso
Talking with Dan Beachy-Quick
Talking with rob mclennan
Wendell Berry: poisoning Kentucky
Tom Pow & Europe’s disappearing villages
Talking with Susan Wicks
John Gallaher:
From the Notebooks
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
Ben Lerner & Aaron Kunin in conversation
Mark Scroggins:
What I saw at the American Literature Association
Talking with Millicent Borges Accardi
Alice’s lost chapter
For $250, you can walk across
the Brooklyn Bridge
in the 15th annual Poets House Bridge Walk
Revisiting the Chicago school
June 4 in Sussex,
Beckett, Blanchot & Philosophy
June 8, between Philly & Camden,
Lorine Niedecker over tidal water
June 14, Bloomsbury, London:
Michael Horovitz on
Allen Ginsberg, Kathleen Raine &
Frances Horovitz:
Spiritual Partners
August 8 – 13, Björklunden, Wisconsin,
Niedecker in the woods
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day
Illustrating Blood Meridian
Retranslating Simone de Beauvoir
Judith Thurman’s introduction
The Second Sex, chapter 1
A whole new meaning to
poetry slam
Scarriet’s latest “Po-Biz Hot 100”
is 67% male
Top ten literary “guys with issues”:
Peter Pan, Holden Caufield, Dean Moriarty
& Frank Delsa?
Kingsley Amis on John Keats
The dangers of depicting the living
“It’s all fiction!”
Freedom of speech, the Governator
& the future of video games
Talking with Dan Chiasson
Geof Huth’s letter poems:
one per day for one year
Talking with Susan Deer Cloud
Adapting Neil Gaiman’s Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman speaking fee: $45,000
But Sarah Palin gets $75K from Cal State
Palin vs. Frost vs. Andrew Sullivan
“Frost’s Relationship with Nature”
“I told the poet there were clichés
in my poem…”
Literacy as a specialization
The squeeze on libraries
is a squeeze on literacy
Tricking the kids into reading
Oxford ends the one-word essay
Talking with Christian Bök
Terrance Hayes is hardly Lightheaded
Shadow Selves (Conjunctions)
Silliman sightings on Al Filreis’ blog
Norman Fischer: “Silliman Pass Song”
Franz Wright:
“If the Catastrophe Goes On”
Jonathan Mayhew’s apartment has burned
Poetics of Colour
(Clark’s Rimbaud)
Ed Baker on Albert Huffstickler
The Rumpus Book Club
has some lively choices,
including Tao Lin
Upcoming workshops at the Millay Colony
CA Conrad’s inimitable Somatic Poetry Workshop
July 11 in Philadelphia
Harvey Shapiro on the Poets of World War 2
Pritish Nandy:
Everyone should write poems
Why Richard Greene should win
the Griffin Poetry Prize
Who will win the Griffins?
The Griffin turns 10
And the Lambdas go to….
The Trillium short lists
Allen Ginsberg Tips for Writers
Carol Ann Duffy to judge
the John Lennon Poetry Contest
(seriously)
Celebrating Josef Brodsky
Poets apologizing for Cuba
A poetry fest in Oslo
Poems about literary festivals?
Openned’s book table at London’s Café 1001
Paul Green: “Escape from Radial City”
Paul Ruffin’s New & Selected Poems
Why Les Murray doesn’t want the Nobel Prize
(As if…)
“My father’s first cousin, Vita Sackville-West…”
Post-Bolaño Mexican noir fiction
A profile of Ottowa’s Collected Works
People Reading – the blog
Curling up with a good e-reader?
As important as the e-reader
is the e-bookstore attached
The Texas AG is looking at e-book pricing
Brazos Bookstore owner
seeks to defeat the Texas AG
Publishers pine for a universal e-book format
(Hint: it’s called PDF)
How come all e-books are ugly?
Nadine Gordimer:
Books beat screens
15 journalists have been murdered
in the first five months of 2010
A syllabus for a course on
Rethinking the 20th Century Ukranian Canon
A prettier front end to Gutenberg
Major papers all believe
they have built their last printing plant
The Pandigital Novel,
the Android e-reading that could
The iPad arrives in the UK
If Globish were an e-book
It’s a book, Jackass
In the UK, children are more likely
to own phones than books
Book thieves go for the good stuff
At BEA, anxiety amid the chatter
The BEA on PBS
The new BEA
BEA welcomes e- books
Scott McLemee’s BEA report
ABA membership actually climbs for once
Functional hyperlinks in printed books
Debating the future of publishing
For some in publishing,
digital is just too much
Publishing & university prestige
For sale:
signed copy of first Sherlock Holmes novel
Charles Tomlinson making hay
Shopping for books at the Hay Festival
Poetry International & the Poetry Foundation
create a joint venture
Sean Haldane:
Poetry has more capacity to change people
than psychotherapy
The Secret Lives of Someset Maugham
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man:
Anne Carson’s agent
The lives of Jack London
Nico Vassilakis’ latest visual poems are alive!
“America’s Most Prominent Emerging Poets
Respond to the Obama Administration”
The Girl with the Personal Pronoun
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
50th anniversary for Harper Lee’s
one-hit wonder
Talking with Madison Smartt Bell
David Foster Wallace: Wish you were here
Reading David Foster Wallace’s “John Billy”
Justin Cronin’s The Passage
“Wolgast had been to the Compound only once…”
Novelist James Fogle revisits an old plot
Break-up poetry from Melissa Etheridge’s ex-
Kermode’s Forster
Garrison’s Keillor’s “latest twaddle”
is not everyone’s cup o’ tea
Up for auction:
The James S. Copley Library: Arts & Sciences,
including the Mark Twain Collection
Waiting 100 years for Twain’s autobiography
Having tea with the censors
Can poetry save your relationship?
Emily Kendal Frey & Zachary Schomberg’s
OK, Goodnight
The joy of rigor
Talking with Joel Forrester
of the Microscopic Septet
Busting Stravinsky
Glyn Maxwell:
writing an opera about dementia
Springsteen on Pinsky,
Pinsky on Springsteen
Neil Young
is singing the new stuff
Frank Zappa, classical composer
Pete Seeger TV
When musicians boycott countries
Best Screenplay at Cannes goes to Poetry
The perfect motion picture for a character
named Seamus Muldoon
Talking with John Waters
RIP, Dennis Hopper
Talking (for 87 minutes) with Patti Smith
(available in multiple formats)
Vaclev Havel: back to playwriting
Contemporary artist action figures
Is Mr. Brainwash visual flarf?
John Yau on Ann Mikolowski’s pocket portraits
Yves Klein at the Hirshhorn
Mira Schor on Louise Bourgeois
NY Times obit of Bourgeois
with the standard slide show
Louise Bourgeois
brought nudity to Seattle
Sitting with Marina Abramovic
Site-specific art installations
at the San Francisco Presidio
Students needed at the Whitney
to recreate Baldessari’s
I Will Not…
On the poetry & art writing of Eileen Myles
London arts editors:
get out more!
RIP, Deborah Remington
Ginsberg:
I saw the best minds of my generation
& took photos
Remember the Polaroid!
Peter Schjeldahl:
How Leo Castelli changed the world
Aboriginal paintings may be 40,000 years old
Banksy’s poisoned valentine to street art
Detroit gallery hides Banksy work after threats
Urs Fischer in Greenwich, CT
A new Whitney for downtown Manhattan
The Inky’s monument
to the Barnes Foundation heist
Voyeurism at the Tate
Poets in collage
in Manhattan thru June 27
Governors Island as artists’ space
The godfather of American architecture
Who owns Mendel’s manuscript?
Martine Bellin: “Visioning Red:
After Seeing C.G. Jung’s The Red Book”
Frege’s Philosophy of Language
Frege & the Logic of Sense & Reference
Heidegger & a poetics of matter
On Becoming Aware:
A Pragmatics of Experiencing
Text, context, subtext
of a Washington “scoop”
For-profit college prez fired
over handling of language incident
