Why is Gertrude Stein so important?
Juliana Spahr on Gurlesque
Rebecca Loudon: from Queer Wing-ed
Nicole Brossard’s Selections
Remembering Leslie Scalapino:
Laura Hinton
Ann Bogle
Cynthia Hogue
The death & life of the book review
Poets respond to the BP disaster
Ana Božičević’s Stars of the Night Commute
Richard Deming on Charles Bernstein
Talking with Charles Bernstein
Michael Cross on Norma Cole
Completely mangling William Carlos Williams?
There’s an app for that
Eileen Myles on CA Conrad
Bill Pearlman on Rae Armantrout
Stan Apps:
Notes on the value of recuperating language poetry
So?
A lengthy, shaggy dog story
about Irving Layton’s “The Dwarf”
& the journal that published
Robert Creeley’s “I Know a Man”
A physicist “decodes” Walt Whitman
Neil Pattison’s “Preferences”
& the difficulty vs. obscurity question
Anselm Berrigan’s Free Cell
Rachel Loden’s “The Hollywood Years”
John Matthias’ laundry lists
Paul Vangelisti
receives the Raiziss/de Palchi Prize
For once I agree with Simon Armitage:
“They’re poems because I say they’re poems”
What Philip K Dick really needed
was a co-author
Remembering Peter Orlovsky
William Burroughs:
A Man Within
When poets rocked Russia’s stadia
The LA Times on Voznesensky
Russian people pay tribute
Leaving behind a troubled history
When times are tough,
we need to dash
Robert Hass:
Chinese poetry has come alive again
Liu Xiaobo transferred to prison camp
Jeremy Prynne in China
Po Chu-I on the “ants’ nest”
Kim Addonizio’s Ordinary Genius
How curious that the answer to
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
turns out to be Lady Gaga
The late flowering of Derek Mahon
Russell Brand, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac
Talking with Helen Weaver
about her memoir of Kerouac
David Foster Wallace’s undergraduate thesis
will be published
David Foster Wallace vs. Horatio Alger
Looking for the perfect book
Can the iPad save popular magazines?
Adam Aitken’s Eighth Habitation
Kenneth Goldsmith & the words problem
Karen Solie & Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
have won Griffins for poetry
Carol Ann Duffy:
poetry “ascendant” with the young
5 great careers that begin with plagiarism
Madison Cawein, author of Waste Land
Paul Auster:
No mo’ pomo?
Daisy Hay’s Young Romantics
Chris Abani & Colm Tóibín in conversation
Thomas Fink on Denise Duhamel
Jennifer Bartlett in the NY Times
Cara Benson’s Predictions
Talking with George Murray
Laurie Duggan’s Crab & Winkle
Donald Windham has died
Ed Dorn’s Douglas Woolf
Seymour Krim:
a wannabe Beat
Amazon:
“dangerously anti-competitive”
Borders adds a second e-reader
Shakespeare & Co.
starts a prize & restarts Paris Magazine
Selling books in the Big Apple
Book sales up more than 16.6% in March
Charles Dickens, travel writer
Peter Campion in Malta
The 6 2nd Philadelphia Writers Conference, June 11 – 13
New Yorker’s “20 under 40”
gets all the way to modernism
This list takes longer to get on:
10 over 80
Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark
Christian Wiman:
using poetry, seeking God
A double dose of haiku
Colin Sokolowski’s Accidental Adult
Kenneth Rexroth for Brazil
Gerald Stern: “Weeping and Wailing”
Adorno, Prynne & lyric poetry
Samuel Beckett on the beach
When in doubt,
American writers turn to sports
Summer reading from
Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio
Another collection from John McPhee
Nathaniel West’s “Business Deal”
A novel about journalism
hits the best-seller list,
gets optioned by Brad Pitt
The annual Quietude Fest in West Chester
Lowell’s “For the Union Dead” turns 50
E.M. Forster:
A closet with a view
Allen Ginsberg’s photo diary
Talking with Allen Ginsberg
More talk with Ginsberg
Photographs from the Polaroid Collection
coming up @ Sotheby’s
Los Angeles without people
A Project Runway for the arts?
Dan Asher has died
Jane Mount & the ideal bookshelf
More people staring at Marina Abramović
with a sprinkling of celebs
Viggo Mortensen on Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper, Selma, Alabama, 1965
Talking with Harmony Korine
Yeats & Gonne & Anjelica Huston
Amiri Baraka’s The Dutchman
at the Trolley Museum of NY
Best Netflix movies-in-an-instant
based upon plays
You don’t really care for music, do you?
Laurie Anderson’s dog opera in Sydney
Suse Rotolo & Bob Dylan’s “left period”
Jakob Dylan: debts to Bible & Bob
Greil Marcus:
Van Morrison vs. Bob Dylan
Talking with Matthew Coolidge
of the Center for Land Use Interpretation
Henning Mankell on the flotilla attack
What Democrats can learn from Republicans
about ©
Michael Chabon:
Chosen, But Not Special
Yes, the internet is rotting your brain
& Nicholas Carr is the evidence to prove it
Stephen Burt:
5 new books on social networking
