Kerouac students organize
to save the writing program at Naropa
Anne Waldman & Lisa Birman on the situation at Naropa
Twitter stream in solidarity with Naropa’s writing program
Austerity in literature
Emma Cocker: “Open City”
Why isn’t a short poem considered ambitious?
Rob Fitterman’s Collective Task
Joan Retallack’s Fourth of July
Retallack on alternative poetries,
alternative pedagogies
Retallack on Leslie Scalapino
Laura Hinton on Scalapino
Camille Martin:
Remembering remembering
Leslie Scalapino
“Embracing interplay
of life and time”
Rachel Levitsky on Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino’s Rhythmic Intensities
Rae Armantrout: “Errands”
Kenneth Rexroth’s columns for the San Francisco Examiner
Approaching Roy Fisher
Introducing Michael Gottlieb
Richard Krech on IBM cut-ups in 1966
Brandon Brown:
Poetry, art & the transformation of social space
The rise of Dalit Lit
Bay Area scene report:
Mrs Dalloway’s
Donald Wellman:
“My Life, Tangent to the Charles Olson Circle”
This year’s Pew Fellows
(click on the pix to see videos of their work)
Book bloggers catch on with publishers
Arthur Nussbaum’s Third Mind Books
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library
ain’t a sustainable bookstore either
A sweet obit of Peter Orlovsky
Weird mis-conceptions about poetry
Dickens’ doc collar, Jane Austen’s hair
Susan Stewart on Borges’ poems
How a Jeremy Larner novel
led a motion picture directed by Jack Nicholson
to takes its title from a poem by
Robert Creeley
Introducing Michael S. Hennessey
Saramago’s cantankerous blog
Jimmy Schuyler: Me, me, me
Opium as De Quincey’s competitive advantage
David Trinidad: The Patty Duke Show:
The Complete First Season
Unexpected literary references
London, July 7,
translation workshop with Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
(Other events involving African poetry in London here)
July 7 – September 11,
Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance
in the Art of the Book
(1946 – 1981)
July 17 in Vancouver
Louis Cabri:
Negotiating the social bond of poetics
(plus a reading, same location, the night before)
The Wooster Group & Seamus Heaney
will be at this year’s
Edinburgh Fringe Fest,
August 4 – 29
October 8 – 10,
Olson in Gloucester
(scroll down)
Introducing Kristin Prevallet
Ish Klein: Counting People
Zukofsky & the violence of objects
Zukofsky & modernism
Allegedly difficult books: Delany’s Dhalgren
Language (about) poetry:
a 3,612-word apologia
D.A. Powell on symmetry
Donna Stonecipher’s “White Mouth”
A PBS interview with W.S. Merwin
“’Sirious’ Poetry from New Laureate”
Margaret Diehl on W.S. Merwin
On Merwin & Paul Carroll
& more on Paul Carroll
Louise Glück’s A Village Life
Plans for a poetry plaza
in Lancaster, PA
10 questions on poetry & technology:
Dave Bonta
Pascale Petit’s Frida Kahlo poems
Harry E. Northup’s Red Snow Fence
The death of the Paris Review
The Louisville-Prague connection
Matterhorn Peak’s Mt. Whitney Poem:
a collaboration of sorts
Maybe they should have scaled Mt. Silliman
(the Google route is a masterpiece of indirectness)
Introducing Dorothea Lasky
Looking for Larkin
Ray Bradbury in LA
Nabokov in Berlin
Fox News attacks Chicago libraries
Libraries have a novel idea:
e-books of o.p. classics
Stores see Google as ally
in e-book market
In the world of e-books,
how to define success?
Older readers
driving e-book adoption
Karyna McGlynn’s
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl
Asher Ghaffar’s Wasps in a Golden Dream
Hum a Strange Music
Kids Can Learn the Power of Poetry
Helen Vendler on C.K. Williams’ On Whitman
(a true neophobe, she declares herself against the Sixties)
C.K. Williams: “The Music”
Music brings life to Big Sur doc
Talking with Jennifer Egan
Andrew Motion on Anne Carson
Introducing Jake Levine
2 haiku by Buson
Peter Didsbury’s “A Fire Shared”
Sharon Doubiago’s My Father’s Love
Adam O’Riordan In the Flesh
2 books by Nick Lantz
Fiction is dead!
It’s the American novel that’s died
Harper Lee talks to a reporter,
just not about you-know-what
Rick Moody’s salute to Kurt Vonnegut
Rereading The Broom of the System
Neil Gaiman forgets that
every sentence is a narrative
A novel about a poet’s daughter
Is believability important?
Alfred Kazin on William & Henry James
Poetry critics: professionals vs. amateurs
The lives of Jack London
Age is more than a number in literature
“The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut”
Why are novelists such bad playwrights?
Death of the trade-press literati
Radio play + Poets Theatre = Emma Thompson
& Alan Rickman doing Christopher Reid on the BBC
Kate Durbin’s The Ravenous Audience
Susan Tichy’s Gallowglass
Mary Jo Bang’s The Bride of E
Recent Irish verse
Tim Waterstone’s novel
recounts book world treachery
Books in the age
of digital reproduction
Talking with Lance Olsen
Bad poetry can sustain you
when read aloud by Morgan Freeman
Frederick Seidel’s “Downtown”
Talking with Ginny Lowe Connors
Magnificent Maps at the British Library
Talking with Czeslaw Milosz
“My hero Robert Lowell”
Benny Powell has died
The sex life of Andy Warhol
Giorgione’s clouds at 500
Talking with Chuck Close
James Rosenquist on painting
Peter Schjeldahl: mystical realism
The prison photography of Deborah Luster
Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Fall of Sleep
