Photo by Alan Bernheimer
An interview with Rae Armantrout
6 new poems by Armantrout
Contextualizing Gerardo Diego’s
Handbook of Foams
Leslie Scalapino’s plural time
Susan M. Schultz at PennSound
Rachel Blau DuPlessis and the poetry of textual reverence
Delmore Schwartz, reading
Stephen Burt
on poetry as political narcissism
in a time of real political need
Jordan Scott:
Flub and Utter
Jerome Rothenberg:
the anthology as manifesto
Tao Lin:
Interview questions I feel
interested / less interested
in answering
Dennis Cooper’s critical prose
Charles Bernstein’s “All the Whiskey in Heaven”
John Ashbery’s “Puff Piece”
Francisco Aragón’s
Glow of Our Sweat
The author in the age of the internet:
an LRB symposium online
Sexually abusing Emily Dickinson
In which certain silly critics
are taught to read
Gary Sullivan
is selling the original art
to his New Life poetry comics
Stephanie Strickland’s digital poetics
The electronic poetics of
Millie Niss & Martha Deed
Writers are getting
screwed in e-book deals
Will tablets render e-readers obsolete?
Tom Clark’s Vallejo
Clive James on Dunstan Thompson
Neeli Cherkovski at 65
The poetry of Gunnar Ekelöf
Ed Sanders:
10 Glyphs for 2010
NY Times obit of Tuli Kupferberg
Associated Press:
Anti-war rocker dies
CLMP’s Lit Mag Adoption program
for creative writing classes
What if Lee Siegel is right?
Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom
will be the Big Hoo-Haw @ Xmas
Anti-imperial Twain
Twain’s autobiography
doesn’t disappoint
Twain on PBS Newshour
Bishop in love
Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
on Harper Lee
The other tales
of Monroeville, Alabama
A late start for Borders e-books
Audiobooks – lend me your ears
What kind of laureate will Merwin be?
Merwin’s DC roots
can be found at St. Elizabeths
Merwin “is the right choice”
Robert Parker &
the ballad of the sad chair
Derek Walcott reading
No easy answers in © debate
The man who wrote Lord of the Flies
Barbara Ras’ The Last Skin
This one’s fun
to read aloud
Michael Walsh’s The Dirt Riddles
Stieg Larsson’s fourth manuscript
The role of poetry
in religious knowledge
Charles Simic on the death penalty
A Washington Post series
on Baltimore’s art scene
Russians convicted, fined
over “forbidden art” show
Larry Rivers’ daughter
wants archives to return
private pictures
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski:
“riveting but retro”
Eleanor Morse,
founder of the Dalí Museum,
has died
The art scene: Leaving Los Vegas
More signs of a troubled art market
Rouge awakening in Hyde Park
The Fisher collection previewed at SF MoMA
Oldenburg’s paintbrush
coming to Philadelphia
Jack Goldstein in the OC
LigoranoReese’s
fiber optic tapestry
Math busking as performance art
Dennis Hopper’s “Double Standard” –
what might have been
Leonard E. Jones’
AACM Photobook
Dorothea Lasky on Stevie Nicks
(Soma)tic Poetry Exercise:
AIDS snow family
Welcome to the Slavoj Žižek Show
On the occasion of Don Share
not seeing the big deal about
Slavoj Žižek
but loving to see him host SNL
George Lakoff:
disaster messaging
