Ted Berrigan by Alex Katz
Ted Berrigan:
Adamic
Remembering Leslie Scalapino:
Fanny Howe
Tim Atkins
Robert Grenier
Rob Holloway
Lisa Samuels
Caroline Bergvall
Peter Middleton
Barry Schwabsky
Stephen Ratcliffe
Carol Watts
Laura Hinton’s
How2 feature on Scalapino
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Bob Perelman & Charles Bernstein
close-reading Charles Olson
Reading William Empson
through David Markson, Italo Calvino &
of course Charles Olson
The 45th anniversary of
Olson’s unstoppable talk
at the Berkeley Poetry Conference
Stephen Burt:
Wake all the dead
Burt on C.K. Williams’ Whitman
Rae Armantrout on
San Diego’s “middle-American pathology”
Poetry Foundation’s iPhone app
Beat Power
Bhanu Kapil:
Notes for Ban: an infantile bank
Remembering Big Table
Edgar Allan Poe:
“Give us quietude”
Why the School of Q
is so quiet
What is a long poem?
Larry Eigner’s
corrected errata
An interview with W.S. Merwin
Catherine Meng & Thom Donovan
@ the (New) Reading Series
@ 21 Grand in Oakland
“How will I know when I make a mistake?”
Rachel Lavitsky: “Gaps and their Consequences”
Reading Pamela O’Shaugnessy
Talking with Pamela O’Shaugnessy
Some poems by O’Shaugnessy
July 29
at the Petrie Museum in London,
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
July 30 in Petaluma:
Rockpile & the Rabbles:
David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg,
Clark Coolidge & more
Home & Away:
The Trans-Tasman Poetry Symposium
September 1-3 in Sydney
Partaw Naderi poetry podcast
A century of obscenicons
Christopher Beach’s
Artifice & Indeterminacy:
An Anthology of New Poetics
Talking with Edward Smallfield
about Apogee Press
Edward Sanders: Selected Poems
Tuli Kupferberg obit
in the London Telegraph
Typefaces matter
Edward Byrne: fond of fonts
Kindle e-books
are outselling hardcovers
You cannot give Kindles as gifts
The changing economy of e-books
Leveling the e-book playing field
Sharp to enter the e-reader market
Publishers rage against Wylie
Authors bypass publishers
Wylie’s move is an Amazon coup
The end of publishing is near
Wylie: My kindle
is in a closet
Colin Robinson:
the trouble with Amazon
The art of slow reading
Sometimes it’s okay
to judge a book by its cover
Brian Turner’s war
Mark Young:
“A line from Ron Silliman”
55 years later, Howl still inspires
A tour through the letters
of Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac
Kerouac & Ginsberg:
Writes of passage
How Ginsberg’s photos
captured the Beats
Talking with Kyp Malone
The Kerouac School will remain intact
New York street poetry from
Frank O’Hara to Robert Samuel Snyderman
William James Austin:
Neither Ginsberg nor O’Hara
Lunch with Carson McCullers
(also Isak Dinesen & Marilyn Monroe)
Judge: make Kafka’s papers public
The Kafka-esque story
of Kafka’s manuscripts
A profile of Ahsahta Press
Twain vs. Cooper,
Cather vs. Twain
Howard Norman’s epistolary novel
Technology & the novel
from Blake to Ballard
Wendell Berry’s Imagination in Place
Dublin: city of literature
Yet another Dickinson fantasy
The Voice of America on
Emily D.
Emily Dickinson in the Bronx
Tolstoy’s flight
The definitive Mad Men summer reading list
Don DeLillo in Yankee Stadium
Dodie Bellamy:
from Whistle While You Dixie
Kids poetry shouldn’t wimp out
The 2nd annual Maui Poetry Body Slam
The companionable presence of a book
Gangway 40: the expat edition
A brief survey of the short story
Rescuing “Pale Fire” from Pale Fire
The Vonnegut effect
The Great Gatsby video game
Daniel Nester
on amateur hour at the Paris Review
“The Rejectorinos”
Dear Paris Review
When is an acceptance not an acceptance
The “dead poem society”
The Equalizer offers to run everything
In which John Gallaher realizes
that big presses
are really small presses
with big money
Breaking “news” at the Paris Review
Jim Behrle has the comic version
“arguably the first great work
of Irish poetic post-modernism”
Duets:
books pairing US & Kiwi authors
Vanessa Place: from The Gates
Bret Easton Ellis on David Foster Wallace
Jo Shapcott:
“I’m not someone
chasing her own ambulance”
Ken Norris & Gary Thomas Morse
discuss After Jack
& the Canadian afterlife of Jack Spicer
Caroline Picard’s Wherecoyote
Joyce Carol Oates’
widowhood with literature
Philip Roth’s indignation
Yeats’ Selected Poems
Ten questions on poetry & technology:
Sandra Beasley
John Vick
Worth reading:
Roadrunner X:2
A New York Times grab-bag
of short poetry reviews
Mark Doty’s The Art of Description
Talking with Michael Kocinski
Katherine Mansfield’s “Candle”
The Charles Prize
for poems concerning health & medicine
Talking with Gordon Lish
Lives of the novelists:
E.M. Forster
Somerset Maugham
Yogananda &
“the prototypical hippie novel”
A history of canned laughter
The library’s role in Inception
Old Spice & libraries
The library with a story to tell
Anne Carson + Raushan Mitchell:
making Nox dance
Tarkovsky’s films are now
free online
Conversations with Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar’s busy future
Snøhetta wins the SF MoMA competition
The “most important” buildings
of the past 30 years
Minimalism, Maximalism & what’s in between
A slideshow of great architecture
The power of The Gross Clinic
Eakins at LACMA
75 reasons to live:
Stephen Hartman & Rudolf Frieling
on Felix Gonzales-Torres
75 reasons to live
Rex Ray & Kevin Killian
on Andy Warhol
Doug Ohlson has died
Charles Burchfield, homebody modernist
American art collectors
ripe for study
Frank Smigiel on David Hockney
Vijay Iyer, Bill Morrison, Al Capone:
September 3 – 18
Eastern State Prison, Philadelphia
The Christgau method
Talking with Laurie Anderson
The Library is on Fire:
the band
Benedictine nuns
sign with Lady Gaga’s label
The Bible as source:
John the Revelator
The last protégé of Edward R. Murrow,
Daniel Schorr has died
What’s in Sammy Steward’s
“stud file”
