Talking with Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly’s sudden fictions
Talking with Rae Armantrout
What The New Yorker doesn’t publish
Jena Osman on Bern Porter
The Bern Porter website
Ken Edwards
on innovative British writing
& the lack thereof
Tim Carmody
on Lydia Davis & Edith Grossman
Gurlesque:
The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque
Poetics
Ange Mlinko:
Can a “global poet” exist?
Life on the content farm
Gustaf Sobin’s Collected Poems
Will Alexander:
Mirach Speaks to His Grammatical Transparents
(selections)
Talking with Gerard Malanga
Eric Baus’ Bee-Stung Aviary
Andrea Cohen’s Long Division
A history of the Peter F. Yacht Club writing group
Lisa Robertson & Avra Spector on Henri Meschonnic
Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract
Ammiel Alcalay’s Islanders
Sandra Simonds’ “Lines Written on Nursery Wall”
Simonds’ “Landscape Made from Egg and Sperm”
The EPC’s brand new John Wieners page
CAConrad,
talking to himself
Kay Ryan’s Collected Poems
Launching Poetree’
Tom Pickard’s The Ballad of Jamie Allen
Talking with Vanessa Place
Inside JG Ballard’s archives
Yosano Akiko’s On the Scented Breeze
Calvin Bedient on
Myung Mi Kim & Leland Hickman
John Bennett’s Drive By
Ugly Duckling
not only has online web-books
but is putting it’s o.p. list online
Talking with Don DeLillo
DeLillo’s love of language
Henry Real Bird,
Montana’s poet laureate,
is on horseback
Portland Poly-Vocal’s
YouTubes of sound poetry classics
Talking with PD James
Adam Fieled’s
“Entitlements:
Post-Modernity, Capitalism,
and the Threat to Poetry's History “
Talking with Steve Healey
Karen Volkman’s Nomina
Robert Farnsworth & Alex Lemon
Robert Pinsky’s robot pageant
Robby Burns’ last days described
Words Without Borders:
Writing from Hungary
Some videos of Anne Sexton
Rick Moody’s four fingers of form
Michael Dirda on Michael Donaghy
John Olson:
Five prose poems,
and some canned tomatoes
Taking the mashups in the other direction:
Austenizing horror tales
Viggo Mortensen & Amy Adams
join On the Road cast
as Bill & Joan Burroughs
Yet another NY Times review
of the letters of
Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac
Funds for a permanent Kerouac exhibit
in Lowell, MA
Michael Horovitz
still vomiting neo-Beat texts
Nelson Algren & the Beats
Herman Munster, beat poet
César Aira’s Ghosts
In defense of “Chick Lit”
Adam Strauss’ “Because I am…”
The poet as citizen:
Stephen Burt
Daisy Fried
Terrance Hayes
David Biespiel
Andrew Wiley, agent provocateur
E-book pricing draws antitrust scrutiny
Is Amazon’s 70-80% share
of e-book market monopolistic?
Apple & Amazon
are screwing you on e-books
Have you experienced Kindle prejudice?
University press e-book consortium
gets a little funding
2,000-year-old technology
still going strong today
George Herbert going digital
An expanding high-end book chain
Mass market paperback publisher
is abandoning print
Don’t write off book publishers just yet
Barnes & Noble is for sale
Opening the door at Battenkill Books
The second wave of Pittsburgh bookstores
Indie bookstores rising in NYC
2 bookstores open in the Hamptons
A bookstore dies in Plano
In LA, 105-year-old Dawson’s
holds a clearance sale
Will indies be the last bookstores standing?
Saturday, August 14 in Philly,
The Urchin Series’ flash mob
poetry reading celebrates
Jonathan Williams
in Bartram’s Garden!
Saturday, August 14 in SF:
ROVA meets Estamos Ensemble!
August 19-21 in Columbus, OH
Avant Writing Symposium
August 26-28
Several great John Zorn concerts
at Yoshi’s SF
92nd St Y
2010 – 2011 reading schedule
“The 15 most overrated American writers”
What is the future for
Black Elk Speaks?
Great poetry is no scandal
Marilyn Buck has died
5 recordings by Buck
on prison, exile & Cristina Peri Rossi
George Eliot:
“the hoary formula, ‘I am’”
8 years for stealing Shakespeare folio
The Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry Project
A blog-to-book tool
for WordPress
Famous last words
The Big Read gets little
Home is where the poem is
Fiona Sampson’s “Schubertiad”
Superman to the rescue, literally
Robert Duncan:
2 poèmes de Letters
traduction de l'américain et
introduction par Auxeméry
The August issue of
Gently Read Literature
is up
Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems
Anne Carson’s
“Father’s Own Blue Cartigan”
Francine Prose on Hans Keilson
Talking with JP Donleavy
Driving Stieg Larsson
A dark memoir of writing fiction
The odds on the Man Booker Prize
The astrology of literary rejection
Poetry & psychiatric disorders
A blended librarian talks
Visas get easier
for visiting artists
Nick Cave penning rewrite of The Crow
Paul Taylor @ 80
Dancing for Mark Morris
Brian Eno’s Warp Factor
Leonard Cohen’s tribute to Yeats
A stipend for “Willie”
The emerging arts mecca of Detroit
Dan Steinhilber, escaping definition
Alice Neel in London
The last roll of Kodachrome
The largest Picasso
(for which he outsourced the painting)
Are the lost Ansel Adams works really his?
Finding Fra Angelico
Inception’s “generation gap”
Zukofsky’s Chaplin
Groupies for the worst sci-fi film ever
Ira Glass’ intro to Denis Wood’s
Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas
This American Life
on mapping
Tony Judt has died
Judt’s work in NYR
Howard Zinn’s The Bomb
The convenient memory of
Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens’ “Tropic of Cancer”
If you live in the Charleston area,
this is one race that matters
But if you prefer college hoops…
Jessa Crispin (Bookslut)
on celebrity
There is room enough
for every poet
Wearing a black armband
“controversial deletion
of major poetry archive”
The weariness of the lunchroom monitor
A history of literary snark
“ballsy badass” unamused
Let’s torture Martin Benders
