What Khlebnikov means
Robert Grenier on Robert Creeley
Talking with Ana Božičević
Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season
The first form of
voice recognition software
was women
Vanessa Place’s
Tragodía – 1: Statement of Facts
Flarf may have Belarus
but Conceptualism claims Finland
Tweeting Gone with the Wind
Vote for Rae Armantrout
in Library of Congress’
“favorite author” poll
A KickStarter page for
Robert Kelly’s Oedipus After Colonus
Mamet’s doctrine
Talking with Chimalum Nwankwo
Reading The New Sentence
Vehicle nicknames as public discourse
The plastic poetics of Ian Finch
The Jack Kerouac 5K
Who’s who in On the Road
Kerouac as nomad & writer
“We are fam-il-y,” stammers Garrett Hedlund
The Howl website is up
Talking with James Davies
Franz Wright’s “Wheeling Motel”
Avant Writing Symposium’s
show-n-tell
A history of literary blogging
by Heriberto Yepez
(in Spanish)
A preview of John Norton’s
Air Transmigra
Eating out with Tan Lin
Maureen Thorson on Tan Lin
Toi Derricotte:
“We are not post-racial”
Edwin Torres’ “Mirror Meteor”
CFP: Poets Theater 2011
Robert Hass’ Issa
Talking with Don DeLillo
Talking with Harry Northup
Pynchon in Poland
Applied flarf
(close out password request)
What’s in a (pen)name?
Who needs publishers?
E-books force change @ B&N
An Espresso Book Machine
comes to McNally Jackson
(but there are still less than 40
in the world)
What, in 2010, is a book?
Brian Teare’s Albion Books
Robert Pinsky on
“the humanist mythology of print”
Are e-books good for poetry?
Your own adventure book –
there’s an app for that
Pete Hamill,
the “patriarch of print,”
goes digital
Ditto Halvard Johnson
What about marginalia?
What happens to the home library?
What about marginalia?
What happens to the home library?
Philadelphia Center for the Book
A unique library in Colorado
&: ampersand food groups
August 28 in Berkeley,
4 hours only & not online:
SPD’s annual sidewalk sale
October 1 – 3,
Black Mountain comes to
Rochester, NY
October is festival month
January 9 – 11
Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico
US Poets in Mexico
A.D. Winans’
Billie Holiday Me and the Blues
Tolkien & Dickens join forces, sorta
The fate of William Hazlitt
Talking with John Waters
Tillie Olsen:
One Woman, Many Riddles
Zbigniew Herbert, “Leonardo’s Disquiet”
& in Vogue as well
Franzen “picks up the torch
for US literary tradition”
Franzen’s Freedom:
“a kind of 19th-century realist”
Why celebrate Jonathan Franzen?
Anthony Trollope,
the original literary mash-up
Jack Gilbert’s “holy curse”
The poetry drop box
Poetry & the English imagination
A Wordsworth treasure is donated to Tynwald
Talking with Jean-Dany Joachim
Marilyn Krysl on Marilyn Hacker
Poems celebrating Ramadan
A New Theory for American Poetry:
Democracy, the Environment &
the Future of the Imagination
The tragic history of Chelsea’s wedding poem
Wendy Lesser on Henry James
If aliens come, it will be for the poetry
Yeats’ “The Sorrow of Love”
Hilary Mantel’s “Comma”
Anne Carson’s translation
of Sophocles
The “Grotto of Catullus”
Albert Cossery in English
Geoffrey Hill: “antiquated and hubristic”
The passion & power of John Keats
Another way to separate wannabe writers
from their money
At the Norman Mailer Writers Colony
Stanley Fish:
Plagiarism is not a big moral deal
Kundera’s essays
Conflicts at an academic journal
don’t end with suicide
What killed Kevin Morrissey?
10 things you don’t know
about Ray Bradbury
For the first time in a decade
the Booker long list is selling well
Talking with MRB Chelko
Rick Moody on Vonnegut et al
David Antin: On Narrative
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
The University of Scranton Press
is shutting down
“Favorite” punctuation:
unnecessary quotation marks
An anthology of the accessible from Penguin
17 quietist journals
that might survive the internet
50 “great” American poets –
no Pound or Crane,
but hey Mark L. Danielewski
Thinking realistically about fiction
Can Lorin Stein make the Paris Review relevant?
Cage & the art of nonintention
The art world name game
Carol Ann Duffy’s
The Sculpture of Language
Beatrix Potter’s paintings,
which can only be displayed once a decade,
are on view at Mottisfont Abbey
Was Julio Galán
the best painter of the 1980s?
The Gao brothers are heading to LA
Uplifted in Detroit
(Hint: this mural is the best painting in the USA)
Remembering Biala
The Ansel Adams mystery deepens
Talking design with Zandra Rhodes
A gallery of Rhodes work
“China’s Warhol” gets dirty
When Constructivism crumbles
Doug Hall’s photos of Moscow
Protecting the archives of
Frank Lloyd Wright
Theaters adapt
Confederacy of Dunces
Douglas Messerli’s
USTheater blog
has really taken off
Rethinking the Brownings for the stage
Bruno S. has died
Charlie Chan finds his Boswell in Yunte Huang
Susan Schultz on Charlie Chan
Chan, the man
Librarians save the day!
A master class with Natalie Merchant
Claire Donato on Joanna Newsom
The Dave Carter Song Circle
at Falcon Ridge Folk Fest last July
Wilco takes over Mass MoCA
Stompin’ at the Savoy
Trey McIntyre in Boise
Channeling Don Draper
(Great 1950s ads for Twitter,
YouTube, Facebook, etc.)
Christopher Hitchens:
I’m dying
Slavoj Žižek, neocon
Top 10 failed celebrity political campaigns
Imagination seizes power
William James on “mental effects”
of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
The visual representation
of statistical information
by Florence Nightingale
The first PhD in Facebook
Confessions of a “class worrier”
Of Anis Shivani’s
“over-rated” honey pot
& other “London era Victorian garbage”
Is Shivani’s list sexist?
So who is “criminally underrated”?
Another “underrated” list
“the American id
in all its snaggletoothed, pustulent (sic) glory”
“if the art is to survive,
it will do so in the hands of readers,
not paparazzi”
