Delirious Hem’s
Tribute to Leslie Scalapino
(day 1) (day 2)
(day 3) (day 4)
Leslie Scalapino leaves
a scholarship at Reed
The New Hybridity:
Thalia Field & Leslie Scalapino
Steve Benson:
3 videos for Leslie Scalapino
What is the state of American poetry?
Clayton Eshleman, Annie Finch,
moi & Danielle Pafunda
start the debate
Clayton Eshleman’s “For the Night Poem 8 Aug 2010”
Annie Finch’s “Earth That Our Forest Looks Back For”
RS: “from Revelator”
Danielle Pafunda’s “The Dead Girls Speak in Unison”
Every literary magazine in Canada
gets defunded
Steve Evans’
Attention Span 2010
has just begun
Irony in Samuel Greenberg
Brenda Cárdenas:
“Purity is an illusion”
Robert Kelly’s
Oedipus after Colonus
An obit of Mark Linenthal
Ange Mlinko’s “The Owl”
Mlinko’s “Bluer Rather than Pinker”
The problem with Tao Lin
William Burroughs’
“lost graphic novel” is coming in 2011
Talking with Burroughs collaborator
Malcolm McNeill
Kerouac doesn’t live
on Desolation Peak
Kerouac inspires spring fashions
The smell of Baudelaire
Living at Frank O’Hara’s old place
will cost you twice as much
as living at Allen Ginsberg’s
Allen Ginsberg
wasn’t just ahead of his time,
he created it
Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky,
the “perfect pair”
Allen Ginsberg & Paul McCartney:
“The Ballad of the Skeletons”
Poetry isn’t a competitive sport
Thomas Guinzburg has died
William Archila
& the art of exile
Poetry LA
a video showcase
of the SoCal scene
Helen Vendler & Rae Armantrout
decode Dickinson
Dirda on Vendler on Dickinson
The New York Times’
“shameful” treatment of women
The New York Times
will abandon print
NYT to adopt
“metered paywall”
Wall Street Journal
to launch book review section
CA Conrad
on the impact poetry
had on Anne Sexton
& vice versa
CA Conrad:
Talking Anne Sexton blues
Elizabeth Bishop’s house
Frank Samperi:
letters to Cid Corman
Just how viable is e-publishing?
The trouble with Google books
How not to digitize a book
Google Instant & Google Scribe:
what will you write next?
At Google,
who owns the alphabet?
Google Instant censor
The Ubuweb Anthology of Conceptual Writing
Drunken Boat’s anthology of conceptual fiction
Robert Hass,
smeared with the juice of cherries
The Letters of Sylvia Beach
Frank Delaney
is video blogging
Re: Joyce
Froggy
(F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre)
has died
Ed Roberson’s “Peregrine”
(sub required)
Belatedly noting
belated obits
of David Chaloner
The provisional poetics of
Mark Weiss
Charles Bernstein:
avant magnetic north
Obit mag: when languages die
John Morse:
haiku in the streets!
Yusef Kumonyakaa:
Songs of rage & tenderness
David Shapiro’s
“Gold and Cardboard”
Do you enjoy telling young poets
what they ought to do?
Nazi “intellectuals”
Minna Pam Dick’s
“First Person of Truth”
Haiti’s first Nobel laureate?
World’s most expensive book
is up for sale (again)
Why indie bookstores matter
Bookstore at the end of the world
Ellen Hopkins’ verse novels
Talking with Carl Phillips
Talking with Jed Rasula
Javier Marias as translator
Deleting Kasey Mohammad
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s
Some Very Popular Songs
Talking with Horacio Castellanos Moya
A novel from Linh Dinh
in the fall book forecast
A headline even Glenn Beck wouldn’t use
concerning reading in Africa
Who is Sihle Khumalo?
Orphan works & OCR
Talking with Robert Pinsky
Remembering 9/11 thru poetry
What is the audience for
The Art of the Sonnet?
Doug Holder:
How “I” write a poem
Your Mina Loy portal
John Koethe
wins the Lenore Marshall Prize
Ahmad Hammad’s
Shaam Baichain Hai
Finding a long lost poem by
Sir Walter Scott
Kinds of Quietism
Tony Hoagland:
the tribes of poetry
(how to talk about schools
without acknowledging their existence)
In Westchester County,
a Quietist series is going silent
David Foster Wallace
archive set to open
with live webcast September 14
September 15 in NYC,
How obscene is this?
The “decency” clause turns 20
September 16 in NYC:
Current trends in ecopoetics
September 23 in Paris,
Homage to Frank O’Hara
September 23 in Philadelphia,
Leonard Schwartz at Writers House
September 25 in Philadelphia,
Michelle Belluomini & Thomas Devaney
September 30 in Chicago,
Franz Wright
October 1 in NYC:
Omnidawn
October 4 in NYC,
Lydia Davis at the 92nd St Y
October 7 – 10,
the largest poetry event in North America
comes to Newark, NJ
October 12 in Ambler, PA,
Poetry Noir: Sunset Boulevard
October 20 in NYC,
What Dickens drank
October 25 in NYC,
Adonis at the 92nd St Y
November 8 – 14 in Philly,
First Person Festival
The Washington Post
rehashes the suicide of
VQR managing editor
Kevin Morrisey
The NY Times
shows more interest
in the fate of the journal
James Baldwin’s
Cross of Redemption
A reading by Seamus Heaney
Poetry with puppets
Portland’s poetry peddlers
The Romance Writer’s Phrase Book
A verse chronicle by Clive James
Garrison Keillor to pick
May Swenson prize
Daniel Pritchard on Ben Lerner
Talking with Pritchard
William Gibson on
made-to-order books
William Gibson’s Zero History
William Gibson & the fate of casual menswear
John Grisham
in the underwear department
Frank Kermode
wrote nearly 250 articles for
The London Review of Books
Sam Willetts’ New Light for the Old Dark
Trial & eros
Is Dr. Johnson right about Lycidas?
Sympathy for the (Miltonic) devil
Barthes’ hand
‘Tain’t theft
if you steal from Wikipedia,
Houellebecq claims
David Lehman
on Kent Johnson’s attempt
to rewrite literary history
One reading
of Frank O’Hara’s & Kenneth Koch’s
friends & family’s
attempts to protect their work
The refutation of Tony Towle
More free legal advice
Mark Scroggins seems bemused
The “critical novella” in question
“Kent Johnson is the author of Beowulf”
This is Mark Twain
Raymond Carver’s “Kindling”
Disturb the Universe:
The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled
“The problem with American poetry”
A list of “top ten British memoirs”
that includes David Jones
Statements about poetry
Rediscovering Vonnegut
Talking with Tim Waterstone
Dan Wyke’s Waiting for the Sky to Fall
Pride and Prejudice & queer theory
Andrew Motion
defends the Booker Man shortlist
Jerome Rothenberg:
“Je est un autre”
What is at the heart of writing?
Product placement
in 19th-century British novels
Emperor Quianlong wrote 40,000 poems
Talking with Stephen Ellis
What’s inside your Kindle?
Best Buy to sell Kindle
One view of the litcrit digital world
$46,000,000
to develop a new e-book reader
E-books:
what a librarian wants
The DEA’s search for
Black English expertise
The trailer for
The Word Made Flesh
2 Irish poets in Omaha
Matthew Dickman & a hot tomato
Maya Lin at Storm King
DIY Paradise: Detroit
Lital Doran & Eyal Perry
n SF thru October 6: Glasshouse
You can’t get there from here,
but you can get here from there
@ Apex Art in NYC
September 15 – October 30
Dan Colen at Gagosian, NYC
September 10 – October 16
Kenneth Baker on Rauschenberg’s materials
Rescue of Watts Towers stalls
September 11 on the wall
Art that’s as hot as Haiti
Tennessee may confiscate O’Keeffes
to keep Fisk from selling them
In France, a castle is selling its Poussin
Texas Southern paints over murals
The Uranian Phalanstery is moving
Sonny Rollins:
Saxophone Colossus
The sax king
September 17 – 19
Lake George, NY
David Amran turns 80
Elliot Carter at Tanglewood
R. Luke DuBois: A Year in MP3s
Irwin Silber has died
Sean Wilentz’
Bob Dylan in America
Like Dylan, Sean Wilentz
defies expectations
Janet Maslin
on Wilentz’ Dylan
Wilentz on the Village
in the 1950s & ‘60s
Talking with Sean Wilentz,
the historian from Eighth Street Books
My Allen Ginsberg:
James Franco at an inflection point
James Franco
on portraying gay men
Franco’s interview in The Advocate
An international tour of the films of
Warren Sonbert
begins September 15 in Paris
Jean-Luc Godard & Oscar le fou
Claude Chabrol has died
Ingmar Bergman’s archives
Stan Brakhage’s 23rd Psalm Branch
The architecture of social engagement
Talking with John Pawson
Will the humanities survive the 21st century?
Why hard copy is truth
