From David Schneider’s
forthcoming biography of
Philip Whalen
(thanks to Coyote’s Journal)
Big Bridge Whalen fest
Was Oskar Pastior a spy
for the Romanian secret police?
Poetry & The Poetry Foundation
announce their 2010 prize winners
& I’m on the list
The Levinson Prize
puts me in some interesting company
Margaret Atwood:
“On Being a Woman Writer”
Rae Armantrout in The Nation
(subscription required)
An Alli Warren Report
Vanessa Place
on poets without products
Timothy Yu:
Making the Case for
Asian American poetry
A rare stash of
the David Bromige issue of
The Difficulties
is for sale
8 books (& more)
by Jalal Toufic
available for downloading
Talking with Francisco Aragón
Sherman Alexie
banned in Missouri
Forthcoming
Leslie Scalapino events
Peggy Willis Lyles has died
Lydia Davis:
Why a new Madame Bovary?
Eleni Sikélianòs’
“Sidelong and Uncodifiable”
Carolyn Silveira:
“How James Franco
Became My Boyfriend”
Howl
“is James Franco’s girlfriend”
“the truth behind Ginsberg’s logic”
Howl: “a great film”
City Lights sponsors
a trailer contest for Howl
John Wieners’
The Hotel Wentley Poems
Treasuring Hubert Selby Jr.
Is Amazon lying?
Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr:
“No one should go into debt to study poetry”
(PS: see the last link below)
Roberto Bolaño:
“Advice on the Art of
Writing Short Stories”
3 new Bolaño books
Lindsay Hill:
Temporary Text / Time and the Dead
Harry Northup:
Beyond Baroque
Edwin Denby:
“The Street”
Denby’s
“Disorder, Mental, Strikes Me”
The incomplete works of Richard Krech
Kevin Killian:
Posthumously published novel fragments
The love letters of Oscar Wilde
Al Filreis
on Tony Hoagland’s attempt
to justify the School of Q
without admitting it exists
One anthology,
multiple titles
Anne Tardos’ “Nine, 40”
Rexroth’s elegies
A truly bookless library
Lost libraries,
including that of David Markson
Mina Pam Dick’s Delinquent
Talking with Jesse Glass
A watershed reading
at the Albany Public Library
A different watershed
remembered at Rutgers
September 22 in NYC,
Peter Orlovsky memorial reading
September 22 in LA,
Rae Armantrout & Joshua Clover
September 23 in Philly,
Jonathan Franzen
September 23 in Paris,
Homage to Frank O’Hara
September 23 in Philadelphia,
Leonard Schwartz at Writers House
September 25 in Baltimore:
Doug Lang & Terence Winch
September 25 in Philly,
William Gibson
September 25 in Philadelphia,
Michelle Belluomini & Thomas Devaney
September 27 in NYC,
big group reading for VLAK,
including Pierre Joris, Eileen Myles,
Marjorie Welish, Vincent Katz,
& many more
September 29 in NYC,
Laura Moriarty & Joseph Donohue
September 30 in Chicago,
Franz Wright
October 1 in NYC:
Omnidawn
October 4 in NYC,
Lydia Davis at the 92nd St Y
October 6 in NYC,
Anne Carson & David Shapiro
October 7 – 10,
the largest poetry event in North America
comes to Newark, NJ
October 12 in Philadelphia,
A.S. Byatt
October 12 in Ambler, PA,
Poetry Noir: Sunset Boulevard
October 13 in Philadelphia,
Slavoj Žižek:
Are disasters virtual?
October 20 in NYC,
What Dickens drank
October 20 at Princeton,
CD Wright & Richard Price
October 25 in NYC,
Adonis at the 92nd St Y
November 4 in Philadelphia,
Edwidge Danticat & Linh Dinh
November 8 – 14 in Philly,
First Person Festival
November 17 in Philadelphia,
Claudia Swan:
Counterfeit Chimeras
November 19 – 21 in Cherry Hill, NJ
Philcon, with Peter Beagle
Jeffrey Beam
on North Carolina Public Radio
Patti McCarty’s
“Make Mine Darjeeling”
Frost’s farm
The House of Poetry,
Damascus
Banipal focuses
on Arab-American voices
Against creative writing programs
Joshua Corey
against the anti-creative writing movement
Laynie Browne:
On the Elasticity of the Sonnet &
the Usefulness of Collective Experimentation
AB Kalinov:
An Introduction to Intermedia Poetry
Elective Affinities:
A Cooperative Anthology
of Contemporary U.S. Poetry
Anselm Berrigan:
from Notes from Irrelevance
Robert Walser:
How immense can modesty be?
“The best proletarian novel ever written”
(an opinion I certain share
tho not this conservative’s reasons exactly)
99 Ways into
New Zealand Poetry
Rachel Zucker’s
“An Anatomy of the Long Poem”
Writers’ residence
emerges as cultural hub
Franklin Bruno on
Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
of the poetry of superstition
& supposition
Stevie Smith:
“Ridiculous and terrifying,
aunt and prophetess”
Talking with Julie Bloemeke
Jeffrey Yang, aquarium poet
John Ashbery & Paul Auster
at the Brooklyn Bookfest
A rainy day at the Brooklyn bookfest
Scenes from the fest
as seen in LA
“Juvenilia” is not a dirty word
2 poems by Thom Donovan
Barbara Jane Reyes:
Teaching poetry to spoken word artists
Orhan Pamuk’s museum
comes to life
The Great American Novelist
sans penis
Jordan Davis
on Michael Gottlieb’s
Memoir & Essay
Matthew Zapruder:
Don’t paraphrase
James Tate:
“The Cowboy”
Talking with Gerald Locklin
A profile of Tara Powell
from the p.o.v.
of her home town,
Elizabeth City, NC
In Elmira, NY,
poetry in the parks
Twisting newsprint into verse
Barnes & Noble
reveals its vision of the future
The battle for Barnes & Noble
All those years wasted
shopping at indie bookstores
Ottawa’s oldest indie goes bankrupt
A 57-year-old indie
in Southern Pines, NC
The Top Ten Bookstores in the US
(tho they missed both Moe’s & Woodland Pattern)
Books-bought to books-read ratio
A bookstore with an iPad lounge
in Merced, California
The sidewalk bookseller
who outlasted Barnes & Noble
Confessions of an indie book clerk
The pen that never forgets
I covet this desk
WSJ book review
has several conflicts
Tsutomu Yamaguchi’s
And the River Flowed
as a Raft of Corpses
Talking with
Juan Andrés García Román
Four poems by García Román
The 200th anniversary of the death of
Mir Taqi Mir
is September 21
Hanif Kureishi
wins the PEN Pinter Prize
Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation
A Laura Mullen triptych
Donald Hall’s Life Work
Life imitates Franzen
Freedom fails
Oprah picks Franzen
in spite of his past
The Franzen circus is moving
Katha Pollitt on “Franzenfreude”
“Jonathan Franzen
is the Lady Gaga
of the book world”
Does Franzen really exist?
Mark Dunn Ghost Music trailer
Why you should (not) date writers
Talking with Werewolf Haiku’s
Ryan Mecum
James Wright on poetic prose
Why read books
if you can’t remember the plot?
(Hint: plots are not the important part)
Twin Twain exhibitions
An Iowa Writer’s Workshop
roman-a-clef
An Arsonist’s Guide
to Overrated Writers
Kathleen Graber:
How to write Quietist verse
British Library’s new Ted Hughes archive
includes 3 unpublished poems
Mark Scroggins on a “savage review”
Recovering the “Delphic voice”
Matthew Pennock’s
“Big Money”
Thomas Lynch reads “Euclid”
Emma Donoghue’s Room
It’s not too late
to rent Ginsberg’s apartment
Allen Ginsberg:
poet with a Kodak
Beatniks & the roots of the hip
The Academy of American Poets
finally has added a page on
Jack Kerouac
Kerouac on textile towns
Columbia acquires
Barney Rosset’s papers
The UK tradition of Public Lending Right
which pays authors for library readership
is under attack
Talking with Zvonko Karanović
10 poems by Karanović
Kate Chopin’s “Désirée’s Baby”
Ntozake Shange, 2010
Some Sing, Some Cry
(exerpt)
A profile of Helen Losse
Academy of American Poets awards
to Galway Kinnell & Khaled Mattawa
Ron Charles on Booker finalists
Žižek, Poiesis & Politics
George Bernard Shaw On War
David Orr on epigraphs
The parsimony principle at work
A “terminally unsophisticated yokel”
at The Paris Review
recalls discovering Bataille
Poetry & death
Joyce Maynard
on the death of J.D. Salinger
Is the signed Salinger for real?
Best (modern) poems
for any stage of relationship
Google to enter e-book market
Google threatens
idea of literature
not being a cash cow
for trade publishers
Google as muse
Poems from Stephen Cope’s
Conference of the Birds
(my favorite podcast)
The Stanford Graphic Novel Project
Lascaux:
a visit to the cave
“A watershed
in the history of Western culture”
Wharton Esherick
& the birth of the modern
Monika Chicoń
between chaos & order
Rob Pruit:
Pattern & Degradation
The many faces of
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
On the road
with Lee Friedlander
Momo’s line
Talking with Takashi Murakami
Judge nixes Fisk sale of its art
Finding Corot
Public art,
public nuisance
in Providence
LA artists
fight to save murals
Junya Ishigami:
Architecture as Air
The audience for poetry,
the audience for theater
21st Century Irish Americans
respond to Eugene O’Neill
Close-reading
“Blind Willie McTell”
Subterranean homesick
manhole covers
Brian Eno’s
sound-only movies
Musicians:
record companies
want your first born
Baltimore erects a monument
to Frank Zappa
Dworkin & Garfunkel:
The Sounds of Silence
Ellen Fishman-Johnson
still smoldering
A Turner Prize for new music?
Yoko Ono voice art piece
with really annoying TV commercial
Drum circle & other geometries
Arthur Russell’s
1977 Ginsberg collab
has been re-released
Tom Wolfe
on “The First Tycoon of Teen”
Tony Trehy on
Inception vs. A Single Man
Lionel Rogosin’s
On the Bowery
is back
Bowery trailer
A classic docudrama
Here comes
Paradise Lost 3D
The best (by far)
short account of the implications
of the global financial crisis
has been penned by
Joshua Clover
