Mathew Timmons:
The Arachnoids
(world’s largest sound poetry choir)
LaMonte Young’s
“Poem for Chairs, Tables,
Benches, Etc. (or other sound sources)”
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
on sound poetry
Barrett Watten:
Jackson Mac Low as Reading Machine
Nu Shu:
the secret written language of women
The Whorf Hypothesis:
don’t believe the hype
5 women among 6 finalists
for the Wales Dylan Thomas Prize
Nathalie Stephens & Steve Farmer
Talking with Charles Olson
Steve McCaffery:
Afterword to his selected poems
Tribute to Frank O’Hara
Talking with Jack Gilbert
Ukraine secret police
declassify criminal case archives
of Rose Auslander
Steve Fama on Mark Lamoureux
Lamoureux’s Dance Poems
Habib Tengour:
Surrealism in the Maghreb
Sina Queyras:
Criticality vs. negativity
The 5 meanest book reviews ever
Talking with Orhan Pamuk
Sam Hazo on Pittsburgh:
The Paris of Appalachia
Tackling UK poetry’s ethnic imbalance
with no help from Jeremy Hunt
#@%!
I missed National Punctuation Day
The high price
of being a grammar Nazi
Lightning:
a Facebook poem
Tom Konyves on videopoetry
(see also the last link below)
Don DeLillo:
Does poetry need paper?
Talking with Don DeLillo
DeLillo wins PEN / Saul Bellow Prize
Small Press Traffic has a new website
Futurepost
features mini-close readings
of works from
Futurepoem books
Rae Armantrout speaks “in splashes”
Bernadette Mayer in The Nation
(subscription required)
Attention Span 2010’s
“commented list” (so far)
Talking with Meena Kanasamy
Poems from Ms. Militancy
David Markson’s library
Goethe’s Faust
all 4½ hours
in a new adaptation
& with Derek Jacoby as God
Chinua Achebe wins $300K Gish Prize
Edwin Denby:
“On the Home Front – 1942”
Talking with Thom Gunn
On Brian Fawcett’s
“The New American Poetry and Us”
Henry Gould on Latta’s Fawcett
Talking with Hank Lazer
in teeny tiny type
Taking the name off of
The CLR James Library
Abdul Hossain receives
Mazharul Islam Poetry Award
Charles Bernstein:
“De Campos Thou Art Translated (Knot)”
The confluence of poetries in Prague
The bard of Haiku, Maui
Celebrate
the freedom to read
It’s Banned Book Week!
Ten “flashlight worthy” books
most often banned
Can censoring a children’s book
remove its prejudices?
Anti-censorship forces
need just as much passion
as their opposites
11 short tales from Max’s Kansas City
Talking with Antony Di Nardo
Allen Ginsberg, Buddhist Rabbi
Are Dublin’s literary connections
just accidents of birth?
Talking with Marilyn Hacker
Tom McCarthy &
the future of avant-garde fiction
Ruth Padel on Elaine Feinstein
Net book sales in July in the US
Indie bookshops in Boston
Will you pay to preview content
in the bookstore of the future?
Roeper gives thumbs up
to Chicago’s new poetry center
Late Capitalism & the avant-garde
The poetry of Beatrice Hawley
Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Birdsong”
Talking with John Ashbery
Poetry vs. violence
at South Philly High
The Pale King is coming
Kafka’s last trial
Old poetry illuminate older theology
On Roland Barthes’ Mourning Diary
Wordsworthian poetics
as philosophical method
Writers of the Hudson Valley
Judges throw out
Oregon’s “anti-porn” laws
Why can’t we get it rite?
Heather Christie’s
The Difficult Farm
Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza:
Some Sing, Some Cry
Sisters engage the history of black women
Celebrating Lucille Clifton
The stigma of paperback originals
Stephen Dedalus & Huck Finn
taking a fiction workshop
The NY Times reviews Tao Lin
Tao Lin:
when it’s okay to steal a book
Poetry Man
wins its seventh film fest prize
Jonathan Franzen on Fresh Air
Franzen in The Guardian
David Brook’s
on Freedom’s agenda
Jonathan Franzen on DC
Reading Freedom on a Kindle
Why there is no Kindle Freedom
in libraries
Franzen’s problem is voice
Franzen: is that all there is?
The girl with the Franzen tattoo
Who is the top dog?
Why pop fiction?
It’s not e-books vs. brick & mortar:
it’s both
During takeoff,
you don’t turn off a book
Ingram & Macmillan’s new business model
All University of Washington freshmen
must read poetry
Talking with Michel Houellebecq
Essential works of cyberpunk
Touring the South’s literary landmarks
Malayalam, Urdu poets win Jnanpith awards
Vatican Library reopens
The problem with prescriptivists
Derek Walcott at 80
“Write
so as to become
primary”
Brian Henry’s
Wings Without Birds
Talking with Harold Bloom
Time it took to “destroy”
Dostoevsky’s reputation:
15 days
George Bernard Shaw & Gene Tunney: BFFs
Graham Greene, book collector
A South Dakota poetry anthology
Talking with Raymond Carver
A poem by Tim Burton
Will the Pasternak museum
embody his values?
Seamus Heaney: “I live in panic”
William Logan on Famous Seamus
The politically inoffensive “titan”
Muldoon “mesmerizes” with Maggot
Geoffrey Hill’s the barbarian
Hugh Fox’s Where Sanity Begins
Martha Kapos’ Wallace Stevens thing
Poetry goes where politicians won’t
Poetry as “divine criminality”
Marbrook’s Brushstrokes and Glances
Putting the ale in Salem
What’s in a name?
Indian & French poets
translate one another
Philip Dacey’s Mosquito Operas
Finding inspiration in Tom Cruise’s cocktail
Take a stand
against the present tense
Dating by the book
Plath’s play is coming to NYC
Hard-boiled Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein’s TV debut?
The house
Wittgenstein built
Illusion & Delusion
in the work of
Laurie Anderson
Writing the lyrics for Superchunk
Bob Dylan & Blind Willie McTell
Hurdy-gurdy for beginners
Derrida interviews Ornette Coleman
Nick Hornby, Ben Folds & Pomplamoose
on the writing life
John Lennon at 70
An excellent obit of Irwin Silber
Remembering Doug Sahm
Bruce Springsteen steps into the light
Lesley Flanigan’s sound sculptures
Which comes first,
family or art?
Does your sense of the artist
impact your sense of the work?
Nobody bids on Lehman’s Hirst
The David Park effect
Kevin Killian on
Jason Jägel:
caste & outcast
A new Bruegel
Images from Lee Friedlander’s
America by Car
Stanford Kay:
Gutenberg Variations
Cairo Van Gogh theft
was an inside job
Flarf comics
(mostly in Dutch)
Leo Villareal:
LEDs + math = art
Has the economic downturn
painted Irish artists into a corner?
Roman Signer at Swiss Institute
Barry Schwabsky on crafts
(subscription required)
2 new characters in Archie comics:
Barack & Sarah
A KickStarter page for
Pixel Visions
Michael Koshkin’s documentary
on the PXL-2000
Edie Sedgwick still inspires
The “new, improved” Project Runway
Heidi Klum, Hegel
& the politics of politeness
Bless Me, Ultima
is coming to the screen
A memorial for Peter Orlovsky
as Howl debuts a few blocks away
A review of Howl
by someone who doesn’t know
how to read the poem
“a documentary interrupted
by a turbo-charged acid trip”
D.A. Powell:
how a famous poem became
a remarkable movie
The wrong poem
& the wrong star
How James Franco reads “Howl”
Learning from Allen Ginsberg
The Beats “birthed” a social revolution
Will union boycott
halt The Hobbit
Godard:
“There is no such thing
as intellectual property”
Why the South
will not rise again
Stephen Johnson:
Where do good ideas come from?
Why do so many hate professors?
The United States of Inequality
