Gilgamesh
read in Babylonian
(with other Babylonian & Assyrian texts)
Dodie Bellamy:
“a powerful feminist strategy”
Saudi female poet
defies men & law
A Berkeley poet of the 1960s
& social justice activist,
Lowell Levant has died
Who remembers
Ksenia Nekrosova
Bryan Beck on John Godfrey
Jean Valentine & Lyn Hejinian:
“Pure poetry”
Amy King:
“A Geography of Pleasure”
Jerome Rothenberg:
The Jigoku Zoshi Hells:
A Book of Variations
Rae Armantrout’s “Custom”
Armantrout reading
at the National Book Festival
Coral Bracho, David Huerta,
Homero Aridjis
Paul Blackburn’s The Journals
The way Gertrude Stein wrote book reviews
Kit Robinson on Carla Harryman’s
Adorno’s Noise
Talking with Al Young
5 poems by Young
Sandra Simonds’
Made from Scratch
New Jersey’s poetry trail
Meanwhile,
back in the library where I first discovered it,
poetry ain’t no frilly thing
Christina Hutchins,
Albany’s poet laureate
The poetry of place in Albany
4 centuries of Black Nature
in a town that used
to be red-lined
Adonis:
as “impenetrable” as Pound
& yet “Muldoonish”
Muldoon’s “A Mayfly”
Chris McCreary,
poet & teacher, on
Poets & Teaching
Eileen Tabios:
“A Séance with William Carlos Williams”
Talking with Harry Northup
Talking with Dennis Cooper
Introducing Eléna Rivera
Contemporary Latino Poets Mix It Up
5 recent books by Latino poets
Def Jam poet
concludes
Dia de la Raza
Complicities:
British Poetry 1945-2007
The Beats & the Tea Party
William S. Burroughs:
locked & loaded
The Cleveland family
meets Mr. Burroughs
Old Bull reading The Red Death
Literary Tatts
Where LitTatt bearers find their inspiration
Remembering David Markson
All Sorts of Sports
is up for auction
The illustrated Finnegans Wake
Robert Duncan paper doll
This is your brain on poetry
1,000 libraries could close
Sara Nicholson
on David Jones’ The Anathemata
“Poets are very wascally folks” –
Rod Smith: poems & an interview
David Berridge & Márton Koppány
on concrete poetry
A doctoral dissertation
on the visual poet Jim Andrews
Looking for Asian superheroes
Ellen Bass
& the “repressed memory” moral panic
& its victims
War & peace in contemporary
Eritrean poetry
Stieg Larsson’s year
training Eritrean guerrillas
John Taggart & Kamau Braithwaite
A book club confronts
Rita Dove’s American Smooth
Fighting to save Lawrence’s legacy
Talking with Ed Galing
Talking with A.E. Stallings
A.E. Stallings:
3 poems to Psyche
“String Theory:
The Poetry of A.E. Stallings”
Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling:
Good Night, Moon
Andrew Fitch: “Coney Island Avenue”
Gary Snyder’s “Piute Creek”
Brooklyn’s reading series:
Storefront & Triptych
Andrei Codrescu’s The Poetry Lesson
Stanley Fish:
the collapse of the humanities
Disappearing languages in Albany
Do colleges need French departments?
SUNY Albany community protests
Google understands language
like a 10-year-old
Google starts translating poetry
Halvard Johnson’s Mainly Black
A Cuban perspective
on Vargas Llosa
Vargas Llosa:
Enlightenment over barbarism
Vargas Llosa’s perfect protagonist
Harold Abramowitz’ Not Blessed
MFK Fisher
cooking the books
Talking with Margaret Atwood
The “mine poet”
Mark Nowak on
the mine rescue in Chile
Poe & science
Walt Whitman, 8-feet tall
The work of haiku
in the age of internet reproduction
Sam Hamill’s Buson
Irene McKinney’s
The Girl with the Stone in Her Lap
Webzines & blogs look more & more alike
Joan Swift, Nguyen Trai & John Taylor
Vernon Frazer’s Margin L
Having won the Nobel,
Liu Xiaobo gets better food,
but his wife is arrested
Retired Chinese CP officials
call for an end to censorship
Slavoj Žižek:
China’s “secret”
Getting that first novel out
in time for your 101st birthday
(& getting rave reviews)
A profile of Kostas Ouranis
In Ukraine, a journal of translation
turns 85
Molly Bendall’s
Under the Quick
Roberta Swan’s
Something Happens Suddenly
Amazon comes up with “singles”
for the Kindle
E-book price war in the UK
The iBookstore 6 months later:
one “big failure”
The “worst poet of the 20th Century”
Alvarez: I was too lenient
in my judgment of Ted Hughes
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
Armitage wins the Keats-Shelley Prize
Daniel Nester on writing about writing
The Paris Review’s implement fetish
Hey, I’ve been using this pen
with felt-tip refills
to write my poetry now
for just under 30 years
On the closing of the comments stream
Are you ready for
Commentpalooza?
Talking with Carrie Fountain
Allison Titus’ The Sum
of Every Lost Ship
Timothy Donnelly
reviewed in The New Yorker
Save Al Purdy’s house
Stanley Kunitz’ house
Rob Wilson’s book reviews
on Amazon
Remembering those who vanished
with the Poet
Genine Lentine’s Mr. Worthington’s
Beautiful Experiments on Splashes
Byron:
“beauty without vanity,
strength without insolence,
courage without ferocity”
What Shakespeare’s sonnets
actually say
Grace Schulman’s
First Loves & Other Adventures
Carla Cohen has died
Douglas Coupland’s cheery forecast
Barthes’ grief
Forewarning readers
Chris Price wins
a year’s residency
in Menton, France
Rumi:
The Big Red Book
For Tagore in India,
a museum on wheels
Donald Barthelme & capitalism
Joyce Carol Oates’ “Probate”
Barbara Crooker’s More
First he was Allen Ginsberg,
now James Franco is an author
The Minneapolis mini-studio
behind Howl
Howl:
“Lost in Translation”
Howl, the movie
Not one art film, but 4
Franco’s buying spree
of film rights
Mark Doty on Allen Ginsberg
Eileen Myles:
“Repeating Allen”
Ginsberg & company:
Wholly Communion, 1965
Howl comes to Boulder
Charles Olson’s “long shadow”
Handwriting trains the brain
Poetry has to be listened to
Does poetry “need”
a special day?
Rereading
“Somebody Blew Up America”
Paying homage to Dube
at Poetry Africa
Books as commodities
or as something else
From text packets
to build-a-books for class
Talking with Stephanie Balzer
Heather Thomas
reflects on her time as
Berks County laureate
Philip Roth on
the decline of the novel
The “dirty poetry” of 1425
& of 2010
Ihab Hassan’s
“Toward a Concept of Postmodernism”
Bookstore sales declined in August
In Encino,
a rally to protest closing a B&N
The death of a bookstore
in Middleburg, VA
Different futures
for research universities
Benoît Mandelbrot has died
At 91, Ferlinghetti
“is still a howl”
The Novel! Live!
36 authors, no waiting
“A Kind of Gnawing Offness”:
on Tao Lin
(subscription required)
The National Book Award short lists
have been announced
& Jonathan Franzen is not on the list
Franzen’s The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
meets the Guardian book club
Franzen reading
at the National Book Festival
Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker
The Finkler Question (excerpt)
Jacobson’s “Jewish question”
What the Man Booker means
Why Canada doesn’t win the Nobel
Why poets like prizes
Vassar poets return
to honor Elizabeth Bishop
Ann Patchett’s house
Nicole Krauss’ Great House
June Arnold’s Applesauce
Elmore Leonard & the pirates
Naipaul’s “wasted” trip
Marilyn Hacker’s Names
Can TV put poetry on the menu?
Mike Rosen, 3-D poet
HuffPo’s “7 most irritating
language mistakes”
British authors
discover the schools
“Sure is Quiet” –
Karen Green memorializes
David Foster Wallace
Robert Goodnough has died
A.A. Bronson resigns
as president of Printed Matter
Virtual Public Art in Philadelphia
Ai Weiwei’s
seeds of conflict
Art as animal cruelty
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
The Chelsea Art Museum
has been repossessed
Talking with Yto Barrada
Preserving the work
of SF’s iconic architect
Roy Blount, Jr. on Duck Soup
Talking with Anthony Braxton
in French
The sound of Arvo Pärt
Jeff T. Johnson on Pavement
Can a book have a playlist?
Keef’s view of Mick
Defining Jaron Lanier
The Tell-Tale Heart:
the ballet
Rare books about NYC
Speedism, boxism & markism:
ideologies of the internet
Meditations on mortality
Andrew Ross
on the “corporate university”
The role of new media
in humanities scholarship
Claude Lévi-Strauss:
The Poet in His Laboratory
Help launch
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