Harriet Tarlo’s “Recycles:
The Eco-Ethical Poetics
of Found Text
in Contemporary Poetry”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
Pitch: Drafts 77-95
Dorothea Lasky’s Poetry Is Not a Project
Bob Perelman’s 7 Works
The Dublin Poetry Review
includes (among others)
Sagicho Aibara, Rae Armantrout, Jenny Bornholdt,
David Brooks, Mairéad Byrne, Julius Chingono, Kwame Dawes,
Annie Finch, Forrest Gander, Eamon Grennan, Kimiko Hahn,
Michael S. Harper, Jill Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa,
Maha Elamin A Mahmoud, Jennifer Maiden, Mary Jo Bang,
Chris Mansell, rob mclennan, Paul Muldoon, Emma Neale,
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Niyi Osundare, Robert Pinsky,
Chris Price, Muhammad Haji Salleh, Ana Vega,
C.D. Wright, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lorna Goodison,
Andrew Motion, Richard Tillinghast
& of course moi
Beyond Borges:
Argentina now
Susan Bee:
Little Orphan Anagram
(with poems by Charles Bernstein)
Brenda Iijima with flowers
(or at least ferns)
in her hair
All of
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, vol. 4
Cole Swensen’s Flare
Jeffrey Side on
Wordsworth the empiricist
Whitman’s collapsing
taxonomy of poetry
Scott Helmes:
recent vispo
Is conceptual writing
the new confessionalism?
Mary Ellen Solt:
Toward a Theory of Concrete Poetry
Remembering Ben Sonnenberg
Alta Ifland’s Voice of Ice
Talking with Francisco Aragón
The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry
Urdu fiction from India
William Carlos Williams
& the Tea Party
Antaeus & the Tea Party
The page-99 test
Flarf & mysteries,
but not Martians
Penn Kemp,
poet laureate of the other London
Samuel Amadon’s Like a Sea
Elective Affinities:
Catherine Wagner
Conjunctions has begun to tweet
Literature as a competitive sport
Oddsmakers favor
Tomas Tranströmer
for next Nobel
Poets poised for Nobel glory?
Dorianne Laux’s
“Trying to Raise the Dead”
Mahmoud Darwish’s
Journal of an Ordinary Grief
Vanessa Place’s Exposé des faits
Laurie Anderson in Portuguese
Jennifer Scappettone:
What’s American about American poetry?
Afrikaans fiction
remakes itself in the image of
the American South
Kate Greenstreet’s The Last 4 Things
Talking with Sapphire
Khmer smot at Brown
Michael Lally remembers Michael Gizzi
Harriet remembers Michael Gizzi
Henry Gould reads two poems from 1983,
one by him, one by Michael Gizzi
Gould’s review of Avis from 1979
Michael Gizzi & Craig Watson
talk with Stan Mir
Stacy Szymaszek on
“the best way to honor”
Michael Gizzi
Brian Kim Stefans posts
an alternate version of
Gizzi’s “A Dreadful Claim”
Allison Cobb:
“The Question of a Name”
Anne Carson’s art object
Talking with Maryja Martysevich
A profile of Martysevich
What is tanka?
Reading
Haiku Canada Review
Tom Wisner,
bard of the Chesapeake
Talking with Paolo Bacigalupi
Interest in R.S. Thomas is increasing
Huge typewriter really works
A candy counter comes to the Strand
Wittgenstein tweets
Aaron Shurin in Buffalo
Mohammad Reza Shajarian:
song’s relation to poetry in Iran
Michael Cunningham on translation
Lydia Davis translates
Madame Bovary
William Burroughs:
Stairway to Heaven
Not everybody liked Lady Gregory
Looking for the Cryptex
in Mike Young’s poetry
What if the Postal Service runs out of money
Il Postino,
an opera for Neruda
It was the FBI that watched Solzhenitsyn in the US
David Cameron’s favorite poem
Talking with Elmore Leonard
Talking with Elmore Leonard’s biggest fan
Elmore Leonard by the numbers
Talking with A.E. Roman
Tao Lin’s Tao Lin
Jonathan Franzen:
“the greatest novelist
the 1950s have to offer”
Franzen’s soap opera
Pulped fiction –
Franzen’s Freedom gets UK “recall”
Martin Amis & Will Self
on becoming a character
in your own novel
Bukowski’s papers go on view
Talking with Philip Roth
“very bad, very sensitive stories”
Books are made out of books:
Blood Meridian & Samuel Chamberlain
6 versions of Blood Meridian
Mistaking the kid for The Kid
Jonathan Lethem
moves back to California
Raymond Carver mad libs
Julie Doxsee in the debut of
Tourist Trap, NYC
A literary map of Manhattan
A shirt made from Moby Dick
Authors rally to defend
Laurie Halse Anderson
from the censors
Looking at one MFA program
from the vantage of another
Franz Wright:
Notes Toward an Anti-MFA Program Essay
M.L. Liebler
makes poetry accessible
Authors feel pinch
in the age of e-books
B&N’s DIY publishing tool
goes live
Amazon intros Kindle for the web
The debate over turning libraries
over to for-profit corporations
Johannes Göransson’s
A New Quarantine Will Take My Place
Mary Oliver’s Swans
A trailer for
Christie Ann Reynolds’
Revenge Poems
An account of the creation
of The New American Poetry
Ander Monson’s Available World
No poets among this year’s
MacArthur fellowships
Creepiest book review
I’ve read in awhile
Jailed Chinese literary critic
top candidate
for Nobel Peace Prize
Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain
In the UK the right
proposes to balance budget
by cutting the arts
Marc Newson’s Transport
at Gagosian Chelsea
Will LA’s
Downtown Art Walk
ever go anywhere?
Going to lengths
to view Joan Mitchell’s work
NY lets ban on
selling off public art expire
Portrait of the artist
as Lucian Freud
Enrique Chagoya touches a nerve
in Loveland, CO
The man behind
“American Gothic”
Wayne Thiebaud’s California
Assassination art in Brazil
Can Trey McIntyre’s dance be great
if it opens in SF?
Matthew Barney
is a different kind of Orson Welles
Black Mountain alum
& the director of Bonnie & Clyde,
Arthur Penn has died
An Arthur Penn slideshow
Trailers for Bonnie & Clyde
Howl is cautious
where the poem is not
“The answer is Yes” –
Howl throws caution to the wind
Eric Drooker’s
graphic novel of Howl
A film about a poem
& not just a poet
is something brand new
Reading Howl at Howl
Everybody’s fave Ph.D. candidate,
James Franco
The Norman Mailer film bio
John Cage:
How to Get Started
(you are invited to participate)
The Plastic Ono Band
makes its LA debut
John Lennon at 70:
Imagine
Pete Seeger’s Sundays
Sarah Palin’s
Triple Word Score
Fibonacci
in the Twitter redesign!
Sebastian Seung:
I am my connectome
Tim Birkhead:
The wisdom of birds
Charles Simic
on the Serbian surprise
Caprica
is back tonight!
