A profile of the Buffalo conference
Gloucester celebrates Olson
As does Vancouver
Paris Review “Language Sampler”
Berkshire Eagle obit for Michael Gizzi
Close reading aloud
poems about poppies
by H.D. & Jennifer Scappettone
Steve Fama on varieties of vispo
John Timpane on Mario Vargas Llosa
Betting on the Booker prize suspended
Famous Seamus
wins the Forward Prize
Why the Forward Prize
is perpetually backwards
These prizes
are all that is keeping
literature alive
Literary critic & PEN official Liu Xiaobo has received
the Nobel Peace Price
Liu Xiaobo dedicates prize
to Tiananmen victims
Liu Xia visits her husband in jail
& is placed under house arrest
Taking the opposition to book banning
seriously
Anis Shivani:
“The MFA system
represses good writing”
Deconstructing
the “MFA discussion”
Shakespeare
& the Second Law of Thermodynamics
The trailer for
Julie Taymor’s film of
The Tempest
in which Prospero becomes Prospera
in the hands of Helen Mirren
Marilyn Monroe, poet
Pat Cody has died
José Antonio Labordeta has died also
So has David Rowbotham
Fact-Simile’s “all-star team”
Documenta
of last summer’s
Avant-Writing Symposium
“Poetic Polyphony in
Scott Thurston’s Internal Rhyme”
John Ashbery “more accessible than Ted Kooser”
The most widely referenced
literary blogs
Talking with Kathleen Rooney
Tim Brown’s Second Acts
On gender & publishing: a panel
“What we talk about
when we talk about
the count”
The count –
2009 Best Of lists
were exactly 2/3rds male
The count –
Publishers Weekly 2010
Joanna Fuhrman:
“He is Opening His Mouth
So He Can Hear Me”
Ted Hughes’ “new” poem
about the death of Sylvia Plath
Ange Mlinko’s “Bliss Street”
Reading groups for dementia patients
William Burroughs: A Man Within
Talking with Michael McClure
Kerouac:
“Life is too sweet to waste
on self-propaganda”
LitQuake honors
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sarah Rosenthal’s
A Community Writing Itself:
Conversations with Vanguard Writers
of the Bay Area
Carolyn Forché returns to Provincetown
Talking with Walter Benn Michaels
In defense of naïve reading
“Thank You for Saying Thank You”
Gloria Frym’s Any Time Soon
“For poets,
National Poetry Day
can feel a bit bleak”
In Canada,
there’s “Dead Poets’ Remembrance Day”
A reading report on Ariana Reines
on the new website for
Small Press Traffic
Mark Scroggins on John Taggart’s Crosses
Talking with Bill Manhire,
New Zealand’s poet laureate
Talking with Arielle Greenberg
Sam Hamill’s Bashō
Getting urban with Geraldine Dodge
This year’s event is large, diverse
The Dodge Fest
almost didn’t survive
Talking with Christian Teresi,
conference director of the AWP
Can we create
a national digital library?
Edwidge Danticat’s
Create Dangerously:
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Resisting redemption
in women’s memoirs
Seeing Dorothy Wordsworth
through “Tintern Abbey”
Milan Kundera’s Encounter
Suichi Yushida & Taylor Mignon
I was a teenage poetry bride
Cate Marvin:
Due Date vs. Deadline
Tom Clark’s “Punctum”
Paul Siegell’s
jambandbootleg
Martin Espada:
“Epiphany
(for Adrian Mitchell, 1932-2008)”
Talking with Penelope Scambly Schott
Andrei Codrescu
on the value of language
Diana Athill
at the “old person’s home”
Collaboration
at the Belfast Poetry Festival
Max Apple
is among the 2010
Pew Fellows
Kelly Writers House
takes recruiting
the best undergrad writers
very seriously
Emily & Walt
in the age of MySpace
Amazon extends e-book authors
70% royalties
Publishers “insane” e-book pricing
Two e-books that cost more
than their Amazon hard covers
The end of picture books
Responses to Michael Cunningham
on translation & the meaning of literature
9 great writers
snubbed by the Nobel Prize
Positioning Cormac McCarthy
for a Nobel
Touting Ngugi wa Thiong'o
for the Nobel
Nicholson Baker’s
“paean to…the School of Quietude”
Lynd Ward
& the origin of the graphic novel
Tips on submitting
to literary journals
Cookie Monster linguistics
The language of happiness
& of relationships
Philip Roth plays God
Getting beyond Roth’s sexism
Saul Bellow’s widow
on his letters
Alan Cheuse on Philip Roth
Why the right hates Freedom
Holding Franzen’s glasses for ransom
Stieg Larsson’s fourth novel
may never be published
James Wood on Emma Donoghue
Alice Sebold
becomes an editor
The Paris Review’s Lorin Stein @ City Lights
Philip Jeck’s
An Ark for the Listener
1958:
Hunter S. Thompson
applies for a job
A negative take on
Lydia Davis’ translation of
Madame Bovary
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry
Omissions among contemporary poets
Andrew Motion
on Richard Mabrey’s Weeds
Billy Mills
picks the best
of the Guardian’s
poetry blog poets
Andrew Hudgins’ American Rendering
Richard Ebehart’s son
contemplates the market for his own books
Nader’s novel “trimmed” in paperback
Are the performing arts
“the next Tower Records”?
Make your vote
a work of art
Paul Chan
in New Orleans
Jennifer Karmin:
Antonyms for Jenny Holzer /
Haiku for Sol Lewitt
On and Onscreen’s
fab fall issue
Remembering Arthur Penn
Jack Foley on Howl, the movie
Stanley Fish on Howl
Interpreting Howl
in the 21st century
Recalling Allen Ginsberg
5 books on Allen Ginsberg
Hollywood meets poetry
British poetry
“is the new rock ‘n’ roll”
Pop stars pick their favorite poets
Junkyard dawgs
of the NY Philharmonic
Ten years of Kid A
Dylan the host
Bob Dylan’s defense of John Lennon
John Lennon’s powerful presence
Lennon as author
Improvising with John & Yoko
Remembering Lennon
Borrowing his persona
Sunflower Sutra:
Ai Weiwei @ the Tate
Lynda Benglis @ RISD
Talking with Sarah Sze
Bill Viola
public video in Syracuse
Talking with Lynn Hershman Leeson
Peter Schjeldahl
on abstract expressionism
Stephen Pace has died
No love in Loveland
for Enrique Chagoya
Thrownness:
on baseball & Jackson Pollock
“I was shrinkwrapped for art”
Elwood Shaler stacks wood
Talking with Arthur Danto
Stanley Cavell’s
philosophical improvisations
