Talking with W.S. Merwin
Kevin Killian on Secret Historian
Money Shot
& 32 other poetry titles
to look for in 2011
Rae Armantrout takes center stage
So has George Cain
So has Philippine poet Ophelia Alcantara-Dimalanta
& Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu
Lewis Hyde’s Common as Air
Talking with Hannah Weiner
Talking with rob mclennan
Talking with Nadine Gordimer
Close reading aloud:
Jena Osman’s “Dropping Leaflets”
CAConrad in The Nation
(subscription required)
Poetry’s 49th parallel:
Canadian / American shibboleths
Liu Xiaobo,
a hero for our time
Talking with Suzanne Buffam
Talking with Alice Fulton
The Atlantic
on flarf
“Younger flarf poets
are lobbying for Argentina”
How much is
Politics & Prose
really worth?
Joseph-Beth shuts two stores
When language slips away
Many UK lit orgs
are threatened by fund cuts
London’s International Festival of Poetry
was “vulgar nonsense”
Networking with Zadie Smith
Cole Swensen in The Nation
(subscription required)
David Markson & “naïve art”
How did you spend
your 10,000 hours?
Talking with Ann Cotten
5 poems by Cotten
The poetry of Luke Breit
A “literary friendship”:
Bob Hass & Morton Marcus
Connecting the dots between
Allen Ginsberg & Morton Marcus
James Wright trashes Allen Ginsberg
Howl remains relevant
On the process of interviews
at The Paris Review
+ the new, revised edition of
Olson’s Muthologos
NaNoWriMo has begun
Even better – Don’t
A poem a day
& it actually accomplishes something
TS Eliot
& the demise of literary culture
Armitage plans “Olympic gig”
Leopardi on “contemporary poetry”
Blake’s America, 2010
Tao Lin in Germany
Anna Hallberg, reading
Hallberg talking
with students at Penn
Amit Chaudhuri on short list
for South Asian literary prize
Arundhati Roy’s home
besieged by nationalists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s
“Birdsong”
Evelyn Lau’s Living Under Plastic
Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies
Herman Melville:
Sometimes a whale is just a whale
What is left to say about a white whale?
The lost rhymes of Wonderland
Talking with Paul Auster
Jörgen Gassilewski, reading
Gassilewski talking
with Penn students
Geraldine Monk / Alan Halsey:
Broadside for a reading in Madison, WI
Michael Sledge’s
The More I Love You
Jack Foley on Michael McClure
Zadie Smith & Barack Obama
Margaret Atwood,
avatar designer
Horacio Potel on
restrictive ©
Turn your pathetic handwriting
into a font
Saving (or not)
the serial comma
The Tea Party’s
Capital Punishment
44 ways of looking at
marginalia
Becoming Thoreau
Dinaw Mengestu’s
How to Read the Air
John Knechtel’s Air
Take a somatic bus ride
mIEKAL aND:
Mesostics for Dick Higgins
aND & Elizabeth Was:
fluxonyms
Antonia Fraser:
“My Life with Harold Pinter”
Edith Wharton:
“A Journey”
Journey to Ithaca
Defending Jane Austen
Jane Austen in Oregon
“the best thing” in
James’ Portrait of a Lady
Literary antidotes to rom coms
Emerson’s “The Snow Storm”
The Righteous Skeptic’s Guide
to Reading Poetry
Adam Roberts:
What makes a poem worth reading?
Astrid L’Orange’s
Pussy pussy pussy what what
or
Au lait day Au lait day
Translating Dogen Zenji
Translating Kay Ryan
into 25 languages
Recent trends in German writing
A profile of O.N.V. Kurup
Geoffrey Hill,
hanging with the archbishop
& writing a lot more
The poetry of rap
Muldoon’s Maggot
Jennifer Chang’s “Love After Love”
Translating Tada Chimako
Vargas-Llosa keeps on teaching
García Márquez
is writing a new novel
Why languages in college
are not just a “nice to have”
Talking with Mark Neely
What Lawrence’s peers
thought of Lady Chatterly
9 non-writers
who influenced literary history
Schomburg Center
acquires archive of
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou & James Baldwin
walked into a bar…
A letter from Malcolm X
Günter Grass on the judgment of history
Joyce Carol Oates’ Sourland
Rediscoveries:
John Fowles, Jean Stafford, Jane Gardam
Alaska’s fiddling poet,
Ken Waldman
Travels with Poe
Matthew Zapruder’s
Come On All You Ghosts
Blurb pops up in SoHo
Freedom of speech
applies to tattoos
Literary tatts in the New Yorker
A quiz on Poets & Poetry
Poetry’s new rules of engagement
Walt Whitman’s grief
Staten Island reads Chinese poetry
Sam Hamill translating
any other than Bashō, Buson & Issa
Playing “baseball”
with Jack Kerouac
Kieran Daly’s Live Cams
Talking with Traci Brimhall
Melville House
withdraws from prize competition
to protest Amazon involvement
Amazon’s
“best books of 2010”
Amazon’s “Top 100”
(2 Quietists at #s 74 & 92)
The NookColor
won’t save B&N
Seth Abramson:
The New Face of
the Creative Writing MFA
Mark Scroggins & Seth Abramson
on the “professionalization” of the
“unmarketable” MFA
Cory Doctorow:
making $$ thru self-publishing
The sorry state of
the rejection letter
An appeal to poetry editors
Which literary character
is a Facebook addict?
Shakespeare criticism
that feels like blogging
Google maps the route to
a National Digital Library
North Beach Library
“not a landmark”
Library pleas for help preserving Dickens
Whiting Awards announced
Curtis Bower reading report
Louise Glück:
Acclaim – “It’s a flaw in the work”
To judge a prize named for John Lennon
let’s pick Carol Ann Duffy
(He’d appreciate the irony)
Here is why
Not the Booker Prize:
a mug’s game
No prizes?
Franzen will survive
But Houellebecq gets the Goncourt
“Premier Christian Poet” Andrew Hudgins
Julie Sophia Paegle’s
Torch Song Tango Choir
Merging poetry with science for kids
The return of Archie Ammons
The Tell-Tale Murder
Talking with E.J. Wagner
Thomas Bernhard:
the music comes first
Ben Ehrenreich on Tom McCarthy
The American critic
Mark Twain:
not an American
but the American
Twain’s brand management
Naipaul’s Masque
Saleem Peeradina’s Slow Dance
John Donne’s Sermon
Preached at the Spital
with [homemade] Sound Effects
Walcott’s verse
“as potent as ever”
The “thorny moral dilemmas” of
a “regular guy”
Baseball poems & trading cards
Young poets of the SF Giants
Mary Oliver’s Swan
The tweets of Dana Guthrie Martin
Talking with MC Hyland
Christian Campbell
wins the Aldeburgh Prize
Talking with Gay Talese
Talese’s The Silent Season of a Hero
Philip Roth’s Nemesis
Saul Bellow’s Letters
Ray Bradbury “wrote me back”
Remembering Qeisar Aminpour
The poetry & reminiscences of
Marilyn Monroe
Happy Birthday, Ez
Talking with Gayatri Spivak
Mark Vonnegut’s
battles with bipolar disorder
Jonathan Lethem goes Hollywood,
sorta
Supreme Court briefs
on the video game censorship case
Censoring Al Qaeda’s videos
The latest videos from
The Continental Review
include Sawako Nakayasu & Dana Ward
Uncensoring John Osborne
“Tyler Perry
mangles Ntozake Shange’s play”
For Colored Girls:
“a serious achievement”
A night of Poets’ Theater
The patriotic rhymes of Dr. Seuss
Walter Benjamin on Mickey Mouse
Terry Gilliam’s new film
is entirely online
Kristen Stewart, on filming
On the Road
Talking with Al Pacino
Is Godard an anti-Semite?
Tarantino meets Aristotle
Art as photography
& the problem of Annie Leibovitz
Before there was Photoshop…
Philosophers through the lens
China place Ai Weiwei
under house arrest
Younger audiences
like their art outdoors
How political was Picasso?
Don Bachardy
painting Jerry Brown
Barry Schwabsky on Gauguin
The secret museum
Updating Frank Gehry’s Schnabel House
Talking Bob Dylan
with Greil Marcus, Sean Wilentz & James Mustich
Dylan “after the Fall”
Christopher Ricks on
“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
Ron Slate on
Frank: The Voice
Reader’s digest:
Keith Richards’ Life
Keef in pix
No interest in crack, than you
“Please allow me to correct myself,
I’m a man of wealth & taste”
Talking with Kurt Cobain
Bang on a Can
rethinks “Heroin”
The Boss unearths a golden oldie
Japanese poetry
in the Tuvan-Scottish-
Led Zep songbook
Poetry & the sound of
the Khayyam Ensemble
The new public radio
The International Email Audio Art Project
(vol. 1) is now online
The future of education, if any
Wittgenstein’s duck (if any)
Alexander Galloway’s seminar
on French theory
Žižek:
Learn to Live Without Masters
Žižek & the body of Christ
A new Derrida bio
Talking with Mitch Horowitz
about Occult America
Obama’s achievement
The demographics
of last week’s elections
Limbaugh vs. Lincoln
(with Adam Smith in Abe’s corner)
Seymour Hersh:
the coming cyber war
A history of genocide
