Mimi Gross & Charles Bernstein
Some of These Daze
(64MB PowerPoint file)
5 poems by Aimé Césaire
from the unexpurgated first edition of
Soleil cou coupé
Talking with Edwin Torres
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ elective affinities
P. Lal has died
The Collected Essays of
Robert Creeley
online
2010 “Sexiest Poem” award goes to
Brenda Iijima’s “Panthering”
Can Philadelphia love Sonia Sanchez?
Numbers trouble
at the Academy of American Poets
Germane Greer:
no fan of D.H. Lawrence
Talking with Vanessa Place
Thom Donovan:
The New (Chor)us
Hiromi Itō’s Killing Kanko
E.C. Osondu’s “Waiting”
(Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing)
Julian Barnes on translating Flaubert
Thinking about sentences
The poetry code
The little shop of banned books
Dragging the book into the future
The Poetry Foundation’s iPhone app
Say “H”
A tour of the alphabet
Talking with Harryette Mullen
Stephen Ellis’ Opulence
Stephen Kessler on Luis Cernuda
Rachel Levitsky’s Neighbor
Timothy Donnelly:
“the HEAD, by way of the EAR”
Robert Hass’ The Apple Trees in Olema
Travelling with Leslie Scalapino
This is not “A Barbie Doll with Horns”
Giller Prize winner is already o.p.
(D&M has acquired paperback rights)
Big prize, little publisher = big problem
Matthew Zapruder’s “It is Tuesday”
Zapruder’s Come on All You Ghosts
Dorothea Lasky’s Black Life
Frank O’Hara:
the cosmopolitan
2 translations of Rilke
that drain the life from his best line
Is Muriel Spark too funny
to get respect?
Talking with Paul Auster
The agents move to Brooklyn
Sunset Park & Herb Score
Gary Snyder & The Practice of the Wild
Gary Snyder @ Poets House
Talking with Allison Carter
Talking with John Updike
Anthony Mellors’ “Postmodern Self-Fashioning”
Tony Lopez replies:
“Poetics and Institutional Embarassment”
Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp
Reading report:
the Sarabande series @ 21c in Louisville
Talking with James Longenbranch
about Wallace Stevens
Ulysses & the senior center
Otoliths 19 is now online
As is the Fall 2010 issue of BlazeVOX
(30 MB, 467 pages)
Ditto issue 3 of Nowhere
with Larry Fagin
on the invention of the corn dog
Mark Young on Michael Gottlieb’s
Memoir and Essay
A funnier review from Randy Wheeler
4 contemporary Native American poets
A poem by John Cornford
Alex Grant’s The Circus Poems
Ben Doller’s Dead Ahead
Michael Smith’s Multiverse
Talking with Robert Archambeau
Peter Middleton:
Language Public and Poetry
John Hall:
5 minutes on poetry & public language
Catherine Martin
on Middleton & Hall: No way out
Creative writing pedagogy
for the YouTube generation
Remembering Ron Offen
Talking with Anne Rice
Rob Schlegel’s The Lesser Fields
Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City
Michel Houellebecq’s The Art of Struggle
Srečko Kosovel’s Look Back, Look Ahead
Talking with Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nate Pritts & Matt Hart
do the tourist trap thing in NY
Close reading John Ashbery
Cole Swensen’s Flare
This is your brain on metaphor
The most popular way to read an e-book
Most beautiful college libraries
Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel
We’ll always have McSorley’s
What jobs for a poet?
Libraries reinvent themselves
NY Times to publish e-book
best-seller list
Samuel Amadon’s Like a Sea
Mining the poetry of Ed Lahey
Excavating Daryl Hine
Fall & All:
6 Quietists celebrate the season
Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness
Coleman Barks on
Rumi’s The Big Red Book
A poem by Carl Phillips
Franzen’s Freedom
The Impac Dublin longlist is announced
Saul Bellow’s Letters
English was Bellow’s third language
Roth returns to Newark in Nemesis
Celebrating Huck Finn
Rating Twain
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Andrew Motion’s Rousseau
Put Bush’s memoir where it belongs
Maybe W wasn’t
the most clueless Yalie ever
Talking with Lorin Stein
UK artists
warn against education funding cuts
Kevin Killian & Wayne Smith’s
The Shakers
Tyler Perry’s Ntozake Shange:
“both operatic and tone deaf”
Remembering
the most successful actor ever
The faces of philosophy
Sam Falls:
Painted Flowers & other photographs
Photos by Linh Dinh
Barry Schwabsky on Nancy Spero
Leo Castelli: the opportunist
Jeffrey Deitch: the opportunist
Jack Levine has died
The plinth where nobody cared
Barn murals with poem
Interesting exhibitions
in faraway places
Margaret Drabble
looks at Vincent Van Gogh
but forgets to look at the painting
Will Florida pardon
Jimmy’s Willie?
Lily Brown on Courtney Love
“I’d like to be trusted again”
“Get me out of movie prison”
The “experimental” music scene
in the SF Bay Area
Shakespeare & Rufus Wainwright
For the love of rap
A history of rap as literature
Finding the measure
Hélène Cixous
on the rights of men & women
in France
Collapse III:
Unknown Deleuze [+ Speculative Realism]
is out of print
& available free of charge online
Liu Xiaobo’s lawyer
to sue China
The latest “I am Spartacus”
comment on the conviction
of Paul Chambers
for excessive hyperbole
