Armantrout’s Money Shot
is “a stunner”
Geoffrey Gatza’s
2010 Thanksgiving Feast menu
& poetic cycle celebrates
David Shapiro
Talking with Kim Lyons
Monica Youn’s Ignatz
Talking & talking & talking
with Tao Lin
Pierre Joris: Justifying
Justifying the Margins
Talking with Sheila E. Murphy
Lisa Robertson, Edward Hirsch
& Derek Walcott
all make the NY Times
100 Notable Books of 2010 list
Dwight Garner puts Kay Ryan
at the top
of his personal list
The Guardian asks all their writers
& gets quite a lot of poetry,
including John Ashbery & Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation
Talking with Margaret Atwood
Lunar Chandelier reading report
Poets provide relief to Cockermouth
Laura Hershey has died
So has Simon Powell
Bella Akhmadulina has died
Carol Malyon:
poet without an email address
400 pages of poetry:
The Equalizer: First Series
includes Emily Anderson, Stephanie Anderson, Nathan Austin,
Owen Barker, Jim Behrle, Aaron Belz, Mark Bibbins, Summer Block,
Amick Boone, Samantha Caan, CAConrad, Macgregor Card, Laura Carter,
Adam Clay, Shanna Compton, Joshua Corey, John Cotter, Matt Cozart,
Cynthia Cruz, Barbara Cully, Alana Dagen, Peter Davis, Richard Deming,
Buck Downs, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Katherine Factor, Noah Falck,
Lucas Farrell, Carol Fink, Corrine Fitzpatrick, John Gallaher, Allison Gauss,
Henry Gould, Whit Griffin, Shafer Hall, Matt Hart, Mike Hauser,
Jennifer Michael Hecht, Matthew Henriksen, Brian Henry, Ernest Hilbert,
Mark Horosky, Andrew Hughes, Curtis Jensen, Douglas Kearney, Evan Kennedy,
Amy King, Mark Lamoureux, Katy Lederer, Ada Limón, Reb Livingston,
Travis Macdonald, Chris Martin, Kristi Maxwell, James Meetze, Jason Myers,
Alexis Orgera, Cate Peebles, Craig Santos Perez, Christopher Rizzo,
Christopher Salerno, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Ravi Shankar, Don Share,
Kevin Shea, Evie Shockley, Carmen Giménez Smith, Lytton Smith,
Cosmo Spinosa, Janaka Stucky, Maureen Thorson, Tony Tost,
Jo Turner, Eric Unger, & Cody Walker
Talking with Robert Creeley
John Tranter’s tribute to
the “most exciting” book of 1960:
Fred McDarrah’s The Beat Scene
with an intro by Elias Wilentz
A multi-media presentation on
Black Mountain College
Talking with Nathaniel Mackey
Steve Benson is a PIP
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
“Draft 82” & “Draft 88”
translated into French by Chris Tysh
“2010 Top English Professor Blog Award”
Talking with Robert Archambeau
CAConrad & Eileen Myles
reading in Baltimore
Charles Olson at the Harbor
The Battle of Gloucester:
Vincent Ferrini meets Charles Olson
Little Charlie Goes to Gloucester
A novel of Gloucester
Talking with Michael Palmer
Part one of a bill bisset documentary
A poetry collective
in 1970’s Bombay
(now Mumbai)
Bookthug’s fall launch videos include
Meredith Quartermain
Kate Eichorn
Mark Truscott
Stephen Cain
Steven Zultanski
Michael Boughn
Victor Coleman
(note 2 links each for Michael & Victor)
Philip K Dick’s “masterpiece years”
A Coke ad featuring Laura Lee Burroughs,
mother of William
Her two books on flower arranging
Talking with Michael Boughn
Erasing five years of writing
on purpose
Annie Finch:
What makes a poem?
Ungaretti:
What would I want with images?
Talking with Mark Young
Rob Fitterman’s complete works
are online
Studying poetry at Harvard in the 1990s
Dan Thomas-Glass reading
Jaimy Gordon’s
Lord of Misrule
Spanish alphabet
loses two letters
Maureen Freely
on the art of translation
Why Lydia Davis
has the best translation
of Madame Bovary
Writers pick
their favorite translations
James Frey
& the scandal of MFA funding
America’s 2 literary cultures:
NYC & MFA
42 NEA fellows in poetry
The TV history of poet
Lowell Kelly
Wislawa Szymborska’s Here
Ali Ghazanfari
& the German-Iranian poetry connection
After protests,
VS Naipaul withdraws
from European Writers Parliament
© infringement award:
$1.3 billion
(with a B)
How Google can save
America’s books
Kenward Elmslie’s aide
convicted of stealing
the poet’s artwork
Apply now
to become California’s
next poet laureate
Some Capacities & Fallacies
About Literary Hybridity:
A Card Game
In the UK, Forward Press
goes belly up
Mary Jo Bang’s
The Bride of E
John Olson: 5 prose poems
Is Houellebecq’s the first good novel
about art?
John Cotner & Andy Fitch, reading
Cotner & Fitch:
conversation over stolen food
Some poems by Joan Cofrancesco
John Oliver Simon’s neglectorinos
Ed Smith
d.a. levy
Donald Schenker
Rebecca Parfitt
Charles Potts
Ed Baker, reading
(part 1) (part 2)
Lowell memoir:
“even truly bad books can be gripping”
“the most unlovable man ever”
The “fly on the wall” cathartic
The smell of Lawrence of Arabia’s
copy of Ulysses
Rethinking T.E. Lawrence
Talking with Dennis Cooper
2 poems by Kazim Ali
Grzegorz Wróblewski:
from Kopenhaga
Talking with John Koethe
Talking with Philip Davenport
Aaron Belz’ Lovely, Raspberry
From the files of David Foster Wallace
The middlebrow literature of Ian McEwan
Tom Waits
to publish first book of poems
Talking with Brenda Hillman
Badiou: On Beckett
Talking with Floyd Abrams
about the First Amendment
Sex advice from poets
Viewing Apollinaire
through the eyes
of other war poets
Zach Savich: 4 poems
Walking in Steinbeck’s dark boots
2 poems by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
A profile of McNally Jackson Books
in NYC
How Unnameable Books
got its unname
Using poetry
to teach computers to speak
W.D. Ehrhart’s
The Bodies Beneath the Table
Andrew Marvell, Chameleon
Is it possible to write of
Sam Willetts’ poetry
without mentioning heroin?
“Without MS,
there wouldn’t be all these poems”
The science of stuttering
Twitter taunts test limits of speech
Anger & poetry
Pat Conroy’s characters
& the people behind them
Guerrilla distribution of poetry by
Poncho Peligroso
Talking with Aimee Bender
Jay Parini’s novel of Melville
Dermot Healy, Seán Lysaght
& Micheal O’Siadhail
Internet stunts vs. blurbs –
is there a difference?
An Xmas list for UK Quietists
“I’m too tired to think when I read”
“defending the commonweal”
Things Charles Simic learned
at dinner
The life & poetry of WS Graham
The life of Ted Kooser
set to music
Patti Smith on Democracy Now
Mark Flood:
Bitch Moves
Signage: Motel
Ed Ruscha: word works
(these are not poems)
Ian Hamilton Finlay: word works
(these are poems)
Paul Thek’s “teaching notes”
How do you make ordinary art into
Black Art?
Rauschenberg @ Gagosian Chelsea
Rauschenberg slide show
Sophie Crumb, crazy artist
Recycling an installation
under water
Frank Gehry since 1997
“I was an art spy for Mute Magazine”
False promises
at the Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art
Talking with Tom Schmelzer
My Chemical Romance
writing to the demographic
All Day by Girl Talk:
Mashup Breakdown
Jay-Z Decoded
2 articles by Dan Chiasson
about the reading habits
of the band
Magnetic Fields
Apollo’s Angels:
A History of Ballet
Jennifer Homans,
ballerina turned historian
GOP mounts more attacks
on NPR
New Jersey looks to dump
public television
Auret van Heerden
on the global nature of labor
Why French scholars
flock to the US
