Rob Halpern’s
“Becoming a Patient of History”
Rosmarie Waldrop’s
Driven to Abstraction
Brian Kim Stefans’
Bank of America Online Banking:
A Critical Evaluation
New poems by Rae Armantrout
plus a teaser for an interview
Talking with Laura Moriarty
Lyn Hejinian’s
The Fatalist
Jaimy Gordon’s
Lord of Misrule
2 articles on Dean Young’s health
Robert Grenier’s JOEs
New work by Rusty Morrison
Conceptual fiction with Carol Mirakove
The incredible shrinking Paul Goodman
Syria’s underground poetry scene
Michael Scharf on “personalism”
A.D. Jameson’s
“What’s so new about the New Sentence?”
Talking with A.D. Jameson
2 new poems by Anselm Berrigan
Poets do brood
(like this is news)
“A” & the big e
& that ain’t All
Jordan Davis on Thomas Sayers Ellis
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation
Kent Foreman has died
Kathryne Lindberg has gone missing
Remembering Steve Orlen
New work from Thom Donovan
New work from Amy King
End times for bookstores?
Not if they can help it
The printed page is alive & well
but e-books are here to stay
Judging e-book readers
by their cover
On Bern Porter
& Bay Area literary magazines
Charlie Plymell on
Neal Cassady 1963
Rick Mullin’s Huncke: A Poem
William Burroughs:
Objects from the Bunker
Francis Bacon & William Burroughs
Defending Creeley from
“the thought police”
(apparently that’s me)
Longfellow’s revisionism
Kristian Sendon Cordero’s
Pusûánon
John Sakkis’ Rude Girl
Extensive Immanence:
An archive of works of 1,200 pages+
Marcus Slease:
from Primitive Pianos
All 3 volumes of
John M Bennett’s
Textis Globbolalicus
can be downloaded here
Sheila Heti’s second novel
& what’s wrong with American trade publishing
Craig Santos Perez:
“SPAM’s Carbon Footprint”
5 poems from Del Ray Cross’ Anachronizms
Aharon Shabtai’s War & Love / Love & War
Dousing books in urine at Harvard
an accident, not a hate crime
Galassi’s Leopardi
Wilbur at 89
Is your e-book spying on you?
Ngram:
Google’s word search tool
for identifying frequency historically
among 5.2 million books
Goodbye prosody, hello poetics
“52% of the English lexicon…
consist of lexical ‘dark matter’”
Google’s “reading level” search filter
“Poem looked up on Google Streetview”
Judging books by their covers
3 new poems from Elizabeth Robinson
Typewriter fans, unite!
Will smart pens find a market?
John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe
Аарон Белз (Aaron Belz) in Russian
New work by Joseph Donahue
Liu Xiaobo’s book of poems
coming from Graywolf
Poetry’s role in protest
Donald Revell’s The Bitter Withy
Brandon Brown’s rollicking translation
from Catullus
Amidst globalization,
what do we read (& how)?
Whitman’s three-tiered
taxonomy of poetry
Whitman’s Lincoln
The 9th issue of Past Simple is neither
PN Review,
Carcanet’s house mag,
is now fully online to subscribers
(with a goodies available to those who are not)
Talking with John Ashbery
“At the dead centre of Eliot
is a dark confessional
into which none of his poems has ever entered
and from which none of his poems has ever emerged”
Michael Schmidt’s “The Politics of Form” (1973)
Javier Marías’ Your Face Tomorrow
Meng Haoran’s “Spring Dawn”
Talking with Matthew Lippman
In its never-ending fight against poetry,
Scarriet goes after Stephen Burt
Modernism takes a beating too
David Sedaris’ “book tour tip jar”
raked in $4,000
Rudy Rucker on
Burroughs’ letters to Ginsberg
B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates
James Tate, talking with Charlie Simic
Derek Walcott in Toronto
Readings from Seattle’s Equinox Studios
Ten years of the InterBoard Poetry Competition
The “Indianness” of Indian writing
Jane Austen @ 235
First edition of Emma
sells for ₤79,250
Proof of Yeats’ dalliances
sell for €17,000
Taking stock of rare book catalogues
Keynote videos
from the Modernist Studies Association
in Victoria, BC
Poems by Ewa Chrusciel
Oprah’s misguided view of literature
Carl Crawford will NOT
open a rare books shop in Boston
2 short poems by Sylvia Plath
An insider look
at Seattle’s outsider poet
Talking with Christian Bobin
Bobin’s “Promised Land”
Garrison Keillor on Mark Twain
13 “best of 2010” book lists
Books of the year: poetry
2 books of poetry in the
Boston Phoenix
“Top 10 Must-Read Books of 2010”
The “most important” contemporary poet
The “17 most important”
poetry books of 2010
Edward Byrnes’
“top ten blogposts of 2010”
Blogging with Montaigne
Talking with Daneen Wardrop
Talking with George Saunders
A role for fonts in the academy
The most irritating word:
Whatever
The poetry of money
Robert Walser died on Xmas
Thomas Hardy’s “The Oxen”
R.T. Smith’s “Orchard of One”
Shakespearean characters
write to Santa
A KickStarter page for
Terminally Illin’
cancer comics
The art of Anonymous
Bridget Riley
runs rings around us
European Commission rules
that works by
Dan Flavin & Bill Viola
are not art
The photography of John Vachon
of the American Midwest
George Pickow has died
More museums show
David Wojnarowicz’ banned video
The streets are ahead of the galleries
(doh!)
Michelangelo Pistoletto
@ the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pistoletto’s Cittadellarte
Il Postino, the opera
Simon Rattle @ the Met
NY Times’ obit of Don Van Vliet
NPR on Captain Beefheart
& the BBC
Remembering Mr. Beefheart
Plus here too
O Captain! My Captain Beefheart…
The Inky has a more skeptical take
Weezer time machine
Is Bob Dylan the Brett Favre of music?
Lyrics to
“The Times They Are A-Changin’”
sell for $422,500
Margaret Tedesco, seeing dance
in every form of art
Women of the avant-garde
The debate over censorship
@ the Smithsonian
The value of higher education
vs. that of learning
Laureate International:
the global for-profit university
whose honorary chancellor
is Bill Clinton
Talking with
Mondo Guerra & Michael Costello
The “crisis” of the American intellectual
SNL, then & now
The most successful
new religion
of the past 1300 years is…
When zombies win
