Sea & Spar Between:
being a collaboration between
Herman Melville & Emily Dickinson
(sorta)
Huh?
Nick Montfort explains
Jerry Rothenberg
on collaboration & Pierre Joris
Talking with Rae Armantrout
Reading Versed
Eliot Weinberger
reads George W Bush
Fiona Templeton’s The Medead
John Tranter’s Starlight
Talking with Kenny Goldsmith
Marilyn Hacker on
Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D. & Muriel Rukeyser
Dan Machlin’s Dear Body
Should Mary Oliver stop writing?
Liu Xiaobo’s empty chair
C.D. Wright’s One With Others
Close reading the links list
Is SF to poetry
what NYC is to fiction?
NYC’s subways
give up on poetry
The impact of a prison library
Publishers see their role
as gate keepers shrink
& turn to teen critics
for YA insight
Indie bookstores opt in
to Google’s ebook scheme
A single sentence
to say it all
Orhan Pamuk’s
“The Fading Dream of Europe”
Did Jean Toomer
“pass as white”?
High praise for Elizabeth Bishop
Gillian Clarke
wins the Queen’s Gold Medal
Jim Carroll’s A Petting Zoo
SPD
has a 30% end-of-the-year sale
on all its best sellers
Buy it now!
Signed first edition of
Thomas Pynchon’s
Crying of Lot 49
Talking with Walter Mosley
The fate of
Tao Lin Studies
What would Cavafy tweet?
Talking with Karen Alkalay-Gut
Why do we write at night?
(And why doesn’t The Guardian
know how to spell
Allen Ginsberg’s name?)
Oprah & Franzen:
a tale of two personalities
If a lion could speak,
it might be David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace:
using “like” as punctuation
Village Books in Pacific Palisades, CA
B&N in Pasadena
Henry Gould:
“personalism” without the personal
Plan to cut subsidizing
books for kids
not sitting well with British writers
Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
The Relentless Cult of Novelty
Will the word processor
destroy our ability to think?
To sell a used book on a Kindle
you have to sell the Kindle
Michael Earl Craig’s Thin Komono
Talking with Craig Czury,
the laureate of Berks County, PA
William Burrough’s
The Junky’s Christmas
Tennyson frozen
Some problems with
modern Polish poetry
in translation
Why isn’t Thomas Bernhard
more famous in English?
Lucien Stryk, haiku master
When poetry in the schools
gets a little rough
What to do with the Koran
written in Saddam Hussein’s blood?
How to write
like an average undergraduate male
(True Flarf!)
Electronic submission services
A Memorious year
Short reviews of books
from American Poet
including
All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems, by Charles Bernstein
Shahid Reads His Own Palm, by Reginald Dwayne Betts
The Desires of Letters, by Laynie Browne
(nevertheless enjoyment, by Elizabeth Bryant
Juvenilia, by Ken Chen
The Morning News Is Exciting, by Don Mee Choi
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart, by Deborah Digges
Dead Ahead, by Ben Doller
Chora, by Sandra Doller
Bird Lovers, Backyard, by Thalia Field
Out of Sight: New & Selected Poems, by Eamon Grennan
The Living Fire: New & Selected Poems, by Edward Hirsch
Anamnesis, by Lucy Ives
Holding Company, by Major Jackson
Time of Sky & Castles in the Air, by Ayane Kawata,
translated by Sawako Nakayasu
Raptus, by Joanna Klink
Child of Nature, by Luljeta Lleshanaku,
translated by Henry Israeli & Shpresa Qatipi
Unsound, by Jennifer Martenson
World Enough, by Maureen McLane
The Available World, by Ander Monson
Iowa, by Travis Nichols
Diwata, by Barbara Jane Reyes
R's Boat, by Lisa Robertson
Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems, by James Schuyler
Destruction Myth, by Mathias Svalina
The Salt Ecstasies, by James L. White
Wait, by C.K. Williams
Charles Portis:
A cult writer’s cult writer
T. Kilgore Splake’s
Splakeus & Lillies
Ian McMillan’s
Best of 2010
includes Ruth Fainlight & Elaine Feinstein
plus a book of poems for kids
Remembering Munir Ahmed Niazi
Stephen Burt on Timothy Donnelly
Jesse Glass’ Lost Poet
Muldoon’s Maggots
worm their way
It’s a hard rood:
some questionable translations
from the Anglo-Saxon
Just how cold is Robert Frost?
The Guardian’s
2010 “best books” tally
SF Comical’s
“Best Poetry Books of 2010”
An NPR “best poetry” list
Raymond Chandler’s “I’ll Be Waiting”
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes
Chad Sweeney’s Parable of Hide and Seek
The autobiography Saul Bellow never wrote
The poetry Lemony Snicket reads
Sylvia Plath’s very busy 2010
The NEA
“debauches the educational value”
of verse
Rebuilding the Globe Theater
Berlin gets a gift of art
Jack London: Photographer
Jill Moser’s prints
of Charles Bernstein’s poems
at Wade Wilson in Houston
Picasso: the mystery deepens
“10 best” street art “moments”
That point between installation & movie
in the work of Tsai Ming-liang
Ayman Mokhtar on prosodic cinema
A history of film titles
That landmark moment in cinema:
the Star Wars pre-quels
2 sides of the African-American oral tradition
Hip-hop’s money trail
A © controversy
over the lyrics of a rap song
by the president of Uganda
Because the night
belongs to Patti Smith
Remastering Elvis
John Zorn’s homage
to Bill Burroughs
Bill Burroughs & Iggy Pop
Talking with Andrew Whiteman
of Broken Social Scene
Ken Edwards & Daniel Silliman
compare Captain Beefheart to Thelonius Monk
Madame Thai Thi Lien:
The force behind Vietnam’s classical tradition
Transcribing Jeremy Benthem
Academic capitalism
& the siege of the British university
The “10 best” Chelsea Hotel moments
