Talking with Anne Waldman:
“From the Larynx”
A poem from Liu Xiaobo
The laureate’s curse
13 poems from Sharon Mesmer
Chapter 1 of Robert Duncan’s
The H.D. Book,
just out from UC Press
Clayton Eshleman on Paul Blackburn
Digital maps of Robert Creeley’s email
Creeley’s edge
William Burroughs: disturbed
Robert Kelly reads at Bard
Anne Gorrick’s I-Formation Book I
Tom Beckett interviews Anne Gorrick
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
reading & talking at Kelly Writers House
Plus reading at the Bowery Poetry Club
Thomas Devaney
getting eidetic with James Castle
Talking with Eileen Myles
Putin’s worst nightmare
is a poet
Rosmarie Waldrop’s
Driven to Abstraction
Elie Rajaonarison
has died
A memorial for Laura Hershey
David Gitin’s The Journey Home
Talking with Reb Livingston
Tom Pickard’s
“Merlin & Larkin”
The impact of Basil Bunting
Frank O’Hara
& the history of gay America
Talking with CA Conrad
Dear Sandy, Hello:
Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan
A new website for Leslie Scalapino
The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater
Less than 1% of poetry books in the UK
are by Black or Asian poets
Three poems by John Tranter
along with commentary
Richard Hell on Jim Carroll’s Petting Zoo
ReScript Books:
bringing back lost classics
Literary “pod people”©
Google teams with indie book dealers
A Google Books preview
What will indie e-booksellers do now?
So much for loaning books
Poet of the Year:
Rae Armantrout
Reading Rae Armantrout in Brazil
Sina Queyras’ “Euphoria” explained
25 outstanding book covers of 2010
The dangerous new world
of digital verse
Close reading aloud:
Linh Dinh, Julia Bloch & Frank Sherlock
on Norman Fischer
Visiting Edwin Denby’s
Mediterranean Cities
Denby reading
Pinsky reading
Mark Truscott’s magic numbers
Talking with Sarah Rosenthal
Close-reading Anne Carson
Two poems by Anne Carson
(subscription required)
George Stanley & Barry McKinnon
Chinua Achebe @ 80
Michael Robbins riffs on Spicer
A view of the scene in Chicago
Sawako Nakayasu’s Texture Notes
A sea cruise
with David Foster Wallace
A long, long, long, long, long
interview with Wallace
Michael Wood reads Finnegans Wake
Will newspapers survive?
UbuWeb
on the subjects of
© & permission
Oopsies:
Turkey’s national anthem
has no ©
Robert Kelly’s Fire Exit
The most widely read article
on the Poetry Foundation
website in 2010
was by
Jim Behrle
F. Scott Fitzgerald, reading
the works of others
A NY Times obit for
Bella Akhmadulina
Moby-Dick:
There Will Be Blood
And drawings
Lydia Beyoud recommends
North African émigré writers
Hank Lazer on Lissa Wolsak
Lissa Wolsak’s Squeezed Light
Talking with Sergej Timofejev
5 poems by Timofejev
Amy Catanzano
talking Multiversal
Meredith Quartermain’s
Recipes from the Red Planet
Peter Quartermain’s
Disjunctive Poetics
Fiction vs. poetry
in the treatment of alcoholism
Daisy Fried on last poems
The December issue of Poetry
Joanna Klink’s “The Grave”
The minimum number of books
in Harvard’s libraries
that are bound in human flesh
Is American poetry at a dead end?
What’s wrong (& not wrong)
with American poetry?
Literary landscapes from the modern Middle-East
Maghreb poets meet in Tunisia
Mark Young’s
At Trotsky’s Funeral
Young’s Some Geographies
4 pieces by Kate Greenstreet
Brenda Hillman’s
“In High Desert Under the Drones”
Steve Davenport’s
Uncontainable Noise
Some notes on sound
in the work of
Andrew Zawacki & Andrew Joron
Our brains are wired
to hear ourselves speaks
2 poems from Orlando White
Anna Rabinowitz’ Present Tense
A gift list of women’s verse
Joel Chace’s Cleaning the Mirror
A decade of bookstore closings
San Francisco bookstores
Philly’s used bookstores
Publishers Weekly’s
Man of the Year:
the chair of Barnes & Noble
World’s most expensive book
sells for $11.5M
Read it here
Mark Scroggins:
My Vergil problem
Sillimander
& other Xmas shopping ideas
Poetry bumper stickers for 2011 AWP:
“Got Silliman?”
Carol Dorf on Camille Martin
Thomas Fink interviews Joanna Fuhrman
“the lights of Tulsa spread out flat”
Les Murray:
A life in writing
Daniel Pritchard on Ben Lerner
Paul Bowles’
“All Parrots Speak”
An elegy for Leslie Nielsen
Vegetables & verse
Libraries in literature
7 amazing libraries
Chicago to expand its libraries
W.S. Merwin
talks to librarians
Merwin sounds the alarm
Books on reading
by Orhan Pamuk, Pat Conroy & David Ulin
Ulin on Darwish
Is there a lit mag in this class?
Culture in Nazi-occupied Paris
Bush poet shares poetry
The secret message behind
“Lay off the MFA students”
The Victorian MFA debate
My narratives, my self
Storytelling 2.0
Help Tim Burton write this story
Patti Smith:
learning to love books in Philadelphia
Ilya Kaminsky
appointed head of
Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute
Secret chamber in India’s National Library
Become a fictional character
for free speech
How to read,
an alternate point of view
Poor teachers make poetry a bore
alleges Andrew Motion
Multilingual academic literacies
Mapping metaphors in haiku
What do we want
© to do?
72 new reviews in all
in Galatea Resurrects
W.D. Ehrhart’s
The Bodies Beneath the Table
Slam Week in Kathmandu
Poetry Idol in Berwyn, IL
Jennifer Harrison’s Colombine
Paul Auster’s Sunset Park
Remembering Mishima
Adam Gopnik gets it wrong
Retro-Futurism
& its children
Gary Snyder & Jim Harrison
argue for etiquette
Robert Sward nominated for Pushcart
Glenn Beck:
“Liberals suck at poetry”
Rachel Zucker
on the problem of marriages
Saving Haiti with poems
Top bookplates on etsy
100 years after the death of Tolstoy
The digital analysis of Victorian literature
20 titles to add to the NY Times’
100 notable books list
A year in Latino poetry
The Washington Post’s
“Best Fiction & Poetry of 2010”
includes just 2 poetry titles
The year in poetry
the way The Guardian saw it
Poetry best-sellers of 2010
(small presses need not apply)
“Eleven Best Poetry Books of 2010”
from Dan Chiasson at The New Yorker
Amazon awards Words Without Borders
$44,000
“10 contemporary books
that challenged
white, male literary dominance,”
NY trade fiction division
(in which Roberto Bolaño turns out not to be white)
Saying No with T.S. Eliot
A new title for Strunk & White
US poet wins Dylan Thomas prize
“Accused of being a poet”
Writing poetry in English in Sri Lanka
John Updike
& the curious business
of sustaining literary reputations
Talking with John Updike
Lies, damned lies
& the autobiographical novel
Chabon to head MacDowell Colony
Huxley vs. Orwell,
the comic
A memoir of Stieg Larsson
Genre fiction is exactly that
Why are the laureates all poets?
The women in Yeats’ life
Djelloul Marbrook’s
Brushstrokes and Glances
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen’s 4NDd2O
Lucien Stryk’s Issa
Ian Fleming interviews Raymond Chandler
Barry Hannah’s “Lastward, Deputy James”
Talking with William Gibson
Elmore Leonard’s Djibouti
Elmore Leonard:
This much I know
Saul Bellow’s Letters
are a novel
Jackie O as editor
Marilyn Monroe & John Keats
as told by the dog
Dennis Lehane’s Moonlight Mile
4 dead logophiles
The Robert Burns museum
2 of this year’s NEA winners
from upstate NY
Thomas Glasco,
Colorado’s senior poet laureate
Patricia Tarbox,
New Hampshire’s senior laureate
Glenna Holloway,
Illinois’ senior laureate
The foundation behind
the senior poets’ competition
Muldoon reading
Kavanagh winner
writes poetry out of
memories of hurt
Can fictive sex ever have artistic merit?
Defending confessional poetry in 2010
Whose realism?
Talking with Volya Hapeyeva
7 poems by Hapeyeva
In which language poetry
brings down the world system
Full, too full of hobbits
UK word-of-the-year is…
Big Society
An award for words
moving from British to American English
& vice versa
The end of English
New Chinese poetry
Poetry by Zhimin Li
Translation as ambassador
Foreign language poetry
broadens the mind
Teaching SLANGuage
& documenting same
Talking with Efe Duyan
6 poems by Duyan
Jesse Glass’
Yin & Yang Eat at Me
Pairing poetry
with the NY Times
Kafka does standup
Tina Fey, Mark Twain & the dingbat right
Twain stopped the clocks
Jonathan Franzen does Oprah
finally
Franzen on overrated books
Franzen on underappreciated books
Eavan Boland reading
Remembering Larkin
Heaney poem fetches €4,800
Coming face-to-face with yourself
Language in the theater
David Cross writes poetry?
A small play in Brooklyn
is clearing the bookshelves
10 actors turned literary authors
(But no Harry Northup,
no Leonard Nimoy!?)
MFA student hosts the Oscars
Finally, a Thomas Pynchon book
as a movie
The lively afterlife of Bruce Conner
They’ve raised enough $$
to make a documentary
“proving”
that Shakespeare
wasn’t Shakespeare
The value of Shoah
Truman Capote’s profile of Marlon Brando
Christoph Menke:
The Sovereignty of Art:
Aesthetic Negativity in
Adorno & Derrida
Book covers with glittery mouths
The resurrection of “degenerate art”
The National Portrait Gallery
chickens out on
David Wojnarowicz
Talking with curator David Ward
Gay-bashing at the Smithsonian
March for a banned video
which can be seen
here in NYC
& here in DC
Lucky him
Art criticism in the age of the internet
Susan Philipsz:
sound as art
Photography & pain
Photographing Hemingway
The photography of Jan Watten
Galleries are moving to the Bowery?
Arms race of the mega-galleries
Picasso & the electrician,
Picasso & the chauffeur
Talking with Joe Zucker
A note from Dore Ashton
Nassos Daphnis has died
Peter Greenaway’s Last Supper
Why Mahler?
Michael Heller & Ellen Fishman-Johnson
Out of Pure Sound
Handel, skin orgasms & personality
A guide to jazz & pop singers
Mahmoud Darwish’s musical synthesis
What you heard
was not what you got
Social networking
to raise funds for the arts
Khaled Mattawa wins $50K
The cognitive cost of expertise
Claude Lévi-Strauss:
The Poet in the Laboratory
Fighting words:
anthropology (is) (is not) a science
A Darwinian theory of beauty
Navigating past nihilism
Slavoj Žižek:
The end of nature
Terry Castle, critical outlaw
Alain Badiou:
The Communist Hypothesis
Wittgenstein – after Norway
Wittgenstein sure is pretty
What is philosophy?
