Fairfield Porter: Jimmy and John, 1957-58
Tibor de Nagy:
Poets & Painters
Talking with Rae Armantrout
2 new poems by Armantrout
Armantrout’s “magnum opus”
David Trinidad:
“Miss D. Smokes”
Talking with Sarah Dowling
Kit Robinson’s “Modern Living”
Turkish vispo
Chris Hamilton-Emery
saves a public poem
Joseph Torra:
“The Farmer Panics”
Michael McClure’s
Of Indigo and Saffron
The Conceptual North Pole –
11 Interviews
Lytle Shaw talking with
Matthew Coolidge, Kenneth Goldsmith,
Monica de la Torre, Matthew Buckingham,
Emilie Clark, Cabinet,
Jeff Derksen, Rob Fitterman,
Gerard Byrne, Heriberto Yepez
& Lisa Robertson
“So I Shot Him” –
a new story by Dashiell Hammett
Lydia Davis:
Miniatures from a mind on fire
Mark Scroggins on
academic geneaologies
Adrienne Rich:
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
“Sharon Olds…
seems almost a parody”
Robert Glück:
“from I, Boombox”
Remembering F.A. Nettlebeck
William Matthews’
New Hope for the Dead
Roberto Bolaño:
Literature & Exile
Tadeusz Różewicz’
Sobbing Superpower
A Mokwena praise-poet
Dodie Bellamy’s
“Family Jewels”
Adam Seelig’s
Every Day in the Morning (Slow)
Galileo & the arts
Talking with Thom Donovan
Kathy Lou Schultz’
“All I Ever Had”
Digging into
Lisa Robertson’s
“charm and humanity”
Iraqi poets warn Tunisians:
“the collapse of tyranny
does not mean the success
of democracy”
First non-Arab
makes it to the second round
in Prince of Poets competition
Elaine Equi
reading over people’s shoulders
on the subway
Jean Valentine’s
Break the Glass
2 poems by Kevin Killian
What Proust knew first
What do you need in order to write?
The National Book Critics Circle
nominees are…
31 nominees in 6 genres
Keith Tuma:
American Hybrid
Alli Warren:
“Getting Ready to Have Been Fully Ensconced”
Performance poetics
in Harare
Kenneth Koch:
“One Train”
2 poems by Bill Berkson
Even later
An elegy for Michael Gizzi
by William Corbett
Why archives are like monk fish
The Great American Novel
started here
A nation wants to switch
its second language
Taylor Mali’s
“Speak with Conviction”
Ben Friedlander’s
“My Vaginal Lips are Sealed”
Taylor Brady’s
“Outer Space Employment Agency”
Timothy Donnelly’s
6 favorite contemporary poets
Edgar Allen Poe’s
“mystery man”
again fails to appear
But that is because
David Franks is dead
2 poems by Dion Farquhar
Kate Daniel’s “Disjunction”
Is the Jaipur Literary Festival
another example of
colonial hangover?
Not so, sez William Dalrymple
Pakistani slam poet
wins first prize at Jaipur
for the novel Home Boy
Optimism for poetry
in Jaipur
Poetry is sidelined in India,
sez Tishani Doshi
One volume of poetry
in the “Tournament of Books”
From Brent Cunningham’s
Journey to the Sun
WashPo goes counter-intuitive,
will e x p a n d Sunday books section
Tada’s Forest of Eyes
Larry Kearney:
“thornhill and static”
Transfer reaches 50
(taking 55 years to do so)
Going to Paul Muldoon
for help with your song lyrics
The difference between lyric & song
Lennon’s letters
to reach print
“endless rain into a paper cup”
Dylan signs a 6-book deal
A new poem by Jim Morrison
Jim Carroll:
what do we owe a dead poet?
John Cage:
“I don’t need sound to talk to me”
Loving Repeating:
A Musical of Gertrude Stein
Snap your fingers to The Beats
The Museum of Unnatural History
has a new idea about
the scroll
Steve Dickison’s
“from ‘Wear You to the Ball’”
2 poems by Tim Yu
Sarah Manguso
on illness
Whatever happened to modernism?
Oren Izenberg:
Poems, Poetry, Personhood
The diary as fiction
More wild stories about John Ross
that turn out to be true
Julia Budenz,
author of a long poem,
has died
So has Wilfred Sheed
And Reynolds Price
The LA Times
on Reynolds Price
In Las Cruces,
Joe Speers & Wayne Crawford
are coming to terms
with cancer
Rodney Koeneke’s
“Jazz Impressions of Gazprom”
Having hit bottom,
hiring in languages stays there
Fifty-Seven
Damn Good Haiku
Talking with Ben Marcus
“Does anyone self-identify as experimental?”
Vincent Godfrey Burns –
Ike’s inaugural poet
The collaboration(s)
of Wordsworth & Coleridge
A bookstore in Echo Park
Plus 3 in DC
Kostas Anagnopoulos’
“Excuse Me”
Monica Youn’s
Ignatz
Heaney’s Chain
Brodsky’s genius
Walcott wins the TS Eliot prize
In NJ, Laurie Byro is
Poet of the Decade
The shortlist for
the Irish Times Poetry Now prize
Picador prize goes to
Richard Meier
5 books of poetry
Talking with Alex Gregorio
Shakespeare without words
Defining Shakespeare’s
“fair friend”
Bill Maher: Twain Weck
New careers for the mustachioed
Censoring Huck Finn is nothing –
consider the case of tobacco
The politics of Andrew Marvell
J.D. Salinger: A Life
William Burroughs’ Queer
gets a “25th anniversary” edition
Burroughs on courage
Video games with Allen Ginsberg
Neal Cassady,
family man & bigamist
Being at the Be-In
(in the video, onstage at the beginning,
L-R are Gary Snyder, Michael McClure,
Allen Ginsberg & Joanne Kyger)
The advice in Saginaw:
be unique
Brian Ellis,
“more basement show than MFA”
Griselda Garcia’s
Hallucinations in the Alfalfa
Peter O’Leary:
Apocalypticism
David Biespiel’s
Every Writer has a Thousand Faces
Arielle Greenberg's
"Three Pear Trees"
Liz Lochhead is Scotland’s Makar
Meet your Makar
Remembering Robbie Burns
& WG Sebald
Roland Barthes writes a novel
Ish Klein’s
“Line of Reality”
The view from Borges’ window
Honoring Wislawa Szymborska
Joyce Carol Oates:
Give Me Your Heart
The title story
Living with Isherwood
Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota
The best e-reader
Read & walk
at the same time
McSweeney’s has an app
As does Robbie Burns
How to review poetry
in The Rumpus
30-word reviews
How to turn your book
into a handbag
Mexican myths from a severed head
Reliving Iraq
through Slaughterhouse Five
An account of
the Avant Writing Symposium
(in Spanish)
Poetry + Film =
Slope 47
New books from
Geoffrey Squires, Andrew Nightingale
& Gautam Verma
in Shearsman’s impressive catalog
of free e-books
Norwich, UK, a town for books
E-chaps from H_NGM_N
Rereading Thomas Gray
Matthew Dickman celebrates Stafford
The late great Henry James
William Gibson’s
Zero History
With Hemingway in Havana
Talking with Paul Siegell
In Juneau,
a contest for poetry on the bus
through OmniBus
CK Williams’ Wait
Ms. Hardwick, perfect bound
Elegists of finite wisdom
The beatification of David Foster Wallace
The philosophical novel, if any
A biography of
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Another of Habermas
Cornell West,
meet Steve Colbert
James Miller’s
Examined Lives
Lives Worth Living
in a Secular Age
Talking with Lewis Hyde
The revolution
will be friended
Martin Luther King,
the comic
And the socialist
Toward a post-nationalist
comp lit
The GOP war on culture
is on
The NEA is on the GOP list of cuts
What if they gave a science war
& only one side showed up?
Irony is good!
quote unquote
The 100 best-selling
Christian books of 2010
Poets join
to rescue St. George
from the far right
10 ways to make the most
of your
visiting-artist budget
The value of putting
free courses online
E-books are hot,
hard copy not so much
E-books & university presses:
this is the inflection point
Now B&N shuffles execs
& lays off buyers
Why Paoli
(my home town)
is not the name of an
Apple font
Thoreau’s cellphone
Here comes Qwiki,
creating video narratives
via search engine
Digital humanities =
“the cool kids’ table”
But hiring committees
are still very much “old school”
Clough’s defense of censorship
is to deny that
this is what it is
In a hole,
Clough just digs deeper
And deeper
Arts groups protest
bumbling Smithsonian director
In Russia,
censorship can be more harsh
Not to mention Chicago
Or Zimbabwe
The price of committing journalism
in Zimbabwe
Peter Schjeldahl
on Gordon Matta-Clark
The Literary Supplement
notices
Claude Royet-Journoud
noticing
David Hockney on the iPad
The Julian Assange Coloring Book
New Russian graffiti
(in Spanish)
The stolen & damaged work of art
in the age of opportunity
All in the family: The Woodmans
Architect (& former baby-sitter)
Frank Gehry
Tao Lin + whipped cream + Bebe Zeva
= a documentary
Billionaires play at education
Debra Hughes on Tucson
Larry McMurtry on Tucson
& the courage of Clarence Dupnik
Does banning assault weapons really work?
The stats from Virginia say yes
Glenn Beck &
Frances Fox Piven
Nietzsche goes to Tucson
OnandOnScreen
deserves an award
for most magical e-journal
So much more good poetry in
Shampoo 38
than I could link to here
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
