Photo by Aldon Lynn Nielsen
front row, L – R: Carla Harryman, Rae Armantrout, Kit Robinson
back row, L – R: Barrett Watten, Helene Aji, Lyn Hejinian, Antoine Caze, Ted Pearson
The Grand Piano @ the MLA
Hear the chorus here
Al Nielsen on the MLA
Barry Schwabsky on
Ketjak, langpo & The Grand Piano
in The Nation
(subscription required)
Subscription not required here
Rae Armantrout’s
Money Shot
Tom Mandel’s
To the Cognoscenti
Lyn Hejinian’s Fatalist
More close-reading
the links list
Thom Donovan:
A course on appropriation
Visual poetry on trial!
John Olson on
Rosmarie Waldrop &
the ∞ of language
Norman Fischer’s “Sixty Five”
Mark Doty, Juan Felipe Herrera
& Anne Waldman
elected chancellors of
The Academy of American Poets
Jordan Davis on
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Charles Bernstein’s
“Poetics of the Americas”
Charles Bernstein on the fly
Geof Huth’s review of the year,
with thanks
I will arise & go now
& go to Innisfree,
the Boulder bookstore
that is just the third
in the United States
devoted entirely to poetry
(it says here)
Utah state law
threatens used book dealers
One new bookstore (sorta)
comes to Laredo
What’s going on with Borders?
Borders shuts Tennessee
distribution center
& lays off others at its HQ
Borders gives publishers
to February 1
to accept its new terms
Shaman Drum
replaced by
Five Guys burger joint
But in Minneapolis
a movie theater is replaced
by a bookstore
Bookstores disrupted
by Australian floods
App wins as 2010
Word of the Year
16 years after the fact,
the National Book Foundation
notices that
“poetry goes digital”
12 million Kindles in 2011?
The research paper is dying
Talking with Edwidge Danticat
Talking with
Ann & Sam Charters
A poetry festival in Karkala, India
(The video is a must-see)
What is clarity?
John Gallaher on
What’s become of our avant-garde?
Richard Chase’s original article
from 1957
A talk by John Ashbery
James Franco is Hart Crane
Beowulf,
the iPhone version
Poetry’s death of a 1,000 hits
Habib Tengour’s
“Five Movements of the Soul
and Hodgepodge,”
translated by Pierre Joris
Julio Cortázar’s
“Prose from the Observatory”
Talking with Shin Yu Pai
Much “dementia blogging” of late
by Susan M Schultz
Kafka’s other trial
Charles Reznikoff:
poetry after Auschwitz
Correspondence
by Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan
Ian Fleming International Airport
David Antin’s
Selected Poems: 1963 – 1973
Joseph Conrad’s
sci-fi collab
with Ford Maddox Ford
The greatness of
Samuel R Delany
English
will never sit still
Spilling the bananas
One language,
many podcasts
Chinua Achebe on Nigeria
George Quasha’s
sounding portraits:
Kythe Heller & Michael McClure
Fear & loathing @ book signings
The secret histories
of book inscriptions
Spelling out China’s
calligraphic influence
Top 10 typefaces
used by book design winners
Can Comic Sans save reading?
Grzegorz Wróblewski’s
A Marzipan Factory
Alain Robbe-Grillet
talking at SF State in ‘89
in ten parts
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
(6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
Rise of the neuronovel
Paul Auster’s Sunset Park
Ben Ehrenreich
on Frederic Tuten
NY Times reviews
of short story collections by
Colm Toibin
Edith Pearlman
Charles Baxter
The LA Times on Edith Pearlman
Gatsby 3D
In Makati (a part of Manila),
The Philippine Star
uses a poetry reading
to celebrate its 25th anniversary
Pinsky’s poetry strikes a chord
Talking with Tadeusz Dąbrowski
7 poems by Dąbrowski
Talking with Kaira Espinoza
Remembering
Ahmed Faraz
Mark States
changes states
in more ways than one
Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s
Baker of Tarifa
The hide-&-seek muse
Tao Lin’s
“An Account of Sharing an Ambien
with a Girl I Met One Week Prior
at a Party”
Marvin Bell on the fly
Tom Waits’
Seeds on a Hard Ground
Anis Shivani’s
New rules for writers
Dante’s physics
Poets, choose your insult
(But isn’t “skittery”
the perfect term to describe the work
of Tony Hoagland?)
George Oppen,
“silly love poet”
Jerry Brown’s budget
eliminates all state funding
for libraries
Volunteers can’t run libraries
Library’s survival tactic:
check out all the books,
now!
Frank Sherlock, reading
50 years of
The New American Poetry
Patrick Dunagan on
The Eco Language Reader
Poetry Time audio archive
Talking with Christodoulos Makris
5 poems by Makris
Brian Teare’s “Hello”
Class struggle:
on the haiku of
Angelo Suarez
A haiku workshop
in Palm Beach
Using poetry
to see the other side
of war
James Tate on the fly
Events planned
for William Stafford’s 97th birthday
An audio archive
for Oregon poetry
NEVER use 2 spaces
after a period
“I refuse” space space
“The progressive passive”
(not a reference to Obama)
Controlling grammar
with Jared Loughner
DC is America’s
“most literate city”
NYC stakes its claim
NYC subways
dump poetry for ads
But adds artwork
to NYC taxis
San Antonio
adds poetry to its transportation
Centennial year for
Worcester poet
Elizabeth Bishop,
class of ’34,
starts career
Fighting over Robbie Burns
in Fredericton, NB
The poetry of Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Of poets & facials
in Calistoga
“Manhattan is a lot like Corvallis,”
Manhattan, Kansas, that is
An epic conversation
in Palatine, IL
Is your home town Telegraph Avenue
or Columbia, MD?
What topped the best seller list
on the day you were born?
Who is getting published?
(and which poet is like
“reading with training wheels”?)
Batavia’s “One Book”
is Poetry 180
“Poetry is not dead”
Iggy McGovern’s Safe House
The Herman Melville summer vacation
A reading worthy of a leviathan
Paul Theroux:
The trouble with autobiography
“Memory is required for poetry,”
says Ira Sadoff
who then goes on to discuss
maybe 2% of the poetic spectrum
Lorrie Moore:
Send Huck Finn to college
Reading Huck Finn
The Unspeakable
in its Jammies
Huck Finn’s conflict is our own
Colbert gets to the point
Why stop censorship at Twain?
Paul Coelho banned Iran
James Bond & Sherlock Holmes,
undead again
Not everyone in Boulder
likes their “bubble”
The Girl who Wrote
Stieg Larsson’s last novel
Piecing together
a posthumous Bolaño novel
about Real Cop Woes
(in Spanish)
Wantage is wanting a laureate
Kelly Cherry,
Virginia’s new laureate
Poets use prose
to protest
inaugural exclusion
Angry poets
scold Belfast (Maine)
politician
Dear Guv,
bring back PA’s state poet
Connecticut
even has student state poets
In Worcestshire, UK,
young poets compete
for laureate
In Scotland, it’s not a laureate
but a Makar
Modest journal wins a “major prize”
Why a sequel to
Catcher in the Rye
isn’t a bad idea
Salinger estate settles:
no sequels until
Catcher enters
public domain
An author’s journey
to print-on-demand
Talking with Wole Soyinka,
Kishwar Desai & Jason Wallace
A KickStarter page for
Words Without Borders’
Afghan issue
(watch the video!)
Feza Aazmi’s
Poet, Beloved & Philosopher
The German-Iranian poetry connection
The task of the translator
is to become known
Will Google replace translation?
An introduction to Miller Williams
Christopher Burawa
wins the Joy Harjo Award
Ben Mazer’s Poems
Kathleen Rooney is,
I swear,
pimping her poems
The Poetry Brothel’s
top NYC spots for poets
(in which St Marks & Poets House
do not appear
& the Bowery Poetry Club
gets an honorable mention)
Bring a little water, Sylvie
(also electronics, kids’ voices,
a drum machine –
Ms. Plath does a videopoem)
Sara Coleridge
on failing to use sunscreen
in the 19th century
Zbigniew Herbert’s
“I Would Like to Describe”
The Oxford American Summit
for “ambitious writers”
Marilynne Robinson’s
Absence of Mind:
The Dispelling of Inwardness
from the Modern Myth of the Self
If James Joyce & the Commons
both place a call to G*d,
who will get thru first?
Another review of
Jonathan Safran Foer’s
Tree of Codes
that gets the history wrong
Poems for the
mostly quietist soul
Portrait of the artist
as an old man
Matt Hart & Nate Pritts on the fly
The poems of George Herbert
Poetry jams in SecondLife
The nonfiction writer’s best friend
Pynchon + coffee = ?
Fran Lebowitz’ aphorisms
2 new books from
Helen Vendler
Davis Schneiderman’s Blank
Why video games matter
LaMaMa’s Ellen Stewart has died
Leslie Rogers on performance art
Them
by Ishmael Houston-Jones,
Dennis Cooper & Chris Cochrane
Lindsey Drury on Them
Phil Ochs,
the movie
Roger Ebert’s
best documentaries of 2010
The first rule about Fight Club
is that nobody sings
about Fight Club
Trish Keenan has died at 42
Remembering Trish Keenan
Keenan’s
“Mind-bending motorway mix”
Tzimon Barto,
poet, pianist, weight-lifter
& that’s just the beginning
If the novelist
also performs as
John Wesley Harding,
the novel might come with
some songs
Phil Minton’s Feral Choir
Begin Again
oversimplifies Cage
3 “new” works from John Coltrane
Abigail Washburn’s latest
Remembering John Sex
Rock’s own personal punctuation!
Not prepared pianos
so much as silly ones
Doomed divas
of Italian silent films
Gauguin “gallery rage”
at the Tate
The Wayne Clough Amateur Hour
at the Smithsonian
AA Bronson threatens suit
to get his work out of Clough’s show
A collector asks to pull work from show
Shepard Fairey
& the future of “fair use”
Mark A. Landis,
our finest forger
Geodesic Disques
beneath Detroit
Winner of the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize:
Yoko Ono
Cindy Sherman’s favorite subject
Karin Lindholm’s Knäppfinger
Punks, poets, provocateurs:
the photography of Marcia Resnick
New York sleeps
“New” photos by Ansel Adams
Milton Rogovin has died
That gay boho Europhile,
Grant Wood
The photography & zines
of Alec Soth
Not a fan of R Crumb
Why Jeff Koons is a hypocrite
Timothy Rub’s faves
@ the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Frank Gehry finds honest work
“scrunched-up paper bags”
(Germaine Greer on Gehry’s latest)
& don’t get your hopes up
for Eli Broad’s museum in LA
Can Gregor Muir
save the London ICA?
What’s next for
Trafalgar’s 4th plinth?
The body of Ariel Sharon
San Francisco’s art bars
One really bad idea
for narrative TV
Talking with Eric Hobsbawm
What does Slavoj want?
Žižek on
manners in the age of Wikileaks
I’m no longer a Leo?!?!
Beyond the edge of the universe
North Brother Island –
a part of NYC
as is Hart Island,
whose potter’s field
forms the largest cemetery
in the United States
