Talking with Anne Gorrick
John Martone’s scrittura povera
The Newly Complicated
Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston’s “Monkey Junk:
A Satire on Modern Divorce”
The only “best poetry of 2010”
to get it right
Rich Owens
also puts the Collected Eigner
at the head of his list
(Owens’ essay in the latest
Poetry Project Newsletter
is tremendous)
C.D. Wright:
“In a Word, a World”
Judaism & radical poetics
Paul Buhle on Ginsberg’s Kaddish
The Arty Semite on 2010 in poetry
Jackson Mac Low’s Barnesbook
Icelandic & British poetry in collaboration
Translation as intimacy
Re-reading Madame B
Retranslating Zhivago
Talking with Amy King
Jerome Rothenberg:
Found Poems from “The Emergence Notebooks”
Beltway Poetry’s tribute to
Langston Hughes
Remembering Paul Bowles
Installing Ghalib’s bust
Ghalib who?
Remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Celebrating Faiz’ 100th birthday
Remembering Wimalarathna Kumaragama
The great Tamil poets of the Chola period
Michael Gottlieb knows Harvey balls
Michael Gottlieb as the mirror image
of Patti Smith
Elizabeth Robinson’s
“Book Three: Romance”
Etel Adnan & Dunya Mikail
win Arab American Book Awards
Close reading aloud: Etheridge Knight”s
response to Gwendolyn Brooks
with Tracie Morris, Josephine Park, Herman Beavers
& Al Filreis
Talking with Kyle Schlesinger
Carlos Fuentes’ Destiny and Desire
W.S. Merwin:
Letter to Ruth Stone
(registration required)
Scotland stalls on a new poet laureate
In Tacoma, the laureate program
transitions from church to state
Angle, the archive
(something every little mag should do)
Archives (mostly audio)
from the Double Change series
(mostly Paris, mostly in French)
How to read 462 books in one year
Donald Barthelme’s reading list
Talking with Jón Örn Loðmfjörð
5 poems by Loðmfjörð
21st Century Trakl
Talking with Yasmin Ladha
Reb Livingston’s
2010 Dream Poet Anthology
Robert Zend’s Daymares
E. Gene Smith,
who rescued Tibetan literature,
has died
Kathryne Lindberg
“likely committed suicide”
Denis Dutton
of Arts and Letters Daily
is dead
Some of the poets
who passed on in 2010
An anti-modern attack on
Poetry Out Loud
Ekleksographia:
After Oulipo
Talking with Salman Rushdie
The Guardian’s hope for poetry
is more statues
The Winter 2010 issue of
Rabbit Light Movies
offers 11 new videos involving readings
by Laynie Browne, Sommer Browning,
Michael Earl Craig, Emily Kendal Frey, Noah Eli Gordon,
Arielle Greenberg, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Alice Notley,
Michelle Taransky, C.D. Wright & Rachel Zolf
Recent Elective Affinities:
David Brazil
Anselm Berrigan
Susan Landers
Hoa Nguyen
j/j hastain
E-books outsell paper ones
@ B&N’s online store
Amazon’s best-selling product ever:
The Kindle 3
Making books do what e-books can’t
& vice versa
Geoffrey Nunberg on Google Books
A new cold remedy:
women novelists
Border’s delays payments to publishers
For publishers,
it’s profits, not quality,
that matters
How librarians killed the academic library
Secret Headquarters in Silver Lake
PennSound is 6
Jack Kerouac wanted Marlon Brando
to play Dean Moriarty
Kerouac’s typewriter
Press coverage for
William Burroughs: The Man Within
Charles Plymell on A.D. Winans
Clunk & White
(Elements of styles
in a language changing faster
than you can refudiate)
The Fall 2010 VQR is dedicated to
Kevin Morrissey
A collaborative (soma)tic by
Bhanu Kapil & CA Conrad
Timothy Cahill’s Exposés
Peter Blair’s Farang
Talking with Lary Bremner &/or Timewell
6 views of winter’s darkest days
from poets of Vancouver Island
& the Southern Gulf Islands of Canada:
Dvora Levin
Melanie Siebert
Sheila Martindale
Brian Brett
Leanne Boschman
Rhona McAdam
Joseph Harrington’s Earth Day Suite
Matthew Zapruder & Charles Simic
The ever-disappearing
s&wich
Tristan Garcia’s Hate: A Romance
Bay Area book highlights of 2010
Books for the holidays
picked by the
Santa Barbara poet laureate
2010’s neologisms
MIT’s inventional wisdom
SPD’s December best-sellers
Talking with Aase Berg
8 poems by Berg
Why criticism mutters
Stephen Burn
Katie Roiphe
Adam Kirsch
Pankaj Mishra
Elif Batuman
Sam Anderson
Barry Hannah’s train wreck
The Harold Pinter we never knew
Herbert Gold:
Not meeting Hemingway
Calendaring with Stephen Cushman
69 poets, all from NYC or Boston,
in The Portable Boog Reader 5
Eponymous poem
not penned
by Raftery
Dara Wier’s Selected Poems
Fernando Pessoa’s “Inscriptions”
“His worst mistake, the same every time,
stopping to ask for directions”
Virtual Book Tour:
Melissa Kwasny, Deema Shahabi,
Anna Moschovakis
Books rejected at The Strand
What makes a poem
a Hanging Loose piece
Why people love Stieg Larsson
John Sutherland’s
Top 10 Books about Books
John Maeda,
the prez of RISD, claims
that this chart
proves that the
“continual decline of books…
has impacted academia’s
monopoly on knowledge”
In fact,
the number of book titles
published in the US
more than doubled
between 2002 & 2008
(ergo this isn’t about
the decline of reading but
of monopoly)
“The Top 100 Best-Selling
Books of All Time”
(which began, it seems, in 1998)
from The Da Vinci Code to
Dear Fatty
“7 best” small press books of the decade
“We’re Eat Pray Love readers now”
6 more myths about MFAs
Can a book save your life?
For sale:
Kindle, as is,
with bullet holes
Thomas Bernhard’s loathing
Talking with Menka Shivdasani
Dan Chiasson’s
Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon
Andrei Codrescu’s
The Poetry Lesson
2011’s viral mashup:
Kafka + kittens
Atlanta’s “free poets on demand”
The Poetry app
In Belarus,
Lukashenko cracks down
on the media
Bankers fail to censor
master’s thesis
Opening Thomas Hardy’s home
Redoing Dylan Thomas’ park
Talking with Roselyne Sibille
Philip Roth’s Nemesis
The NYC fiction scene
comes to the aid
of the family of Charles Bock
A day with Naipaul
H.G. Wells’ war of the words
Michael Chabon:
How to salvage a “wrecked” novel
Bellow, Terkel
inaugurate the Chicago
Literary Hall of Fame
Mark Bibbins’
The Dance of No Hard Feelings
A poem as monument
in Lancaster, PA
Talking with Diane Lockward
Herman Hesse’s
“The Immortals”
Talking with Mona Zote
Seamus Heaney’s “deep snorkel”
A biography of
Thomas De Quincey
John Bennett’s Battle Scars
Jeremy Reed & Marc Almond’s Picadilly Bongo
Most cloying performance of a poem, 2010
The price of the paperless revolution
Rare manuscripts
from the Vatican Library
James Franco on reading Howl
Lilliputian screen talents
assault Jonathan Swift
Yet another film
from a book by Hunter S. Thompson
starring Johnny Depp
Anton Chekov: 5 Plays
Philip Guston: Collected Writings,
edited by Clark Coolidge
Barry Schwabsky on
Kurt Schwitters & Blinky Palermo
Warhol in Colorado
MoMA:
not dead yet
Ai Weiwei:
the disasters of success
& vice versa
It ain’t over till it’s over:
the fight over the Barnes heist goes on
“On hand” art materials
Alice Neel: the nonconformist
3 art critics look at favorite works
in NYC museums:
Roberta Smith
Ken Johnson
Karen Rosenberg
Talking with Tomas Fujiwara
Leonard Cohen’s tour
comes to an end
Dr. Lonnie Smith at the Jazz Standard
K. Leander Williams
on Afropop
(subscription required)
A Gertrude Stein musical
makes West Coast debut
Patti Smith started my heart again
“Continue your life’s celebration”
Amateurs vs. professionals
vis-à-vis new media literacies
The “most influential European thinker”
is an American
Who is Walter Benjamin now?
Peretz in exile
Caveon’s anti-cheating technology
