Anis Shivani
on Michael McClure
McClure still rings true
Beat poet helped to create
the hippie movement
Congratulations to Jordan Davis
for becoming poetry editor of
The Nation
3 Jordan Davis reviews
of Ed Sanders (two) &
Tadeusz Rozewicz
A walking poem
against censorship
Dickinson’s dashes
And her statue
Eileen Myles:
Being Female
Katha Pollitt
on numbers trouble:
old news
The NY Times asks why
Annie Finch on the gender count
Where have women poets gone?
The hermeneutics of a woman’s body
2 new books from Susan Howe
Susan Howe / James Welling:
Frolic Architecture
Lauren Ireland:
4 poems
Cia Rinne’s
“radeverbrechen”
Thomas Sayers Ellis
stole Langston Hughes
to inaugurate debate
over payment for poets
Will Alexander’s
“The Pope at Avignon”
Talking with Stephen Nelson
Kenny Goldsmith & Craig Dworkin’s
introductory essays from
Against Expression:
An Anthology of Conceptual Writing,
plus the table of contents
Talking with Ken Edwards
The Jewish Daily Forward
on Michael Gottlieb’s
Memoir and Essay
Basil King:
“My Seventy-Fifth Birthday”
Talking with Emma Trelles
Michael Kelleher
reads Steve McCaffery
Do androids dream
of electric
video lecture series?
Allen Fisher’s Proposals
Talking with Pierre Joris
Fact•Simile’s
new issue
includes an interview with Arthur Sze
plus work by him,
Laura Sims, George Moore, Erin Geegan Sharp,
Debrah Morkun, Shawn Huelle, Andrew Schelling,
Deborah Poe, kevin mcpherson, eckhoff,
Cindy Savett, Susanne Dyckman, Changming Yuan,
Scott Alexander Jones, & Nicholas Chiarella
Now batting
in Fact•Simile’s
trading card series:
The Wizard of Was,
Chucky B
Would the bard
have survived the web?
The linguistic genius
of babies
Talking with Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
Jean Toomer’s
conflicted racial identity
Talking with Arundhati Roy
A festschrift for Tagore
Faiz’ poetry
continues to inspire progressives
Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri
receives Moortidevi Prize
Marosa di Giorgio’s
The History of Violets
Paris Review to serialize
“lost” Bolaño novel
An excerpt from Bolaño’s
Third Reich
Rane Arroyo’s
White as Silver
Talking with Andrew Hoyem
Time spent teaching penmanship
is dropping
A haiku moment in James Joyce
Rock ‘n’ poetry
in Boise
Dating the Voynich manuscript
The Voynich manuscript (complete)
Tony Trigilio’s History Diary
Nazim Hikmet @ 110
Talking with Sean Bonney
Paul Blackburn
reading at Bard, 1968
Other early readings at Bard
including Ted Berrigan, 1982,
Diane Di Prima, 1973
Ted Weiss, circa 1976
Timothy Leary, 1968, lecturing “On Drugs”
Allen Ginsberg news roundup
Ginsberg named to
The Rainbow Honor Walk
in SF’s Castro
Ginsberg & Kerouac:
“It is clear that
Kerouac is the more rigorous writer”
David Amran remembers
Neal Cassady
“Mutate or die!”
A William Burroughs
biotech bestiary
Alexander Trocchi:
Junk Male
Ken Kesey & UFOs
A Richard Brautigan poem title
turns into
a short film
starring Elle Fanning
Nabokov’s history
of the New York Yankees
Reading David Foster Wallace
Kathleen Spivak’s
A History of Yearning
InDigest Wikileaks
Centos E-Chapbook
Anthology,
including
Andrew Bahrenburg, Jenni B. Baker, Cara Benson,
Evan Commander, Matthew Daddona, Joseph Fritsch,
Damien W. Green, Lauren Ireland, Lily Ladewig,
Ashleigh Lambert, Eric Lindley,
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Ben Nardolilli,
Dustin Luke Nelson, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Rebecca Porte,
Martin Rock, Christina Shah, Leigh Stein,
and Andrew Strombeck
Juliana Spahr
on the impact of MFA programs
on poetry itself
Talking with Emilian Galaicu-Păun
2 poems by Galaicu-Păun
After 20 years,
Kevin Young publishes
his epic,
Ardency
Elizabeth Alexander,
Amistad
The first thing you notice about
Nonsite
is that every contributor
is listed with their academic affiliation
(the anxiety of credentialing)
Jackie Kay’s Fiere
Bob Grumman’s
“Correction of the Alphabet”
LaMonte Young:
An Anthology of Chance Operations
How much collaboration is too much?
Tony Towle & Bean Spasms
NY Times mini-reviews of
Christian Wiman, CD Wright,
Sarah Riggs, Aimee Nezhukumatahil,
Anya Kugovy Silver, James Richardson
& Dorothy Baressi
Talking with New Hampshire laureate
Walter E Butts
Ed Markowski’s “Earth Day”
3 poets at Minase
Some linked verse
Wayne Koestenbaum’s
“Distant Incident
on Paper with Square Holes”
Mark Twain:
His own best straight man
Talking with Anatol Knotek
8 visual poems by Knotek
Ryu Murakami:
Young, numb, and violent
Powell’s lays off 31 employees
Powell’s defends layoffs
The fall of Borders
thru its email newsletters
What, if anything,
you need to know
about the Borders’ bankruptcy
Hope for small bookstores
in a digital age?
Antiquarian book fair thrives in SF
So does
Small World Books
in Venice, CA
so long as people want burgers!
(Best photos of a bookstore
in a major newspaper ever)
The future of the book
The book is dead,
long live the Kindle app!
Kindle puts
readers & friends
on the same page
In Australia,
an indie bookshop goes online
Illegally downloading books
puts New Yorkers out of work
Authors organize to support libraries
while the cops organize against them
Some councils rethink
library cuts
A reading at the library
where I first discovered poetry
Talking with Morton Søndergaard
4 Søndergaard poems
Andy Levine’s
Today Then Tomorrow
Best literary sex scenes
not penned by a
“Great Male Novelist”
(Kundera & Genet are on this list,
but so is an old gal pal of mine)
30 literary quotes
that are supposed to get you laid
but won’t
Finding yourself
in your ex’s poetry
Jane Austen
at the Superbowl
Kasandra Larsen’s
Stellar Telegram
Elizabeth Bishop:
The New Yorker’s house poet
Bishop: A centenary
to celebrate
John Timpane on Elizabeth Bishop
From Srikanth Reddy’s Voyager
Talking with Jonathan Lethem
African-American poetry
speaks to
culture and tradition
Proust, Wagner & spacetime
Robin Becker’s “Shopping”
Is the “Beryl Booker” a good idea?
Heartfelt poetry, literally
Talking with Kim Addonizio
Unlikely soldier Brian Turner
emerges as poet, teacher
Jane Hirshfield reads
“Some Enemy Took My Life”
Will Georgia schools
ditch books for iPads?
Note to Charles Olson
Robert Bly:
Warning to the reader
Electronic Literature Collection, vol. 2
Walter Benjamin:
Kafka & progress
TC Boyle’s
West Coast delusions
James Walsh’s
“The Black Cloud”
The importance of lighting
to reading
Doctrine on “internet poetry”
How literature impacts a life
Poetry, creativity & mental illness
How to write a
“killer first sentence”
Blair Fuller
on J.D. Salinger
Salinger’s “ideal reader”
Jay McInerney
on Slawenski’s Salinger
An excerpt from
J.D. Salinger: A Life
“Mon Amie”
by Randolph Silliman Bourne
Parini’s Melville
& the perils of historical fiction
Merwin connects
nature and the arts
Talking with W.S. Merwin
Ronald Reagan’s ABCs
Alison Mudditt
takes over UC Press
Paul Theroux:
This was England
Jeanne Larsen’s
“My Aging Lover in My Arms, the Dharma”
Poems about school
One thorough-ish account
of the AWP
John Gallaher’s
account of the
Rankine-Hoagland affair
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
Gallaher’s open letter
to Rankine
Sean Singer
responds to the contoversy
Poetry & moral authority
Famous literary fights
The NY Review of Books
doesn’t like Mad Men
Andrei Codrescu’s
The Poetry Lesson
John Stammer’s
“top 10 love poems”
5 ways for the National Book Festival
to earn its second day
Sylvia Plath’s
“Two Views of a Cadaver Room”
Douglas Coupland
on Marshall McLuhan
Encountering Angela Carter
Digital tools for the humanities
Bringing Tolkien to the iPhone
Nayland Blake
on teaching & baggage
(slight is slow to load)
Matthew Brandt’s
Inkjet Alphabet
The Sadness Museum
Joyce Carol Oates’
“enthralling widowhood”
Joyce Carol Oates
on The Fighter
G.I. Jane & D.H. Lawrence
Film scholar
Miriam Hansen has died
So has Oakley Hall III
Banksy + cats =
Exit Through the Pet Shop
Confronting Parkinson’s,
Tim Andrews becomes an art project
Hey, kids! Let’s put on a reading!
NEA chair:
“There are too many theaters”
10 works of art
the right wants to censor
Artist forced to remove
head camera implant
Jon Cotner & Claire Hamilton
tour Art Basel Miami 2010
What drives street art?
Video profile of
Theodore A. Harris
Talking with Theodore Harris
This art critic comes with banjo
50 things you didn’t know about
Jackson Pollock
GOP legislator introduces bill
to force the University of Iowa
to sell its Pollock
Gartner again wants to sell the Pollock
Head of the board of regents:
a bad idea
Sale would threat Iowa accreditation
Should a university treat an art collection
as a financial asset?
Has time run out
for Jackson Pollock?
Talking with Sean Scully
Ai Weiwei
sells his sunflowers
Sotheby’s next sale
of modern art
Voina short-listed for Russian art prize
while members await trial
over 210-foot penis graffiti
Talking with Larry Clark
The Watts Towers
struggle with neglect
James Irvine Foundation
to the rescue
Frank Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street:
the best NYC skyscraper in 46 years
Henry Rollins @ 50
The Waterboys sing Yeats
The Whorf-Yahoo Hypothesis:
Does the net
change how we think?
Social science
& the enemy within
AOL + HuffPost:
the difference
between journalism & content
The chess master
who defeated himself
The recipe for Coca Cola
Correction of the year
(if not the millennium)
