Barack Obama
awards Maya Angelou
the Medal of Freedom
Frances E.W. Harper,
the best-known
African American poet
of the 19th Century
Readings from poets
of Africa & its diaspora
Zimbabwe poets
commemorate Black History Month
Nikki Giovanni’s
The 100 Best African American Poems
(*but I cheated)
Rita Dove channels Rosa Parks
Why does a white girl
get to write about lynching?
CAPITALIZATION
in Robert Grenier’s Series
My poem ®
translated into Spanish
The return of Lisa Jarnot
The Mimeo Mimeo blog
is into an extraordinary run
of posts on all things
Black Mountain
Plus Stan Persky’s
Open Space
Creeley’s correspondence
with Charles Olson
Dim future for marginalia
Wendell Berry at the sit-in
Wendell Berry
talks about civil protest
William Logan
on Elizabeth Bishop
Looking for life
in Bishop’s letters
Michael McClure
as the counterpoint
of Kenneth Koch
The Guardian remembers Glissant
Jesse Glass
translates “The Ruin”
12 or 20 questions
with Jesse Glass
Will your e-library
(not to mention your own work)
survive the first
electromagnetic pulse attack?
(Hard copy is truth!)
Gender, publishing & Poetry
Less than 15%
of contributions to Wikipedia
are by women
Roxane Gay:
Bitches be Trippin’
Of gender, number & submissions
@ Tin House
The war on women
can be lethal
Mezangelle’n with Mez
(scroll down in the frame
for a translation)
Ginsberg’s
“Graffiti 12th Cubicle
Men’s Room Syracuse Airport”
Howl “sparked a revolution”
(the film opens in the UK this week)
The Civil War changed Whitman’s poetry
Readings from emerging poets
Return to Ulysses
John Olson on
Paul Verlaine’s The Cursed Poets
Inside Peter Finch
You should date
“an illiterate girl”
No, date one who reads
Waltzing with Lorca
Where Lorca ate & danced
in Manhattan
(Check out the Friday blues dancing)
10 great food moments
in literature
A profile of “Lorrie” Niedecker
The calendar poems of
Lorine Niedecker
Duchamp & Man Ray –
the first conceptualists
David Gordon, poet
Prince of Poets contestant
returns after Egypt protest
Pakistan Academy of Letters
pays tribute to Faiz
It’s happening, Faiz
In Pomona,
an open mic series
celebrates a decade
An open mic in Cape Cod
Charles Bernstein’s
political placards
The Glamour of Grammar
& 4 other books about words
Jeanette Winterson, Linton Kwesi Johnson,
Alexander McCall Smith, Michèle Roberts,
David Crystal & Diarmaid MacCulloch
on the King James Bible
Just how revolutionary
was the King James version?
The “takeaway language”
of slang
Language as a window
into social relations
Kickstart a virtual letterpress app
Most-borrowed library books
Seeking 500
Asian / Pacific Islander American poets
WCW
on Wallace Stevens
“The Bus to Ramallah”
by Jasmine Donahaye
A room of
Montaigne’s own
Gary Snyder’s Robin poems
Emileigh Barnes’
3 geometric poems
Talking with Jazz Hudson
Remembering John Ross
The real Arthur Hallam
A year’s worth of
sci-fi
How to turn
a great American novel
into a Great American Novel
(Hint: it’s better to have a penis)
Auto-corrected text
leads to killing
NY Times adds
e-book best-sellers
Is Borders
closing a store near you?
Borders may close
even more stores
Borders bankruptcy
shakes industry
Page One
in Albuquerque
also goes Chapter 11
An opportunity for indies
in the wake of Borders?
More indie bookstore
responses to the Borders debacle
20 years of Borders’ blunders
Indies opening
in 2 former Walden mall locations
B&N:
open letter
to Amazon affiliates
CoffeeTree Books
& the Fuzzy Duck
move to Main Street
Talking with Coffee House Press
LA librarians struggle
An abandoned library
in Detroit
The library at
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport
Making libraries cool
Small Press Traffic
does some audience research
Who are the
“ten greatest poets”?
Dean Rader thinks he knows
“trade secrets of the great poets”
And then there is
The Worst Poet on the Palouse
Or “top ten fictional poets”
Post-post-modern poetry
When to stop reading
a bad book
Poets come clean
in Beverly, MA
Patti Smith
comes full circle
How to design
a house for books
Old English
translated anew
More on
The Little Treasury of Haiku
“the reader
Salinger always wanted”
Talking with Anthony Doerr
A teaser for
Cynthia Ozick
on Bellow’s Letters
Yet another NY Times review
of Joyce Carol Oates’
A Widow’s Story
An excerpt of A Widow’s Story
Talking with Joyce Carol Oates
Panel discussion
on & with
Joyce Carol Oates
Daniel Halpern:
editing Oates
Michelle Latiolais’ “Caduceus”
Larry McMurtry on the writing of
Marilyn Monroe
Writers & artists
as they age
Literature’s “dirty-old-men”
The road to Wigan Pier
The letters of Bruce Chatwin
The Smith College Poetry Center
William Meredith’s “The Illiterate”
All of NYC is Shakespeare’s stage
Romeo & Juliet
in 60 seconds
Shakespeare’s best female role
Shakespeare
& the American Civil War
Why writers make
reluctant revolutionaries
The Man Asian Literary Prize
shortlist
Gatsby on Nintendo
Roland Barthes’
The Preparation of the Novel
Barbara Kingsolver
on TC Boyle
Vonnegut the moralist
Genius, a diagnosis
Stephen Duncombe’s
Notes from the Underground:
Zines & the Politics
of Alternative Culture
Anne Boyer on
Why is art?
Is Banksy actually
campaigning for an Oscar?
Margate’s answer to William Blake,
Tracey Emin
James Franco,
the painter
The “tragic history”
of poetry on film
Painting MI6
Balancing with Bill Dan
Roy Gussow has died
Pete Eckert,
blind photographer
Robert Frank
@ Ursinus College
Photographers & their families
Howard Bond at 80
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests
16 questions for Jim Dine
Mimi Gross & friends:
The Oddness of Parts
Talking with Juana de Aizpuru
Chris Raab on
heroin, mom, art
Reviving Tennessee Williams
The best film for
the Best Picture Oscar
doesn’t stand a chance
Ballet is dying,
yet again
Can Rhymefest
get elected to the
Chicago City Council?
My Angie Dickinson:
Steve Reich’s Clapping Music
Talking with ROVA’s Larry Ochs
Jamie Smith’s
Gil Scott-Heron
“God’s empty chair” –
George Shearing
& the beats
Anna Nicole,
the opera
Johnny Nitro
goes out to applause
Dan Chiasson
on Keith Richards’ Life
Talking with Andrew Whiteman
What makes
a great protest song?
Singing The Tractatus
A Habermas biography
On James Miller
(subscription required)
Freeman Dyson on James Gleick
The revolution in chess
in Uganda
Gov. Walker’s manufactured “crisis”
George Lakoff:
What conservatives really want
A Trungpa biopic
