Close Listening with Nathaniel Mackey
And reading
Robin Tremblay-McGaw
on reading
Mourning Édouard Glissant
Tisa Bryant on Claudia Rankine @ AWP
Ange Mlinko on The H.D. Book
Tyrone Williams’ “Genesis”
C.D. Wright’s
tour de force
Lisa Jarnot:
“After Catullus”
The plan to create a
Scottish Academy of Literature
has been dropped
Eileen Myles’ Inferno
has the best book trailer ever
What is the real story?
“The numbers speak for themselves”
Poetry notes dissents
Stephen Elliot:
Vida just scratches the surface
Meghan O’Rourke asks about causes
Slate:
why it matters
The literary glass ceiling
Jezebel:
the sorry state of women
Submitting work
as a “woman’s problem”
Jim Behrle weighs in
Laynie Browne’s
“Periodic Companions”
Are you ready for
Demi Moore’s poetry?
Maria Shriver,
poetry editor
Vanessa Place @ EPC
With + Stand 4:
The Lisa Robertson Issue
Charlie Simic:
Where is poetry going?
Blueprints:
Bringing Poetry into Communities
Talking with Maxine Hong Kingston
Marjorie Perloff’s Differentials:
Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy
Talking with Christopher Salerno
Mahmoud Darwish’s Absent Presence
Egypt’s “rhyming revolution”
The poetry of revolt
Poetry comes to Tahrir Square
Poetry & protest
Mubarak as a verb
Ryu Murakami’s
Almost Transparent Blue
Tagore at 150
Reading Betjeman’s
“Diary of a Church Mouse”
for Black History Month in Zimbabwe
William Bronk, reading
Nathanaël’s tautological fury
Marthe Reed:
2 poems
David Harsent’s Night
How Ciardi left Bread Loaf
Denver honors Neal Cassady
On the magic bus
Talking of Kesey & Cassady on
Magic Trip
Cuckoo’s Nest changed psychiatry
Does this look like Kerouac & Co.
to you?
Or this?
On the Road Penguin flask
(worst merch award)
The many men
inside William Burroughs
The only writer
on Patti Smith’s “must read” list
born after 1930
is W.G. Sebald
New Smith essay
available only on Nook
Céline:
great author,
absolute bastard
Talking with Eliot Weinberger
“Bright objects hypnotize the mind”
being the slogan
for the poster for this year’s
National Poetry Month
John Ashbery on Elizabeth Bishop
Katie Ford on obsessive imagery
in Elizabeth Bishop
Dana Gioia on Bishop
Bishop’s
“Was It in His Hand?”
Bishop & Nova Scotia
A long way from Worcester, Mass
Poems, prose & The New Yorker
Who was Ezra Pound?
Ronald Reagan’s ABCs
Red moon haiku
Louder than a Bomb:
an “American Idol”
for kids with real talent
Talking with Kazuo Ishiguro
Dan Wyke’s Waiting for the Sky to Fall
Book apps:
what’s behind the curtain
4 reasons why
the sales growth of e-books
will be slower
than industry execs think
Exploring “the wild country”
The Gary Soto Museum
Elaine Feinstein
on the tragedy of Amy Levy
Janice Haupt:
Profiles of a Thin Woman
Genomic poetics
How many weeks
before Marilyn is doing flarf?
On form & flarf
$100K for Chase Twitchell
Anil Kamat Shankwalker’s
book of poems
Hindi poets
a big hit overseas
Remembering Faiz Ahmed Faiz
If you have to Esque,
it’s prob’ly ‘oetry
Michael Wood on Carlos Fuentes
Who should write about
literature in translation?
Why isn’t anyone
dreaming in English?
French groups struggle
to beat back English
Best Translated Book Awards’
fiction long list
A Dutch variant:
The European Literature Prize
Rana Dasgupta’s Solo
3 arts administrators
for every working artist in the US
Save KUSF!
Douglas Messerli
on rules for traveling
in the old USSR
Jo Shapcott:
poet changed utterly
by illness
The Eliot Prize-winning essay
Talking with Joshua Bennett
Craig Morrison’s
400th poem for the
Nottingham Post
Isle of Wight due to lose
9 of 11 libraries
Harvard, MIT
finally joint Ivies’
interlibrary loan
Philip Pullman is right
Press releases
vs. the text itself
What’s next
with trade press book reviews?
NY Times ends
standalone book blog
A well-done variant of the
blog as ezine is
The Planet Formerly Known as Earth
Talking with Johanna Skibsrud
Stephen Burt:
Does autobiography make for good poetry?
Confessional by choice
A manifesto for memoir
Imaginary appreciations of myself
as a Hebrew poet
What Ever Happened to Modernism?
Taking Blake’s “Tyger”
to the forests of Goa
Joel Brouwer
reviews 5 books by
Mary Ruefle, Elizabeth Arnold, Todd Hearon,
Khaled Mattawa & Jean Valentine
Joyce Carol Oates on Newshour
Is Borders headed
for its final chapter?
Canada’s largest book distributor
files for bankruptcy
Book’em in South Pasadena
Death of a bookstore
in Morganton, NC
A bookstore opens in Sarasota
& another is coming in Knoxville
And the Powell’s Puddly for Poetry goes to…
(Oh, yes, we forgot that Powell’s
treats poetry worse even than Amazon)
Beowulf socks
“A vivid compilation
of ephemeral moments”
Having underestimated the passive
Michelle Taransky
on being an American poet
Snoetry –
more fun than the Bible
The Book of Frank,
the movie
Remembering Earth
CAConrad, American poet
John Burnett Payne’s
Emily and Walt,
Walt and Emily
The February issue
of Gentle Read Literature
is now online
Matthew Zapruder’s
Come On All You Ghosts
Stanley Fish asks
What is academic work?
Stanley Fish’s
How to Write a Sentence,
and How to Read One
Another bad Salinger bio
Saving Salinger
The books are better than
JD’s letters
A Booker
for Beryl Bainbridge?
The price drops on
Truman Capote’s crib
Twain & the fortune teller
I want my Waugh-Waugh
Why Franzen’s Freedom is over-rated
Talking with Michael Moorcock
Chicago’s poetry brothel
The lyric essay
Save this for next year:
Do’s & Don’ts for attending the AWP
“All the writers in the country
are in this building”
In vs. out @ AWP
Things to do
away from the AWP
AWP is the Write Stuff
Sharon Olds’ Gold Cell
Zonta Club
welcomes Texas poet laureate
Chile sponsors a poetry contest
in the Philippines
The work of art in the age of Google
Marshall McLuhan speaks
Doodles by famous writers
Alison Knowles’ Identical Lunch
Acknowledging indigenous artists
The 2010 Pew Fellows
Alan Uglow has died
Who owns balloon doggies?
Rare Lichtenstein
on display in Vienna
Smithsonian board
supports censorship
Another look into
The Heart of Darkness
Banksy at the Oscars
or just Mr Brainwash
The 50 NY collectors
who shape the art world
SF MoMA hits the jackpot
Barry Miles’
It Looked like a Load
of Rubbish to Me
North Korean pop art
Maria Altmann has died,
fought for return of looted artwork
Jack Chick
is Robert Crumb
Spiegelman wins French prize
Trochee-
otomies
Film found of the Ballet Russes
How make a swan
out of Natalie Portman
Talking with Tom Ford
Dress like an artist
New York Philharmonic
to put its archives online
Jazz history
at the Turkish Embassy
The Dead Prez invoke Orwell
Rap’s “suspended adolescence”
Best & worst websites
for Bay Arts orgs
What we can learn about Cairo
from Tosca
4 horsemen of the
Infopocalypse
