Dave Morice
publishes a 10,000 page poem!
How to bind
a ten thousand page book
(with slide show)
Poetry City Marathon
read it here
(Please note the two alternate chapters 73 –
not that I could find Door Number One –
& don’t miss the translation of Dante into haiku)
That’s one big book!
Peter Schjeldahl on
Painters & Poets
Talking with Tom Raworth
Close reading aloud:
Susan Schultz’ Dementia Blog
with Leonard Schwartz, Michelle Taransky,
Jamie-Lee Josselyn & Al Filreis
Code of Best Practices
in Fair Use
for Poetry
Peripheral Writing
edited by Tan Lin
in the new issue of EAOGH
Vanessa Place on
Caroline Bergvall’s
Meddle English
6 questions with Amy King
Talking with Joel Chace
Chace’s Periods, 16-21
Ursula K LeGuin on Roberto Bolaño
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s detached sentences
The poetry & prose of
Deborah Digges
Michael Palmer on Robert Duncan
Stephen Kessler’s obit
for F.A. Nettelbeck
The Nettelbeck archives
bring light towards you –
poems from survivors of the Holocaust
with Philip Davenport & Lois Blackburn
Charles Bernstein on
Reznikoff’s voices
Yehoshua November’s
God’s Optimism
A reading to celebrate Israel
Joseph Massey’s “The Process”
Satu Kaikkonen: 7 visual poems
Kajal Ahmad’s “Pregnancy”
(a translation podcast via iTunes)
Prince of Poets
competitor causes stir
Robert Pinsky on
poets under pressure
Somali poet goes into hiding
Gwen Ifill
on poetry in Haiti
Anna Yablonksaya
died in the Moscow airport bombing
Poets theater @ Small Press Traffic
Gifts of the reading life
Franklin Bruno’s gourmet classic, “1959”
Plus “Approach to Ziggurat”
Jill Chan’s “What Is This Waiting?”
Poetry,
a film by Lee Chang-dong
Mary Szybist’s
“All Times and All Tenses in This Moment”
Handwriting strengthens
the learning process
MoMA buys 23 fonts
A review that tells you
everything you need to know
about the book
Longer words tell you more
John Barr on
poetry & architecture
& Poetry
(the way you make a statement
in Chicago is with a building)
K.S. Ernst’s Sequencing
Rich Villar on race &
inclusivity in publishing
Anis Shivani’s advice
& how he himself ignores it
Foreign rights
as a source of revenue
If poetry is more popular than ever,
why don’t we know it?
Jo Shapcott
wins Britain’s
Costa Book of the Year Award
Jo Shapcott:
the book of life
J.D. Nelson: 6 poems
Tuesdays with Andrei
Matthew Landis on Michael Cross
Catherine Daly’s Vauxhall
Paul Siegell: 6 poems
Tom Waits’ chapbook
raises $90,000
Michael Farrell: 3 visual poems
Philip Pullman:
Leave the libraries alone
Pullman goes viral
Libraries in Liverpool
are at risk
Where do libraries & e-books meet?
Paul Allen Foundation grants
to Copper Canyon,
Port Townsend library
Arlene Ang’s
Seeing Birds in Church
is a Kind of Adieu
Poetry focusing on
migrant labor in Qatar
In Halifax, MA,
the paper adds a poet
Talking with Kim Roberts
Sawako Nakayasu’s
“Flying Accusations”
Japanese poetry
from Basho to
Araki Yasusada
Don’t Lose Heart –
Japanese poet
publishes best-seller
at 99
How far flarf has come
in such a short time
Canadians buy or borrow
2.7 million books per week
Borders moves toward financing
but doesn’t rule out bankruptcy
And libraries
Death of a bookstore
in Fishtown
Small bookstores look for niches
It’s too soon
to bid adieu
to books
“The number of printing machine operators,
for example, was nearly halved
from the fourth quarter of 2007
to the fourth quarter of 2009”
Best apps
for reading & downloading
free e-books
CEOs look at e-book profits
Awards for e-books & apps
Yale guidelines for preserving
your archives!
13 years after the arrival of Jacket,
Poets & Writers finally figures out
that lit mags “are learning to surf”
Talking with Karen Russell
Finding Oliver Twist’s workhouse
On Merrill Gilfillan & Tony Judt
(subscription required)
Baby talk with Jonathan Swift
6 questions for Daniel Nester
The other thing grammar is good for
“The door to the forest slams shut”
Talking with Mike Scott
about Yeats
Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s
elegy for her husband
David Cole:
vispo as a graphic novel
(or vice versa)
Herman Melville:
the last great enigma of American lit
Term paper ghost writer
gets a book deal
William Gibson:
25 years of hacking
The novel as an editor’s medium
in a post-editorial age
How to untangle a plot
In defense of Jane Eyre
ST Coleridge
is further evidence that
the GOP can’t read
Joseph McElroy’s Night Soul
Maxine Hong Kingston’s
next chapter
Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
Rudy Rucker on Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch:
the screenplay by David Cronenberg
The future speaks English,
sez he
The word’s best book fair
Asia’s largest book festival
will get even bigger
Same ol’ story,
great new look
Reading between the lines
Talking with William Dalrymple
Dalrymple:
“The Literary Raj” is racist
“Does Dalrymple
know what racism really is?”
The Pakistani novel
“too hot” for Jaipur
Pamuk in Jaipur
complains over the marginalization
of every language but English
Pamuk’s absence in Sri Lanka
not related to censorship
Writers urge Sri Lanka boycott
India is “not to blame”
Indian writers brought diversity
Martin Amis says
Colm Tóibín
takes over Martin Amis’ gig
teaching creative writing
in Manchester
J.D. Salinger:
the phony who reformed
Seymour Glass
& post-traumatic stress
Some Salinger letters surface
in East Anglia
J.D. Salinger liked Burger King
James Franco on playing Hart Crane
Vonnegut’s posthumous books
“nowhere near as creepy”
as Hemingway’s
Channeling Shakespeare
Who wrote
Shakespeare’s “lost” play?
Shakespeare’s “fair friend”
as seen thru the anagrams of
The Sonnets
Problems of literary profiling
Is the age of the critic kaput?
Criticism: art’s loyal sidekick
Talking with Elaine Showalter
“close reading my reading
of the links list”
Edna St. Vincent Millay:
a spiritual contemporary of Bronte
writing in the age of Eliot, Yeats & Stein
On the Eliot Prize readings
Derek Walcott’s triumphant return
New books of Irish verse
Henry Gould is Prester John
Don Paterson
finding new poets
If Poe had written
Humpty Dumpty
A Keats letter for sale,
“My dearest Fanny”
222-year-old unpublished
Robert Burns letter discovered
Burns for dummies
Isherwood in the ‘60s
Talking with Paul Legault
Annemarie Austin’s “Clothing”
Neil Conan’s poetry
set to music
When the last act
overwhelms the rest
Thomas Hardy’s home
in need of repair
The changing of the laureates
in Kingston, Canada
Roxane Gay on the future
of the book review
Nabokov was right
re butterfly evolution
Why Marcel?
Barnaby Conrad
keeping a promise
to Sinclair Lewis
Gabriel Fried’s “Ends Well”
John Gallaher’s tips for AWP
The origins of
indelicate words
Grzegorz Wróblewski’s
“Rooms and Gardens”
A better date
on which to celebrate poetry,
so sweet
and so cold
Simic wins the Frost Medal
Free samples
from every NBCC finalist’s books
Seth Abramson’s
“Top 10 Creative Writing MFA Websites”
Patti Smith is writing
a detective novel
Another Kent Johnson
train wreck-in-slow motion
Montreal newspaper strike
hits 2nd anniversary
Talking with Marcus Speh
Wesleyan
initiates program in
curating performance art
A quintessentially American composer
Babbitt developed the first synthesizer
1.207 Seconds of NOISE,
by JLIAT
(James Whitehead)
Arhoolie hits 50
A biography of Alan Lomax
& then there is John Cohen
Dylan arrived in NYC 50 years ago
this past week
The sex shop
near where Dylan lived
It never got better than 1961
Dylan on Great Jones Street
A kinder, gentler Bob Dylan
Nobody likes him in Hibbing
Revisiting the Gaslight,
the Village Gate & Café Wha?
How many of Dylan’s
sixties albums can you name?
Name your favorite Dylan song
Talking with Scarlet Rivera
What would you say
if you met Bob Dylan?
(In ’64, I asked
“What are you writing?”)
Dylan’s ’74 travel journal
on display
Dylan rolling out 6 more books
57 years later,
Newport goes nonprofit
Chopin with ghosts
Slidvid 3.0
a slideshow program for JavaScript
Alastair Cook’s Filmpoem website
Rem Koolhaas can’t put his pen down
Looking at Frank Gehry’s latest
“The big news here is the high quality
of the sound” outdoors
Dennis Oppenheim has died
What Mugabe
doesn’t want you to see
The Smithsonian defends censorship
Ai Weiwei
& the art of social advocacy
VernissageTV’s
Top 10 videos of 2010
plus lists of “top ten” lists
for the arts
Wang Qingsong:
When Worlds Collide
Néle Azevedo’s
urban interventions
On first seeing through the eyes
of Abel Buell
A museum for William Eggleston
Damien Hirst
searches for the right apprentice
Bettina Pousttchi:
World Time Clock
(love the use of neon here)
It’s written all over your face
from
Photography from the New China
The LA art-fair wars
The ghosts of Red Hook
The sales pitch for the
“New Barnes”
The art bars of LA
A golden age of foreign films,
mostly unseen
Spoiler Alert:
The Expendables
ends with a poem!
Slavoj Žižek: My Europe
Umberto Eco on Wikileaks
Daniel Bell has died
Paul Berman on Irving Kristol
Frances Fox Piven vs. Glenn Beck
round 2
Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality
Greene:
“The Bounds of Reality”
Terry Gross talking with Brian Greene
Otoliths 20,
keeping up the tradition
of first-rate e-zines
from Down Under
Sink Review 7 is fabulous
Robert Fisk in Cairo
Al Jazeera English - livestream
