Doug Hall – Highway 50, Nevada #1, 1998
Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian:
The Wide Road
Lyn, Carla et al
at Belladonna’s Wide Road launch
Carla Harryman:
Cutting Corners
(a score)
Talking with Rae Armantrout
“Ambiguous pronouns are hot” –
Robert Archambeau on Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout:
“The language of the will to live”
Jean Day’s “Undersong”
Readings from The Grand Piano
I have some new work in
Blackbox Manifold
Lots of good work in
Blackbox Manifold
including a tribute to
Edwin Morgan
Scott Watson’s Sendai Journal
An update from Scott Watson
Brian Edwards in Tokyo
Talking with Anne Waldman
about numbers trouble
Emily Critchley’s
“A selection of North American women writers
from the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival (July 2010),
and some thoughts about their work”
Women authors share passion
for the written word
Lynn Behrendt’s “Ezrasure”
The Document:
Thalia Field, Erin Morrill, Allison Cobb
Claudia Rankine & Tony Hoagland
recordings of the entire exchange
Talking sense to
Tony Hoagland
Anna Božičević
reading in Arizona
Talking with UKON
5 poems by
Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson
Anne Boyer, Tyrone Williams
& Lara Durback
on poetry & labor
The collapse of the poetry economy
(talking with Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl)
Talking with David Orr
David Orr with leg cramps
Mark Scroggins on
the death of literary history
Sexuality is at the heart
of creativity
John Ashbery & Carol Ann Duffy
If John Ashbery were a US Senator…
Talking with Swedish, German,
Finish, Danish vispo
Cia Rinne
Rinne:
5 poems
Gillian Conoley:
Experiments in Patience
Urayoán Noel’s
Hi-Density Politics
WCW in “the lab”
Poetry from the Warsaw Ghetto
Frédéric Forte
is the youngest member of Oulipo
8 poems from Forte
Remembering John Haines
Sheila E. Murphy:
from American Ghazals
Talking with Bu-Ba-Bu poet
Yuri Andrukhovych
6 poems by Andrukhovych
The poems of Adonis
Jennifer Moore on Tao Lin
Mary Ruefle’s “erasure books”:
Marie & The Mansion
Ruefle wins
the William Carlos Williams award
If, in fact,
David Foster Wallace’s
The Pale King
does indeed start with
“Peoria (4),”
then it begins
with one of
the greatest first sentences ever
Robinson Jeffers:
“The Great Explosion”
JD Salinger’s days at Ursinus College
are not exactly a secret
John Wilkinson’s
“Ode: The Enigma of the Hour”
Talking with Tomica Bajsić
7 poems by Bajsić
War poets in their own words
Ed Baker
on the full moon
Willa Cather has admirers
all over the world
Striving for Tennyson
at the UK Olympiad
David Rivard’s
Otherwise Elsewhere
George Quasha reading
Verbal Paradise (Preverbs)
Rexroth, reading
Talking with Countee Cullen
(interviewed by his junior high school student,
James Baldwin)
Rob Fitterman’s
This Window Makes Me Feel
John Supko’s
This Window Makes Me Feel
for mezzo-soprano, keyboards,
percussion & electronics,
text by Rob Fitterman
Mark Scroggins
on Marjorie Perloff’s Unoriginal Genius
Baudelaire in India
2 new poems by
Barry Schwabsky
What poets can teach lawyers
(This could have been 1,000 pages longer)
Marshall McLuhan in Europe 2011
Exploring Alzheimer’s through poetry
Susan Schultz’
“Memory Cards: Ashbery Series”
Susan Schultz looks at Kansas
Major Jackson’s Holding Company
Liu Xiaobo’s
“You Wait for Me with Dust”
Talking with Jenn Ashworth
The jazz poems of Wayne Gilbert
Blake Butler, living on the net
but maybe without one
Talking with Pádraig Ó Méalóid
Maxine Hong Kingston’s
free-verse memoir
How to be a woman
in the boy’s club
How to make a book
(circa 1947)
The gate keepers are dead
Long live the gate keepers!
A list Jack Spicer should be on
Terrance Hayes as fashion model
2 new poems by Thomas Devaney
Devaney on
Painters & Poets at
Tibor de Nagy
Double Whammy
at the Tibor de Nagy
A James Joyce letter
goes up for sale
© law, James Joyce & a microbe
walk into a bar…
Joyce’s short stories
Hammad Niazi
& the new generation of Urdu poets
Iqtidar Javed,
pushing Urdu poetry into new places
Girdhar Rathi
wins the Bihari Puraskar prize
Anne Gorrick’s “R&F Iridescents”
Profiles of Chicago’s small presses
A look in a book store
in Sendai
And of the bookstore
Amazing bookstores in Rabat
A fond farewell
to second-hand bookshops
One used-bookstore that’s thriving
belongs to SF’s
Friends of the Public Library
In San Francisco,
Modern Times
has lost its lease,
but not its will to carry on
Help save a book dealer
in East Jerusalem
A note on Munther Fahmy
from Palfest
An indie chain
watches its bankruptcy plan
collapse
Readers try to save
Queens’ last big indie bookshop
Trying to save
Buffalo Street in Ithaca
Lookin’ for bookstores in Marrakech
High Street bookshops
try a hive
PW’s bookstore of the year
is Anderson’s
Why B&N has not suffered
the fate of Borders
Center City Borders location
in Philly
among 38 stores
added to the list of those closing
Pico Rivera
finds itself stuck
with an old Borders lease
In Australia,
more problems for owners of
Borders and Angus & Robertson chains
Bookstores in Casablanca?
EU is shocked, shocked!
to discover
price collusion
among big trade publishers
What’s bad for writers
is not good for readers
E-book sales up 116% in January,
paperbacks decline 31%
Turning down a $500K book contract
in order to self-publish
Daddy, why don’t you just self-publish?
Free e-books for mobile devices
Small press book fair bucks trends
Limiting the shelf-life of e-books
Andrei Codrescu
& marginalia in Kindle
Are flip books
a Kindle killer?
Poetry, VQR win Digital Ellies
“Lost” Jewish texts
turn up in NYC
The design library at Reform
A book review
results in a criminal trial
in France
The “upside” of censorship
(subscription required)
The lost poems of Angela Carter
Auden & the postwar American scene
Stan Apps:
The World as Phone Bill
A gaggle of laureates
in Lawrence, KS
Laureate’s gas money
is among Gov. Walker’s cuts
Gov. Corbett learns the risks
of quoting poetry sans context
Ottawa dithers over laureate
Wesley McNair
is Maine’s new laureate
Illinois Laureate Kevin Stein
proves well versed
Former Arkansas laureate
publishes her 13th book
Yeats’ grave
Joyce Carol Oates’
Give Me Your Heart
gives good dread
Sempre Susan … Sontag
Robert Mueller on Ronaldo Wilson
Talking with Gore Vidal
Remembering Maulvi Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
Brian Spears
& the Jehovah’s Witness movement
E-book lending takes off
“dirty concrete” poetry
Open City magazine closes
& the work space is available
Work
(you will find some of my earliest
writing in #5)
Reviews of the NBCC finalists
Elissa Gabbert’s
from The Self Unstable
Elissa Gabbert
on one of the worst poems ever
Do negative reviews
actually hurt sales?
Vanessa Place
& the meaning of “become”
The difference between
a new use & a misuse
Oprah’s poetry pages
Oprah’s Poetry 101
Talking with Mary Oliver
Edward Hirsch:
How to live your passion
Oprah mag rip-off scandal alleged
Garrison Keillor will retire
Peter Riley has written an obit
for RF Langley
EL Doctorow’s
All the Time in the World
Talking with Timothy Donnelly
Walter Mosley’s
When the Thrill is Gone
makes you long
for when it wasn’t
Nadine Gordimer:
A room is nice,
but who needs a view?
Blast not from the past
Yet another photo
from On the Road
Kerouac in Grosse Pointe
Tracking Brautigan’s poetry
by the weather
A career for which
Robert Frost
was actually suited
What they’re reading in France
“Poetry doesn’t traipse
into your mind by chance”
Women in publishing
twitter directory
Elizabeth Bishop,
as retro with her painting
as her poetry
Bishop’s poems, prose & letters
The culture of publishing assistants
The trailer for Red Poet
Trailer for
William Burroughs: The Man Within
Talking with John Giorno
Sidewalk poetry in St. Paul
Talking with Mike Hauser
3 New Zealand poets
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
Close reading Ted Hughes
Some thoughts on RH Blyth
The first blogger
A poetry reading
at the five-and-dime
Talking with TC Boyle
The neglectorino
Bernard Spencer
takes a back seat
even in this review
of his Collected Poetry,
Translations, & Selected Prose
Dan Beachy-Quick:
“Heroisms”
Talking with Stephen Sturgeon
Cynthia Hogue’s New Orleans
A profile of Jane O. Wayne
Sacramento’s poetry pantheon
Talking with L.S. Klatt
Derek Mahon’s “The Seasons”
A profile of Camille Norton
A tenured poet with no degrees,
Cornelius Eady
Learning from John Donne
Michael Longley,
the Irish poet who stayed Irish
Michael Longley’s
A Hundred Doors
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,
who still writes in Irish
The scene in Manila
Wang Wei:
Passing the Incense Temple
How Tu Fu works
Talking with Jan Beatty
Bringing back beauty
with Randall Couch
The birth of a word
on a real live version of
The Truman Show
Henry James & the joys of binge reading
Top 10 slang narratives
Harry Reid:
Save fed funding for cowboy poets!
One cowboy poet says No thanks
Kostelanetz’ sonnets
Perhaps the silliest
“top 10 novels that do X”
list ever
Laughs with Les Murray
Jay Parini’s
“The 10 Best American Poems”
is even funnier
Cento made of
Charlie Sheen quotes
by Ken Taylor
The poems of Charlie Sheen
Chefs, poets & views of the bay
Cooking with Ronald Johnson
Barry Schwabsky
on cabbages & pots
Paul Maliszewski on Why is Art?
The BC Book Prize
shortlists
Talking with Hadara Bar-Nadav
Florence Dacey & Shirley Ensrud
The 2010 Book of the Year Awards
“shortlist” for poetry
has 37 “finalists”
Politics & poetry,
Douglasville, GA style
Classes at Poets House
Social media & the future of poetry
Twitter poems by
Billy Collins, Claudia Rankine,
Elizabeth Alexander & Robert Pinsky
Before there was
Billy Collins & Ted Kooser,
there was Edgar Guest
Mostly trade press poetry best-sellers
The “Gatsby house” is doomed
Clarissa explains everything
War is a force
that gives us theater
Another Plath play
Edna Walsh:
“I don’t know [expletive] about words”
Shakespeare’s Cardenio
or maybe not
Shakespeare & the law
Adjusting Philip K Dick
Adapting Ubik
Blade Runner 2:
pray for a Ridley Scott replicant
Animating Kahlil Gibran’s Prophet
Conversations with Scorsese
The next Jane Eyre
3D Lovecraft flick
fails to get green light
Daffy Duck in Hollywood
in Finnish
Stanley Fish
vs. the one-armed man
The jewels of Ife sculpture
The flatness of Clement Greenberg
Concrete art for the Transbay Terminal
If you take street art
off the street,
is it still art?
Erasing Smear
Smear busted
after LA Times profile
Modigliani,
a new biography
The architecture of Peter Zumthor
Is Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
sustainable?
James Elkins on
“the most beautiful painting in the world”
Japanese, Korean poem paintings
on display in Cleveland
Brian Dettmer’s book sculptures
Glenn Ligon at the Whitney
Gauguin’s nudes
Will Koons’ Pink Panther
fetch $30M
Abu Dhabi Guggenheim
faces first protest
Sarah Palin
trashes NPR,NEA & NEH as
“frivolous”
Like most major urban cultural institutions,
what the Kennedy Center lacks most
is imagination
Odean Pope,
bebop & bipolar
Tom Waits
joins the mainstream,
sorta
Ish Klein
gets kinky
with Dave Davies
Struggling with the “Sea Songs”
of Creeley, Cummings & Dickinson
Katya Sanna’s
“The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti”
Jack Hardy
was a guitar pickin’ man
Joe Morello has died
John Cage’s
How to Get Started
realized by
Fred Wah, Johanna Drucker,
Laura Kuhn, Aaron Levy
& AJ Sabatini
Black holes
bang on spacetime like a drum
Can the brain
explain your mind?
Owsley’s last trip
proves fatal
Is an algorithm
better than a buddy?
Ask Sheldon
What the Luddites
really fought against
Lacan speaks, Žižek provides Cliff Notes
What comes before
the question?
Dildos in the classroom
