Susan Howe
awarded the Bollingen Prize
A talk on the lyric
by Rae Armantrout
at the University of Chicago
Rae Armantrout reading
To write as a woman
is political
The Critical Flame:
women & magazines
Fauzia Mughal
& the future of women’s poetry
in Pakistan
Elizabeth Bishop:
too much information
Tom Beckett on Lynn Behrendt
Geof Huth on Behrendt
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
Drafts 77-95
Talking with Adrienne Rich
Judith Butler:
Who owns Kafka?
Talking with David Antin
Steampunk vs. the “Silliman Bump”
Elizabeth Willis’ Address
Noah Eli Gordon, Arda Collins, Collin Schuster,
Julia Cohen, Mathias Svalina, Julie Carr,
Thibault Raoult, Eric Baus, Andrea Rexilius,
Sara Marshall & Michael Flatt read
from The Source
on March 6, 2011
at the Dikeou Collection
Noah Eli Gordon
tops SPD’s
February poetry best-seller list
Latino/a Poets Roundtable
with
Hope Maxwell Snyder, Roberto Tejada, Raina J. León,
Albino Carrillo, elena minor, Emma Trelles,
Juan J. Morales, Maria Melendez, Mark Smith-Soto,
Blas Falconer, & Felicia Gonzalez
(intro) (part 1) (part 2) (afterword)
(participant poems & bios)
Talking with Reza Aslan
about the poetry of protest
in Tahrir Square
Amardeep Singh:
Poetry & protest: Egypt & Tunisia
Amardeep Singh’s blog
Egyptian protest poet
passed over
in this season’s
Prince of Poets
Poetry, faith & the Muslim soul
Ed Roberson & Craig Santos Perez
are on the LA Times Book Prize
short list
Talking with Michael McClure
The Official Language of the United States
Craig Dworkin’s
Grammar Degree Zero
Tim Gaze
& the limits of vispo
Remembering Janine Pommy Vega
Talking with Matvei Yankelevich
Bim Ramke’s Theory of Mind
Talking with Charles Bernstein
43 Poets 1984
edited by Charles Bernstein
includes
Johanna Drucker, Tom Mandel, Lydia Davis,
Aaron Shurin, Michael Palmer, Ron Silliman,
Laura Moriarty, Carla Harryman, Larry Price,
Abigail Child, Leslie Scalapino, Fiona Templeton,
Michael Davidson, Craig Watson, Stephen Rodefer,
Barbara Einzig, Tina Darragh, David Melnick,
Rae Armantrout, Jean Day, James Sherry,
Clark Coolidge, Kit Robinson, Ray DiPalma,
Steve McCaffery, Tom Beckett, Steve Benson,
Lynne Dreyer, David Bromige, Bob Perelman,
Lyn Hejinian, Alan Davies, Charles Bernstein,
Nick Piombino, Steven Roberts (now Farmer),
Douglas Messerli, Madeline Gins, Michael Gottlieb,
Susan Howe, Peter Seaton, Diane Ward,
Bruce Andrews, & Erica Hunt
Bruce Holsapple’s Vanishing Act
Having missed David Wolach
The Indie Booksellers’ Choice Awards
are open for voting!
Digital poetry:
a revolution in publishing?
Print books hold their own
Are e-book publishers
guilty of price fixing?
Kodansha calls it quits
Sandra Doller’s “Chita Ground”
Talking with Amjad Islam Amjad
Our Poems, Our Selves?
Stephen Burt
on poetry & autobiography
Duncan to HD
on Pound’s “hodge-podge”
Close reading aloud
Pound’s Canto III
with Kaplan Harris, Richard Sieburth
& Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Davis Schneiderman’s Blank
What is “experimental literature”?
(part 1) (part 2)
Edith Sitwell,
avant-garde poet
Cushendall
& the strawberry milkshake
of the avant-garde
CA Conrad & longevity
Hugh Seidman, Susan Wheeler,
Lawrence Joseph & D Nurske,
reading
(May not be available forever)
Talking with derek beaulieu
Dewclaw Journal #3
moves online
& looks, reads & sounds great
John Bennett’s Battle Scars
Nate Pritts on Geoffrey Nutter
Richard Wilbur turns 90
A reading to honor Wilbur
Victor Martinez has died
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
“This wor(l)d as an illusion”
Linh Dinh
on the road
Brenda Cardenas
on the meaning of Wisconsin
George Lakoff:
The real issues in Wisconsin
Were America’s teachers
ever respected?
In Botswana,
poets promote Sekwena culture
Remembering Josh Malihabadi
Talking with Bronwen Tate
Like staying calm
Isabella Stewart Gardner,
neglectorino
Talking with Hoa Nguyen
Griselda Garcia’s
Hallucinations in the Alfalfa
Talking with
Mlindelwa Mahlangu
4 new poems from
Paul Cunningham
Donald Hall
receives a National Medal of Art
Fajr International Poetry Festival begins
Some Corbin texts online
Why Thomas Merton
never got Confucius right
Confessions of a
Self-Ordained Monk
A life of Montaigne
Gillian Conoley:
Experiments in Patience
George Mattingly:
Driving
The different faces
of Ottawa verse
Marathi-language poetry
takes to social networking
A reading series in Des Moines
Lisa Fishman: journals
Talking with Adrián Arancibia
Sort of the ultimate
test of translation
(Isn’t “editing out” the “human hand”
literally the ultimate cover-up?)
Joyce, Shakespeare
& everyday life
David Foster Wallace:
“Backbone”
Editing “Backbone”
DFW is fun to read
if you’re a med student
Why it’s important
to read Wallace
First draft
of the first page of
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
makes my students yawn
David Foster Wallace,
philosopher
Why do writers abandon novels?
A second national anthology
of the poetry of Bermuda
An “indispensible volume”
of Old English verse
A book-a-day blog
on National Book Award
poetry winners
The more you understand grammar
the less likely you are
to be religious
John Roberts, word nerd
Sasha Aslanian’s
concrete poetics
“Unfortunately,
poetry was exceedingly teachable”
3 poems by Aaron Roller
Amanda Hocking,
26-year-old best-selling
Kindle author
is entirely self-published
Poet Laureati:
A National Convergence of
Poets Laureate
Sally Ashton
is the poet laureate of
Santa Clara County
Harry E Northup
goes to school
So does Ed Hirsch
Robert Coover
going for a beer
Kenneth Frost’s Night Flight
Carl Phillips’ Double Shadow
Pearson freezes
Libya’s stake
in the publisher
Talking with Matthew Henriksen
Mary Ruefle
talking at the University of Chicago
A profile of Brian Turner
Rilke,
the crying giant
Tennyson
bests Browning, Levertov,
Hughes & O’Brien
in 2012 Olympic competition
Talking with Charles Wright
Bly in prose
Brad Leithauser on
The Age of Auden
Dave Morrison
intoned by Garrison Keillor
Ellen Moody
on Frances Power Cobbe
Celebrating John Berryman
Gently Read Literature’s
March edition
This is sad
on so many levels
Cheesy poems get new audience
Charlie Sheen,
reading his poetry
“For an insurance underwriter,
Ted Kooser makes a pretty good poet”
The poetry of Lebron James
Bookselling sans Borders:
the word from Green Apple
Inner city snobs
cock a snook
at Borders woes
The 3rd grader who brought
Books-a-Million to town
Will the Kindle
be “free” by Christmas?
Publishers look beyond bookstores
Harpers limits e-book checkouts
at the library
HarperCollins responds
SF Public Library
adds speed-dating
to the catalog
A library in Australia
establishes a residency
The library domino effect
Random House
makes its 17,000-book catalog
available thru iTunes
Michael Jacobson’s vispo novella
The Giant’s Fence
Party boy at the Paris Review
Abnam Piryaei’s Ode to Fragile
Prospects murky
for the novel Mirkwood
Toni Morrison at 80,
a quiz
Sady Doyle on
Diane Di Prima
Road-test your writing
by reading aloud
Chicago picks
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere
for its One Book program
Joyce Carol Oates & Meghan O’Rourke:
Why we write about grief
Jill Bialosky’s
memoir of suicide
Talking with Chang-rae Lee
Poetryman is suiting up
Peter Ciccariello & Mez Breeze
Vispo collabs
The prose poets of Belfast, Maine
The Chicago Poetry Brothel
mixes poetry, burlesque
& fortune telling
Julie Burstein with Donald Hall
The slightly horrifying Paul Guest
Vilcek Foundation
awards $100K to Charlie Simic
A report on the
Cork Spring Literary Festival
Monica Mody’s “Kala Pani”
Ranking the states
by reading proficiency
Mike Smith’s Multiverse
William Carlos Williams
& Yusef Komunyakaa
Don’t forget the poetry
of the Jersey Shore
Giving away
1,000,000 books
Which books do you give?
Talking with Meg Pokrass
In the company of
Amy Clampitt
Map of the world’s
6,909 languages
In London, Ontario,
poetry on the buses
goes the local route
Robin Hyde’s “Ku Li”
CS Lewis’ translation of The Aeneid
Jean Valentine’s Break the Glass
3 new poems from Paul Siegell
Amish Trivedi:
7 poems & a note on process
Stanley Fish:
a muddled Supreme Court
gets Snyder v. Phelps wrong
Persian poetry inspires Chinese bard
Li Bai
gets a Google doodle
Béla Balázs’
The Cloak of Dreams
One-line haiku by Susan Diridoni
Talking with Elaine Feinstein
Celebrating the legacy of
Amir Khusrau
The wife of Henry Miller
Jay Landesman has died
Dear Thomas Pynchon,
blurb this book
The 10 best
neglected literary classics
L. Ron Hubbard @ 100
The art of the police report
Jack London’s
“To Build a Fire”
The free complete works of
HP Lovecraft
for Kindle or Nook
Lovecraft’s favorite words
More than just the Danish
100 Years of Solitude
Twain’s editors
enjoy their 15 minutes of fame
The 2011 PEN/Faulkner short list
Charles Johnson’s
“Guinea Pig”
Kent Johnson & Peter Davis
on self-anthologizing
Bruce Chatwain
coming clean
Colum McCann’s
Let the Great World Spin
Open City closes shop
A TV report
of an Open Mic
A United Nations of poetry
Luc Sante on
photos on book covers
David Wojahn’s “In the Attic”
Aaron McCollough’s “Underlight”
Metaphor, Watson & Jeopardy:
hominids & homonyms
James Geary on Studio 360
TC Boyle’s
When the Killing’s Done
Boyle’s best book?
Boyle on Bill Maher
3 out of 4 Americans
participate in the arts
Lucinda Childs’ Dance
32 years later
Pew:
The first 100 fellows
The disappearing
art catalog essay
Richard Hawkins at the Hammer
Doyald Young has died
The photos of Rebecca Cairns
The photographic character of photographs
30 Under 30;
women photographers
Robert Frank & Tom Waits:
what were they thinking?
David Dope’s op art:
the GIF that keeps giving
Flash:
2011 is his year
Saving Sendak’s only mural
The drawing of Charles Bukowski
Tours set
for Philly’s African-American murals
Much of the 60s
happened in the 70s
“Poetry” beckons painter
Charles Garabedian
Eloy, Take Two
(trailer)
Manny Farber
on Cooper & Bogart
Yet another Philip K Dick tale
reaches the silver screen
The evil people in movies
prefer modernist homes
3 films by James Franco
all based on poems
(not including Howl)
Kickstarting a movie of
Tao Lin’s
Shoplifting from American Apparel
Verse:
A Poetic Murder Mystery
The trailer for
Radio Free Albemuth
Speech defects in cinema
Lou Harrison in Baltimore
Damon Tomblin
Sonata # 2
Eddie Kirkland has died
Deconstructing Lady Gaga
Houellebecq
as the French Patti Smith
Steve Earle, novelist
Class war at NPR
The eyes have it
Thomas Kuhn
& the ashtray argument
Reading Roland Barthes in India
“Radical Atheism and
‘The Arche-Materiality of Time’”
James Gleick’s The Information
“is to the nature, history and
significance of data
what the beach is to sand”
Aliens exist, and we have proof
Terry Eagleton on
Hobsbawm’s Marx
Ariel Dorfman on reconciliation
Bahrain & the battle
between Iran & Saudi Arabia
Software progress
is beating Moore’s Law
IBM’s Watson
loses to a Congressman
(not a member of the GOP)
Why it’s called snail mail
A fond farewell to
Patti Roberts
