Finally,
the Poetry Center Digital Archive
is coming online
William Carlos Williams,
reading at the SF Museum of Art
May 19, 1955
Robert Creeley on anger
in the work of WCW
Marianne Moore
reading at the SF Museum of Art
October 10, 1957
Denise Levertov
reading for 80 minutes
at SF State
February 10, 1958
Robert Duncan
reading Opening of the Field
May 18 1959
Lisa Jarnot
on Robert Duncan’s
HD Book
Bob Perelman on Louis Zukofsky
The Ulysses of poetry
Hugh Kenner on Zukofsky,
the OED & more
A teaser for Anew,
Zukofsky’s shorter poems
Meet the Objectivists
Talking with Charles Bernstein
Kay Ryan has received
the 2011 Pulitzer Prize
And the Hall-Kenyon Prize
Talking with Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan opens minds
Ryan is golden
Jacket 2 has arrived!
A trove of
Langston Hughes’
work turns up
Anne Blonstein has died
As has Jeanne Leiby
Alice Beer has died
Hannah Weiner’s
The Book of Revelations
Craig Santos Perez:
The basic savagery
of the White Poets Society
Joshua Corey on 2 Parisians:
Marcel & Alice
Nick Piombino
on The Grand Piano
The Grand Piano
at Poets House
Listening to The Grand Piano
Using Amazon
to identify schools of poetry
Helen White’s
soluble colonies
Kenneth Irby’s
The Intent On:
Collected Poems 1962 – 2006
From shoures soote to scumble:
poetry moves the language
Rae Armantrout
& Duran Duran
Armantrout’s Money Shot
“is like someone juggling chainsaws”
Being a poet
is a “real job”
The No Slander Podcast
features Dara Wier
Talking with Bernadette Mayer
Barbara Jane Reyes:
Women of color
& body politics
Nominations for
Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere
are now open
Cecilia CT Perez
& Chamoru poetry
Talking with Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
Talking with John Ashbery
about translating Rimbaud
The Selected Poems of John Ashbery
(registration required)
Clark Coolidge & Filip Marinovich, reading
The digital deluge
is upon us all
Walt Whitman in Yiddish
Morgan Gibson’s Nonzen Poems
Talking with Tyrone Williams
NY Times obit
for Paul Violi
Talking with Barbara Henning
The brief correspondence
of Roberto Bolaño & Enrique Linh
William S Burroughs
& The Fluke
David Foster Wallace
wrote two novels
& The Pale King is not one of them
Why Wallace inspires devotion
From The Pale King
The verbal ethics
of David Foster Wallace
The problematic process
of posthumous publishing
Jonathan Franzen
on Crusoe’s island
Geoffrey Hill:
Mr Difficult
John Olson:
nearly a book of prose pieces
+ an interview
David Ferry
wins the Lilly Prize
The Boston Phoenix
has named Elisa Gabbert
Boston’s best poet 2011
The business of
Steve Roggenbuck
Fluxfest NYC
April 2011
Kate Bush
gets permission
to use the words
of James Joyce
Pound’s letters
to his parents
Elizabeth Bishop
writes to the New Yorker
Kaplan Harris’
“The Small Press Traffic
school of dissimulation”
Not the first time he’s been wrong
Marjorie Garber gets it wrong too
Doug Lang @ 70
How to beat a dead octopus
Amazon profits are small press losses
Not so
Who is your favorite poet?
Everybody’s favorite books of poetry
(well, everybody they asked)
plus a few interviews
Nicholson Baker:
We don’t know the language
we don’t know
John Berger:
A life in writing
Modern Canadian Poets:
the anthology as provocation
Leonard Cohen
reading in 1966
The letters of Rosa Luxemburg
The Battle of Gloucester:
Vincent Ferrini meets Charles Olson
Global publishing is worth €80B
Henry Ferrini’s
Polis is This:
Charles Olson & the Persistence of Place
viewable in its entirety
Jack Kerouac Slept Here
Carol Novack & Sheila E Murphy:
Room
Camille T Dungy
has won the
Northern California Book Award
Scott Watson’s
Sendai Journal
complete
David Kirby:
How to read poetry
Talking with Tim Stafford
Poetry:
impractical but important
David Orr:
How poets achieve their style
Talking with David Orr
Orr:
All poetry is public
Orr:
The best thing about The Paris Review
is its liquor stash
David Orr’s
Beautiful and Pointless
David Orr is pointless
Orr:
What poets & readers need to know
Populist concerns in
contemporary Egyptian literature
Talking with Ben Friedlander
3 new poems
from Edwin Torres
Shira Dentz’
Black Seeds on a White Dish
David Hernández & Street Sounds
Matthew Zapruder, Vera Pavlova, Kristin Naca
Many familiar names
among this year’s Guggenheim fellows
Horatio Bucklesby Ogden’s
The Wire
Allen Ginsberg:
Plutonium Ode
The Allen Ginsberg marathon
The Collected Poems
of Allen Ginsberg
The Ginsberg-Leary
plot to turn on the world
Adrienne Rich, reading
Will Alexander:
2 new poems
A new poem by Susan Stewart
Dean Young
gets a new heart
& fox
& walking
Spilled Milk:
Haiku Destinies
Minnie Bruce Pratt’s
Inside the Money Machine
The poetry of Scrooge McDuck
Marge Piercy’s The Hunger Moon
The bizarre, beautiful world
of Yusef Komunyakaa
Talking with Caroline Bergvall
Thomas Devaney on Ross Gay
Is that a poem in your pocket?
Talking with the editors of
Caketrain
Clayton Eshleman:
5 new poems
& an interview
The world’s oldest writing
is not poetry
Talking with Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Traveling with Twain
Simon Schama:
the essayist as star
Talking with VS Naipaul
Penn State cuts MFA program
42% of college graduates
never read another book
Spoken word poetics @ Harvard
Unofficial verse culture @ Yale
Poetry @ Yale
here & now
How to create
word of mouth
On vocality
Divya Victor, Vanessa Place, Kim Rosenfield
Sherman Alexie
among authors most challenged
by wannabe censors
Little support for censoring Twain
China bars Liao Yiwu
from attend PEN writers conference
A return to the Cultural Revolution?
(See also the Ai Weiwei links below)
New poems from Jessica Grim
Gary Snyder
on Grover Norquist
Tom Hibbard:
a trip to DC
The scene in Salem,
Oregon that is
A history of the dictionary
Anne Tardos:
new Nines
Troy Jollimore on
Robert Pinsky
Susan M Schultz:
Pacific Poetries
Thinking of Albert Huffstickler
Alden Nowlan’s
Selected Poems
What are the right questions
to ask about literature?
Tasini sues for freelance “volunteers”
Garrison Keillor vs. Auggie Kleinzahler
Wendy Kramer’s
Diagrams & Examples
Thomas Sayers Ellis,
Timothy Donnelly,
CD Wright,
Eleanor Wilner
New Brazilian poetry
Pierre Joris:
interview & poem
A 600-year-old book
in Utah
Pashto poetry satires
Celebrating the poetry of Pakistan
in Abu Dubai
Mahjoor,
the poet of Kashmir
The small press scene
in India
An Octavio Paz exhibit
in India
Pamuk leads short list
for independent foreign fiction prize
Allen Bramhall’s Days Poem (both volumes)
Last 2 speakers
of a dying language
refuse to speak
with each other
Doug Holder to his readers:
take a hike
Elizabeth Alexander
on African-American poetry
Carlin Romano:
Harold Bloom by the numbers
Brendan Kennelly at 75
The essential Brendan Kennelly
Ed Baker at 70
Donald Keene at 88
is quitting Columbia
to move to Tokyo
Ange Mlinko on birdsong
The NY Times
does a poetry spread
The Washington Post
reviews 5 books of verse,
each one from a big trade publisher
For The Detroit Free Press
the number is 6
Another story on Garth Martens
Ben Ehrenreich on
The Death of the Book
E-books
are now the
top selling format
Because people who got
readers for Xmas
needed something to read
e-book innovations in Russia
How to use Twitter hashtags
inside your e-book
What authors & readers
need to know
about e-books
Alberto Vitale:
paper books
will become more precious
Are e-book
special effects
bad for kids?
Poetry for boys
vs.
poetry for girls
What books will become
Print stumbles,
e-books soar
Publishers are
right to be afraid
Library books
coming to Kindle
B&N adds
apps to the Nook
You can’t always get
what you font
Betta you should
study everything in
Captcha
The alphabets of Jim Flora
Famous authors
& their typewriters
The future of archives
British Library
purchases 40,000 emails
by Wendy Cope
Libraries join together
to buy Kafka archive
Jane Eyre’s autobiography
Sharon Olds & the Pope’s penis
Pulping the Pope
by accident
Lit journals thrive,
on paper & otherwise
Bookstore with a single book
Talking with Ifeanyi Menkiti
of Grolier Books
Indie bookstores in San Diego
survive
International Union of Mail Artists
Christian Wiman’s
“Not Altogether Gone”
Remembering Daniel Thompson
Henry Denander’s
The Loulaki Bar
Christopher Benfey
on the poetry of Stephen Crane
Remembering Tagore
Dramatizing his work
7 poems that shook the world,
all of them in English
Do Anglos
lose too much in translation?
Rexroth, Bukowski
& the politics of literature
O Miami
highlights poetry in translation
Steinbeck “lied” –
does it matter?
Remembering Anthony Hecht
Bookstore bingo:
dumb things
overheard in bookstores
Dear OED,
get your shittle together
At Brushstroke in NYC,
they’re using books
to build walls
Maine’s laureate
maps out 5-year program
Maureen Morehead,
Kentucky’s laureate
Convict who swiped
Larkin’s poem for contest
finishes second
Philip Larkin,
the impossible man
The Gatsby House
comes down
The Indian
publishing industry
Happy Hour
with Suzanne Buffam
Your brain on Shakespeare
Jacob McArthur Mooney:
Can a poet be earnest?
George Bowering
wins BC Lt. Governor’s
lit award
Shane Koyczan is well versed
50 best blogs
for National Poetry Month
(we’re # 3)
The Rime of the Modern Mariner:
the graphic novel
The Great Graphic Novel
Library Giveaway
Nobel lit juror
denies prize bias
The return of lit crit
as a glorified book review
Should reading be promoted
as a legal drug?
Talking with William Walsh
Rethinking Edith Sitwell
Gillian Clarke
supports the Dylan Centre
Elizabeth Bradfield’s
Approaching Ice
Editing the Bible
John Davidson,
extreme rationalist
Goethe goes to Iran
Michael Longley’s
A Hundred Doors
Parodying Atlas Shrugged
Rand rants on rise
Salman Rushdie’s
picking the books
for guests at NYC’s
Standard Hotel
Poetic locales in NYC
If the definition of quality
is Do they fund their students?
then this is a list
of under-rated MFA programs
David Brooks on metaphor
Ishmael Reed’s Juice!
The late politics of Jean Genet
John Boehner et al
go after
the one group of poets
who probably vote Republican!
Blueprints:
Bringing Poetry into Communities
Simic, Mingestu
win Vilcek Prizes
Roseville is importing poetry
from Sacramento
A biography of Edward Thomas
Talking with Elizabeth McNeil
A year with Peter Porter
Talking with Dorianne Laux
The Oprah-fication
of National Poetry Month
Our first language is poetry
Voice of America
celebrates National Poetry Month
with Robert Frost
John Morgan:
National Poetry Month
in Alaska
Why celebrate
National Poetry Month
Emmanuel Moses
translated by Marilyn Hacker
Passover poems
from Bracha Meschaninov
7 poets discuss
the relation of their work
to Judaism
Yehoshua November:
the poet is a rabbi
3 kinds of poets in Israel
Academic freedom
in Pennsylvania
The other Nancy Mitford
Billy Collins
opens up a new chapter
Talking with Billy Collins
Billy Collins,
the poet as rock star
Ken Babstock’s
Methodist Hatchet
Mary Oliver
& the naturesque
Poetry Book Society cuts
spark outrage
Ted Badger,
the laureate of
Fort Bend, TX
Rick Santorum
opposes his own slogan,
stolen from Langston Hughes
Talking with Rick Santorum
about poetry
Kevin Spacey
speaks out for arts funding
Strathclyde University in Glasgow
closes its theater & art gallery
& plans to fire
the director of music
6 reasons Google Books failed
Private firm,
public libraries?
Can LA libraries
reclaim Mondays?
Now visual artists
are suing Google over ©
Mynd Eraser:
a trailer for
an asemic blog novel
Who is Shaun Tan?
Artists remix
classic book covers
Talking with the art director
of Penguin
You call yourself
a museum!
On the Road
becomes a movie
Showing James Franco’s
film school flick
Talking with Paul Mariani,
on whose bio of Crane,
Franco’s film is based
Helena Bonham Carter
= Miss Havisham?
A trailer for
Love Always, Carolyn
Roger Ebert
on finding his voice,
literally
Buster Keaton
& the world of objects
Meanwhile,
under the Misty Mountains
10 most badly bungled
classic book to film
adaptations
Eric Baum’s Dog Ear
Catholic protestors
vandalize
Andres Serrano’s
Piss Christ
Salman Rushdie
on Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei
& the artist’s role in China
Ai Weiwei’s
seeds of dissent
Ai Weiwei’s
other career
Is Ai Weiwei “confessing”?
Joan Miro at the Tate
Emma Bee Bernstein
in Brooklyn
A complex
of the human & the inhuman
Ed Ruscha:
Psycho Spaghetti Westerns
Fred Moten
& the resistance of the object
The Pulitzer
Eddie Adams didn’t want
Talking with Nayland Blake
Finding Superman
Creating the EyeWriter
The mural that set Maine aflame
A battle over the MTA card
as canvas
Chaz Bojórquez, Craig Stecyk & RISK
Street Art:
the show outside
The assemblages of Jess
Yto Barrada
@ the Deutsche Guggenheim
Is Chihuly tasteless?
Warhol self-portrait
could bring $40M
Feet in the Motor City?
Malevich & the American Legacy
The Washington Post
gets a new art critic
Photo-bombed
with the ghost of mural
The art destroyers
Paul McMahon has died
As has John McCracken
Chris Hondros died in Libya
Baryshnikov’s
View of St Petersburg
brings $746.5K
Marjorie Perloff on Merce Cunningham
Playing Steve Reich’s Drumming
Anthony Braxton
swims against the tide
Talking with Ronnie Wood
Bob Dylan in
Ho Chi Minh City
The real Dylan in China
Is it time to put Dylan
in the Captain’s Tower?
The letters of John Lennon
Patti Smith does Broadway
Marshall Walker Lee
on The White Stripes
Bomb the Bass:
Bug Powder Dust
Talking with Dave Grohl
Daniel Catán has died
As has Billy Bang
Charles Bukowski
as theater & dance
The persistence of the negative
A trip inside
the Fukushima evacuation zone
Martin Amis on Christopher Hitchens
Joshua Clover:
Swans & Zombies:
Neoliberalism’s permanent
contradiction
“No pitbull without lipstick” –
Slavoj Žižek on
politeness & ideology
Still fighting the Civil War
American Exceptionalism
is what, exactly?
David Brooks’ imaginary math
Alcheringa archive
