Michelle Detorie’s
American Poetry House
Fresh Poems by the Dozen
Reports of my demise
are a wee bit premature,
don’t you think?
Ron Silliman:
A few short questions
about a very long long poem
Reading with Steve Farmer @ Moe’s
(for cards, see here)
The (post) avant-garde
that won’t go away
Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
Armantrout’s “At Least”
Charles Bernstein’s My Way
as a free e-book
2 books by Lynn Behrendt
Behrendt’s petals, emblems
Julie Carr:
The Witch’s House: A Poetics
The last public poet
Robert Pinsky on Lola Ridge
Tragic Bitches:
An Experiment in Queer
Xicana & Xicano
Performance Poetry
Preparing for the national slams
in Minnesota
Peter B. Howard has died
As has Bill Hetznecker
John Ashbery:
on translating Rimbaud
Ashbery’s Rimbaud,
Auster’s Mallarmé,
Kirchwey’s Verlaine
Brother Anthony
on the perfect translation
Ted Berrigan’s latest books
Cedar Sigo on
glamour & John Wieners
Too much quietude
in our poet laureate?
Talking with W.S. Merwin
about O Miami
M NourbeSe Philip @ Mills
The end of African-American literature
What Nigerian poetry needs now
Asian-American poetry
from Tim Yu’s bookshelves,
all of it published in
the last ten years
More from Scott Watson’s
Sendai Journal
(part 3) (part 4)
(part 5) (part 6)
(part 7) (part 8)
(part 9) (part 10)
(part 11) (part 12)
(part 13)
Oppen in battle
The scene in Pittsburgh
& in Asheville, NC
Celebrating Louise McNeill
Dan Beachy-Quick:
a notebook on poetics
Matthew Timmons’
The New Poetics
David Foster Wallace’s
unfinished business
CD Wright’s masterpiece
Virginia Woolf’s London walks
Ange Mlinko’s “Saint Days”
The cult of Jeremy Prynne
Poetry & adoption
(FYI: Silliman is a name
my grandfather was given
through adoption)
Colette has more punch than Proust
Heriberto Yépez:
Text, Lies & Role-Playing
(part 1) (part 2)
The 2011 MLA Offsite reading
All 67 poets
segmented or as it happened
They’re coming for the academics
Roberto Bolaño’s favorite books
Books everyone should read:
a “consensus cloud”
Talking with Alan Halsey
Halsey’s alphabet poems
Alan Brownjohn on
The Poetry Wars
(no, not that one)
CA Conrad on Bernadette Mayer
Ange Mlinko:
An insider’s guide to blogging
Christian Bök
on the shifting definition
of the spoken word
Maureen Thorson
& post-avant confessionalism
Charting narrative
with Kurt Vonnegut
The Wilde Boys
read Elizabeth Bishop
LOL:
OED adds OMG + ♥
Les Murray & the poetry of depression
The London Alphabet
Jaimy Gordon wins at the track
Clark Coolidge’s
This Time We Are Both
2 books by Ron Padgett
Howard McCord
remembers George Hitchcock
One Keats letter brings ₤96K
(That’s $150K)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading
at the 92nd St Y
The last great Yiddish modernist poet
When Melville & Dickinson made whoopee
The Poet and Writer Evening News
19 poets recommend recent titles
SPD’s March best sellers
James Wagner in Orono
John Gallaher:
Your Father on the Train of Ghosts
Why should writers
work for no pay?
Reading captcha
Atop Mount Hood in 1947,
the copy boy becomes a poet
Talking with Gary Snyder
How we know
the age of the prose poem
is over
CK Williams’
“Jew on the Bridge”
The Academy of American Poets
has guest tweeters all month
14 ways to celebrate
National Poetry Month in LA
30 ways in Missouri
Angel House is offering
30 days of vispo
The Boston Review
is offering special online features
this month
What do Robert Bly, Mary Oliver,
Allen Ginsberg & Conrad Aiken
have in common?
2 high-profile contests
bracket poetry month
Getting to poetry
through public TV
Jinanhie wins $2K
in DC Slam
Talking with Diane Lockward
about “Girl Talk”
A font based on Kafka
Thomas Edison’s film
of Mark Twain
Talking with Scott Thurston
4 poems by Thurston
Talking with Timothy Donnelly
Lord of the Wings
& other edible masterpieces
Talking with Travis Nichols
Jupiter 88
is an online journal
of poetry videos
New poems by Susanne Dyckman
Wordsworth home burns
Why Coleridge loved the sea
How Longfellow woke the dead
Byron’s “forgotten Hebrew melodies”
A fun Sylvia Plath page
In the UK,
the Poetry Book Society
loses Arts Council funding
The Last Poets
struggle with budget cuts
Matthew Zapruder
Poem for Wisconsin
Zapruder wins a Guggenheim
Merlie Alunan’s
Tales of the Spiderwoman
A Qwiki with Harry Northup
Amanda Hocking remembers
why publishers exist
Richard Burton’s favorite poem
read at Liz Taylor’s funeral
Debra Diblasi & Chris Richards
on the mashup novel
Homophobia
& young-adult fiction
Banning Gandhi in India
China tightens e-censorship
The death of the NY Times Book Review
& why that’s a good thing
Is the success of e-books
just hype?
The judge says NO
to the Google book deal
The big trade presses
side with Google
Who “wrote” this?
A digital library better than Google’s
Poetry defies the e-book trend
Milosz-ian Awe & the Rule of Law
A letter from the president
of the Japanese Book Publishers Association
What poets & Mark Zuckerberg have in common
(besides a total lack of social skills)
Book Ends on the move
First Modern Times,
now A Different Light
Nobody wants to buy B&N
Why we bought
Politics & Prose
Should Borders
pay $8.3M in bonuses?
Borders’ recovery “doubtful”
Squeezing cash
from shut-down Borders locations
Are cheaper e-book enhancements
better than more expensive ones?
Swiss reinstate fixed book pricing
“wild, confused, disjointed, and improbable”
Jennifer Knox’
Mystery of the Hidden Driveway
Parnell’s vigil
Remembering Kamala Das
Getting high with
Frank O’Hara & Lewis Hine
Allen Ginsberg
on marijuana tourism
Ginsberg testifies for the Chicago Seven
Remembering Anne Sexton
(with a film clip of her)
The letters of W.B. & George Yeats
Yeats & Behan, reading & sung
Simon Armitage, northern star
Guy R. Beining’s Nozzle 1-36
The best overview of baseball books ever
(3 cheers for Jim Brosnan!)
Adam Kirsch on Cynthia Ozick
Talking with Tim Seibles
HG Wells: prophet of free love
Paul Willis,
Santa Barbara’s new poet laureate
Art Goodtimes,
laureate of the western slope
New laureate to be chosen
in Cleveland Heights
Barbara Hunt’s
The Patternmaker’s Crumpled Plan
Reading the classics in a secular age
Haiku’s “tender touch”
Shatner & the poets
Rita Dove on poetry & story
Cure baldness, kill literature
Rhetorical certainty & academic posturing
Kay Ryan
learns to share emotions
Australia’s “café poets”
From poverty to poetry
Construction worker
wins poetry prize
Shane Rhodes
will write for beer
Ted Hughes reading
Getting sonnets
back onto subways
Oh, the places we’ll go –
7 “lost” tales
from Dr. Seuss
Sendak’s back
after a 30-year hiatus
In Louisiana,
Lt. Governor & poet laureate
put on a reading
“Literature”
(i.e. the corporate novel)
should think big
to save itself
Why is the government
interested in narrative?
Readers of the world unite!
Carrying Old English poetry
into the 21st Century
Elaine Feeney & the new
political poets of Ireland
What I’ve learned from Seamus Heaney
Heaney wins Irish Times award
Heaney makes the Griffin Prize shortlist
as does Dionne Brand
Making poetry “less terrifying”
The “funniest man in po-biz”
“macabre, not morose”
Approaching Billy Collins
Sven Birkerts on idleness
A new translation of Rilke’s letters
Oprah’s adventures in poetry
O’s poetry-fashion shoot
David Hoenigman’s
Burn Your Belongings
The work of Susan Sontag
in the age of self-promotion
Microsoft autocorrects
for prose that’s too smart
What kind of books have no pictures?
3,380 German Expressionist works online
Bleak visions from early rebels
Jon Cotner & Claire Hamilton:
4 hours @ the Armory
Cerith Wyn Evans:
Reference & Ventriloquism
California Conceptualism
dies and goes to heaven
Maine Republicans diss
their own art-censoring governor
Ai Weiwei’s arrest
marks a new escalation
American cave art
The drawings of Wayne Hogan
The new arts revolution
in France
Barry Schwabsky
on poets & painters
Sasha Grey, photographer
Collage centennial coming up
Talking with Annette Kulenkampff
How the media covered
(in more ways than one)
the Gauguin story
The grammar of display
according to
Lina Bo Bardi
Steve Reich’s
WTC 9/11
Michael Tilson Thomas
fine tunes
YouTube Symphony
Anthony Braxton’s
“official bootleg” page
James Whitcomb Riley
rocks out
The impact of William Burroughs
on American music
Pinetop Perkins has died
John Adams in Miami
Ben Fama:
Things Brian Eno taught me
Bob Dylan & the law
Dylan in China
Hunter Thompson
interviews Keith Richards
Experimental music in China:
Talking with Yan Jun
Talking with Julian Schnabel
New films on poetry
Talking with James Franco
The Hobbit begins
Animating Lynne Tillman
Made a Machine
by Describing a Landscape
(trailer)
Manning Marable has died
But not before naming
the conspirators who killed Malcolm X
15 facts about income inequality
every American should know
The digital humanities
is booting up
Jean-Luc Nancy (pro)
vs
Alain Badiou (con)
on intervening in Libya
Can neuroscience explain art?
Werewolves, Magnetic Fields
& Fingerprints of a Technological Imaginary
The awesome archives of
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