Bahraini forces rape & kill
Ayat al-Ghermezi
China bars
Liao Yiwu from traveling
In Yemen,
a poet has his tongue cut off
A Mexican poet abandons poetry
The importance of writing in prison
Craig Santos Perez:
Why are white editors so mean?
Vietnam arrests award-winning publisher
Jerry Rothenberg on Khurbn
Publisher on trial in Turkey
for publishing William Burroughs
Joe Enzweiler has died
Kristin Prevallet
on Robert Kelly &
the need to say thanks
Remembering Peter Seaton
Fanny Howe:
“What Did You See?”
For Rae Armantrout,
a life changing year
Emily Critchley
on North-American Women Writers
Charles Bernstein:
The Art and Practice
of the Ordinary
Steve Benson & Suzanne Stein
LiveChats
improvised web exchanges
(first) (second)
Steve Benson on Michael Gottlieb’s
Memoir & Essay
Talking with Christian Bök
Christian Bök & I & others
are “devoured
by the totality of global capitalism” --
so send the check already!
Christian Bök “is a disco worm”
HD in London
Michael Palmer, reading
Talking with Mark Weiss
about Cuban poetry
Eduardo C. Corrall,
the first Latino
Yale Younger Poet
Remembering Peter Howard
Brandon Shimoda & Matthew Henriksen
“We wanted to get England out of our ears”:
Talking with WS Merwin
(subscription required)
5 articles by Merwin
that appeared in The Nation
Wendell Berry comes to Washington
Franz Wright:
“Our Conversation”
Kalamu ya Salaam:
Two Trains Running:
Black Poetry 1965 – 2000
Denja Abdulahi: Poet of the City
Albert Murray
& the Aesthetic Imagination
of a Nation
John Edgar Wideman’s son
comes up for parole
Talking with Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed’s Juice!
Eleni Sikelianos
on Akilah Oliver
Daisy Fried speaks up
for Tony Hoagland
Camille Roy’s Sherwood Forest
Francisco Aragón & Brenda Cárdenas
Jeffrey Jullich’s
Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis
(with a great video)
Abar Ashibo Phirey:
A Bengali-centric celebration of poetry
just north of Boston
6 poets, 3 countries,
transcending borders
Remembering Daniel Jones
Marjorie Perloff
on Hawkey’s Trakl
Archambeau on Perloff’s
conceptualism
DJ Matt’s Writers Block
Michael Savage calls Kenny G
“the destruction of Western Civilization”
White House poetry flap:
Patrick Pressl’s POV
Bill O’Reilly & Jon Stewart
debate Common’s appearance
Caliban no. 3
is a George Hitchcock Festschrift
Clive James on product placement
Paired poems by
Robb & Vanessa Furse Jackson
Tao Lin is broke
Tao Lin:
a good use for negative reviews
Aaron Belz, reading
Philly to pick a poet laureate
Children’s laureate,
J. Patrick Lewis
Barb Day:
Slam poet laureate of Paris
No one wants to be the laureate
of Owen Sound
BungaMataharai
offers poetry to the people
of Indonesia
The MFA Octopus:
writing & shame
The story-teller & the tsunami
The towering Tagore
Tagore & the renaissance of India
Ubuweb at 15
Archiving as the new folk art
Reading the archives as a living witness
Recordings
from the Parisian Anglophone series
Poets-Live
Teen writing community Figment
gets $1M “angel” funding
Iraq is invaded again,
this time by poets
Talking with Sam Donsky
The simple world of Robert Bly
David Ferry in disguise
Jupiter88’s
Allen Ginsberg celebration
La Belle Dame Sans Merci:
the comic
Meghan O’Rourke:
The Long Goodbye
Cilla McQueen’s The Radio Room
The secret of Joyce Carol Oates
Teresa Borleson, cowgirl poet
Talking with Charlie Seemann,
head cowpoke
Talking with John Maloney
Love Always, Carolyn:
A Film About Kerouac, Cassady and Me
John High’s A Book of Unknowing
Ernesto Cardenal’s
poetry is evolving
Talking with Ken Babstock
John Koethe & the NY School
Nick Flynn, Matthew Zapruder,
David St. John
Poems from the Turks of the Western Thrace
Ashbery’s Rimbaud,
Ish Klein & Yusef Komunyakaa
John Ashbery & common sense
Niedecker, Whitman &
Vladislav Khodasevich
Sally Doyle’s Kafka Psalms
Narayan Shrestha’s Shashki
Gerard Fanning, Eva Bourke, Kerry Hardie
“the conservative poets of today
are not even good
when measured by ‘conservative’ standards”
Rewriting the Arcades Project
Auto-correcting Finnegans Wake
Samargo’s last memoir
International Pen
is looking for
a communications director
The Spoken Word festival
in Zimbabwe
Talvikki Ansel’s “Glaze”
Vanessa Hidary’s
Last Kaiser Roll in the Bodega
On Amy Clampitt
Jersey Shore & Oscar Wilde
Quoth the raven “Jersey Shore”
Ravens to the rescue
of Poe’s room at U VA
Did the early Middle Ages
really exist?
CS Lewis’s Latin
New Collected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith
At the Text Festival in Bury,
an exhibit by the homeless
SPD’s poetry best-sellers
for April
Amazon as publisher,
publishers as booksellers
A set of signed Pynchon volumes
“for Fred & Phyllis”
The USB typewriter
James Finnegan,
West Hartford’s poet laureate
Celebrating Tom Kane in Brooklyn
The Simphabet
Open City has closed
Another reading by Diane di Prima
Eeyore @ 140
The “lost” Wittgenstein
is heading to print
A web tool for acrostic poetry
Researching © orphans
The fight over Kesey’s last novel
rages on
Talking with Lam Quang My
Lawrence Giffin’s
Practiced Restraint
Dean Young on the need
to stay away
from experimental poetry
(nothing “reckless” in that stance)
Bringing Harry Matthews to PennSound
Chile mourns Gonzalo Rojas
David Foster Wallace’s
The Pale King
is a celebration of bureaucracy
What if
The Pale King
isn’t boring enough?
David Foster Wallace
End-note Generator
Randall Brown’s flash fiction
David Rowe’s Unsolicited Poems
Reading in a biased culture
A profile of Frankétienne
Ravi Shankar:
Breast-Feeding at the Blue Mosque
Naipaul’s rules for writing
Neruda’s world
Tidbits re
Daphne Gottlieb & Joseph Lease
New novels by Rikki Ducornet & Vladimir Sorokin
Anis Shivani: 10 favorite poems
Emily Fragos
on Dickinson’s letters
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Taking Elizabeth Bishop
to the bank
(subscription required)
How writers
“build the brand”
Nokia adopts
a new corporate typeface
Neologisms
come to Scrabble
Don’t blame Scrabble!
20 unpublished tales
by Anthony Burgess
The silence of Harper Lee
Talking with Harper Lee,
Not!
A signed copy of
To Kill a Mockingbird
sells for $25K
Starstruck with Boo Radley
Poetry, sound &
the designing of “phantom objectivity”
Talking with Siri Hustvedt
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
3 poems from Leonard Schwartz
Homecoming for Gail Mazur
Remembering RL Greenfield
The case for cursive
The last days of
A Different Light
Library closure battles won
but the war continues
Attacking LA school librarians
Does your library
have a glory hole?
Jeff Davis’ WordPlay archives
Books for low-income families
Curtis Faville
takes the Ron Paul approach
to arts funding
On Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s
new translations of Kabir
Robert Pinsky’s
samurai song
Manuel Puig’s gravitas
Alistair Peebles:
Veni, Vidi, Violi
Rob Halpern on somatics
Fake memoir
with bogus Shakespeare
What Shakespeare
does to the brain
Dodie Bellamy’s
The Buddhist
Absinthe
makes the heart grow fonder
The novels of Jean-Patrick Manchette
The last Spenser novel
Charlie Simic
on Téa Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife
Erika Meitner:
Yizer Bukh
Mailer’s place
Google
cannot be trusted
with our books
Google & the book tour
Did Borders
give out your info?
Davis-Kidd Booksellers
saved from the brink
in Memphis
What point
is David Orr
trying to make, anyway?
Poetry makes nothing happen
Talking with Nina Bahadur
A Palinode
Touring the graves of writers
Katherine Larson’s
Radial Symmetry
Hosho McCreesh’s
4th Street Vagaries
Death to high school English
3 Quietists read
Yeats’ “Easter 1916”
Severus Snape reads William Shakespeare
The bawd of Avon
Robert Thomas & Adrena Zawinski
The contest to become
a voice for Neil Gaiman’s
next audio book
Minnesota Republican calls Gaiman
“a pencil-necked little weasel”
Gaiman on Dr. Who
with a bunch of fans
Talking with Harold Bloom
How Jane Austen
taught me to be a man
Austen leaves the floor
stained with blood
Or a Russian one
A profile of China Miéville
Ode-ious prose
from Gray Jacobik
Procrastinators Anonymous
Celebrity poetry night in NYC
Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation
Reimagining the role of art
on campus
In which all of contemporary poetry
appears to sprout from
symbolism
mostly by misstating the facts
The e-reader is already doomed
Scammers infecting
Kindle e-books
with malicious links
What we’ve lost with the Kindle
“African Booker” shortlist announced
Milosz & the rule of law
USA literary map
(trade press edition)
Billy Collins comes
to Carroll County, MD
Yehoshua November’s
God’s Optimism
William T Vollmann:
journalism after paper
Penguin:
let’s crowd-source
the slush pile
Hard copy & first drafts
Arguing over Amis
Jessica Mitford
on the Famous Writers School
Literary England
is a small, cohesive place
Poetry in Winona, MN,
vs. Medlin, Columbia
Maxine Hong Kingston:
singing with Whitman
What we know
about digital journalism
Remembering Douglas Adams
Where next, Stanley Fish?
The book club
that abandoned books
15 most famous
literary cafés
CUNY blocks honor for
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner
& the art of empathy
CUNY reconsiders
while Stanley Fish
defends institutional prerogatives
Fish: Sex, the Koch brothers
& academic freedom
& CUNY changes its mind
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld,
the man who wanted to deny
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner,
an angel in America
I am the Wind
at the Young Vic
James Franco’s
theater of the absurd
Doric Wilson has died
The art of book plates
Regulate the art market?
Liz #5 sell for $27M
Typographic abstractions by
Cecil Touchon
The Guardian remembers
Ira Cohen
As does Indra Tamag,
the butler of Charles Henri Ford
The Met to take over
the Whitney’s home
When your art teacher is named Matisse
Susan Bee:
New Paintings
Ai Weiwei’s wife
is allowed a visit
Anish Kapoor
calls for protest to support
Ai Weiwei
International PEN’s recommendations
on whom to write
concerning Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei:
Teahouse
China sentences artist
to labor camp
for sex performance
Stephen Vincent
in the Huffington Post
(see slide 5)
The gallery view
Alan Moore:
art is magic
Tracey Emin
@ London’s Hayward Gallery
Brian Dettmer’s book sculptures
A profile of John Chamberlain
The story behind
Art in the Streets
Talking with Richard Serra
10 of the best
art galleries in Manhattan
Julião Sarmento’s reading list
12 photos of artists & their art
The Mumbai Beehive
Alexander McQueen,
savage beauty
Thornton Dial: Hard truths
Martha Graham
gets a Google logo
100 composers under 40
Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)
Talking with Meredith Monk
Heavy metal comes to the Met
Talking with Matt Bauder
Mahler takes Manhattan
Robert Johnson at 100
Talking with Cory Smythe
Talking with Anne Rhodes
Throwing the
(Bob Dylan song)
book at ‘em
Dylan responds
to reports of censorship
in China
Intellectuals miss Dylan’s significance
Roy Nathanson,
jazz with a poet’s pen
Why 60s nostalgia
makes me cringe
Bringing Raymond Carver to screen
Talking with Gus Van Zant
The NY Times on Louder Than a Bomb
Talking with Nate Marshall
Another review of
Louder Than a Bomb
Talking with Werner Herzog
in 3D
Bernard-Henri Lévy &
Michel Houellebecq
How bin Laden lost his Mr
Deconstructing the situation room photo
Faulty Towers:
the crisis in higher education
John Lukacs
on The Future of History
The Malcom X project
Nicholson Baker’s case for pacifism
EM Cioran’s Hitler fetish
Be careful what you wish for:
gay marriage
in an otherwise unjust society
