Satu Kaikkonen:
from totems
In Syria, Ali Dirbak
arrested for reading poetry
Phil Whalen:
excerpts from Kyoto Notebooks
On Robert Duncan’s
The Opening of the Field
Duncan’s notes on Silliman’s “Opening”
The Flame is Ours:
The Letters of Stan Brakhage & Michael McClure
1961 – 1978
Javier Sicilia,
moving beyond words
Jerome McGann’s
Postmodern Poetries
Flarf turns 10
Geof Huth’s 365 Ltrs
Tom Beckett on Huth
Vanessa Place
on Kenny Goldsmith @ the White House
Kenny Goldsmith on Brion Gysin
Craig Santos Perez:
The Poetics of Mapping Diaspora,
Navigating Culture, and Being From
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
The FSG Book
of 20th Century Latin-American Poetry
Erica Kaufman on Barbara Guest
Dorothea Lasky on Guest & Stanley Kunitz
There’s more to eating like Poldy Bloom
than the inner organs of beasts & fowls
Ulysses meets Twitters
John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem
Jeanette Winterson:
All I know about Gertrude Stein
Nathaniel Mackey’s
Song of the Andoumboulou
& the Migration from Mu
Bioregional poetics
& the legacy of Lew Welch
Abstracts for
Legacies of Modernism:
The State of British Poetry Today
Roddy Lumsden’s Identity Parade:
New British & Irish Poets
Jane Austen manuscript
up for sale
Tina Darragh & Marcella Durand:
Deep Eco Pré
Al Filreis on the poetry & poetics of 1960
Bob Perelman on The New American Poetry
Talking with Bill Knott
9 poems by Pat Nolan
Orange and Raw,
by Sandy Berrigan & Pat Nolan
John Ashbery study guides
Talking with Emily Critchley
Jennifer Moxley: 3 poems
Kerouac’s Lowell
Vladimir Putin’s Hemingway
Susan M Schultz:
against the market economy of words
(thinking with Oppen & Riding)
Remembering Albert G.T. Malikongwa
Avantacular:
a vispo gallery
3 amigos:
Bruce Andrews, Michael Lally, Ray DiPalma
Basil King:
Learning to Draw / Bring it Home
The beauty of folded corners
Academic publishers unite
to fight fair use
Andrew Ervin on
The Pale King
Is Tagore untranslatable?
Talking with Kristin Prevallet
Prevallet:
from Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn:
Four Quartets
Talking with Holly Pester
The magical lyricism of Urdu
Stephen Collis’
The Primordial Density Perturbation
Márton Koppány’s
The Last Ellipsis
Norma Cole:
Do the Monkey
Eileen Myles, Brian Teare, Anna Swanson
win Lambda Lit Awards
Talking with Barbara Jane Reyes
Reyes on Shirley Ancheta
Reyes on Carlos Bulosan
Talking with Pekko Käppi
3 poems/songs by Käppi
(the sound files are a must)
Charles Simic:
A country without libraries
Funding cuts halt
the buying of books
for Queens’ libraries
SF libraries
are open again
for volunteers
Susan Gevirtz:
Prosthesis :: Caesarea
Fred Wah on Ed Dorn
Linda Besner’s The Id Kid
Ted Greenwald’s
Permanent Record
Lew Welch “went Southwest”
Jordon Davis
on Michael Palmer & Dorothy Barresi
Will Stone’s Drawing in Ash
Divya Victor’s Sutures
Galacian Poetry & Prose:
a trilingual anthology
Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni
& black poetry placement power
Steve Benson & Suzanne Stein:
3rd live chat performance
The Wayback Machine
as archive:
non is now
Wallace Stevens’ “Sunday Morning”
John Ashbery reads Wallace Stevens
Singing Walt Whitman
Bill Berkson & Frank O’Hara:
Hymns to St. Bridget
Garrett Caples on
The Man who Shot Frank O’Hara
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
on O’Hara’s “Second Avene”
Talking with Michael Rothenberg
Spark:
How Creativity Occurs
All the sad young literary rappers
Working with
Young Chicago Authors
Talking with Bhanu Kapil
Martin Amis
on Kingsley’s English
Charles Bernstein on Larry Eigner
Curtis Faville responds
Tina Bartolome:
on becoming an ex-writer
Bob Kaufman:
Does the Secret Mind Whisper?
Charlie Plymell in SF
Talking with Luke Kennard
Evie Shockley’s the new black
Vernon Frazer’s Emblematic Moon
Computer-aided poetry
from E-Poetry 2011
Computer-aided poetry:
the app
Jerry Rothenberg on 1960
Talking with David Ferry
Digitizing Creeley’s
reel-to-reel tapes
Talking with Marcus Slease
6 poems by Slease
Robert Pinsky, Jersey boy
Gwendolyn Brooks’ The Bean Eaters
Joshua Corey’s Severance Songs
Severance Songs:
a reader’s companion
Talking with Joshua Corey
Jackson Mac Low as a “Shadow Beatnik”
Matt Hart
on poetry & music
from the Sex Pistols to Kenneth Koch
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
Julian Brolaski’s
Gowanus Atropolis
Margaret Rhee:
The meaning of smog:
translation & the Korean diaspora
Fred Wah on Ed Dorn
Henry Gould enraptured:
on faith, vision & poetry
Bill Kloefkorn has died
But not before
a school is named for him
Transformed by Virginia Woolf
Woolf, reading
Anne Tardos:
6 Nines
Alaa al-Aswany:
fears of an Egyptian counter-revolution
A protester
who asked al-Aswany
to write a novel about Tahrir Square
was killed by a sniper within minutes
Sina Queyras:
creation as consciousness
Jim Krusoe’s Toward You
Molly Peacock’s
The Paper Garden
Kate Moss moves into Coleridge’s house
The swan song of Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom
in conversation
@ the Pen World Voices Festival
Talking with Bloom
Bloom’s influence still holds sway
On the Kermode
Kristen Gallagher on LeRoi Jones
Talking with Mat Johnson
From Johnson’s Pym
Things that make Ray DeJesús happy
Juicing with Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch
Martíin Espada’s
Trouble Ball
Martín Espada’s
The Lover of a Subversive
is also a Subversive
Vintage typewriters
are back in fashion
Let me sign your e-book
E-books outsell print
at Amazon
Liberty Media
offers to buy B&N
for just $1B
(i.e. less than 1/8 of what
Microsoft paid for Skype)
B&N debuts
touch-screen e-reader
Borders may be forced
to close all stores
In Atlanta,
Outwrite tries to survive
A bookstore in the valley
like a favorite aunt
Waterstone’s rescued
by Russian billionaire
Waterstone’s future
is tied to a bookselling app
Why Waterstone’s matters
Bookstore compulsions
Amazon is starting
its own publishing house
Is Amazon aiming
to monopolize the book biz?
Bucking the e-book trend
How to market e-books
Proof that print ain’t dead
Gary Snyder’s Myths & Texts
On being the subject
of a work of art
The worst advice on grammar
you will ever get
Filip Marinovich’s
And if You Don’t Go Crazy
I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow
Yedda Morrison’s
Darkness (Chapter 1)
Talking with Luke Kennard
The man who loved
The Man Who Loved
Books Too Much
WS Merwin’s
To Ruth Stone
That vs. which:
The Supreme Court view
Seth Abramson’s
Northerners
5 free e-books for writers
Celebrating Philip Roth
Philip Roth
is one of the great artists
of the novel
Talking with Philip Roth
Roth wins the Booker -
judge quits in protest
“I don’t rate him as a writer at all”
Roth protest
is about his writing,
not his hatred of women
Why is every woman
who criticizes Roth
accused of political correctness?
Roth didn’t deserve the Booker
Roth is still self-obsessed
Roth’s prize triggers dissent
Why does Roth
provoke strong reactions?
Roth ain’t quitting yet
Outgrowing Salinger
What Auden liked
Stieg Larsson, moralist
Top 10 short stories of all time
(no Kafka, no Borges)
Howard Schwartz
returns to poetry
Indie Bookseller’s Choice awards
Tao Lin: Into the Field
Harold Abramowitz:
Technique of Bandaging & Sleeping
A feature on Greg Bem
Freedom of speech
& the uses of slander
Kasim Reed,
the mayor of Atlanta,
chooses to fund the arts
How to change museums
Museum architecture
forsakes the past
The last hand-written newspaper?
Dino Buzzati’s Poem Strip
A graphic novel
about being a john
Anna Von Mertens & Afaa Michael Weaver:
painting the aura
Who owns your photos?
(Hint: probably not you)
Talking with Taryn Simon
A Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters
Gertrude gets her due
The Steins Collect
reviewed by Kenneth Baker
This I think of as
Maria Damon meets Christo
In London, the Leonardo smackdown
Sundaram Tagore
turns his attention to Hong Kong
Hong Kong shows
controversial Ai Weiwei sculpture
Ai Weiwei & David LaChapelle
set pace in Hong Kong
They’re all coming to Hong Kong
The rise of the female sculptor
Elizabeth Payton @ Gagosian Paris
A week in the life of
Zandra Rhodes
The gendered art of
Tracey Emin
Lindsay Lohan, art star
Talking with Claes Gabriel
A show for black artists
including those
who hate the label
Poverty as / of art
Transforming art in Hong Kong
Photos of philosophers
Neuromancer
heading to film?
An update on Big Sur
The genius of Buster Keaton
Roger Ebert
on the dying of the light
The notes for Network
Production design for
The Tree of Life
New Yorker review of
The Tree of Life
Where are the male playwrights?
David Mamet moves to the right
Danny Snelson
on John Cage
Gil Scott-Heron’s revolution
An obit in The Nation
LA Times on Gil Scott-Heron
NY Times on Scott-Heron
An obit in The Guardian
Jamie Byng remembers Scott-Heron
Talking with Gil Scott-Heron
MTV on Heron
A story from the AP
An American Idol
just for opera
The Audio Book of the Year Award
goes to
Keith Richard’s Life
A biography of Devi
Bob Dylan @ 70
Dylan’s top 10 protest songs
Free Bob Dylan!
All the Bob Dylans
Guardian Music Weekly
celebrates Bob Dylan
Dylan’s religious mystique endures
Robert Creeley on Bob Dylan
Franklin Bruno
on Dorian Lynskey & Sara Marcus
(subscription required)
The music of Prague spring
A Vijay Iyer playlist
Type to the beat
Aesthetics & Politics:
Bloch, Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin & Adorno
afterword by Fredric Jameson
Steven Fama & co.
won the biggest
civil-rights-of-prisoners case
in decades
Literary influences of the Supreme Court
Carlin Romano on Primo Levi
Terry Castle’s The Professor
Breaking News:
Not All Black Intellectuals
Think Alike
Barack Obama’s theory of power
Why Marx was Right
even if Terry Eagleton’s not
Not with a bang,
but a whimper
(But wait, there was a bang)
Harmon Killebrew night
on David Letterman
The new
Big Bridge
is remarkable
