To Be,
Lynn Behrendt’s
collage poem master work
A teaser for
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
The Collage Poems of Drafts
Mark Wallace, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
&Sueyeun Juliette Lee
on Jupiter 88
La Monte Young & Jackson Mac Low:
An Anthology of Chance Operations
Talking with Rae Armantrout
Talking with Hank Lazer
Talking with Kevin Young
The impact of the Allen anthology in the UK
Talking with Allison Cobb
Remembering Lee Lally
Doug Lang & Michael Lally
remembering Lee
Talking with Christian Bök
Talking even more with Christian Bök
Virginia Woolf
“was great fun at parties”
Vida:
The “Best” American …
Talking with Bill Berkson
Stephen Ross
on concept & form
Ernesto Cardenal can still bring it
at age 86
Who killed Pablo Neruda?
Celebrating Neruda
Talking with Arundhati Roy
Talking with Charles Bernstein
Talking some more
with Charles Bernstein
Gertrude Stein’s To Do
The great lonesome novel
of Gertrude Stein
On his birthday,
Walt Whitman is very much alive
With Walt, May 31, 1889
A manuscript by Whitman
Milosz @ 100
Allen Curnow @ 100
Qiu Xiaolong
on classic Chinese poetry
A new breath of Yiddish poetry
Tom Beckett (& David Bromige)
on keywords
Rachel Zucker:
An anatomy of the long poem
Don Wentworth’s
Past All Traps
“Ibuprofen” a headache
at spelling bee
The hardest words
How many years
has Kevin Killian
won the SPD Bee-In?
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Shakespeare was Catholic
William Burroughs’ wild ride
Leonard Cohen wins the Asturias Prize
& the Glenn Gould Prize
The Griffin Prize goes to
Dionne Brand & Gjertrud Schnackenberg
7 visual poems by Marcelo Sahea
For the first time ever,
the chief editor of the NY Times
is a woman
VS Naipaul:
“No woman is my equal”
The Naipaul test:
can you tell the author’s gender
just by the text?
Richard Wilbur:
last of the rhyming poets
4 poems by Rachel Abramowitz
A 1946 Columbia workshop
on two of Eliot’s
Four Quartets
Bernard Spencer:
Complete Poetry & more
Celebrating Hugh Fox
Talking with China Miéville
Bilingualism & the brain
30% of UK kids
own no books
Talking with Susie Bright
Finding The Grotesquiad
Under the Volcano Books,
Mexico City
How the Harvard Bookshop
competes with Amazon
Waterstone’s buyer:
I don’t recognize
that books are dead
How indies can use
Google & Groupon
Borders has several bidders
Borders asks for time
Borders transfers
its e-books to Kobo
Robots retrieve books
at new U Chicago library
Endangered species:
school librarians
Library of Congress
building the Twitter archive
The archives of David Foster Wallace
Talking with Colin Herd
Leslie Marmon Silko’s
The Turquoise Ledge
Geoffrey Hill’s Clavics
Suzanne Burns’ Paris Poems
Baudelaire: Be drunk!
Bomb Pupil,
a collaboration-in-progress
by Nicholas Deboer & Debrah Morkun
A Keats’ letter to Fanny Brawne
goes on display
Autumn haiku
a tad early
Haiku, locally sourced
Away with Words
(NY Times kills off its linguistics column)
A poetic encounter:
Wilfred Owen, Rabindranath Tagore
Kurt Vonnegut:
Still speaking to the war weary
Talking with Sam Hamill
on why not to read at the White House
The head on the old Mercury (pre-FDR) dime
was Mrs Wallace Stevens
Jonathan Morse
on first seeing through the eyes
of Wallace Stevens
Why Groupon hires poets
What’s at stake in
the Georgia State © case
Joseph Brodsky
& the fortunes of misfortune
Translating Coleridge into Arabic
Talking with Emily Kendal Frey
Hundreds remember
Will Bell
Readers react
to the death of
Wll “Da Real One” Bell
Bell’s death leaves a void
The NY Daily News on Bell
How Bell sounded
A vigil for Will “Da Real One” Bell
Penelope Shuttle’s Bread
Contests are the stupidest way
to publish first books
The heart of Dean Young’s
pre-transplant poetry
A streetcar named diwan
Captain Kentucky is back
Talking with Elizabeth McClellan
Margaret Young’s Almond Town
Is downloading a threat
to national security?
John Poch: Echo
The journals of Alfred Kazin
Kazin’s profession
Excerpts of Kazin’s journals
4 poems by Ian Pindar
Frieda Hughes
feels a poem coming on
Talking with David Reich
Robert Pinsky
& the saxophone
Growing up Styron
Paul Siegell:
Highlights of a life writing poetry
Talking with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
The nature of EB White
Conan Doyle’s lost novel
Johnny Depp,
reading Kerouac & Ginsberg
Could pirates be your friends?
Russell Libby’s Moments
What can you tell
from a fancy prose style?
Auggie Kleinzahler on
Mehrota’s Kabir
A bio of GK Chesterton
The most influential man in history
Writing a book with Larry Flynt
A new U in London
doubles the price
& offers star faculty
Drastic cuts for Pennsylvania arts
This year’s Mobys
3 views of The Ontological Museum
& the International Post-Dogmatist Group
Site-specific dance @ MoMA
John Cage:
A Year from Monday:
New Lectures & Writings
Artists recall Gil Scott-Heron
Scott-Heron
was the forerunner to rap
Talkin’ with Doc Watson
On Cold Mountain:
Songs on Poems of Gary Snyder
Seasick Steve
in 360º
Reasons to sing the blues
40 years ago
in Peanuts
Happy (belated) birthday,
Mr Townsend
Retro Manifesto
for Late 20th Century Pop
Jake Berry’s
Ash on the Roses
Adolfas Mekas has died
The Tree of Life,
a film about feeling
Human Centipede sequel
banned in the UK
The trailer for
!Women Art Revolution
An obit for Leonora Carrington
Enhancing the image
of feminist art
Latino artists
come to London
Rx: art attack
(Melamid sans Komar)
Helping artists learn to teach
Mary Burger on
Amy Trachtenberg’s Groundwork
Steve Martin
doesn’t know his Campendonk
Vivian Maier:
the best street photographer
you never heard of
(unless you read this blog)
Bali:
Art, Ritual, Performance
One street artist
who’s been stopped
The production of art
in an age of interns & outsourcing
Mega Words @ ICA
Internet access is a human right
Geronimo Pratt has died
What the Supreme Court did
about California prisons
Arthur C Danto
on the faces of Philosophers
The battle over
Phonehenge West
Gilles Deleuze:
Image & Text
Marilynne Robinson’s
Absence of Mind
The diary of Taras Shevchenko
Fighting computer attacks
with really old tools
The psychology of denial
over climate change
Jonathan Franzen:
Liking is for cowards
It’s been pointed out to me twice
that Bill Corbett’s family
“became Irish” at Ellis Island
& is in fact Hungarian
– I would say
I stand corrected
but it’s more of a wobble, really
