so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
at the Poetry Society
in London
William Carlos Williams:
new translations from the Spanish
The epic of
the great Lithuanian-American poet
is back in print
The making of Tender Buttons
Jeanette Winterson:
All I Know About Gertrude Stein
Has the Arab Spring
rendered Adonis irrelevant?
Lydia Davis:
The Dreadful Mucamas
Joseph Lease’s Testify
Talking with
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Danzy Senna
& the “mulatto millennium”
Keiichi Nakamura:
vispo
Susan M Schultz:
A syllabus for a course in
documentary poetry
Jimmy Schuyler’s Other Flowers
Carolee Schneemann’s
Correspondence Course
Geraldine Monk, Nerys Williams
& WH Auden
Charles Bernstein & Susan Bee:
Disfrutelos
A zine ecology of
Charles Bernstein’s
Selected Poems
UC Press
suspends the New California Poetry series
Columbia’s publishing course
in the age of the e-book
Even Readers Digest
is up for sale
The price of typos
Borders deal falls through
Borders:
the future (if any) is nebulous
How to build a bookstore
Kindle lovers are bloodless nerds
iRiver Story HD debuts @ Target
British Museum
may close library
Is a library without books
still a library?
Tell HarperCollins:
Limited checkouts on ebooks is wrong
for libraries
Some tributes to Robert Kroetsch
Remembering Ernesto Sabato
12 or 20 questions with Deborah Poe
Talking with Kaplan Harris
Barbara Guest’s typescripts
Talking with Linda Hogan
for 3 hours(!)
Hovering at a Low Altitude:
The Complete Poetry of
Dahlia Ravikovitch
What Carolyn Kellog
has in common with
Raymond Chandler
Oxford Comma:
Vampire Weekend
The Capilano Review’s
George Stanley issue
Why Neal Cassady’s son
wasn’t named Jack
Neal Cassady & I went upstairs…
4,000 miles in a ’49 Hudson
+ the original Magic Bus
The trailer for
Magic Trip
Moving Ken Kesey further
More songs of Neal Cassady
Painting with Kerouac
Talking with Theo
about Ti Jean, Banksy & the cops
William S Burroughs:
A curse on Truman Capote
Geocaching the Beats
Ginsberg-Shelley-Lennon:
you can’t step
in the same Allen twice
Paul Auster:
Why Philip Roth is wrong
20 questions for Tao Lin
Did the Incas
actually have writing?
Friday morning with Po-Chu-i
12 or 20 questions with
Amanda Ackerman & Harold Abramowitz
Lindy Hough:
a residency at Saul’s Deli
John Gallaher & GC Waldrep
in conversation
The Suzanne Stein / Steve Benson
LiveChat collaborations
now number 6
Talking with Lars Iyer
12 or 20 questions with Hailey Higdon
Chaucer board game
raises $27K on Kickstarter
To the Lighthouse:
a new introduction by
Helen Dunmore
Roy Miki’s Mannequin Rising
12th century codex
stolen from a Spanish curch
Lost Byron memorial
found at a Georgia church sale
Setting Coleridge to stone
Fashion & Fanny Brawne
Creative Writing Professors
of the silver screen
Why we keep rereading
Donald Justice
Defining the School of Quietude
in the 1950s
Anne Sexton
& the glamour of despair
The Poetry Society of America’s
growing audio collection
mostly of quietist poets
Harold Bloom
as Quietism’s Custer
Forward shortlist:
Hill, O’Brien, Longley,
Nurske, Harsent, Burnside
Burnside: The Listener
Amy Gerstler:
Fortunate It Is
If Her Skirts
Do Not Catch Fire
Wayne Koestenbaum,
the embarrassment artist
12 or 20 questions with Sandra Nicholls
Julie Kane,
Louisiana’s new poet laureate
Diann Blakely’s
Dead Shrimp Blues
William Allegrezza’s
Inshore Seeds
NoViolet Bulawayo wins Africa’s Caine Prize
12 or 20 questions with j/j hastain
Readymade Baroness:
the gendered language of Dadaist dress
von Freytag-Loringhoven’s German poetry
12 or 20 questions with Marthe Reed
The most Kafka-esque city in Turkey
Talking with Sina Queyras
Feminism’s other totems
(starting with Henry James)
Ai Weiwei is also
heading to Berlin
Chinese authors struggle
to carve out niche
in international literary
marketplace
US DOJ subpoenas
unpublished oral history notes
Overseas artists
boycott Britain
over passport restrictions
There should be a contest
for most petty
© / ® enforcement
Thurston Moore’s notes from Naropa
Josรฉ Saramago’s Small Memories
Peter Riley’s
The Road & The Road (remix)
12 or 20 questions with Eleni Zisimatos
George RR Martin –
“better than Tolkien”
A world without Harry Potter
In the new economy
even academic stars
lack job mobility
Jackson Mac Low talks entropy
Sharon Olds: the Easel
Brodsky’s nose in the air
at the US Embassy
12 or 20 questions
with Miriam Toews
Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls
A good joke spoiled
Michael Dickman, Ross Gay, C. Dale Young
and Chris Martin
Talking with Iain Sinclair:
The Olympics
have destroyed my London
In Calgary,
2 books of poetry
reach #s 2 & 4
of the “fiction” bestseller list
(Both are from BookThug)
60 years
of Peter Owen Books
A Dance with Dragons
shows life left still
both in hardbacks & bookstores
Talking with Andrew Zawacki
Just how close
to greeting card humor
can the poetry of erasure get?
Nathanaรซl’s
Sisyphus, Outdone:
Theatres of the Catastrophal
Judith Goldman
on Nathanaรซl’s Sisyphus, Outdoe
Erica Kaufman’s Censory Impulse
Talking with Sorley MacLean
The Blagger’s Guide to Samuel Johnson
Poems from Anne-Adele Wight
Early works by Heaney & Longley
set Oxfam bookshop records
No one cares about your reading
The book as a fetish
Lewis Warsh’s
A Place in the Sun
Talking with Emily Berry
Unmade poems
with James Davies & Carol Watts
(available only thru July 21)
Don Share’s Harmonia
Trulyradicalarts.com
is an open journal,
almost
Bolaรฑo’s Between Parentheses
Talking with Jeremy James Thompson
10 ways to take bad author photos
& of course Hitler’s dogs
Robin Blaser
on responsibility in language
What’s a metaphor for?
A dial-a-poem book tour
Talking with Heather Christle
Azar Nafisi
on Al-Mutanabbi Street
Ammiel Alcalay’s
“neither wit nor gold” (from then)
Remembering Stanley Burnshaw
Burnshaw @ PennSound
spears through / the dolmen
The writer in Athens
Talking with Tao Lin
Poems that speak to life
Writing is bad for you
Talking with Kenny G
Thomas Pynchon slept here
I thought you were a poet
Ventrakl:
translation & its discontents
10 rules for translating (times 2)
Jed Rasula:
Modernism and Its Poetic Inspiration
Everybody complains
about ancient Greek poetry,
but hardly anyone
does anything about it
Maximus, to Gloucester,
even now
Martin Duberman
interviewing Robert Creeley
re Black Mountain College
Billionaire explains
why he’d invest in B&N
Booksellers & publishers
oppose Amazon’s latest
UK aquisition
Mondays return
to the LA libraries
It’s ba-ack:
Poetry Northwest
rejoins the undead
Joshua Schuster on Craig Saper
Catherine Mulholland, historian,
friend of Mingus, Ginsberg & Kerouac,
(& the lover of Jack Spicer),
has died
Kathleen Osip’s The Cold War
The woman who lived with
Stieg Larsson
Mary Alice Gorman’s
impact on mystery writers
Henry Carlisle has died
Poetry “bomber”
sews verse
into thrift store clothing
Android apps from Poetry
Tim Cumming’s Flowers
Court restores ban
on monopoly media
Preserving Shakespeare’s
First Folio
Jennifer Knox’
The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway
Sarah Ferguson children’s book
“too offensive to publish”
Talking with Marion McCready
Flannery O’Connor’s cartoons
Susan Scarlata’s
It Might Turn Out We Are Real
Anis Shivani’s
Most anticipated books,
Spring 2011
Charles H Harper’s
Making a Life
5 myths about Jane Austen
Austen mss. brings $1.6M at auction
Poetry Council of North Carolina’s
2011 prize winners
Chris Lawrence:
Sparkles with Annie
Howie Good’s Inspired Remnants
Suzanne Vega
on Carson McCullers
Top 10 experimental
genre novels
you never heard of
Illustrating ideology
in children’s literature
Erica Jong:
Still flying
A poem Bob Creeley
once told me
he wrote on acid
Hated books
that everyone else loved
Overly verbose
“haiku reviews”
An optical illusion
wood block alphabet
Koolhaas,
delirious in Beijing
Bill Viola, Anish Kapoor et al
win Japan’s “alternate Nobels”
How Gertrude, Alice & even Leo
influenced everything
What we lost
when we lost The Barnes
Charles Saatchi:
the man who reinvented art
Utah now owns
Spiral Jetty
Serra’s Sequence
goes to Stanford
Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty
A Kickstarter project
for Tanya Vlach’s
camera-eye
Guy Wildenstein arrested
A Picasso stolen in SF
& the get-away
is caught on video
leading to
arrest & recovery
Oopsie, Picasso thief
has more stolen work
at home in NJ
Prince Twins Seven-Seven has died
When fashion meets art
The Marilyn upskirt
on the Mag Mile
goes up
U of Texas sues Ryan O’Neal
over Warhol portrait
of Farah Fawcett
The artlessness
of art thieves
Warhol:
Why Campbell’s Soup?
Bob Dylan, Patti Smith,
Carter Ratcliff, Ultra Violet,
John Giorno, Lawrence Weiner
et al make a Warhol tribute
How performance art
came into pop
The LA art scene of the 1960s
Irvine Sandler:
Scene it all
The Oakland Museum’s
great political poster archive
is coming online
Ardis James has died
Painting with your lips
Carl Andre:
Less is still less
This painting
is not available
in your country
Recordings from Anthony Braxton’s
65th-birthday concerts
a year ago:
12+2tet, plus
Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser & Gerry Hemingway
with Braxton sitting in
Smooth jazz:
music’s own
school of quietude
Bob Ostertag
on the value of
giving your music away online
Waterboys’
Appointment with Mr Yeats
due for CD release
Yeats’ first play
to be published & performed
The “return”
of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
6 dances for Jules Feiffer
We don’t care if it is Shakespeare,
no skinning rabbits on stage
Between thought & action
in Hamlet
Godard,
the modernist screen poet
Christopher Boghosian:
7 weeks, 7 films
The world is starting
to catch up to
Marshall McLuhan
Frederick Law Olmsted
on the South
What the sun
says to the flowers
Mutts goes plot
The Poet’s Dream
Rick Santorum’s “frothy mix”
