Stephen Ratcliffe’s trilogy:
Human / Nature
Remarks on Color / Sound
Temporality
Previously unpublished poems
by the Baroness
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Numerousness & its Discontents:
Peter Nicholls on
George Oppen & Lyn Hejinian
Dean Young’s new heart
Remembering Darrell Gray
Don Wentworth’s
Past All Traps
Pigrimage to the sources
of Javier Sicilia
In Malaysia,
poetry gets treated
like a weapon
Robert Coover: A life in writing
A 1974 Beat festival
in North Dakota (!)
goes online
Kenneth Rexroth
reading & pontificating
Remembering the Beats
Michael McClure:
Peyote Poem excerpt
Celebrating May Swenson
Martin P “Inkblot Hurricane” Abramson has died
Publishing’s wrong #s
David Foster Wallace’s
11-step program
Wallace’s private
self-help library
Head of school for writers
rips off Wallace
for commencement address
David Foster Wallace:
Host
How to promote
a poetry blog
Talking with Jason Morris
& Erin Morrill
Borders
agrees to be sold
The sales at Borders
blamed for big loss
at B&N
The Booksmith
Shop online,
pick up locally
Zippy on E-books
Flipback books
are now in English
Who needs bookstores,
when there is a
farmer’s market?
Sven Birkerts
on Marshall McLuhan
& Wikipedia
10 + 2 things about
Dan Masterson
Talking with Jake Kennedy
The small presses of San Antone
WCW, baseball & history
Why are the feds
researching metaphor?
Close-reading
a single word
The poetry of Susan Howe
How American writers
coped with
the Civil War
Adam Zagajewski’s
Unseen Hand
The Afghan Women’s Writing Project
The Poetic Labor Project:
TC Marshall, Dolsy Smith, Mary Austin Speaker
Talking with Michael Gottlieb
Curtis Faville on Christopher Isherwood
Remembering Robert Kroetsch
Forrest Gander & Robert Bringhurst
Gander’s
Core Samples from the World
The Academy of American Poets
video archive
BH Fairchild’s
Occult Memory Systems
of the Lower Midwest
Rosamond Purcell’s Bookworm
Christine Hume: Hum
Donna de la Perrière’s
Saint Erasure
Talking with Travis Nichols
Emily Dickinson &
the “modern literati”
Virginia Woolf’s late essays
Sesshu Foster:
Notes on Good
(“New & Improved!”)
Poetry
From the Poesie Festival in Berlin
Qu Yuan
& the dragon boat festival
Eavan Boland
eroticizing the past
The Man Closing Up:
Eugene Guillevic & Donald Justice
Céline:
genius & villain
Hemingway,
hounded by the feds
Hemingway’s legacy
When Ernest left Hadley
A book with a rare cover
(Since when is human skin “hard cover”?)
Ronaldo V. Wilson:
Poetics in Dream Tracking
NYPL paid $900K
for Timothy Leary’s papers
What big media can learn
from NYPL
Rachel Dacus’
Femme au chapeau
Talking with Anis Shivani
Anis prefers
his indie presses large
& preferably institutionally based
718 iPad apps for poetry
Make mine Moleskine
David Gewanter:
The Problem of Originality
An obit of Edwin Honig
An obit of Bill Kloefkorn
Talking with Alexandra Teague
3 poems by Chris McCreary
Nature poetry at the zoo
The New Collected Poems of
Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry of the Jersey Shore
Doug Messerli’s
Project for Innovative Poetry
Laura Healy,
reading translations
of the poetry of
Roberto Bolaño
A museum for writers
in Chicago?
6 Egyptian writers
you should know
15 new poems by
Davíd Stefánsson
found
Talking with Stephen Dunn
Paul Muldoon
is a people person
Talking with Muldoon
12 Theses on John Ashbery
Plath’s depression
A new tavern
where Whitman drank
Some excellent microreviews
of CA Conrad, Wislawa Szymborska,
Allison Titus, LS Klatt & Grace Zabriskie
Nigeria --
copying Egypt & Abu Dubai --
starts its own
poetry idol reality TV show
Millions Poet
starts a new season
A drama of spectacle
immersed in aesthetics
10 contemporary
Southern & Midwestern poets
you ought to know
Brenda Iijima’s
If not Metamorphic
Poetry Society:
Things go from bad to verse
Ruth Padel
on what’s wrong with that article
Ramsey Nasr,
talking with Padel
Poetry still publishes
less than 1% of all submissions
Poetry Foundation
dedicates its new home
Poetry nears 100
Talking with Brian Teare
A curious thing to consider is
an author
Hysterical Sex
in the Time of Cholera
& other literary games
Needling Anselm Berrigan
Carol Muske-Dukes
on Crossing State Lines:
An American Renga
Ginsberg’s Wonder Years
Having already been anthologized,
conceptual writing
finally gets a journal,
Crux Desperationis
The Morgan Library curator
discusses his work
In LA, downloading songs
at the library is
freegal
250,000 antique books
will go online
Recreating Baghdad’s
lost literary avenue
Book artists
can still get in on
the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project
Talking with Nell Taylor
about the Chicago Underground Library
Paddy Galvin died in May
Borges in Texas
Xi-Chuan:
Re-reading Borges’ Poetry
Dante in Love
Fleurs du mal dot org
Be drunk – that’s all that matters
Does Metamorphosis really need a movie?
3 kinds of literary afterlife
Kannada poetry
goes to Ljubljana
Chapbooks:
small is beautiful
Martin Stannard’s
Respondings
Gerald Stern,
reading & talking
Kabir’s legacy
Resurrecting
Lalla & Kabir
Remembering Changampuzha
Amir Khusrao,
the medieval poet
who also invented the sitar
K Satchidanandan’s
While I Write
Greg Djanikian’s
“Immigrant Picnic”
Connecticut’s history of verse
Shi Zhi,
the troubled man
at the heart of Chinese poetry
The chan of Hsu Yun
Ann Patchett
hopes to open
a bookstore in Nashville
Mark Wallace on
A Community Writing Itself:
Conversations with Vanguard Writers
of the Bay Area
UK Poetry, the mailing list
George RR Martin
offers to decapitate
whoever shipped
his novel too soon
A narrative of the image:
Charles Wright & Charlie Simic
in correspondence
Talking with Sophie Mayer
The story of
The Story of O
Talking with Ariel Sands
Dorianne Laux’
Book of Men
Posting the odds
for the next Nobel
Writers who died
in motor accidents
Add Hassan Dars to that list
JG Ballard’s
Millennium People
From Clarissa to DSK
Charles Wright’s Bedtime Story
The POOR Press Project
Kamila Shamsie
on the perils of translation
Translating French poetry
Romanticism has never
been properly judged
A Myanmar poet
reading in Columbia
The history of haiku
The horror of hockey haiku
Chad Davidson’s Consolation Miracle
A Canadian poetry chronicle
Anna Marie Sewell
is the new laureate of Edmonton
The patchwork poem
that takes up
1290 square feet
John Gallaher’s
“Eyeball Eyeball Poem”
Penguin Classics
on your iPhone
Raising the bar
for digital poetry
Merrill Leffler,
the laureate of Takoma Park, MD
Modern Poetry of Pakistan
Marathi poetries
in the digital age
Sandy Pool
writes of murder
Gary Soto:
No man who grew up
in a home without books
writes alone
Sydney’s laureate
will be paid for poems
Talking with Children’s Laureate,
J Patrick Lewis
A world without English majors
Philip Roth, wising up
Aaron Belz’ Lovely Rasberry
An untitled poem
by Mimi Khalvati
The uses of sidewalks
in bookselling
Should unpublished writers
self-publish?
How self-publishing
came of age
Cherish the publishers:
you’ll miss them
when they’re gone
Discoverability
is the key to
the transformation of publishing
Sans publishers,
Ugandan poets turn to readings
Can bookstores get customers
to pay to see authors?
What about the authors themselves?
Some prefer pencils
(not me!)
Bookcase in a stairwell
that you access
via a bosun’s chair
Ed Baker’s
Stone Girl E-Pic
Some letters from
JD Salinger
Jennifer Karmin’s
aaaaaaaaaaalice
Tray Drumhann’s Construct
DM Black’s
first collection in 20 years
Tennis as literature,
literature as tennis
Langston Hughes’
Tambourines to Glory
Charles Deemer,
talking to himself
Sapphire’s The Kid
Talking with Laura Shoven
The FSG Book
of 20th Century
Latin American Poetry
Kim Roberts’
Full Moon on K Street
Linh Dinh’s Love Like Hate
Hugh Kenner
on The Pisan Cantos
Talking with
Patrick Ryan Frank
Mark Strand
gives up poetry… again
Jim Murdoch:
Having nothing to say
Rescuing Granta
What Yeats inherited
Keillor’s latest woebegone collection
& 3 more serious books of poetry
by Sue Goyette, Rachel Thompson
& Ken Babstock
Tao Lin: Relationship Story
Diary: Patti Smith
LA poets, unite!
Was Shakespeare Chinese?
Shakespeare the stoner?
Here comes
the Earl of Oxford
Ilya Kaminsky:
9 poets
Does JK Rowling
really need an agent?
Emily Dickinson’s Bible
Lord Byron meets a vampire
Talking with Lou Reed
about Edgar Allan Poe
Poe fans restore
Bronx cottage
Angela Smith’s
The Geometry of Flight
Some notes re
James Liddy & Leontia Flynn
Kent Johnson:
Against Jacket2
The Claudius App:
a journal of negativity
Joyce Brown
gets Robert Bly
exactly right
Against the multiculture
Poems that cross all borders
Pushkin in Britain
Remembering Frost
Simon Armitage:
poetry & motion
Parley Pratt,
the murdered poet
who has not one but two
descendants
running for the GOP nomination
for president
Pratt’s Millennium
Book art by Dolph Smith
3 buildings constructed
just for poetry
Lew Ellingham:
San Francisco 33 Views
Talking with Lynne Tillman
Writers on the beach
William Burroughs:
The Old Army Game
Talking with William Burroughs
A Murakami roundtable
Conceptual blending & intentionality
Patrick Moore
publishes first book of poems
at 88
Top books with one-letter titles:
(V. & a are included, but not “A”)
Bullwinkle’s corner
The 30 harshest
author-on-author insults
Indie publishers
we love for their spirit
California charges tax on internet transactions
(& Amazon drops its California affiliates)
B&N does a little happiness dance
Creative writing & the judiciary
$50K
for the “world’s best poem”
You can lick Mark Twain
Teachers turn to hip-hop
Walking Brooklyn Bridge
for Poets House
William Cowper, hell-bent
Talking with Jennifer Militello
50 summer steals
from Brad Morrow to
Irish Murdoch
Which Jane Austen
don’t you know?
Talking with Alice Walker
Bosnia builds a town
to commemorate
Ivo Andrić
The poetry of Marion McCready
Aimee Nezhukumatahil’s
Lucky Fish
Save the John Llewellyn Rhys prize
Rhys Prize suspended
Book recommendations
from 23 authors
Time magazine has heard of
(Rushdie recommends Ulysses)
Wallace Shawn:
my summer reading
Breakfast at Truman’s
News from the West Chester conference
Talking with Roberta Gould
Arthur Binard,
an American ex-pat
who sometimes writes
in Japanese
NYTimes notices
Alaskan poet Tom Sexton
Networking
in the small press scene
Poetry for news junkies
Pulitzer-winning journalist
is an undocumented immigrant
SF art director’s
6,624-mile commute
The death of Spiderman
is just the beginning
© & the heirs
of Jack Kirby
Roberto Bedoya:
The color line & US cultural policy
The Barnes is moving
Art market bounces back in London
Garrett Caples on Bruce Conner
Barbara Kruger @ L&M
Scribble, scribble, Mr Twombly
Twombly obit in The Guardian
LA Times obit
The MoMA / MOCA retrospective
of 1995
Twombly’s ceiling at the Louvre
The Economist obit
Subodh Gupta’s
kitchen sculptures
B. Wurtz @ Metro Pictures
Shea Hembrey:
imagine Pessoa
with multiple-personality disorder
Avedon’s influence
Jeff Wall:
Photography & the museum
Triple Canopy’s
issue on photography
Dennis Hopper’s
“stunning” photo archive
He’s ba-ack:
Ai Weiwei has been released
on bail in China
Beijing wants $2M
from Ai Weiwei
in back taxes
Ai Weiwei’s NY period
Where is Ai Weiwei?
(mail art protest blog)
US Museum Directors
to Ai Weiwei:
our bottom line comes first
South Korea vs. Frank Stella
Talking with Ella Kruglyanskaya
Warhol’s “missing” portrait
of Farrah Fawcett
is hanging
above Ryan O’Neal’s bed
A painting of Behan
sells for £2.4M
Wyeth’s “Christina” house
now a US landmark
Anne Gorrick’s visual work
Mizuki manga makes it into English
Brandeis will not sell its art
Russell Lee:
The South Side of Chicago, 1941
Encinitas rejects
Madonna “graffiti”
Talking with
Winter Bone director
Debra Granik
James Franco
talks of playing
Hart Crane
Talking with members
of the Cinenova collective
The Coen Bros look to Dave Van Ronk
Shoplifting from American Apparel –
the funniest fundraising trailer ever
Hamyul, prince of Denmark
Barbie goes to the museum
For Sale:
a major collection
of classical music manuscripts
Hail, hail, Chuck Berry
John Lennon:
not a Republican
Bjork’s Biophilia
Chick Corea’s playlist for a reunion
Tom tells Bachmann
the problem isn’t Petty
Talking with Sean Wilentz about Bob Dylan
(part 1) (part 2)
Radiohead as commodity
When does poetry become song?
Winter Day – Acceptance
Jerome Sala on
Imported from Detroit
UC’s brain drain
picks up momentum
Apple’s pre-emptive strike
against free speech
Linh Dinh:
Fig Leaf Nation
Terry Eagleton
on secularism
Rational choice
in the age of unreason
How conscience fares
when considered subversive
