John Wieners, 1968, with a portrait of Joanne Kyger
John Wieners
707 Scott Street
(ebook thanks to Douglas Messerli’s
Project for Innovative Poetry)
Rae Armantrout:
Focus
Ange Mlinko on Roy Fisher
Clayton Eshleman:
While Drinking Coffee at Zingerman’s
Peep/Show
post-VIDA
New work by Laurie Price
Talking with Ryan Eckes
Caroline Bergvall’s Meddle English
3 poems by Ben Friedlander
Sam Cornish’s
Dead Beats
Another obit for Len Fulton
Charles Bernstein:
Fold
Stephen Burt
on Joseph Massey, Collier Nogues
& Cyrus Console
Correcting a key typo
in Burt’s review
The definitive
translation of Rimbaud
Jessica Bell’s
Twisted Velvet Chains
Among Anders Breivik’s
preferred targets:
literary festivals
How will Norway’s writers
confront the massacre?
How poets have dealt
with disaster
Ma Jian banned from China
Will Ai Weiwei be allowed
to travel to Berlin?
Poetry Society’s funding slashed
The Poetry Society in context
Judith Palmer’s
explanation of her resignation
Mounties spied on Northrop Frye
Margaret Atwood?
Never heard of her
declares library funding opponent
Why we need library rental fees
(to keep the poor from reading?)
Philip Pullman:
Stand up to book barbarians!
Eliot Weinberger:
The Cloud Bookcase
Joel Chace:
Periods 61-72
Ann Bogle’s
Country Without a Name
Issa:
Do Not Kill the Fly!
Teapot haiku
Poetry at the Rogers Cup
Reports on the Soundeye Festival
Contemporary poems of death awareness
CA Conrad:
AIDS Snow Family
(Soma)tic Poetry Exercise
& Poem
CA Conrad & Pattie McCarthy
among 2011 Pew Fellows
Bios of the new Pew Fellows
Raymond Roussel’s
New Impressions of Africa
Dion Farquhar:
Torture Trip
Talking with Margaret Young
Adam Fieled’s Mother Earth
Ever read an article
that gets everything wrong?
Talking with Jamie Townsend
In praise of impoverished poets
Tweets from Engels:
a collab from the homeless
of Manchester, UK
Solzhenitsyn’s Apricot Jam
JG Ballard’s Millennium People
Maggie Nelson’s
The Art of Cruelty
Herman Melville’s
lifetime literary earnings:
$10,214.82
Giving it all away
Emily Dickinson:
Erotic grief counselor
Francis Raven:
We Started in the Summer
Neal Cassady talking
Worst commercial abuse
of William S Burroughs
Interviews with Burroughs
Murdoch vs. Moloch
Snapshots of Sandburg
Komunyakaa & Doty:
what if words are the problem?
A novel wounded
through poor translation
Float:
the all-in-one
eReader app for iPhones
As stores die,
so does book culture
Borders’ president’s
letter to employees
“Kissing” books
could have saved Borders
Who is doing the liquidating
But first
pricing at Borders
goes up
Amazon blamed
for the demise of Borders
Borders by the numbers
Missing Borders
Borders’ demise
a small boost to B&N
Books-a-Million
may pick up a few dozen stores
but probably not
Do we still need
brick-&-mortar
bookstores?
U of Chicago
buys a Borders building
but not for a bookstore
The bookstore
at the end of the world
Umberto Eco:
This is not the end of the book
Cal book legislation
doesn’t grok retail
As Borders exits,
indies fight other Goliaths
Talking with the new owners
of Politics & Prose
The judge in the Google book case
is setting deadlines
Does self-publishing make it too easy?
The Hybrid Writer:
Balancing traditional publishing
with self-publishing
Talking with Siri Hustvedt
Li-Young Lee:
Have you prayed?
The Proust Questionnaire
becomes a Facebook app
Orpheus:
an un-authorized biography
Reading
& a place for bribery
Slam teams are gearing up
Sci-Fi turning to e-books
Remembering Cheryl B
Famous for the wrong book?
Check the stats
Reading the wrong Vonnegut
The war for
Catch-22
2 bios of Joseph Heller
Famous authors
live better on Twitter
Who sez
George RR Martin
is fantasy?
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright:
six publications, 13 paragraphs
Lois Ame’s Reunion
Talking with Kirmen Uribe
Blake’s creative writing workshop
Rowan Williams’ Rublev
Poets racing
against the inevitable
Some literary events
around the Bay Area
A guided reading of
Astrophil and Stella 63
& of Wordsworth’s
The Simplon Pass
& of Plath’s
Morning Song
Teaching Plath
The Bell Jar at 40
Jean Hartley has died
Remembering Reynolds Price
Bloom’s feast
Felicia Dorothea Heman’s
Casabianca
The Man Booker long list
& of course
Bulwer-Lytton’s immortal prose contest
Talking with Kevin Williamson
The forgotten poet
of the Revolution
Reading for the heat wave
Talking with Alan Moore
Christian fiction
going strong
Gina Berriault’s selected stories
Julian Barnes’
The Sense of an ending
Busboys & Poets
expands to Hyattsville MD
Marie Lundquist
at the 92nd Street Y
Searching out Merrill Moore
Over 100 Charles Bukowski book covers
Cy Twombly & the crisis of the line
A masterpiece of perpetual announcement
Court rules
that if Robert Johnson
sold his soul to the devil
it would have been
an enforceable contract
In Venice,
the Biennale sinks
Alex Steinweiss,
who invented album art,
has died
So has Gilbert “Magú” Luján
A Luján slide show
Remembering Lucian Freud
My top 5 Lucian Freud paintings
The God of Small Things
(trailer)
Perverse depictions
of magnificent muck
Adrian Searle on Freud
Ai Weiwei online
Talking with Dorothea Rockburne
Chicago’s Marilyn:
some like it not
A treasure trove
of “missing” art
Philly museum
announces new acquisitions
from early Guston
to a major collection of
self-taught art
Noguchi at Laguna
An update on
S. Clay Wilson
Diane Arbus @ 88
Nancy Grossman’s
leather heads
Nan Goldin’s best shots
Photographer Jerome Liebling has died
A decade of watching Shakespeare
A documentary on Sholem Aleichem
Christopher Walken:
The Three Little Pigs
West Side Story
done right
Terry Gilliam to adapt
Paul Auster
Yeats’ first play
becomes an e-book
When Yeats came to America
Mamet’s right turn
Singing to Nerval
Rupert Murdoch
& freedom of the press
Shakespeare & Murdoch
The Guardian’s
Media 100 list
