Sapphire
on racism & reception
Talking with Barbara Guest
Talking with Cathy Park Hong
Marjorie Perloff on the conceptual lyric
Ange Mlinko on Roy Fisher
Daisy Fried
on Fisher, Susan Howe
& Laura Kasischke
Talking with Ted Pearson
Anne Born has died
NY Times obit for Samuel Menashe
An obit for Scott Wannberg
The LA Times on Wannberg
Associated Press Wannberg obit
Peter Middleton
on neologisms & sound poetry
in the work of Maggie O’Sullivan
Lisa Samuels: 4 poems
2 views of Vasko Popa
Joseph Brodsky:
the anti-Soviet Soviet poet
Márton Koppány:
4 visual poems
Liz Lochhead
on the Scottish Poetry Library
Poetry’s $21M “palace”
UC Santa Cruz
gets $500K to start
The George Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund
Poetry Society
reinstates
Judith Palmer
Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney:
2 collaboration
Susan Stewart:
A Language
Marcus Slease reading
Spencer Selby: 5 visual poems
Bei Dao:
Chinese literature is uninspired
A poet fights for change
in Mexico
JD Nelson: 4 poems
2 poems by Don Share
Burroughs’ belongings
Talking with Kirsten Kaschock
plus 3 poems by Kaschock
The first collaborative MFA project
Why MFA programs matter
Do big name MFA hires
amount to anything?
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s legendary journal
Plus work by
Dom Sylvester Houédard (dsh)
& other hard-to-find
vispo classics
dan raphael: 2 poems
Talking with Bruce Andrews
In re waka
Where do dead words go?
Sheila E Murphy: from American Ghazals
plus 5 visual poems
Philip Levine’s
Absolute Truth
Levine:
Tough yet tender
Philip Levine
& the return of revolutionary anger
A good laureate for bad times
Anis Shivani vs. Philip Levine
Revenge of the middle-brow:
who thinks who
is overrated
What if Rimbaud
just burned out?
Joyce Sutphen,
Minnesota’s new poet laureate
Red poets’ society:
why the CP-USSR feared poets
Andrei Codrescu,
disciple of Charles Olson(!?!)
Books you could have been
jailed for reading
David Orr
trying to revive the rep
of A.R. Ammons
Talking with Daniel Kane
Norman Fischer:
a test case for being
Anny Ballardini
on a theme by Blind Willie Johnson
Happy birthday, Charles Bukowski
SNOOTitude & David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest,
the rock video
2 Joseph Heller bios
Tony Hoagland & the NY School
Deborah Landau, Syd Lea, David Hernandez
Bob Heman: Information
Laughlin award to Anna Moschovakis
Hunter S Thompson
writes a rejection letter
Walking the lobster with
Joshua Mehigan
Court rejects settlement
in publisher-freelancer case
Sci-Fi gateway
proposes to sell
o.p. volumes as e-books
Talking with John Burnside
Connor Stratman: 2 poems
Tao Lin gets $50K deal with Random House
Nicholson Baker’s “high smut”
Nicholson Baker’s
thing for sex
Missing physical media
90 frogs (no waiting)
Hipster Lit
(Billy Collins?)
The unholy pursuit of god
in Moby-Dick
Literary Brooklyn
hobbled by cliché
Isherwood in Berlin
Talking with Alex MacDonald
A memoir not from Neal Cassady,
but Butch Cassidy
Here come the © wars
Y.M.©.A.!
Microsoft halts support
for its e-book reader
Tablet & Pen:
Literary Landscapes
from the Modern Middle East
(subscription required)
Information Week
on the e-book pricing conspiracy
Amazon sales tax boycott
gains momentum
Silicon Valley bookstores
tells Amazon
enough already
Who makes $$ writing fiction?
PublishAmerica’s
JK Rowling scam
Obama’s reading in office
includes Walcott, Leithauser, Franzen
Bird & Beckett:
a San Francisco treasure
Indie bookstores
start a new chapter
Obama goes indie
Christopher Robin’s
bookshop closing
A Pandora for e-reading?
Tracy K Smith & Dana Levin
reviewed in the New Yorker
(subscription required)
When writers’ kids
pick up the pen
Fantasy for adults
Coleridge’s cottage
has been restored
Death of the Chelsea Hotel
Suzanne Allen’s
Verisimilitude
More juice from Seuss
in September
Christian Bök’s
literary bacteria
A future for book reviews?
Slam packed
with popular themes
Cambridge hosts
the National Poetry Slam
The National Poetry Slam @ 25
What is Christian fiction?
Edith Wharton:
Sex, Satire, and the Older Woman
Perks of being an English major
Becoming Ray Bradbury
Talking with
Neil Gaiman
Pimping out
Jane Austen’s e-books
Jane McKie
wins the Edwin Morgan prize
Philip Mosley
on the Griffin short list
PEN American Center’s
2011 awards
Writers, drugs
& performance anxiety
Eliot fans
unhappy with development
@ East Coker
Talking with Jennifer Egan
Joan Didion,
patron saint apparently
of women who call themselves
girls
Shel Silverstein:
Nasty School & other poems
Naked poets fight diabetes
The phantom poetry project
Literature as a guide
to the past
Justin Katko on SoundEye
Niamh O’Mahony’s SoundEye report
Shakespeare on the subway
Willie & Wystan
for younger readers
Brittle Star #27
A bio of Wendy Wasserstein
MP3tunes
wins right to store music
Art conferences
are all talk
Barry Schwabsky
on the Venice Biennale
& especially the role of
nationalism in the arts
The museum of socialist art
NYC as one big
conceptual art gallery
Naked on Wall Street
A Jersey poet wins in Wales
Did YouTube kill performance art?
Ripping up the Bible
in your rock show
is going to be noticed
Ai Weiwei speaks
How Albert Barnes
outsmarted himself
The American Folk Art Museum
is in a death spiral
The SpongeBob goon squad?
Shepard Fairey beaten
over “pro-government” propaganda
The 17-ton cuddly bear
& other sculptural surprises
John Waters
on what makes art successful
Italian art preservation
includes some censorship
Russian court bans
Mickey Mouse as Christ
The collector as artist:
a tour of the old Barnes Foundation
The LA art scene
mid-century
Frida’s corsets
Oldenburg’s paintbrush
Manila art center
did not break law
Support for Mideo Cruz
among Philippine artists
is not unanimous
The genius of Damien Hirst
Tracey Emin
adds More Passion
to 10 Downing Street
Women in Lautrec
Stolen Rembrandt
turns up in church
Testing the Rembrandt
for DNA
Annette Seidenglanz:
Obscure Language Series
Men & women
respond to art differently
Becoming one
with your horse
Jerry Leiber has died
Steve Reich changes
album cover art
over 9/11 protest
Phil Glass
to write memoir
Play it again, Phil
What Beethoven heard
Peruvian cabinet
gets its first musician
Can Ridley Scott
catch lightning in the same bottle twice?
How many film versions
of Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights
do we really need?
Patti Smith to collaborate
on Just Kids screenplay
Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry
is now available on DVD
Raoul Ruiz has died
Talking with Frederick Wiseman
The rumbustious Gallagher brothers
Consumerism with violence
New definition of addiction
is worth contemplating
given the disease’s
impact on the arts
If 58,000 students
can “take” a course,
what is the future of higher ed?
The SF Bay Area
in toothpicks
Celebrating Alan Watts
She warned us about Shrub:
Molly Ivins
on Gov. Goodhair
Chester County’s
most important citizen
ever
The Elvis-Nixon archives
Weird writer deaths
(What? No dune buggies?)
As always,
Otoliths 22
is filled with delights
