A sonnagram
from K Silem Mohammad
Q&A with Rae Armantrout
Talking with Elaine Equi
Philip Levine:
Poet Laureate of the United States
A selection of poems by Levine
What will Philip Levine do as PLOTUS?
From one laureate to the next,
who do public poets
speak for?
What the point of the PLOTUS is
Anis Shivani on
Philip Levine & other mediocrities
Stephen Dunn:
$10K tax bill
for giving a reading in Philly!
Talking with Márton Koppány
Elizabeth Willis’ Address
Eileen Tabios:
147 Million Orphans: A Haibun
Close reading aloud:
Fred Wah
Haiku, North America,
Seattle 2011
Joseph Lease’s
Prophet Margin
American Book Review’s
issue on Uncreative Writing
I Hate Reading facebook page
gains over 440,000 likes
The two Gertrude Steins
5 kinds of poetry phobia
Could the Poetry Society start over?
A poetics of responsiveness
Sherman Alexi:
The Lost Colony at Roanoke, 1587
White Pine’s
sale of signed first editions
The Herbarium anthology launch:
videos of 35 readings
Kathleen Spivak:
Boston as a literary city
Djuna Barnes:
The Book of Repulsive Women
From Chike & the River
by Chinua Achebe
The mechanics of rejection at AWP
Talking with Peter O’Leary
VS Naipaul,
man without a country
Did the KGB murder Camus?
Poe museum in Baltimore
may close
The uncomfortable act
of reading a poem aloud
(check out the audio clips)
LA Times
cuts review freelancers
The death of journalism
in Los Angeles
Willa Cather,
meeting Stephen Crane
Support endangered alphabets!
Kickstart I’ll Drown My Book:
Conceptual Writing by Women
Will Apple buy B&N?
Class action
against Apple & big publishers
over e-book price-fixing
What is the true price
of publishing?
Publishing not as moribund
as previously thought
Time for publishers
to fight dirty
Tariq Ali:
A few questions for
the Muslim brothers
in Tahrir Square
on July 29
Pugilistica videos
Talking with Matthew Zapruder
Howard Junker’s Quiet Lightning
Q&A with Jorie Graham
The gardener of language
Why there will one day
be just one language
Seeking one copy
of every book
ever printed
Kate Greenstreet:
Cloth
William Sleator has died
Angie Ellis’ Spared
Q&A with Mark Doty
A poet is called to jury duty
Melville House goes hybrid
Talking with Paul Siegell
Jana Harris’ True Colors
Hey, Mrs Ahab,
where’s the hyphen?
Q&A with Robert Hass
Save East Coker!
How to save
Dickens’ journal?
Britain to legalize
format shifting
Calligraphers go against type
Why you should care
about typography
Can I have your Kindlegraph?
How to publish your own
Amazon Kindle e-book
Why did Facebook
buy an e-book publisher?
Print books:
should they stay or should they go?
Literary agents can survive
the digital revolution
My life at
the world’s dumbest bookstore
The TQ Manifesto
Juliana Leslie’s
More Radiant Signal
Comparing Maggie Nelson,
not unfavorably,
to John Berger & Susan Sontag
Remembering Len Fulton
CAConrad
Love Letter to Jim Brodey
David Budbill’s Happy Life
Cold poems for a hot summer
Peter Richards’ Helsinki
Talking with Sapphire
The Greatest Generation vs. the Beats
Neal Cassady’s photo album
Bruce Boone’s
The Truth About Ted
is back
Maurice Manning’s
poetry focuses on Kentucky
Rosaire Appel:
The Metabolism of Rugs
Nicholson Baker
returns to raunch
Nicholson Baker
needs a Nicholson Baker
NY Times’ writers
views of smut
suggests they don’t
get out much
Andy Warhol’s
children’s books
Washington Post
tries its hand at
erotic Beat poetry
A literary festival in Kashmir
12 or 20 questions for
Rupert Loydell
Martin Amis in Brooklyn
Poetry Foundation’s
DC walking tour
as seen from down under
About that 4th Stieg Larsson novel
Best closing lines
Tao Lin gets a new agent
Funding for the movie of
Shoplifting From American Apparel
is down to the wire
The problems of realism in 2011
Sympathy for the pointless
12 or 20 questions for Brian Teare
Half-Price Books
seek ex-Borders staff
How are indie bookstores faring?
What riots mean for UK bookshops
Why Waterstone’s
wasn’t looted
12 or 20 questions for Angie Abdou
Kei Miller’s The Longest Song
Excellent interview of Richard Krech
in the new Primal Urge
Write what you don’t know
Sheryl Noethe,
Poet Laureate of Montana
Anniversaries, anesthesia
& Elizabeth Bishop
A history of Arabian Nights
Q&A with David Lehman
Dear Charlie Simic,
wish you were here
The depressing art
of Philip Larkin
When Delmore Schwartz was famous
Jennifer Grotz’
The Needle
Talking with Michael Pacey
Troy Jollimore
on JG Ballard’s
Millennium People
Hundred flock
to the National Slam Championship
Q&A with Eavan Boland
The pleasures of reading
in an age of distraction
The LA Review of Books
is to the LA Times as
The NYRB is to….
Wayne Koestenbaum’s Humiliation
Anis Shivani:
between short story & novel
Authors who visit book clubs
Vonnegut library
donates copies of
Slaughterhouse Five
to school district
that banned the book
The found art of
Barbara Cartland
My town needs a librarian
North Beach Library plan
gets sued
Pakistani bookmobile
turns to SF Public Library
for aid
Ludington librarian
fired for tell-all
Library Diaries
What states have
the highest concentration
of librarians?
7 ways to repurpose libraries
once books are obsolete
The Hazrat Shah Waliullah
Public Library
SF branch library
“preserves” historic sign
by hiding it
James Franco’s
Museum of Non-Visible Art
Reuniting Gertrude Stein’s art
How John Marin
(not a bad poet either)
became a neglectorino
Brushing up Roy Lichtenstein
Roman Opalka has died
Ivana Lowell on Lucian Freud
Beach trash to yard art
Art curator beaten by police
Ai Weiwei
returns to Twitter
Why Chinese artists
head to Berlin
Public art:
soaring possibilities,
community outrage
Lynda Benglis @ MOCA
Photos from
this year’s Edible Sculpture event
Tony Curtis’ Warhol
& other things for sale
Controversial art exhibit
shut down in Manila
Jonathan Morse’s Green / Light
Politics of the subordinate clause
Richard Neutra’s Kronish House
is threatened with demolition
Phonehenge unhinged:
I’ll rebuild even better,
Fahey vows
Found (partly):
Hitchcock’s White Shadow
Magic Trip:
why the ‘60s were necessary
Paradise Lost,
the movie
Discovering Raoul Ruiz
Vincent Gallo
decides to eliminate
the audience
Gallo’s merch
maxes out
the narcissism index
Talking with Ain Gordon
Getting Shakespeare outdoors in LA
Shakespeare & country music
Shakespeare & the subjunctive
10 most disturbing deaths
in Shakespeare
The state of zombie literature
Let’s not forget zombies
as little yellow flowers
Larry Sawyer’s Werewolf Weather
Wendell “Mucho” Maas would approve:
The Thomas Pynchon playlist
Plus one for Jimmy Joyce
Tennyson’s first CD
One of the more circuitous
branches on my family tree
leads to Du Bose & Dorothy Heyward
& thus to Porgy & Bess
Think of this
as a metaphor
for how to think
about poetry
Wikipedia as something
your parents used
90% of Wikipedia contributors
are male
Does Stanley Fish matter?
World’s “strangest”
(i.e. least British)
Festivals
Michele Bachmann:
It’s the Renaissance, stupid
Let Bert & Ernie get married!
