Tracy K Smith’s
Life on Mars
Excerpts & a reading
The Larry Fagin school of poetry
Q&A with Rae Armantrout
Manuel Brito:
interviews with
Charles Bernstein & Barrett Watten
Access to Knowledge
in the Age of Intellectual Property
A 76-page crowd-sourced review
of Michael Cross’
Haecceities
Talking with Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
Some questions for sound poetry
Tom Konyves:
Videopoetry: A Manifesto
Talking with Richard Tillinghast
Susan Stewart
on Susan Howe, Anne Carson,
CD Wright & Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Jhamak Kumari Ghimire
wins the Madan Puraskar prize
Daniel Green on The Alphabet
Platform
is an excellent show
on poetry & the arts
Stephen Vincent:
from Sleeping with Sappho
An EPC website for Lew Welch
2 poems by Peter Gizzi
Frank Kuenstler:
Two poems from The Enormous Chorus
Is it finally time
for Zukofsky’s “A”?
When quoting verse,
one must be terse
Carol Ann Duffy:
Poems are a form of texting
Is texting poetic?
Close reading, aloud: Fred Wah
with Lisa Robertson, Jeff Derksen, Bob Perelman
How different audiences
create different kinds of black poetry
Her grandfather & parents
having all been killed,
Fatima Bhutto
turns to poetry
What do Egypt’s writers do now?
Poet as Radio
audio archives
Deborah Poe:
cadeaus
A short history of pataphysics
Kashmir Literary Fest
cancelled over fears
of violence
Talking with Matthew Zapruder
Brooklyn by the book
Paul Lindsay has died
Michael Hart,
founder of Project Gutenberg,
found dead
Sapphire’s The Kid
Orson Scott Card’s
“pedophile Hamlet”
still has capacity to offend
Speed vs. information density
in different languages
Poetry & the Police:
Communication Networks
in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Pierre Joris:
from The Tang Extending
from the Blade
NY Times obit for
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The world of Samuel Menashe
Philip Schultz:
My Dyslexia
Talking with Johannes Göransson
From Göransson’s
Entrance to a colonial pageant
in which we all
begin to intricate
The mongrel of many genres:
Michael Ondaatje
Ondaatje’s Cat’s Table
Haruki Murakami:
Town of Cats
James Salter
wins the Rea
Trevor Joyce:
work in progress (very short lines)
Dodie Bellamy’s
flammable Buddhist
Meet the Uni
Who better to speak of boring?
The poetry of 9/11
Plus the scold of doggerel
Bland wins NZ PM’s poetry award
Angelou:
MLK memorial
makes King look arrogant
Angelou missed
the “carved in stone” part
Talking with Maya Angelou
Angelou & the power of words
Chinese writers
demand more book translations
Spoilers
make stories more satisfying
Geraldine Monk:
from The Marian Letters
Robert Pinsky on Ben Jonson
Juliet Cook’s
Thirteen Designer Vaginas
The Inevitable:
Contemporary Writers Confront Death
PoetryNoir film challenge:
I Walked with a Zombie
Irene floods Bartleby’s Books
in Vermont
Serendipity Books, RIP
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door
How many books are too many?
Are books dead
& can authors survive?
Latest endangered species:
the mass-market paperback
The joy of books left behind
The death of the reference book
The death of books
has been greatly exaggerated
If it’s the end of books,
then it’s the end of
the Ikea Bookcase
Heads up:
Amazon’s preparing
the for-profit library
What killed American Lit?
In Seattle,
a week without the library
A pop-up bookstore
in Pittsburgh
What we do to books
The shittification
of book as object
Layoffs at Slate
include book editor
Books-a-Million
acquires the leases for
14 former Borders locations
Ex-employee sues Borders
over mass layoffs
Can Ann Arbor sustain
a new breed of bookshop?
The 100 most sought after
out-of-print books
27 book covers
using the same image
Can Berkeley’s senator
block Amazon’s anti-tax referendum?
Using poetry to cope with tragedy
Poe Museum
in danger of closure
Talking with WS Merwin
The brothers Keats
Why JD Salinger
will never sell the film & stage rights
to Catcher in the Rye
What Salinger’s son
thinks about the fact
that you just read that
Alan Halsey: 3 poems
Jonathan Morse:
Mots gratuits
Comparison in poetry & politics
What Poetry Brings to Business
A poet flanked by bodyguards
in order to read in public
September is the cruelest month
Recent releases in poetry
Mark Neely wins the Field
Collin Kelley’s Slow to Burn
Tip of the Knife, no. 6
Hand-made books
Conquering the fear of fiction
Vargas Llosa:
In Praise of Reading & Fiction
John Tranter wins
book of the year prize
Philip Levine,
America’s poetry man
Camilla joins poetry drive
Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers: 7 poems
Chinua Achebe’s
Chike and the River
Talking with Lies Van Gasse
7 poems by Van Gasse
When plagiarism nears 100%
The latest in
anti-plagiarism software
In Thailand,
be very careful
of whom you accuse
of plagiarism
Scraps of literature
It’s alive!
@ the Getty
a reading
headlined by
Marilyn Manson
Douglas Messerli
on Malcolm’s Stein
Koestenbaum’s Humiliation
Rana Farhan & the Persian blues
Poetry stops traffic in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Rafia Zafar on the Harlem Renaissance
The poetry of
StarMark Pet Products
Winesburg, Ohio:
the complete e-text
Jack London:
The Apostate
Arizona Poetry Center
changes direction
Art & Design
profiles
the Arizona Poetry Center
iPhone app
helps with “incomprehensible”
English dialect of Wigan
Adonis
wins Goethe Prize
A poetic Labor Day
Leontia Flynn’s
Profit & Loss
Ann Patchett’s writing lesson
Eoin Colfer’s Plugged
isn’t for the Artemis Fowl set
Post-colonial fiction
& the work of Amitav Ghosh
Talking with Gerard Malanga
+ Prose Supplement 7
The best poetry book of 2011 (so far)
written by Robert Bly
Adam Zagajewski,
the poet of 9/11
The ultimate neglectorino,
Amos Almond,
unpublished poet
Holly Karapetkova’s
Words We Might One Day Say
When words die
Creative writing
& spiritual discipline
@ Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
The Word Weavers
of Frankfort, IL
A Google doodle
for Borges’ 112th
Google reaches © deal
with another French publisher
Franco Moretti’s
Social Network analysis
applied to modernism
(with a response from Moretti)
Out of This World:
Science Fiction:
But Not as You Know It
Gateways to Geekery: Beat Poetry
Nerve Cowboy
keeps that beat spirit alive
Raw on the Road:
(part 1) (part 2)
(part 2 is a look at Kerouac’s legacy
in Lowell, MA)
Talking with Billy Collins
The Man Booker shortlist
2 Canadians on the Booker list
Surprises on (and off)
the Booker list
Booker list opts for
readability & topicality
The Giller long list really is
Corrina Michelle Cardoza’s
Lawless Lines
The enigma of Joseph Heller
Heller & the waitress
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams
Josh Hockensmith
on the color of uranium
Talking with Richard Nash
Edinburgh’s Fringe
drowns in nostalgia
Ginsberg’s Kaddish
as theater
Wendy and the Lost Boys:
The Uncommon Life
of Wendy Wasserman
Arthur Hugh Clough
goes to Rome
Odysseus in Queens
Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry
David Lynch
opens a night club in Paris
Syrian gunmen
break artist’s hands
Let a thousand
Ali Ferzats bloom
US film-maker freed
from Libyan jail
June Wayne has died
As has Jeanette Ingberman
Budd Hopkins
has passed away
Our debt to Frank Furness
Kickstart
A Field Guide to Chrysalies
They’re Not Fairies
Fake check scam
targets artists
Can a painting
i.d. you as a terrorist?
Old mug shots as art
& the problems of privacy
Public art in Chicago
What is the meaning
of Barry’s List?
The top 25
most powerful & influential people
in the nonprofit arts
Rethinking the Modern
Ai Weiwei’s
goofy charm
The girl with the
Damien Hirst tattoo
The masterpiece
of Los Angeles
David Hockney,
painting the bigger picture
Hockney’s use of 9 cameras
Ruby Bridges
gets her portrait
into the White House
100 years of neon
Lee Friedlander:
America by Car
Swamp Thing,
you make my heart sing
A visit from Warren Niesluchowski
Talking with Stephen Malkmus
How the new Malkmus
got its cover
& why it’s credited to Tom Clark
How musical genres
got their names
Should City Hall
run a jazz fest?
Susan Baca
fills the diversity slots
in new Peru regime
Environmental enforcement
snags guitars
Raiding Gibson (again)
Whitman, the musical
The rise of Ghostpoet
Ken Loach:
The ruling class
are cracking the whip
The one economist
who got it right
Time-Warner
makes money
from every Guy Fawkes mask
Hakim Bey: Immediatism
(registration required)
What is naturalism?
William Gass:
On Being Blue
(registration required)
Cary Nelson:
the fierce humanities
Michael Berubé
The road to dystopia
Paul Berman:
Ideas in Latin America
The government of Zomia
will not come to order
Anne Lamott:
Unions & America
fit together like Legos
Framing Joe Hill
Rick Perry’s secret plan
to destroy
blue state America
