INCO / MPRE / HENS / IBLE
On Natural Language:
4 conversations between Stephen Ratcliffe & Robert Grenier
Talking with Vanessa Place
Rae Armantrout, reading
Talking with Michael Lally
Talking with Harry E Northup
Jim Behrle & I
go to a ballgame
Carol Watts: Sundog
Alan Davies
reading in Windsor, Ontario
Drunken Boat’s
Bernadette Mayer folio
Hannah Weiner’s
The Book of Revelations
Radical Poetics
& Secular Jewish Culture
Eliot’s anti-Semitism
New poems by Norman Fischer
Brian Unger on Norman Fischer
Michel Houellebecq is missing
Or maybe just forgetful
Talking with Houellebecq
Houellebecq’s
artistic license to thrill
The high-Tory aesthetics of Yvor Winters
What the Fluxus?
It’s not plagiarizing
if you’re Kenny Goldsmith –
it’s repurposing
(See Richard Prince item
in visual arts section below)
Talking with Kenny Goldsmith
The Occupy Wall Street Library
Poets occupy Wall Street
(see links at bottom of list)
JD Salinger occupies Ebay
-- you can buy this letter
Poetry & context
in work of Ammiel Alcalay
The mysterious book sculptor of Edinburgh
Talking with AE Stallings
Talking with Amiri Baraka
Talking with Andrew Schelling
20th Century Heresies:
Duncan, Pound, HD
Peter Campion
on The HD Book
The education of Tao Lin
Jonathan Lethem:
Postmodernism as Liberty Valence
Ken & Ann Mikolowski’s
TAP project
Ariel Dorfman:
Losing my library
Ransom Center restricts
part of David Foster Wallace archive
Barney Rosset
& the history of Grove Press
Censorship lurks
in high tech
Prisoner forbidden to read
Pulitzer Prize winning history
Talking with Paolo Coelho
Celebrating
Kenneth Patchen @ 100
The Buffalo Poetics Program
turns 20
Shig Murao:
The secret hero of Howl
Steve Evans’
legendary Attention Span
roster of poets’ current interests
is under way, including to date:
Bill Berkson, G.C. Waldrep, Patrick Pritchett,
Leonard Schwartz, Laura Carter, James Wagner,
Joshua Edwards, Meredith Quartermain, Suzanne Stein,
John Palattella, David Trinidad, Pam Brown,
John Sakkis, Andrew Schelling, Michael Scharf,
Simon Schuchat, Philip Metres, Julie Carr,
Dan Beachy-Quick, Stacy Szymaszek, Paul Stephens,
Kevin Killian, C.E. Putnam, Brian Ang,
Robin Brox, Vanessa Place, Stephen Collis,
David Dowker, Eric Baus, Anne Boyer,
Harold Abramowitz, Erín Moure
Uncollected Hecht
Who deserves the Nobel Prize?
Who is Adonis?
Nobel betting is underway
The favorite is Bob Dylan
And pleading guilty
3 poems by Jane Hirshfield
Stephen Burt
on Harmony Holiday
Litia Perta’s Wrong Love
Joseph Heller:
Midnight at the Rickshaw Garage
Mistakes are made
but using the passive
isn’t one of them
Automatic writing,
corporate style
If spell check could spell
Writers sue universities
for digitizing books
Judge sets schedule
in Google book deal case
Re-uniting an author with an “orphan” work
Kindle adds library e-books
Affordable 3D printing
Peter Gizzi: Apocrypha
Xi Chuan reading
Curtis Faville:
considering Larry Eigner’s cerebral palsy
OK is okay
Protest @ the Poetry Foundation
Maxine Tynes has died
Shira Dentz’ Units & Increments
Kevin Young: Pietà
Negotiating the risks
of writers’ conferences
Novelist ditches publisher
at the book launch
HarperCollins
to make 5,000 titles
available via
Espresso book machine
Services for self-publishing
e-authors
Retailers bank on Kindle
The fate of St Marks Bookshop
is still in doubt
Even Christian bookstores struggle
Should we fight to save
indie bookstores?
Borders, we hardly knew ye
Beyond Borders
Borders employees
say goodbye
The bookstore closes
but Salem Literary Fest
goes on
A new home for
orphan literary works
Poetry as a means
of recovering from brain injury
Fear of happiness
especially among writers
Dodie Bellamy’s the buddhist
Reginald Dwayne Betts: retrophilia
100,000 poets
make things happen
The Guerneville poet
behind 100K Poets for Change
A profile of Afaa Michael Weaver
Lifting the ban
on a book by Twain
100 years later
The drawing in question
Iowa Review
creates a translation forum
Toward a translation culture
Translators struggle to prove
their bona fides
Reading Bei Dao in translation
Shakespeare in sign & hip hop
Jon Stewart
discusses poetry @ the White House
with Common
2 poems by Larissa Szporluk
The BlazeVOX controversy
Geoffrey Gatza’s original letter
Rescinding the program
Michael Kelleher’s 1st take
(Title makes sense if you watch Treme)
Michael Kelleher’s 2nd take
Antioch,
the zombie college,
rises from the dead
yet again
Poetry (and YouTube)
are “protected speech”
Talking with Aisha Sasha John
Sharon Olds: The Flurry
Poems that have
nothing to do
with their titles
Kay Ryan & A.E. Stallings win MacArthurs
Kay Ryan on Marin County
Talking with Franz Wright
The Berenstain Bears
go Lakota
Raymond Carver:
Why Don’t You Dance?
Amazon preps Netflix-type book service
The International Istanbul
Poetry Festival
A distressed nation turns to
the Poet Laureate for solace
The far right
approves of Philip Levine
Talking with Nick Flynn
Remembering Alexei Parshchikov
Remembering Tom Noyes
Kerouac shooting pool
Auden & Dylan:
justice & the blues
No Tell Motel
shuts its doors
Australian Literary Review folds
Wislawa Szymborska:
Photograph from September 11
Poetry & the national defense
John Burnside’s
Black Cat Bone
Tess Kincaid’s Patina
Elizabeth Kate Switaj’s
Prezi Poems (1) (2)
Talking with Troy Jollimore
Airplane reading
Talking with Margaret Young
The Bill Murray poetry contest
Writing & fashion
David Kirby on Yusef Komunyakaa
Talking with Stephen Dobyns
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa’s
Incidental Music
Utah State
gets the Charles Potts archives
Lawrence Kessenich,
the Somerville bagel bard
& the format of ten-minute plays
8 mini-reviews by Seth Abramson
plus 10 more, all raves
Talking with Michael Cervas
Diann Blakely’s Dead Shrimp Blues
Talking with Jane Hirshfield
Reading from the balcony
of the Cartoon Museum
10 completely wrong ways
to use commas
Facebook as muse
University of Nebraska
buys archive of
major Jewish publisher
Peter O’Leary’s Depth Theology
Poetry & the Mid-Autumn Moon
Mike Amado’s The Book of Arrows
Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve:
How the World Became Modern
Joyce Sutphen:
from poet to laureate
Sydney Lea
becomes Vermont’s laureate
Remember when newspapers
close read poems?
In Crozet, VA they still do!
A literary tour of Oxford, MS
Sentence of the Week,
inanimate objects edition
Talking with DeWitt Henry
Talking with Rebecca Makkai
Haiku by Kate MacQueen & Peter Rennick
Grandson disowns new Oscar Wilde play
Tony Kushner:
writing plays is a mug’s game
Vintage dust jackets
A new look
for the end of the alphabet
PoMo from A to Z
Ai2A
takes first place in
a handwriting OCR competition
Get real!
How applicable are
Yeats’ darkest lines?
The future of Christian fiction
The Beverly / Boston / North Shore
poetry mural project
In DC,
Art All Night
lasts until 3:00 AM
Cross currents
in LA painting
Bryan Ferry
in praise of Richard Hamilton
IOU / USA
cargo cult in KC
Children’s authors
who broke the rules
Maurice Sendak,
sans Eugene
Talking with Maurice Sendak
(Listen to Terry Gross’ interview!!)
Shel Silverstein’s
Everything on It
The sky supports the street
In the Dominican Republic,
dueling museums
Folk art museum
on the edge of collapse
The Museum of Obsolete Objects
The man of a thousand faces
Islamic art at the Met
Dirt work
Caravaggio’s back
Richard Prince
can appeal © ruling
in collage case
daVinci for the iPad
Barry Schwabsky on Lee Ufan
Warhol @ the National Mall
Peter Plagens:
on having written
Sunshine Muse
The graphic novel
that would have changed comics
if only…
DC superheroes take off
What’s the worst
public art ever?
Burning bank art is hot
Retrofitting cities for the arts
Seeing through Hemingway’s eyes
Jim Brashear, Warren Sonbert, Alan Bernheimer
Sonbert on the Web
The films of Warren Sonbert
Yeah, my favorite rock lyrics
are by Hugo Ball
Frank Zappa, his groupies
& the secretary
Hank Williams’ unfinished thoughts
& his son’s unvarnished ones
Bert Jansch has died
John & Alan Lomax
(subscription required)
Greil Marcus on James Gavin’s
Chet Baker bio
Musical genius, MacArthur-style
Will © stifle Hollywood?
The films of Jane Campion
(subscription required)
Goodybe Chaohu
Alan Wolfe’s Political Evil
The death penalty
& the history of the South
The speed of light
is so yesterday
Stuxnet:
the first open source code weapon
Christopher Hitchens on Wilhelm Reich
Bob Bellah on religion
Habermas’ god
When Stanley met Jürgen – not!
Talking with
Terry Tempest Williams
Michael Kazin’s
history of the American left
The [Occupied] Wall Street Journal
Rescuing America from Wall Street
The revolution is being televised??
The great Leroy Looper has died
Talking with David Blight
Craig Santos Perez:
Surviving Our Fallen:
Chamorros, Militarism,
Religiosity & 9/11
(part 1) (part 2)
(part 3) (part 4)
(part 5) (part 6)
(part 7)
