Mayakovsky’s portrait of Khlebnikov
Roman Jakobson
reads Mayakovsky & Khlebnikov
Alice Notley:
Culture of one
Tradition & the individual talent
duke it out
@ the Supreme Court
over (what else?) ©
Laura (Riding) Jackson, reading
Joan Retallack, Pierre Joris & Charles Bernstein
on Mac Low’s Pound
Ron Silliman:
from Revelator
RSVPs are now being taken
for the limited seating for the
2012 Kelly Writers House Fellows:
Karen Finley, John Barth & moi
I (or at least my sculpture)
also turn up at
Bury Light Night
The TLS on Susan Howe & Rae Armantrout
Rachel Blau DuPlessis:
Mail Art
2 poems by Catherine Wagner
How long should a poetry reading be?
The Million-Line Poem,
a collaboration in progress
The new sentence
in strict iambic pentameter
Poetry & race roundtable
with Francisco Aragón, Jaswinder Bolina, Veronica Golos,
Amy King, J. Michael Martinez, Farid Matuk,
Evie Shockley, Juliana Spahr, Orlando White,
Timothy Yu
Graphing Kerouac, Faulkner, Darwin
Andrew Motion
accuses Mann Booker
of a false dichotomy
When judges
betray their readers
Talking with Nathaniel Mackey
Howard Junker hits the streets
Poets occupy Wall Street
Žižek on Wall Street
Occupy everything!
Ben Ehrenreich, Jasper Bernes,
Joshua Clover & Annie McClanahan
on the occupations
Harvard student
calling Kenny Goldsmith
on his aesthetics
Why isn’t Kenny Goldsmith
as famous as Steve Martin?
Is poetry really as unappreciated
as popularly thought?
Eileen Myles
on image & text work
by women artists & writers
Henry Gould:
Poetry as problem or puzzle,
as reading or performance
A Keats brother
on the American frontier
Remembering Maxine Tynes
Deaf Jam:
slamming with signs
Kit Robinson:
The Planetary Currents
(subscription required)
The poetics of Boris Slutsky
The top ten books lost to time
TechCrunch:
Bookstores will disappear
by 2018
Having decimated bookstores,
Amazon takes aim
on eliminating publishers also
B&N dumps DC graphic novels
Amazon converts to Kindle
Bloomsbury digital archive
revives hundreds of imprints
(How many were already on Gutenberg?)
The last outrageous dictionary
Constructing the poetry manuscript
Karl Young:
Bringing the Text Back Home
Breaking Bad & Walt Whitman
Javier Huerta’s
poetry as schtick
Tadeusz Rózewicz’s
Sobbing Superpower
(subscription required)
Vanessa Place
on Chris Alexander’s Panda
1951 Poets Theatre reading
with Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery,
Richard Ebehart & Lyon Phelps
(Includes Try! Try!)
The Beat (generation) goes on
Israel’s beat poet
A key to Kaddish
The coming-of-age bildungsroman
James Franco teaching poetry
Franco’s Hart Crane:
tough poetry, graphic sex
Wallace Stevens’ Walk
Words Nabokov found difficult
to pronounce in English
Little Ez writes home
Forrest Gander
on Xi Chuan & Zhou Zan
The Iowa Writers Workshop
celebrates 75 years
Poetry & clams
Lawrence Joseph’s Detroit
The American Poetry Archives
of SF State
First Twitter epic?
Ask Rahm Emanuel
Thumbs up for Like
Will the e-book kill the foot note?¹
UK to be
“carpeted in poetry”
for 2012 Olympics
Tranströmer’s spare genius
Tranströmer’s works go
out of stock
more or less instantly
The AP on Tranströmer
Following words through a labyrinth
2 poems by Tranströmer
Plus a big Google Books’ excerpt from
The Great Enigma
How will Tranströmer accept the Nobel?
Through music
9th win for a Swede among Nobel lit prizes
In praise of Tranströmer
& of course Robert Bly
Washington Post: Who? Huh?
Mixed reactions to Tranströmer’s Nobel
“the sadness at the heart of nostalgia”
Paul Muldoon:
“there will be dancing in the streets”
The New Yorker: Miracle Speech
BoingBoing on poetry
Li Bai’s
Looking Toward Heaven’s Gate
Stephen Burt on
Alan Peterson, Laura Kasischke,
Juliana Spahr, Harmony Holiday
& Cyrus Console
Ondaatje is the cat’s meow
Samuel R Delany
on the evolution of science fiction
Talking with
George RR Martin
The thriller gains ground
Russell Banks’
Lost Memory of Skin
David Orr on readings
& the tension between
the written & performance
Ben Lerner inspires poetry, thought
Picking snow apples with Robert Frost
My Apple
taught me to write
365 different
ampersands
Charles Dickens: the coin
The Aldeburgh Poetry Fest
survives without its core funding
How many authors
wrote that first big collaboration?
The NY Times
supports public domain
Alternatives for the secular
on Yom Kippur:
meditation, poetry, introspection
Ben Fama:
from Palm Lines
Carol Ann Duffy:
A poem for your boots, Beckham
Duffy’s The Bees
Evelyn Lau
is new Vancouver laureate
Robert Pinsky @ Yale
Phil Levine
captures struggle of the working class
John Shade’s Pale Fire,
the art edition
From Ed Baker’s
Stone Girl E-Pic
8 short reviews
from Seth Abramson
Nico Vassilakis:
American Fossil
Jeannine Hall Gailey
on Christine Deavel’s Woodnote
Dick Allen goes to school
Gjertrud Schnackenberg’s
Heavenly Questions
Ruth Padel
looks back on her
Oxford Poetry Chair disaster
John Masefield’s Sea Fever
Iain Sinclair in Gloucester,
viewing Olson’s legacy from London
David Budbill’s Happy Life
Joseph Heller &
midnight at the Rickshaw Café
Erica Heller
on not reading Catch-22
National Book Award
short list
John Ashbery to receive
lifetime achievement award
from National Book Awards
Surprises in the short list
Jhumpa Lahiri:
One Decade in Brooklyn
Some mini-reviews by
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Weldon Kees, reading
@ Harvard in 1948
John Enright wins Fiji award
from Conanicut Island
The Devil’s Dictionary
at 100
Gertrude Himmelfarb
on Adam Kirsch’s Lionel Trilling
John Burnside wins the Forward
Looking backward
at the Forward
Compose a poem
made from book titles
Gaps in languages
& other dental analogies
As language
becomes less precise
A.E. Stallings, genius poet
Talking with A.E. Stallings
Eugene O’Neill:
Tomorrow
The King James Bible @ 400
Insect media
Sharon Mesmer talks to
the Unbearable Bart Plantenga
Text as a threat to telcos
Harvard’s Vocarium
(a terrific audio resource)
Czesław Miłosz
read by Stephen Fry
A poetry conference in Tehran
Heard at the New Yorker festival
Are US newspapers
afraid of the F-bomb?
Censorship spreading on the net
Shocking:
institutional arts funding
supports a wealthy, white audience
Spalding Gray’s tortured soul
John Lennon’s primal screams
Mikey Welsh has died
The Ticket that Exploded:
the opera
Happy 75th, Steve Reich
Reich & Kronos together
A NPR profile of
Anthony Braxton
Form vs. content
in Billy Bragg
The politics of guitar wood
Richard Serra’s drawings
Was Van Gogh murdered?
John Yau interviews
Phyllida Barlow
300 paintings worth millions
found in Polish shed
The complex legal issues
of looted art
Back to Braque
A pioneer of modernism
NY master works
come to Atlanta
Make way for de Kooning
Jack Yeats’ painting
brings €1M
Talking with Lawrence Weschler
Talking with Art Spiegelman
Walter Benn Michaels:
Unemployment & the arts
Hal Foster: Precarious
(registration required)
Art gives birth in Brooklyn
Colorado approves leases
for Christo project
Reading the writing in the sky
The Paris Review + PEN
= West Hollywood
Jesse Glass
& the Meikai Puppet Buddies
Alternative Projections:
Experimental Film in LA 1945-80
The legacy of Pauline Kael
Remembering Fred Keller
To be Heard,
the latest uplifting slam doc
Freud on the Beach
Prospero in Palo Alto
Mac Wellman:
All theater is site-specific
The brain:
what is it good for?
The Reactionary Mind:
an oxymoron
Christopher Hitchens
as the end grows closer
