Jacket2’s Stephen Ratcliffe feature
Frances Jaffer:
Why HOW(ever)
Frances Jaffer’s obit (1999)
First Occupy fatality:
Oklahoma street poet
Occupy Wall Street
poetry anthology
Occupy Wall Street’s
lovelorn poetics
Occupy Sesame Street
& other poems
Talking with Bin Ramke
Poetic Front’s Lissa Wolsak issue
Curtis Faville on
Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
Reviewing Armantrout
now that the establishment
admits she’s good
Michael Lally
on my reading with Doug Lang
Jim Daniels’
All of the Above
Tan Lin:
The Patio and the Index
Which Williams, which modernism?
What is flarf
without an orchestra?
Talking with Robert Glück
Clayton Eshleman
on translation
New poems from Juliet Cook
Stories and Essays
of Mina Loy
CAConrad: 25 years
of living in Philadelphia
12 or 20 questions
with Richard Krech
Will Alexander:
Diary as Sin
Javier Sicilia’s crusade
to end the drug war
Camille Rankine
on Seamus Heaney
Jonathan Lethem:
The Ecstasy of Influence
Bloom where you are
Avant-gardism of 1966:
Astronauts of Inner Space
Kickstart
Kerouac: Where the Road Ends
Kerouac’s estate
keeps the lawyers busy
Kerouac’s bar in St Pete,
maybe
Bringing Kerouac back to Lowell
Can a poet
become the president
of Ireland?
Torching Charlie Hedbow
Beckett’s war years
& after
A review of Rita Dove’s intro
to the Penguin Anthology
of 20th Century American Poetry
Rita Dove’s
Penguin Anthology
of 20th Century American Poetry
Restoring Mount Ogura
Donald Keene
has a vision for
a rebuilt Japan
Rexroth’s Asian influence
The undead in lower Manhattan
is like the NY Times
with zombies
(oh wait, that is the NYT)
Talking with W.S. Merwin
Merwin collapses in Pomona
Talking with Donald Hall
PEN honors Pinsky
The death of publishers
& other middle men
Amazon:
giving away top sellers
to kindle Kindle
Texting as poetry
Take care of your notebooks
Talking some more
with Xi Chuan
Pushing the limits of censorship
in China
Muriel Rukeyser:
The Life of Poetry
chapter 1
Shaking up documentary poetry
in light of film theory
Britain turning away
visiting artists
Best grammar blogs of 2011
A supposedly true thing
Jonathan Franzen said
about David Foster Wallace
Tristan Corbière’s
Poet by Default
Salman Rushdie
pens a limerick
for Kim Kardashian
What is English
about Joseph Brodsky’s
Russian poetry?
rob mclennan
on editing
the third Canadian Long Poem anthology
Exactly 12 questions for
rob mclennan
rob mclennan
receives the John Newlove award
The National Book Award
comedy of errors
Shine does not
How the NBA judges
made it irrelevant
Is not, sez NBA judge
The Mann Booker
has its own history
The books
not the Booker prize
are what’s wrong
Barnes at last
wins his Booker
Whiting Awards announced
Alexis Jenni
wins the Prix Goncourt
Here comes the
Chautauqua Prize
Jacob McArthur Mooney
is short-listed
for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Robert Adamson
wins the 2011 Patrick White
Observer/Cape prize
celebrates graphic fiction
When the American Book Awards
went Hollywood
Celebrating HOW(ever)
How2
extending HOW(ever)
The lost poems of
Jerome Rothenberg
Charles Borkhuis:
The black hole
between science & art
Talking with Julene Tripp Weaver
Princeton attempts to invent
the e-chap
Poe’s home reopens
in the Bronx
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
Big in Iran
12 or 20 questions
with Rob Benvie
Piri Thomas has died
Remembering Todd Moore
And So It Goes
Poetry & the art of cruelty
Downton Abbey
boosts Elizabeth von Arnim
One-year deal
gives St Marks Bookshop
a temporary reprieve
A bookstore opens
in Redondo Beach
And another in East Harlem
Bookshops read the riot act
to the British Library
The bookstore of
©-free images
The Authors Guild’s
fight to preserve
©
William Burroughs:
Letters home
The amanuensis
Burroughs on Ginsberg
2 sides of Bukowski
Bukowski to a censor
Drug-induced poetry
(which somehow misses
Robert Creeley’s The Door)
Geoffrey G O’Brien’s Metropole
WTF is conceptual writing?
Dan Beachy-Quick’s
Circle’s Apprentice
Kathleen Fraser on HOW(ever)
Remembering Steve Shrader
Publishing perils in the digital age
Jarnot’s Iliad
Rhetoric & The Iliad
Let a 1000 Iliads bloom
Talking with Stephen Mitchell
Oedipus redux
James Wolcott
on the life of a critic
Kirsch’s Trilling
Yusef Komunyakaa & Paul Muldoon
talking with Susan Sherman
Cooking with Emily Dickinson
Joseph Lease’s Testify
Beverly Dahlen:
The Naming of HOW(ever)
5 poems by Vyt Bakaitis
12 coolest libraries in the world
Judge fast tracks appeal
over London library closures
Laid-off teacher
restoring school libraries
Libraries won’t run themselves
One man who is opening libraries
faster than Mickey D’s
can put up arches
Florida’s secret economic engine:
poetry
12 or 20 questions for Scott Sweeney
Toward a definition of collaboration
Susan Gevirtz on HOW(ever)
In Camille Roy’s
Sherwood Forest
Camille Roy: Theory
Bram Stoker’s notebook
Online novel inspires
Georgia terror plot
Wiring Pound’s circuits
What would Olson
think of the web?
Yedda Morrison on HOW(ever),
Theresa Ha Kyung Cha & Myung Mi Kim
Trans Verse
or Traver’s Tranifesto
by Traver Pam Dick
Updike
through a mist of discretion
Poetry in the context of
Narrative Medicine
Kimberly LaRocca’s
A Black Girl’s Poetry for the World
Poets in the Pennines for Ted Hughes
12 or 20 question for
Leo Brent Robillard
Norma Cole on
HOW(ever)
3 poems by Christina Strong
Florence Parry Heide has died
Talking with Brad Cran
A profile of
Marina Tsvetaeva
Writers as friends
The Wilde Boy readings
Henry James’ Paste
Joseph Heller
enjoyed the war
The poetry is in the pity
Alive as it ever was
Talking with Jeffrey Eugenides
Robin Tremblay-McGaw:
Fictions
(from HOW(ever) 1989)
12 or 20 questions for Ian Rankin
Being Charles Dickens
The Double World of
Tomas Tranströmer
An afternoon with Tranströmer
Geoffrey Olsen
on Shelly Taylor
The book as process,
conversation,
byproduct
Is reading on the loo
bad for you?
Larkin’s letters
make him even smaller
Talking with Niels Frank
Norman Corwin has died,
the “poet laureate” of radio
in the 1930s & ‘40s
Lea Kagel is the new
poet laureate of Danville
Talking with Philip Levine
Georgia’s laureate,
David Bottoms
Evelyn Lau
has some plans
as Vancouver laureate
Carol Ann Duffy
shortlisted for the Galaxy
Duffy is the latest
of the bee poets
Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
Rumi on Facebook
Spalding Gray
in search of himself
Joan Didion’s true topic
is grief
The speech habits
of psychopaths
Working to give
performance poetry
some academic cred
Godot
on the West Bank
Sylvia Plath could draw
As could Tolkien
Mathieu Lefevre has been killed
The most powerful
person in the art world?
Ai Weiwei
(machine translation)
Ai Weiwei
talking with Al Jazeera
China:
Ai Weiwei is a tax cheat
Sculpture of a dead Ai Weiwei
spooks German town
A performance artist is born
in Brooklyn
US approves Christo
project in Colorado
No painting nude models
in Times Square
until the sun goes down
A portrait of Yarrow Mamout
NY gallery
refuses to return
a stolen Modigliani
The collapse of
the Atwater Kent museum
Schwabsky’s de Kooning
Rauschenberg as photographer
Talking with Lisa Pearson
You could buy
Carhenge
Artists sue
Sotheby’s & Christie’s
over resale rights
A Sotheby auction
of continental books & manuscripts
Mira Schor et al
have their doubts
The art of Ron Wood
On Jeanloup Sieff
& Ralph Gibson
Nan Goldin sells her soul
Collage as ongoing
Protesting the latest
goofball, half-baked, crackpot
Shakespeare-wasn’t-Shakespeare
scam
Verdi’s Shakespeare
Bly, summing up
James Franco
talking with Tennessee Williams
even tho one of them is dead
For those who find the reading
too laborious,
CliffsNote Films
Finally,
a Heathcliff
who looks right
Žižek at the movies
& on Charlie Rose
All about praxis:
Queer rhetoric & the movies
The highest grossing
film star ever
The most powerful critic ever
& why we don’t remember
Pauline Kael
Ebert speaks
Hollywood’s other cinema
Johnny Depp revisits
Hunter S Thompson
David Lynch:
Mild at Heart
Pinter’s forgotten sketch
Talking with Kevin Spacey
A salute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Talking with Carl Testa
Heart of Darkness,
the opera
Rehearsing Trillium E
20 years of David Dye
& Live @ the World Cafe
Allegiance of the Drones
is not quite
Occupy: the Opera,
but it’s in the ballpark
Ontologies of the Wayward Drone
George Lakoff:
Framing the Occupy movement
Framing, in practice
Government internet surveillance
far outstrips wiretaps
You say Gadhafi, I say Kadafi,
he says el-Qaddafi
Mona Simpson’s eulogy
for Steve Jobs
Jill Abramson
is now the editor
of the New York Times
James Hillman has died
Making the modern
Old West
Early Benjamin
The failure of
Stanley Fish’s
conceptual triumph
(registration required)
Loss aversion
& self-knowledge
Information is cheap,
meaning is expensive
A cornucopia
of goodness in
EOAGH 7
