Maria Damon:
meshwords
Rae Armantrout
addresses doctors on cancer
(part one) (part two) (part three)
Jordan Davis
on Bill Luoma
Lynn Behrendt:
This is Not a Story About Free Speech
Behrendt’s Acquiescence
The Grand Piano
at Small Press Traffic
The score for the
Grand Piano performance
Robin Tremblay-McGaw
on The Grand Piano
A solid portrait of
Lorine Niedecker
Richard Taggett & Richard O Moore
BlazeVOX’s annual Thanksgiving Poem,
this year honoring Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
Close-reading-aloud
Rosmarie Waldrop
Donald Revell on Robert Creeley
Jenn McCreary & Kirsten Kaschock:
thistles, directionless
Williams & his sources
WCW, everyday poet
Daisy Fried in the NY Times
on Leibowitz’ WCW
Emily Dickinson @ Poets House
Jack Kerouac’s first novel,
The Sea is My Brother,
has finally been published
The strangest photo
of Kerouac ever
The woman behind
On the Road
Trailer:
End of the Road
Ken Kesey:
a mother’s lament
The Beat Museum
turns up on Jeopardy
Don’t call Ferlinghetti Beat
John Ashbery
makes the Out 100
as does Wayne Koestenbaum
Blake Butler’s Nothing
John Pike’s
15 minutes of fame
Robert Hass
on the police riot in Berkeley
Ishmael Reed
on Occupy Oakland
If they’ll beat
a poet laureate,
will cops kill a student?
Henry Giroux
on students
as public intellectuals
Alan Moore
sees his mask
everywhere
Mark Wallace:
The End of America,
Book One
Public Access Poetry:
Readings @ the Poetry Project
(The best poetry TV on the web!)
Some rare readings @ Bard, 1968 – 1983:
Ted Berrigan, Paul Blackburn, Diane Di Prima,
Ted Weiss, Timothy Leary
An end to freedom of speech
on the internet
An obit for Louis McKee
An obit for
Taha Muhammad Ali
Walking poetics
Gary Snyder & Lawrence Ferlinghetti
@ Club Fugazi
Talking with Stephen Ratcliffe
Remembering Steve Abbott
Wislawa Szymborska:
A Word on Statistics
Jen Hofer:
Daily News
Alice Notley on Jupiter88
Harry Godwin:
Toad-Whoops
Will the Arab Spring
generate new poetries?
Kentucky poet Nikky Finney
has won the National Book Award
Greenblatt, Ashbery,
Ward & Finney
are the NBA winners
Finney dazzle the book awards
Stephen Greenblatt’s Swerve
Writing like a white guy
Elizabeth Alexander:
Race
Jupiter Hammon,
our first black poet
Mark Jarman on Charles Wright
Talking with William H Gass
Sarah Rosenthal &
Amy Fung-yi Lee:
The Animal
Michael Lally
on Bill Deemer’s Variations
Deemer’s Random Hearse press
Bill Deemer:
In a Zen manner
Newly surfaced Tagore manuscript
up for auction
Can Brian Eno make poetry cool?
A goal for the UK Olympics:
carpet the nation in poetry
Jerome Rothenberg:
poems
Talking with Toi Derricotte
The history of English
in ten minutes
Helen Vendler
argues the case
for poetry’s 1%
(subscription required)
Poetry has opened doors
for Eduardo C. Corral
Vincent Zompa: Moonraker
Neelie Kroes,
VP of the European Commission:
is © working?
Kroes: Who feeds the artist?
Top 10 literary cities in the world
(NYC, SF & Boston need not apply)
Stephen King
turns up the heat
Talking with Stephen King
Stephen King
rescuing JFK
Citizen Poet
comments on Putin
In Tranströmer,
the Swedish Academy
acknowledges on of their own
The race to publish
more Tranströmer
An unparalleled record
for ignoring
the ‘true giants’ of lit
Poets House:
a great place to study
When Hemingway
beat up
Wallace Stevens
Rumi & women
Why are men
so pathetic
at writing about sex?
(With a panoply of examples)
Media Wales
‘adopts’
poet Menna Elfyn
John Olson:
5 prose poems
In search of Shig Murao
Eating the work we love
Talking with bill bissett
Judith Goldman & Brandon Brown
Marthe Reed & j/j haistain:
Post Cards: Lafayette á Lafayette
The first celebrity casualty?
Baudelaire
Jonathan Lethem
on a review that still hurts
eight years later
The ecstasy of Jonathan Lethem
Beckett’s letters
Matthew Zapruder, Tracy Smith,
Galassi’s Leopardi,
Laura Kasischke & Les Murray
made the NY Times
100 Notable Books list
Atwood as mentor
Atwood in the Twittersphere
Margaret Atwood
♥
Blade Runner
A maker of one-of-a-kind
hand-crafted pens
(In French)
Emily Critchley: 5 poems
Victor Hernández Cruz:
In the Shadow of
Al-Andalus
When Sassoon
celebrated war
Whatever happened to modernism?
Alan Halsey: Austerity Stuffing
Ann Patchett
opens a bookstore
in Nashville
The end of Borders
& the future of books
St Marks Books
spared rental doom
Typos in the name
for shame
Man charged
in 1983 murder
of Chicago bookstore owner
A B&N closes
in Westside LA
Salman Rushdie
runs afoul
of Facebook’s
name police
Travels with Paul Bowles
The Mailer Prize
goes to Keef
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
@ Santa Clara University
Michael Bloomberg,
the 30th wealthiest person on the planet,
destroys a library
The library at Zuccotti Park
The Occupy London library
expands
Librarian’s words are binding
The librarian
as standup comic
Bala Cynwyd
(that’s pronounced Kinwid)
library gets go-ahead
Authors fuss
over Amazon e-book lending
Barbara Grier has died
As has Allen Mandelbaum
If you see a woman declaiming
5 questions for Joy Harjo
Remembering
the Durutti Skool
Arundhathi Subramaniam
on the role of craft
Talking with Cream lyricist Pete Brown
Recent Canadian
prize-winning poets
The real Kurt Vonnegut
Wodehouse’s work
transcends his fascism
Chesterton’s anti-Semitism
Attempting to close read
Philip K Dick
Hemingway @ sea
Hemingway on Pound
(to Archibald Macleish)
Alan Hay: 6 poems
DH Lawrence:
Autumn at Taos
Kerntype:
a kerning game
Is Google taking aim
at publishers?
Penguin adds
self-publishing
Tip of the Knife, #7
Apply online
to be the Washington State
poet laureate
Linda Rogers
concludes her tenure
as Victoria’s laureate
on a major prize shortlist
Vermont’s laureate,
Sydney Lea
Sonoma laureate
hails from
Petaluma
Edna St. Vincent Millay
had the thinnest house
in NYC
Yes, Virginia,
there is a Flarf Factory
The LIRA poets of the Philippines
Michelle Obama
unveils student poet program
Remembering Philip Lamantia
Talking with William Leiss
Gary Wills
offers 2 books on Shakespeare
Kill Shakespeare,
Vol. 2
Eric Idle
solves the problem
of who wrote Shakespeare
Germaine Greer
on Shakespeare & older women
Glyn Maxwell
on how war changed poetry
Philip Larkin:
Deceptions
From Charles Dickens: A Life
Remembering Edwin Markham
Alice Oswald,
haunted by Homer
Jeff Barbee,
Outlaw Poet
A lit mag for the YouTube generation
(MTV seems more like it)
Richard Prince as collector
Happy (posthumous) birthday,
Bruce Conner
The Clyfford Still Museum
opens in Denver
Yvonne Rainer vs. Marina Abramovic
KickStart
Philadelphia Art Safaris
Pat Passlof has died
Using art to shelter millions
Sotheby’s sells Clyfford Still
painting for $61.7M
while protestors shout Shame
Christie’s sells Lichtenstein
painting for $43.2M
The elusive de Kooning
(subscription required)
Not a simple time
for nude photography
on campus
The short list for Hugo Boss prize
Ai Weiwei
posts $1.3M,
requests tax review
There is no escaping Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei investigated
over nude art
Getting nekkid for Ai
Facebook stumbles
over Ai Weiwei censorship
Hu Jintao
speaks in favor of the arts
The latest Wojnarowicz controversy
Da Vinci in London
Environmental Impact Study
for Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s
Over the River
Howard Finster
hits the road
Strip poker as art
Getting dirty
mixing art & medicine
Johnny Depp
slips in the Wichita Vortex
Nothing gonzo about Rum Diary
Who owns the ©
to The Adjustment Bureau?
Cronenberg’s Freud
Herzog on the death penalty
Errol Morris:
Umbrella Man
Beckett in Berkeley
Bill T Jones on PBS
Music as an app
Was Jim Morrison
a “real” poet?
Leonard Cohen’s
Show Me the Place
Paul Motian has died
Dallas church preserves
the legacy of
Robert Johnson
Can you resell MP3s?
European high court
overturns
Belgian ban of file sharing
Digital parasites
threaten
artists & especially
the major corporations
who exploit them
Congressional plan
to outlaw online piracy
is too broad
sez The NY Times
Minimalism at 50
Joseph Nechvatal:
Immersion into Noise
Lynn Margulis has died
American Nietzsche
Hegel is dead
(ditto Kittler)
Friedrich Kittler
& the Kittlerjugend
Kittler:
European history
as media history
Harold Bloom
on Mormonism
in the body politic
US readers:
Time thinks that
you are idiots
Jennifer Bartlett & Sheila Black
on deaths of the disabled
in NY care
5 theses on privatization
at the struggle at
the University of California
Was DSK set up?
Thinking through
the question of
China’s navy
Dusie no. 12
is full of great work
Ditto alligatorzine
