Phil Hall’s Killdeer
wins the Governor General’s Award
Alan Davies:
I think I understand Emma Bee Bernstein
Rita Dove responds to Helen Vendler
Dove smacks down Vendler
James Fenton
sides with Vendler
Jeremy Bass on Dove’s anthology
Talking with Rita Dove
Lucas Klein:
the problem of anthologies
The gate keeper:
Dwight Macdonald
Reading The Alphabet:
Brian Ang’s guided tour
through the 2009 “launch”
of the book,
with introductions by
Jessica Lowenthal, Rachel Blau DuPlessis,
Charles Bernstein & Bob Perelman
Remembering Ted Enslin
Gholamreza Barusan & Elham Eslami
die in auto accident
Rosmarie Waldrop’s translation
of Jean Daive’s memoir of
walks with Paul Celan
Seth Abramson on
Rae Armantrout, Robin Blaser,
Jean Follain, Gabe Foreman,
Douglas Kearney, Jared Stanley
Rae Armantrout:
Exit Row
David Antin
on meeting Jerome Rothenberg
in 1950
I’m up on Jupiter 88
As is Laura Neuman
From 3 issues of
Lilliput Review
Plus something current
Internet piracy bill:
free-speech kill switch
Metaphor, science & poetry
Harry E Northup on LA poetry
Brad Morrow’s
The Uninnocent
Folding borders:
the hybrid in Canada
James Koller’s California dream
I saw the best minds of my generation
as a bar of soap
What would Ti Jean wear?
The Untold Story of ‘On the Road’
Cultivate literary friendships
Talking with Ed Sanders
Sanders’ Fug You
with a little video interview
with William Buckley
(“Are you a hippie, Mr Sanders?”)
Matthea Harvey’s Of Lamb
turns up in Oprah
Plus 12 more
from next door
Nicanor Parra
wins Cervantes Prize
Alice Oswald opts out
of the Eliot prize jury
over hedge fund involvement
So does John Kinsella
Should arts prizes
choose sponsors with care?
$50K Montreal Prize update
& shortlist
Mark Scroggins:
My Robert Creeley
John Ashbery:
Not beyond all conjecture
The moan of Zong!
Exhume Neruda
Chilean CP demands
VLAK 2 has gone online
On Julio Cortázar’s
From the Observatory
Epic in the work of
Langston Hughes
Graywolf to publish
the letters between
Tranströmer & Bly
Langpo in Myanmar
An encounter with CA Conrad
Louis Cabri:
Unanimism & the crowd:
early modern social lyric
The Al Owais awards announced
Tao Lin in the gossip pages
LA Times obit for Ruth Stone
Stone’s obit in the NY Times
NPR’s Melissa Block
on Ruth Stone
NY Times obit for Christopher Logue
LA Times obit for Christa Wolf
Jerome Rothenberg’s
White Sun Black Sun
Paper Air’s
Jackson Mac Low issue
Students respond to
Jackson Mac Low
Richard Kostelanetz:
The avant-garde at Brown University
in 1960
Mark Young:
A line from Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mahfouz at 100
experiment-o,
issues 1 thru 4
Kent Johnson
on Penn’s “takeover”
of Jacket
Calvin Pennix – Grounds
Poetry thru performance course
is slammin’
Rap puts poetry
in motion
Jonathan Lethem’s
The Ecstasy of Influence
Ariana Reines’ Mercury
Moby-Dick in Pictures
Michael Casey’s
Checkpoints
The poetry scene
in Western North Carolina
(tho it fails to mention Thomas Rain Crowe
or the marvelous City Lights Books in Sylva)
Umberto Eco:
People are tired of simple things
Go ask Alice
Will the real John Updike
please stand up
Edinburgh’s mystery
book sculptures
Anne Carson’s Nox
Faulkner rights
acquired by HBO
Daniel Radcliffe
set to play
Allen Ginsberg?
Talking with Geoffrey Hill
An account of the
David Foster Wallace
conference in Antwerp
The early books
of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Hebden Bridge
& the problem of angry poets
Conrad Black (!) on George Jonas
Argotist ebooks
James Grinwis’
Exhibit of the Forking Paths
Pura Lopez Colome:
Ice Cold Water
(subscription required)
Remembering Allen Mandelbaum
5 lies they tell writers
Atwood:
Twitter & the net
boost literacy
Atlantic Books
is closing its stores
Strong holiday sales
for indie bookstores
While Books-a-Million
comes to Exton, PA
Just who shops
at indie bookstores?
Should literary authors
self-publish?
Print gets an upgrade
Euro e-book sales
hampered by tax structure
Morrow puts book bloggers
on notice
A report from
an Occupy librarian
How to support
school libraries
Modernizing NYPL
or just trashing the place
Librarian accused
of stealing $800K
Books:
To have and to hold
Madison Smartt Bell:
Do you want to write
or be a writer?
Close reading Frank O’Hara
Thomas Devaney’s
The Blue Stoop
(with photo by Zoe Strauss)
Out of Christendom
(Blue House, Morocco)
Tom Clark:
Blue Dress
Tom Clark again:
Paratasis
Aram Saroyan’s
Sled Hill Voices
Award-winning books
of 2011
Even Beckett’s letters
are silent
NYC tries
street safety haiku
The business of
#FridayReads
Which genre next
for Jane Austen?
Where have all
the Catholic writers gone?
Anita Desai:
sometimes a mango
is just a mango
Translating in the dark
Art in the age of
economic recession:
on BS Johnson & Ben Lerner
Sherman Alexie:
6-word story
(registration required)
Janice Lee’s
favorite books
of 2011
No poetry on
NY Times
Ten Best Books of 2011
Tranströmer & Gallagher
among the “best books” list
of the LA Times
Blanca Haddad:
Sugar
Paul Krassner on Ken Kesey
(subscription required)
Les Murray, Adam Zagajewski
& Don Marquis
The nether C word
A condescending NY Times profile
of The New Inquiry
Post-avant poetics
read as variants of
French poetry
Gifts for book nerds
(a.k.a. readers)
In Botswana,
poets steal the show
Pakistani novelists
are overtaking Indian ones
Whenever I speak
I speaks
neurologically speaking
Philip Gross:
writings on the edge
of language
The memoirs of Casanova
A mystery voyage
with Michael Ondaatje
Talking with
Barney Rosset
Vonnegut’s uneasy life:
dark, sad, cruel
And So It Goes – Not!
says Vonnegut’s son
Ted Hughes makes it
to the ultimate Boy’s Club
The symbolism survey
Haruki Murakami’s
Norwegian Wood
Li Bai’s drunken lyrics
John Banville on Harold Bloom
NaNoWriMo:
Lessons learned, future plans
Talking with Simon Armitage
Missoula celebrates poetry
Ben Jeffery’s Anti-Matter:
Michel Houellebecq
& Depressive Realism
This year’s
bad sex in fiction goes to
David Guterson’s Ed King
Talking with Robert Coover
Restoring yet another
Wordsworth home
The word of the year is
tergiversate?
Art Garfunkel’s poem
for Paul Simon
Talking with Leonard Cohen
just a while back
Jim Dine:
We lived once in an ideal kingdom
The $2M rare book from 1938
is of course a comic
A Watchman prequel
sans Alan Moore?
Occupy comics
has an all-star lineup
Clyfford Still Museum astonishes
Considering Franz Marc
A minimalist memorial
splits Newport, RI
Architecture
@ Black Rock City
Building facades
as literature
Banksy
@ Occupy London
Arthur Szyk:
art as propoganda
Photography as art or documentation
Looking for da Vinci’s
missing masterpiece
Forging Motherwell & Pollock
A photographer without subtlety
Marc Franklin:
Photographing the acid heads
A-Rod wows Owen Wilson
amid ugly art & hookers –
another view of Miami
Restless in Oslo:
Ida Ekblad & Edvard Munch
Wessel’s world
Underground art
in Washington, DC
Art21’s video series:
New York CloseUp
Charles Saatchi:
the art world is shallow
The whirligigs of
Vollis Simpson
Rembrandt’s
secret self-portrait
A tour of Gloucester
performed as theater
John Hurt in
Krapp’s Last Tape
What’s black & white
& comes with subtitles?
Terry Gilliam vs. reality
Neil Gaiman talks with
Shaun Tan
Charles Bernstein & Susan Bee
on George Kuchar
Paul Goodman
Changed My Life
Viggo Mortensen speaks
Ken Russell has died
Wearing Lorca’s Bow Tie
on 42nd Street
Lorca in Eden
What about celebrating artists
before they die?
Sara Wookey
on not dancing in
Marina Abramović’s
Nude with Skeleton
Looking at Merce
mostly through the eyes
of Carolyn Brown
David Tudor
performs 4’33”
on American Idol
Michael Stipe
on the end of
REM
LA Times obit
for Hubert Sumlin
Bill Tapia has died
Satyagraha at Lincoln Center,
Philip Glass
joins Occupy
The arts turn up the heat
on the billionaire mayor
John Phillips:
The Failure Addict
Orchestras embrace The New
(i.e. the 20th century, not the current one)
Where will today’s composers
be heard?
Curtis Faville on Steve Reich
Sonic Youth
performs Reich’s
Pendulum Music
Talking with
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Simon Blackburn
on Hume & desire
Lyn Hejinian
to the UC Academic Senate
Emma Goldman
occupies Wall Street
Pre-Occupied:
the origins & future
of OWS
Occupy
touches the 3rd rail
of American politics
Occupy API
Pardon Alan Turing!
(must be a UK citizen to sign)
