Homage to Charles Bernstein
William Allegrezza:
Introduction to The Salt Companion
to Charles Bernstein
Occupy Poetics:
You can’t evict an idea
Fred Wah
is Canada’s
Parliamentary Poet Laureate
“Multicultural obsession”
drives Fred Wah
Talking with Tyrone Williams
Sometimes the choice
is real easy:
Sonia Sanchez
finally named
Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate
Two from the typosphere
Emmett Bennett, Jr has died
Bob Hare has died
CAConrad gives the
2011 Sexiest Poem Award to
Samantha Giles & Thom Donovan
Talking with Carolyn Cassady
How the “father of the beats” (?)
was forgotten
LeftWrite: 30 years after the fact
An award for Amiri Baraka
Poets drop out of the Eliot Prize
over politics
Alice Oswald:
Why I pulled out
David Lister:
Biting the hand that feeds out
isn’t clever
Poets are crazy
to bash the bankers
A protest
without rhyme or reason
The genre of dismissive replies
Poetry knockdown:
Vendler vs. Dove
The Guardian
on Dove vs. Vendler
Vendler vs. Rothenberg in 1973:
she fought against a broad view even then
Bloodletting over an anthology
Dove vs. Vendler:
what are the assumptions?
A Poetry Out Loud reading
was not racist
Fraser & Oppen on the same day!
Lyn Hejinian’s
The Book of a Thousand Eyes
Rae Armantrout’s
Money Shot
Rae Armantrout, reading
Philip Levine on Ruth Stone
Getting to know Philip Levine
Rusty Morrison:
Amplification
Morrison: Commonplace
Morrison: Commonplace
(not a typo)
Geoffrey Hill
leads New Year’s arts awards in UK
Frank O’Hara’s
To the Harbormaster
Barbara Henning & Martine Bellen
Talking with Renee Gladman
Patti Smith’s Woolgathering
Louis Cabri on centered lines
Michael Gottlieb:
The Likes of Us
The sciart origins
of Bern Porter’s
found poems
Porter:
found poems
Bobby Byrd
on Bill Corbett’s
The Whalen Poem
Stein vs. Williams: why choose?
The essays & poems of Liu Xiaobo
The Periodic Table
as Assembled by
Dr. Zhivago, Occulist
Langston Hughes, Joseph Stalin,
Jesus & Mayakovsky
walk into a bar…
Christine Deavel’s Woodnote
NY Times obit for Václav Havel
Havel wielded
the power of poetry
Tracking Havel
Remembering
Havel the writer
Havel’s life in pictures
A moment with Havel
LA Times obit for Havel
Farewell to Havel
The dissident
who came out of the shadows
Havel’s legacy
Why don’t British theaters
put on more of Havel’s plays?
Havel:
Our moral footprint
Hone Tuware Trust fails
Ashbery’s Rimbaud
WS Merwin:
Convenience
Tranströmer in China
Talking with Dawn Lundy Martin
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
A story from the young Bolaño
Bolaño plays with history
Elizabeth Robinson:
Dialogue, Doubt & Presence
Auggie Kleinzahler
on Christopher Logue
Bay Area
Asian-Pacific-Islander-American
Poets & the avant garde
Did poetry keep
one of Kim’s sons
out of power in N. Korea?
Thomas Jefferson & Jonathan Safron Foer:
Experimental fiction isn’t necessarily new
Do the classics have a future?
The Poetry Center Archives
are coming online
What still works
in Olson’s
Projective Verse
Philip Rowland’s
anchor/i/tic
Talking with Fanny Howe
Mike Sonksen
on Wanda Coleman
& Bill Mohr’s history of LA poetry
Lit-scene review:
The Holloway Series
at UC Berkeley
(with focus on Judith Goldman)
Marilyn Hacker
interviewed by Fady Joudah
Corina Copp
introduced by Dorothea Lasky
Remembering Wilfred Sheed
Delirious Hem
has posted 16 short readings
in the past month:
Anne Boyer, Shanna Compton,
Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Deborah Poe,
Carol Watts & Will Montgomery, Megan Kaminski,
Camilo Roldán, Rob Ray, Elisa Gabbert,
Elizabeth Treadwell, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese,
Kate Greenstreet, Laynie Browne,
Susana Gardner, Kristine Snodgrass
& Daniela Olszewska
Sueyeun Juliette Lee on
Cara Benson’s (made)
Robert Bly celebrates Tranströmer’s Nobel
Maya Angelou’s N-word mashup
Talking with NF Huth
Charles Olson’s Melville project
The 7 books in
Steve Fama’s
top four books of 2011
Noah Eli Gordon’s
best books of 2011
K Silem Mohammad’s
20 recommended books from 2011
Joseph Massey’s
“best books” list for 2011
Debora Poe’s list
Brandon Shimoda’s list
Alice Fogel’s list
Nathan Logan’s list
Anne Gorrick’s list
Evie Shockley’s list
Bernadette Geyer’s list
Leigh Stein’s list
Bruce Covey’s list
Michael Meyerhofer’s list
Poetry is a category
in the St Louis Post Dispatch
roundup of “favorite books”
Dean Rader’s list
in the SF Chronicle
Poetry Foundation’s
most read articles of 2011
Poetry Foundation’s staff faves
for 2011
Dan Chiasson’s list
in the New Yorker blog
The top 5,000 best-selling books
in the UK, in order
Daniel Silliman’s list of lists
Robert Kelly: Bliss
What does not change
is the will to change
Ben Ehrenreich on
Julio Cortázar
SPD
has its best day
for shipments ever,
December 21
The poetry of Juan Garcia Madero
Talking with Emma Trelles
Leslie Scalapino’s
How Phenomena Appear to Unfold
Chris Vitiello’s Irresponsibility
Dante in Love by AN Wilson
Tom Marshall on Bernadette Mayer
50 best blogs
for word lovers
Harmony Holiday: Industry
3 poems by Daniel Bouchard
3 haiku,
one by Roberta Beary
G Emil Reutter’s
Blue Collar Poet
Galatea Resurrects 17
has 108 new reviews
(to date, GR has reviewed 1,029 books)
The crisis in lit crit
In the EU, © on Joyce
ended January 1
Reading books
in the digital age
Michael Chabon
challenges publishers
on digital royalties
again
e-books
account for 20%
of the publishing market
Are you a channel
or are you a library?
Publishing your own e-book
with distribution
through Amazon or B&N
Publishers vs. libraries:
the e-book tug-of-war
The future of books
Porn in the library?
Poor Stanley Fish
thinks you go to the MLA
to find out where
literature is headed
What becomes of publishing
if the government
controls all the paper?
Aussie bookshops cash in
on Xmas rush
Before anon was a hacker,
she wrote works like this
The archives of
Evening Will Come
The history of personal dedications
penned in books
A history of word processing
Taking the concepts of a big book
& camp to their logical conclusion
Stephen King’s 1960’s
Boyer Rickel:
A Poetics in Three Shaggy Dogs
Stephanie Anderson:
Page 72
The latest readings @ Jupiter 88
include Russell Jaffe, Andrew Durbin,
Ben Fama, Macgregor Card
Rem:
A New Zealand Journal
of Experimental Writing
with a global perspective
(check out the interview with
– & work by – Marco Giovenale)
Sacramento’s
big name hosting org
goes belly up
Noelle Kocot’s Talk
Hello Poppy Covered Road:
Luis Felipe Fabre
reading & talking
(in Spanish with English subtitles)
Poetry award for Shivananda Shenoy
Vidarbha Bhushan award
goes to Grace
Don Mee Choi
wins a Whiting
Jo Shapcott
wins a Queen’s Gold Medal
Roger McGough
takes over as
Poetry Society president
Michael Symmons Roberts
reads Pelt
Shane McCrae: Ghost Limbs
Xmas in my home town
Kennewick poet
Jordan Chaney
Ted Hughes’ jaguar
is up for sale
3 scenes
in a Christmas eve bookstore
What literature owes
to the Bible
Mike Tyson
finds inspiration
by reading
“the great epic poet, Iliad”
It’s ba-ack:
Dodge Festival to return
to Newark, Autumn 2012
China Miéville:
MR James & the Quantum Vampire
Susan Briante:
October 16 – The Dow Closes Up 11143
Vonnegut in Iowa City
Snow it goes
Harry E Northup:
The Study
The Silver Spoon
(about which, see the Times Times 3 blog)
Italian sci-fi writer
with connections to far-right group
called Casa Pound
(an homage to Ez)
kills two Senegalese
in Florence murder-suicide
Pound’s daughter
takes on Casa Pound
The poetry of Alexandra de Borchgrave
Noelle Kocot: Why Write
The career of Thomas Warton
Modern translations of Rumi
are trash
Celebrating the anniversary
(# 738)
of Rumi’s death
William Fuller’s Hallucination
James M Cain’s Paradise
Cain’s retro-futurist LA
Me, I’m looking for
the Kerouac bobblehead
Another Al-Jundi is writing poetry
Talking with Kirsten Wasson
Kissing Oscar
Jim Morrison, poet?
The Jane Austen brand
New housing
threatens the Brontë trade
Brontë’s lost manuscript
is off to Paris
Heaney papers
to the Irish National Library
Candice James
becomes a director of
The Federation of BC Writers
How Deborah Fries
became a writer
Binding @ Booklab II:
the music video
Talking with Kris Bigalk
Lori Caskey Sigety’s Summer Leaf
Grammar matters
A play about George Moscone
The fake Ibsen
The joy of tagging
Jim Dine:
Fresh & a Warning
Occupy the performing arts
Merce Cunningham’s last designer
Après Merce
Talking with White Fungus’ Ron Hanson
NY times obit of John Chamberlain
Karri Kokko’s on/off
Sanja Ivekovic
@ the Museum of Modern Art
The artist with 100 faces
Ai Weiwei’s photographs
Art vs. science
in Pasadena
Marvel owns the rights to Ghost Rider,
not the artist who may have
created it
To Lucy Lippard
from Nancy Spero,
1971
Richard Prince
& the art of appropriation
Helen Frankenthaler & John Chamberlain
LA Times obit of Frankenthaler
How important was
Helen Frankenthaler?
A statue to mark
the responsibility of
sexual slavery
A dispute shuts down
arts center in Madrid
The Rock
is ready to roll in LA
Jazz photos
not entirely about
jazz or photography
James Rizzi has died
Was Leonardo overcleaned?
Richard Hamilton
at the National Portrait Gallery
in London
Finally!
Bat Chain Puller
is released
45 years after being recorded
Swag:
hiphop’s word of the year
Tranströmer’s The Blue House:
the music video
Woody Guthrie’s archives
head for Oklahoma
LA Times obit of Sam Rivers
The poetics of PJ Harvey
168 podcasts
with philosophers
Theology after Google
Conscious minds
Christopher Hitchens’
last work
Scott McLeemee
on the contradictions
of Christopher Hitchens
The Hitchens outpouring
& journalistic self-hatred
What would John Rawls
think of Occupy?
Why Emma Goldman
Talking with Lawrence Lessig
The Volta
brings lots of work together –
it’s breathtaking
