Hamza Kashgari
deported to Saudi Arabia
where he faces death
for his writings
Villanova
cancels Tim Miller
at last minute
over concerns re
gay art & “Catholic values”
& Bryn Mawr steps in
The book banned
because it was
too embarrassing
Colleen Thibaudeau has died
Shahryar has died
Remembering Stacy Doris
Geraldine Monk:
The Tanning Room
NY Times obit for Dorothea Tanning
LA Times obit for Tanning
Una Mulzac has died
NY Times obit for Wisława Szymborska
Katha Pollitt on Szymborska
Remembering Szymborska
Wall Street Journal obit
for Wisława Szymborska
Polish President
honors Szymborska
Szymborska & Bukowski
2 deaths:
the poet & the beetle
Remembering Bruce Beaver
Remembering Atta Shad
Remembering Albert Huffstickler
The New Yorker
remembers Barney Rosset
A NY Times obit of Rosset
Charles McGrath on Rosset
Mary Oliver is seriously ill
Ryoichi Wago:
The Silent Salute of Poetry
Wago’s questionnaire
Beverly Dahlen:
The First Three Books
Duration Press
PDF archives
(a terrific collection)
National Medals
for Ashbery & Dove
Amy King
will make us safe
Poetry, not just a book
The chip on the shoulder of
William Carlos Williams
Jerome Sala
on Nick Piombino
Nathaniel Mackey:
Angel [excerpt]
The journalism of
David Foster Wallace
Wallace @ Brown
Cormac McCarthy, editor
Russell Banks
looks under the bridge
Fred Moten:
necessity, immensity, and crisis
(many edges, seeing things)
James Joyce’s The Cats
Do you have to be a poet
to edit poetry?
Chrysler’s Superbowl ad
was partly written
by Matthew Dickman
Jill Magi:
Talking back to
Carol Maso’s
Break Every Rule
Things Eric Weinstein
wishes he knew
Johanna Drucker: notes on
Notes on Conceptualisms
Anne Gorrick:
Racing thoughts in correct orientation
5 poems by Rae Armantrout
Lyn Hejinian: Sun & Necessity
The vast & vivid imagination
of Anne Waldman
Chinese etymology:
guǎn 管
Michael Gottlieb:
Letters to a Middle-Aged Poet
John Ashbery:
Sparingly
Aaron Shurin’s Citizen
Alli Warren: 3 poems
John Olson
on contemporary
Romanian poetry
Cole Swensen:
Contemporary French Poetry
Geoffrey G. O’Brien:
People on Sunday (1930)
HD, Robert Duncan
& the occult
Hugo García Manríquez:
Painting is Finite
A teaser / trailer for
Basil King’s Mirage
by Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte
Can a papermaker
save civilization?
One more library
bites the dust
The most beautiful
library in the world?
No, it’s Rem Koolhaas’
Seattle Public Library
Top English addition
to German
raises a s**tstorm
Analyzing the handwriting
of different writers
Tom Clark on Geoff Dyer
Dyer’s Tarkovsky
12 or 20 questions with Leah Mol
Talking with Renee Gladman
An appreciation of
Ron Koertge
Dating Houellebecq
Lewis Freedman’s
Catfish Po’ Boys
Luc Sante
on the letters of
William S. Burroughs
How Burroughs burned out
12 or 20 questions with Debora Kuan
Sarah Mangold:
I Meant to be Transparent
Harry E Northup’s
Sunday Morning
+
LA Poetics
(working for Scorsese)
Sir Geoffrey Hill
slams Carol Ann Duffy
K Silem Mohammad:
Poems About Trees
Doug Nufer
talks to himself
Complaint:
anti-modernists
are not hostile enough
to modern poetry
Kristin Prevallet:
Oh Occupy Louisville!
When gay writers were outlaws
Talking with Elizabeth Bishop
Langston Hughes’ Cleveland
Coming soon:
The Beat Hotel
The genius of
Shakespeare’s grammar
Shakespeare’s true identity
Shakespeare’s sisters
Don Share’s
Rules for Poetry Radicals
Where words come from
Mark Scroggins on
Joseph Donahue’s Dissolves
Denise Riley’s Part Song
(registration required)
A biography of
Carl Van Vechten
Stephen Burt’s podcasts
can be found here
How publishers
misunderstand Kindle
Kindle singles & the short read
Interpreting the purchase
of a book
The book industry’s
Moneyball
The most beautiful bookshops in the world
Beauty is not the point!
Saving Kepler’s
Puh-leeze, no more e- vs print
B&N won’t sell books published by Amazon
What if lawyers
held ©
to each brief they filed?
Justice Dept
stockpiling ©-violation evidence
“just in case”…
Florida pols
long to revise
laureate law
Poetry & Chinese policy
The poetics of hankies
Victorian poets in love
Barrett & Browning letters go online
When everyone’s an author…
The “glory days” of publishing
The Great Singapore Penis Panic
& other great titles
Penguin
joins the trade publishers’
e-book library boycott
Still more are boycotting
Amazon’s books
iBook Author gives back
some control to writers
The Claudius App:
a journal of fast poetry
Saving native languages
David Lau
on Mallarmé
& the need to act
Stan Bevington
wins the Alcuin Society
Lifetime Achievement Award
Otoliths 24
12 or 20 questions with Tim Lilburn
EL Doctorow on John Leonard
John Bennett on Leonard Cohen
SPD’s January best-sellers
Talking with Megan Boyle
Charles Simic writes in bed
Christian Wiman
& why poets are like accordions
The Atlantic
gets all gooey
for Valentine’s Day
The Guardian
has a better idea
A new Ben Jonson bio
Bashō on writing poetry
Thom Donovan
on how to write
a NY School poem
Peter Campion & Ange Mlinko on
Carol Muske-Dukes & Susan Stewart
Talking with Brandon Shimoda
rob mclennan on 6X6
mclennan’s Top 11
Canadian poetry books
of 2011
Talking with rob mclennan
Elmore Leonard:
the stylist of forward motion
Leonard’s Raylan
Reading Absalom, Absalom
Daryl Hine, neglectorino
(how can a former editor
of Poetry be neglected?)
When Quietists grieve
Tom Travisano on
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV
Key West Literary Seminar’s
latest audio archive recordings
include Joyce Carol Oates,
Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem,
William Gibson, more
William Gibson
in the here & now
Gibson talks to Wired
Nathan Englander
& Jonathan Safran Foer
in conversation
Dirty love letters
of famous authors
Andy Clausen returns to Berkeley
Math meets poetry
Malcolm O’Hagan,
founder of
the American Writers’ Museum
Kathleen Flenniken,
Washington’s
state poet laureate
A critic’s regrets
Jordan Davis on
David Orr, Kenny Goldsmith
& the chutzpah deficit
(subscribers only)
A literary stock market
Heaney
donates his papers
The premise of the daybook
Talking with Jefferson Bethke
A profile of Lorna Crozier
Lisa Berman:
From Lafayette to Tahrir Square
99 poems for the 99%
The upside of dyslexia
Livewell
& leave a beautiful manuscript
12 or 20 questions
with Andrew Steeves
Li Bai & Du Fu:
(part 1) (part 2)
The poster for this year’s
National Poultry Month
The essays of Milan Kundera
Poetry meets politics in Lahore
Some advice from Alan Watts
by way of Neil Gaiman
& Don Wentworth
5 myths about Dickens
Dickens @ 200
Dickens’ edits & corrections
Charles Dickens,
the theme park
Thomas Brady
on Henry Gould’s Ben Mazer
Bruce Taylor’s
No End in Strangeness
Billy Collins’ bigger questions
When is song poetry?
Christopher Reid’s Selected Poems
6 mini-reviews
from Seth Abramson
+ 5 more for March
Airplane Lit:
the art of distraction
Christopher Patrick Miller: Storm
Oakland’s Studio One reading series
John Foy, talking to himself
12 or 20 questions
with Sommer Browning
Charles Olson
becoming part of
Gloucester’s Harbor Walk
Quoting Olson
to justify hotel development
Paul Pines’
Reflections in a Smoking Mirror
Oren Izenberg on the Poetry of Ease
Female playwrights confront sexism
Ken Kesey’s Cuckoo’s Nest
turns 50
Easy Rider, Dante’s Inferno
& Faust
Woody Allen,
philistine in art’s clothing
Paramount
going to the mattresses
to stop
The Family Corleone
The art is in
the title sequence
2 plays on plagiarism
Belly dancing
& Islamic fundamentalism
How many ballet dancers
does it take
to screw in a light bulb?
Philip Glass
talking with his cousin Ira
Philip Glass:
still in the East Village
Talking with Kronos Quartet founder
David Harrington
about collaborating with
Philip Glass
dj BC’s Glass-Beastie Boy mashup
The © problems of mashups
The perpetual © war
What is the impact
of digital music?
A look at Eminem sales
Bill Keller,
NY Times’ © thief
Nobody steals music
quite like
GOP prez hopefuls
Is it plagiarism
if it’s sanctioned?
Golijov’s Sidereus
yMusic:
in order to save
classical music,
they have to…
This is yMusic
It don’t mean a thing
if it ain’t got
that fractal swing
Krzysztof Penderecki,
meet Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood
The 1,000 car horn symphony
Do jazz musicians
really earn $23k per year?
Bill Frisell on Ginsberg’s Kaddish
Is Klinghoffer pro-terrorist?
The Alan Lomax collection
to go digital
Talking with Bruce Springsteen
Remembering Gil Scott-Heron
Scott-Heron’s
last attempt
to reach us
Michael Davis has died
Jodie Christian has died
The rock-n-roll afterlife
of William Empson
Where women in the orchestra
outnumber the men:
Korea
Talking with Heiner Stadler
Rock is the music of old people
Kevin Gordon,
an MFA in Nashville
Holland Carter on Mike Kelley
Kelley brought punk vibe
to contemporary art
Mike Kelley’s artwork
Julian Oliver’s
Transparency Grenade
Juliana Spahr & David Buuck:
The Side-Effect
Juliana Spahr & Stephanie Young:
Nicholas Nixon’s
The Brown Sisters
San Diego loses a kiss
Doug Hall: 3 landscapes
Should the Clyfford Still museum be free?
Should non-profits
(or at least the profitable ones)
pay taxes?
Barry Schwabsky
on Zoe Strauss
Henry Taylor @ MoMA PS1
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Is it okay to kill chickens for art?
John Tranter: Hulk
MoMA acquires work by
Martha Rosler & Valie Export
A new Mona Lisa comes to the Prado
Street art in Kabul
The oldest work of art
(to date) was done by
Neanderthals
Barry Schwabsky
on Mauricio Cattelan
Bernard Stiegler on Duchamp
& the proletarianization of sensibility
The camera of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Images from Vivian Maier’s
undeveloped rolls
Maier’s photographs of the famous
Annie Leibovitz’ personal journey
Gerhard Richter
is jumping the shark in Germany
How the University of California
sold a Sargent Johnson sculpture
worth over $1M
for $164.63
Ungovernables
at the New Museum
Fear makes you
appreciate
abstract art
Van Gogh:
a single blade of grass
Van Gogh, Klimt & kitsch
Remembering
Martin Kippenberger
Steven Leiber has died
Bjarke Ingels:
Hedonistic Sustainability
Talking with Frank Gehry
Target parts ways with Michael Graves
Downton Abbey as Amos & Andy
in whiteface
The abbey that jumped the shark
The real Downton Abbey
Brenda Hillman:
Facelessbook: a haibun
Au revoir, cyberflâneur
The evolution of Charles Darwin
Failing to publish,
100 U of Sydney faculty
are fired
What Occupy needs to learn now
Rule 1: Step outside the noise
What color is your number?
How does the GOP
feel about Galileo, Copernicus?
Floor is solid
