Brenda Iijima’s
Untimely Death
Is Driven Out Beyond the Horizon
Negotiating the social bond
of poetry
A new portrait of me
by Didi Menendez
in action
Didi Menendez
does another portrait
Indian poets escape
Karachi gunmen
Fitting poetry to HTML
Talking with Bill Mohr
Rae Armantrout’s Induction
John Timpane on Adrienne Rich
DA Powell on Rich
PoemTalk: Linh Dinh
Queensland premier
scraps literary awards
as ‘waste of taxpayers’ $$’
John Cage @ 100
Does Tucson need 3 laureates
to bring it back
from the brink of censorship
Banned at Villanova,
Tim Miller
comes to Bryn Mawr
Steve Evans:
The phonotextual braid
Mark Truscott:
2 poems from Branches
Elizabeth Bishop’s
Brazilian poems
Another poet from my high school
comes to lecture @ NYU
Salman Rushdie’s
anti-exile
Drew Gardner:
How to Watch a Police Beating
(subscribers only)
Exploring the poetry
of Kamala Das
Maureen Owen
comes at last to PennSound
Alice Kaplan’s
Dreaming in French
The Paris years of
Angela Davis
Denise Riley
& the force of bereavement
Poetry in Motion
is coming back
12 or 20 questions
with DA Powell
Risk in the work of
Peter Gizzi
New work from
Eileen Myles
Myles on Erica Kaufman
Not with a bang
but an iPad app
Thurston Moore & Tom Raworth,
together at last
PoemTalk: Tom Raworth
Lance La Rocque’s Vermin
The abridged Ketjak
Gerald Stern on Hart Crane
PoemTalk: p. inman
Talking with Marge Piercy
Brenda Hillman:
Poem of Hope, Almost at Equinox
Talking with Emily Pettit
Havel’s specter
Stein’s Ida unveiled
William Gass’ rage for the world
Alice in Wales
Jenna Butler’s Wells
PoemTalk: Edgar Allan Poe
The complete Fuck You
Auden on Rilke in English
Self-publishing
hits a new high
Amazon seeks to wring
deep discounts from publishers
Amazon’s a no-show
in Seattle philanthropy
Libraries
are still crucial
5,000 books
pour out of a building
in Spain
Picture parsing
Daniel Everett:
There is no such thing as
universal grammar
How do you say
No way!
in Pirahã
12 or 20 questions with
Alex Leslie
PoemTalk: Rosemarie Waldrop
Dashiell Hammett:
Arson Plus
Joyce Carol Oates’ Mudwoman
China Miéville’s
London’s Overthrow
(complete version)
Since Lulu
now demands that those who download
even free e-books
must be registered,
Argotist e-books have moved
A “new” Kurt Vonnegut novella
Jeanette Winterson’s
Why Be Happy
When You Could Be Normal?
Poets.org has been online
for 16 years
Add Sadie Stein
to Lorin Stein
@ the Paris Review
& all we’re missing
are Gertrude & Leo
Harold Bloom
on Marina Warner’s
Arabian Nights
An English teacher
takes over as coach
of the US rugby team
Neocon art critic
Hilton Kramer
has died
Nicolas Sarkozy
= W + the arts
After the crisis of the euro
who will fund
continental arts?
Why the arts
anticipate neuroscience
The destructive myth
of the suffering artist
Nan Goldin’s best shots
Naked support for
Ai Weiwei
Barry Schwabsky
on the invention of the individual
Schwabsky’s Boetti
Transforming China’s perception
of intellectual property
Life after Merce
Alan Lomax’s archives
go online
Lomax
talking to Terry Gross
A PBS documentary on
Earl Scruggs
The Guardian obit
for Scruggs
(with a great version of
Foggy Mountain Breakdown)
George Harrison’s
lost solo from
Here Comes the Sun
Best artist websites
Lego Rothko
Da Vinci’s St. Anne
Larry Rivers’ Legs
kick up trouble
Buñuel
& the real Surreal
Batman – for real
The publishing model
for news
is imploding
State of the Enlightenment
Ben Rodefer
is running
for the New Mexico State Senate