A Jimmy Schuyler feature @ Jacket2
Barrett Watten: An Annotated History of Chance
Seth Abramson: the poetry wars
The battle lines are shifting
Jennifer Moxley: find the missing line
Robert Kelly: Lattices Inspired
Don Wellman: editing Coherence in 181
“Pitchers are obviously not human” (Spicer & baseball)
US Poets in Mexico 2013
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s correspondences
Gary Snyder’s foreword to Lew Welch’s Ring of Bone
Kerouac’s real first novel
Some recordings of Kerouac
Johnny Depp & Douglas Brinkley editing Woody Guthrie’s novel
A poem for Woody by John Mellencamp
Faulkner & race
Finally, The Sound & the Fury will be published in color
Rowan Oak honors Faulkner
A farewell to Hemingway’s endings
The diaries of Dawn Powell are for sale
Dementia ends Márquez’s career
Gerald Bruns on David Antin & Charles Bernstein
Vanessa Place & Tania Ørum:
notes on notes on Notes on Conceptualisms
WS Di Piero, street poet
How ‘international’ is poetry?
What % of books in the US & UK are translations?
The new wave of innovative Irish writing?
A Borgesian novel by a Borges protégé
‘the working man is neither a felon, nor necessarily a drunkard, nor a very little child’
Rushdie fatwa: the video game
Kay Ryan: Unamerican American at the Olympics
Simon Armitage’s Poetry Parnassus
Poetry & the Olympics
The politics behind the fight over NYPL
Penguin to make e-books available in NYC libraries
10 things Amazon doesn’t want you to know
Europe rejects © treaty
© law – a worldwide update
Grolier’s goes nonprofit
Behind the battle over NYPL
Gutenberg & the Kindle
Michiko Kakutani on Pynchon going to e-books
This year’s Pew Fellows: Kevin Varrone, Catie Rosemurgy, Megawords
New poets of the Midwest
Talking with mIEKAL aND
How Dana Gioia spins his years @ the NEA
Perfect 4th-grade poetry haiku
Algerian author denied prize $$ for breaking boycott of Israel
Talking with Immanuel Mifsud
Pierre Joris on translating Paul Celan
117 pages of abstracts from the NPF conference on poetry in the ‘80s
Emily Dickinson attends a writing workshop
Gaddis’ J R & the nature of difficulty
Simon Armitage & poetry at the Olympics
Poetry on Google Maps
An interactive map of mostly conventional verse
1 poet for each of 204 nations
Talking with Karen Solie
Manchester Central Library is pulping books
A language lesson in Hong Kong
Ray Bradbury & HTTP status 451
Bradbury’s dystopia
Margaret Atwood’s Headlife
Sontag’s diaries: the second volume
Thomas Merton, hero
SPD’s June best-sellers
Amis in Brooklyn
Matthew Zapruder on SF
How to build Philip K Dick
Time off for reading
Saul Bellow on Ralph Ellison
Jeremy Bass on Robert Pinsky
Shakespeare in slang & Serbian
Reading & guilty pleasures
Stars & Stripes on Poetry of the Taliban
Taliban poetics & the cult of the lone wolf warrior
Cowboy poetics
Plagiarizing Dylan Thomas: Big oops
A plagiarist argues So What?
Yoko Ono seeming very Eleanor Antinish
Symbolism & the failures of grammar
Symbolism in Damien Hirst
MoMA’s got a brand new app
Verbal Eyes: a series I co-curated in 1979
with Jill Scott (poets & artists together)
In Europe, it’s a Jeff Koons summer
Irving Karp has died
Barry Schwabsky on Albert Barnes & Leo Stein
Barnes officials lied about finances
Olmsted’s masterpiece, sans Olmstead
Rineke Dijkstra @ the Guggie
Ellsworth Kelly’s Tablet: 1948 – 1973
Piano’s Shard
Art Davis & Andrew Cyrille on performing Ascension with Coltrane
Music in the age of digital reproduction
Sean Bonney: Critique of Ben Watson
A perfect place for philosophy?
Chomsky on Occupy
Audio archives of the Free Speech Movement
The Karl Marx MasterCard
Slavoj Žižek: Less Than Nothing
Graphic the history of philosophy via Wikipedia
Aaron Sorkin: What’s he smoking?
