Syrian sculptor Wael Kaston killed by torture
U of New Orleans sacks Bill Lavender,
potentially shutting down press & low-rez MFA program
The Bowery Poetry Club closes
Robin Tremblay-McGaw on the Poetry of the 80’s Conference
Close-reading aloud: Charles Reznikoff
Talking with our favorite marsupial, CAConrad
Steve Benson & Suzanne Stein are performing LiveChats
Marjorie Perloff on Wittgenstein, modernism & Christianity
Modernism, Christianity & Apocalypse
Talking with Eileen Myles
Remembering Lew Welch
Help for the inner poet
An online fundraiser to help St Marks Books survive
Justice Dept defends going after price fixing ebooks
How traditional publishing hurts scientific progress
Bob Grumman: M@h*(p0et)?ica
Amy De’Ath: To Be Not Stupid
As has Rosemary Dobson
Tony Lopez’s Only More So
Bad poems for bad people
Alternate titles considered for L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
The bias of the Booker
Coelho: There’s no there there in Ulysses
Occupy Wall Street
& the myth of the technological death of the library
Talking with Jan Hutchison
Carlos Fuentes’ Vlad
Intro to The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature
Indian diplomats writing poetry
Diane Wakoski & the poetry of the French New Wave
A preview of The Last Vispo Anthology
Ulysses: the comic
Possum Agonistes
Andrei Codrescu, pedagogue
British & Irish working-class poets, 1700-1900
(Over 1,200 of them!)
10 “surrealist” books
Short takes on mostly short ‘long’ poems
More serious short takes on long poems
Joshua Cohen’s Four New Messages
James Wood on Karl Ove Knausgaard
Forgotten poets of the 19th century
What this year’s Booker longlist
tells us about fiction
Rob Horning: Against the literary
How to save an indie bookstore (Kepler’s)
(day 1) (day 2) (day 3)
Kindle ebooks outsell print
Neeli Cherkovski @ the SF Int’l Poetry Fest
Talking with Robert Montgomery
Talking with Junot Diaz
(part one) (part two)
Colson Whitehead: how to write
Roger Rosenblatt: how to write great
Poets & Writers’ “79 best books” for writers
How to sharpen pencils
James Wright: the art of poetry
Czeslaw Milosz: the art of poetry
Prosody & the blogosphere
Cosmo conquers the world
Euro crisis impacts the arts
Big Oops: bad timing for Paterno hagiography
What Joe Pa tells us about public art
When the arts were part of the Olympics
Connecting poetry to the Olympics
(part 2) (part 3)
NY Times Olympic style guide
Tracy Emin & the Olympic Torch
A poem for the Olympics
Ai Weiwei director hoping to be pirated
The fate of African art
Franz West has died
So has Walter Pichler
At the grave of Andy Warhol
Furniture design in the USSR
LA MoCA continues its internal war
Women only for Marina Abramovic @ Meltdown 2012
Farewell to Artnet
Should artists be subsidized by the state?
Hockney on the Olympics
Barry Schwabsky: Living with disjunction
Who decides if art is real? Lawyers!
NJ Dept of Environmental Protection fails to protect
a commissioned work of art
Jeff Koons goes spiritual on Colbert
Christo’s Colorado project grinds to a halt
How the Delaware Art Museum grew (happy 100th!)
What graffiti taggers are up to, decades later
The portraits of Leo Borensztein
Mao executes Christ: PRC is not amused
Talking with Pussy Riot
The case against Pussy Riot: pretty flimsy
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Pussy Riot is here to stay
Washington Post on Pussy Riot
It’s Putin who’s on trial here
Can Madonna save Pussy Riot?
Jonah Lehrer just imagined those Dylan quotes
Carla Harryman, Gino Robair & Jon Raskin
@ the Outsound New Music Summit
Six degrees of Groucho Marx
Theory: a class in 6 videos
What do you learn by concentrating learning online?
Al Filreis on teaching poetry online
The first church of file sharing
Contesting technologies: digital liberties
Jules Boykoff on celebration capitalism & the Olympics
Habermas on Europe now
The most radical city in America is Oakland!
The friends of Walter Benjamin
Proust Among the Nations: from Dreyfus to the Middle-East
Barbara Lee was right
The power of Gabby Douglas
Second Avenue (not Frank O’Hara’s view)
Shorthand of NYC restaurants
