When Bruce met Sally

Qatari poet gets life in prison for satire

Muhammed ibn al-Dheed al-Ajami to appeal sentence

a rawlings’ Gibber

The poetry of Cathy Park Hong

Sexiest poem of 2012:
Music for Porn

Wanda Coleman needs our help

Are there too many poets?

Publishing the same poem in 11 different mags

Rae Armantrout: 4 new poems

Joshua Clover: Georgic for the World System

Talking with Lori Anderson Moseman

Norma Cole & Gail Scott

Johanna Drucker & the book as art

Seminary Co-op is really moving

Caballero Bonald wins the Cervantes

Graham Foust:
My Graham Foust

$200K damage @ Printed Matter from Sandy

The poetry of Sandy

Carol Watts reading
@ the Small Press Fair

Herta Mueller blasts Mo Yan Nobel as “catastrophe”

Unreadable literature:
Pynchon, Wallace, Joyce, Silliman, Goldsmith?

Martha Collins, Afaa Michael Weaver & Sam Cornish
reading in Gloucester

The longest word

Erasing the OED

Or not

Joe Ceravolo: 2 poems
Indian Song
Hidden Bird
(subscribers only)

Holly Pester reading
@ the Small Press Fair

Harry Northup remembering Leland Hickman

Lisa Jarnot’s bio of Robert Duncan

3 conceptualisms: Norway, Mexico, USA

Sherman Alexie’s Blasphemy

Charles Bernstein:
67 video portraits (mostly poets)

Recommendations of
18 recent books of poetry

Peter Larkin reading
@ the Small Press Fair

Pound’s Orientalism

Jack Spicer’s Magic Worshop Questionnaire

Moyra Davey:
The Problem of Reading

Cyrus Console & Ben Lerner

Natasha Trethewey: cheerleader
for the written word

Multiple drafts of Trethewey’s Calling

A family poetry scrapbook

Andrew Motion:
Save rural UK from the Tories!

Zadie Smith’s NW

A fiction-only e-book publisher

Team Roiphe

Doug Jones reading
@ the Small Press Fair

A new page on Basil Bunting

William Faulkner: ragged, unkempt, strange

A GOP critique of ©
that party leaders instantly ditched

Porn © troll cases increase

Talking with Anne Lamott

Recent pamphlets from younger British poets

CS Lewis gets a stone in Poets’ Corner

Kurt Vonnegut: mad man of letters

Don Wentworth reading
at Vonnegut’s library

The Guardian does its version
of Steve Evans’ Attention Span

The future of vispo?

Simon & Shoe Store steps into self-publishing

Helen Vendler on nurturing artists @ Harvard

How to write like it’s 1895

The Rushdie case

Louise Glück: writing without a mattress

Why don’t we take sex in writing seriously?

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s In the House of the Interpreter

Joseph Blotner has died

Vesna Goldsworthy: On Loving Tom

Seth Abramson’s November poetry reviews in HuffPo

Calvin Trillin’s Dogfight

Can creative writing be taught?

Lucy Perillo & Jack Gilbert
(+ critical books by Kevin Young & Maureen McLane)
are all you get of poetry
in the NY Times’ 100 notable books of 2012 list

Alice Quinn on Jack Gilbert

Jack & Adele Foley reading with D Jayne McPherson

Nelson Eshleman has died

The real mystery of Edwin Drood

Eve Ensler rising

Fiona Shaw stoppeth one of three

Talking with Jonas Mekas

Pussy Riot quarrels with legal team

Pussy Riot video declared extremist

I neglected to that
Ted Curson had died

Contra dancing in Latin America

Nuns using music
to battle the boys in the Vatican

Sergei Tcherepnin’s Music for One

Elton John dedicates concert to Ai Weiwei

Anish Kapoor et al go Gangnam Style for Al Weiwei

Getting over Ai Weiwei

Is classical music dying?

In Mali, fundamentalists drive out musicians

MIA &/or Pharrell Williams

What was your favorite 20^th century music?

The Big Bang was silent

NYPD busts poster satirist

Paris spreads the Louvre
(registration required)

Restoring Pollock

John Yau on Pieter Schoolwerth

Are video games art?

Whitney Biennial 2014 curators announced

Sinister pop

Florida may ask art majors
to pay more for education

Will MoCA ditch Deitch?

Photos for SFMoMA

Joseph Cornell’s Manual of Marvels

Damien Hirst is a joke

The Hermitage adds the shock of the new

John Yau: working from observation

Yau on Tom Fairs

Batman vs. corporate raiders

Christo plans oil drums for Abu Dhabi

Catching up with Yoko Ono

They may be old, but…

Manuel “Spain” Rodriguez has died

Bryan Saunders: portrait of an artist in trouble

We had to destroy the Barnes
in order to save, claims director

Slate’s takedown of the art world is wrong

How did the minster come by his Hoppers?

Charles Jencks’ big sculpture

The fate of Rauschenberg’s Canyon

Talking with Nassim Taleb

Nobby’s jihad

5 ways Indian ‘net users fight for free speech

The GOP’s southern strategy
by the guy who thunk it up

Kolakowski: is God happy?