Nance Van Winckel:
Pho-Toems

Camille Guthrie:
Why I am not a nature poet

Paul Hoover
on the PBS Newshour

7 by Cedar Sigo

Talking with Dorothea Lasky

The poetry thief

Talking with
Daisy Fried, Aricelis Girmay
& Lisa Russ Spaar

Introducing Adeena Karasick

New Hampshire laureate
Walter Butts has died

Harry Northup on Ann Stanford

4 by Joseph Massey

John Tranter in Philadelphia

Alfred Starr Hamilton’s Cinderella

NY Times’ belated
Daniel Hoffman obit

A photo & poem of Hoffman
from Tom Devaney

Talking with Eric Selland

CAConrad:
Poetry will not apologize

Neruda rises from the grave

Disturbing Neruda’s rest

National Poetry Month
Public Service Overview

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa:
from Sequentia

Joritz-Nakagawa
on unstable identities

Andrew Peart:
conceptualism as academic management

Buffalo poetics

Death of another  bookstore,
this time in Kinderhook, NY

Waterstone prepares
for the all-digital future

Worldreader app
is reaching 500,000 new readers
each month

Understanding & not understanding
Frank O’Hara

From Alexander Vvedensky’s
God May Be Around

Anselm Berrigan’s Primitive State

On the other hand

The apotheosis of
David Foster Wallace

Joyelle McSweeney
on Catherine Mavrikakis

4  by Tracey McTague

New poems from Kit Robinson

2 poems by Merrill Gilfillan

Bill Mayer:
remembering Jack Gilbert

David Pavelich on Antennae

The slow death
of the American author

© trolls

Judge rules
that reselling MP3s is theft

In Lawrence, KS
with Burroughs, Acker, Corso

Talking with John Giorno

Martha Ronk’s
When a Photograph Arrives by Mail

Pamela Paul replaces Sam Tanenhaus
@ NY Times Book Review

Talking with Robert Silvers
of the NYRB

Elizabeth Hardwick:
The Decline of Book Reviewing
(1959)

Remembering
Jake Adam York

Folger librarian
heads to Austin

The collect poem
of Winston Churchill

Vote for
Poetry’s mobile app
for a Webby

Jill McCorkle
& the ‘Brady Bunch’ dog thing

Ashbery sends the Whitman Prize
to a Brooklyn poet

The written language of the Pictish discovered

The King James Bible
as an influence
on the language

Patrick Morrisey on Karin Lessing

Talking with CD Wright

The poet as professor

Poetry matters
sez NPR NewsPoet
Tracy K Smith

Talking with Rob Halpern

Cats as literary critics

Northern California Book Awards’
shortlist

Arthur Sze wins the Jackson

Talking with Neal Stephenson

Neuroscience in fiction

April is the cruelest month:
call my lawyer

Jesse Seldess:
from The Offers

Who is served
by a literary prize?

Paths to haiku

Mathemakus!

Kent Johnson on Marjorie Perloff

Paperbacks still matter

Talking with Matthew Savoca

Tablets overtake e-readers

10 ways self-publishing
has changed
the world of books

25 things you need to know
about self-publishing

Self-publishing vs. censorship

Predatory academic publishers

B&N restarts its self-publishing venture
as Nook Press

Smashwords goes global

2 poems from Frank Bidart

Hark! It’s Carl Rakosi in the park

Talking with Isabel Allende

Why Nabokov matters

Slang is not code

San Francisco slang

Joyce Carol Oates
at her Gothic best

Talking with Brian Teare

John Beer on William Fuller

Talking with Chris Martin

2 poems by Beverly Dahlen

Amy King’s String Theory

Talking with Lev Grossman

Talking with Ken Wissoker of Duke U Press

Columbia College Press shuts down

How poetry saved the life of
Amber Dawn

Deaf culture
& the future of American Sign Language

Apple censors gay sex
in adult comic

Michael Chasar’s Creeley tattoo

& a Vonnegut tattoo with a story
from Daniel Silliman

After 3 decades,
an e-book for Sandra Cisneros

Vanessa Place
on Joey Yearous-Algozin

Carl Phillips &  Brad Leithauser

The IMPAC Dublin shortlist

Michael Robbins
loads up on snark for Anne Carson

2 poems by Carson

Carson:
Krapp Interviews the Glass Technician

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died

The poetry of women’s work

Art policy research is expensive

Microscopic increases for NEA & NEH
in Obama budget

Last in per capita arts spending,
California proposes to increase
arts budget to 75 times
the current $1M

Perverted views of art

Should the Tate
have removed
Graham Ovenden’s prints

Michael Haffka’s
portraits of poets

Ed Ruscha’s photography

The cursed Picasso

Schwabsky’s Bernini
(subscribers only)

Who owns the flea-market Renoir?

Lauder’s cubism collection
goes to the Met
(note the Salinger-Vivekenanda
collection at end of last link)

What a $1.1B donation
means to the Met

Talking with Al Moran

MoMA to raze
American Folk Art Museum building

Artist busted
for instagramming street art

Kircher’s cosmos

Holland Cotter on Jay DeFeo

The photography of William Eggleston

Manhattan show
for students who lost work
in fire at the Pratt

LA architecture

Frank Gehry’s war on paper

Paolo Soleri has died

Simulcasting Manet

Where are the women
in new music?

Gangstagrass:
Rappalachia

Hugh McCracken has died

Philip Glass: Man in the middle

Alarm Will Sound
@ Carnegie Hall

Chelsea Light Moving
(Thurston Moore’s band)
performing
Frank O’Hara Hit

A NY Times appreciation
of Roger Ebert

Plus AO Scott on Ebert

Guardian obit of Ebert

Successful films Ebert didn’t like

Ebert’s last review

Ebert’s 15 most memorable reviews

When Ebert won
the New Yorker
cartoon caption contest

Ebert on politics

When Ebert scolded Bob Dole

Ebert’s genius

Coworkers remember Ebert

Remembering Ebert

Ebert’s funeral

The author of
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

An imperfect Kubrik exhibition

Osipova opts for the Royal Ballet

Tsiskaridze sues the Bolshoi

Because well-behaved women
seldom make history

The enigma of the celebrity philosopher

Slobbering over Slavoj

Slaughtered by Sloterdijk

Derrida: The Excluded Favorite

A new Lacan entry
in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
& on Continental Feminism

The ironic success
of experimental philosophy

Hacker anthropology

Bumblebees use logic

Annie Finch:
How pagans do it

Can you patent math?

MOOC this!