Talking with Rachel Levitsky

The haiku killer

Amy King:
poetry and death

Xi Murong:
poets & poetry never die

Talking with Harryette Mullen

Struggling over Mayakovsky’s heritage

Kerouac as the American Proust

Mill of Particulars:
Robert Kelly starts a blog

Talking with Anne Shaw

Talking with Charles Bernstein

Calvin Bedient
Against Conceptualism

Yedda Morrison’s Darkness
& conceptual poetry

The secret kabbalism of Kenny Goldsmith

Susan M Schultz:
Conceptualism as affect

Marjorie Perloff:
Towards a Conceptual Lyric

Henry Gould contra conceptualism

Kenny G
printing out the internet

Kent Johnson on ‘safe’ conceptualisms

Yoko Ono’s Acorns

Eric Baus:
Granular Vocabularies --
poetics & recorded sound

Charles Olson:
In Cold Hell, In Thicket
(still the best use of the line since WW2)

Samuel Ace:
Obsession & Place

On being a trans poet

Amiri Baraka’s Blues People @ 50

I rejected Doris Lessing

Talking with Claire Donato

Paul Pines
as antidote to Mark Edmundson

Carol Ann Duffy:
no poem for bonnie Prince George

Alternative poems for the Little Prince

50 years of fighting
over Sylvia Plath

Random Penguin CEO
is a man-on-a-mission

Jack Foley’s
history of Bay poetry

Lawren Bale has died

Laynie Browne:
An Amulet for Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Roberto Bolaño’s The Unknown University

Jonathan Galassi
remembering when FSG mattered

John Ashbery & the movies

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Remembering Frank O’Hara
on the 47^th anniversary of his death

This is your brain on paper

Your brain on poetry:
poems, cubes & the brain

A nude font for Walt Whitman

Drew Gardner:
I am a Beluga Whale

97 years of typewriters

The Kindergarde poets

The challenges of formatting
Microsoft Word

The first novel of sexting
published in 1880

Cochlear implants
could threaten 200+
sign languages
along with deaf culture

NEA translation fellows

Reading Fifty Russian Poets
of the 21^st Century

The Defiance of Remembering:
Art comes to the aid
of Al-Mutanabbi Street

Denver’s Bookbar

Having vanquished
brick-n-mortar bookshops,
Amazon cuts discounts

At least until
Amazon’s declaration of war

Amazon’s advantage?
It can afford to lose $$

B&N is good for Amazon

Publishers have paid $166 million
in price-fixing case,
but Apple might pay a half billion $$

Penguin as an indie
goes out on good numbers

An obit for the imaginary Fox Books

Classic library ads

© & blind-friendly books

How should bookstores
handle customer data?

e-book vs. p-book, which one?

That old e-book smell

Interactive paper

Omnivore’s literary dating site
is not the AWP

Anonymity as culture

The logic of Anonymous

Sci-fi’s forte isn’t tomorrow,
but today

Reading Frost
to rookie cops

Junot Diaz is a ‘poetry genius’

Kelli Russell Agodon:
Behind my praise of other poets

Authors who’ve crossed the gender line

Scarriet’s “hot 100”

A poem from a Gitmo detainee
finds itself
on a Calcutta syllabus

1954:
the first celebration of
Bloomsday

Joyce in Nice

A first edition Ulysses
goes for €350K

Yves  Bonnefoy turns 90
& looks just like Bilbo Baggins

Talking with Italo Calvino

The 10 best books by Calvino

What is poetic value?

Edmonton Journal does its own
gender count

David Biespiel:
poetry is a reality TV show
in s l o w  m o t i o n

Hemingway’s notebooks
go online

Lindsay Turner on revisiting texts

Talking with Chris Kraus

Sinéad Morrissey
on the short list for the Forward Prize

Mostly conservative lineup
for 2014 Split This Rock

Rowling’s back @ #1

Rowling Thunder
(subscribers only)

Banana fo-fana

Invitation to a subheading

Talking with Joyelle McSweeney

Susan Gubar:
Living with cancer – a quilt of quietism

Talking with Ben Kafka

Danny Snelson:
archival penumbra

Couplets
& academic sex abuse

A history of swearing

No June Cleavers
in this anthology on motherhood

Talking with WD Snodgrass

Talking with
Eduardo Galeano

Poetry & pop culture in NYC

5 years of
poetry & pop culture

The 10 most talked-about books of the year so far

Nietzsche’s typewriter

Confronting grief on a Philippine campus
through a book of poems

Elitism counts:
the case for professional critics

Tao Lin’s Taipei

Patricia Lockwood:
Rape Joke

William T Vollmann in Afghanistan

Corporate verse in Mumbai

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Ode to a Potato Bug

Scarriet close-reads Seth Abramson

Abramson:
Reggie Watts on metamodernism

Trying to take Abramson seriously

Abramson on
Orange is the New Black

Not the Man Booker:
no poets, no Americans, no arguing

Then there’s the Man Booker

Irish Times Poetry Now shortlist

The trouble with book lists

The top 5 LA books of poetry:
six lists

3 amigos:
Amis, McEwan, Rushdie

Vonnegut’s autobiography

Whitman’s grandchildren

See through your texts

The language of wolves

Jonathan Franzen
on the hunting of songbirds

Howard Norman’s new memoir

Stephen Burt is the new Nate Silver?

Carol Muske-Dukes
on Burt, Adrian Matejka & Christina Davis

Why poetry allegedly can’t find its audience
(part one) (part two)

Tom Raworth’s response

Literary Norfolk

Missing your deadlines

Damn you, autocorrect top 25

In France, insulting pols
is no longer a crime

The Onion’s obit for print

Six-year embargo sought
on digital dissertations

Everyday life & the memorized poem

10 comp lit fails

Peter Plagens
on the question of talent
in art education

Jeffrey Deitch was doomed at LA MOCA

The official announcement is here

Who can save LA MOCA?

President of
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
resigns under phony PhD cloud

The Art Newspaper obit for Walter De Maria

Jerry Salz on some key De Maria works

How are artists getting paid?

Everything you wanted to know about
collecting art

The Sculpture Gym

Artaud:
Van Gogh,
the suicide provoked by society

The psychedelic origins of art

Peter Schjeldahl:
Detroit should sell off its art

The National Review,
Bill Buckley’s old journal,
agrees

Christie’s calls Detroit

Christie’s as vulture

10 painters’ lives
chronicled as infographics

Framing art

Still needing to defend
outsider art

Street art goes meta

An erased Banksy

Reinventing
The Big Orange Splot

Me & my selfie

Talking with Tamara Romo

A violinist dies
at the Bolshoi

Bolshoi acid attack indictment finalized

JJ Cale has died

Mahler’s love life

Pussy Riot member
denied parole

Betty Apple SoundCloud

How digital music
killed high-end audio

Who’s to blame for starving musicians?

A new model for publishing music

Early Joyce in song

Mannes re-invents the conservatory

Ballet is suffering
from a lack of
young women dancers

The New Yorker
sees a lot of itself
in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine

Talking with Lynda Obst

John Searle on consciousness

Attack of the MOOCs

Clay Shirky:
MOOCs matter

MOOCs:
a system study of the published literature

Udacity MOOC
flunks @ San Jose State

15 “innovations”
coming to higher ed

Mark Bauerlein:
no growth in the humanities
is too a problem

Nate Silver’s departure
from the NY Times
is another nail
in print journalism’s coffin

With respect to income mobility,
where you live matters

Spy agencies ban Lenovo
(forgetting that virtually every other PC,
tablet or smartphone
is also manufactured in China!)