John Ashbery:
Gravy for the Prisoners

Vsevolod Nekrasov:
What poetry has to do with language

Amaranth Borsuk:
The conceptual artist’s book

Narrative in the visual poetry of
Satu Kaikkonen

Barrett Watten:
In memory of Raymond Henry Watten

Samuel Amadon’s
The Pennsylvania Station Sequence

Aldon Nielsen:
My beef with Kevin Young

Talking with – and without – Bhanu Kapil

John Latta on Sal Mimeo

MK Asante’s Buck

Weasel words on gender from NYRB

Audio books before audio books

NY Times obit of Elmore Leonard

An obit from Aljazeera

Leonard’s rules for writers

Son to finish Leonard’s last book

Outsourcing biography

When you tell them
you’re a poet

Many good reviews by Grace Cavalieri
(esp. of Doug Lang)

The principle of inclusion & exclusion

Amy King to Marjorie Perloff
on this very topic

Smithsonian exhibition
based on a poem by
Carlos Bulosan

It’s not over
for Barnes & Noble

Kenneth Koch’s work in theater

Koch hasn’t stopped teaching
just because he’s dead

Talking with Margaret Atwood

Philip Lamantia:
Blue Grace

Bernstein’s Kandinsky

Many a great writer
has a great critic

Syllabi to live by

‘they want to hear / it suck’

A map of linguistic diversity
from the Bureau of the Census

Tongues & the philosophy of language

Nous twitterons:
the prolix French
in a 140-keystroke world

What keeps typewriters alive?
Funerals!

The top 200 advocates for American poetry
according to Seth Abramson

A skeptical view of Abramson’s list

23 more people
who made me care about poetry
in 2013

Talking with Ishmael Reed

Academic poaching in Pittsburgh

Great poets, muddled editing:
15-year-old anthology
becomes $15 PDF (!?!)

Against Expression:
just as problematic
but free online

Editing Bukowski

Spinster, victim, soldier, spy:
Dick Francis & the evolution
of female characters in crime fiction

Allen Ginsberg
on Kerouac & Kesey & Cassady

Illustrating
On the Road
page by page

Ann Hostetler:
Some New Voices in Mennonite Poetry

Why genre matters

Talking with Thomas Keneally

The “reasonable” language Nazi

Albert Murray has died

Commercial poetry:
the ten most influential people
(8 of whom are men)

Twitter threats probe suspect bailed

China busts web users
over the politics of their posts

UK feds attack Guardian offices
to destroy Snowden files

© on the MTA

Jorge Volpi
on the new narconovelas

Ralph Semino Galán’s Discernments

Campaign to buy back Austen’s ring
from Kelly Clarkson
gets underway

Remembering Roethke in Michigan

NASA wants astronauts writing poetry

What does literally literally mean?

With the poetry of math,
writer’s block adds up

2 novels from South America

Shakespeare’s handwriting

Reviewing Rakoff in tub-thumping rhyme

Joshua Edwards’ Imperial Nostalgias

Covering Lolita

A rave non-review of Mary Ruefle’s
Madness, Rack, and Honey

Salinger @ war

Salinger’s next 5 books

Habitat for Humanity
to rescue Updike’s house

The safe prose of Mo Yan

Selling poems on Craigslist

Charlie Simic:
what we lose when we lose
used bookstores

Simic’s New & Selected Poems

Talking with David Bottoms

5 good small press titles

Ten ‘forgotten classics’ you need to read

The Joyce Kilmer Society of Mahwah

Xerox patch to fix creative math

Branagh to Broadway:
Macbeth

A postcard from Marcel

Damien Hirst:
when art becomes Science

Rauschenberg friends
sue for $60M

Barry Schwabsky:
Degas’ method

Schwabsky:
2 photographers

What the funny papers thought
about the Armory Show
100 years ago

Picasso murals
on doomed buildings

Braille street art

The perfect Lego set

Catherine Murphy:
contemporary realism

Less than minimalism

Kid Hazo’s street signs

Before there was Cindy Sherman,
there was Julia Margaret Cameron

Against performance
(in Spanish)

Anatomy of an art appraisal

The 73-year-old Chinese immigrant
behind $80M in art forgeries

Berlin’s old masters
to stay put

NYC subway art
rises from the dead

Talking with Karinne Keithley Syers

Thurston’s got a brand new band:
Chelsea Light Moving

Cedar Walton has died

17,400 of Alan Lomax’ audio files

Parkinson’s silences Linda Ronstadt

Cloning John Lennon

Vinh Bao
& the music of Vietnam

Ode to Joy
on 167 theremins
disguised as matryoshka dolls

Svetlana Lunkina
joins National Ballet of Canada

Talking with Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart

Stuart Klawans
on 3 films about class

Mark Kermode
takes over as
film critic at the Observer

Gary Younge
close-reads King’s speech

Joshua Clover:
Chomsky vs. Žižek

Time for Europe
to stop being the last colony

The 2 Americas of Chelsea Manning