Wednesday, October 30, 2013




Emily Dickson’s archive
is live
The R is back
Lynn Behrendt’s Scrawl
Talking with
Lisa Robertson
Tyrone Williams:
Anthology wars
& on amateur poets
& the academy
Philip Lamantia’s
Collected Poems
Female writers
continue to suffer from discrimination
Stephen Ratcliffe’s Continuum
BookThug’s
fall lineup reviewed
10 years of BookThug
100 years of Ezra’s don’ts
Revelator’s first review:
“a move toward new
and more capacious ways of imagining
how poetic form
can hold worlds together”
25 reasons why
this is the golden age
of indie publishing
The Kabul women’s poetry club
Martina Thomson has died
© without law
How French law
keeps Amazon at bay
Amazon as bully
Amazon publishing head to depart
Contracts that no longer
guarantee hard-copy books
Stephen Burt: indiscriminate fanboy
Kenneth Goldsmith
is a hoax
Or a Meme Machine
Fungible Poetics, Inc.
Ange Mlinko on Denise Levertov
(subscribers only)
Carol Ann Duffy:
22 Reasons for the Bedroom Tax
gzip + poetry = ?
John Yau on Lionel Zirpin
James Longenbach
on DH Lawrence
Lawrence: Man and Bat
Remember when
newspapers had book reviews?
The NBCC wants to celebrate…
When the Beats
still were “Muppet Babies”
Tom Disch & Marilyn Hacker:
On the Road
Ashbery’s stuff
Talking with Sylvia Plath:
‘I’m 50 years behind’
Plath’s ongoing appeal
Robert Hass:
Wallace Stevens in the World
U of Illinois
acquires the archives of
Gwendolyn Brooks
Joseph Ceravolo’s Perpetual
Geof Huth on LitArena
Dorothea Lasky’s Monsters
Tucson lifts ban
on Latino studies textbooks
The Text Festivals:
Language Art & Material Poetry
Eleanor Catton
wins the Man Booker
Catton reading from
The Luminaries
A year of great poetry books,
none of which
made the
National Book Award shortlist
What’s wrong with poetry? Nothing!
The 2013 Stranger Genius
literary award shortlist
And the winner is…
The bpNichol Chapbook Award
shortlist
Margaret Atwood
on Alice Munro
Gillian White’s review
of Louise Glück
Noah Eli Gordon:
15 Problems
The most bizarre uses of paper
John Tranter
on 100 years of Poetry
(the anthology)
Why I am not
an academic poet
Talking with Kerry James
A profile of Copper Canyon
Talking with Peter Davis
Talking with Patricia Westerhof
with a sizeable excerpt from
The Dove in Bathurst Station
Talking with Nicholson Baker
Will apps replace books?
The poetry of
Twitter chairman
Jack Dorsey
Making modernism BIG
1913
is completely up-to-date
The pirated Ulysses
Talking with Juliet Patterson
Francesca Lisette:
a manifesto for revolutionary tenderness
Talking with Saif Alsaegh
Talking with Donna Tartt
Neil Gaiman:
let kids read
the books they love
Seth Abramson’s
‘All You Ploughboys’
Tim Kenner & Jasper Bernes:
Theses on
Poetry and/or Revolution
3 honks for Blonk
A poets’ roundtable
on person, persona
& other vestiges of the 19th century
Austen’s one-liners
Should we rewrite Austen?
William Gaddis:
America’s best
unknown writer
Gaddis:
A previously unpublished memoir
New details emerge
about the young Gaddis
Michael Blouin
answers the Proust Questionnaire
Blouin in the wind
Why the Pushcart Prize is so dismal
Josef Kaplan’s
Kill List
“Josef Kaplan
has a three-inch penis”
Keston Sutherland’s statement
for ‘Revolution and/or Poetry’
10 reasons why
it must suck
to be James Franco
Talking with Michael Dennis
On Edmund Spenser’s
Shepheardes’ Calendar
Roth Unbound
Philly’s 215 Fest
Talking with Andrei Codrescu
Anne Carson:
By Chance the Cycladic People
Jill Richards:
Poetry & the Political Climate
in Oakland
Morrisey’s autobiography as a “classic”
shows just how random
Random Penguin has become
Rewriting Warhol
Talking with Jayne Anne Phillips
Talking with Sting, the author
Lee Smith
celebrates
45 of publishing
Yet another Mailer bio
Why are we surprised
by David Gilmour?
Noel Gallagher:
reading fiction is
an effing ‘waste of time’
Four decades of James Wolcott
The poem that made
Sherman Alexie
want to be a poet
Joshua Clover
on the social role of the poet
Plus JClo on music
Literary tourism
in Fredericton, New Brunswick
From TV’s Bachelorette
comes a book of poems
Talking with Douglas Coupland
5 things you don’t know about
Maurice Sendak
Talking to JJ Abrams
Nothing like a comic
about colonic irrigation
Poetry is like
music to the mind
Court declines
to hear writer’s appeal
in leaks case
How Lou Reed
overthrew Communism
Lou Reed’s politics
The Rolling Stone obit
Lessons from
Cecil Taylor
Norman Granz
& the history of jazz
David Byrne:
good @ music,
bad @ math
Ronald Shannon Jackson
has died
Pussy Riot prisoner
“disappears” in the gulag
A Benjamin Britten bio
Suzanne Lacy’s
Between the Door & the Street
Contemporary Dance Video Database
Bolshoi dancer on trial
over acid attack
Sacked Bolshoi dancer
gets top St Petersburg job
Can Diego Rivera
save Detroit?
Barry Schwabsky on Carol Bove
Jason Rhoades @ Philly’s ICA
An art book for preschool
More classics for toddlers
Banksy sold
$225,000 worth of art
for $420
at his Central Park stall
Banksy hits NYC
& the city hits back
Banksy’s NYC
5Pointz
calls on Banksy
to help save it
Banksy suspends his project
due to “police activity”
Bloomberg is not a fan
How the hedonists
seduced the art world
Anthony Caro has died
Ivan Brunetti’s aesthetics
A rape sculpture in Poland
Prague gets
a floating finger
Carl Andre
takes the floor
David Hockney
@ the de Young
‘Wild’ art
The rise of the art fair
Marina Abramović:
the institute
Shirley Jaffe’s paintings
from 1970s Paris
How to talk about
Freud & Bacon
What’s hot
at the Frieze London
Hollis Frampton’s
Zorn’s Lemma
The trouble with
Blue is the Warmest Color
Breaking Bad
&  the philosophy of religion
Fly thru 17th Century London
Chris Chen:
Notes toward
an abolitionist antiracism
Scholars who shill for Wall Street
Quitting academia
Citizen Marx
7 weirdest philosophers
What fashion sez
about gender, sex and power
Chinese newspaper
pleads
for a journalist’s freedom
Chinese journalist ‘confesses’
Edward Snowden’s courage
Cameron:
Investigate The Guardian
Press freedom ‘not threatened’
A museum for Ben Franklin
How to say
truthiness
in Chinese
The spectre of communisation
A quick guide to US black ops
Dignity’s due
History’s sinkhole:
the Mexico-US border
18 images of earth
worth perusing
If only Line
were on-line

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