Here’s VIDA

Women feel less comfortable
in their literary communities

Iran hangs Hashem Shaabani

Torture used to obtain conviction

Pussy Riot members re-arrested in Sochi

Who funded the Iowa Writers Workshop?
The CIA

A profile of Lukáš Tomin
“the René Crevel of post-communist Prague”

Amy King, Tom Pickard
& Julia Bloch
close read Basil Bunting’s
reading of Walt Whitman’s
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Bunting’s Persian Poems

Cedar Sigo on Bob Kaufman

Steve Benson:
Notes on Revision & Evasion

Tyrone Williams,
Thom Donovan & Patrick Durgin
discuss Steve Benson’s
Did the Lights Just Go Out?

Seth Abramson’s
wide-ranging selection of reviews
in HuffPo for the AWP
(full disclosure: I’m included)

Elizabeth Bryant: Residuum

Adam Plunkett on Denise Levertov

Barrett Watten:
Boycott Language & Poetics Diplomacy
(note: these are 3 posts)

Reading Lebanon,
reading the world

Is art worth dying for?

The English Lit major

If there are no gatekeepers,
readers will have to decide
what they like

Frank X Walker
wins NAACP Image Award

Rolando Hinojosa
& Arte Público

NY Times obit for Maggie Estep

Wanda Coleman’s last laugh

Thug-Notes:
classical literature, original gangster

A terrific blog
focusing mostly
on Duncan, Spicer & Blaser

Archive of the Now:
a great resource
for innovative poetry in the UK

iPad uses Robin Williams
to rip off Walt Whitman
in the name of profit

The Plum in the Golden Vase

Don Share:
remembering James Dickey

Share on Maxine Kumin

An Opening of the Field and you

Poetry & the problems of housing
in California’s East Bay

Wilfred Owen’s early life

William S Burroughs @ 100

Voldemort reads TS Eliot

K Silem Mohammad:
translating Shakespeare into flarf

Flarf in the natural sciences

John Ashbery reads Charles Simic

Divya Victor:
13 ways of looking at
a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Marianne Moore
& her mother

Introducing Samuel R Delany

Talking with Joy Katz

How to attend the AWP
without really going

Earliest use of the word fuck

Gauss PDF:
a catalog of online conceptual poetics

What became of spelling reform?

Truespel

Why the brain
doubts a “foreign” accent

Talking with Kimiko Hahn

Kurt Vonnegut’s
rejected master’s thesis
from the University of Chicago

Photos of poets by Gerard Malanga

Illustrating Langston Hughes

A report from literary Syria

A reading @ the Poetry Foundation

What every indie author needs to know
about e-books

Some indie bookshops are “buying on consignment”

Books-a-Million closes Fairfield, Ohio store

Harper Lee settles suit
with Alabama museum

Talking with Timothy Liu

Writers are the worst procrastinators
(you knew that, right?)

O, Miami!
A city prepares to confront
the cruelest month
with poetry

Derek Walcott,
poet of the Caribbean

David Biespiel:
in defense of Derek Walcott

Vievee Francis
& the role of place in poetry

Kristen Stewart, poet

Brian Kim Stefans:
Letter to Kristen Stewart

The worst poems by great poets

The Daphne Awards
for 1963: 50 years
& it’s still all Quietism

The fine line
between art & kitsch
is drawn by Forbes

The Onion’s take
on Amtrak’s
residencies for writers

Richard Brautigan:
Lonely at the Laundromat

Charles Olson as scribe
trained for the kingdom of heaven

Talking with Brian Teare

Aram Saroyan:
goodbye to USC’s
Master of Professional Writing program

Elaine Scarry:
can a lit scholar
thwart nuclear Armageddon?

Umberto Eco on imaginary maps

Rowling’s regrets

Strange bedfellows:
Frank Bidart & James Franco
(subscribers only)

Some poems by Bijan Jalali

How not to get interviewed
for director, creative writing

The endangered art of
movie novelization

Carl Van Vechten’s
celebrity portraits

Barry Schwabsky
on permission to fail

A protest at the Guggie
over labor practices
in Abu Dhabi

A mealy mouthed Guggenheim response

Protesters
respond to the Guggenheim response

Georg Baselitz is an ass
& he wants you to know

Germany to comb museums
for Nazi-looted art

Talking with Anh Duong

Hudson has died

Barack Obama apologizes
for snarking on art history

What contemporary art
can teach CEOs

John Yau on Josephine Halvorson

Shia LaBeouf bags it

Celebrity art projects

John Ahearn in the South Bronx

Talking with Jessica Silverman

Postwar art time capsule:
it’s a man’s world

Art & Language:
Blurting

Artist wins challenge
over NSA logo

MoMA:
destroying a building
in order to save it

Who’s the vandal?
Ai Weiwei or the man
who smashed his
Han urn?

Italian futurism at the Guggie

Paris before Haussmann

When the sculptures
came to the library

Lincoln’s other bedroom

Returning the red to Renoir

Talking with Ryan Cobourn

The photography of Linda McCartney

The Yoko Ono Fan Club –
not particularly about Yoko

Robert Mapplethorpe’s early Polaroids

Visionary land painter
Leonard Knight
has died

Knight’s Salvation Mountain

Pianos & protest
in the Ukraine

In the Church of Difficult Music

After hearing
Henry Cowell
at San Quentin

NY Times
compares Fred Frith & Nels Cline
to brawling geese

Bob Dylan’s
Superbowl Chrysler ad

Ian McKellen
in NYC in 1969

Philip Seymour Hoffman
funds a prize for playwrights
without even knowing it

 Peter Wong’s reviews
from the San Francisco Independent Film Festival

Femmegimp:
A sex-positive site
about feminism, disability & eroticism

From Pakistan to Penn
via ModPo

Early music expert
charged with 15 sexual offenses

Not unlike a prominent Indian editor

5 epic fails
in the FCC’s new
net neutrality plan

Josh Marshall
on quitting the academy

America’s
most & least
literate cities