The next
100,000 Poets for Change
event is scheduled
for 27 September 2014
(thinkin’ this # might even be a little low)

Political poets continue to be targeted

Barrett Watten
on poetic diplomacy

3 poems by Ange Mlinko

WCW’s To a Solitary Disciple

Duffy organizes opposition
to prison censorship

Nick Laird’s Go Giants

Rob A Mackenzie
on 20 moments
@ StAnza 2014

Tyrone Williams: Radical Mimesis:
Conceptual Poetics & the African Diaspora

William Burroughs:
the junky genius

Happy birthday,
Gregory Corso!

Another ode to City Lights

Marcus Ewert:
Sleeping with the Beats

Talking with Alice Notley

New poems from
Lori Anderson Moseman

William J Harris on Amiri Baraka

Reading Ko Un in the UK

A change in typeface
could save millions

Mia You
on Dodie Bellamy’s
Cunt Norton

Why Finnegans Wake?

Finnegans Wake in pictures

The Guardian’s first review of Wake

Seibo There Below

John Lydgate:
An early tagger, Chaucer’s BFF

Jaime Robles
on vispo in London

How would Bloom’s Western Canon
be received today?

Can bookstores survive in NYC?

Another bookstore
calls it quits

One more indie publisher
snapped up by the corporations

The bureaucratization of creativity
spelled out with pride

What makes a Jewish poet?

Talking with Bas Kwakman
on the place of poetry

Asheville publishers
empower local authors

Is FanFic an actual genre?

Poets with father issues

India’s disappearing
letter writers

Digitizing the Ramayana

Publisher requires authors to
waive “moral rights”

Pam Brown’s Home By Dark

Philly poets,
apply to be the
Youth Poet Laureate

Fluffya tawks,
or does it?

Jane Yeh’s The Ninjas

Happy real birthday, Frank O’Hara

John Ashbery’s Quick Question

Where to register for
NaPoWriMo 2014

Remembering John Berryman

Poetry to make guys cry

Laurie Duggan on Michael Farrell

All the reviews in Jacket2

CS Giscombe on John Keene

The art of publishing:
talking with James Laughlin

The “lost” school poems of
Douglas Adams & Griff Rhys Jones

3 “great” moments at the NBCC awards

Adichie & Bidart collect NBCC awards

CD Wright’s
One With Others

3 poems by Michael Fried

Suit over bad review
tossed by court

A textual analysis of the
Divergent trilogy

Kafka’s joke book

Remembering
a Scrabble legend

Fiction’s big white problem

Tess Taylor, Gayle Jessup White
& the impact of the net
on both poetry, history
& Thomas Jefferson

Irish poets honor Heaney

Is Detroit the new Brooklyn?

Elizabeth Bishop’s poems
vs.
Elizabeth Bishop’s drafts

Decoding the Voynich Manuscript

Vatican to digitize its library

Gabriel Rosenstock
& the place of Irish language poetry
in Ireland

Joshua Cohen on WG Sebald

English majors change the world

Works & Days of the fénéon collective

Measuring America’s
Shakespeare Jones

The blank verse moo of Wallace Stevens

Stephen Vincent’s
Haptics of poetry readings

John Sarsgard’s terrific
photo gallery of contemporary poets

Text at the Whitney

What’s good @ the Biennial

Faces of the Whitney

The collage art of
Louis Armstrong

Man breaks statue
in quest for selfie

Post-internet art?

John Yau:
Julije Knifer on the cutting edge

Yau on Kathy Butterly

& on Slominski’s sculptures of handbags

Art & the practice of compromise

New work from Jasper Johns

The double-sided spirituality of Chris Ofili

Gary Stephan:
retro moderne

Best art spaces in NOLA

8 new mega-museums
in the Middle East

Kaja Silverman:
The Miracle of Analogy

Response to Silverman

Susan Silas:
Love in the Ruins

Kara Walker in Oregon

The sculpture of
Peter Buggenhout

Doug Wheeler in Chelsea

Talking with Chris Martin

9 more Rauschenbergs
head to museums

Political lessons from Italian Futurism

A Matisse stolen by the Nazis
is heading home

What becomes
of repatriated antiquities?

“Flipping” as a practice
for art collectors

Walter Benn Michaels
on Owen Kydd

Response to Michaels

Talking with Paul Chan

The artifacts of a “repulsive criminal”

The art of Google Books

Carrie Mae Weems
at the Guggenheim

Dems propose resale royalties
for artists

Ai Weiwei responds
to the dropper of the vase

Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix

Kronos Quartet @ 40

Wendy Whelan departs
NYC Ballet

I am not god
but I am Antonioni

The last American film from
Orson Welles

Mainstreaming XKCD

On Fred Jameson’s
The Antimonies of Realism

Jameson replies

Was Marx right?

Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism on display
in “new” notebooks

“Your content is worthless”

Gerda Saunders:
My Dementia

Should bloggers be paid?

Why Columbia’s firing of
2 public intellectuals matters

Carole Vance
then wins major career award

Nations that ban
either Facebook, YouTube or Twitter
(Add the USA
& you pretty much have
the map of nations that use the death penalty)