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Sunday, January 31, 2021

I was just 22 when Clayton Eshleman first accepted my work for Caterpillar, encouraged no doubt by Robert Kelly. It was an important appeara...

Clayton Eshleman | passing



Friday, June 26, 2020

Philadelphia's mayor and police commissioner concede that the 676 police riot was exactly that. One cop will be fired. A week late & a do...

2020 | Black Lives Matter | police | socialism



Sunday, December 15, 2019

I have been wrong about 2020’s presidential election and I should say so. I had expected that by the end of Super Tuesday (March 3rd...



Sunday, December 15, 2019

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Bob Dylan | community | Film | history | 2020 | elections | Politics | Events | Readings | 2020 | Politics | socialism



Sunday, November 10, 2019

We only saw the after-effects of one Catalan independence rally when we were in Barcelona last month, though there had been a wilde...



Monday, July 01, 2019

Bob Dylan’s Eyes The films by or about Bob Dylan are every bit as strange, unique, intimate & evasive, as he is and Martin Scor...

Bob Dylan | community | Film | history



Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Some Limits of Space Spatial metaphors can be useful in providing a visual frame for any activity. To think outside the box, you need ...



Monday, April 29, 2019

The Real Race for the Democratic Nomination The need to replace the Fascist-in-Chief is so desperate that the race for the Democratic ...

2020 | elections | Politics



Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Thursday, April 11 th 5:30 – 6:30 PM Living Arts 307 E. MB Brady Street Tulsa, Oklahoma (a part of Tulsa LitFest) ...

Events | Readings



Monday, March 18, 2019

I was a no vote, even though I enthusiastically support Bernie in his campaign for the presidency in 2020. But I also support Elizabet...

2020 | Politics | socialism



Monday, February 25, 2019

The Oscars as always are a mixed bag, often better for the couture than for the films that grab the gold. The Green Book was not a dr...

Film | Prizes



Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Multitudes Walt Whitman often is characterized as an apotheosis of the American cult of individualism with Song of Myself presented ...

Multitudes | Walt Whitman



Friday, January 11, 2019

This coming Monday The Fab Four come to the Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant 247 S. 17th Street Phil-EYE-delphia 7:30 - 9:30 PM ...

Readings



Monday, January 07, 2019

Ben Friedlander jokingly introduced me at the 2017 National Poetry Foundation conference on the poetries of the 1990s by saying that t...

Conceptual poetics | Flarf | literary history | periodicity



Friday, January 04, 2019

China has to know by now that it can seize Taiwan any time it wants and that Trump has so ravaged the US’ ability to mount a coalition in...

Globalism | Politics | Trump



Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Is power a function of speech? That, in essence, was the core of the Supreme Court decision we know under the deeply cynical – but curious...

Capital | history | Linguistics | political action



Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Today in DC Sunday, September 30, 6PM Bridge Street Books 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC Readers in addition to co-editors Sil...



Friday, September 28, 2018

Realized today that I have attended something like 4,000 poetry readings in my life. What a great gift that has been. And, yes, the Bromig...



Thursday, September 20, 2018

David Bromige: Posthumous World Tour continues The tour continues...



Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Where We Are Now When I was a young man, I wrote law. I was not a lawyer, having no degree beyond my high school diploma, altho...



Friday, August 24, 2018

Incremental Windows , James Garrahan's documentary of David Bromige, available for viewing NOW on YouTube. Don't forget to come to the Po...



Monday, August 06, 2018

David Bromige: Posthumous World Tour There will be a series of r...



Monday, January 22, 2018

Writing Across Borders Penn Students: I still have a few seats available in my Writing Across Borders class that meets on Wednesdays...



Saturday, November 04, 2017

Reading Tonight with Peter Manson fresh from the symposium on the man & his work at the University of Glasgow @ The ...



Wednesday, October 25, 2017

My nephew, Luke, turns 18 today. His plan in life is to become a filmmaker. This past August, he spent most of the month at our...



Sunday, September 03, 2017

The Worldwide Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on September 6, 2017 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Presented by ...



Saturday, July 22, 2017

My reading at the University of Paris Diderot with translations by Martin Richet March 7, 2017

Paris | Readings | translation



Monday, May 22, 2017

Within the past year, there have been three major motion pictures built around poets and poetry – Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson,   Pabl...

Film



Thursday, March 23, 2017

Joanne in the Himalayas 1962, photo by Allen Ginsberg e-mail to Linda Russo from Ron Silliman From:      rsillima@ix.netcom.com ...

Joanne Kyger | Passings



Friday, February 24, 2017

Tour de France Nantes Reading & Interview with Martin Richet Sunday, March 5,   2:00 pm Maison de la Poésie de Nantes The ...

Coming Events | France | Readings | Talks | translation



Monday, February 20, 2017

Not to be confused with the Vichy regime being set up in DC and elsewhere. The following are Twitter accounts for the legitimate govern...

Defend the Constitution



Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Tom Raworth 1938 -- 2017 A link here to the Poetry Foundation's recording of Tom Raworth reading " Gaslight ": a line of faces...

passing | Tom Raworth | We'll not see the likes of him again



Wednesday, January 11, 2017

No title

censorship | Freedom of speech | political action | political poetry



Saturday, December 31, 2016

David Meltzer 1937 - 2016 Here is a note I wrote on David's work here in 2005. I’ve written on numerous occasions that the so-c...



Tuesday, October 04, 2016

My mother, Patricia Tansley Silliman, would have been 90 today

Personal



Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Paul Blackburn and Me  Edie Jarolim It’s been thirty years since I finished editing the Collected Poems of Paul Blackbur...

Edie Jarolim | Paul Blackburn



Wednesday, April 20, 2016

As someone who has always – at least since I was 10 – been reading a lot of books at one time, it’s rare that I don’t find at least one...

current reading | good books



Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Philly poets -- bad news. Readers’ Forum Books in Wayne (N. Wayne Ave just above route 30, half a block from the tra...

Bookstores



Thursday, January 14, 2016

Some 30-plus years ago, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State, concerned at having given its annual book award the previous two y...

passing



Friday, December 25, 2015

No title



Thursday, December 03, 2015

Ryan Costello, the GOP congressman from our district in Chester County, PA, looks like one of those farm implement or panty-ho...

NRA | Politics



Sunday, August 30, 2015

Penn students (also students at schools with a reciprocal class agreement with Penn) There are still plenty of spots avail...

class | experimental writing | Penn



Saturday, August 22, 2015

I have a dream. The first time as history, the second time as farce. My dream is this. The disaster that is Hillary Clinton’s em...

2016 | Bernie Sanders | Claire McCaskill | Donald Trump | Hillary Clinton | Joe Biden | Richard Nixon | Ronald Reagan | Tammy Baldwin



Wednesday, August 19, 2015

The syllabus for my University of Pennsylvania course English 111 Experimental Writing: Poetry and Poetics   can now be fo...



Monday, August 10, 2015

Reading & talking in Gloucester, MA

Personal | Post-Anthropocene | Readings | Talks



Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Today

Events | Personal



Monday, July 13, 2015

In 1968, Ed van Aelstyn, my linguistics professor at San Francisco State & co-founder of Coyote’s Journal, my favorite poetry ma...

David Gitin | passing



Thursday, June 25, 2015

Lev Rubinstein & Pierre Alferi Poetry International 2015

Lev Rubinstein | Pierre Alferi | Readings



Monday, June 22, 2015

Kenneth Goldsmith & Pierre Alferi The Art of Uncreative Writing Poetry International 2015

Conceptual poetics | Kenneth Goldsmith | Pierre Alferi



Friday, June 19, 2015

Tonight! Reading in Berkeley Friday, June 19 (Door 7:00, reading begins 7:30) Brian Ang Laura Moriarty Ron Sil...



Sunday, June 14, 2015

This Week! Reading in Berkeley Friday, June 19 (Door 7:00, reading begins 7:30) Brian Ang Laura Moriarty Ron ...

Coming Events



Saturday, June 13, 2015

Juan Felipe Herrera: A Natural History of Chicano Literature

Juan Felipe Herrera | Talks



Monday, June 08, 2015

John Yau talking with Charles Bernstein’s students at Penn, April 21, 2015

conversation | John Yau



Monday, June 01, 2015

A celebration of Robert Duncan’s HD Book

H.D. | Robert Duncan



Thursday, May 28, 2015

Reading in Berkeley Friday, June 19 (Door 7:00, reading begins 7:30) Brian Ang Laura Moriarty Ron Silliman A...

Coming Events



Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The crowd at the ball game By William Carlos Williams The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a spirit...

bullying | censorship | crowdthink | history | homophobia | racism | silence



Monday, May 25, 2015

Richard Zenith talking on Fernando Pessoa

Alain Badiou | Fernando Pessoa | Richard Zenith | Talks



Friday, May 22, 2015

The most important of all rights, the one whose absence sooner or later permits the shutting down of every other one, is the righ...

AWP | blasphemy | censorship | fascism



Thursday, May 21, 2015

The kerfuffle over Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind tweets & Kenneth Goldsmith’s “performance” of Michael Brown’s autopsy is rai...

Canonicity | Steven Vincent Benet | White Guy Needing an Explanation



Monday, May 18, 2015

Elizabeth Bishop & James Merrill reading at the Library of Congress 1974

Elizabeth Bishop | James Merrill | Readings



Monday, May 11, 2015

Philip Glass   talking   with Terry Gross

Interviews | Music | Philip Glass



Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Louise Bogan & JV Cunningham reading & discussing their poems @   the Library of Congress 1968 ...

conversation | JV Cunningham | Louise Bogan | Readings



Thursday, April 30, 2015

A Celebration of Countee Cullen on his 111 th birthday with Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Tim Seibles ...

Countee Cullen | Readings | Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Tim Seibles



Monday, April 27, 2015

Audre Lorde reading in the recording library of The Library of Congress 1977

Audre Lorde | Readings



Saturday, April 25, 2015

Randall Jarrell interviewing Robert Frost 1959

Interviews | Randall Jarrell | Robert Frost



Thursday, April 23, 2015

Claudia Rankine reading @ Temple University March   19, 2015

Claudia Rankine | Readings



Monday, April 20, 2015

“ The New Sentence ” The original talk given September 16, 1979 at the San Francisco Art Institute in Bob Perel...

Personal | Talks | The New Sentence



Friday, April 17, 2015

Nathaniel Mackey hosts Tanganyika Strut 2004

Music | Nathaniel Mackey



Sunday, April 12, 2015

Ivan Doig 1939 – 2015

passing



Saturday, April 11, 2015

Judith Malina 1926 – 2015

passing



Saturday, April 11, 2015

Peter Culley 1958 – 2015 Reading @ Kootenay October 18, 2003

passing



Sunday, April 05, 2015

Steve Kowit 1938 – 2015

passing



Sunday, April 05, 2015

Bob Grumman 1941 – 2015

passing



Friday, April 03, 2015

Melvin B Tolson reading Dark Symphony

Melvin B Tolson | Readings



Monday, March 30, 2015

Tomas Tranströmer 1931 – 2015

passing



Sunday, March 29, 2015

Richard O Moore’s USA: Poetry Robert Duncan & John Wieners

Interviews | John Wieners | Richard O. Moore | Robert Duncan



Saturday, March 28, 2015

Richard O Moore’s USA: Poetry Frank O’Hara

Alfred Leslie | Frank O'Hara | Richard O. Moore



Friday, March 27, 2015

Michael McClure from a film by Richard O Moore

Michael McClure | Readings | Richard O. Moore



Thursday, March 26, 2015

Richard O Moore 1920 – 2015

passing



Monday, March 23, 2015

I have been using this blog somewhat differently this year, and suspect that I will continue to do so going forward. Rather than constr...

Personal | Politics



Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Gertrude Stein & Virgil Thomson Four Saints in Three Acts Act One Act Two Act Three

Gertrude Stein | Opera | Virgil Thomson



Sunday, March 15, 2015

Talking with Nicole Markotić

Interviews | Nicole Markotić



Thursday, March 12, 2015

Portrait by Fairfield Porter Jimmy Schuyler reading

James Schuyler | Readings



Monday, March 09, 2015

Robin Blaser reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 1995 ( first part)  ( second part)

Readings | Robin Blaser



Saturday, March 07, 2015

Nicole Brossard reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 1985

Nicole Brossard | Readings



Thursday, March 05, 2015

George Bowering reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 2004

George Bowering | Readings



Monday, March 02, 2015

Nicole Markotić reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 2004

Nicole Markotić | Readings



Sunday, March 01, 2015

Leonard Nimoy “ Do what scares you ”

passing



Friday, February 27, 2015

Deanna Ferguson reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 1998

Deanna Ferguson | Readings



Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Tom Raworth reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 1998

Readings | Tom Raworth



Sunday, February 22, 2015

Brian Teare talking @ Evergreen State College on Queer Theory & Ecopoetics 2013

Brian Teare | Talks



Saturday, February 21, 2015

Joe Brainard reading from I Remember 1971

Joe Brainard | Readings



Friday, February 20, 2015

Rae Armantrout Trendspotting: Poetry’s New Thing Armantrout is reading tonight with Brian Teare @ Dahlak Paradise 4708 Balt...

Rae Armantrout | Talks



Thursday, February 19, 2015

Cynthia Hogue reading in New York’s Segue Series 2000

Cynthia Hogue | Readings



Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Ali Mazrui: The State of African Literature

Ali Mazrui | Interviews



Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The Queer Gaze: Bureau of General Services Queer Division A panel with Samuel R Delany , Ana Božičević , Saeed Jones & T...

Ana Božičević | Panel | Saeed Jones | Samuel R Delany | Tim Trace Peterson



Monday, February 16, 2015

Philip Levine 1928 – 2015

passing



Sunday, February 15, 2015

Photos by Richard Avedon @ William Carlos Williams’ house, 1958 Ezra Pound reading & expounding from the Ezuversity ...

Ezra Pound | Readings



Saturday, February 14, 2015

Barbara Guest reading @ the Library of Congress 1969

Barbara Guest | Readings



Friday, February 13, 2015

Carl Rakosi reading @ the Library of Congress 1996

Carl Rakosi | Readings | Robert Hass



Thursday, February 12, 2015

Muriel Rukeyser reading @ the Library of Congress 1962

Muriel Rukeyser | Readings



Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Jennifer Scappettone talking about Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice ( part one)   ( part two)

Interviews | Jennifer Scappettone



Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Talking with Brent Cunningham about Small Press Distribution

Brent Cunningham | Interviews | Small Press Distribution



Monday, February 09, 2015

Ann Hamilton Making & the Spaces We Share

ann hamilton | Interviews



Sunday, February 08, 2015

David Bromige reading @ SUNY Buffalo 1976

David Bromige | Readings



Saturday, February 07, 2015

Charlemagne Palestine Strumming Music

Charlemagne Palestine | Music



Friday, February 06, 2015

Suzanne Lacy Prostitution Notes

conceptual art | Performance | Suzanne Lacy



Thursday, February 05, 2015

Patrick Eyres: Ian Hamilton Finlay & Little Sparta

Ian Hamilton Finlay | Patrick Eyres | Talks



Wednesday, February 04, 2015

John Berger in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

conversation | Hans Ulrich Obrist | John Berger



Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Bob Holman Language Matters

Bob Holman | documentary | language



Monday, February 02, 2015

Rod McKuen 1933 – 2015

passing



Sunday, February 01, 2015

Jasper Morrison A World Without Words

design | Jasper Morrison | language | photography



Saturday, January 31, 2015

Self Publish, Be Happy

photography | Self Publish Be Happy | video



Friday, January 30, 2015

Michael Stipe Michael Stipe Michael Stipe Michael Stipe

Michael Stipe | Talks



Thursday, January 29, 2015

Judith Butler , Hélène Cixous & Avital Ronell The Notion of Affinity

affinity | Avital Ronell | conversation | Hélène Cixous | Judith Butler | Panel



Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Giorgio Agamben Language, Media & Politics

Giorgio Agamben | Talks



Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Jacques Roubaud Mnemonic Hand

Jacques Roubaud | Oulipo | Talks



Monday, January 26, 2015

Etel Adnan @ the Extinction Marathon London 2014

Etel Adnan | Readings



Sunday, January 25, 2015

Yoko Ono interviewed by Waldemar Januszczak London 2012

Interviews | Yoko Ono



Saturday, January 24, 2015

Gilbert & George @ the Extinction Marathon London 2014

conceptual art | Gilbert & George | Performance



Friday, January 23, 2015

Tomaž Šalamun reading & in conversation with David Rivard

conversation | David Rivard | Readings | Tomaž Šalamun



Thursday, January 22, 2015

Ted Berrigan reading in Buffalo, 1968

Readings | Ted Berrigan



Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Cecilia Vicuña reading  in Buffalo, 2001

Cecilia Vicuña | Readings



Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Norman Fischer Two talks on mindfulness ( first talk)   ( second talk)

mindfulness | Norman Fischer | Talks



Monday, January 19, 2015

Eugene   Ostashevsky , Holly   Pester &   Sophie   Seita live at the   Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with The Wh...

Eugene Ostashevsky | Holly Pester | Readings | Sophie Seita



Sunday, January 18, 2015

Next Saturday January 24 Ron Silliman & Sophie Seita reading for the Segue Foundation @ the Zinc Bar 82 nd W. 3 rd St...

Coming Events | Personal



Saturday, January 17, 2015

Akilah Oliver reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club 2007

Akilah Oliver | Readings



Friday, January 16, 2015

Dale Edwin Sherrard 1961 – 2015

Music | passing | Sound



Thursday, January 15, 2015

Garrett Caples reading @ Pegasus, 2007

Garrett Caples | Readings



Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Frank Sherlock reading @ Small Press Traffic, 2009

Frank Sherlock | Readings



Tuesday, January 13, 2015

CAConrad reading @ Small Press Traffic, 2009

CAConrad | Readings



Monday, January 12, 2015

Geoffrey G O’Brien reading @ McNally’s Irish Pub, 2008

Geoffrey G. O'Brien | Readings



Sunday, January 11, 2015

A Walking Tour of Paris

Paris



Saturday, January 10, 2015

Emily Apter on In-comparative Literature: The Problem of Untranslatability

Emily Apter | translation



Friday, January 09, 2015

Alexander Gelley on Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project

Alexander Gelley | Arcades Project | Talks | Walter Benjamin



Thursday, January 08, 2015

No title

passing



Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Michele Serros 1966 – 2015

passing



Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Wow ! Ted Joans Lives !

documentary | Ted Joans



Monday, January 05, 2015

On Claudia Rankine’s Citizen Erica Hunt on Citizen E Ethelbert Miller: Is our language broken? Raymond Roussel: godfathe...

links | Passings



Sunday, January 04, 2015

Ursula K Le Guin at Berkeley

conversation | Ursula K Le Guin



Saturday, January 03, 2015

Miller Williams 1930 – 2015

passing



Friday, January 02, 2015

Muddy Waters Unplugged Field Recordings, 1941-42

blues | Muddy Waters



Thursday, January 01, 2015

Fanny Howe reading @ The University of Chicago

Fanny Howe | Readings



Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Henry Hills' Emma’s Dilemma featuring Emma Bee Bernstein & friends

Emma Bee Bernstein | Film | Henry Hills | Interviews



Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Paul Thomas Anderson talking about Inherent Vice

Film | Interviews | Paul Thomas Anderson | Thomas Pynchon



Monday, December 29, 2014

Steve Benson reading @ Segue 2013

Readings | Steve Benson



Sunday, December 28, 2014

Tomaž Šalamun 1941 – 2014

passing



Saturday, December 27, 2014

Fanny Howe talking at The University of Chicago

Fanny Howe | Talks



Friday, December 26, 2014

John Wilkinson on Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas | John Wilkinson | Talks



Thursday, December 25, 2014

Nina Simone on BBC’s Hard Talk, 1999

Interviews | Nina Simone



Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Nina Simone Live at Montreux, 1976

Music | Nina Simone



Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Nina Simone The Ballad of Hollis Brown

blues | Bob Dylan | Nina Simone



Monday, December 22, 2014

Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder in Louisville , 2014

conversation | Gary Snyder | Readings | Wendell Berry



Sunday, December 21, 2014

Anne Carson & friends in Seattle

Anne Carson | Performance | Readings



Saturday, December 20, 2014

Diane Wakoski in Grand Rapids

Diane Wakoski | Readings



Friday, December 19, 2014

Charles Olson reading @ the Vancouver Poetry Festival , 1963

Charles Olson | Readings



Thursday, December 18, 2014

Klaus Kertess & Carroll Dunham in conversation @ NYPL

Carroll Dunham | conversation | Klaus Kertess



Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Kit Robinson reading & talking @ Canessa Park, SF 2011

conversation | Kit Robinson | Readings



Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Jennifer Bartlett talking on Larry Eigner (note sale on The Collected Poems)

Jennifer Bartlett | Larry Eigner | Talks



Monday, December 15, 2014

James Koller 1936 – 2014

passing



Sunday, December 14, 2014

Jane Freilicher 1924 – 2014

passing



Saturday, December 13, 2014

Ralph Maud 1928 – 2014

passing



Friday, December 12, 2014

Geof Huth on Visual Poetry

Geof Huth | talk



Thursday, December 11, 2014

Vanessa Beecroft: The Female Body as Art

conceptual art | Performance | Vanessa Beecroft



Wednesday, December 10, 2014

On December 10, 2004, I posted the following note here: It was twenty years ago today that I last had a drink. Not that anyone’s count...

Personal



Tuesday, December 09, 2014

CAConrad , Jennifer Moxley , Lynn Melnick , Mark Bibbins at the Miami Book Fair

CAConrad | conversation | Jennifer Moxley | Lynn Melnick | Mark Bibbins



Monday, December 08, 2014

John Ashbery reads The Skaters

John Ashbery | Readings



Sunday, December 07, 2014

Fanny Howe , Claudia Rankine & Maureen N McLane at the Miami Book Fair

Claudia Rankine | Fanny Howe | Maureen N McLane | Readings



Saturday, December 06, 2014

John Ashbery reads Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

John Ashbery | Readings



Friday, December 05, 2014

Claudia Emerson 1957 – 2014

passing



Thursday, December 04, 2014

Karin Roffman: an audio journey thru John Ashbery’s early life in poetry

John Ashbery | Karin Roffman | Talks



Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Mark Ford & John Ashbery reading @ the 92 nd Y

John Ashbery | Mark Ford | Readings



Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Talking with Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov | Interviews



Monday, December 01, 2014

Talking about   Revelator

Interviews | Personal



Sunday, November 30, 2014

Mark Strand 1934 – 2014

passing



Saturday, November 29, 2014

Photo by Jonathan Williams Mina Loy: Feminist & Futurist from WFHB’s Books Unbound

documentary | Mina Loy



Friday, November 28, 2014

George Crumb: Music for the Starry Night

George Crumb | Music



Thursday, November 27, 2014

Bernard Heidsieck 1928 – 2014

passing | Sound poetry



Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts reading with Jaap Blonk 2011

collaborations | Gary Barwin | Gregory Betts | Jaap Blonk | Sound poetry



Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Talking with Alan Golding: The first broadcast from the Wexler Recording Studio @ Kelly Writers House, with Al Filreis , Bob Per...

Al Filreis | Alan Golding | Bob Perelman | Orchid Tierney | Personal | Talks



Monday, November 24, 2014

Allan Kornblum 1949 – 2014

passing



Sunday, November 23, 2014

Gregoire Pam Dick reading from Metaphysical Licks

Gregoire Pam Dick | Readings



Saturday, November 22, 2014

Ursula K Le Guin at the National Book Awards

Talks | Ursula K Le Guin



Friday, November 21, 2014

Jon Stallworthy 1935 – 20014

passing



Thursday, November 20, 2014

Eric Mottram talking on Hugh MacDiarmid @ SUNY Buffalo 1992

Eric Mottram | Hugh MacDiarmid | Talks



Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Michael Gottlieb reading from I Had Every Intention

Michael Gottlieb | Readings



Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Michael Boughn reading @ the 2014 BookThug launch

Michael Boughn | Readings



Monday, November 17, 2014

Ralph Kolewe reading @ the 2014 BookThug launch

Ralph Kolewe | Readings



Saturday, November 15, 2014

Rachel Zolf reading at Berkeley, 2010

Rachel Zolf | Readings



Friday, November 14, 2014

Louis Cabri & Michael Magee reading at Kelly Writers House 2001

Louis Cabri | Michael Magee | Readings



Thursday, November 13, 2014

Adeena Karasick reading in the Segue Series, 2006

Adeena Karasick | Readings



Wednesday, November 12, 2014

The trailer for The Complete Works Justin Stephenson’s forthcoming film on the work of bpNichol

bpNichol | Film



Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Sonnet L’Abbé on Canadian identity

Canadian Poetry | ideology | Sonnet L’Abbé | talk



Monday, November 10, 2014

Stephen Vincent reading & talking on Poet as Radio

Interviews | Readings | Stephen Vincent



Sunday, November 09, 2014

This week in Windsor, Ontario The Windsor International Writers Conference

Events



Saturday, November 08, 2014

This Sunday in Toronto 4:00 – 6:00 PM @ the Supermarket Restaurant & Bar 268 Augusta Avenue Louis Cabri , Ron Silliman...

Donato Mancini | Events | Louis Cabri | Personal | Tom Dilworth



Friday, November 07, 2014

Sally Silvers Dance Storming Heaven Sound Design & Text: Bruce Andrews Set Design & Visuals: Antonio Martorell ...

Antonio Martorell | Bruce Andrews | dance | Sally Silvers



Thursday, November 06, 2014

Zapotec poet Natalia Toledo interviewed on Tkio TV, a show that focuses on the indigenous experience in Mexico ...

Interviews | Natalia Toledo | Spanish | Zapotec



Wednesday, November 05, 2014

a rawlings & Maja Jantar reading @ North of Invention 2011

a rawlings | Maja Jantar | Performance | Readings | Sound poetry



Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Franck Leibovici & his Orchestra     @ Global Conceptualisms Paris 2012

Conceptual poetics | Franck Leibovici | Performance | Poets Theater



Monday, November 03, 2014

Paal   Bjelke   Andersen ,  Marco A. Huerta , Vanessa   Place ,  Franck   Leibovici @ Global Conceptualisms Paris 2012 ...

Franck Leibovici | Marco A. Huerta | Paal Bjelke Andersen | Readings | Vanessa Place



Sunday, November 02, 2014

Nick   Thurston ,  Christian   Bök   Swantje   Lichtenstein  &  Carlos   Soto - Román       @ Global Conceptualisms Paris ...

Carlos Soto Roman | Christian Bök | Nick Thurston | Readings | Swantje Lichtenstein



Saturday, November 01, 2014

This week in St. Catherines, Ontario

Conferences



Friday, October 31, 2014

bpNichol panel Toronto September 2014 with Stephen Cain , editor of bp:Beginnings Lola Lemire Tostevin & Brian D...

bpNichol | Brian Dedora | Gregory Betts | Lola Lemire Tostevin | Panel | Stephen Cain



Thursday, October 30, 2014

Galway Kinnell 1927 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, October 29, 2014

bpNichol & bill bissett interviewed by Phillis Webb   way back when

bill bissett | bpNichol | Interviews | Phillis Webb



Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Laure - Anne Bosselaar Reading for The Cortland Review at the 2008 AWP

Laure-Anne Bosselaar | Readings



Monday, October 27, 2014

Maria Baranda Reading at  National University March 2014

Maria Baranda | Readings



Sunday, October 26, 2014

This week in Oaxaca US Poets in Mexico Special Guests:  Andrei Codrescu & Maria Baranda Guest Lecturer:  Ron Silliman with...

Conferences



Saturday, October 25, 2014

Larry Fagin reading in Bolinas 1974

Larry Fagin | Readings



Friday, October 24, 2014

Andrei Codrescu remembers the impact of The Kaypro II

Andrei Codrescu | material conditions of the text



Thursday, October 23, 2014

Edward Dorn reads from North Atlantic Turbine ( part 1) ( part 2)

Ed Dorn | Readings



Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Let’s Do Lunch Poems (part 3) @ the Poetry Project October 2014

Frank O'Hara | Readings



Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Let’s Do Lunch Poems (part 2) @ the Poetry Project October 2014

Frank O'Hara | Readings



Monday, October 20, 2014

Let’s Do Lunch Poems (part 1) @ the Poetry Project October 2014

Frank O'Hara | Readings



Sunday, October 19, 2014

Bhanu Kapil @ the Poetry Project October 2014

Bhanu Kapil | Performance | Readings



Saturday, October 18, 2014

Jibz Cameron @ the Poetry Project October 2014 With Bhanu Kapil

Bhanu Kapil | Jibz Cameron | Performance | Readings | TS Eliot



Friday, October 17, 2014

Lorine Niedecker & the Obstinacy of the Particular HD’s imagism Talking with Patricia Lockwood MFA rape culture Does alt-lit ...

links | Passings



Friday, October 17, 2014

Ron Loewinsohn 1937 – 2014

passing



Thursday, October 16, 2014

David Jones reads The Hunt

David Jones | Readings



Wednesday, October 15, 2014

How to Survive without a Gallery Talking with Angela Lyn

Angela Lyn | conversation | Visual Arts



Tuesday, October 14, 2014

In Search of Haruki Murakami

documentary | Haruki Murakami



Monday, October 13, 2014

CAConrad & Anne Waldman go to Harvard     2013

Anne Waldman | CAConrad | Readings



Sunday, October 12, 2014

Carolyn Kizer & Lucille Clifton in conversation Carolyn Kizer 1925 – 2014

Carolyn Kizer | conversation | Lucille Clifton | passing



Saturday, October 11, 2014

Sylvia Plath a documentary

documentary | Sylvia Plath



Friday, October 10, 2014

Anne Waldman & Ted Berrigan reading Memorial Day 1973

Anne Waldman | Readings | Ted Berrigan



Thursday, October 09, 2014

Steve McCaffery reading from Carnival Glasgow, 2009

Readings | Steve McCaffery



Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Caroline Bergvall reading at the Bowery Poetry Club 2011

Caroline Bergvall | Readings



Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Bill Berkson reading at Kelly Writers House March 15, 2007

Bill Berkson | Readings



Monday, October 06, 2014

The Four Horsemen from Ron Mann’s documentary Poetry in Motion   1981 The Four Horsemen were bp Nichol , Steve McCaffery ,...

bpNichol | Paul Dutton | Performance | Rafael Barreto-Rivera | Sound poetry | Steve McCaffery | The Four Horsemen



Sunday, October 05, 2014

Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley introduction by Robert Duncan 1965 This “reading” is longer than The Godfather ...

Charles Olson | Readings



Saturday, October 04, 2014

Joanne Kyger reading at the Berkeley Poetry Conference July 24, 1965

Joanne Kyger | Readings



Friday, October 03, 2014

Marjorie Perloff on divergences in 20 th century poetry with Charles Bernstein 2009 ...

Charles Bernstein | Interviews | Marjorie Perloff



Thursday, October 02, 2014

Barbara Guest Line Break with Charles Bernstein 1995

Barbara Guest | Charles Bernstein | Interviews | Readings



Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Alastair Reid 1926 – 2014

passing



Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Dannie Abse 1923 – 2014

passing



Monday, September 29, 2014

Live fro m Helsinki! It’s Friends of the Cannibal Sunset Debris from the album Whose Language Is This ? ...

Friends of the Cannibal | Music | Performance | Personal



Sunday, September 28, 2014

Charles Bukowski The last reading

Charles Bukowski | Readings



Saturday, September 27, 2014

100,000 Poets for Change Happening today Everywhere

100 Thousand Poets for Change | Events



Friday, September 26, 2014

Talking with Basil Bunting 1980

Basil Bunting | Interviews



Thursday, September 25, 2014

Jonathan Williams reading in Warwick 1978

Jonathan Williams | Readings



Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Muriel Rukeyser reading in Warwick January, 1972

Muriel Rukeyser | Readings



Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Robert Duncan reading @ the University of Warwick 1978

Readings | Robert Duncan



Monday, September 22, 2014

Theodore Roethke In A Dark Time A film by David Myers

Readings | Theodore Roethke



Sunday, September 21, 2014

Ron Silliman reading for the University of Houston – Victoria Downtown Arts Friday, September 26 8:00 pm ...

Events | Personal



Saturday, September 20, 2014

Rae Armantrout reads Susan Wheeler & talks with Paul Muldoon

Interviews | Paul Muldoon | Rae Armantrout | Susan Wheeler



Friday, September 19, 2014

Nick-e Melville reading in London, 2012

nick-e melville | Readings



Thursday, September 18, 2014

Hugh MacDiarmid A Drunk Man Looks the Thistle ( part 1)   ( part 2) ( part 3)   ( part 4)

Hugh MacDiarmid | Readings



Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Carol Ann Duffy reading in Warwick 2002

Carol Ann Duffy | Readings



Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Thomas A Clark The Poet’s Voice Seminar 1980

Readings | Talks | Thomas A Clark



Monday, September 15, 2014

Tom Leonard on language & class

Interviews | Tom Leonard



Sunday, September 14, 2014

Dorothea Lasky reading @ José Pistola’s in Philadelphia 2013

Dorothea Lasky | Readings



Saturday, September 13, 2014

Charles Reznikoff reading @ SUNY Buffalo 1973 Introduction by George Oppen

Charles Reznikoff | Readings



Friday, September 12, 2014

Carlos Soto Román reads in the Chapter & Verse Series 2012

Carlos Soto Roman | Readings



Thursday, September 11, 2014

Amy King reads @ Pete’s Candy Store Brooklyn, 2008

Amy King | Readings



Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Kathy Acker gives a talk @ SUNY Buffalo 1979 Introduction by Robert Creeley

Kathy Acker | Talks



Tuesday, September 09, 2014

George Oppen reading @ the Poetry Center San Francisco State University 1963

George Oppen | Readings



Monday, September 08, 2014

Nicanor Parra turned 100 on Friday

Nicanor Parra | Readings



Sunday, September 07, 2014

Wallace Stevens reading @ the 92 nd Street Y 1951

Readings | Wallace Stevens



Saturday, September 06, 2014

Adrienne Rich reading @ the 92 nd Street Y 1968

Adrienne Rich | Readings



Friday, September 05, 2014

John Ashbery reading “one-size-fits-all autobiography” 1983

John Ashbery | Readings



Thursday, September 04, 2014

Ernesto Cardenal reading at Vanderbilt 2011

Ernesto Cardenal | Readings



Wednesday, September 03, 2014

' Cecilia Vicuña in London, 2010

Cecilia Vicuña | Readings



Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Zaccheus Jackson 1978 -- 2014

passing



Monday, September 01, 2014

Gregory Orr on killing as a child The Essential Ellen Willis Stephen Ratcliffe’s Selected Days has been awarded The Poet...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 31, 2014

Sophie Seita , Holly Pester   & Eugene Ostashevsky read at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery London, May 2014

Eugene Ostashevsky | Holly Pester | Readings | Sophie Seita



Saturday, August 30, 2014

Desmond O’Grady 1935 – 2014

passing



Friday, August 29, 2014

Alain Badiou & Joe Litvak perform the scene Terror from Badiou’s play Ahmed the Philosopher

Alain Badiou | Joe Litvak | Philosophy | Theater



Thursday, August 28, 2014

Fielding Dawson Reading at the Allentown Community Center Buffalo, 1974

Fielding Dawson | Readings



Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Peter Seaton reading from The Son Master NYC circa 1980

Peter Seaton | Readings



Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Lucille Clifton Reading at the 92 nd Street Y, NYC 2008

Lucille Clifton | Readings



Monday, August 25, 2014

Robert Creeley reading at the University of Helsinki February, 1989 ( part one) ( part two)

Readings | Robert Creeley



Sunday, August 24, 2014

Anselm Hollo reading in Grand Valley, Michigan, 1971

Anselm Hollo | Readings



Saturday, August 23, 2014

Karri Kokko Two plus Two Sound poetry by Kaikkonen & Karri Kokko

Karri Kokko | Sound poetry



Friday, August 22, 2014

Leevi Lehto: My Finnish Poetries ( Text of the talk) University of Pennsylvania, 2005

Leevi Lehto | poetics | Talks



Thursday, August 21, 2014

Satu Kaikkonen Leterrors & miron tee eter Lop ers Kaikkonen feature in Peep Show Visual poems in Moria So...

Karri Kokko | Satu Kaikkonen | Sound poetry | vispo



Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Anne Carson Cassandra Float Can & more @ the 92 nd Street Y, NYC 2008

Anne Carson | Performance | Readings



Tuesday, August 19, 2014

3 Lectures on Emily Dickinson by Robert Creeley ( one)   ( two)   ( three) New College of California September 1...

Emily Dickinson | Robert Creeley | Talks



Monday, August 18, 2014

Cascadian Poetics: Innovations from Here a panel with Joanne Kyger Jeanne Heuving Stephen Collis George Stanley ...

George Stanley | Jeanne Heuving | Joanne Kyger | Panel | poetics | Stephen Collis



Sunday, August 17, 2014

Where I will be next weekend Poetry Moon Festival Helsinki, Finland Saturday & Sunday August 23 & 24 Saturday, Aug...

Coming Events | Festival | Finland | Personal



Saturday, August 16, 2014

Tom   Weatherly   reading   in Grand Valley, Michigan 1971 Mau Mau American Cantos Thumbprint

Readings | Tom Weatherly



Friday, August 15, 2014

Lydia Davis on Bookworm

Interviews | Lydia Davis



Thursday, August 14, 2014

Gilbert Sorrentino on Bookworm

Gilbert Sorrentino | Interviews



Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Editing Alfred Starr Hamilton Talking with Ben Estes , Alan Felsenthal &   Amanda Nadelberg on Bookworm ...

Alan Felsenthal | Alfred Starr Hamilton | Amanda Nadelberg | Ben Estes | Interviews



Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Robin Williams 1951 – 2014 The Shawl



Monday, August 11, 2014

Diann Blakely 1957 – 2014

passing



Sunday, August 10, 2014

Catherine Wagner reading in Tucson 2006 Wagner is scheduled to be at US Poets in Mexico in Oaxaca this coming Octo...

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Saturday, August 09, 2014

Catherine Wagner talking with Leonard Schwartz on Cross-Cultural Poetics Wagner is scheduled to be at US Poets in Me...

Catherine Wagner | Cross-Cultural Poetics | Interviews | Leonard Schwartz



Friday, August 08, 2014

Catherine Wagner in the UK Wagner is scheduled to be at US Poets in Mexico in Oaxaca this coming October

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Thursday, August 07, 2014

Jack Gilbert interviewed in 1995

Interviews | Jack Gilbert



Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Jack Gilbert reading in Los Angeles, 1995

Jack Gilbert | Readings



Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Robert Grenier , Bob Perelman , Al Filreis & yours truly discussing the early 1960s

Al Filreis | Bob Perelman | New American Poetry | Personal | Robert Grenier



Monday, August 04, 2014

Abigail Child Mayhem 1987

Abigail Child | Film



Sunday, August 03, 2014

Abigail Child talking with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening , 2006

Abigail Child | Interviews



Saturday, August 02, 2014

Abigail Child reading on Close Listening , 2006

Abigail Child | Readings



Friday, August 01, 2014

Siri Hustvedt reading @ Brown, 2009

Readings | Siri Hustvedt



Thursday, July 31, 2014

Joanna Scott reading @ Brown, 2008

Joanna Scott | Readings



Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Cole Swensen reading @ Brown, 2013

Cole Swensen | Readings



Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Norman Fischer Talking with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening , 2006

Interviews | Norman Fischer



Monday, July 28, 2014

Norman Fischer reading on Close Listening , 2006

Norman Fischer | Readings



Sunday, July 27, 2014

Keith Waldrop reading at Brown, 2011

Keith Waldrop | Readings



Saturday, July 26, 2014

Rosmarie Waldrop reading at Brown, 2013

Readings | Rosmarie Waldrop



Friday, July 25, 2014

Robert Creeley reading at Brown, 1998

Readings | Robert Creeley



Thursday, July 24, 2014

Miles Champion talking with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening June 25,   2014

Interviews | Miles Champion



Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Miles Champion reading on Close Listening June 25,   2014

Miles Champion | Readings



Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Fred Moten reading at Brown, 2011

Fred Moten | Readings



Monday, July 21, 2014

Valerie Macon was briefly the laureate of North Carolina Laureate resigns in latest round of the North Carolina Poetry War...

links | Passings



Sunday, July 20, 2014

Bruce Andrews Reading @ Brown, 2011

Bruce Andrews | Readings



Saturday, July 19, 2014

Kevin Killian Reading @ Brown, 2013

Kevin Killian | Readings



Friday, July 18, 2014

Katie Degentesh reading at the Downcity Poetry Series Providence, RI, 2006

Katie Degentesh | Readings



Thursday, July 17, 2014

On Kawara 1933 – 2014

conceptual art | passing



Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Mary Burger reading at the Downcity Poetry Series Providence, RI, 2006

Mary Burger | Readings



Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Nadine Gordimer 1923 – 2014

passing



Monday, July 14, 2014

Kenneth Irby reading at Brown, 2002

Kenneth Irby | Readings



Sunday, July 13, 2014

Charlie Haden 1937 – 2014

Jazz | passing



Saturday, July 12, 2014

Vito Acconci: Into & Through & Out of Landscape

Architecture | Talks | Vito Acconci



Friday, July 11, 2014

Elizabeth Willis talking with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening 2008

Elizabeth Willis | Interviews



Thursday, July 10, 2014

Elizabeth Willis reading on Close Listening 2008

Elizabeth Willis | Readings



Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Gene Frumkin reading @ SUNY Buffalo 1991

Gene Frumkin | Readings



Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Michael Davidson reading in New York’s Segue series 1988

Michael Davidson | Readings



Monday, July 07, 2014

Carla Harryman reading in New York’s Segue series 1999

Carla Harryman | Readings



Sunday, July 06, 2014

Daniel Remein on Beowulf & the Berkeley Renaissance

Daniel Remein | Jack Spicer | Robin Blaser | Talks



Saturday, July 05, 2014

Jim Brosnan 1929 – 2014 The Long Season & Pennant Race are the finest books ever written about baseball

passing



Friday, July 04, 2014

Jack Spicer & the English Department A talk by David Hadbawnik

David Hadbawnik | Jack Spicer | Talks



Thursday, July 03, 2014

Jack Spicer reading The Holy Grail

Jack Spicer | Readings



Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Bobbie Louise Hawkins reading at Naropa, 2011

Bobbie Louise Hawkins | Readings



Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Talking with Hettie Jones

Hettie Jones | Interviews



Monday, June 30, 2014

Edmund & Anselm Berrigan

Anselm Berrigan | Edmund Berrigan | Music | Readings



Sunday, June 29, 2014

Talking with Julie Joosten about Light Light

Interviews | Julie Joosten | photography



Saturday, June 28, 2014

Allen Grossman 1932 – 2014

passing



Friday, June 27, 2014

Al Mutanabbi Starts Here !

Al-Mutanabbi Street | Bookstores



Thursday, June 26, 2014

David Foster Wallace talking to David Kipen in San Francisco, 2004

David Foster Wallace | David Kipen | Interviews



Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Laura Sims & Ann Beattie talking on David Markson @ The Strand in NYC

Ann Beattie | David Markson | Laura Sims | Letters | Talks



Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Robert Peters 1924 – 2014

passing



Monday, June 23, 2014

Don DeLillo & Jonathan Franzen talking at the New York Public Library 2013

Don DeLillo | Interviews | Jonathan Franzen | Readings



Sunday, June 22, 2014

Larry Fink & Gerald Stern talking on The Beats @ The Strand in NYC

Beat Poetry | Gerald Stern | Larry Fink | photography | Talks



Saturday, June 21, 2014

One Week from Today Saturday, June 28 2:00 PM Random Name Poetry presents Amelia Bentley & Ron Silliman reading...

Amelia Bentley | Coming Events | Personal



Friday, June 20, 2014

Horace Silver Quintet & Elvin Jones Trio, 1968 Horace Silver 1928 – 2014

Jazz | passing



Thursday, June 19, 2014

Eric Baus reading @ Counterpath Denver, April 2014

Eric Baus | Readings



Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Stephanie Strickland reading @ Counterpath Denver, April 2014

Readings | Stephanie Strickland



Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Vincent Katz on Black Mountain College @ Counterpath Denver, April 2014

Black Mountain College | Talks | Vincent Katz



Monday, June 16, 2014

Noah Eli Gordon reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Noah Eli Gordon | Readings



Sunday, June 15, 2014

George Albon reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

George Albon | Readings



Saturday, June 14, 2014

Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein reading @ Counterpath Denver, April 2014

Gertrude Stein | Readings



Friday, June 13, 2014

Karla Kelsey reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Karla Kelsey | Readings



Thursday, June 12, 2014

Isaac Linder reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Isaac Linder | Readings



Wednesday, June 11, 2014

What I’m up to over the next few months Random Name Poetry Series Philadelphia Saturday, June 28 Reading with Amelia...

Coming Events | Personal



Tuesday, June 10, 2014

25 years after Tienanmen Square Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Michele Leggott David McFadden on trying to carry on as a writer wi...

links | Passings



Monday, June 09, 2014

Saturday, June 28 2:00 PM Random Name Poetry presents Amelia Bentley & Ron Silliman reading @ The Penn Book ...

Amelia Bentley | Events | Personal



Sunday, June 08, 2014

Richard Froude reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Readings | Richard Froude



Saturday, June 07, 2014

Rodney Koeneke reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Readings | Rodney Koeneke



Friday, June 06, 2014

Aditi Machado reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Aditi Machado | Readings



Thursday, June 05, 2014

Elisabeth Leister Strange Loop Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Elisabeth Leister | Performance



Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Against Conceptual Poetry Ron Silliman Counterpath Press, Denver ON SALE NOW

Personal



Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Divya Victor reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Divya Victor | Readings



Monday, June 02, 2014

Free Ilham Tohti FREE ILHAM TOHTI ! Ilham Tohti: My Ideas & the Career Path I Have Chosen Tohti’s daughter testifies ...

links | Passings



Sunday, June 01, 2014

Three friends from Reed College: Lew Welch, Gary Snyder, Phil Whalen Philip Whalen Scenes from Life in the Capital ...

Philip Whalen | Readings



Saturday, May 31, 2014

Prageeta Sharma reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club 2003

Prageeta Sharma | Readings



Friday, May 30, 2014

CAConrad reading @ Giovanni’s Room 2011

CAConrad | Readings



Thursday, May 29, 2014

Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Nathaniel Mackey Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol Discussion

Nathaniel Mackey | Talks



Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Talking with Armand Schwerner Interview by Guy de Bievre , 1988

Armand Schwerner | Interviews



Monday, May 26, 2014

Roy Kiyooka reading in Vancouver, 1991 Voice: Roy Kiyooka A wonderful film by Michael de Courcy

Film | Readings | Roy Kiyooka



Sunday, May 25, 2014

Muriel Rukeyser The 1977 Caedmon Records recording   produced in association with the 92 nd Street Y

Muriel Rukeyser | Readings



Saturday, May 24, 2014

Talking with William Carlos Williams with John Wingate, WABD 1957 This is perhaps Williams’ least comf...

Interviews | William Carlos Williams



Friday, May 23, 2014

Tadeusz Różewicz 1921 – 2014

passing



Thursday, May 22, 2014

Portland as a city is every bit as nice as everyone claims that it is. The big branded chain stores are hard to find, there really does...

Bookstores | Portland



Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Photo by Erica Jane Kaufman Beverly Dahlen: Close reading A Reading

Beverly Dahlen | Readings | Talks



Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Rae Armantrout A discussion @ Kelly Writers House April 29, 2014

Interviews | Rae Armantrout



Monday, May 19, 2014

Rauan Klassnik Live @ 851

Rauan Klassnik | Readings



Sunday, May 18, 2014

Most of the staff of HOW(ever) L-R: Bev Dahlen, Susan Gevirtz, DuPlessis, Frances Jaffer, Fraser Kathleen Fraser & Rachel ...

Kathleen Fraser | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Talks



Saturday, May 17, 2014

Renee Gladman @ Small Press Traffic

Readings | Renee Gladman



Friday, May 16, 2014

Vanessa Place “ Conceptualism is Feminism; Feminism is Conceptualism ” A talk at Smolny College Saint Petersburg, Russia ...

Conceptual poetics | Performance | Talks | Vanessa Place



Thursday, May 15, 2014

A taste of Drift by Caroline Bergvall ( order the book here) Visiting Charles Bernstein’s Experimental Writing Semi...

Caroline Bergvall | Interviews | Performance | Readings



Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Alice Notley in conversation with Rachel Blau DuPlessis @ Temple 2001

Alice Notley | Interviews | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Douglas Oliver Five short readings from The Shattered Crystal A Little Night Evening descending mauve Trink From rue d’E...

Douglas Oliver | Readings



Monday, May 12, 2014

Hillary Gravendyk 1979 – 2014

passing



Sunday, May 11, 2014

< Edmund Berrigan 2013

Edmund Berrigan | Readings



Saturday, May 10, 2014

Anselm Berrigan reading on Ceptuetics Radio 2008

Anselm Berrigan | Readings



Friday, May 09, 2014

Ted Berrigan   reading @ Bard 1982

Readings | Ted Berrigan



Thursday, May 08, 2014

Russell Edson 1935 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Robert Duncan reading in Berkeley 1952

Readings | Robert Duncan



Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Sally Mann talks to Charlie Rose

Interviews | photography | Sally Mann | Visual Arts



Monday, May 05, 2014

Carrie Mae We e ms in Portland

Carrie Mae Weems | photography | Visual Arts



Sunday, May 04, 2014

John Baldessari & Ed Ruscha discuss the legacy of Richard Artschwager

Ed Ruscha | John Baldessari | Richard Artschwager | Talks



Saturday, May 03, 2014

Talking with Marcel Duchamp

Interviews | Marcel Duchamp | Visual Arts



Friday, May 02, 2014

Talking with Derek Beaulieu

Derek Beaulieu | Interviews



Thursday, May 01, 2014

Zhimin Li on New Chinese Poetry

Chinese poetry | Talks | Zhimin Li



Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sharon Hayes & Lawrence Weiner in conversation

Lawrence Weiner | Sharon Hayes | Visual Arts



Tuesday, April 29, 2014

PoemTalk: Tracie Morris , Kristen Gallagher & Michael Magee discuss Will Alexander’s “ Compound Hibernation ” ...

Kristen Gallagher | Michael Magee | PoemTalk | Tracie Morris | Will Alexander



Monday, April 28, 2014

The widening gender gap in contemporary American poetry Occupy Poetics Camille Rankine: What We Write About when We Write Ab...

links | Passings



Sunday, April 27, 2014

Vern Rutsala 1934 – 2014

passing



Saturday, April 26, 2014

Brian Ang reading on KChung radio 2011

Brian Ang | Readings



Friday, April 25, 2014

Rae Armantrout A talk on silence ( part 1) ( part 2) 1983

Rae Armantrout | Talks



Thursday, April 24, 2014

Samuel R Delany interviewed by Charles Bernstein April 2014

Interviews | Samuel R Delany



Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Susan Bee: Doomed to Win @ AIR Gallery , Dumbo April 12, 2014 (video excerpts by Joanne McFarland)

Interviews | Susan Bee | Visual Arts



Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Text Festival Bury, Lancashire May 2 through July 2014 Lawrence Weiner, Ron Silliman, Phil Davenport, Simon Pat...

Text Festival



Monday, April 21, 2014

Emily Dickinson pushing the envelope Poems on surveillance by Ashbery, Armantrout, Bernstein, King, Pinsky et al Talking...

links | Passings



Sunday, April 20, 2014

Beyond the Dark Would Performances and conversation from Caroline Bergvall , Derek Beaulieu , Phil Davenport & Ron Sill...

Caroline Bergvall | Coming Events | Derek Beaulieu | Personal | Phil Davenport



Saturday, April 19, 2014

Poetry Is (Volume I) By George Quasha With Ammiel Alcalay, Hector Alves, David Antin, Arman, Coleman Barks, Caroline Bergv...

George Quasha | Interviews



Friday, April 18, 2014

Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014

passing



Thursday, April 17, 2014

Oaxaca,  October 27-31, 2014 5th Annual Poetry Conference Discussion & Workshop with  Andrei Codrescu Writing Workshops wit...

Coming Events | Conferences | Festival | translation



Wednesday, April 16, 2014

LaTasha N Nevada Diggs in Deep Oakland

LaTasha N Nevada Diggs | Readings



Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Talking with Forrest Gander & Magdalena Edwards on Cross Cultural Poetics

Forrest Gander | Interviews | Magdalena Edwards | translation



Monday, April 14, 2014

Talking with Brent Cunningham On Cross Cultural Poetics

Brent Cunningham | Cross-Cultural Poetics | Interviews



Sunday, April 13, 2014

Trinity College 1970: Simon Schucat, Eric Torgersen, Michael Lally standing (l-r) Steve Shrader (circled), Raymond diPalma, Pau...

Cross-Cultural Poetics | Interviews | neglectorinos | Steve Shrader | Susan M Schultz



Saturday, April 12, 2014

Talking Pierre Reverdy with Mary Ann Caws On Cross Cultural Poetics

Cubism | Mary Ann Caws | Pierre Reverdy | surrealism



Friday, April 11, 2014

Talking Alexander Vvedensky with Eugene Ostashevsky On Cross Cultural Poetics

Absurdism | Alexander Vvedensky | censorship | Eugene Ostashevsky | Gulag | Interviews



Thursday, April 10, 2014

Talking with Gillian Conoley On Cross Cultural Poetics

Gillian Conoley | Interviews



Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Talking with Johanna Drucker On Cross Cultural Poetics

Interviews | Johanna Drucker



Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Talking with Don Share

Don Share | Interviews



Monday, April 07, 2014

Travis Macdonald & David Goldstein reading @ Kelly Writers House March 2014

David Goldstein | Readings | Travis Macdonald



Sunday, April 06, 2014

TC Boyle reading @ Kelly Writers House March 2014

Fiction | Readings | TC Boyle



Saturday, April 05, 2014

Matthew Zapruder reading @ Kelly Writers House April 2014

Matthew Zapruder | Readings



Friday, April 04, 2014

Tonight in NYC @ The Instituto Cervantes 211 E. 49 th Street (between 2 nd & 3 rd Avenues) 7 PM Scott Hightower ...

Events | Mercedes Roffe | Personal | Roger Santivanez | Scott Hightower



Thursday, April 03, 2014

Talking with Albert Goldbarth

Albert Goldbarth | Interviews



Wednesday, April 02, 2014

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

links



Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Colleen Lookingbill 1950 – 2014

passing



Monday, March 31, 2014

This Friday in New York City

Events | Mercedes Roffe | Personal | Readings | Roger Santivanez | Scott Hightower



Sunday, March 30, 2014

Talking with Kay Ryan

Interviews | Kay Ryan



Saturday, March 29, 2014

A reading in Ptuj, Slovenia with Marjana Savka (Ukraine), Ferenc Rakoczy (Switzerland), Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (...

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko | Ferenc Rakoczy | Festival | Georgi Gospodinov | Hadžem Hajdarević | Marjana Savka | Readings | Sylvia Treudel



Friday, March 28, 2014

Talking with Ian McMillan

Ian McMillan | Interviews



Thursday, March 27, 2014

Campbell McGrath reads at TEDxCoconutGrove

Campbell McGrath | Readings



Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Alvin Pang talking @ StAnza 2013

Alvin Pang | Interviews



Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl talking @ StAnza 2013

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl | Interviews



Monday, March 24, 2014

Samuel R Delany: Talking @ Pratt

Fiction | Interviews | Samuel R Delany



Sunday, March 23, 2014

Samuel R Delany: Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Fiction | Readings | Samuel R Delany | science fiction



Saturday, March 22, 2014

William S Burroughs at 100

William Burroughs



Friday, March 21, 2014

Allegra Fuller Snyder on her father Buckminster Fuller’s time @ Black Mountain College & its impact on his work ...

Albert Einstein | Black Mountain College | Buckminster Fuller | history | Josef Albers | Performance



Thursday, March 20, 2014

Guillermo Filice Castro @ the Poetry Project December, 2013

Guillermo Filice Castro | Readings



Wednesday, March 19, 2014

(Photo: Alan Bernheimer) Larry Fagin: Portraits & Home Movies (1968 – 69)

history | Larry Fagin | New York School



Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Remembering Besmilr Brigham

Besmilr Brigham | Readings



Monday, March 17, 2014

Tonya Foster reading @ the Poetry Project October 2013

Readings | Tonya Foster



Sunday, March 16, 2014

Laura Elrick reading @ the Poetry Project March 2013

Laura Elrick | Readings



Saturday, March 15, 2014

George Szirtes talking @ StAnza 2013

George Szirtes | Interviews



Friday, March 14, 2014

) Bill Knott 1940 – 2014

passing



Thursday, March 13, 2014

Hannah Silva talking @ StAnza 2013

Hannah Silva | Interviews



Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Gillian Clarke talking @ StAnza 2013

Gillian Clarke | Interviews



Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Paula Meehan talking @ StAnza 2013

Interviews | Paula Meehan



Monday, March 10, 2014

Today in Edinburgh , Scotland 7:00 PM The Sutton Gallery , 18a Dundas Street   I'm reading with JL Williams ...

Anne Laure Coxam | Events | JL Williams | nick-e melville | Personal | Readings



Sunday, March 09, 2014

Robert Ashley 1930 – 2014

Music | passing



Saturday, March 08, 2014

Today in Saint Andrews , Scotland 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM The Green Room, St. Leonard’s Quad A discussion of Post-E...

Arjen Duinker | Events | Personal | Readings | Talks



Friday, March 07, 2014

Ken Babstock talking @     StAnza 2013

Interviews | Ken Babstock



Thursday, March 06, 2014

Erín Moure talking @     StAnza 2013

Erín Moure | Interviews



Wednesday, March 05, 2014

StAnza 2014 will take place from: 5-9 March, 2014 Location: St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK Venues: The Undercroft, Parliamen...

Festival | StAnza



Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Today in London Swedenborg Hall 20-21 Bloomsbury Way 7:30 PM I'm reading with Simon Perril

Events | Personal | Simon Perril



Monday, March 03, 2014

Simon Perril reading @ The Crumblin’ Cookie Leicester, UK November 2012 Archilochus on the Moon

Readings | Simon Perril



Sunday, March 02, 2014

Martha Ronk @ the Poetry Project October 2013

Martha Ronk | Readings



Saturday, March 01, 2014

Steven Alvarez @ the Poetry Project December, 2013

Readings | Steven Alvarez



Friday, February 28, 2014

Here’s VIDA Women feel less comfortable in their literary communities Iran hangs Hashem Shaabani Torture used to obt...

links | Passings



Thursday, February 27, 2014

Rangi McNeil @ the Poetry Project January, 2014

Rangi McNeil | Readings



Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Sophia Le Fraga @ the Poetry Project January, 2014

Readings | Sophia Le Fraga



Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Felix Bernstein @ the Poetry Project January, 2014

Felix Bernstein | Readings



Monday, February 24, 2014

Program Click the link text to open full event page StAnza 2014 Brochure now online Tuesday 04 March Tue 04 M...

Festival | program | StAnza



Sunday, February 23, 2014

Today in Brooklyn

Readings



Saturday, February 22, 2014

Step Across the Border a documentary about Fred Frith 1990

Fred Frith | Jazz | Music



Friday, February 21, 2014

Michael McClure reading poetry to lions from Richard O . Moore’s USA Poetry

Michael McClure | Readings



Thursday, February 20, 2014

No title

Events | Personal



Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Talking with David Hockney 1982 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

David Hockney | Interviews | Visual Arts



Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Joseph Kosuth: Freud, Beckett & the Uncanny: Some Thoughts on Art as Installation

Installation | Joseph Kosuth | Samuel Beckett | Sigmund Freud | Talks | Visual Arts



Monday, February 17, 2014

The Northern Soul Tour I’m heading across the pond London Tuesday, March 4 Swedenborg Hall 20-21 Bloomsbury Way 7:30 PM ...

Events | Personal



Sunday, February 16, 2014

Maxine Kumin 1925 – 2014

passing



Saturday, February 15, 2014

Talking with Romare Bearden 1979 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Romare Bearden | Visual Arts



Friday, February 14, 2014

Talking with Larry Rivers 1978 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Interviews | Jazz | Larry Rivers | Visual Arts



Thursday, February 13, 2014

Maggie Estep 1963 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Nancy Holt 1938 – 2014

passing | Visual Arts



Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Stuart Hall 1932 – 2014

Cross-Cultural Poetics | passing | social history



Monday, February 10, 2014

Peter Schjeldahl @ the School of Visual Arts 2010

Peter Schjeldahl | Visual Arts



Sunday, February 09, 2014

Talking with Louise Nevelson 1978 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Louise Nevelson | Visual Arts



Saturday, February 08, 2014

Talking with Lee Krasner 1978 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Lee Krasner | Visual Arts



Friday, February 07, 2014

This Not That a profile of John Baldessari

John Baldessari | Visual Arts



Thursday, February 06, 2014

Brice Marden @ The Tate Modern

Brice Marden | Talks | Visual Arts



Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Vito Acconci @ USC

Architecture | Talks | Vito Acconci



Tuesday, February 04, 2014

René Ricard 1946 – 2014

passing



Monday, February 03, 2014

Binyavanga Wainaina comes out to challenge Kenya’s anti-gay laws Barrett Watten: My Presentism 2014: The Year of Reading ...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 02, 2014

Cole Heinowitz reading   @ Chapter & Verse   Philadelphia, 2009

Cole Heinowitz | Readings



Saturday, February 01, 2014

William Corbett reading @ Kelly Writers House Philadelphia, 2005

Readings | William Corbett



Friday, January 31, 2014

Yours truly The BookThug Interview

Interviews | Personal



Thursday, January 30, 2014

Amiri Baraka on Charles Olson & Sun Ra in Gloucester October 2013 Plus reading his own poetry Thanks to Fer...

Amiri Baraka | Charles Olson | Readings | Sun Ra | Talks



Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Pete with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Pete Seeger 1919 – 2014 Pete Seeger and the Avant-Garde In the autumn ...

Music | passing



Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Many Allen Ginsbergs - only the middle row is real In 2008, the late Carolyn Cassady, one-time wife of Neal –...

Beat Poetry | Film | history | Projectivism



Monday, January 27, 2014

José Emilio Pacheco 1939 – 2014

passing



Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Poetics List is coming to the end of its run after 20 years. I don’t know how many messages were posted, but as of the last ...

history | Internet | Poetics List



Saturday, January 25, 2014

Rob Halpern reading in Oakland February 2013

Readings | Rob Halpern



Friday, January 24, 2014

Brenda Iijima reading in Oakland February 2013

Brenda Iijima | Readings



Thursday, January 23, 2014

Jamie Townsend reading in Oakland September 2013

Jamie Townsend | Readings



Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Oki Sogumi reading in Oakland September 2013 (part 2 is here)

Oki Sogumi | Readings



Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Robert Kocik & friends reading @ Small Press Traffic A choral reading of Supple Science: A Robert Kocik Primer Nove...

Performance | Readings | Robert Kocik



Monday, January 20, 2014

Brandon Brown reading in Oakland November 2013

Brandon Brown | Readings



Sunday, January 19, 2014

CS Giscombe reading in Oakland November 2013

CS Giscombe | Readings



Saturday, January 18, 2014

Carla Harryman reading in Oakland November 2013

Carla Harryman | Readings



Friday, January 17, 2014

Sean Bonney Reading @ the Poetry &/or Revolution Conference UC Davis, October 2013

Readings | Sean Bonney



Thursday, January 16, 2014

Juan Gelman 1930 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Queer Masculinity A reading featuring Brian Pietras , Stephen Motika , Mark Wunderlich , Ronaldo Wilson & Jack Halber...

Brian Pietras | Jack Halberstam | Mark Wunderlich | Readings | Ronaldo V Wilson | Stephen Motika



Tuesday, January 14, 2014

ModPo: The Robert Frost Debate with Al Filreis , Taije Silverman , John Timpane , Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Bob Pere...

Al Filreis | Bob Perelman | John Timpane | ModPo | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Robert Frost | Taije Silverman



Monday, January 13, 2014

Ammiel Alcalay “ To Write a Republic ”: Experience, Heroism, and Poetry in the National Security State School of Vis...

Ammiel Alcalay | Capital | Charles Olson | history



Sunday, January 12, 2014

Jim Brodey reading @ The Ear Inn 1986

Jim Brodey | Readings



Saturday, January 11, 2014

Yusef Lateef 1920 – 2013 Lateef on YouTube

Music | passing



Friday, January 10, 2014

LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka 1934 – 2014

passing



Thursday, January 09, 2014

Madeline Gins 1941 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Tim Dlugos reading @ The Ear Inn 1978

Readings | Tim Dlugos



Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Stephanie Strickland talking on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Stephanie Strickland



Monday, January 06, 2014

Keston Sutherland @ WaveMachine reading series New Haven, CT September 2013

Keston Sutherland | Readings



Sunday, January 05, 2014

Shann Palmer 1950 – 2013

passing



Saturday, January 04, 2014

Kickstart Larry Eigner’s biography

Jennifer Bartlett | Larry Eigner



Friday, January 03, 2014

The Dark Would in Edinburgh

conceptual art | Installation | language | Performance | Sound poetry



Thursday, January 02, 2014

Talking with Alice Notley Notley’s collage fans Aram Saroyan: Notes at 70 Younger women are changing poetry Joanna Fuhr...

links | Passings



Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Sonia Sanchez: Poetry & Activism

Interviews | Sonia Sanchez



Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Remembering Anselm Hollo

Anselm Hollo | Readings



Monday, December 30, 2013

In the turn of voice: Dadá Soirée Featuring Luis Bravo , John M Bennett , Catherine Mehrl Bennett , Santiago Olivera , D...

Catherine Mehrl Bennett | Damian Taveira | John M Bennett | Juan Angel Italiano | Luis Bravo | Santiago Olivera | Sound poetry



Sunday, December 29, 2013

A conversation with Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich | Interviews



Saturday, December 28, 2013

A visit with Jennifer Scappettone

Interviews | Jennifer Scappettone



Friday, December 27, 2013

John Tranter In Philadelphia

Interviews | John Tranter



Thursday, December 26, 2013

Harry Mathews Intro to Oulipo

Harry Mathews | Talks



Wednesday, December 25, 2013

3 American Poets Anne Tardos Kenneth Goldsmith Charles Bernstein 2008

Anne Tardos | Charles Bernstein | Kenneth Goldsmith | Readings



Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Jackson Mac Low 1993

Interviews | Jackson Mac Low | Performance | Sound poetry



Monday, December 23, 2013

Dick Higgins 1993

Book as Art Object | concrete poetry | Dick Higgins | Fluxus | Interviews



Sunday, December 22, 2013

Joseph Ceravolo reading @ The Ear Inn 1978 If you only bought one book in 2013, it should have been this one ...

Joseph Ceravolo | Readings



Saturday, December 21, 2013

Sandra Doller reading @ UC San Diego 2011

Readings | Sandra Doller



Friday, December 20, 2013

Lydia Davis reading @ The Ear Inn 1984 Not to be confused with this TV character of the same name ...

Lydia Davis | Readings



Thursday, December 19, 2013

Bill Berkson by Joe Brainard courtesy of Big Bridge Bill Berkson & Joe Brainard reading @ Intersection San Francisco ...

Bill Berkson | Joe Brainard | Readings



Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Ange Mlinko reading @ The Double Happiness NYC 2000

Ange Mlinko | Readings



Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Dodie Bellamy on Kathy Acker @ Kelly Writers House 2007

Dodie Bellamy | Kathy Acker | Readings



Monday, December 16, 2013

Pierre Joris talking with Al Filreis on Paul Celan & the Shoah (video)

Interviews | Paul Celan | Pierre Joris | Shoah



Sunday, December 15, 2013

Ron Padgett reading @ Dia: Chelsea November 2012

Readings | Ron Padgett



Saturday, December 14, 2013

Thomas Devaney reading @ Dia: Chelsea November 2012

Readings | Thomas Devaney



Friday, December 13, 2013

F o u r t h i r t y t h r e e: Caged ! Performances from the two-day celebration of John Cage’s centennial at Naropa University i...

Asalott | Barbara Dilley | dance | Elyse Brownell | Joanna Rotkin | John Cage | Kate Zipse | Kirstin Wagner | Kyle Pivarnik | Marc Devine | Melissa Mae | Paul Fowler | Performance | Peter Jaeger | Robert Spellman



Thursday, December 12, 2013

Joan Retallack Writing on Rim: Poetry’s Alterity The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture @ Naropa University Spring 2012 W...

Joan Retallack | Talks



Wednesday, December 11, 2013

CAConrad G litter P erversions Best viewed full screen with volume cranked to 11

CAConrad | videopoetry



Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Pussy Riot to be freed The leaking of the 3 JD Salinger stories Guardian news staff may be prosecuted for aiding Edward Snowde...

links | Passings



Monday, December 09, 2013

John Wieners reading in Buffalo , 1967

John Wieners | Readings



Sunday, December 08, 2013

Colin Wilson 1931 – 2013

passing



Saturday, December 07, 2013

Gerry Gilbert reading in Buffalo , 1965

Gerry Gilbert | Readings



Friday, December 06, 2013

No title

Nelson Mandela | passing



Thursday, December 05, 2013

Margaret Avison reading in Vancouver , 1963

Margaret Avison | Readings



Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Basil Bunting reading in Buffalo , 1963

Basil Bunting | Readings



Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Gael Turnbull reading in Albuquerque , 1963

Gael Turnbull | Readings



Monday, December 02, 2013

Fielding Dawson reading in Buffalo , 1964

Fielding Dawson | Readings



Monday, December 02, 2013

Dorothea Lasky reading @ The Bowery Poetry Club 2010

Dorothea Lasky | Readings



Sunday, December 01, 2013

George Oppen reading in Buffalo , 1967

George Oppen | Readings



Saturday, November 30, 2013

Denise Levertov reading in Albuquerque, 1964

Denise Levertov | Readings



Friday, November 29, 2013

Image courtesy of Big Bridge Philip Whalen reading in Vancouver, 1963

Philip Whalen | Readings



Thursday, November 28, 2013

Stephen King @ UMass – Lowell (the “stadium show”) 2012

Interviews | Stephen King



Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Celebrating Joseph Ceravolo with CA Conrad , Brian Teare , Michelle Taransky , Stacy Szymaszek , Rod Smith , Frank S...

Brian Teare | CAConrad | Frank Sherlock | Jena Osman | Joseph Ceravolo | Marcella Durand | Michelle Taransky | Personal | Readings | Rod Smith | Stacy Szymaszek



Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Nikki Giovanni talking with Tavis Smiley

Interviews | Nikki Giovanni



Monday, November 25, 2013

Martin Corless - Smith @ Berkeley 2012

Martin Corless-Smith | Readings



Sunday, November 24, 2013

Wanda Coleman 1946 – 2013

passing



Saturday, November 23, 2013

Stephen King @ UMass - Lowell

Interviews | Stephen King



Thursday, November 21, 2013

David B Goldstein reading from Laws of Rest

David B Goldstein | Readings



Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Eric Amling, From the Author’s Private Collection , The Song Cave, Northampton, MA 2...

Recently Received



Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Talking with Tracie Morris , Kenny Goldsmith , Michael Magee & 42,000 other ModPo participants

Conceptual poetics | Flarf | Kenneth Goldsmith | Michael Magee | ModPo | Performance | Tracie Morris



Monday, November 18, 2013

Doris Lessing 1919 – 2013

passing



Sunday, November 17, 2013

Ann Lauterbach reading @ Kelly Writers House November 4, 2013

Ann Lauterbach | Readings



Saturday, November 16, 2013

Jan Beatty reading & talking on Radio Free Albion with Tony Trigilio

Interviews | Jan Beatty | Readings



Friday, November 15, 2013

David Sedaris on the poetry of Susan Wheeler

David Sedaris | Susan Wheeler | Talks



Thursday, November 14, 2013

Michael Blouin reading from I Don’t Know How to Behave

Michael Blouin | Readings



Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Kitasono Katue @ LACMA

Japanese poetry | Kitasono Katue



Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Lyn Hejinian: from The Unfollowing A poem worth a life sentence in a Qatari prison No mercy for Qatari poet Avan...

links | Passings



Monday, November 11, 2013

C Natale Peditto 1943 – 2013

passing



Sunday, November 10, 2013

Tato Laviera 1950 – 2013

passing



Saturday, November 09, 2013

Jonathan Brannen 1950 – 2013

passing | vispo



Friday, November 08, 2013

André Alexis reading from A

André Alexis | Readings



Thursday, November 07, 2013

Julie Joosten reading from Light Light

Julie Joosten | Readings



Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Colin Fulton reading from Life Experience Coolant

Colin Fulton | Readings



Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Sandra Ridley reading from The Counting House

Readings | Sandra Ridley



Monday, November 04, 2013

Reading from Revelator

Personal | Readings



Sunday, November 03, 2013

Evan Kennedy @ The Poetry Project

Evan Kennedy | Readings



Saturday, November 02, 2013

The Penultimate Truth about Philip K Dick

documentary | Philip K Dick



Friday, November 01, 2013

Micah Ballard @ The Poetry Project

Micah Ballard | Readings



Thursday, October 31, 2013

Ari Banias @ The Poetry Project

Ari Banias | Readings



Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Emily Dickson’s archive is live The R is back Lynn Behrendt’s Scrawl Talking with Lisa Robertson Tyrone Williams: ...

links | Passings



Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Arthur C Danto 1924 – 2013

passing | Philosophy



Monday, October 28, 2013

Lou Reed 1942 – 2013

passing



Sunday, October 27, 2013

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera A 1985 documentary by Chrisann Verges & Mark Obenhaus ...

dance | Music | Theater



Saturday, October 26, 2013

Holly Pester’s SoundCloud

Holly Pester | Readings



Friday, October 25, 2013

Talking Einstein on the Beach with Philip Glass , Robert Wilson & Lucinda Childs

dance | Interviews | Lucinda Childs | Music | Philip Glass | Robert Wilson | Theater



Thursday, October 24, 2013

Talking with David B. Goldstein

David B Goldstein | Interviews



Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Photo by Heather Conley Frank Lima 1939 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Happy 80 th Birthday , David Bromige (being a reading @ SUNY Buffalo 1992)

David Bromige



Monday, October 21, 2013

Anne Boyer @ the Poetry Project October 2013

Anne Boyer | Readings



Sunday, October 20, 2013

Joanne Kyger @ the Poetry Project October 2013

Joanne Kyger | Readings



Friday, October 18, 2013

New Sounds with John Zorn

John Zorn | Music



Thursday, October 17, 2013

Wendell Berry talks with Bill Moyers

Interviews | Wendell Berry



Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Susana Gardner @ The Other Room Manchester, UK

Readings | Susana Gardner



Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tyrone Williams: Toleration, Translation, & Ecstasy Williams on coteries, affiliations & loners Denise Levertov & the poe...

links | Passings



Monday, October 14, 2013

Craig Erick “ CE ” Chaffin 1954 – 2013

passing



Sunday, October 13, 2013

Pattie McCarthy @ The Poetry Project September 2013

Pattie McCarthy | Readings



Saturday, October 12, 2013

bpNichol reads The Martyrology

bpNichol | Readings



Friday, October 11, 2013

Calling Alice Munro A phone call with the news Another tale of how she heard the news The last to know Munro wi...

Alice Munro | Nobel Prize | Prizes



Thursday, October 10, 2013

Carrie Etter @ The Other Room Manchester, UK April 2011

Carrie Etter | Readings



Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Peter Jaeger @ The Other Room Manchester, UK (audio only)

Peter Jaeger | Readings



Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Holly Pester @ The Other Room Manchester, UK February 2010

Holly Pester | Readings



Monday, October 07, 2013

Kevin Varrone @ The Poetry Project September 2013

Kevin Varrone | Readings



Sunday, October 06, 2013

Talking Tender Buttons Al Filreis , Rachel Blau DuPlessis , Bob Perelman , Julia Bloch & I talk Gertrude Stein’s 1914 cl...

Al Filreis | Bob Perelman | Gertrude Stein | Julia Bloch | Personal | Q&A | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Talks



Saturday, October 05, 2013

Tonight in Montréal Ron Silliman & Colin Fulton @ Librairie Drawn & Quarterly 211 Bernard Quest 514-279-2224 ...

Events



Friday, October 04, 2013

Ruth Maleczech 1939 – 2013

passing | Theater



Thursday, October 03, 2013

Tonight in Ottawa AB Series @ the Ottawa Art Gallery 2 Daly Avenue 7:30 pm Free Ron Silliman & Rae ...

Events



Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Tonight in Toronto 850 Dundas Street West PWYC 8:00 pm Ron Silliman, with Natalee   Caple , Keith   Garebian  & Jo...

Events



Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Tonight in Toronto

Events



Monday, September 30, 2013

Remembering bpNichol Gone 25 years

bpNichol



Sunday, September 29, 2013

Günther Ruch 1942 – 2013

passing



Saturday, September 28, 2013

100,000 Poets for Change Today!

100 Thousand Poets for Change



Friday, September 27, 2013

The death of Kofi Awoonor @ Westgate Mall Remembering Kofi Awoonor NPR & Kwame Dawes on the legacy of Kofi Awoonor Awoonor: ...

links | Passings



Thursday, September 26, 2013

Introducing Surge Mickey Mouse is mentioned twice in Louis Zukofsky’s “A,” on pages 63 & 283 in the UC Press edition, a fact we kno...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Moure & Pato Talking with Erín Moure (with a reading by Chus Pato)

Chus Pato | Erín Moure | Interviews | Readings



Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Álvaro Mutis 1923 – 2013

passing



Monday, September 23, 2013

Kofi Awoonor 1935 – 2013

passing



Monday, September 23, 2013

Carolyn Cassady 1923 – 2013

passing



Sunday, September 22, 2013

Slavoj Žižek on Marx & Hegel

Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Saturday, September 21, 2013

Henry Miller on Blaise Cendrars

Henry Miller | Interviews



Friday, September 20, 2013

Marcel Duchamp on artists & spectators

Marcel Duchamp | Talks



Thursday, September 19, 2013

Anaïs Nin reading from her diary 1966

Anaïs Nin | Readings



Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Brenda Hillman reading in Berkeley September 2013

Brenda Hillman | Readings



Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Aaron Shurin reading in Berkeley December 2012

Aaron Shurin | Readings



Monday, September 16, 2013

The Revelator Tour Sunday, September 29 Toronto Post-Everything Poetics: A Workshop This is not a “writing workshop” p...

Events | Personal



Sunday, September 15, 2013

Barbara & Hadley Haden Guest, 1997 Talking about Barbara Guest Hadley Haden Guest & Kathleen Fraser July 17, 2007 ...

Barbara Guest | Hadley Haden Guest | Interviews | Kathleen Fraser



Saturday, September 14, 2013

Larry Fagin Off the cuff

Interviews | Larry Fagin | poetics



Friday, September 13, 2013

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Carrie Olivia Adams, Forty-One Jane Doe’s , Ahsahta Press, Boise, 2013 (includes DVD contain thre...

Recently Received



Thursday, September 12, 2013

Filip Marinovich reading @ Dia Chelsea September 2012

Filip Marniovich | Readings



Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Sushmita Banerjee murdered in Afghanistan Lyrikline: 900+ poets in 60 languages ( Inger Christensen declares in Danish that a...

links | Passings



Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Judith Malina reading @ Dia Chelsea September 2012

Judith Malina | Readings



Monday, September 09, 2013

Photo by Alan Bernheimer Karen Weiser reading @ Dia Chelsea October 2012

Karen Weiser | Readings



Sunday, September 08, 2013

Jim Dine reading @  Dia Chelsea October 2012

Jim Dine | Readings



Saturday, September 07, 2013

Arlo Quint reading @ Dia Chelsea May, 2013

Arlo Quint | Readings



Friday, September 06, 2013

Julian Talamantez Brolaski reading @ Dia Chelsea December 2012

Julian Talamantez Brolaski | Readings



Thursday, September 05, 2013

Norma Cole reading @ Dia Chelsea December 2012

Norma Cole | Readings



Wednesday, September 04, 2013

John Zorn talks with Terry Gross

Interviews | John Zorn | Music



Tuesday, September 03, 2013

The women of visual poetry Holly Pester: Visual Poetics & a Play on Shortness Talking with Stacy Szymaszek Her Kind with Amin...

links



Monday, September 02, 2013

Leonard Breger 1920 – 2013

passing | Visual Arts



Sunday, September 01, 2013

John Yau reading @ Dia Chelsea May, 2013

John Yau | Readings



Saturday, August 31, 2013

Seamus Heaney 1939 – 2013

passing



Friday, August 30, 2013

Laura Moriarty reading @ Dia Chelsea January, 2013

Laura Moriarty | Readings



Thursday, August 29, 2013

Kimberly Lyons reading @ Dia Chelsea January, 2013

Kimberly Lyons | Readings



Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Paul Fry on Roman Jakobson & language & literature

Linguistics | MOOC | Paul Fry | Roman Jakobson | Talks | Theory



Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Talking with Karl Ove Knausgård

Fiction | Interviews | Karl Ove Knausgård



Monday, August 26, 2013

John Ashbery: Gravy for the Prisoners Vsevolod Nekrasov: What poetry has to do with language Amaranth Borsuk: The conceptual ...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 25, 2013

Julia Lin 1928 – 2013

passing



Sunday, August 25, 2013

John Hollander 1929 – 2013

passing



Saturday, August 24, 2013

Michael Taussig on Fictocriticism

Criticism | Michael Taussig | Talks



Friday, August 23, 2013

Jane Bennett: No ideas but in things

Archives | Jane Bennett | materialism | Talks | The New Thing | The wisdom of hoarding



Thursday, August 22, 2013

A National Geographics doc on the Voynich Manuscript Every bit as cheesy as that sounds

vispo | Voynich manuscript



Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Elmore “ Dutch ” Leonard 1925 – 2013 The best ear for dialog, ever

passing



Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Souvankham Thammavongsa interviewed by Stephen McLaughlin on Into the Field 2011

Interviews | Souvankham Thammavongsa



Monday, August 19, 2013

Ben Friedlander interviewed by Stephen McLaughlin on Into the Field 2011

Ben Friedlander | Interviews



Sunday, August 18, 2013

Sina Queyras interviewed by Stephen McLaughlin on Into the Field 2011

Interviews | Sina Queyras



Saturday, August 17, 2013

William Carlos Williams reading @ the SF State Poetry Center 1955

Readings | William Carlos Williams



Friday, August 16, 2013

William Everson ( Brother Antoninus) reading @ the SF State Poetry Center 1955

Brother Antoninus | William Everson



Thursday, August 15, 2013

Alain Badiou explains money

Alain Badiou | Philosophy | Talks



Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Vanessa Place: “Conceptualism is feminism; feminism is conceptualism” A talk @ Smolny College St. Petersburg, Russia January...

Conceptual poetics | feminism | Vanessa Place



Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Shanna Compton reading @ Radio Free Albion

Readings | Shanna Compton



Monday, August 12, 2013

Catherine Wagner interviews Rae Armantrout Jane Austen on the ₤10 note? The woman behind the Austen campaign subjected to Twitter...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 11, 2013

Bernadette Mayer Free Verse @ The Walker Art Center With Jennifer Karmin & Philip Good September 2012

Bernadette Mayer | Jennifer Karmin | Philip Good | Readings



Saturday, August 10, 2013

Erica Hunt Evidence A film by Phill Niblock 1983

Erica Hunt | Film | Phill Niblock | Readings



Friday, August 09, 2013

Erica Hunt discussing The Rorschach of Race in America @ the Bowery Poetry Club, 2009

Erica Hunt | Talks



Thursday, August 08, 2013

Judith Balso To Rely on the Inexistent Impossible Closing talk from Pedagogies of Disaster Conference National Historical ...

Judith Balso | Talks



Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Gabriel Gudding reading @ Boise State University 2012

Gabriel Gudding | Readings



Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Lise Sinclair 1972 – 2013

passing



Monday, August 05, 2013

Kongar-ol Ondar 1962 – 2013

Music | passing



Sunday, August 04, 2013

Yona Harvey reading @ Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Readings | Yona Harvey



Saturday, August 03, 2013

Talking with Chantal Neveu

Chantal Neveu | Interviews



Friday, August 02, 2013

Anne Boyer reading @ The East Bay Poetry Summit May 2013

Anne Boyer | Readings



Thursday, August 01, 2013

Alice Notley reading @ Boise State University 2012

Alice Notley | Readings



Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Joshua Beckman, The Inside of an Apple , Wave Books, Seattle / NYC, 2013 Jen Besemer, T...

Recently Received



Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Kara Walker @ Anderson Ranch 2012

Kara Walker | Talks | Visual Arts



Monday, July 29, 2013

Talking with Rachel Levitsky The haiku killer Amy King: poetry and death Xi Murong: poets & poetry never die Talking with...

links | Passings



Sunday, July 28, 2013

Walter De Maria 1935 – 2013

Installation | passing | Visual Arts



Saturday, July 27, 2013

Book Presence in a Digital Age Excerpts from a conference @ Utrecht University May 2012

Book as Art Object | books | Conferences | post-book poetics



Friday, July 26, 2013

Theodore A Harris , Fred Moten & Jeremy Glick discussing Our Flesh of Flames exhibit @ the Brecht Forum , NYC, 2009 ...

Fred Moten | Jeremy Glick | Panel | Theodore Harris



Thursday, July 25, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Colbert Report July 23, 2013

Conceptual poetics | Interviews | Kenneth Goldsmith



Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Larry Sawyer reading @ Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Larry Sawyer | Readings



Tuesday, July 23, 2013

HR Hegnauer reading @ 17Poets ! in New Orleans May 2012

HR Hegnauer | Readings



Monday, July 22, 2013

Rita Dove’s  Trayvon, Redux Fanny Howe: Yellow Goblins Amy King on  Po-Biz  -- Part 2 takes on  Perloff’s elitism Perloff on  Al...

links | Passings



Sunday, July 21, 2013

Eileen Myles interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Eileen Myles | Interviews



Saturday, July 20, 2013

Neal Stephenson interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Neal Stephenson



Friday, July 19, 2013

Melissa Buzzeo reading @ The East Bay Poetry Summit May 2013

Melissa Buzzeo | Readings



Thursday, July 18, 2013

Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) being force fed under standard Guantanamo Bay operating procures (warning: extremely disturbi...

Gitmo | Politics | torture



Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Andrew Durbin reading @ The East Bay Poetry Summit May 2013

Andrew Durbin | Readings



Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Andrew Maxwell @ the Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles, June 2013

Andrew Maxwell | Readings



Monday, July 15, 2013

Michael Lally interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 2010

Interviews | Michael Lally



Sunday, July 14, 2013

Irving Feldman interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 2008

Interviews | Irving Feldman



Saturday, July 13, 2013

Jack Spicer Kevin Killian interviewed about Jack Spicer by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm

Interviews | Jack Spicer | Kevin Killian



Friday, July 12, 2013

Sara Wingate Gray: The Itinerant Poetry Librarian

Interviews | Libraries | Performance | Sara Wingate Gray



Thursday, July 11, 2013

44 th Poetry International Festival Opening Program with Adonis , Daniel Bănulescu , Elke Erb , Emmanuel Moses , Ester Naomi Per...

Poetry International | Readings



Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Ron Padgett remembering Joe Brainard with   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Joe Brainard | Ron Padgett



Tuesday, July 09, 2013

F . D . Reeve 1928 – 2013

passing



Monday, July 08, 2013

Jim Krusoe interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Jim Krusoe



Sunday, July 07, 2013

Barbara Baracks reading @ Franklin Furnace, 1977

Barbara Baracks | Readings



Saturday, July 06, 2013

Robert Hass interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Robert Hass



Friday, July 05, 2013

Poetry Logos by VanessaPlaceInc Talking with Rodrigo Toscano Some new work by Toscano The Phenomenology of Giving CS Gisco...

links



Thursday, July 04, 2013

Lawrence Ferlinghetti interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Lawrence Ferlinghetti



Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Mary Ruefle interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Mary Ruefle



Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Eloise Klein Healy interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Eloise Klein Healy | Interviews



Monday, July 01, 2013

Jill Richards & Aaron Kunin @ UC Berkeley 2007

Aaron Kunin | Jill Richards | Readings



Sunday, June 30, 2013

Bhanu Kapil reading @ The East Bay Poetry Summit May 2013

Bhanu Kapil | Readings



Saturday, June 29, 2013

Matvei Yankelevich @ the Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles, June 2013

Matvei Yankelevich | Readings



Friday, June 28, 2013

Guy Bennett @ the Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles, June 2013

Guy Bennett | Readings



Thursday, June 27, 2013

Maggie Nelson @ the Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles, June 2013

Maggie Nelson | Readings



Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Larry Ochs & the East-West Collective Paris, April 2012 Larry Ochs - sopranino & tenor saxophone Sylvain Kassap - clarin...

Larry Ochs | Music



Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Roberto Bolaño bike helmet 2666: the film Jordan Davis on Lucille Clifton Kenny Goldsmith’s ‘atrocity exhibition’ Talkin...

links



Monday, June 24, 2013

Sylvia Plath reading 15 poems from Ariel ( part 1) ( part 2) ( part 3) Thanks to Open Culture

Readings | Sylvia Plath



Sunday, June 23, 2013

Lucille Clifton interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 1996

Interviews | Lucille Clifton



Saturday, June 22, 2013

Thom Gunn interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 1995

Interviews | Thom Gunn



Friday, June 21, 2013

Michael Ondaatje talking & reading on KCRW’s Bookworm

Interviews | Michael Ondaatje



Thursday, June 20, 2013

No title

Harry Partch | Music



Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Slavoj Žižek talking on The Event: Politics, Art, Ontology at the University of London Birkbeck May 9 2013 ...

Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Kurt Brown ? – 2013

passing



Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Maurice Nadeau 1911 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Madison Morrison 1938 – 2013

passing



Monday, June 17, 2013

The poetry of Solidarity Park Life in Taksim Square One writer freed, others in jeopardy in Turkey Soluble Personhood: on (...

links | Passings



Sunday, June 16, 2013

Jack Gilbert interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 1996

Interviews | Jack Gilbert



Saturday, June 15, 2013

Harry Mathews interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 1999

Harry Mathews | Interviews | Oulipo



Friday, June 14, 2013

Ariana Reines interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 2008

Ariana Reines | Interviews



Thursday, June 13, 2013

Does an unvarnished truth exist? And, if so, does it intersect, even slightly, with what one might call good? Those questions are at th...

Film | Hannah Arendt



Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Talking with Joe Harrington on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Joe Harrington



Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Evie Shockley on race & the poetry canon Britain looks at its own gender-balance issues in publishing Sexism & sci-fi Landays ...

links | Passings



Monday, June 10, 2013

The world of poetry is changing. This has consequences. Overwhelmed by the absolute number of poets, the omnibus poetry anthology ...

anthologies



Sunday, June 09, 2013

Photo by Erin Goldberger Susan Howe reading at Dia: Chelsea in February

Readings | Susan Howe



Saturday, June 08, 2013

Rae Armantrout reading & talking with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW’s Bookworm

Interviews | Rae Armantrout



Friday, June 07, 2013

Vollis Simpson 1919 – 2013

passing | Visual Arts



Thursday, June 06, 2013

Laura Elrick performs Stalk

Laura Elrick | Performance



Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Alysia Abbott on Fresh Air discussing Fairyland: a memoir of Steve Abbott

Alysia Abbott | Interviews | Steve Abbott



Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Pura López - Colomé & Forrest Gander talking & reading on KCRW’s Bookworm

Forrest Gander | Interviews | Pura López-Colomé | Readings | translation



Monday, June 03, 2013

Welcome to Taksim Square , Istanbul John Pluecker on Heriberto Yépez Clare Pollard on Salt Publishing & the health of poetry Nei...

links | Passings



Sunday, June 02, 2013

Rae Armantrout , Laura Elrick & Rachel Blau DuPlessis close reading Catherine Wagner

Catherine Wagner | Laura Elrick | PoemTalk | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Rae Armantrout



Saturday, June 01, 2013

Mary Coghill on Roman Jakobson: Poetry of Self, City, Sign & Form (click on red link for YouTube recording) ...

Mary Coghill | Roman Jakobson | Talks



Friday, May 31, 2013

Art is not natural: A speaking portrait of Basil King by George Quasha

Basil King | George Quasha | Interviews



Thursday, May 30, 2013

Don Share is the new editor of Poetry

Don Share | Poetry Foundation



Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Kim Merker 1932 – 2013

passing | Printing



Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Top row, left to right: Raad Ahmad, Mesbah Alam Arghya, Santanu Bandyopadhyay, Subhro Bandopadhyay; bottom row, left to right: Sukanta G...

links | Passings



Monday, May 27, 2013

photo by Erin Goldberger My reading at Dia: Chelsea in March

Personal | Readings



Sunday, May 26, 2013

Photo by Erin Goldberger Kate Colby reading at Dia: Chelsea in February

Kate Colby | Readings



Saturday, May 25, 2013

Photo by Erin Goldberger Robert Fitterman reading at Dia: Chelsea in March

Readings | Robert Fitterman



Friday, May 24, 2013

Davis reading at Wellesley Lydia Davis has received the 2013 Man Booker International Prize

Lydia Davis | Prizes | Readings



Thursday, May 23, 2013

Robert Grenier talking at Southfirst in Brooklyn

Robert Grenier | Talks | vispo



Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Manzarek with Michael McClure , intro by Gary Snyder Ray Manzarek 1939 – 2013

Music | passing



Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Cathy Park Hong’s A Proposition: Stand Up @ the New Museum with responses by Ariana Reines , Catherine Wagner , Ronaldo V...

Ariana Reines | Catherine Wagner | Cathy Park Hong | Mores McWreath | Performance | Ronaldo V Wilson



Monday, May 20, 2013

Talking with Susan M Schultz on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Susan M Schultz



Sunday, May 19, 2013

Talking with Leonard Schwartz on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Leonard Schwartz



Saturday, May 18, 2013

Talking with CM Burroughs on Radio Free Albion

CM Burroughs | Interviews



Friday, May 17, 2013

Talking with Hannah Gamble on Radio Free Albion

Hannah Gamble | Interviews



Thursday, May 16, 2013

Lina ramona Vitkauskas reading & talking on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Lina ramona Vitkauskas | Readings



Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Don Share discussing Bunting’s Persia

Basil Bunting | Don Share | Interviews | Persia | translation



Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Lisa Jarnot discussing her biography of Robert Duncan, The Ambassador of Venus

Interviews | Lisa Jarnot | New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Monday, May 13, 2013

Pierre Joris discussing Poems for the Millennium, vol. 4 The University of California Book of North African Literatu...

African literature | Cross-Cultural Poetics | Interviews | Maghreb | Pierre Joris



Sunday, May 12, 2013

Catherine Wagner reading on Cross-Cultural Poetics

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Saturday, May 11, 2013

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Author Not the Point, Poetry is Like Golf We Each Play for Our Own Reasons and Sometimes Tiger ...

Recently Received



Friday, May 10, 2013

Taylor Mead 1924 – 2013

passing



Thursday, May 09, 2013

I’m with language Amiri Baraka doesn’t like Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry A respo...

links | Passings



Wednesday, May 08, 2013

A reading from The Arcadia Project @ Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room with   Timothy Donnelly , CD Wright , Gabriel Guddi...

Brian Teare | C.D. Wright | Dan Beachy-Quick | Dana Levin | G.C. Waldrep | Gabriel Gudding | John Beer | Readings | Timothy Donnelly



Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Ku‘ualoha Ho‘omanawanui reading @ the University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2001

Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui | Readings



Monday, May 06, 2013

If I see another motion picture in 2013 that is as remotely as intelligent or mature as Upstream Color , it will be a very good yea...

Film



Sunday, May 05, 2013

Herbert Blau 1926 – 2013

passing | Theater



Saturday, May 04, 2013

Accessibility & the Avant-Garde A group conversation held at Sea Ranch on New Year’s Day between Chris Nealon , Joshua Clover ...

Chris Nealon | Jasper Bernes | Jill Richards | Joshua Clover | Juliana Spahr | Panel | post-avant | Seeta Chaganti | Tim Kreiner



Friday, May 03, 2013

John Byam 1929 – 2013

passing | Visual Arts



Thursday, May 02, 2013

Adeena Karasick reading @ North of Invention , 2011

Adeena Karasick | Readings



Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Muriel Rukeyser’s lost novel Talking with Nate Mackey Laura Sims on David Markson (in two parts) & on Rae Armantrout John ...

links | Passings



Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Pattie McCarthy & Jena Osman reading @ Kelly Writers House, 2013 Intro by Mic...

Jena Osman | Pattie McCarthy | Readings



Monday, April 29, 2013

Myung Mi Kim reading @ Kelly Writers House, 2010 Intro by Michelle Taransky

Myung Mi Kim | Readings



Sunday, April 28, 2013

A tribute to Adrienne Rich @ the 92 nd Street Y

Adrienne Rich | Readings



Saturday, April 27, 2013

Mel Nichols reading for Segue @ the Bowery Poetry Club, 2007

Mel Nichols | Readings



Friday, April 26, 2013

Sharon Mesmer reading @ The Double Happiness , 2000

Readings | Sharon Mesmer



Thursday, April 25, 2013

P Inman & Tina Darragh Tina Darragh reading @ The Ear Inn , 1987

Readings | Tina Darragh



Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Richie Havens 1941 – 2013

Music | passing



Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Nanao Sakaki reading in Tucson for Chax Press , 2007

Nanao Sakaki | Readings



Monday, April 22, 2013

CA Conrad: I loved Earth years ago Sherman Alexie’s top 10 Native American poets Maria Shriver on the origins of VIDA Boston...

links | Passings



Sunday, April 21, 2013

Kimberly Lyons reading in Tucson for POG , 2010

Kimberly Lyons | Readings



Saturday, April 20, 2013

Jamaica Kincaid reading & talking at the 92 nd St Y for The Paris Review

Jamaica Kincaid



Friday, April 19, 2013

May Sarton reading & talking with Susan Howe

Interviews | May Sarton | Readings



Thursday, April 18, 2013

Jennifer Moxley reading at Boise State University

Jennifer Moxley | Readings



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Susan M Schultz reading at Boise State University

Readings | Susan M Schultz



Tuesday, April 16, 2013

No title

Personal



Monday, April 15, 2013

Sherman Alexie talking with Bill Moyers

Interviews | Sherman Alexie



Sunday, April 14, 2013

A reading by Mary Caroline ( MC) Richards from 1997

MC Richards | Readings



Saturday, April 13, 2013

Gilles Deleuze: What is the creative act? (1987)

Film | Gilles Deleuze | Talks



Friday, April 12, 2013

Nance Van Winckel: Pho-Toems Camille Guthrie: Why I am not a nature poet Paul Hoover on the PBS Newshour 7 by Cedar Sigo...

links | Passings



Thursday, April 11, 2013

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Rae Armantrout, Recurrencias: Antologia personal, edited & translated by David Ojeda, Ed...

Recently Received



Wednesday, April 10, 2013

A reading by Elizabeth Willis for Belladonna *, 2006

Elizabeth Willis | Readings



Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Les Blank 1935 – 2013

Film | passing



Monday, April 08, 2013

Beverly Dahlen reading in San Francisco, 1983

Beverly Dahlen | Readings



Sunday, April 07, 2013

A Frank Samperi tribute reading with Claudia Warren , Conrad DiDiodato , Harry E Northup , Phoebe MacAdams , SA Griffin ...

Frank Samperi | Readings



Saturday, April 06, 2013

A Belladonna * anthology reading: with Erica Kaufman , Rae Armantrout , Lydia Davis , Rachel Levitsky , Sharon Me...

Belladonna | Erica Kaufman | Jennifer Moxley | Lydia Davis | Rachel Levitsky | Rae Armantrout | Readings | Sharon Mesmer | Tim Trace Peterson



Friday, April 05, 2013

Roger Ebert 1942 – 2013 Roger Ebert 1942 – 2013

Film | passing



Thursday, April 04, 2013

Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Wishes on the Wish Tree   Desiring visual texts: Maria Damon & Rachel Blau DuPlessis in conversation Rae Ar...

links | Passings



Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Eileen Myles & Alice Notley reading for Public Access Poetry , 1977

Alice Notley | Eileen Myles | Readings



Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Thomas McEvilley 1939 – 2013

passing | Visual Arts



Monday, April 01, 2013

Daniel Hoffman 1923 – 2013

passing



Sunday, March 31, 2013

Joanne Kyger reading for Public Access Poetry , 1978

Joanne Kyger | Readings



Saturday, March 30, 2013

Sueyeun Juliette Lee reading @ Kelly Writers House , 2007

Readings | Sueyeun Juliette Lee



Friday, March 29, 2013

Cecilia Vicuña reading & talking on Cross-Cultural Poetics

Cecilia Vicuña | Interviews



Thursday, March 28, 2013

Patti Smith , interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel

Interviews | Patti Smith



Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Lisa Robertson & Aisha Sasha John in conversation

Aisha Sasha John | Lisa Robertson | Talks



Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Talking with Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman | Interviews



Monday, March 25, 2013

Photo by Geof Huth Reading Robert Grenier’s Cambridge, M’ass Some poems by Chinua Achebe NY Times obit for Achebe Marjorie Perloff: ...

links



Sunday, March 24, 2013

Nathaniel Mackey reading at the 2010 One Pause Poetry Conference

Nathaniel Mackey | Readings



Saturday, March 23, 2013

Tracy K Smith reading @ White Lotus Farms

Readings | Tracy K Smith



Friday, March 22, 2013

Chinua Achebe 1930 – 2013

passing



Thursday, March 21, 2013

Nada Gordon bringing Flarf to Myanmar Nada Gordon will read @ Kelly Writers House 38 th & Locust Walk Philadelphia Tuesd...

Flarf | Globalism | Nada Gordon | Talks



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Talking with Clayton Eshleman

Clayton Eshleman | Interviews



Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Jean Day reading @ the Condensary August 2011

Jean Day | Readings



Monday, March 18, 2013

Corina Copp reading @ the Condensary August 2011

Corina Copp | Readings



Sunday, March 17, 2013

Noam Chomsky on Language & the Mind Revisited: Language & the Rest of the World

Linguistics | Noam Chomsky



Saturday, March 16, 2013

Grace Ambrose Launch Party for In Open Letters A Secret Appears: A People's Guide to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a poetry readi...

CAConrad | conceptual art | Duchamp | Installation | Mail art | Philadelphia | Readings | Rothko | Visual Arts



Friday, March 15, 2013

Simon Morris Rewriting Freud

Conceptual poetics | Ed Ruscha | Freud | Simon Morris | Sol Lewitt | Tzara | William Burroughs



Thursday, March 14, 2013

Wes Cecil on the life & philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein | Philosophy | Talks | Wes Cecil



Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Robert Creeley & Louis Zukofsky having a chat in 1961 ( being a link to the recording on the PennSound Zukofsky page)

Interviews | Robert Creeley | Zukofsky



Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Amanda Sigler on Joyce’s Ulysses & censorship as a marketing strategy The Modernist Versions Project

Amanda Sigler | censorship | James Joyce | Talks



Monday, March 11, 2013

VIDA count 2012: the numbers are not getting better Dmitri Prigov’s Little Coffins Barrett Watten & the Gnostics in Louisville Thomas F...

links | Passings



Sunday, March 10, 2013

Donald Revell reads from & discusses Pennyweight Window: New & Selected Poems with Leonard Schwartz

Donald Revell | Interviews | Readings



Saturday, March 09, 2013

Kamau Brathwaite reading all of Islands (1973) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Kamau Brathwaite | Readings



Friday, March 08, 2013

Stompin’ Tom Connors 1936 – 2013

passing



Thursday, March 07, 2013

My sense that that the free-range anthology has outlived its value as an object, at least in codex form, does not mean that I think that bo...

anthologies



Wednesday, March 06, 2013

William Carlos Williams Talking with Walter Sutton October & November, 1960

Interviews | William Carlos Williams



Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Lisa Jarnot reading at the Bowery Poetry Club 2006

Lisa Jarnot | Readings



Monday, March 04, 2013

Rob Fitterman & Ron Silliman tonight @ Dia: Chelsea in New York City 535 West 22 nd Street,5 th Floor $6 general admission; $3 Di...

Events



Sunday, March 03, 2013

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke on Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke | Readings | Talks



Saturday, March 02, 2013

Al-Ajami’s sentence for poetry reduced to 15 years Take action HERE

100 Thousand Poets for Change | censorship



Friday, March 01, 2013

I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women reading @ Writers House with Laynie Browne , Lee Ann Brown , Rachel Blau DuP...

anthologies | Conceptual poetics | feminism | Readings | Women writers



Thursday, February 28, 2013

Jess’ portrait of Robert Duncan: The Enamored Mage Robin Blaser talking about Robert Duncan Buffalo, 1996

Robert Duncan | Robin Blaser | Talks



Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Lera Boroditsky: How the languages we speak shape the way we think (right click to start video full-screen in new tab or cli...

language | Lera Boroditsky | Talks



Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t the only one who stumbled at this year’s Academy Awards. The Oscars are an increasingly bizarre displa...

Film



Monday, February 25, 2013

Peter O’Leary: Apocalypticism A new poem shows Jupiter Hammon changing his mind Curtis Faville on Joe Ceravolo Faville on Anselm Hollo ...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 24, 2013

Stanley Cavell talking with Charles Bernstein

Interviews | Philosophy | Stanley Cavell



Saturday, February 23, 2013

Christian Bök @ Simon Fraser University The Xenotext (A Progress Report) January 25, 2013

Christian Bök | Conceptual poetics | Performance | Talks



Friday, February 22, 2013

Juliana Spahr reading @ Mills College 2005

Juliana Spahr | Readings



Thursday, February 21, 2013

Ted Greenwald reading on Susan Howe’s WBAI radio program 1977

Readings | Ted Greenwald



Wednesday, February 20, 2013

John Ashbery interviewed by Al Filreis and the Kelly Writers House gang February 12, 2013

Interviews | John Ashbery



Tuesday, February 19, 2013

John Ashbery at Kelly Writers House February 11, 2013

John Ashbery | Readings



Monday, February 18, 2013

Talking with Ken Lum on art & community Vancouver / Philly / the Netherlands

community | Interviews | Ken Lum | Visual Arts



Sunday, February 17, 2013

Mary Jo Bang & Jennifer Scappettone on the intersection between translation & poetics

Jennifer Scappettone | Mary Jo Bang | poetics | Talks | translation



Saturday, February 16, 2013

K David Harrison on Revitalizing Linguistic Diversity

diversity | language | Linguistics



Friday, February 15, 2013

The first omission you notice – a poet dropped from the first edition of Paul Hoover’s Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology ...

anthologies



Thursday, February 14, 2013

Luke Harley: poetry as virtual community Talking with Rachel Blau DuPlessis 2 uncollected poems by Paul Celan Jenn McCreary is talking t...

links | Passings



Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Richard Artschwager 1923 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, February 12, 2013

John Ashbery reading at The Living Theater New York September, 1963

John Ashbery | Readings



Monday, February 11, 2013

John Ashbery reading in Georgetown February, 2010

John Ashbery | Readings



Sunday, February 10, 2013

Fanny Howe discusses “ Doubt ”

Fanny Howe | Interviews



Saturday, February 09, 2013

The Mirror of the Soul a portrait of Forough Farrokhzad in 3 parts

Forough Farrokhzad | Iran



Friday, February 08, 2013

The House is Black by Forough Farrokhzad

Film | Forough Farrokhzad | Iran



Thursday, February 07, 2013

Jerome Rothenberg on Ethnopoetics & Politics: the Politics of Ethnopoetics @ the New School, 1988

Jerome Rothenberg | Readings



Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Linh Dinh in Richmond, VA September 2010

Linh Dinh | Readings



Monday, February 04, 2013

Linh Dinh: art is always political Patti Smith reading Virginia Woolf + Woolf reading Woolf Brian Ang & Joshua Clover on theory, actio...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 03, 2013

Ange Mlinko reading on KCRW-FM

Ange Mlinko | Interviews



Saturday, February 02, 2013

Sean Bonney: Notes on Militant Poetics   Readings from The Commons ( set 1) ( set 2) ( set 3)

Readings | Sean Bonney | Talks



Friday, February 01, 2013

Lucien Stryk 1924 – 2013

passing



Thursday, January 31, 2013

Butch Morris 1947 – 2013

passing



Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Anselm Hollo 1934 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Kenneth Irby reading at Berkeley November 4, 2010

Kenneth Irby | Readings



Monday, January 28, 2013

John Taggart Reading at the Rothko Chapel October, 2012

John Taggart | Readings



Sunday, January 27, 2013

Ron Silliman Canons & Institutions: New Hope for the Disappeared New School, 1988 ( discussion)

Personal | Talks



Saturday, January 26, 2013

My reading @ UC San Diego April 18 2012

Personal | Readings



Friday, January 25, 2013

Robert Polito takes over as director of Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation | Readings | Robert Polito



Thursday, January 24, 2013

Sara Marcus & Michelle Tea reading @ the Poetry Project November 16, 2012

Michelle Tea | Readings | Sara Marcus



Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Erín Moure: translating Tarzan Emily online & in her own hand Maria Damon: Cross-Stitch Poetry Orson Welles interviews Isidore Isou ...

links | Passings



Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem, One Today Travis Nichols on the challenge of the inaugural poem Latino makes history in severa...

inaugural poetics | Readings | Richard Blanco



Monday, January 21, 2013

Richard Blanco reading in Bryant Park, 2012

Readings | Richard Blanco



Sunday, January 20, 2013

Jack McCarthy 1939 – 2013

passing



Saturday, January 19, 2013

Aracelis Girmay & Jenny Zhang reading @ the Poetry Project November 26, 2012

Aracelis Grimay | Jenny Zhang | Readings



Friday, January 18, 2013

Talking with Yoko Ono from the Joe Smith Collection at the Library of Congress ( part one) ( part two)

Interviews | Yoko Ono



Thursday, January 17, 2013

Srikanth Reddy & Sarah Riggs reading @ the Poetry Project November 28, 2012

Readings | Sarah Riggs | Srikanth Reddy



Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Peter Jaeger on the Buddhism in John Cage’s art

Buddhism | John Cage | Music | Peter Jaeger | Talks



Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The next time a poet is selected to perform a poem at a presidential inauguration on strictly literary grounds will be the first. The c...

inaugural poetics | political poetry



Monday, January 14, 2013

Charles Bukowski: Born Into This

Charles Bukowski



Sunday, January 13, 2013

Walt Whitman: American Experience

Walt Whitman



Saturday, January 12, 2013

Evan S Connell 1924 -- 2013

passing



Friday, January 11, 2013

Slavoj Žižek on architecture & aesthetics

Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Thursday, January 10, 2013

Erín Moure reading in Brooklyn February 2012 Thanks to Belladonna & Pennsound

Erín Moure | Readings



Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Harvey Shapiro 1924 – 2013

passing



Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Leung Ping - kwan 1949 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Molly Brodak reading @ Indian Springs School Indian Springs, Alabama

Molly Brodak | Readings



Monday, January 07, 2013

The MelaNated Writers Collective December 2012 Juke Joint

collectives | Readings | Scenes



Sunday, January 06, 2013

Gina Myers reading @ Indian Springs School Indian Springs, Alabama

Gina Myers | Readings



Saturday, January 05, 2013

Adam Vines reading @ Indian Springs School Indian Springs, Alabama

Adam Vines | Readings



Friday, January 04, 2013

Talking with David Trinidad on Radio Free Albion with Tony Trigilio

David Trinidad | Interviews



Thursday, January 03, 2013

Tony Lopez with Daniel Benjamin reading at Berkeley November 13 2012

Daniel Benjamin | Tony Lopez



Wednesday, January 02, 2013

giovanni singleton reading at UC Berkeley February 2, 2012

giovanni singleton | Readings



Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Reading Jackson Mac Low’s 154 Forties Mohammed Rashid al-Ajami is “the Gulf’s Mandela” In Turkey, a journalist is freed 8 charged in 1...

links | Passings



Monday, December 31, 2012

Talking with Sandra Simonds on Radio Free Albion with Tony Trigilio

Interviews | Sandra Simonds



Sunday, December 30, 2012

Jayne Cortez 1936 – 2012

passing



Saturday, December 29, 2012

Fontella Bass 1940 – 2012

Jazz | passing



Friday, December 28, 2012

Amish Trivedi reading @ Indian Springs School Indian Springs, Alabama

Amish Trivedi | Readings



Thursday, December 27, 2012

Dennis O’Driscoll 1954 -- 2012

passing



Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Close-reading aloud Clark Coolidge’s “ Blues for Alice ” interpreted for PoemTalk by Brian Reed , Maria Damon & Craig Dworkin led...

Al Filreis | Brian Reed | Clark Coolidge | Craig Dworkin | Maria Damon | PoemTalk



Tuesday, December 25, 2012

My reading at Penn State October 9, 2012

Personal | Readings



Monday, December 24, 2012

Emily Abendroth & Stefania Heim reading at The Poetry Project November 5, 2012

Emily Abendroth | Readings | Stefania Heim



Sunday, December 23, 2012

Ann Lauterbach reading & talking At the University of Chicago October 2012

Ann Lauterbach | Readings | Talks



Saturday, December 22, 2012

David Bromige Condition, Information & the Paranoia of the New Post-talk discussion The Poetry Project , October 4, 1985

David Bromige | Talks



Friday, December 21, 2012

Bill Berkson by Alphonse Van Woerkom Talking with Bill Berkson Berkson’s Portrait and Dream Evie Shockley: binaries divide in order to...

links | Passings



Thursday, December 20, 2012

Spread the word »     A poet has been sentenced to life in prison for reciting a poem.  Share this action on Facebook  Sha...

100 Thousand Poets for Change | censorship | petition | political action | Qatar | RootsAction



Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Gerrit Lansing reading & talking with the inimitable Chucky B

Gerrit Lansing | Interviews | Readings



Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Jake Adam York 1972 – 2012

passing



Monday, December 17, 2012

Keston Sutherland & John Wilkinson reading at Berkeley November 15 2012

John Wilkinson | Keston Sutherland | Readings



Sunday, December 16, 2012

“ Here’s Your Throat Back , Thanks for the Loan” Steven Ring on Dylan’s Voices

Bob Dylan | Music | Steven Rings | Talks



Saturday, December 15, 2012

giovanni singleton & Brenda Hillman reading at The Poetry Project October 24, 2012

Brenda Hillman | giovanni singleton | Readings



Friday, December 14, 2012

Rachel Blau DuPlessis in Auckland, New Zealand March 2012 Draft 49: Turns ( Turns 1) ( Turns 2) Draft 51: Clay Songs Draft 53: Eclogu...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings



Thursday, December 13, 2012

Ravi Shankar 1920 – 2012

Music | passing



Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Marilyn Hacker on Adrienne Rich Katie Degentesh: Legitimate and illegitimate poems John Ashbery’s new poem Suburban Burma Why typing A...

links | Passings



Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Susan Howe: The Whispered Rush, The Telepathy of Archives ( from the Poets’ Forum of the Academy of American Poets, 2011)

Susan Howe | Talks



Monday, December 10, 2012

When, in 200 years, students are reading the poetry of Lyn Hejinian – as certainly they shall if humans are still about – those readers wi...

Lyn Hejinian | The New Sentence | Tony Lopez



Sunday, December 09, 2012

John Koethe & John Godfrey reading at The Poetry Project October 17, 2012

John Godfrey | John Koethe | Readings



Saturday, December 08, 2012

Conceptual Writing by Women: Vanessa Place & Divya Victor reading at the Poetry Project October 22

Conceptual poetics | Divya Victor | Readings | Vanessa Place



Friday, December 07, 2012

Beauty is a Verb: a reading by Jennifer Bartlett , Ellen McGrath Smith & Norma Cole at the Poetry Project September 26, 2012

anthologies | Ellen McGrath Smith | Jennifer Bartlett | Norma Cole | Readings



Thursday, December 06, 2012

Dave Brubeck 1920 – 2012

Jazz | Music | passing



Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Close-reading Paul Blackburn’s 7 th Game: 1960 Series

Baseball | Panel | Paul Blackburn | PoemTalk



Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Décio Pignatari 1927 – 2012

concrete poetry | passing



Monday, December 03, 2012

When Bruce met Sally Qatari poet gets life in prison for satire Muhammed ibn al-Dheed ...

links | Passings



Sunday, December 02, 2012

Frank O’Hara in Richard Moore’s USA Poetry (1966) (the best TV series on poetry ever)

Frank O'Hara | Readings | TV



Saturday, December 01, 2012

Geof Huth performs wordsigndrawtextsong

Geof Huth



Friday, November 30, 2012

A Fairy Tale: Tax the Rich Written & directed by Fred Glass Animation by Mike Konopacki Narration by Ed Asner Special thanks to the Calif...

CFT | Ed Asner | Fairy Tales | Fred Glass | Mike Konopacki | Occupy



Thursday, November 29, 2012

Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Tony Lopez reading at The Poetry Project November 7, 2012

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings | Tony Lopez



Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Ariel Goldberg on The Estrangement Principle

Ariel Goldberg | Talks



Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Donato Mancini * reading You Must Work Harder

Christian Bök | Donato Mancini | Readings | Talks



Monday, November 26, 2012

Weldon Kees reading in Berkeley, 1952

Readings | Weldon Kees



Sunday, November 25, 2012

Žižek in Vermont

Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Saturday, November 24, 2012

Mark Goldstein on Form of Forms

Interviews | Mark Goldstein



Friday, November 23, 2012

Fin de Siècle 3 plays by Leslie Scalapino Musical composition by Sarah Dougher

Leslie Scalapino | Music | Poets Theater | Sarah Dougher



Thursday, November 22, 2012

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Godmother of Rock & Roll

Music



Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Li Bifeng in 1993 (center, front row) In PRC, Li Bifeng gets 12-year jail term Texting in difficult city Chris Tysh on Alice Notley Seg...

links | Passings



Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Outlawing Shakespeare: The Battle for the Tucson Mind

censorship



Monday, November 19, 2012

Alison Watkins: Videopoetry: Relation of Word to Image

videopoetry



Sunday, November 18, 2012

bill bissett: Rush: What Fuckan Theory

bill bissett | Readings



Saturday, November 17, 2012

John Ashbery talking about Thomas Lovell Beddoes at Harvard 1989 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | Talks | Thomas Lovell Beddoes



Friday, November 16, 2012

Tomorrow, November 17 2 events in Toronto Embracing Transformation in Writing Poetry Master Class Toronto New School of Writing Noon - 4:...

Events



Thursday, November 15, 2012

An evening in memory of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko with Jacki Ochs ,  Lyn Hejinian ,  Charles Bernstein , Eugene Ostashevsky , Genya Tu...

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko | Talks



Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Jack Gilbert 1925 – 2012   Singing in My Difficult Mountains Helot for what time there is In the baptist hegemony of death. For wha...

passing



Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Valerie Eliot 1926 – 2012

passing



Monday, November 12, 2012

Next Saturday, November 17 2 events in Toronto Embracing Transformation in Writing Poetry Master Class Toronto New School of Writing Noon...

Events



Sunday, November 11, 2012

David Harvey The End of Capitalism?

Capital | David Harvey | Talks



Saturday, November 10, 2012

John Ashbery talking about John Wheelwright at Harvard 1990 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | John Wheelwright | Talks



Friday, November 09, 2012

[ Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] The Pleistocene with Jen Hofer Recorded via Skype between Tucson and Oakland on October...

Interviews | Jen Hofer



Thursday, November 08, 2012

Carla Harryman: Notes on Poets Theater Talking with Bruce Andrews A new poem from...

links | Passings



Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Elliott Carter 1908 – 2012 Elliott Carter on YouTube

Music | passing



Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Anne - Marie Albiach 1937 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Jacques Dupin 1927 – 2012

passing



Monday, November 05, 2012

My reading with Rob Fitterman , scheduled for this coming Thursday , has been postponed until sometime in the new year Dia: Chelsea sus...

Flood | Non-events



Sunday, November 04, 2012

No title

Slavoj Žižek



Saturday, November 03, 2012

John Ashbery talking about John Clare at Harvard 1989 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | John Clare | Talks



Friday, November 02, 2012

24 th Street & 10 th Avenue “ All of Chelsea has to rebuild ”

Floods | Visual Arts



Thursday, November 01, 2012

Tisa Bryant reading in the Belladonna Series in NYC, 2009 Thanks to PennSound

Readings | Tisa Bryant



Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Alan Dugan reading in New York, 1962

Alan Dugan | Readings



Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Received (not always recently) Books (Poetry) Rae Armantrout, Just Saying , Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2013 Adrian B...

Recently Received



Monday, October 29, 2012

Math poetry by Scott Helmes A feature on Maria Damon Paul Legault’s Emily Dickinson Peter Riley on Anthony Barnett Remembering Raymond Sous...

links



Sunday, October 28, 2012

John Ashbery talking about Raymond Roussel at Harvard 1990 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | Raymond Roussel | Talks



Saturday, October 27, 2012

Double-click on the image

Multi-media poetics



Friday, October 26, 2012

Evie Shockley reading at Penn State, April 2012 Thanks to Aldon Nielsen & PennSound

Evie Shockley | Readings



Thursday, October 25, 2012

Rebecca Brown interviewed by Stacey Lewis at City Lights about American Romances

Interviews | Rebecca Brown



Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Raymond Souster 1921 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Tony Lopez: Weymouth Sands Beverly Dahlen: 2 poems When Vispo was young: bpNichol’s computer poems of 1984 Arseny Tarkovsky: 3 poem...

links | Passings



Monday, October 22, 2012

Anthony Braxton 12+1Tet Venice, October 13 2012

Anthony Braxton | Jazz | Music



Sunday, October 21, 2012

David S. Ware 1949 – 2012

Jazz | passing



Saturday, October 20, 2012

Robinson Jeffers reading at the Library of Congress, 1941

Readings | Robinson Jeffers



Friday, October 19, 2012

Michael Asher 1943 – 2012

passing | Visual Arts



Thursday, October 18, 2012

I saw the first part of Tony Kushner’s great Angels in America , this part subtitled Millennium Approaches, at Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater...

Theater



Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Tyrone Williams reading in the POG series in Tucson, 2007 Thanks to POG & PennSound

Readings | Tyrone Williams



Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Amaranth Borsuk on The Material Text Between Page and Screen

Amaranth Borsuk | Book as Art Object | Digital Poetics | Talks



Monday, October 15, 2012

Corina Copp on The Electrocution of Ruth Snyder Poetry is dead, I killed it (warning: may cause ennui) Well, no, academics did Vanessa Pl...

links | Passings



Sunday, October 14, 2012

John Ashbery talking about David Schubert at Harvard 1990 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

David Schubert | John Ashbery | Talks



Saturday, October 13, 2012

Mo Yan interviewed by John Freeman of Granta London Book Fair, April 2012

Interviews | Mo Yan



Friday, October 12, 2012

Lorine Niedecker reading at home, 1970

Lorine Niedecker | Readings



Thursday, October 11, 2012

Steve Evans On Monday, Steve Evans’ Attention Span – his annual collection of reading recommendations from a wide range of poets – includ...

Attention Span



Wednesday, October 10, 2012

John Tchicai 1936 – 2012

Jazz | passing



Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Tonight @ 7:30 PM Ron Silliman reading Foster Auditorium 102 Paterno Library Penn State University Park, PA

Events



Monday, October 08, 2012

Lewis Warsh reading at Open Books Seattle, November 2010 Part 2 below

Lewis Warsh | Readings



Sunday, October 07, 2012

John Ashbery talking about Laura Riding at Harvard 1990 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | Laura (Riding) Jackson | Talks



Saturday, October 06, 2012

Nguyen Chi Thien 1939 – 2012

passing



Friday, October 05, 2012

Talking with Sylvia Plath

Interviews | Sylvia Plath



Thursday, October 04, 2012

Paul Auster on Brooklyn & Smoke

Film | Interviews | Paul Auster



Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Baghdad bookmart bulldozed by dawn raid Zukofsky’s integral Anselm Berrigan: Sure Shot & other poems Hank Lazer’s intro to the essays...

links | Passings



Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Michael Henry Heim 1943 – 2012



Monday, October 01, 2012

Rae Armantrout reading @ Penn State September 2012 Thanks to Aldon Nielsen & PennSound

Rae Armantrout | Readings



Sunday, September 30, 2012

Chris Toll ? – 2012

passing



Saturday, September 29, 2012

100,000 Poets for Change , now in its second year, is an idea that appears to be catching hold. With at least 20,000 thousand poets publishi...

100 Thousand Poets for Change



Friday, September 28, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Ezra Berkley Nepon & Dan Fishback New Queer Jewish Writing

Readings



Thursday, September 27, 2012

Paul Vangelisti on Antonio Porta [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] on   Cross Cultural Poetics

Antonio Porta | Paul Vangelisti | Talks | translation



Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Faith, Reason & Salman Rushdie from   BillMoyers.com

Interviews | Salman Rushdie



Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Kenneth Patchen reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State December 6, 1957

Kenneth Patchen | Readings



Monday, September 24, 2012

William Duckworth 1943 – 2012 The first composer to use the Fibonacci series

Music | passing



Sunday, September 23, 2012

Jeramy Dodds reading in the Tree Reading Series May 2011

Jeramy Dodds | Readings



Saturday, September 22, 2012

This is just the headquarters event for 100,000 Poets & Musicians for Change

100 Thousand Poets for Change | Events



Friday, September 21, 2012

Malinda Markham 1968 – 2012

passing



Friday, September 21, 2012

James D Quinton 1977 -- 2012

passing



Thursday, September 20, 2012

One month from today

Coming Events | Personal



Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Marianne Moore reading October 10 and October 17 , 1957 at the Poetry Center San Francisco State

Marianne Moore | Readings



Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Louis Simpson 1923 – 2012

passing



Monday, September 17, 2012

John Yau on Robert Kelly Talking with Timothy Yu Joanne Kyger: Letters from the Lost & Found Kyger: the community of The Curriculum of the...

links



Sunday, September 16, 2012

Photo: Richard Avedon Robert Lowell reading at the Poetry Center , San Francisco State University March 27, 1957

Readings | Robert Lowell



Saturday, September 15, 2012

Photo by Jonathan Williams Denise Levertov reading @ the Poetry Center San Francisco State February 10, 1958 Opening remarks by Ro...

Denise Levertov | Readings



Friday, September 14, 2012

Slavoj Žižek on ideology

ideology | Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Thursday, September 13, 2012

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko 1946 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Tan Lin Bibliographic Sound Track, 2012 Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Produced for Artists Space in 2012 A video...

post-book poetics | Tan Lin



Tuesday, September 11, 2012

My younger brother Buddy passed away one year ago today

Personal



Monday, September 10, 2012

Dome Poem NC A film by Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn featuring poems by Brown, Erin O'Neal, Cheryl J Fish, Timothy Dyke & Leah Souf...

collaborations | Lee Ann Brown | Performance | Readings | Tony Torn



Sunday, September 09, 2012

Susan Stewart on poetry as a slow art

Susan Stewart | Talks



Saturday, September 08, 2012

Photo by Imogen Cunningham Josephine Miles on teaching poetry @ the Poetry Center San Francisco State 1954 Remarks by Frank Doll...

Josephine Miles | Talks



Friday, September 07, 2012

Ever been to an open-casket funeral in which the mortician had to do a lot of reconstruction on the deceased and gets it almost right, may...

Barnes Foundation | Capital | Visual Arts



Thursday, September 06, 2012

The Ambassador from Venus An intro to MoPo ! Sueyeun Juliette Lee on Chris Vitiello Jackson Mac Low’s 154 Forties Misrepresentin...

links



Wednesday, September 05, 2012

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Events | Personal



Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Photo by Michael Kelleher Murat Nemet - Nejat reading from The Spiritual Life of Replicants on Cross Cultural Poetics

Murat Nemet-Nejat | Readings



Monday, September 03, 2012

An oral history of Bill & Beverly Corbett

Beverly Corbett | Boston | Panel | Talks | William Corbett



Sunday, September 02, 2012

James Schuyler reading at the San Francisco Art Institute February 10, 1989 (introduction by Bill Berkson) Thanks to CloudHouse, ...

James Schuyler | Readings



Saturday, September 01, 2012

Anthony Braxton giving the keynote address at the 2007 Guelph Jazz Festival

Anthony Braxton | Music | Talks



Friday, August 31, 2012

Theodore Roethke giving the very first reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State February 25 1954

Readings | Theodore Roethke



Thursday, August 30, 2012

Photo by Jonathan Williams Kenneth Rexroth reading @ the Poetry Center San Francisco State July 13, 1955 & October 5, 1959

Kenneth Rexroth | Readings



Wednesday, August 29, 2012

I have never thought of myself as an experimental writer, but this project is clearly a step into un- (or at least under-) charted territo...

blogging | Personal



Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Living with Mandelstam Nadezhda Mandelstam on living with Osip Mandelstam

Interviews | Mandelstam



Monday, August 27, 2012

Boston loses Bill Corbett Furor over shutting down UNO press draws national attention Susan M Schultz edits a feature on writing & de...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 26, 2012

Daryl Hine 1936 – 2012

passing



Saturday, August 25, 2012

Rukeyser by Richard Avedon , 1975 Muriel Rukeyser reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State July 28, 1955 & July 16, 1958 ...

Muriel Rukeyser | Readings



Friday, August 24, 2012

Langston Hughes reading & talking @ the SF State Poetry Center December 5, 1958

Langston Hughes | Readings | Talks



Thursday, August 23, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. John Wieners reading in San Francisco (Thanks to Kush, Cloud House & Penn Sound)

John Wieners | Readings



Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Tao Lin reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club May 5, 2012

Readings | Tao Lin



Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko | Interviews | Readings



Monday, August 20, 2012

Talking with Joseph Lease Reading from Broken World

Interviews | Joseph Lease



Sunday, August 19, 2012

Michael Sevens on the everyday in Ulysses’ Calypso

James Joyce | Michael Stevens | Talks



Saturday, August 18, 2012

Robert Spoo on © & Ulysses

James Joyce | Robert Spoo | Talks



Friday, August 17, 2012

Robert Creeley One of his best readings At the SF State Poetry Center July 16, 1959 Thanks to Maxine Chernoff for pointing this out ...

Readings | Robert Creeley



Thursday, August 16, 2012

Reviewing translations with Arne Bellstorf , Ruth Franklin Julya Rabinowich & Lorin Stein (moderated by Eric Banks & Susan Bernofsky...

Panel | translation



Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Lyn Hejinian reads The Book of A Thousand Eyes at City Lights

Lyn Hejinian | Readings



Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Free Pussy Riot now! Prosecutor demands 3 years for Pussy Riot Yekaterina Samutsevich’s closing statement Pussy Riot compares Putin...

links



Monday, August 13, 2012

( photo by Geof Huth [ nb: not my basement]) On Bloomsday, a day in which I gave not one but four separate readings (albeit one a homop...

Flood | Personal



Sunday, August 12, 2012

Micah Ballard & Julian Talamantez Brolaski (photos by David Highsmith & Alan Bernheimer) Micah Ballard & Julian Talamantez Brolaski...

Julian Talamantez Brolaski | Micah Ballard | Readings



Saturday, August 11, 2012

No title

George RR Martin | Interviews



Friday, August 10, 2012

Mathew Timmons reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club May 5, 2012

Mathew Timmons | Readings



Thursday, August 09, 2012

Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff on Public Access Poetry August 4, 1977

Harris Schiff | Readings | Ted Berrigan



Wednesday, August 08, 2012

“ I’m strictly a formalist ” – Ted Berrigan reading & talking with Kit Robinson & Lyn Hejinian August 11, 1978

Interviews | Readings | Ted Berrigan



Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Syrian sculptor Wael Kaston killed by torture U of New Orleans sacks Bill Lavender , potentially shutting down press & low-rez MFA pro...

links | Passings



Monday, August 06, 2012

My reading in Long Beach April 16 of this year Introduction by Bill Mohr

Personal | Readings



Sunday, August 05, 2012

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Coming Events | Personal



Saturday, August 04, 2012

Jena Osman reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club May 19, 2012

Jena Osman | Readings



Friday, August 03, 2012

No title

Anthony Braxton | Interviews | Jazz



Thursday, August 02, 2012

Gary Snyder, Phil Whalen, Lew Welch Lew Welch reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State November 9, 1959 Ring of Bone is bac...

Lew Welch | Readings



Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Jack Spicer reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco April 11, 1957

Jack Spicer | Readings



Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Chris Marker 1921 – 2012

Film | passing



Monday, July 30, 2012

Laura ( Riding) Jackson reading for WTTB Radio (Vero Beach), 1972 Thanks to the Woodberry Poetry Room @ Harvard

Readings | Talks



Sunday, July 29, 2012

William Bronk reading at Harvard 1956 Talking with William Bronk Two additional readings can be found @ PennSound Thanks to the Wo...

Interviews | Readings | William Bronk



Saturday, July 28, 2012

Sun Ra: Brother from Another Planet

Creatures from Outer Space | Jazz | Sun Ra



Friday, July 27, 2012

Received (not always recently) Books (Poetry) Lidija Dimkovska , pH Neutral History, translated from the Macedonian by...

Recently Received



Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Life of Alden Van Buskirk Jordon Davis on Spring and All The Bowery Poetry Club to close The influence of Buddhism on the Amer...

links | Passings



Wednesday, July 25, 2012

There is something of the awfulness of an Ed Wood film about James Franco’s Hart Crane biopic, The Broken Tower , except that there’s not...

Film | Hart Crane | School of Quietude



Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Mónica de la Torre reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club May 19, 2012 & on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation...

Interviews | Mónica de la Torre | Readings



Monday, July 23, 2012

Alexander Cockburn 1941 -- 2012

Alexander Cockburn | passing | Talks



Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Charlie Parker Story

Charlie Parker | Jazz



Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Miles Davis Story

Jazz | Miles Davis



Friday, July 20, 2012

Nathaniel Mackey on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation

Interviews | Nathaniel Mackey | Readings



Thursday, July 19, 2012

Erín Moure on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation

Erín Moure | Interviews | Readings



Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Greg Brown 1950 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Matvei Yankelevich on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation Yankelevich’s open letter to Marjorie Perloff on...

Interviews | Matvei Yankelevich | Readings



Monday, July 16, 2012

Charles Bernstein reading December 1977 on Public Access Poetry

Charles Bernstein | Readings



Sunday, July 15, 2012

Talking with Kathy Acker , SUNY Buffalo 1995

Interviews | Kathy Acker | Readings



Saturday, July 14, 2012

Kristin Prevallet & Michael Heller reading at the Poetry Project March 28

Kristin Prevallet | Michael Heller | Readings



Friday, July 13, 2012

Brandon Downing & Aaron Kunin reading at the Poetry Project February 15

Aaron Kunin | Brandon Downing | Readings



Thursday, July 12, 2012

A Jimmy Schuyler feature @ Jacket2 Barrett Watten: An Annotated History of Chance Seth Abramson: the poetry wars The battle lines ...

links



Wednesday, July 11, 2012

James Harvey 1966 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Bruce Covey & Amy King reading at the Poetry Project March 14

Amy King | Bruce Covey | Readings



Monday, July 09, 2012

David Henderson & Ammiel Alcalay reading at the Poetry Project March 21

Ammiel Alcalay | David Henderson | Readings



Monday, July 09, 2012

A brief history of John Baldessari My favorite Baldessari:

John Baldessari | Visual Arts



Sunday, July 08, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Bernadette Mayer & Lewis Warsh on Public Access Poetry April 26, 1978 With thank...

Bernadette Mayer | Lewis Warsh | Readings



Saturday, July 07, 2012

Hiren Battacharyya 1932 – 2012

passing



Friday, July 06, 2012

Because I was going to read in Antwerp , I thought maybe I should read Roberto Bolaño’s novel of the same name. I should have known that B...

Roberto Bolaño



Thursday, July 05, 2012

Kevin Killian’s keynote at the NPF’s Poetry & Poetics of the ‘80s conference: “Activism, Gay Poetry, & AIDS in the 1980s”

history | Kevin Killian | San Francisco | social history | Talks



Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Wendell Berry delivers the 2012 NEH Jefferson Lecture: “ It All Turns on Affection ” Berry begins talking @ 11:25

Talks | Wendell Berry



Tuesday, July 03, 2012

I don’t normally go out of my way to make pitches for KickStarter campaigns – a link in a long list is about as fancy as I get – but I ha...

Jazz | John Coltrane | Music | ROVA



Monday, July 02, 2012

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Márcio -André, Cazas , Dulcinéia Catadora , São Paulo, Brazil, 2011 Stacy Doris, Fl...

Recently Received



Sunday, July 01, 2012

An oral history of Charles Olson with Ammiel Alcalay Peter Anastas Charles Stein Michael Rumaker Ingeborg Lauterstein Edward Sande...

Charles Olson | Panel



Saturday, June 30, 2012

Sunni Patterson reading in Dayton, OH , 2009

Readings | Sunni Patterson



Friday, June 29, 2012

Jeff with his wife, Shirley Ancheta Jeff Tagami 1954 – 2012

passing



Thursday, June 28, 2012

Slavoj Žižek: What does Europe Want?

Europe | Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Recording Angel Frank Sherlock , Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Bob Perelman join Michelle Taransky in discussing my poem “ You ” ...

Panel | Personal



Tuesday, June 26, 2012

An international poetry festival is a little like one of those lab experiments that science students are forced to perform. Take a creature...

history | language | Other traditions | translation



Monday, June 25, 2012

Book burning: fan fiction Barry Schwabsky on the return of Denise Riley Talking with Sina Queyras Queyras: the ethics of the nega...

links | Passings



Sunday, June 24, 2012

Wandering in to the Submarine Warehouse in Rotterdam, I found this: carillon master Frank Steijns and a colleague on organ performin...

Carillon | John Cage | Personal



Saturday, June 23, 2012

A reading with Najwan Darwish , Karen Solie & Tomaž Šalamun

Karen Solie | Najwan Darwish | Readings | Tomaz Salamun



Friday, June 22, 2012

This note ran as an item in the Poetry International Festival blog on June 7: The Middle Ron Silliman’s lifelong poetics of the incompl...

indeterminacy



Thursday, June 21, 2012

Marije Langelaar , Dolores Dorantes , K. Satchidanandan read in Rotterdam ( Dorantes is virtual due to ass-backward US immigration law...

Dolores Dorantes | K Satchidanandan | Marije Langelaar | Readings



Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Crawling Poet , Composer , Critic , Performer Samuel Vriezen

Music | Samuel Vriezen



Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A reading in many languages The opening event of the 43 rd Poetry International Festival with B. Zwaal , Chus Pato , Hédi Kaddour , ...

Readings



Monday, June 18, 2012

I read with Chus Pato & Inuo Taguchi

Chus Pato | Inuo Taguchi | Personal | Readings



Sunday, June 17, 2012

A reading in Rotterdam of Wharf Hypothesis

Personae | Readings



Saturday, June 16, 2012

Today in Rotterdam 6:45 PM in the Small Auditorium Rotterdam City Theater Reading: Vahe Arsen , Marije Langelaar , Ron Silliman ...

Events | Rotterdam



Friday, June 15, 2012

Today in Antwerp Felix Poetry Festival 8:00 PM at the Felix Warehouse , Antwerp Ron Silliman (USA) Chus Pato (Spain) Jan Lau...

Antwerp | Festival



Thursday, June 14, 2012

Today in Rotterdam 7:00 PM in the Foyer Rotterdam City Theater I’m interviewed (in English) by Samuel Vriezen 8:00 PM Main Audit...

Events | Rotterdam



Wednesday, June 13, 2012

June 14 & 15 in Antwerp, Belgium Felix Poetry Festival at the Felix Warehouse, Antwerp ● Thursday, June 14, 8:00 PM Belgian poe...

Antwerp | Events | Festival



Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Today in Rotterdam 2:30 PM @ Tsjechov & Co (The Chekov Café) A Meeting of Poets Rotterdam & the World B. Zwaal , Chus Pato , Hédi...

Events | Festival | Rotterdam



Monday, June 11, 2012

This week in the Netherlands June 12-17, Rotterdam City Theatre   43rd Poetry International Festival Rotterdam Sascha Aurora Ak...

Festival | Rotterdam | translation



Sunday, June 10, 2012

Debrah Morkun reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2012

Debrah Morkun | Readings



Saturday, June 09, 2012

Catherine Wagner reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2012 Some other readings by Catherine Wagner

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Friday, June 08, 2012

Natasha Trethewey is the new US Poet Laureate

Natasha Trethewey | Poet Laureate



Thursday, June 07, 2012

Thom Donovan reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2011

Readings | Thom Donovan



Wednesday, June 06, 2012

cris cheek reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2011

cris cheek | Readings



Tuesday, June 05, 2012

John Coletti reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2010

John Coletti | Readings



Monday, June 04, 2012

Arlo Quint reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2010

Arlo Quint | Readings



Sunday, June 03, 2012

Brandon Brown reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2009

Brandon Brown | Readings



Saturday, June 02, 2012

Stephanie Young reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2009

Readings | Stephanie Young



Friday, June 01, 2012

Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman: Memorial Day The Paris Review & the CIA Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘The University Poem’ Shakespeare in Indi...

links | Passings



Thursday, May 31, 2012

On numerous occasions, I’ve made the point that the recognition of community – starting implicitly with the Black Mountain poets & the Ne...

CAConrad | community | Philadelphia | post-avant | Schools of poetry



Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Wise Guys Meet in La Jolla Clockwise from RS at rear of table: Rae Armantrout, John Granger, Ted Pearson, Dustin Leavitt (photo by TC Ma...

community | Conceptual poetics | Flarf | history | Language Poetry | Schools of poetry



Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Returning to the Bay Area after a gap of a few years away & just under 17 since I moved to Chester County, PA, is a complex, often bittersw...

community | Los Angeles | New American Poetry | Schools of poetry | William Mohr



Monday, May 28, 2012

No title

Neil Gaiman | Talks



Sunday, May 27, 2012

Adonis reading @ the 92 nd Street Y October 25, 2010 Khaled Mattawa translating

Adonis | Readings



Saturday, May 26, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Bob Perelman: The Trouble with Community From Poetry Communities & Individual Talent ...

Bob Perelman | community | Talks



Friday, May 25, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Communities of Print Culture with Sarah Stone, Josh Schneiderman & Kaplan Harris mode...

community | Panel | Talks



Thursday, May 24, 2012

Paul Fussell 1924 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Complicating Post-War Reputations with Hannah Baker Saltmarsh, Piotr Gwiazda , Stefan...

community | Panel | Talks



Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Othering Self-Construction with Juliana Leslie, John Paetsch & Maude Emerson moderat...

community | Panel | Talks



Monday, May 21, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Resisting Communities with Jessyka Finley, Tom Fisher & Joshua Kotin moderated by Cha...

community | Panel | Talks



Sunday, May 20, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Revising Historical Trajectories with Kathy Lou Schultz, Andrea Actis & Rebecca Gaydo...

community | Panel | Talks



Saturday, May 19, 2012

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ ">Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. The Theory & Practice of Community with Adeena Karas...

community | Panel | Talks



Friday, May 18, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. On Poetry Communities with Maria Damon, Craig Dworkin, Brian Reed & Steven Yao, modera...

community | Panel | Talks



Thursday, May 17, 2012

Lev Rubinstein leads a writers’ march in Moscow Rubinstein: The cosmonauts have landed Ilya Kutik’s Dreams—the--Interlinears A ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Carlos Fuentes 1928 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Michael Tilson Thomas on Music & Emotion Through Time

Michael Tilson Thomas | Music | Talks



Monday, May 14, 2012

Donald “ Duck ” Dunn 1941 – 2012

passing



Sunday, May 13, 2012

Chinua Achebe talking with K . Anthony Appiah @ the 92 nd Street Y

Chinua Achebe | Interviews



Saturday, May 12, 2012

John Ashbery reading @ the 92 nd Street Y in 1952

John Ashbery | Readings



Friday, May 11, 2012

Talking with César Vallejo Setting Stein’s wartime record straight Why Afghan women risk death to write poetry Poetry of the Tal...

links | Passings



Thursday, May 10, 2012

Reading from my poem , Revelator , in Berkeley

Personal | Readings



Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Maurice Sendak 1928 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Andrew Suknaski 1942 – 2012

passing



Monday, May 07, 2012

Correspondence performed: Elizabeth Bishop & Robert Lowell , @ the 92 nd Street Y May 24 2010

correspondence | Elizabeth Bishop | Performance | Robert Lowell



Sunday, May 06, 2012

Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading @ the 92 nd Street Y

Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Readings



Saturday, May 05, 2012

Bei Dao reading @ the 92 nd Street Y translated by Eliot Weinberger

Bei Dao | Readings



Friday, May 04, 2012

Tracy K Smith on Studio 360

Interviews | Tracy K Smith



Thursday, May 03, 2012

This Friday in Chicago Ron Silliman is reading @ 6:00 PM at the Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Free reservations here or...

Events | Personal



Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Stacy Doris reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club March 13, 2010 Evening Will Come’s special tribute collection to Stacy, edited by Layni...

Readings | Stacy Doris



Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Norman Fischer reading @ Kelly Writers House

Norman Fischer | Readings



Monday, April 30, 2012

Hannah Weiner reading with the assistance of Sharron Mattlin and Peggy De Coursey Public Access Poetry December 29, 1977

Hannah Weiner | Readings



Sunday, April 29, 2012

With Paul Celan into the 21 st Century with Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte

Nicole Peyrafitte | Paul Celan | Pierre Joris | Readings



Saturday, April 28, 2012

No title

Readings | Roberto Tejadas | Susan Howe



Friday, April 27, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Joan Retallack talking at the first Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture @ Small Press ...

Joan Retallack | Talks



Thursday, April 26, 2012

Talking with Geoffrey Gatza about the NEA assault on small presses Ai Weiwei: censorship cannot defeat the internet Ai Weiwei’s s...

links | Passings



Wednesday, April 25, 2012

No title

Lucy Harvest Clarke | Readings



Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Marcus Slease reading in the Open Ealing reading seri es London, February 2012

Marcus Slease | Readings



Monday, April 23, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Jerome Rothenberg @ 80 being the first of four videos from the celebration @ CUNY Dec...

Events | Jerome Rothenberg



Sunday, April 22, 2012

Jamie Kazay @ Bonk! Racine, WI – January 2012

Jamie Kazay | Readings



Saturday, April 21, 2012

Michael Palmer reading at Harvard

Michael Palmer | Readings



Friday, April 20, 2012

Levon Helm 1940 - 2012

passing



Thursday, April 19, 2012

Tom Pickard & Hillary Gravendyk reading at UC Berkeley

Hillary Gravendyk | Readings | Tom Pickard



Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Today in La Jolla at the UC San Diego Visual Arts Facility Performance Space Ron Silliman will read 4:30 – 6:30 PM

Events | Personal | Readings



Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Remembering my mother Patricia Tansley Silliman to whom I’ve thought to talk thousands of times in the year since she died

Personal



Monday, April 16, 2012

Christine Brooke - Rose 1923 – 2012

passing



Sunday, April 15, 2012

Tomorrow in Long Beach at the Cal State University Student Union Auditorium photo by Pearl Pirie Ron Silliman will read at 2:00 P...

Events | Personal | Readings



Saturday, April 14, 2012

Guillermo Fernández 1933 ? – 2012

passing



Friday, April 13, 2012

Lucy Harvest Clarke & Katerina Kashchavtseva reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

collaborations | Katerina Kashchavtseva | Lucy Harvest Clarke | Readings



Thursday, April 12, 2012

Reed Whittemore 1919 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, April 11, 2012

No title

Allen Ginsberg | Interviews



Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Larry Sawyer reads @ Bon k! Racine, WI – December 2011

Larry Sawyer | Readings



Monday, April 09, 2012

Tomorrow in Berkeley at the University of California photo by Arielle Brousse Ron Silliman will read in 315 Wheeler Hall (The Ma...

Events | Personal | Readings



Sunday, April 08, 2012

Timothy Yu @ Bonk! Racine, WI – January 2012

Readings | Timothy Yu



Saturday, April 07, 2012

Tomorrow in San Francisco at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis photo by Arielle Brousse Ron Silliman in conversation with...

Events | Interviews | Personal



Friday, April 06, 2012

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Coming Events



Thursday, April 05, 2012

by Anna Korintz Brenda Iijima’s Untimely Death Is Driven Out Beyond the Horizon Negotiating the social bond of poetry A new portr...

links | Passings



Wednesday, April 04, 2012

California , here we come   Photo by Arielle Brousse Ron Silliman is reading or talking at the following locations over the ...

Events | Interviews | Personal | Readings



Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Sean Bonney & Keston Sutherland reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

collaborations | Keston Sutherland | Readings | Sean Bonney



Monday, April 02, 2012

Darrell Gray reading in 1983 Part 2 is here

Darrell Gray | Readings



Sunday, April 01, 2012

No title

National Poetry Month



Saturday, March 31, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. My reading for the Kelly Writers House Fellows program March 19, 2012

Personal | Readings



Friday, March 30, 2012

The Beat Hotel , which begins a weeklong run at Cinema Village in New York tonight, is a charming, if imperfectly intimate, documentary a...

Beat Poetry | Film



Thursday, March 29, 2012

Adrienne Rich 1929 – 2012 Clayton Eshleman

passing



Thursday, March 29, 2012

Earl Scruggs 1924 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Corina Copp & Miguel Gutierrez reading @ the Poetry Project

Corina Copp | Miguel Gutierrez | Readings



Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Jay Macpherson 1931 – 2012

passing



Monday, March 26, 2012

Puzzlement is often a feature of my reaction to new work that is both powerful & mysterious: I want to know why I’m having such a strong r...

Corina Copp



Sunday, March 25, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Al Filreis & I have a chat at Kelly Writers House , March 20, 2012

Interviews | Personal



Saturday, March 24, 2012

Sound poetry by Satu Kaikkonen & Karri Kokko from the 2011 Text Festival , Bury Parish Church Bury, Lancashire April 30, 2011 ( w...

Karri Kokko | Readings | Satu Kaikkonen | Sound poetry



Friday, March 23, 2012

Tonino Guerra 1920 – 2012

passing



Thursday, March 22, 2012

China arrests poet-blogger Tsering Woeser Woeser: Fire on the Mountain Kyung- sook Shin wins the Man Asia prize & uses the occa...

links | Passings



Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Bruce Springsteen speaks @ SXSW

Bruce Springsteen | Talks



Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Today at 10:30 AM at The University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia (Seating is limited – Attendance is by RSVP only *...

Personal



Monday, March 19, 2012

Today at 6:30 PM at The University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia (Seating is limited – Attendance is by RSVP only) ...

Personal



Sunday, March 18, 2012

No title

Film | Jack Kerouac



Saturday, March 17, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Friday, March 16, 2012

The Kelly Writers House Fellowship March 19 & 20 at The University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia Monday, March ...

Personal



Thursday, March 15, 2012

Leonard J . Cirino 1943 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Why would a poet who writes 1,000-page poems read haiku? Or pay heed to any manner of minimalism, for that matter? That’s a legitimate...

haiku | Jim Kacian | john martone | Minimalism



Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Today in Windsor Ontario At the University of Windsor CAW Centre Boardroom , 2 nd Floor 5:30 PM Language-Centered Poetry & Grammar...

Personal



Monday, March 12, 2012

Irving Layton was born 100 years ago today

Canadian Poetry | Irving Layton



Sunday, March 11, 2012

From: BestHealthDegrees.com

Nuclear meltdown



Saturday, March 10, 2012

Today in Ottawa & at 2:00 PM Workshop on blogging, poetry & new media

Personal



Friday, March 09, 2012

Jim Hazard 1936 – 2012

passing



Thursday, March 08, 2012

Kenley Collins did not win for this outfit last week , tho she should have On January 23 rd I wrote about Project Runway All-Stars: ...

Project Runway



Wednesday, March 07, 2012

On to Ontario Saturday, March 10 At Gallery 101 301½ Bank Street Ottawa 2:00 PM Workshop on blogging, poetry & new media 8:00 ...

Personal



Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Peter Jaeger & Marcus Slease reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

collaborations | Marcus Slease | Peter Jaeger | Readings



Monday, March 05, 2012

No title

Hoa Nguyen | Jesse Seldess | Readings



Sunday, March 04, 2012

No title

Charles Bernstein | Ian Probstein | Interviews | translation



Saturday, March 03, 2012

No title

Clark Coolidge | Filip Marniovich | Readings



Friday, March 02, 2012

This year’s recipient of the Oscar for best animated short-subject

Animation | Film | vispo



Thursday, March 01, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Jeff Hilson & Philip Terry reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

collaborations | Jeff Hilson | Philip Terry | Readings



Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

Chris McCabe | collaborations | Readings | Tom Jenks



Monday, February 27, 2012

Dead Poets Society Hamza Kashgari deported to Saudi Arabia where he faces death for his writings Villanova cancels Tim Miller at...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 26, 2012

A reading for Gil Ott Today 3:00-4:30 PM Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Not quite five years ag...

Gil Ott | Readings



Saturday, February 25, 2012

No title

Beat Poetry



Friday, February 24, 2012

Ai Weiwei: Ordos 100

Ai Weiwei | Architecture | Film



Thursday, February 23, 2012

Obscene - A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove... by microcinema Barney Rosset 1922 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 23, 2012

John Kliphan 1933 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Poetry After the White House Poetry Jam with Steven Zultanski , Sandra Simonds , Rod Smith

Talks



Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Page Ackerson- Kiely , My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer , Ahsahta Press, Boise, 2012 ...

Recently Received



Monday, February 20, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, February 19, 2012

Susan Howe & David Grubbs: Frolic Architecture

Performance



Saturday, February 18, 2012

No title

Natasha Trethewey | Talks



Friday, February 17, 2012

Fred Moramarco 1938 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 16, 2012

Anna Moschovakis reading

Anna Moschovakis | Readings



Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Samuel Beckett’s Not I with Billie Whitelaw

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Tuesday, February 14, 2012

No title

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Monday, February 13, 2012

Amin Khan What does surrealism tell us now? It’s been nearly 140 years since Rimbaud stopped writing, but I was reading Amin Khan’s Visio...

Amin Khan | surrealism | translation



Sunday, February 12, 2012

No title

Ariana Reines | James Copeland | Readings



Saturday, February 11, 2012

Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape with John Hurt

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Friday, February 10, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Thursday, February 09, 2012

No title

Cole Swensen | Rachel Beck | Readings



Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Recently Received Books (Poetry) William Allegrezza , Densities, Apparitions , Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia, 2011 K...

Recently Received



Tuesday, February 07, 2012

No title

Jacqueline Waters | John Coletti | Readings



Monday, February 06, 2012

No title

David Larsen | Kathleen Fraser | Readings



Sunday, February 05, 2012

My reading from Bury Parish Church Bury, Lancashire April 30, 2011 ( with thanks to Geof Huth & the Text Festival)

Personal | Readings



Saturday, February 04, 2012

John Ashbery & Ron Padgett discuss Frank O’Hara

Frank O'Hara | Panel



Friday, February 03, 2012

Mike Kelley 1954 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 02, 2012

Morgan Lucas Schuldt 1978 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 02, 2012

Stacy Doris 1962 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 02, 2012

Wisława Szymborska 1923 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 02, 2012

Dorothea Tanning 1910 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, February 01, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Sir Geoffrey Hill The edited version of Rae Armantrout on PBS Newshour Poet-in-residence in the newsroom: Tracy K. Smith When ...

links | Passings



Monday, January 30, 2012

Sailor, soldier, father, friend , obsessive reader of Pogo: Perspectives on George Oppen with Linda Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Patri...

George Oppen | Panel



Sunday, January 29, 2012

No title

Rae Armantrout | Readings



Saturday, January 28, 2012

Rae Armantrout being interviewed for PBS Newshour

Interviews | Rae Armantrout | TV



Friday, January 27, 2012

Anselm Berrigan & David Trinidad read at The Poetry Project

Anselm Berrigan | David Trinidad | Readings



Thursday, January 26, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Robert Nelson 1930 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Samuel Beckett’s Film with Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton | Film | Samuel Beckett



Monday, January 23, 2012

It’s a man’s world: Austin (in bowler),Mondo, Jerell & Michael in the workroom Project Runway: All Stars is interesting enough on the face ...

Project Runway | TV



Sunday, January 22, 2012

No title

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Saturday, January 21, 2012

Etta James 1938 – 2012

passing



Friday, January 20, 2012

Johnny Otis 1921 – 2012

passing



Thursday, January 19, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Wednesday, January 18, 2012

No title

censorship | Stop SOPA



Tuesday, January 17, 2012

2012 MLA Offsite Reading With Greg Bern, Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover, Julia Bloch, Amaranth Borsuk , Rebecca Brown, Don Mee Choi, ...

MLA | Readings



Monday, January 16, 2012

A celebration of the poetry & criticism of Rachel Blau DuPlessis With Bob Perelman , Libbie Rifkin , Eric Keenaghan , Ron Silliman , ...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings | Talks



Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ra úl Zurita , talking with Forrest Gander (with thanks to the Poetry Foundation)

Interviews | Raúl Zurita



Saturday, January 14, 2012

No title

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Friday, January 13, 2012

A gathering in New Jersey for the journal Others in 1916. Alfred Kreymborg, front row, second from the left, in front of Marcel Duchamp &...

Alfred Kreymborg | Minimalism | political poetry | Schools of poetry



Thursday, January 12, 2012

Geof Huth (rhymes with truth) reading in St. Catharine’s, Ontario October 1

Geof Huth | Readings



Wednesday, January 11, 2012

NF Huth reading in St. Catharine’s, Ontario October 1

NF Huth | Readings



Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Talking with Allen Ginsberg (with thanks to BBC2, The Allen Ginsberg Project & Issa’s Untidy Hut)

Allen Ginsberg | Interviews



Monday, January 09, 2012

Clayton Eshleman reads Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire | Clayton Eshleman | Readings | translation



Sunday, January 08, 2012

Ange Mlinko reading at Vill anova

Ange Mlinko | Readings



Saturday, January 07, 2012

Judith Goldman at Berkeley

Judith Goldman | Readings



Friday, January 06, 2012

It was literally 40 years ago that I & the Selective Service came to an agreement that I should perform my alternative service obligation ...

Personal



Thursday, January 05, 2012

Tracie Morris talking with Steve Cannon

Steve Cannon | Tracie Morris



Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Eleanor Ross Taylor 1920 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Best viewed full-screen

Bill Luoma | Readings



Monday, January 02, 2012

Homage to Charles Bernstein William Allegrezza: Introduction to The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein Occupy Poetics: You can’t ev...

links | Passings



Sunday, January 01, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Saturday, December 31, 2011

Carol Novack 1948 – 2011

passing



Friday, December 30, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Eric Baus , Scared Text , Center for Literary Publishing, Fort Collins, CO, 2011 Aimé Césaire, S...

Recently Received



Thursday, December 29, 2011

Helen Frankenthaler 1928 – 2011

passing



Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Sam Rivers 1923 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Steve Reich’s Piano Phase performed as a solo by Rob Kovacs , Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, 28 March 2004 A version by Pete...

Music | Steve Reich



Monday, December 26, 2011

Barrett Watten reading Intro by Carine Daly Some context via Jacket2

Barrett Watten | Readings



Sunday, December 25, 2011

Neil deGrasse Tyson interviewed by Stephen Colbert

Interviews | Neil deGrasse Tyson | science fiction



Saturday, December 24, 2011

( photo by Jude Ornstein) Steve Benson: 3 works A long reading in two sets at EyeMediae , Ann Arbor, mid- 80s (Published in Blue Boo...

Readings | Steve Benson



Friday, December 23, 2011

John Chamberlain 1927 – 2011

passing



Thursday, December 22, 2011

These are the books published in 2011 that expanded, deepened, &/or transformed my reading, at least to date. I’m always playing catch-up a...

Best Books



Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Editing articulates value by picking winners: a mass grave at Wounded Knee Aaron Belz asked for my list of the “top 10 books of 2011” for ...

anthologies



Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Doug Lang & I read at The Poetry Project

Doug Lang | Personal | Readings



Monday, December 19, 2011

V á clav Havel 1936 – 2011

passing



Sunday, December 18, 2011

Jean Day at Berkeley

Jean Day | Readings



Saturday, December 17, 2011

Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man

Bookstores | George Whitman | video



Friday, December 16, 2011

George Whitman, right, with Sylvia Beach Whitman & American tourist at Shakespeare & Co. Books, Paris George Whitman 1913 – 2011

passing



Friday, December 16, 2011

Russell Hoban 1925 – 2011

passing



Thursday, December 15, 2011

Talking with Rachel Blau DuPlessis @ Ryerson University, Toronto (Margaret Christakos is the interlocutor) plus 17 pieces for (& by) R...

Interviews | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Happy Birthday , Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings



Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Phil Hall's Killdeer wins the Governor General’s Award Alan Davies: I think I understand Emma Bee Bernstein Rita Dove responds to He...

links | Passings



Monday, December 12, 2011

The Grand Piano at Berkeley with (left to right) Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Kit Robinson, Rae Armantrout, Barrett Watten, Tom Mande...

Grand Piano | Readings



Sunday, December 11, 2011

With thanks to El tigre de Cib è ria Happy 80 th birthday , Jerome Rothenberg !

Jerome Rothenberg | Readings



Saturday, December 10, 2011

E.G. Burrows 1917 – 2011

passing



Friday, December 09, 2011

Robert Hass reading Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz | Readings | Robert Hass | translation



Thursday, December 08, 2011

Hubert Sumlin 1931 – 2011

Music | passing



Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Scot Abels , Rambo Goes to Idaho , BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, NY, 2011 Amanda Ackerman, I Fell in ...

Recently Received



Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Today in Philadelphia Laura Neuman & Ron Silliman Milano’s Pizza 127 South 10 th Street (poetry on the second floor) Pizza @ 6 , ...

Events



Monday, December 05, 2011

Christopher Logue 1926 – 2011

passing



Monday, December 05, 2011

Peter Reading 1946 – 2011

passing



Sunday, December 04, 2011

Tuesday in Philadelphia Laura Neuman & Ron Silliman Milano’s Pizza 127 South 10 th Street (poetry on the second floor) Pizza @ 6 ...

Events



Saturday, December 03, 2011

Christa Wolf 1929 – 2011 The Author’s Dimension: Selected Essays

passing



Friday, December 02, 2011

Lyrae Van Clief - Stefanon & Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali | Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon | Readings | Talks



Thursday, December 01, 2011

Time talks to John Ashbery

Interviews | John Ashbery



Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Carla Harryman reading

Carla Harryman | Readings



Tuesday, November 29, 2011

No title

Drew Gardner | Readings



Monday, November 28, 2011

Maria Damon: meshwords Rae Armantrout addresses doctors on cancer ( part one) ( part two) ( part three) Jordan Davis on Bill Luom...

links | Passings



Sunday, November 27, 2011

David Shapiro

David Shapiro | Readings



Saturday, November 26, 2011

Ruth Stone 1915 – 2011

passing



Saturday, November 26, 2011

Louis McKee   1951 – 2011

passing



Friday, November 25, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Thursday, November 24, 2011

Simon J. Ortiz

Readings | Simon J Ortiz



Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Theodore Enslin 1925 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, November 22, 2011

No title

Aracelis Girmay | Nikky Finney | Readings



Monday, November 21, 2011

The National Book Award presentations

Jesmyn Ward | Nikky Finney | Prizes | Stephen Greenblatt



Sunday, November 20, 2011

The ammo may differ but it’s the thought that counts (with thanks to Steve Vincent)

Current Events | Politics



Sunday, November 20, 2011

Today in San Francisco! Photo © Lawrence Schwartzwald . All rights reserved . The Grand Piano A performance & discussion, with Rae Ar...

Events | The Grand Piano



Saturday, November 19, 2011

Ruslan Akhtakhanov   1953 – 2011

passing



Friday, November 18, 2011

Double-click on image for larger version

Events | Grand Piano



Thursday, November 17, 2011

(Paul with Lee Byrd, Memphis, 1967 – Photo by Bobby Byrd) Paul Blackburn: 2 readings SUNY Cortland, April 1, 1971 ( part 1) ( part ...

Paul Blackburn | Readings



Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Nathaniel Mackey reading at Berkeley February 7, 2008

Nathaniel Mackey | Readings



Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Four Horsemen bpNichol

bpNichol | Four Horsemen | Sound poetry



Monday, November 14, 2011

Tonight! Ron Silliman @ Cin é Athens, Georgia 7:30 PM

Events | Personal



Sunday, November 13, 2011

No title

Readings | Virginia Woolf



Saturday, November 12, 2011

A big fan of Carsten Nicolai

Carsten Nicolai | Installation | Visual Arts



Friday, November 11, 2011

Ivan Martin Jirous "Magor" 1944 – 2011

passing



Thursday, November 10, 2011

Photo © Lawrence Schwartzwald . All rights reserved . The Grand Piano 2 Bay Area events Friday, November 18 @ UC Berkeley 6:30 pm,...

Events | The Grand Piano



Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Jacket2’s Stephen Ratcliffe feature Frances Jaffer: Why HOW(ever) Frances Jaffer’s obit (1999) First Occupy fatality: Oklahoma stre...

links | Passings



Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Monday, November 14 Ron Silliman @ Cin é Athens, Georgia 7:30 PM

Events | Personal



Monday, November 07, 2011

Ann Lauterbach reading at Berkeley

Ann Lauterbach | Readings



Sunday, November 06, 2011

Occupy Oakland takes to the road , November 2

Current Events | Occupy



Saturday, November 05, 2011

Madeline Gleason reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State November 14, 1956

Madeline Gleason | Readings



Friday, November 04, 2011

Ebbe Borregaard & George Stanley reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State March 15, 1958

Ebbe Borregaard | George Stanley | Readings



Thursday, November 03, 2011

© Emma Bee Bernstein, October 2007 Talking with Marjorie Perloff in Palo Alto , November 11, 1991

Interviews | Marjorie Perloff



Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Doug Lang & Ron Silliman Tonight! @ the Church The Poetry Project St. Mark’s Church 2 nd Ave & 10 th Street Manhattan (just ...

Events



Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Forrest Gander reading

Forrest Gander | Readings



Monday, October 31, 2011

Helen Adam: The Cheerless Junkie’s Song (from Poetry in Motion)

Helen Adam



Sunday, October 30, 2011

Tashi Rabten has been sentenced to prison for his book of poems , Written in Blood

censorship | political poetry | Tibet



Saturday, October 29, 2011

Doug Lang & Ron Silliman Wednesday, November 2 @ the Church The Poetry Project St. Mark’s Church 2 nd Ave & 10 th Street New Yo...

Events



Friday, October 28, 2011

Ana ï s Nin & Henry Miller Thanks to Sacrificial Totem

Anaïs Nin | Henry Miller



Thursday, October 27, 2011

Ana ï s Nin on anger & the arts Thanks to Sacrificial Totem

Anaïs Nin | Interviews



Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Oakland: The Whole World is Watching!

Current Events | Occupy | Politics



Tuesday, October 25, 2011

F. Scott Fitzgerald reads

F Scott Fitzgerald | Readings



Monday, October 24, 2011

No title

Anne Carson | Talks



Sunday, October 23, 2011

Edward Dorn reads all of Gunslinger ( part 1) ( part 2) Walking the Dog Seminar Recollections of Gran Apacheria (the first poetry...

Ed Dorn | Readings



Saturday, October 22, 2011

Today in Chicago Toni Asante Lightfoot & Ron Silliman Myopic Books 7:00 PM 1564 N. Milwaukee (Wicker Park, near the Damen Blue ...

Events



Friday, October 21, 2011

A visionary practice of cultural critique: Interviewing Rachel Blau DuPlessis   Photo by Melody Holmes My thanks to CA Conrad to reprin...

Interviews | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Thursday, October 20, 2011

Saturday, October 22, in Chicago Toni Asante Lightfoot & Ron Silliman Myopic Books 7:00 PM 1564 N. Milwaukee (Wicker Park, near ...

Events



Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Andrea Zanzotto 1921 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Mayakovsky’s portrait of Khlebnikov Roman Jakobson reads Mayakovsky & Khlebnikov Alice Notley: Culture of one Tradition & the individ...

links



Monday, October 17, 2011

Lyn Hejinian reads from The Book of a Thousand Eyes in Calgary , March 2011

Lyn Hejinian | Readings



Sunday, October 16, 2011

Georges Bataille: Literature & Evil his only tv interview

Georges Bataille | Talks



Saturday, October 15, 2011

October 21, 2011 - 10 am to 5 pm - 1810 Liacouras Walk - Temple University, Main Campus It's a reading, hardly personal, really, thoug...

Events | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Friday, October 14, 2011

Catherine Wagner reading

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Thursday, October 13, 2011

No title

Current Events | Music



Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Kathy Acker interviews William S . Burroughs

Interviews | Kathy Acker | William Burroughs



Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Logic of the World: The Poetics of Robert Kelly A Day of Talks in NYC Celebrating Robert Kelly's 75th Birthday and his 50 Years at Ba...

Readings | Robert Kelly | Talks



Monday, October 10, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, October 09, 2011

Cloud Shepherd with Mark Pino by Cloud Shepherd

Music



Saturday, October 08, 2011

Charles Bernstein live from Wall Street

Charles Bernstein | Politics



Friday, October 07, 2011

Tomas G ö sta Tranströmer , winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature , 2011 The Indoors is Endless A poet of the inner self Tr...

Prizes | Tomas Tranströmer



Thursday, October 06, 2011

INCO / MPRE / HENS / IBLE On Natural Language: 4 conversations between Stephen Ratcliffe & Robert Grenier Talking with Vanessa Place R...

links | Passings



Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Emanuel Litvinoff 1915 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, October 04, 2011

My piece, From Northern Soul (Bury Neon), is now permanently installed in the transit center of Bury, Lancashire just in time for the baseb...

Installation | Sculpture | Visual Arts



Monday, October 03, 2011

Photo © by Pavement Pieces To Brooklyn Bridge by Hart Crane

Hart Crane | Politics



Sunday, October 02, 2011

Helioscript by Cloud Shepherd Cloud Shepherd is: Andrew Joron: Theremin, waterphone Brian Lucas: 6 string bass, sounds, voice Jose...

Music



Saturday, October 01, 2011

Snails by Cloud Shepherd

Mollusks | Music



Friday, September 30, 2011

Ron Silliman reads Tonight in Buffalo, NY September 30 at the Western New York Book Arts Center 468 Washington @ Mohawk 8:00 PM

Events



Thursday, September 29, 2011

Frank Parker 1949 – 2011

passing



Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Mark Doty , David Lehman & Michael Braziller on Frank O’Hara

David Lehman | Frank O'Hara | Mark Doty | Michael Braziller | Talks



Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Music with Roots in the Aether: Robert Ashley Downloadable AVI file From Robert Ashley’s groundbreaking 1970s opera for television ...

Music | Robert Ashley



Sunday, September 25, 2011

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Coming Events



Sunday, September 25, 2011

Ron Silliman reads Next Friday in Buffalo, NY September 30 at the Western New York Book Arts Center 468 Washington @ Mohawk 8:00 PM

Events



Saturday, September 24, 2011

100,000 Poets for Change Today is the day! 650 Events – 450 Cities – 95 Countries

100 Thousand Poets for Change



Friday, September 23, 2011

Richard Young’s Dinner with Henry (from Ubuweb) An i nterview with Henry Miller in two parts The Paris Review interview

Henry Miller | Interviews | Talks



Thursday, September 22, 2011

Władysław Strzemiński and rights for art

Modernism | Visual Arts | Władysław Strzemiński



Wednesday, September 21, 2011

I am old enough to remember the world of poetry before Jerome Rothenberg began to issue his extraordinary anthologies. Which is to say that...

anthologies



Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Bookseller

Bookstores | Film



Monday, September 19, 2011

Dorothea Lasky reading for Poeteevee

Dorothea Lasky | Readings



Sunday, September 18, 2011

Burt Kimmelman at The Tribes , May 2011

Burt Kimmelman | Readings | Talks



Saturday, September 17, 2011

No title

Pinuccio Sciola | Visual Arts



Friday, September 16, 2011

No title

Readings | William Butler Yeats



Thursday, September 15, 2011

Lydia Davis reading “ Once a Very Stupid Man ”

Lydia Davis | Readings



Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Image from Allures ( 1961) Jordan Belson 1926 – 2011

Film | passing



Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Richard Hamilton 1922 – 2011

passing | Visual Arts



Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Tracy K Smith’s Life on Mars Excerpts & a reading The Larry Fagin school of poetry Talking with me ! Q&A with Rae Armantrout Manue...

links | Passings



Monday, September 12, 2011

Glenn “Buddy” Silliman 1956 – 2011

passing



Sunday, September 11, 2011

Michael Gottlieb’s The Dust Part One ( recording) ( full text) Monday, September 12 Fiona Templeton & The Relationship will perfor...

Michael Gottlieb | September 11



Saturday, September 10, 2011

George Kuchar 1942 – 2011 It Came from Kuchar Facebook page Baltimore Sun obit Hero of outsider cinema Huffington Post SF C...

Film | passing



Friday, September 09, 2011

No title

John Cage | Music | Performance



Thursday, September 08, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left September

Coming Events



Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Lytle Shaw reading at Berkeley May 1, 2008

Lytle Shaw | Readings



Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Hugh Fox 1932 – 2011

passing



Monday, September 05, 2011

Brian Ang reading in Oakland, June 2011 From Evan Karp’s amazing archive

Brian Ang | Readings



Sunday, September 04, 2011

Robert Hass reading in the penumbra of Louis Zukofsky & Czeslaw Milosz

Readings | Robert Hass



Saturday, September 03, 2011

Peter Manson , Andrea Brady & Keston Sutherland read at the University of Chicago

Andrea Brady | Keston Sutherland | Peter Manson | Readings



Friday, September 02, 2011

Clayton Eshleman reads César Vallejo

Cesar Vallejo | Clayton Eshleman | Readings | translation



Thursday, September 01, 2011

Jean Valentine reading at Boston University April 10, 2008

Jean Valentine | Readings



Wednesday, August 31, 2011

David “ Honeyboy ” Edwards A blues master who was with Robert Johnson the night Johnson died 1915 – 2011

Music | passing



Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer 1940 – 2011

passing



Monday, August 29, 2011

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Coming Events



Sunday, August 28, 2011

No title

Fred Hellerman | Leadbelly | Lee Hays | Music | Pete Seeger | Ronnie Gilbert | The Weavers



Saturday, August 27, 2011

Philadelphia area storm tracker

weather



Friday, August 26, 2011

No title

Johanna Drucker | Talks



Thursday, August 25, 2011

Sapphire on racism & reception Talking with Barbara Guest Talking with Cathy Park Hong Marjorie Perloff on the conceptual lyric ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Samuel Menashe 1925 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, August 23, 2011

M . NourbeSe Philip reads from Zong in Calgary , March 2011

M NourbeSe Philip | Readings



Monday, August 22, 2011

Scott Wannberg 1953 – 2011

passing



Sunday, August 21, 2011

David Meltzer @ City Lights

David Meltzer | Readings



Saturday, August 20, 2011

Tony Trehy at The Other Room Manchester, UK April 2011

Readings | Tony Trehy



Friday, August 19, 2011

Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons Robert Breer 1926 – 2011

passing



Thursday, August 18, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Wednesday, August 17, 2011

An afternoon of Samuel Beckett with Edward Albee, Tom Bishop, Alvin Epstein, Lois Oppenheim, & John Turturro

Samuel Beckett | Talks



Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Flannery O’Connor reading at Vanderbilt, 1959

Flannery O'Connor | Readings



Monday, August 15, 2011

A sonnagram from K Silem Mohammad Q&A with Rae Armantrout Talking with Elaine Equi Philip Levine: Poet Laureate of the Unit...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 14, 2011

Brian Teare @ The Condensery From Evan Karp’s amazing archive

Brian Teare | Readings



Saturday, August 13, 2011

No title

Readings | Robert Creeley



Friday, August 12, 2011

No title

John Berryman | Talks



Thursday, August 11, 2011

PBS Newshour: Philip Levine named Poet Laureate of the US (PLOTUS) Philip Levine at 92 nd Street Y

Philip Levine | Readings | Talks



Wednesday, August 10, 2011

No title

John Wieners | Readings



Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Kevin Killian @ The Condensery From Evan Karp’s amazing archive

Kevin Killian | Readings



Monday, August 08, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, August 07, 2011

Fanny Howe adapting poetry from the Krakow ghetto by Henia & Ilona Karmel Audio of the full reading available at Center for the A...

Fanny Howe | Readings



Saturday, August 06, 2011

Roy McBride 1943 – 2011

passing



Friday, August 05, 2011

Today I turn 65. Gertrude Stein’s obit appeared in Time on the day I was born, as did a review of her book, Brewsie and Willie , which Ra...

Personal



Thursday, August 04, 2011

Gillian Conoley reading in Oakland, June 2011 From Evan Karp’s amazing archive

Gillian Conoley | Readings



Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Available now from Lines Chapbooks

books | Personal



Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian read The Wide Road in Calgary , March 2011

Carla Harryman | Lyn Hejinian | Readings



Monday, August 01, 2011

John Wieners, 1968, with a portrait of Joanne Kyger John Wieners 707 Scott Street ( ebook thanks to Douglas Messerli’s Project for Inn...

links | Passings



Sunday, July 31, 2011

A Night at the Opera with Hosni Mubarak Hosted by Dave Eggers Going Away Party Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Prozac for Your AntiSec...

Performance | San Francisco Guerrilla Opera | Tom Comitta



Saturday, July 30, 2011

No title

Robert Grenier



Friday, July 29, 2011

Len Fulton 1934 – 2011

passing



Thursday, July 28, 2011

No title

Lyn Hejinian | Talks



Wednesday, July 27, 2011

No title

Lyn Hejinian | Readings



Tuesday, July 26, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Monday, July 25, 2011

Happy Birthday , Leslie Scalapino , wherever you are Scalapino reading at The Drawing Center, Tucson, 2008

Leslie Scalapino | Readings



Sunday, July 24, 2011

Recommendations from our Audio Video Library Robert Creeley December 4, 1963 Robert Creeley’s 1963 appearance in T...

Readings | Robert Creeley



Saturday, July 23, 2011

100,000 Poets for Change

100 Thousand Poets for Change | political poetry



Friday, July 22, 2011

Lucian Freud 1922 – 2011

passing



Thursday, July 21, 2011

No title

Anne Waldman | Readings



Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Bernard Bador , Curdled Skulls , translated from the French by the author with Clayton Eshleman, Bla...

Recently Received



Tuesday, July 19, 2011

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow at the Poetry Society in London William Carlos Williams: new translations from the Spani...

links | Passings



Monday, July 18, 2011

Sara Wintz @ The Condensery From Evan Karp’s amazing archive

Readings | Sara Wintz



Sunday, July 17, 2011

No title

Larry Eigner | Readings



Saturday, July 16, 2011

No title

Harryette Mullen | Readings



Friday, July 15, 2011

No title

Douglas Hofstadter | Talks



Thursday, July 14, 2011

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Coming Events



Wednesday, July 13, 2011

No title

Barbara Guest | Readings



Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Ezra Pound , interviewed by Pier Paolo Pasolini The funeral of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound | Interviews



Monday, July 11, 2011

Samuel R Delany in Minneapolis

Samuel R Delany



Sunday, July 10, 2011

Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for the Indus Script

language | Rajesh Rao | Talks



Saturday, July 09, 2011

Julian Assange & Slavoj Žižek with Amy Goodman Watch live streaming video from democracynow at livestream.com

Julian Assange | Politics | Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Friday, July 08, 2011

No title

Al-Mutanabbi Street



Thursday, July 07, 2011

Stephen Ratcliffe’s trilogy: Human / Nature Remarks on Color / Sound Temporality Previously unpublished poems by the Baroness Elsa ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Edwin Parker (“ Cy ”) Twombly , Jr . 1928 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, July 05, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Monday, July 04, 2011

No title

Allen Ginsberg | Readings



Sunday, July 03, 2011

No title

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge | Readings



Saturday, July 02, 2011

Michael Palmer at the California College of Arts (click on Watch Full Program)

Michael Palmer | Readings



Friday, July 01, 2011

No title

Ariana Reines | Readings



Thursday, June 30, 2011

Music with Roots in the Aether: David Behrman From Robert Ashley’s groundbreaking 1970s opera for television series

David Behrman | Music



Wednesday, June 29, 2011

No title

Gary Snyder | Readings



Tuesday, June 28, 2011

No title

Readings | Tom Raworth



Monday, June 27, 2011

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Coming Events



Sunday, June 26, 2011

Ant Farm’s Cadillac Ranch ( 1974) & of course this homage from 1980

Ant Farm | Installation | Visual Arts



Saturday, June 25, 2011

Martino “ OM ” Oberto 1925 – 2011

passing



Friday, June 24, 2011

Geraldine Monk at The Other Room Manchester, UK April 2008

Geraldine Monk | Readings



Thursday, June 23, 2011

Robert Kroetsch 1927 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Joshua Clover, Chris Nealon , & Juliana Spahr: Poetry & politics Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky In Bahrain , write a poem, go...

links



Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Merrill Moore, neglectorino From Hawai’i, Jonathan Morse writes: The rediscovery of Vivian Meier reminds me that there may be another t...

Merrill Moore | neglectorinos



Monday, June 20, 2011

Clarence Clemons The Big Man 1942 – 2011 Bruce Springsteen The void on E Street

Clarence Clemons | Music | passing



Sunday, June 19, 2011

Robert Sheppard at The Other Room Manchester, UK April 2011

Readings | Robert Sheppard



Saturday, June 18, 2011

Maggie O’Sullivan at The Other Room Manchester, UK August 2008

Maggie O'Sullivan | Readings



Friday, June 17, 2011

Ken Edwards at The Other Room Manchester, UK April 2011

Ken Edwards | Readings



Thursday, June 16, 2011

( part 2) ( part 3) ( part 4) ( part 5) ( part 6) ( part 7) ( part 8) ( part 9) ( part 10) ( part 11) ( part 12) ...

Bloomsday | Film | James Joyce | Ulysses



Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Carol Watts at The Other Room , Manchester, UK Reading from Occasionals

Carol Watts | Readings



Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Morton Askesis , Ninetieth Fey Flux Canoe, no publisher or location given, 2006 Susan Briante , Uto...

Recently Received



Monday, June 13, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left June June 13 in Philadelphia AACM: Great Black Music...

Coming Events



Sunday, June 12, 2011

No title

Bei Dao | Chinese poetry | Readings



Saturday, June 11, 2011

No title

Erín Moure | Readings



Friday, June 10, 2011

No title

Korean poetry | Readings



Thursday, June 09, 2011

Rae Armantrout at the University of Chicago January 2010

Rae Armantrout | Readings | Talks



Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Lauren Berry, The Lifting Dress , Penguin, New York, 2011 Neeli Cherkovski, From the Middle Woods...

Recently Received



Tuesday, June 07, 2011

To Be , Lynn Behrendt’s collage poem master work A teaser for Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ The Collage Poems of Drafts Mark Wallace , Rach...

links



Monday, June 06, 2011

Edwin Honig 1919 – 2011

passing



Sunday, June 05, 2011

No title

Readings | Tomaz Salamun



Saturday, June 04, 2011

Ann Brewer Knox 1926 – 2011

passing



Friday, June 03, 2011

I couldn’t afford On Bear’s Head , Philip Whalen’s 405-page magnum opus, when it first came out from Harcourt’s Harvest Books imprint back ...

Phil Whalen | William Corbett



Thursday, June 02, 2011

If the most perfect post- Hitchcockian mystery in cinema continues to be Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 between- Godfathers masterpiece, The ...

Film | narrative



Wednesday, June 01, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left June June 1 in NYC Drew Gardner & Mark Yakich June ...

Coming Events



Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Daisy Aldan’s A New Folder Satu Kaikkonen: from totems In Syria, Ali Dirbak arrested for reading poetry Phil Whalen: excerpts from...

links | Passings



Monday, May 30, 2011

Will “ Da Real One ” Bell 1964? – 2011

passing



Sunday, May 29, 2011

No title

Anne Tardos | Readings



Saturday, May 28, 2011

Gil Scott - Heron 1949 – 2011

passing



Friday, May 27, 2011

No title

Caroline Bergvall | Readings



Thursday, May 26, 2011

Cedar Sigo is a Frank O’Hara for the 21 st century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear & eye for the minutest details, at home ...

Cedar Sigo



Wednesday, May 25, 2011

No title

Jorie Graham | Readings



Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The opening performances from the 3 rd international Text Festival in Bury, Lancashire, April 30, 2011 with Marco Giovenale , Hele...

Readings | Text Festival



Monday, May 23, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left May May 23 – May 27 BEA & NY Book Week May 24 in W...

Coming Events



Sunday, May 22, 2011

No title

Bruce Andrews | Readings



Saturday, May 21, 2011

No title

Bob Dylan



Friday, May 20, 2011

No title

Readings | Tracy K Smith



Thursday, May 19, 2011

Bahraini forces rape & kill Ayat al-Ghermezi China bars Liao Yiwu from traveling In Yemen , a poet has his tongue cut off A Mexican ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Laura Winton (aka Fluffy Singler) is writing her dissertation on the absence of formally progressive poetics in spoken word poetry. In a r...

competition | Film | Slam



Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Christian B ö k This is one of the notes that got bumped when Blogger went south for two days. Christian B ö k suggested on Twitter that I...

Christian Bök | Innovation



Monday, May 16, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Ammiel Alcalay, “neither wit nor gold” (from them) , Ugly Duckling Presse , Brooklyn, 2011 Will ...

Recently Received



Sunday, May 15, 2011

No title

Diane di Prima | Readings



Saturday, May 14, 2011

Live at the White House , it’s Elizabeth Alexander, Billy Collins, Common, Rita Dove, Kenneth Goldsmith, Alison Knowles, Aimee Mann & Ji...

Politics | Readings



Friday, May 13, 2011

Music with Roots in the Aether: Gordon Mumma From Robert Ashley’s groundbreaking 1970s opera for television series

Gordon Mumma | Music



Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate in 4 movements performed by Christian B ö k , Florian Kaplik , Christopher Fox & Jaap Blonk @ Warth Mill...

Dada | Kurt Schwitters



Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Deinococcus radiodurans – the future of printing? A thought about Christian B ö k’s epic act of minimalism taken to its logical conclus...

Christian Bök | Conceptual poetics | Innovation



Monday, May 09, 2011

After a long, intense day of events at the Text Festival in Bury – the morning spent at the museum where my neon excerpt from the still-in-...

Innovation | post-avant



Sunday, May 08, 2011

No title

Joshua Clover | Readings



Saturday, May 07, 2011

Today, in New York City

Events | Robert Kelly



Friday, May 06, 2011

Music with Roots in the Aether: Terry Riley From Robert Ashley’s groundbreaking 1970s opera for television series

Music | Terry Riley



Thursday, May 05, 2011

No title

Rachel Levitsky | Readings



Wednesday, May 04, 2011

No title

Bob Perelman | Readings



Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Fyodor Pavlov- Andreevich The Great Vodka River

Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich | Installation



Monday, May 02, 2011

Giles Goodland & Ron Silliman Tomorrow Tuesday, May 3 7:00 PM 32 Tavistock Square WC1 London View Larger Map Sponsored by Co...

Events



Sunday, May 01, 2011

Building the Bury Neon ( Poetry) My sculpture for Sentences @ The Bury Art Gallery , April 30 – July 11 in the city of Bury, Lanca...

Bury Neon | Sculpture | Text Festival



Saturday, April 30, 2011

Today Festival Opening Featuring Exhibition openings and performances @ Bury Art Gallery& Museum Saturday 30th April 2011 / 11.00am A...

Events | Text Festival



Friday, April 29, 2011

Jean-Michel Rabaté discusses Oulipo

Jean-Michel Rabaté | Oulipo



Thursday, April 28, 2011

No title

Linh Dinh | Readings



Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Photo by Gerard Malanga Ira Cohen 1935 – 2011

passing



Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Gonzalo Rojas 1917 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Finally , the Poetry Center Digital Archive is coming online William Carlos Williams , reading at the SF Museum of Art May 19, 1955 R...

links | Passings



Monday, April 25, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, April 24, 2011

No title

Readings | Ted Pearson



Saturday, April 23, 2011

Tim Hetherington’s Diary Diary (2010) from Tim Hetherington 1970 – 2011

journalism | passing | Politics | War



Friday, April 22, 2011

The Brothers Dickman introduced by Kevin Young

Readings | School of Quietude



Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bard Celebrates Robert Kelly Tonight @ 7 PM, Olin Hall Honoring Robert Kelly + May 7 in NYC The Logic of the World The Poetics of R...

Events | Readings | Robert Kelly



Wednesday, April 20, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left April

Coming Events



Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Patricia Tansley Silliman 1926 – 2011

passing



Monday, April 18, 2011

Who’s Afraid of Ai Weiwei ? Watch the full episode . See more FRONTLINE. Ai Weiwei’s architecture, installations & objects Ai Weiwe...

Ai Weiwei | Installation | Visual Arts



Sunday, April 17, 2011

Howard McCord on the great neglectorino Carl Thayler Click on the banner to get to Carl Thayler’s website

Carl Thayler



Saturday, April 16, 2011

Music with Roots in the Aether: Pauline Oliveros From Robert Ashley’s groundbreaking 1970s opera for television series

Music | Pauline Oliveros



Friday, April 15, 2011

Tomorrow The Grand Piano: A Collective Autobiography Saturday, April 16 2:00 pm Poets House New York City with Steve Benson , Car...

Events | Grand Piano



Thursday, April 14, 2011

No title

Ai Weiwei | Talks



Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Harry Gilonis (photo by Tom Raworth) Harry Gilonis saw my link last Friday to Alan Brownjohn’s comment re the UK poetry wars & recalled t...

British literature | Poetry Wars | School of Quietude



Tuesday, April 12, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Monday, April 11, 2011

Giles Goodland & Ron Silliman Tuesday, May 3 7:00 PM 32 Tavistock Square WC1 London View Larger Map Sponsored by Contemporary...

Events



Sunday, April 10, 2011

No title

Jeremy Prynne | Keston Sutherland | Readings



Saturday, April 09, 2011

No title

Jeremy Prynne | Talks



Friday, April 08, 2011

Michelle Detorie’s American Poetry House Fresh Poems by the Dozen Reports of my demise are a wee bit premature , don’t you think? R...

links | Passings



Thursday, April 07, 2011

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Charles Bernstein & Yunte Huang discussing Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Hono...

Film | history | Talks | Yunte Huang



Wednesday, April 06, 2011

One forgets just how thoroughly internalized the smell of fog can be, how entirely comforting, familiar. In spite of the rigors of travel –...

blogging | Personal



Tuesday, April 05, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Monday, April 04, 2011

Paul Violi 1944 – 2011

passing



Sunday, April 03, 2011

No title

Readings | Spoken Word



Saturday, April 02, 2011

George E . Lewis: Improvisation as a Way of Life

Music | Philosophy | Talks



Friday, April 01, 2011

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Fred Wah introduced by Josephine Park Fred Wah reading Install the Flash plu...

Fred Wah | Readings | Talks



Thursday, March 31, 2011

Monica de la Torre at UC Berkeley

Monica de la Torre | Readings



Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra led by Michael Tilson Thomas

Music



Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The day this pops up on the blog, I will be flying out to California, having just spent one day at home after having gotten back from the ...

blogging | Personal



Monday, March 28, 2011

The audience for my reading with Rae Armantrout on March 25. At the front table, L-R , are Jeff Derksen, Steve McCaffery & Jed Rasula. At...

Events | Personal



Sunday, March 27, 2011

This coming Wednesday in Berkeley @ 7:30 PM

Events



Saturday, March 26, 2011

Faiz Ahmed Faiz Faiz’s Aaj Bazar Mein

Faiz Ahmed Faiz | Readings | social uses of poetry | Urdu poetry



Friday, March 25, 2011

Today!

Events



Thursday, March 24, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Ed Baker, Stone Girl E-pic , with an introduction by Conrad DiDonato , Leafe Press, Nottingham, UK...

Recently Received



Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Amiri Baraka at UC Berkeley

Amiri Baraka | Readings



Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Doug Hall – Highway 50, Nevada #1, 1998 Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian: The Wide Road Lyn, Carla et al at Belladonna’s Wide Road launc...

links | Passings



Monday, March 21, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, March 20, 2011

Stan Lai Weaving Local Stories into Epic Theater

Theater



Saturday, March 19, 2011

Camille T . Dungy at UC Berkeley

Camille Dungy | Readings



Friday, March 18, 2011

No title

Events | Personal



Thursday, March 17, 2011

On the twentyseventh May eleven hundred    and seventyseven , eight p.m., fire broke out    at the corner of Tomi and Higuchi streets. ...

Japan 2011



Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Alan Bernheimer at UC Berkeley with Jane Gregory

Alan Bernheimer | Readings



Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Patti Smith with Lenny Kaye & Janet Hamill @ the Poetry Project February 9, 2011

Patti Smith | Readings



Monday, March 14, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, March 13, 2011

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Lisa Robertson introduced by Julia Bloch Robertson reading Install the Flash plug...

Canadian Poetry | Lisa Robertson | Readings | Talks



Saturday, March 12, 2011

CD Wright has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for One With Others

C.D. Wright



Friday, March 11, 2011

A few words about what I’m up to, or not, these days. The first is that my reading scheduled for Moe’s Books in Berkeley on March 16 has...

Personal



Thursday, March 10, 2011

General Idea: Found Formats

Visual Arts



Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Susan Howe awarded the Bollingen Prize A talk on the lyric by Rae Armantrout at the University of Chicago Rae Armantrout reading Re...

links | Passings



Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Nicole Brossard introduced by Rachel Blau DuPlessis Brossard reading Install the...

Canadian Poetry | Nicole Brossard | Readings | Talks



Monday, March 07, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, March 06, 2011

John Haines 1924 – 2011

passing



Saturday, March 05, 2011

The Armory Show Piers 92 & 94, NYC closes Sunday March 6

Visual Arts



Friday, March 04, 2011

video platform video management video solutions video player A Centenary Tribute to Elizabeth Bishop with Frank Bidart , Olga Broumas , ...

Elizabeth Bishop | Readings



Thursday, March 03, 2011

Talking with ROVA with Derk Richardson & Konrad Steiner

Music | ROVA | Talks



Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Suze Rotolo 1943 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. M. NourbeSe Philip introduced by Janet Neigh Philip reading Install the Flash plu...

Canadian Poetry | M NourbeSe Philip | Readings | Talks



Monday, February 28, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left The Bowery Poetry Club hosts 20 to 30 events each wee...

Coming Events



Sunday, February 27, 2011

History of the Typewriter recited by Michael Winslow (A film by Ignacio Uriarte)

Sound



Saturday, February 26, 2011

Told / Untold / Retold Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art Doha, Qatar

Visual Arts



Friday, February 25, 2011

Akilah Oliver 1961 – 2011

passing



Thursday, February 24, 2011

Music with Roots in the Aether: Alvin Lucier From Robert Ashley’s groundbreaking 1970s opera for television series

Alvin Lucier | Music



Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Barack Obama awards Maya Angelou the Medal of Freedom Frances E.W. Harper , the best-known African American poet of the 19 th Centur...

links



Tuesday, February 22, 2011

A memorial reading for Leslie Scalapino at UC Berkeley

Leslie Scalapino | Readings



Monday, February 21, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, February 20, 2011

Terrance Hayes reading at the University of Maine, Farmington Reading at Cornell

Readings | Terrance Hayes



Friday, February 18, 2011

Martin Kersels' Tumble Room

Installation | Visual Arts



Thursday, February 17, 2011

Anis Shivani on Michael McClure McClure still rings true Beat poet helped to create the hippie movement Congratulations to Jordan Da...

links | Passings



Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Rae Armantrout, Money Shot , Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2011 Vyt Bakaitis, Delib...

Recently Received



Tuesday, February 15, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left The Bowery Poetry Club hosts 20 to 30 events each wee...

Coming Events



Monday, February 14, 2011

Hisaye Yamamoto 1921 – 2011

passing



Sunday, February 13, 2011

Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke | Visual Arts



Saturday, February 12, 2011

Charles Alexander on letterpress publishing Chax Press The Book Art Collective Arizona Rising Jim Irwin’s Letterpress Finesse

Charles Alexander | Printing



Friday, February 11, 2011

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Ann Lauterbach at the School of Visual Arts (thanks to PennSound)

Ann Lauterbach | Readings



Thursday, February 10, 2011

William S. Burroughs live in Manchester, UK, 1982

Beat Poetry | Readings | William Burroughs



Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Close Listening with Nathaniel Mackey And reading Robin Tremblay- McGaw on reading Mourning É douard Glissant Tisa Bryant on Claudia...

links | Passings



Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Warning: it may seem that there are spoilers in what follows. But the answers to the really important questions are deliberately not dealt ...

Film



Monday, February 07, 2011

February 10 in Providence Memorial for Michael Gizzi February 10 in NYC Sparrow with Foamola & Tsipi Keller February 10 in New Haven,...

Coming Events



Sunday, February 06, 2011

Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work (curated by the Scissor Sisters) Image gallery

Robert Mapplethorpe



Saturday, February 05, 2011

Mercedes Ruehl & Bess Rous By coincidence, I happened to be in Princeton on the day Milton Babbitt died in his adopted home town there, ...

Bess Rous | Mercedes Ruehl | Sarah Treem | Theater



Friday, February 04, 2011

É douard Glissant 1928 – 2011

passing



Thursday, February 03, 2011

Dave Morice publishes a 10,000 page poem ! How to bind a ten thousand page book (with slide show) Poetry City Marathon read it here ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Milton Babbitt – Portrait of a Serial Composer by Robert Hilferty & Laura Karpman

Milton Babbitt | Music



Tuesday, February 01, 2011

February 1 in Philadelphia (at noon) Charles Alexander February 1 in NYC Launch event for Peripheral Writing: Eoagh 6 with Alejandro ...

Coming Events



Monday, January 31, 2011

Milton Babbitt 1916 –– 2011

passing



Sunday, January 30, 2011

click on the picture to start Johanna Drucker at the School of Visual Arts (thanks to PennSound)

Johanna Drucker | Talks



Saturday, January 29, 2011

Remembering Michael Gizzi 3 hours of Michael Gizzi reading Rodney Koeneke on Michael A Michael Gizzi page Photo by Steve Evans

Michael Gizzi



Friday, January 28, 2011

J.H. Prynne with Pierre Alferi at the Pompidou in Paris Scroll down within the frame at the Double Change site to view all four videos...

Jeremy Prynne | Pierre Alferi | Readings



Thursday, January 27, 2011

R.F. Langley 1938 – 2011

passing



Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Fairfield Porter: Jimmy and John, 1957-58 Tibor de Nagy: Poets & Painters Talking with Rae Armantrout 2 new poems by Armantrout Arman...

links | Passings



Tuesday, January 25, 2011

January 28 & 29 in SF 10 th Annual Poets Theater Extravaganza with plays by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, David Brazil & Evan Kennedy, Laynie...

Coming Events



Monday, January 24, 2011

F.A . Nettelbeck 1950 – 2011

passing



Sunday, January 23, 2011

No title

Visual Arts



Saturday, January 22, 2011

Music with Roots in the Aether: Philip Glass From Robert Ashley’s groundbreaking 1970s opera for television series

Music | Philip Glass



Friday, January 21, 2011

A conversation with W.S. Merwin with David Lynn & David Baker of the Kenyon Review The House and the Garden: The Emergence of a Drea...

W.S. Merwin



Thursday, January 20, 2011

Photo by Aldon Lynn Nielsen front row, L – R: Carla Harryman, Rae Armantrout, Kit Robinson back row, L – R: Barrett Watten, Helene Aji...

links | Passings



Wednesday, January 19, 2011

John Ross 1938 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Bernard Bador , Curdled Skulls, translated by the author with Clayton Eshleman, Black Widow , Bost...

Recently Received



Monday, January 17, 2011

January 17 – 22 in Palm Beach, FL Palm Beach Poetry Festival January 17 – 30 in NYC Harlem Renaissance Festival January 17 in London D...

Coming Events



Sunday, January 16, 2011

Joan Jonas Performative City

Joan Jonas



Saturday, January 15, 2011

Susana Ch á vez 1974 – 2011

passing



Friday, January 14, 2011

Jess: The Enamored Mage Can Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book “save American art”? New Lorca manuscript “hidden in plain sight” Rae Armant...

links



Thursday, January 13, 2011

Contemporary Chinese Poetry On December 9, a large delegation of poets from Wuhan , the most populous city in central China, visited Kelly...

Chinese poetry | Other traditions | translation



Wednesday, January 12, 2011

It was Shigeyoshi “Shig” Murao , not Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who was arrested by the San Francisco police department for selling a copy of ...

contests | Film | Shigeyoshi Murao



Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A contest for “ the best minds of my generation ” Howl , the motion picture by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, starring James Franco as A...

Allen Ginsberg | Beat Poetry | contests | Film



Monday, January 10, 2011

January 10 in Philadelphia Susan Stewart & Leonard Gontarek January 10 in NYC Christian Hawkey & Jen Bervin January 11 in Boston Steph...

Coming Events



Sunday, January 09, 2011

Vivian Maier , the Emily Dickinson of street photography Help KickStart Finding Vivian Maier

photography | Visual Arts | Vivian Maier



Saturday, January 08, 2011

No title

Events



Friday, January 07, 2011

Use download or full-screen to view at full size

Grand Piano | MLA | The academy



Thursday, January 06, 2011

The many sides of Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein



Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Michele Cahill 28 video readings by some of the very best poets down under

Australia | New Zealand | Readings | video



Tuesday, January 04, 2011

T alking with Anne Gorrick John Martone’s scrittura povera The Newly Complicated Zora Neale Hurston Hurston’s “Monkey Junk: A Sat...

links | Passings



Monday, January 03, 2011

Now – January 9 in Tulum, Mexico US Poets in Mexico with Diane Wakoski, Paul Hoover, Jerry Rothenberg, Jen Hofer, Mark Weiss, Luis Cort...

Coming Events



Sunday, January 02, 2011

( photo by David Flores) Nikky Finney on Talk of the Nation

Interviews | Nikky Finney



Sunday, January 02, 2011

Susan Bright 1945 – 2010 Plainview Press

passing



Saturday, January 01, 2011

Meredith Monk From Peter Greenaway’s Four American Composers

Meredith Monk | Peter Greenaway



Friday, December 31, 2010

Peter Greenaway & David Lang Writing on Water Greenaway’s Leonardo’s Last Supper will be up at the Park Ave Armory in New York unti...

David Lang | Peter Greenaway | vispo



Thursday, December 30, 2010

WEEKS by Hannah Weiner Xexoxial Editions

Hannah Weiner



Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Ted Berrigan reads The Sonnets (mostly) New Langton Arts, San Francisco June 1981

Readings | Ted Berrigan



Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Sea & Spar Between: being a collaboration between Herman Melville & Emily Dickinson (sorta) Huh ? Nick Montfort explains Jerry Rothe...

links



Monday, December 27, 2010

January 1 in New York: Suzanne Vega, Taylor Mead, Ted Greenwald, Philip Glass, Rebecca Moore, Robert Fitterman, Rodrigo Toscano, Samita...

Coming Events



Sunday, December 26, 2010

No title

Jonathan Lethem | Patti Smith



Saturday, December 25, 2010

No title

Personal



Friday, December 24, 2010

Janine Pommy Vega 1942 – 2010

passing



Thursday, December 23, 2010

Rob Halpern’s “Becoming a Patient of History” Rosmarie Waldrop’s Driven to Abstraction Brian Kim Stefans' Bank of America Online Ban...

links | Passings



Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Photo by Abraham Ravett Charles Reznikoff reading Holocaust 1975 Get the CD Photos from the session Charles Bernstein’s “ Reznikof...

Charles Reznikoff | Objectivism | Readings



Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw, Pre-Chewed Tapas , P-Queue / Queue, Buffalo, 2010 Jason Bredle , Smi...

Recently Received



Monday, December 20, 2010

December 21 & 22 in SF Leslie Scalapino’s Flow – Winged Crocodile / The Trains January 1 in New York: Suzanne Vega, Taylor Mead, Ted G...

Coming Events



Sunday, December 19, 2010

Ben Friedlander, Kevin Killian (visible in doorway), Dan Davidson Daniel Davidson’s “ What Kind is This ?” As the jacket for Dan Davidso...

Dan Davidson | neglectorinos



Saturday, December 18, 2010

Don Van Vliet Captain Beefheart 1941 – 2010

passing



Friday, December 17, 2010

Best viewed full-screen Albert Watson: My Life in Pictures

Albert Watson | photography



Thursday, December 16, 2010

Best viewed full-screen Carsten H ö ller: Soma in Berlin

Carsten Höller | Installation | Visual Arts



Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The 1960 Symposium Both video & audio of all two hours & 20 minutes With Al Filreis , Bob Perelman , Ron Silliman , Rachel Blau DuPless...

1960 | New American Poetry | Talks



Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Talking with Anne Waldman: “From the Larynx” A poem from Liu Xiaobo The laureate’s curse 13 poems from Sharon Mesmer Chapter 1 of Rob...

links | Passings



Monday, December 13, 2010

December 15 in NYC Julie Carr & Nicole Cooley December 16 in NYC Charles Bernstein & Tim Peterson December 16 in LA Jon Cotner , Andy ...

Coming Events



Sunday, December 12, 2010

Honoring the life & work of Larry Eigner with Robert Grenier, Lyn Hejinian, Richard Eigner, Rebecca Gaydos , Kit Robinson, Michael David...

Larry Eigner



Saturday, December 11, 2010

Robert Grenier & Stephen Ratcliffe 14 Conversations

Robert Grenier | Stephen Ratcliffe



Friday, December 10, 2010

Photo by Richard P Gabriel Dean Young needs a heart – now !

Dean Young | health



Thursday, December 09, 2010

The Supplement: Augmenting the Text

The incompleteness of the text



Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Michael A.K. Halliday on the history of language

language | Michael Halliday



Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Tim Atkins, 1000 Sonnets , If P then Q, Manchester, UK, 2010 Macgregor Card, The Archers , The Song...

Recently Received



Monday, December 06, 2010

At the Poetry Center 1957, L-R: Ida Hodes , Jack Spicer, Ruth Witt- Diamant , Robert Duncan In 1974, John Taggart asked me for an essay f...

1960 | Robert Duncan



Sunday, December 05, 2010

December 5 in Chicago The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater December 5 in Brooklyn Stéphane Bouquet, Michael Palmer & Rod Smith Dece...

Coming Events



Saturday, December 04, 2010

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Youngmin Kim & Charles Bernstein reading & talking at Dongguk University , Seoul, Oct....

Brother Anthony | Charles Bernstein | Youngmin Kim



Friday, December 03, 2010

Vanessa Place , reading in The (New) Reading Series in Oakland July 19, 2009

Conceptual poetics | Readings | Vanessa Place



Thursday, December 02, 2010

Photo by Tom Orange Barrett Watten , reading in The (New) Reading Series in Oakland March 15, 2009

Barrett Watten | Readings



Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Armantrout’s Money Shot is “a stunner” Geoffrey Gatza’s 2010 Thanksgiving Feast menu & poetic cycle celebrates David Shapiro Talkin...

links | Passings



Tuesday, November 30, 2010

I’m always reading a dozen books at once, sometimes twice that many. Even my “current novel,” literally my bedtime reading as I drift of...

immersion | Theory



Monday, November 29, 2010

Now – December 1 in Brockton, MA Emily Dickinson is the focus of The Big Read Now – December 11 in NYC Chris Doyle Now – December 17 ...

Coming Events



Sunday, November 28, 2010

No title

Simon J Ortiz



Saturday, November 27, 2010

No title

Joy Harjo



Friday, November 26, 2010

No title

Sherman Alexie



Thursday, November 25, 2010

Cedar Sigo reading at Small Press Traffic

Cedar Sigo



Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Bruce Conner: LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS (1959-67 / 1996) with music by Terry Riley (Best viewed full screen)

Bruce Connor | Terry Riley



Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New Directions’ new colophon On Patti Smith National Book Award -winning novelist Jaimy Gordon has deep roots in the small press , ...

links | Passings



Monday, November 22, 2010

“ Abstraction Revisited ” Chelsea Art Museum Now – Nov 27 Now – December 11 in NYC Chris Doyle Now – December 17 in Philadelphia Ch...

Coming Events



Sunday, November 21, 2010

Lydia Davis reading & talking at Writer’s House Lydia Davis talking in 1997

Lydia Davis



Saturday, November 20, 2010

Photo by Ben Friedlander Lisa Robertson reading at The Condensary in Oakland

Lisa Robertson



Friday, November 19, 2010

Terrance Hayes & Patti Smith have each received The National Book Award

Prizes



Thursday, November 18, 2010

Steve Orlen 1942 – 2010

passing



Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Etel Adnan, Lyn Hejinian, Jennifer Scappettone, Belladonna Elder Series , no. 5, Brooklyn, 2009 ...

Recently Received



Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Mimi Gross & Charles Bernstein Some of These Daze ( 64MB PowerPoint file) 5 poems by Aim é C é saire from the unexpurgated first edit...

links | Passings



Monday, November 15, 2010

“ Abstraction Revisited ” Chelsea Art Museum Now – Nov 27 Now – December 11 in NYC Chris Doyle Now – December 17 in Philadelphia Ch...

Coming Events



Sunday, November 14, 2010

Being the first of four video excerpts from an interview with Allen Fisher conducted in 2008 by Openned All four can be found on the...

Allen Fisher



Saturday, November 13, 2010

My Own Eyes from Max Greenstreet using the words & work of Kate Greenstreet

Kate Greenstreet



Friday, November 12, 2010

No title

Eileen Myles



Thursday, November 11, 2010

Photo by Alan Bernheimer Eileen Myles in Philadelphia Reading at the ICA , October 13 ( intro by CAConrad) Reading at Kelly Writer...

Eileen Myles | Readings



Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Photo by Alan Bernheimer Brandon Brown on The Bohemia of Finances ( part 1) ( part 2) ( part 3)

Brandon Brown



Tuesday, November 09, 2010

The Merwin Conservancy Talking with W.S. Merwin “ safe choice,” “safe poet ” Kevin Killian on Secret Historian Money Shot & 32 other...

links | Passings



Monday, November 08, 2010

Now – November 14 in Philly, First Person Festival “ Abstraction Revisited ” Chelsea Art Museum Now – Nov 27 Now – December 17 in Phil...

Coming Events



Sunday, November 07, 2010

F.T. Prince: a reading & interview with Susan Howe Guardian obit 2003 Wikipedia

F.T. Prince



Saturday, November 06, 2010

Norman McLaren: Synchromie . Musique Optique From Vernissage TV

Film | Norman McLaren



Friday, November 05, 2010

True World Series MVP Dave Righetti A couple of thoughts about winning & recognition, occasioned by some of my less literary passions. Fir...

Baseball | Project Runway



Thursday, November 04, 2010

Rick Prelinger: Destruction of the Panopticon: William E. Worden’s The Observatory in Ruins, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (1906) Ha...

photography | social history



Wednesday, November 03, 2010

“ Abstraction Revisited ” Chelsea Art Museum Now – Nov 27 Now – December 17 in Philadelphia Charles Burwell Now – January 9 in NYC T...

Coming Events



Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Edgar Renteria gets the pitch he wanted In 1954, the last time the Giants won a World Series, I was eight years old. I remember the series...

Baseball



Monday, November 01, 2010

“This is your brain on poetry.” – Huffington Post “The Grand Piano continues to amaze...” – David Meltzer “...language, history, textu...

The Grand Piano



Sunday, October 31, 2010

Reading & talking with Susan Howe & Charles Ruas Readings & lectures from Naropa Helen Adam’s EPC site Helen Adam at SPD

Helen Adam



Saturday, October 30, 2010

No title

Felix Bernstein



Friday, October 29, 2010

Peter & Judy Seaton 1977 Peter Seaton in conversation with Henry Hills ( part one) ( part two)

Peter Seaton



Thursday, October 28, 2010

No title

Jonathan Franzen



Wednesday, October 27, 2010

“ The Dwelling Place ” Plus I have a new bibliography Anne Tardos: from “The Nines” Fanny Howe: Documenting the secret self Openned...

links | Passings



Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Now – October 25 in Manchester, UK Manchester Literary Festival “ Abstraction Revisited ” Chelsea Art Museum Now – Nov 27 Now – Decem...

Coming Events



Monday, October 25, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Chinese Notebook , translated from the Greek by John & Angelos Sakkis , Ugl...

Recently Received



Sunday, October 24, 2010

Photo by Erica Jane Kaufman Maureen Owen at Belladonna, 2007 Maureen Owen: Two readings from 1978 Maureen Owen’s website Maureen Owe...

Maureen Owen | Readings



Saturday, October 23, 2010

Bob Cobbing on Charles Amirkhanian’s Ode to Gravity

Bob Cobbing



Friday, October 22, 2010

The ROVA channel

Music | ROVA



Thursday, October 21, 2010

Nels Cline on John Coltrane with Larry Ochs on sax (registration required)

Jazz | Music | Nels Cline | Talks



Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Gilgamesh read in Babylonian (with other Babylonian & Assyrian texts) Dodie Bellamy: “a powerful feminist strategy” Saudi female poet...

links | Passings



Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Now – October 22 in Manchester, UK Five by 12 Now – October 23 in Berlin , Henry Darger Now – October 25 in Manchester, UK Manchester ...

Coming Events



Monday, October 18, 2010

Jack Powers 1937 ( ?) – 2010

passing



Sunday, October 17, 2010

NB: Between now and the end of October, the old comments streams have been turned back on so that authors might retrieve their words of wis...

blogging



Sunday, October 17, 2010

Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds

Ai Weiwei | Visual Arts



Saturday, October 16, 2010

The work begins The first neon sign in America still glows at night Broken neon signs Photos by Phil Davenport

Neon | vispo



Friday, October 15, 2010

David Arner , George Quasha, Charles Stein Axial Music At White Box on the Bowery, NYC August 26, 2010 Plus , from the 20 th annual...

Music



Thursday, October 14, 2010

Sometime in the next 24 hours this blog will welcome its 3 millionth visitor. Each time it reaches another half million visits, I’ve used ...

blogging | Personal



Wednesday, October 13, 2010

No title

Lyn Hejinian | Readings



Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Olson @ the Century A profile of the Buffalo conference Gloucester celebrates Olson As does Vancouver Paris Review “Language Sampler” Berk...

links | Passings



Monday, October 11, 2010

Now – October 17 in Ilkley , UK Ilkley Literature Festival Now – October 23 in Berlin , Henry Darger “ Abstraction Revisited ” Chelse...

Coming Events



Sunday, October 10, 2010

Mario Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel Vargas Llosa: Why him? Why now? An audio interview He thought it was a prank

Mario Vargas Llosa



Saturday, October 09, 2010

Jerome Rothenberg: From the Voice to the Book, From the Book to the Voice: A Dialectic 2008 Kelly Writers House Reading: ( Audio) (...

Jerome Rothenberg



Friday, October 08, 2010

Mario Vargas Llosa has received the Nobel Prize for Literature

Mario Vargas Llosa | Prizes



Thursday, October 07, 2010

Mondo Guerra & his model Eyen Chorm It has taken me longer to decide what I think about Project Runway this summer & fall than it has in ...

Project Runway | TV



Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Next to the Liberty Bell, the Phanatic is Philly’s most enduring visual icon A couple of people have asked me if I was going to write my ...

Baseball



Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Harriet Tarlo’s “Recycles: The Eco-Ethical Poetics of Found Text in Contemporary Poetry” Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Pitch: Drafts 77-95 ...

links



Monday, October 04, 2010

Now – October 9 in NYC , Sandow Birk: American Qur’an Now – October 10 in Gloucester, MA , Olson 100 Now – October 10 in Cambridge, MA...

Coming Events



Sunday, October 03, 2010

Rebecca Solnit on Jay DeFeo Jay DeFeo The Rose

Visual Arts



Saturday, October 02, 2010

Frank Sherlock & CAConrad , reading from The City Real & Imagined Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ introduction The book reviewed here Av...

CAConrad | collaborations | Frank Sherlock | Readings



Friday, October 01, 2010

George & Mary Oppen George Oppen: Essential American Poet Oppen’s EPC page

George Oppen | Objectivism



Thursday, September 30, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Tim Atkins, Petrarch , CRTR VI, London 2010 Carl Dennis, Callings , Penguin, London / New York, 201...

Recently Received



Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Michael Gizzi 1949 – 2010

passing



Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Mathew Timmons: The Arachnoids (world’s largest sound poetry choir) LaMonte Young’s “ Poem for Chairs, Tables , Benches, Etc. (or othe...

links



Monday, September 27, 2010

Now – October 9 in NYC , Sandow Birk: American Qur’an September 27 & 28 in Harare, Zimbabwe , Poetry Africa Festival September 28 in N...

Coming Events



Sunday, September 26, 2010

50 years at The Pace Gallery Anniversary Exhibitions

Visual Arts



Saturday, September 25, 2010

L-R: John Cassady, Scott Lettieri & Jerry Cimino Jerry Cimino of the Beat Museum & John Cassady (son of Neal) discuss Howl * Howl i...

Allen Ginsberg | Beat Poetry



Friday, September 24, 2010

If there was not a copy of the first issue of Janus available for sale on the web, dated March 1950 & with contributors that include Paul ...

Hugh-Alain Dal



Thursday, September 23, 2010

No title

Music | Puns



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Jill Johnston 1929 – 2010



Tuesday, September 21, 2010

From David Schneider’s forthcoming biography of Philip Whalen (thanks to Coyote’s Journal) Big Bridge Whalen fest Was Oskar Pastior ...

links



Monday, September 20, 2010

Laurie Anderson: Difficult Listening Hour Delusion

Laurie Anderson



Sunday, September 19, 2010

Elif Shafak on the politics of fiction

Fiction



Saturday, September 18, 2010

Jonathan Franzen: “ I’m still a team player ”

Fiction | Jonathan Franzen



Friday, September 17, 2010

Dawn Lundy Martin Reading June 18, 2010 Recorded by Andrew Kenower

Dawn Lundy Martin



Thursday, September 16, 2010

I saw the best exposition of a poem in a major motion picture, Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl , coming to art theaters starting on t...

Allen Ginsberg | Beat Poetry | Film



Wednesday, September 15, 2010

No title

Charles Bernstein | Jon Lovitz



Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Delirious Hem’s Tribute to Leslie Scalapino ( day 1) ( day 2) ( day 3) ( day 4) Leslie Scalapino leaves a scholarship at Reed T...

links | Passings



Monday, September 13, 2010

Bruce Boone Reading June 18, 2010 Recorded by Andrew Kenower

Bruce Boone



Sunday, September 12, 2010

BookThug’s Spring Launch 2010 Videos Cara Benson interview Cara Benson performs in a cave Cara Benson in The Continental Review A...

Cara Benson



Saturday, September 11, 2010

Cole Swensen talking with Jennifer Dick for The Continental Review

Cole Swensen



Friday, September 10, 2010

No title

Charles Olson



Thursday, September 09, 2010

Bob Bowen 1965 – 2010

passing



Wednesday, September 08, 2010

The Third Replicator Copy That: A Response to Critics

Intelligent Design



Tuesday, September 07, 2010

The Autobiography of Larry Eigner Joseph Mosconi’s Word Search Recordings of most of Oakland’s Labor Day extravaganza Bhanu Kapil on...

links | Passings



Monday, September 06, 2010

Mark Linenthal 1922 – 2010

passing



Sunday, September 05, 2010

Samuel Beckett – Quad 1+2

Samuel Beckett



Saturday, September 04, 2010

Don’t neglect to click on the pic Dyl Dawg 3 hours of Bruce Andrews reading on KDVS 90.3 FM Independent community freeform radio fr...

Bruce Andrews



Friday, September 03, 2010

Rae Armantrout Reading at Studio One May 7, 2010 Recorded by Andrew Kenower

Rae Armantrout



Thursday, September 02, 2010

An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street

Al-Mutanabbi Street | Book as Art Object | Bookstores



Wednesday, September 01, 2010

The Bards of Somalia Available only until Saturday, September 4

social uses of poetry



Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Ron Padgett on the letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan Alfred Starr Hamilton & the law Brian Salchert has died Anxiety in Whitman’...

links



Monday, August 30, 2010

A reading by Frank Samperi Of the neglected poets of the 1960s onward, Frank Samperi represents something a unique case in that he’d pub...

Frank Samperi



Sunday, August 29, 2010

George Hitchcock 1914 – 2010

passing



Saturday, August 28, 2010

Moi , circa 1980 Bliss vs. Utility 3 hours of RS reading on KDVS 90.3 FM Independent community freeform radio from UC Davis Your host...

Readings



Friday, August 27, 2010

One of the reasons I’ve never tried to parlay my love for cinema into a full-time reviewing gig – besides the fact that the field is crashi...

Film



Thursday, August 26, 2010

A talk by Philip Lamantia with a reading by Bob Kaufman , August 20, 1979 This audio is part of the Other Minds Archive

Beat Poetry | Bob Kaufman | Philip Lamantia



Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Vanessa Place at Segue , March 2010 (right click & save or open link)

Conceptual poetics | Vanessa Place



Tuesday, August 24, 2010

No title

Charles Bernstein



Monday, August 23, 2010

Leslie Scalapino on The Dihedrons Gazelle – Dihedrals Zoom George Bowering , “bullshit artist” Best UK poetry site I’ve yet seen Ta...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 22, 2010

Arcade Fire Madison Square Garden August 5, 2010 Filmed for the American Express series Unstaged directed by Terry Gilliam “ Terry Gi...

Arcade Fire



Saturday, August 21, 2010

Edwin Morgan 1920 – 2010

passing



Friday, August 20, 2010

No title

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings



Thursday, August 19, 2010

Rachel & Charles – that last line was written by Lew Welch

videopoetry



Wednesday, August 18, 2010

What Khlebnikov means Robert Grenier on Robert Creeley Talking with Ana Božičević Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season The first form of v...

links | Passings



Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Stephen Ratcliffe’s human/nature With June Watanabe (dancer) & Mardi Horowitz (painter) Sight & Insight Gallery, Mill Valley 7-11-2004 ...

Stephen Ratcliffe



Monday, August 16, 2010

Calling Molly Ringwald: a brat pack for our time I will be curious to see if Scott Pilgrim vs. the World can get beyond the curse of a di...

Film



Sunday, August 15, 2010

Flarf goes to Belarus “Reading” Pushkin’s “ A Magic Moment ” one phrase at a time through Google

Flarf



Saturday, August 14, 2010

Ron Allen 1947 – 2010

passing



Friday, August 13, 2010

Lynn Behrendt at Segue , March 2010 (right click & save or open link)

Lynn Behrendt



Thursday, August 12, 2010

Robert Aitken 1917 – 2010

passing



Wednesday, August 11, 2010

No title

Readings | Will Alexander



Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Elizabeth Bishop on WBAI with Susan Howe & Charles Ruas (right click & open or save link) Thanks to PennSound

Elizabeth Bishop



Monday, August 09, 2010

Talking with Robert Kelly Robert Kelly’s sudden fictions Talking with Rae Armantrout What The New Yorker doesn’t publish Jena Osman ...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 08, 2010

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videopoetry | vispo | Visual Arts



Saturday, August 07, 2010

Jon Raskin’s world premiere of The Hear and Now at Other Minds 10 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2004 As p...

ROVA



Friday, August 06, 2010

Photo by Rochelle Kraut To my knowledge, I never met Steve Carey, though you might think I would have. I borrowed the money to pay the min...

Steve Carey



Thursday, August 05, 2010

No title

Personal



Wednesday, August 04, 2010

A representative sampling of some of my email this week: I can certainly understand your exasperation –– maddened by the buzzing of flies,...

blogging



Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Generosity & Tom Raworth Christine Hume’s Shot Maryrose Larkin’s Marrowing Chris McCreary’s Apocrypha Elisa Gabbert: Is poetry bo...

links



Monday, August 02, 2010

4 complete books by Leslie Scalapino Click on cover to download PDF file Thanks to the Electronic Poetry Center

Leslie Scalapino



Sunday, August 01, 2010

Leslie Scalapino's Books Chronologically 072010

Leslie Scalapino



Saturday, July 31, 2010

In 1965, when I first saw Allen Ginsberg at the Berkeley Poetry Conference, he was introduced as a man who had just been harassed by the po...

blogging



Friday, July 30, 2010

Rae Armantrout at the University of Richmond

Rae Armantrout



Thursday, July 29, 2010

随 筆 Zuihitsu: “a formless text is never without form” Kimiko Hahn on the influences in her work

Kimiko Hahn



Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Wendy Babiak , Conspiracy of Leaves , Plainview Press, Austin, 2010 Tada Chimako , Forest of Eyes ,...

Recently Received



Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Ted Berrigan by Alex Katz Ted Berrigan: Adamic Remembering Leslie Scalapino: Fanny Howe Tim Atkins Robert Grenier Rob Holloway L...

links | Passings



Monday, July 26, 2010

When I used the phrase New Precisionist , the particular template I most had in mind was Joseph Massey , a relatively young poet – well un...

Joseph Massey



Sunday, July 25, 2010

Today is Leslie Scalapino’s birthday. She would have been 66, a number that would have interested her not at all. Because we grew up in ne...

Leslie Scalapino



Saturday, July 24, 2010

Joanne Kyger reading at UC Berkeley, 2007

Joanne Kyger | Readings



Friday, July 23, 2010

Video clips from Talon Books’ 2010 Cross-Canada Poetry Tour with Frank Davey , Stephen Collis , George Bowering , Ken Norris , derek ...

Canadian Poetry | Readings



Thursday, July 22, 2010

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Liam Agrani , Volume One (Selected Anonymous Marginalia), BlazeVOX , Buffalo, 2010 Brandon Brow...

Recently Received



Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Fugs (Edward Sanders, Steve Taylor, Coby Batty & Scott Petito) sing Tuli Kupferberg’s Morning, Morning at Tuli’s memorial, J...

Beat Poetry | The Fugs | Tuli Kupferberg



Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Jennifer Moxley: Fragments of a Broken Poetics Poetry, language & the visual arts Innovative Women’s Poetry at Greenwich Dorothea Las...

links



Monday, July 19, 2010

To demonstrate The Saragossa Manuscript’s status as a cult classic, all one need do is to point out that this 1965 film by Wojciech Has w...

Film



Sunday, July 18, 2010

W.H . Auden reading at the 92 nd Street Y, 1972

W.H. Auden



Saturday, July 17, 2010

No title

W.S. Merwin



Friday, July 16, 2010

Robin Blaser at the University of California (tip of the hat to Pierre Joris for this)

Robin Blaser



Thursday, July 15, 2010

When does a master poet achieve that indelible (if impossible to generalize) state we call mastery? With a few poets, there is a moment tha...

Norma Cole



Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Photo by Alan Bernheimer An interview with Rae Armantrout 6 new poems by Armantrout Contextualizing Gerardo Diego’s Handbook of Foa...

links | Passings



Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Tuli Kupferberg 1923 – 2010



Monday, July 12, 2010

Close Listening to Myung Mi Kim

Myung Mi Kim | Readings



Sunday, July 11, 2010

Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals & the Art of Roughness

Benoit Mandelbrot | Form



Saturday, July 10, 2010

Allen Ginsberg & Basil Bunting, circa 1965 Basil Bunting reads Briggflatts

Basil Bunting | Objectivism | Readings



Friday, July 09, 2010

It’s not a vacation if you take the laptop

Personal



Thursday, July 08, 2010

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Ed Baker, De :Sire Is, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press , Newton-Le-Willows, UK, 2010 (Also avail...

Recently Received



Wednesday, July 07, 2010

I know, whenever I use the phrase School of Quietude in some pointed fashion, what kind of response I’m going to get, and the comments that ...

Dunstan Thompson | Neophobia | School of Quietude | Schools of poetry



Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Kerouac students organize to save the writing program at Naropa Anne Waldman & Lisa Birman on the situation at Naropa Twitter stream in...

links



Monday, July 05, 2010

A reading by Brandon Downing & Macgregor Card

Brandon Downing | Macgregor Card | Readings



Sunday, July 04, 2010

No title

Wendell Berry



Saturday, July 03, 2010

No title

W.S. Merwin



Friday, July 02, 2010

W.S. Merwin will be the next Poet Laureate of the United States, a post I still think of mostly in Donald Hall’s delightful acronym as P...

Laureates | PLOTUS



Thursday, July 01, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Mairéad Byrne, The Best of (What’s Left of) Heaven , Publishing Genius, Baltimore, 2010 Michael Ega...

Recently Received



Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Ellen Davis on Fanny Howe Mary Manning Howe reads Finnegans Wake (& much much more!) Eating & drinking through Bloomsday What happened...

links | Passings



Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Fred Anderson 1929 – 2010

Jazz | passing



Monday, June 28, 2010

Ben Sonnenberg 1936 – 2010

passing



Sunday, June 27, 2010

Anselm Berrigan for Poeteevee

Anselm Berrigan



Saturday, June 26, 2010

Stacy Szymaszek for Poeteevee

Stacy Szymaszek



Friday, June 25, 2010

At 3:00 PM yesterday, we had a short (10 minutes max as far as thunder & lightning & rain were concerned), intense (the storm traveled at 55...

blogging | Personal



Thursday, June 24, 2010

Peter Seaton 1942 – 2010

passing



Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Yesterday’s Songs Homer sings the gods of war, Homer sings “Uptown Girl.” He strings his lyre w/ piano wire if he’s got the ...

Chris McCreary | New Precisionism



Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Juliana Spahr: Rethinking poetics John Keene: A Poem-Report Rebecca Wolf: The personal vs. “social poetics” Stephanie Young’s “Rep...

links | passing



Monday, June 21, 2010

Allen Hoey 1952 – 2010

passing



Sunday, June 20, 2010

Frank Sherlock for Poeteevee

Frank Sherlock



Saturday, June 19, 2010

José Saramago 1922 – 2010

passing



Friday, June 18, 2010

This weekend in New York City Two performances of Flow-Winged Crocodile: A Noh Play by Leslie Scalapino Directed by Fiona Templeton,...

Leslie Scalapino



Thursday, June 17, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Louis Cabri, What is Venice? Wrinkle Press , Windsor, ON, 2010 Kristina Marie Darling, Night Songs ...

Recently Received



Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, ...

Bloomsday | James Joyce



Tuesday, June 15, 2010

“stud lover boy”: NY Times obit for David Markson James Yeh on David Markson Preparing to misspell Wittgenstein David Markson: An Intr...

links | Passings



Monday, June 14, 2010

Miles Mendenhall won Week 1, imitating a 19 th century “death portrait” of Nina Bustamante Once Bravo lost Project Runway to Lifetime, t...

TV | Visual Arts



Sunday, June 13, 2010

No title

videopoetry



Saturday, June 12, 2010

Nine realizations of Alvin Lucier’s I am Sitting in a Room

Alvin Lucier | video



Friday, June 11, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Thérèse Bachand, Luce a Cavallo , Green Integer Books, København & Los Angeles, 2009 derek beaulieu...

Recently Received



Thursday, June 10, 2010

Russell Brand’s re-enactment of On the Road

Beat Poetry | Jack Kerouac | TV



Wednesday, June 09, 2010

David Markson at the 92 nd Y

David Markson



Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Why is Gertrude Stein so important? Juliana Spahr on Gurlesque Rebecca Loudon: from Queer Wing-ed Nicole Brossard’s Selections Reme...

links



Monday, June 07, 2010

Hard copy is truth. I’ve said that before, but I was reminded of the harsh reality of that saying last Thursday night. While I was at an...

blogging | Personal



Sunday, June 06, 2010

David Markson 1927 – 2010

passing



Saturday, June 05, 2010

d.a. levy was a major figure in the 1960s’ mimeo / small press scene & a polarizing figure within Cleveland (the police theory seems t...

Beat Poetry | d.a. levy



Friday, June 04, 2010

Once upon a time, the late Gil Ott shared a tree-house in Bolinas with an anthropologist named Kush. Kush, aka Steven Kushner , would go o...

Archives | Film | Visual Arts



Thursday, June 03, 2010

Who’s that on the cover of Poetry this month? Iamb What Iamb After decades as one of Chicago’s signature poets, Paul Hoover finally ...

links | passing



Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Photo by Gordon Ball Andrei Voznesensky 1933 – 2010

passing



Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Peter Orlovsky & Allen Ginsberg Peter Orlovsky 1933 – 2010 Louise Bourgeois 1911 – 2010

Passings



Monday, May 31, 2010

Leslie Scalapino & Tom White, Valentine’s Day 2010 Leslie Scalapino: “Disbelief” Michael Cross on Leslie Scalapino Floats Horse-Floa...

Leslie Scalapino



Sunday, May 30, 2010

Leslie Scalapino 1944 – 2010

passing



Saturday, May 29, 2010

Luis Quintanilla’s portrait of John Dos Passos “as he saw himself” John Dos Passos reads about Isadora Duncan at the 92 nd Street Y,...

Isadora Duncan | John Dos Passos



Friday, May 28, 2010

Chris McCreary Laurie Duggan the other day struck a chord I had not heard in a while, or perhaps more accurately the critical equivalen...

New Precisionism



Thursday, May 27, 2010

No less an authority than Herman Melville once declared Redburn: His First Voyage to be “trash,” a work of commerce & not art. It was the...

Fiction | Herman Melville



Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Kostas Anagnopoulos, Moving Blanket, Ugly Duckling Press, Brooklyn, 2010 Amaranth Borsuk,...

Recently Received



Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Talking with Rae Armantrout (check the audio!) Armantrout on PBS Newshour’s “Artbeat” Radio Rae Armantrout: On Point A critique o...

links | Passings



Monday, May 24, 2010

Judson Crews 1917 – 2010 Also Cerise Farallon, Willard Emory Betis, Trumbull Drachler, Tobi Macadams, Charley John Greasybear, & ...

passing



Sunday, May 23, 2010

Joshua Cohen talking with Joseph McElroy Triple Canopy podcasts Triple Canopy programs at 177 Livingston

Fiction | Joseph McElroy



Saturday, May 22, 2010

Disappearing Book (best viewed full screen)

Book as Art Object | Stacy Blint



Friday, May 21, 2010

Shusaku Arakawa 1936 – 2010

passing



Thursday, May 20, 2010

Edoardo Sanguineti 1930 – 2010

passing



Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Tolerance Project Susan Gevirtz & Eileen Tabios Gevirtz’ “Orion” Joanne Kyger’s notational noetics Erica Hunt’s oppositiona...

links | Passings



Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Rane Arroyo 1954 – 2010

passing



Monday, May 17, 2010

Big Bridge has a big feature on Diane di Prima David Hadbawnik: Diane di Prima – An Introduction David Hadbawnik: Interview with Dav...

Beat Poetry | Diane di Prima



Sunday, May 16, 2010

Susan Howe & David Grubbs at the Walker Art Center

David Grubbs | Susan Howe



Saturday, May 15, 2010

No title

Harry Partch | Music



Friday, May 14, 2010

Rae Armantrout’s “uniquely broken heart” “ Who is Rae Armantrout ?” Armantrout’s questions “But what about the nipples?” Blake B...

links | Passings



Thursday, May 13, 2010

Pepper Potts & Tony Stark in the original Iron Man Because one of my kids owns the DVD, we prepped for Iron Man 2 by rewatching the orig...

Film



Wednesday, May 12, 2010

As my homies Ange Mlinko & Pattie McCarthy can both attest, there is not much more to the Paoli Library than a large room at the back of a...

Elmore Leonard | Fiction



Tuesday, May 11, 2010

David Chaloner 1944 – 2010

passing



Monday, May 10, 2010

Andrea Brady: Is there a Cambridge School? [& Robert Archambeau replies] (scroll down) Talking with Lynn Behrendt Diann Blakely o...

links



Sunday, May 09, 2010

No title

Terry Eagleton



Saturday, May 08, 2010

William Carlos Williams reading at the 92 nd Street Y in 1954 ( MP3)

William Carlos Williams



Friday, May 07, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Laynie Browne, The Desire of Letters , Counterpath, Denver, 2010 Stephen Collis, On the Mate...

Recently Received



Thursday, May 06, 2010

I brought The City Real & Imagined by CAConrad & Frank Sherlock with me first because I was planning to spend the afternoon in Bartram’s...

CAConrad | collaborations | Frank Sherlock | Philadelphia



Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Rodrigo Toscano , “to become super-solid” from the LaChiPo issue of Breach Breach is a new online journal focusing on Latin@ poetry &...

LaChiPo



Tuesday, May 04, 2010

One value of Sarah Rosenthal’s sumptuous collection of interviews, A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Bay Area Author...

anthologies | history | Interviews | Schools of poetry



Monday, May 03, 2010

Reina María Rodríguez , a bilingual reading Tsering Wangmo Dhompa on the earthquake in Kyegu Barrett Watten goes post-moot Clark ...

links | Passings



Sunday, May 02, 2010

Emma Bee Bernstein’s show – Masquerade: A Retrospective, curated by Antonia Pocock Exhibition at DOVA Temporary University of Chicago...

Emma Bee Bernstein



Saturday, May 01, 2010

No title

Douglas Adams



Friday, April 30, 2010

The Poet Laureate of the Blogoshere for 2010 has been declared a tie betwixt Sina Queyras & Robert Lee Brewer



Friday, April 30, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Bob Arnold, My Sweetest Friend, Longhouse Press , Green River, VT, 2010 CA Conrad & Frank ...

Recently Received



Thursday, April 29, 2010

So many of the discussions of access & difficulty in writing, all the questions that continue to bedevil American poets & fictioneers, see...

Herta Müller



Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Robert Grenier , reading outside the box Helen Lopez , thinking with the box New poems by Cara Benson Steve Fama on Mairéad Byrne ...

links | passing



Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Rae Armantrout in Richmond, VA (Thanks to Brian Henry)



Monday, April 26, 2010

Reading Carla Harryman edited by Laura Hinton from How2 Laura Hinton An Introduction to Reading Carla Harryman ( PDF) Christine H...

Carla Harryman



Sunday, April 25, 2010

Emilio’s gown After their three runway shows on Thursday night, Krishna asked me which Project Runway contestant I thought should win th...

Project Runway



Saturday, April 24, 2010

Peter Porter 1929 – 2010

passing



Friday, April 23, 2010

Tom Mandel, Carla Harryman, Rae Armantrout Carla Harryman, Steve Benson & the Jon Raskin Quartet @ the Poetry Project Powell’s Poetry...

links



Thursday, April 22, 2010

No title

Graham Foust | Richard O. Moore



Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Nick Piombino, Toni Simon Looking at the 400 (exactly) aphorisms collected in Nick Piombino’s Contradicta: Aphorims , a collaboration wit...

Nick Piombino



Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Jacket 39’s feature on Moi! Edited by John Tranter Ron Silliman: Poems from Crow Manuel Brito: Questioning the limits of langua...

Personal



Monday, April 19, 2010

The gun runner? Allegedly Rimbaud in Aden (a machine translation into English) Pierre Joris says this is a hoax Jimmy Schuyler’s Ot...

links



Sunday, April 18, 2010

Natalie Merchant sings old poems Merchant’s settings of poetry Merchant heads up the 2010 West Chester conference June 9 – 12 ...

Natalie Merchant



Saturday, April 17, 2010

Ed Sanders reads/sings Charles Olson' "Maximus from Dogtown I" thanks to Pierre Joris

Charles Olson | Ed Sanders



Friday, April 16, 2010

Rae Armantrout, California poet, national recognition California poet “ stunned ” “…and then boom , she gets a phone call…” “ Not o...

Prizes | Rae Armantrout



Thursday, April 15, 2010

Carolyn M . Rodgers 1941 – 2010

passing



Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Franz Kamin 1941 – 2010   James Brody 1941 – 2010

Passings



Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Photo courtesy of Jacket A staged reading of Bob Perelman's The Alps produced by Sarah Arkebauer & Michelle Taransky will be performe...

Bob Perelman | Poets Theater



Monday, April 12, 2010

Rae Armantrout has won the Pulitzer Prize for Versed Happy Birthday , Rae!

Prizes | Rae Armantrout



Monday, April 12, 2010

A video on the aftermath of the bombing of Iraq’s literary marketplace & the responses to it (mostly in Farsi) Madhubuti forced out at...

links | passing



Sunday, April 11, 2010

Brent Green Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then Andrew Edlin Gallery 134 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY April 17 – June 5 Watch the vide...

Visual Arts



Saturday, April 10, 2010

Malcolm McLaren 1946 – 2010

passing



Friday, April 09, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Homero Aridjis, Solar Poems , translated by George McWhirter, City Lights, San Francisco, 2...

Recently Received



Thursday, April 08, 2010

Jacket 39’s feature, A Multitude of One: Celebrating Nathaniel Tarn edited by Shamoon Zamir Nathaniel Tarn: Gondwana Nathaniel Ta...

Jacket | Nathaniel Tarn



Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Steve Benson’s reading / performance at the Medium & Margin Conference in Berkeley Click here if you have problems viewing this Stev...

Steve Benson



Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Is this what you call the Jewish avant-garde ? Bernstein’s writing is intoxicating Rae Armantrout: “ Paragraph ,” “ Soft Money ,” “ ...

links



Monday, April 05, 2010

Louder Than a Bomb wins 2 prizes, including the Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for best film at the Cleveland International...

Film | Slam



Sunday, April 04, 2010

Ed Roberts 1941 – 2010

passing



Saturday, April 03, 2010

Someone in Woodinville (just north of Seattle) is putting the folk into folk art

Visual Arts



Friday, April 02, 2010

Some great photos of William Carlos Williams in Yale’s Beinecke collection are coming online Robert Grenier, Charles Bernstein, Bob...

links



Thursday, April 01, 2010

September is the National Poultry Month really, so why so many turkeys in the month of April?

National Poetry Month



Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Caprica City looks suspicuously like Vancouver on a bad hair day, right down to the mountains in the background While half of our househo...

narrative | science fiction | TV



Tuesday, March 30, 2010

An outfit by Emilio Sosa using a print of his own design At the start of last week’s Project Runway , with seven of the original 16 conte...

Project Runway



Monday, March 29, 2010

Who Shops at Indie Bookstores ? Hissa Hilal & “oil money flowering into verse” Can Hissa Hilal win it all? She stands her ground ...

links



Sunday, March 28, 2010

Jean-Luc Godard’s homage to Eric Rohmer

Film



Saturday, March 27, 2010

Two hours with Anthony Braxton For its 40 th anniversary, the Exploratorium – the finest science museum in the United States – has bee...

Anthony Braxton



Friday, March 26, 2010

50 years of Writers Forum , the U.K. small press that published over 1,100 books. The “ Bob ” being discussed is of course Bob Cobbing , ...

Bob Cobbing | Fluxus | UK poetry | Writers Forum



Thursday, March 25, 2010

L-R: Steny Hoyer, John Lewis, Nancy Pelosi, John Larson The great economic achievement of my lifetime – and I mean this absolutely seriou...

Politics



Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Ai 1947 – 2010

passing



Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Kevin Bergen as Edmund, left, & Christopher Patrick Mullen as Edgar I happened to catch the People’s Light production of King Lear the o...

Personae



Monday, March 22, 2010

Hissa Hilal defies death threats , reaches finals of Million’s Poets Bruce Boone at 70 Robin Tremblay-McGaw on The Truth About T...

links | Passings



Sunday, March 21, 2010

No title

Black Nature



Saturday, March 20, 2010

It’s not here yet for this first day of Spring, but by the time that the Phillies are putting the hurt on the New York Yankees in late Oct...

WCW



Friday, March 19, 2010

Yelp with apologies to Allen Ginsberg (& Carl Orff)



Thursday, March 18, 2010

I have lived with the poetry of Larry Eigner for 45 years. He turned 33 in 1960, the year the Allen anthology was published (and where I ...

Larry Eigner



Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Chorégraphie, Nature Theater of Oklahoma , hand held editions, Brooklyn, 2010 Lightsey Darst...

Recently Received



Tuesday, March 16, 2010

L-R: Stephanie Young, Taylor Brady, Samantha Giles & Lasana M. Sekou Lasana M. Sekou at Mills & Small Press Traffic Sekou’s collectio...

links | Passings



Monday, March 15, 2010

Omar Shakespear Pound 1927 – 2010 § Todd Moore 1937 – 2010

passing



Sunday, March 14, 2010

No title

Arden Tice | Belinda Subraman



Saturday, March 13, 2010

I managed to see the Art Ensemble of Chicago last weekend at International House in Philadelphia, and they were simply stunning in the de...

Music



Friday, March 12, 2010

The winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award is Rae Armantrout Harryette Mullen: finding where the bodies are buried Harry...



Thursday, March 11, 2010

This is a time of great reckoning. In the sense that we’re are midway through a period in which many very terrific authors are having coll...

Leland Hickman



Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Maribor, translated by John & Angelos Sakkis, The Post-Apollo Press ,...

Recently Received



Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Tom Devaney: On Bear’s Head More where this came from Leslie Scalapino: The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom The Poetry Center...

links | Passings



Monday, March 08, 2010

The early editors of HOW(ever), L to R: Bev Dahlen, Susan Gevirtz, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Frances Jaffer & Kathleen Fraser International...

Women writers



Sunday, March 07, 2010

Ruth Kligman 1930 – 2010

passing



Saturday, March 06, 2010

At more than 8 hours & over 60 musicians , Anthony Braxton’s Sonic Genome Project is my kind of song . Its world performance premier...

Anthony Braxton | Jazz



Friday, March 05, 2010

The story as best I understand it is this: Blogger in its something-less-than-infinite wisdom has been worrying about its latency rate, the ...

blogging | Personal



Thursday, March 04, 2010

National Map of March 4 th actions Stand up for Schools Defend California Public Education California Federation of Teachers Marc...

Education | Politics



Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Barry Hannah 1942 – 2010

passing



Tuesday, March 02, 2010

An image of Keats Marjorie Perloff on Rae Armantrout Michael Davidson: “Missing Larry: The Poetics of Disability in Larry Eigner ...

links



Monday, March 01, 2010

Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker by Cathy Cook will be shown in San Francisco Friday, March 12 @ Artists’ Television ...

Objectivism



Friday, February 26, 2010

You only have until February 28 to vote for GTECH’s proposal to build creative community activism through the simple (and very elegant) i...

land use | Politics



Thursday, February 25, 2010

No, I do not know what is going wrong with my older posts. I haven’t changed the template at all, and have set it to post the past 35 days...

blogging



Wednesday, February 24, 2010

In an attempt to arouse audience interest in the Oscars, the Academy expanded the number of nominees for best picture this year from its u...

Film



Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Talking with John Tranter § Alli Warren & Suzanne Stein: “A Poetics” On ON:Contemporary Practice 2 , the event § Nicole Bross...

links | Passings



Monday, February 22, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Samuel Amadon, Like a Sea , Iowa University Press, Iowa City, 2010 Tahar Ben Jelloun, The...

Recently Received



Saturday, February 20, 2010

Some friends gave us tickets to see John Prine at the Merriam Theater Friday night & he did this tune in an encore, not with Iris DeMent ...

John Prine | Music



Friday, February 19, 2010

In the comments stream yesterday, Steve Fama noted that his favorite videopoem was Bruce Conner’s 5:10 to Dreamland. You can’t find that o...

videopoetry



Thursday, February 18, 2010

A second link that had me pondering the world was the discussion of innovation in art , both Adam Jameson’s original post and the many com...

Innovation



Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Courtesy of the Estate of Allen Ginsberg Five American poets, only one of whom is over the age of 40, 1963 There is always a lot to thin...

New American Poetry | Schools of poetry



Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Marilyn Monroe & Carl Sandburg photos surface § Whiteout at the Poetry Society § Robert Grenier’s Cambridge M’ASS § The secr...

links | Passings



Monday, February 15, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) David Abel, Commonly , Airfoil, Portland, OR, 2009 Elizabeth Bryant, (Nevertheless Enjoymen...

Recently Received



Sunday, February 14, 2010

Lucille Clifton 1936 – 2010

passing



Saturday, February 13, 2010

I love a part of Geof Huth’s Egg that Geof never even mentions: the scrape in this video, like brushes on a high-hat set, of paper ag...

Geof Huth | videopoetry



Friday, February 12, 2010

Click on the image to download PDF of the catalog Photographic portfolio (239MB MOV file)

Emma Bee Bernstein



Thursday, February 11, 2010

Esai Morales & Eric Stolz in Caprica Something one of my sons said the other night, after having watched Caprica’s two-hour pilot, and th...

Caprica | TV



Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Gabrielle Bouliane 1966 – 2010 Robert Dana 1929 – 2010

Passings



Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Jim Carroll Memorial Reading Wednesday @ St. Marks 2 nd Ave & 10 th St NYC 8:00 PM (Free) with Bill Berkson , Todd Colby, Anselm B...

links | passing



Monday, February 08, 2010

One of the most enjoyable books that I’ve read in the last year – last several years, really – is Marc Nasdor’s Sonnetailia , which Roof p...

Marc Nasdor



Sunday, February 07, 2010

Keith Waldrop receives the 2009 National Book Award Rae Armantrout ¹, reading at the National Book Award festivities: Ann Lauterb...

Prizes | Readings



Saturday, February 06, 2010

Gil Scott-Heron is at the Tin Angel in Philly this weekend “ Me and the Devil ” is from his new CD I’m New Here, due out later this m...

Gil Scott-Heron



Friday, February 05, 2010

Roberto Bolaño often is characterized as a poet who wrote novels, no doubt because poets & poetry figure importantly in his books. The Ro...

Roberto Bolaño



Thursday, February 04, 2010

Photo by Diane Church Café Trieste, SF 1975: (L-R) Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse, Jack Hirschman, Michael McClure, Bob Kaufman 17 reasons...

links | passing



Wednesday, February 03, 2010

“ Bunch of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger ” National Portrait Gallery hauls his portrait out of storage Look closely Remembering Jero...

J.D. Salinger



Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Hugh-Alain Dal, Les Poèms d’une Vie Perdue / The Poems of a Lost Life , preface by Jean-M...

Recently Received



Monday, February 01, 2010

I have noted on occasion that, in the Middle East, one can watch poetry contests conducted in the fashion of an American Idol (or, in the UK...

contests | TV



Sunday, January 31, 2010

Kate Greenstreet’s “ The Giant ” from The Last 4 Things

Kate Greenstreet



Saturday, January 30, 2010

Tucson Tonight Marilyn Crispell & Ron Silliman An evening of poetry & improvised music Saturday, January 30, 7:30 PM Recital Hal...

Events | Music | Readings



Friday, January 29, 2010

J.D. Salinger 1919 – 2010 § Howard Zinn 1922 – 2010

Passings



Thursday, January 28, 2010

The other day , when I compared CA Conrad with Ben Franklin, I wasn’t just being cute or snarky. I had something specific in mind. CA is...

CAConrad



Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Nicole Brossard, Selections , introduction by Jennifer Moxley, translations by many hands...

Recently Received



Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Preserve Micheline’s Wall § Talking with Harryette Mullen § Abraham Sutzkever , the Yiddish poet & resistance fighter whom som...

links | Passings



Monday, January 25, 2010

Darrell Gray (photo by Alastair Johnston) The Poltroon Press has decided to re-open one of the most toxic & painful periods of recent li...

Schools of poetry



Sunday, January 24, 2010

Poetry Is is an 81-minute video masterwork by George Quasha . Unlike some other efforts, which ask the question “What is poetry?” of pers...

George Quasha | video



Saturday, January 23, 2010

Allen Ginsberg typing 1956. James Franco as Allen Ginsberg in Howl Over the years, some versions of the top photograph have allege...

Film | history



Friday, January 22, 2010

Kate McGarrigle 1946 - 2010 Some say a heart is just like a wheel When you bend it, you can't mend it And my love for you is like...

Music | passing



Thursday, January 21, 2010

Robert B. Parker 1932 – 2010 Robert Parker is not the sort of writer I would typically think to memorialize here. In spite of his ...

Fiction | passing



Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Marilyn Crispell & Ron Silliman An evening of poetry & improvised music Saturday, January 30, 7:30 PM Recital Hall, Pima Center fo...

Events | Music | Readings



Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The making of E8 § Poetry written with an eraser (My Podcast with Harriet) § Edwidge Danticat: Voicing Haiti Pierre Joris on...

links | Passings



Monday, January 18, 2010

Friends: As you know, Haiti - and in particular Port-au-Prince was hit by a devastating earthquake on Tuesday at 5 pm. News reports an...

Haiti



Sunday, January 17, 2010

David Franks 1948 ¹ – 2010 ¹ David attended and read at the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, so I'm not entirely convinced of...



Saturday, January 16, 2010

P.K. Page 1916 – 2010 § Barbara Caruso 1937 – 2009

Canadian Poetry | Passings



Friday, January 15, 2010

Recently Received Books (Poetry) John Ashbery, Planisphere , Ecco, New York 2009

Recently Received



Thursday, January 14, 2010

In the time it took for my computer to boot up, I was able to read, leisurely even, the whole of Thomas Rain Crowe’s The Blue Rose of Veni...

Thomas Rain Crowe



Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bill Dodd 1941 – 2009 § George Tsongas 1928 – 2010

Passings



Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Louis Armand’s Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde Under “Post” Conditions § Talking with Amy King § The 2009 MLA Offsite reading in 18...

links



Monday, January 11, 2010

Translation is everything. Just as prosody, if even if you didn’t know the language nor had any clue of the meaning of the words, Otto E M...

Film



Sunday, January 10, 2010

One week ago today there was a guerrilla reading of Gertrude Stein’s work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, organized by the inimitable ...

Gertrude Stein | Readings



Saturday, January 09, 2010

David Antin , talking on Kathy Acker



Friday, January 08, 2010

Every once in awhile, somebody says or writes something so over the top that it makes you stop & ponder what the real content of the message...

blogging | Passings | Personal



Thursday, January 07, 2010

Lhasa de Sela 1972 – 2010 § Kenneth Noland 1924 – 2010

Music | Passings | Visual Arts



Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Sometimes I forget why preppy types irritate me, then I see something just dripping with the ethos of same & suddenly the sensation is ent...

journalism



Tuesday, January 05, 2010

A clash o’er millions at Poetry Venture capital for verse The NY Times does an obit of its own on Ruth Lilly Who reads Poetry ? ...

links | Passings



Monday, January 04, 2010

Avatar is that most curious of creatures, a film that is clearly one of the best of the year and one that is also clearly one of the wors...

Film



Sunday, January 03, 2010

Michael Stipe, Patti Smith et al remember Vic Chesnutt Kristin Hersh’s page to raise funds for Chesnutt’s family Forrest Gander’s l...

Vic Chesnutt



Saturday, January 02, 2010

Photo courtesy of Star Black Rachel Wetzsteon 1967 – 2009 § Jim Chastain 1963 – 2009

Passings



Friday, January 01, 2010

Ruth Lilly 1915 – 2009

passing



Thursday, December 31, 2009

Michael Conrad (1925 – 1983) Ten years ago, at the behest of the Poetry Society , I answered the following question thus: What are you...

Personal



Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Vic Chesnutt 1964 – 2009

Music | passing



Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Marianne Moore: the gate-keeper § Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Lorine Niedecker § Gender, poetry, innovation § Chinese poet goe...

links | passing



Monday, December 28, 2009

No title

Freedom of speech



Sunday, December 27, 2009

Dennis Brutus 1924 – 2009

passing



Saturday, December 26, 2009

2009 MLA Offsite Tuesday, December 29, 7:00 PM Philadelphia The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street (entrance in back) Readers will inclu...

Readings



Friday, December 25, 2009

Jee Hwang is the first recipient of the Emma Bee Bernstein Emerging Artist Fellowship & will have a solo exhibition at A.I.R. Galle...

Visual Arts



Thursday, December 24, 2009

The Poetry Foundation invited nine writers, myself included, to address the question of “How has poetry changed in the last ten years?” T...

history



Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Photo of Karen Finley by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Women of the Avant-Garde: 2 podcasts from Ubuweb (via Harriet) ( part 1) ( part ...

links



Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Finally – on my third try in ten days – I got to see a film as good as its promotion suggests, and it’s a remake. Brothers is Jim Sherida...

Film



Monday, December 21, 2009

Anna Kendrick & George Clooney There is a gap in Up in the Air between what the film wants to be and what it is. Not unlike Invictus, whi...

Film



Sunday, December 20, 2009

Photo by Charles Bernstein, Venice, Dec. 5 2008 Thinking of Emma Bee Bernstein who died one year ago today, & of her family & friends...

Emma Bee Bernstein



Saturday, December 19, 2009

From Gökhan Turhan’s A Bit of Everything

vispo



Friday, December 18, 2009

No title



Thursday, December 17, 2009

When I was in the process of putting Lauren Levin’s Not Time in my Recently Received list for the blog a couple of weeks ago , I noted t...

Lauren Levin



Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Conversation Through Kitchen Window, 1992, Museum of Contemporary Photography Larry Sultan 1946 – 2009

passing | Visual Arts



Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Photo by Ben Friedlander Pierre Joris on Ken Irby § Annie Finch: “Chaos in 14 Lines” § Laughing at the funny parts Not a lot ...

links | Passings



Monday, December 14, 2009

Matt Damon & Clint Eastwood with crew & extras filming a scene in which the Springboks conduct a rugby camp in a shanty town As a directo...

Film | Politics | sports



Saturday, December 12, 2009

Anthony Braxton , 12(+1)tet

Music



Friday, December 11, 2009

Dilip Chitre 1938 – 2009

passing



Thursday, December 10, 2009

On December 10, 2004, I posted the note below. It was twenty years ago today that I last had a drink. Not that anyone’s counting. Well, as...

Personal



Wednesday, December 09, 2009

No title



Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Photo by Ben Friedlander Reading Carla Harryman § Travis Nichols: This is Your Brain on Poetry § Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Lorin...

links | Passings



Monday, December 07, 2009

A week ago Saturday night, I went out to hear some music. I wondered at the time if Kirby Olson, for example, would have preferred that I ...

Music



Sunday, December 06, 2009

No title

Bill Viola



Saturday, December 05, 2009

No title

Bill Viola



Friday, December 04, 2009

Two & one-half days is not long enough to spend in New York City, particularly since Krishna & I hadn’t done a trip there by ourselves in ...

Visual Arts



Thursday, December 03, 2009

Michael & Flynn Lally (Photo © Star Black) I’m happy to see that Michael Lally has been blogging about the effects of brain surgery ...

links | passing



Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Jack Myers 1941 – 2009

passing



Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Heimrad Bäcker, Transcript , translated by Patrick Greaney & Vincent Kling, edited & with a...

Recently Received



Sunday, November 29, 2009

Lauren Levin , reading from Not Time

Lauren Levin



Saturday, November 28, 2009

Mel Nichols, Elisabeth Workman & Nada Gordon conducted by Drew Gardner last weekend at the Zinc Bar, NYC (best viewed full screen)

Flarf



Thursday, November 26, 2009

I have become accustomed to pausing to say thank you whenever this blog reaches a new milestone. Today, eleven months & one week after hav...

blogging | Schools of poetry



Wednesday, November 25, 2009

(Photo used by permission, all rights reserved, © Fiona Templeton) Annette Barbasch & Steve Buscemi in Fiona Templeton’s Against Agreement...

links | passing



Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Dell Hymes 1927 – 2009

passing



Monday, November 23, 2009

She was the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the first one born in the 20 th century. Just 24, it wasn’t even h...

Keith Waldrop | Prizes



Sunday, November 22, 2009

Carol Hannah Whitfield’s exploding skirt In which I note that I accurately predicted the winner of Project Runway on October 15 . Nothin...

Project Runway



Saturday, November 21, 2009

Jeanne - Claude 1935 – 2009

passing | Visual Arts



Friday, November 20, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Tahar Ben Jelloun, The Rising of the Ashes , translated by Cullen Goldblatt, City Lights,...

Recently Received



Thursday, November 19, 2009

Keith Waldrop has won the 2009 National Book Award for poetry for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy

Keith Waldrop | Prizes



Wednesday, November 18, 2009

For the past couple of days, I’ve been toying in my head with which goofball baseball...

Alan Bernheimer



Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Photo by Keith Tuma Mark Weiss’ introduction to The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry § The drama of Jimmy Schuyler 9 unp...

links



Monday, November 16, 2009

Of the 633 books, chapbooks, songs, films, magazines, websites, exhibits, “and other cultural phenomena” cited in this year’s Attention...

Attention Span



Sunday, November 15, 2009

No title

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Saturday, November 14, 2009

No title

Ocho



Friday, November 13, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Ryan Adams, Hello Sunshine , Akashic Books, New York 2009 Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song , C...



Thursday, November 12, 2009

Alas, it turns out that I’m a better forecaster of Project Runway than I am of baseball. To wit: If I had to guess today (and that’s w...

Project Runway



Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Alexei Parshchikov 2008 (photo by Eugene Ostashevsky) Back in the early 1980s, before I had heard such names as Zhdanov , Kutik , Iskrenk...

Alexie Parshchikov



Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Photo by David Highsmith A polished apple for David Melnick § Secret © treaty leaks – & it’s bad § Murdoch’s plan: block Goo...

links | passing



Monday, November 09, 2009

It would be easy – but wrong – to misread Tao Lin’s Shoplifting From American Apparel as being the literary equivalent to something akin t...

Tao Lin



Sunday, November 08, 2009

Contact: A Symposium in Memory of Alexei Parshchikov (1954 — 2009) Tuesday, November 10, 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm Room 402, Claudia Cohen...

Events



Saturday, November 07, 2009

Lewis Turco, Morton Marcus & Vern Rutsala at Robinson Jeffer’s Tor House 2006 Morton Marcus 1936 – 2009

passing



Friday, November 06, 2009

So does the fact that what the Phillies have accomplished in the past three years – three Eastern Division championships, two National Lea...

Sport



Thursday, November 05, 2009

What it came down to, finally, was the fact that the Phillies almost never use the exaggerated shift that was created originally to counte...

Sport



Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Photo by Irving Penn, 1970 Claude Lévi - Strauss 1908 – 2009 “Writing is a strange invention. One might suppose that its emergen...

passing



Tuesday, November 03, 2009

C.A. Conrad & Dale Smith discuss Ed Dorn, AIDS & community § Kenny G: seeking to define “queer voice” in art § Rae Armantrout’...

links | passing



Monday, November 02, 2009

Char by Man Ray (1933) I had an “aha moment” reading René Char’s The Brittle Age and Returning Upland , the two volumes of mid-sixties p...

Objectivism | Rene Char | translation



Friday, October 30, 2009

“The Grand Piano continues to amaze...” – David Meltzer “...language, history, textuality, and temporality” – Robin Tremblay-McGaw § ...

Grand Piano



Thursday, October 29, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Aaron Apps, Parrhesia , Lulu.com, no location, 2009 (free PDF here) Mary Jo Bang, The Br...

Recently Received



Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Of all the links I posted on Tuesday of last week, the most disturbing (to me) was not Paul Zukofsky’s sad thrashing about with regards to...

Ben Friedlander | Modernism | Schools of poetry



Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Rae Armantrout’s poetry Entertainment Weekly on the National Book Award § Eileen Myles talks with CA Conrad § Rachel Zolf: t...

links | Passings



Monday, October 26, 2009

Steve Richmond 1942 – 2009

passing



Friday, October 23, 2009

I have always thought of Summer Brenner as a poet who sometimes writes fiction, so I was surprised to see in the front matter to I-5: A No...

Fiction | Summer Brenner



Thursday, October 22, 2009

David Bromige reading in Seattle, May 2003 Today is David Bromige’s 76 th birthday & it will be the first time in many a decade that I w...

David Bromige | Events | Grand Piano



Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Lenore Kandel 1932 – 2009

passing



Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Nancy Spero 1926 – 2009

passing | Visual Arts



Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Burying Mr. Poe Poe sites in Bal’more Poe house & museum § Rosmarie Waldrop on the two directions of American poetry, metaphor ...

links | passing



Monday, October 19, 2009

Bright Star , Jane Campion’s portrait of Fanny Brawne & her relationship with the boy next door, John Keats , is a weepy, and if it weren’...

Film | John Keats



Saturday, October 17, 2009

The Most Interesting National Book Award Finalists’ List Ever ¹ Rae Armantrout , Versed (Wesleyan University Press) Ann Lauterbach , ...

Prizes



Friday, October 16, 2009

Today, 7:00pm Living in Advance: A Tribute to David Bromige with Charles Bernstein, Corina Copp, Rachel Levitsky, Daniel Nohejl, Bob P...

David Bromige | Events | Readings



Thursday, October 15, 2009

In episode 8, designers made new dresses from the wedding gowns of recent divorcees. This neo-punk creation by Gordana Gelhausen , owne...

TV



Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Kathryn Petersen & David Strathairn Gotthold Lessing’s Nathan the Wise (in Edward Kemp’s translation) is an interesting, even curious ...

Gotthold Lessing | Theater



Tuesday, October 13, 2009

I’ve always suspected that Devin Johnston must be one of those poets whom readers either love or hate. He has a very distinct personality ...

Devin Johnston



Monday, October 12, 2009

Robert Kelly talks to Phong Bui, David Levi Strauss & John Yau An even longer interview from The Modern Review RK-ology

links | Passings



Sunday, October 11, 2009

Friday, October 16, 7:00pm Living in Advance: A Tribute to David Bromige with Charles Bernstein, Corina Copp, Rachel Levitsky, Daniel ...

David Bromige | Events | Readings



Saturday, October 10, 2009

No title

Readings



Friday, October 09, 2009

Herta Müller wins the Nobel Prize for Literature New York Times announcement Huffington Post Washington Post The Guardian BBC...

Herta Müller



Thursday, October 08, 2009

Raymond Federman 1928 – 2009

passing



Thursday, October 08, 2009

Will Inman 1923 – 2009

passing



Wednesday, October 07, 2009

In theory, the baseball playoffs is the time of season when the game narrows to just its very finest teams locked in epic combat. In pract...

Baseball



Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Toshi Makihara Jack Krick is an old friend, a one-time colleague of mine at IBM, the primary volunteer these days responsible for updates...

Events | Music | Toshi Makihara



Monday, October 05, 2009

Reb Livingston offers an account of my talk § Nada Gordon on Adfempo ( part 1) ( part 2) ( part 3) Michelle Naka Pierce: Adfem...

links | Passings



Sunday, October 04, 2009

Leigh Davis 1955 – 2009

passing



Saturday, October 03, 2009

No title

Beat Poetry | Jack Kerouac | Kerouac



Friday, October 02, 2009

Gray Area defines new age of art + technology § The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts officially opens today 55 Taylor Street, S...

Events | Tenderloin | Visual Arts



Thursday, October 01, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Joel Bettridge, Presocratic Blues , Chax, Tucson 2009 Mark Bibbins, The Dance of No Hard ...

Recently Received



Wednesday, September 30, 2009

At UC Santa Cruz , the occupation picks up steam Inside the barricades “ Push the university to its limits” Google news Local N...

Politics



Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Poets House is open ! “a lot of people whose work I can’t even read but I’m glad they’re there ” § Monkeys' Moon , a film collabo...

links | passing



Monday, September 28, 2009

In the 20 months that it took me to read Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day cover to cover (1) Pynchon himself wrote – or at least complete...

Fiction | Thomas Pynchon



Sunday, September 27, 2009

“…being president of the University of California is like being the manager of a cemetery…” § The news from Santa Cruz § “No conf...

Politics



Saturday, September 26, 2009

Lyn Hejinian on the Berkeley Solidarity Alliance UC campuses erupt in protest The Daily Californian San Francisco Chronicle ...

Politics



Friday, September 25, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Rae Armantrout, Narrativ , with an afterword by Marjorie Perloff, translated into German ...

Recently Received



Thursday, September 24, 2009

Today Fairfax, VA Fall for the Book Ron Silliman: Literary Blogging Thursday, September 24 4:30 - 5: 30 PM Johnson Center , De...

Events



Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Tonight Fairfax, VA Fall for the Book   Rae Armantrout & Ron Silliman Wednesday, September 23 8:00 – 9:00 PM Student Union B...

Events



Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Robert Grenier’s introduction to The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner Pre-order all four volumes now Larry Eigner , reading & talki...

links



Monday, September 21, 2009

Someday there is going to be a big edition of the collected poems of Michael Gizzi & readers are going to gasp at the size, scope & quali...

Michael Gizzi



Sunday, September 20, 2009

Wednesday & Thursday Fairfax, VA Fall for the Book   Rae Armantrout & Ron Silliman Wednesday, September 23 8:00 – 9:00 PM St...

Events



Saturday, September 19, 2009

Tom Clark responding to Vincent Katz about romanticism & Jim Carroll § Vincent Katz , posting as Vanitas § “ Just Visiting ” ...

Jim Carroll



Friday, September 18, 2009

No title

Girldrive



Thursday, September 17, 2009

I only met Kurt Cobain twice, and he was certainly not a people person. Jim Carroll, 1998 If Jim Carroll had any impression of ...

Jim Carroll



Wednesday, September 16, 2009

“ The Chicago School ” Kent Johnson’s “big shoulders” … really belong to Adam Fieled ? Poetry’s idea of the “Chicago School” is a l...

links | passing



Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Thomas Lowe Taylor 1938 – 2009

passing



Monday, September 14, 2009

Jim Carroll 1949 – 2009

passing



Sunday, September 13, 2009

Tina Darragh - The Other Room

Tina Darragh



Saturday, September 12, 2009

Lars Russell , reading Finnegans Wake in public § Finnegans Wake Popcorn § The annotated Finnegans Wake § Enzymes, reverse t...



Friday, September 11, 2009

Jack Spicer First poem for The Nation, Second poem for Poetry Chicago Book of Magazine Verse

September 11



Thursday, September 10, 2009

This day, eight years ago, proved to be the very last day I thought of the George W. Bush administration as being relatively harmless. W h...

Politics | September 11



Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Although Meg Ryan has been in over 40 motion pictures, her career to date has largely been defined by her starring roles in three huge rom...

Film



Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Auden’s “September 1, 1939” 70 years later Auden on David Jones’ Anathemata § Barbara Jane Reyes on Raúl R. Salinas § Pierre ...

links | passing



Monday, September 07, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Beth Bachmann, Temper , University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2009 William R. Howe, Tr...

Recently Received



Sunday, September 06, 2009

Thanks to Don Share An English version, thanks to Ray DiPalma.

books



Friday, September 04, 2009

Photo courtesy of Jacket It’s not news that Tom Clark & I have not always seen eye-to-eye, tho the attentive reader of my work will note...

Tom Clark



Thursday, September 03, 2009

Henry Goodman, Demetri Martin & Imelda Staunton: the family Teichberg Taking Woodstock is a sweet, little film, surprisingly unambitious...

Film



Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Seth Abramson, The Suburban Ecstasies , Ghost Road Press, Denver 2009 Amanda Ackerman &...

Recently Received



Tuesday, September 01, 2009

The end of summer is notoriously the dumping ground for motion pictures that nobody knows quite what to do with, the Terry Gilliam project...

Film



Sunday, August 30, 2009

No title

Installation



Friday, August 28, 2009

No title

Gone fishin'



Thursday, August 27, 2009

In 1973, the one prisoner with whom I worked whom I absolutely knew in my gut was railroaded was a North Carolina moonshiner by the name o...

passing | Politics



Wednesday, August 26, 2009

KRCB -FM’s Tribute to David Bromige August 26, 2009   7:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time Katherine Hastings presents a one-hour tribute ...

David Bromige



Monday, August 24, 2009

During his life, I knew Jason Shinder only by his anthologies – Eternal Light: Grandparent Poems, Divided Light: Father and Son Poems, Fi...

Jason Shinder



Thursday, August 20, 2009

No title

Politics



Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Kazim Ali, Bright Felon , Wesleyan UP, Middletown, CT 2009 Micah Ballard & Patrick Jame...

Recently Received



Tuesday, August 18, 2009

In his superb little history of the New York School , Jordan Davis identified four distinct generations thereof: Generation One: “a cent...

Joel Lewis



Sunday, August 16, 2009

How does it feel?

Music



Saturday, August 15, 2009

No title

Grand Piano



Friday, August 14, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Lynn Behrendt, Luminous Flux, Lines Chapbooks, Red Hook, NY 2009 Lynn Behrendt, This My...

Recently Received



Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The most underappreciated profession in our entire society is the public defender. They are paid terribly, almost never given the financia...

poetry and growth



Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The eighth volume of The Grand Piano is now available from SPD

Grand Piano



Sunday, August 09, 2009

No title

Allen Ginsberg | Beat Poetry | Bob Dylan



Friday, August 07, 2009

Gloria Frym on Lorine Niedecker § Discovering Landis Everson § Robin Blaser’s continuous song § The poetic monologs of Frede...

links



Thursday, August 06, 2009

My note about Corazon Aquino brought to mind three other, somewhat parallel lists that I keep around tucked in the back of my brain. One i...

Politics



Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Just the second sitting president whom I ever got to see in person, and the only one with whom I ever shared a meal, died this week. My fi...

Politics



Monday, August 03, 2009

Photo by MorBCN Is poetry written to be read? That seemingly no-brainer of a question was roiling my half-sleep in that shadowland the ot...

Conceptual poetics | Flarf | Schools of poetry | The New Thing | Theory



Sunday, August 02, 2009

What I find most appalling about William Shatner’s presentation of Sarah Palin Verbatim is not the implicit satire of poetry that it is, b...



Saturday, August 01, 2009

No title

Sarah Palin



Thursday, July 30, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, The Scattered Papers of Penelope , edited by Karen van Dyck, ...

Recently Received



Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Remembering Merce Cunningham American Masters About Merce All Things Considered Mondays with Merce Voices & dances Dance at ...

dance | Merce Cunningham



Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Merce Cunningham 1919 – 2009

dance | passing



Sunday, July 26, 2009

Photo by Tom Orange Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Recent Work   Recent Drafts “ Draft 78: Buzz Track .” Interval(le)s II.2-III.3 (Fal...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Friday, July 24, 2009

Forty-some years ago, when I was a student at San Francisco State, Mark Linenthal , who then directed the Poetry Center there, and George ...

Christian Hawkey



Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Arthur Okamura 1932 – 2009

passing | Visual Arts



Monday, July 20, 2009

In 2001, the stars of Harry Potter were 12, 13 & 11 Harry is back, and, though he’s changed somewhat over the years, one settles back int...

Film



Sunday, July 19, 2009

One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur

Beat Poetry | Film | Jack Kerouac



Thursday, July 16, 2009

Dash Snow 1981 – 2009

passing



Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Last week, when I was having my way with the hubris in Kenny Goldsmith’s introduction to Poetry’s flarf-conceptual feature, I mentioned in...

Tony Lopez



Monday, July 13, 2009

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Kathleen Sheeder Bonano, Slamming Open the Door , Alice James Books, Farmington, ME 2009 J...

Recently Received



Thursday, July 09, 2009

What drives a poem? One of the acknowledged difficulties for the position of laureate, as traditionally conceived, is the implicit require...

Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno



Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Something Kenny Goldsmith wrote in the current issue of Poetry has been nagging at me: Start making sense. Disjunction is dead. The fra...

Conceptual poetics | disjunction | Kenneth Goldsmith | Schools of poetry



Saturday, July 04, 2009

In the 14 years and two months since we – my wife, my then-three-year-old sons & I – first moved to Pennsylvania, there have really been j...

David Bromige



Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Books Received   Poetry Marie Buck, Life & Style , Patrick Lovelace Editions , Brooklyn 2009 Amy Catanzano, Multiversal , For...

Recently Received



Tuesday, June 30, 2009

About two hours after I posted my note about American Hybrid Wednesday morning, one of my kids had a medical emergency & ended up in the hos...

Personal



Sunday, June 28, 2009

James Baker Hall 1935 – 2009 § Greg Hall 1946 – 2009

Passings



Saturday, June 27, 2009

Matei Călinescu 1934 – 2009

passing



Wednesday, June 24, 2009

American Hybrid is an important book, but also a very curious one. The anthology, edited by Cole Swensen & David St. John, is an attempt ...

Schools of poetry



Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Gerry Gilbert 1936 – 2009

passing



Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Crisis in Iran 10 YouTube Videos Protests outside Tehran Use Twitterfall filters #iranelection Basij Tehran But beware fak...

Politics



Saturday, June 20, 2009

Ali Akbar Khan 1922 – 2009

Music | passing



Thursday, June 18, 2009

Cecil Helman 1944 – 2009

passing



Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Books Received   Poetry

Recently Received



Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I had just gotten off the phone with a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, doing background work for an obit of David Bromige, when ...

passing | Schools of poetry | The New Thing



Sunday, June 14, 2009

The streets of Iran § BBC video § Iran events feeds § Tehran Bureau § Stratfor’s Iran coverage § Use Twitterfall fi...

Iranian revolt



Thursday, June 11, 2009

Trailer for a documentary on David Bromige by James Garrahan

David Bromige



Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Harold Norse 1916 – 2009

passing



Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Books Received   Poetry Ed Baker, g oo d night , Moria Poetry, Chicago 2009 Elizabeth Bachinsky, Curio: Grotesques & Satires from t...

Recently Received



Sunday, June 07, 2009

William Witherup 1935 – 2009

passing



Saturday, June 06, 2009

The following note comes from Patrick Durgin, looking for the copyright holders to the work of V .R. “Bunny” Lang I am seeking contact ...

Bunny Lang



Thursday, June 04, 2009

David Bromige 1933 – 2009

passing



Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Notes on Conceptualisms appears an unimposing project. The slender sky-blue book, collaboratively written by Vanessa Place & Rob Fitterm...

Conceptual poetics



Monday, June 01, 2009

Up is the finest American full-length cartoon feature I have ever seen, and the first one that approaches the best work of Hayao Miyazaki...

Film



Thursday, May 28, 2009

Photo by Laurie Duggan One of the joys of poetry is coming across the work of somebody first rate whose writing you had not previously kn...

Carol Watts



Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Ruth Padel quits Oxford post Explains tipping reporters to Walcott’s past Padel: “I’m sorry ” Oxford calls for “period of refl...

School of Quietude



Sunday, May 24, 2009

No title

Events | Readings



Friday, May 22, 2009

David Ireland 1930 – 2009

passing | Visual Arts



Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Photo by Ben Friedlander Nothing demonstrates the importance of tone to the work of Bruce Andrews than seeing poetry that comes across as...

Kevin Davies



Sunday, May 17, 2009

For more information .

videopoetry



Saturday, May 16, 2009

Tuesday, May 19 7:00 PM Joel Chace & Ron Silliman

Events



Friday, May 15, 2009

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Sejal Chad , My Kid, no publisher listed, no location (but UK), no date Sejal Cha...

Recently Received



Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Literature loves its bad boys and girls, from Rimbaud to Kathy Acker, from Edgar Allan Poe to Jack Kerouac, from Jean Rhys to William Bu...

Chelsey Minnis | Douglas Rothschild



Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Langpo , vidpo , vispo: RS, Tom Konyves, Geof Huth (Photo by Nancy F. Huth) Tom Konyves has a mission. The poet, a longtime veteran of...

videopoetry



Sunday, May 10, 2009

Tuesday, May 19 7:00 PM Joel Chace & Ron Silliman

Events



Saturday, May 09, 2009

The Text Festival in Bury is over for me. I’m sitting as I write in the quiet car of a Virgin train in the Piccadilly station in Mancheste...

Text Festival



Friday, May 08, 2009

Robin Blaser 1925 – 2009

passing



Thursday, May 07, 2009

I’m back and with only 914 emails in my in-box at work. I have blisters on my feet from walking everywhere in London for five or six hours o...

Personal



Monday, May 04, 2009

No title

Readings



Sunday, May 03, 2009

Carol Ann Duffy at the Rylands Library in Manchester Friday morning On Friday at 10:30, I strode past the Rylands Library in Mancheste...

Carol Ann Duffy | Events | Laureates



Saturday, May 02, 2009

No title

Readings



Thursday, April 30, 2009

Fresh off the airplane in Manchester , I find myself in a studio at the local BBC HQ, talking with Ian McMillan for The Verb . Presumably ...

social uses of poetry



Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Geof Huth Sometime this morning, I should arrive in Manchester in the north of England , the first member of my direct line to set foot ...

Personal



Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Diana Adams, Theaters of the Tongue , BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2008 Michele Battiste , Ink f...

Recently Received



Sunday, April 26, 2009

BlazeVOX has changed its tagline, which no longer reads “Good books gone bad ”



Saturday, April 25, 2009

Darragh Park 1939 – 2009

passing | Visual Arts



Friday, April 24, 2009

My first readings in England ever are thanks to The Text Festival , a 12-week program centered in Bury , Lancashire * Saturday, Ma...

Readings



Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A note that appeared in my comments stream the other day gave me pause. Responding to my look at the work of Cole Swensen through the fram...

Schools of poetry



Monday, April 20, 2009

J.G. Ballard 1930 – 2009

passing



Sunday, April 19, 2009

Four deaths in and around the poetry community in one week feels like a lot. Three of the deceased were poets, one a critic. Two of the po...

Numbers



Saturday, April 18, 2009

Henri Meschonnic 1932 – 2009

passing



Friday, April 17, 2009

And, then, of course, there is this, what I’ve already noted once in the past month just may be the finest poem William Carlos Williams ev...

William Carlos Williams



Thursday, April 16, 2009

Second thought: In 1997, with the help of a co-worker at IBM who’d become something of the semi-official genealogist for the Silliman cl...

gardens



Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1950 – 2009

passing



Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Franklin Rosemont 1943 – 2009

passing



Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Deborah Digges 1950 – 2009

passing



Tuesday, April 14, 2009

“All conceptual writing is allegorical writing” argue Rob Fitterman & Vanessa Place in Notes on Conceptualisms , a fascinating littl...

Cole Swensen | Conceptual poetics | gardens



Friday, April 10, 2009

Books Received   Poetry Karen Leona Anderson, Punish Honey , Carolina Wren, Durham , NC 2009 Ann Fisher-Wirth, Carta Marina...

Recently Received



Tuesday, April 07, 2009

As my links list noted a week ago Monday, there were some sharply divided opinions as to the conclusion of Battlestar Galactica . I antici...

TV



Sunday, April 05, 2009

Alexei Parschikov 1954 – 2009

passing



Saturday, April 04, 2009

Jennifer Bartlett & Ron Silliman TODAY, April 4 4:00 to 6:00 PM At the Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery , just North of Houston ...

Events



Friday, April 03, 2009

The forthcoming addition to Lisa Jarnot’s family has told her to lie down & chill, so she will not be at the Bowery Poetry Club on S...

Events



Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Robert Delford Brown 1930 – 2009

passing



Monday, March 30, 2009

Jonathan Mayhew’s Apocryphal Lorca § Modernism is 100 years old § Language poets are not superheroes , we just seem that way ...

Events | links | Passings



Sunday, March 29, 2009

1923                   &                   1970 There you have it. The ampersand is Harvey Brown’s intervention, and you can see immed...

William Carlos Williams



Saturday, March 28, 2009

Lisa Jarnot & Ron Silliman Saturday, April 4 4:00 to 6:00 PM At the Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery just North of Houston New Yor...

Events



Friday, March 27, 2009

Photo by Jonathan Williams Every couple of years, right about this time, I find myself drawn to rereading Spring & All, William Carlos Wi...

William Carlos Williams



Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Carrie Olivia Adams, Intervening Absence , Ahsahta Press, Boise 2009 Lisa Birman , For...

Recently Received



Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The portrait of Marjorie Perloff by Emma Bee Bernstein I wrote about yesterday ( click for larger image) § The sculpted book § ...

links | Passings



Monday, March 23, 2009

L-R: Lyn Hejinian, Emma Bee Bernstein, RS,   Susan Bee, Bruce Andrews & Susan Howe , Tarascon , France , 1988 One of the many pleasures...

Emma Bee Bernstein



Saturday, March 21, 2009

Sal Salasin ?   – 2009

passing



Friday, March 20, 2009

Hate crimes in North Beach: the victims include Mark Doty § Obama names disability aide to head up White House Arts & Culture po...

links



Thursday, March 19, 2009

Janet Holmes A couple of the books that have come across my desk recently have gotten me thinking. One is Jared Hayes’ RecollecTed / CaG...

Conceptual poetics | Janet Holmes | Jared Hayes | Meta-moves | Ronald Johnson



Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Sherman Alexie , Face, Hanging Loose Press , Brooklyn 2009 Eric Baus , Tuned Droves, O...



Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Seth Abramson The other day, when I wrote about Marjorie Perloff, anthologies & critical assumptions in a changing context for writing, S...

Numbers | Seth Abramson | The academy



Monday, March 16, 2009

Charlotte Mandell on translating The Kindly Ones From Mandell’s translation of Abdelwahab Meddeb’s White Traverses Is this novel ...

links | passing



Saturday, March 14, 2009

Robert & Doris Evans at our wedding 23 years ago. They loved to dance.

Family



Friday, March 13, 2009

Michael Davidson reading ( MP3) & talking with Charles Bernstein ( MP3) § Charles Bernstein’s “Morality” § Tim Griffin on Rae...

links



Thursday, March 12, 2009

I was reading Marjorie Perloff’s interview with Hélène Aji and Antoine Cazé , and in it Perloff discusses – and for the most part dismis...

anthologies | Theory



Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Sam Beckett’s early correspondence § Barry Schwabsky on Barbara Guest

links



Monday, March 09, 2009

Malin Akerman & Patrick Wilson have all the emotional power of Ken & Barbie This is the golden age of movie effects, or at least it sho...

Film



Saturday, March 07, 2009

Doris Evans, Krishna's mother, passed away late Friday afternoon.

passing



Friday, March 06, 2009

L-R: Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch & Robin Blaser 1963,   probably the same day I met Dean Rusk & Adlai Stevenson in my capacity as “lawn bo...

class



Thursday, March 05, 2009

Pam Rosenthal The “20 women poets” who have had the most profound influence on my writing, in alphabetical order – Kathy Acker Rae Ar...

Women writers



Wednesday, March 04, 2009

The question posed by Andrew Motion’s The Mower , out any minute now from David R. Godine , is: Has Britain’s most recent poet laureate al...

Andrew Motion



Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Henry Rago in the 1950s There is a meme going round – identify the 20 books that first caused you to fall in love with poetry. I first r...

Influence | lists



Monday, March 02, 2009

Fanny Howe’s The Winter Sun Poetry & spirituality § The oldest words in English § The New Yorker has excerpted David Foster...

links | passing



Saturday, February 28, 2009

No title

Rae Armantrout



Thursday, February 26, 2009

“ The Obama Code ” – George Lakoff looks at the president’s rhetorical frames § Lisa Fishman , reading § Dorothy Wordsworth §...

links



Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Some of my favorite poets are individuals whose work tends to be opaque to me in the sense that I can tell that they think, literally proc...

Kit Robinson



Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Samuel Amadon , Spy Poem, Projective Industries , Hartford CT 2008 Anny Ballardini,...

Recently Received



Monday, February 23, 2009

A visit with Tom Meyer § John Ashbery & David Orr’s lament that it’s all over for the School of Q § Third-way poetics Hybrid ...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 22, 2009

A video of my reading last Tuesday at Kelly Writers House University of Pennsylvania § Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ introduction to T...

Events



Friday, February 20, 2009

Juliana Spahr: “The Incinerator” Lana Turner , new kid on the block § An 11-year-old poet takes on the Taliban § A new chapt...

links | passing



Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Kristin Bock, Cloisters , Tupelo Press, Dorset , VT 2008 Rob Budde , Indices...

Recently Received



Tuesday, February 17, 2009

There is a growing body of younger readers out there who are getting to know the work of Anselm Berrigan directly & who only later discov...

Anselm Berrigan



Monday, February 16, 2009

Jennifer Moxley: Three essays § WCW elected to the Jersey Hall of Fame!! § Stephen Jonas , neglectorino Some work here Sele...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 15, 2009

James Schevill 1920 – 2009

passing



Saturday, February 14, 2009

Tuesday February 17 6:30 PM A celebration of The Alphabet Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia



Thursday, February 12, 2009

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Ed Baker, Butcher of Oxen and Other Poems, Doxie Press, Silver Spring , MD 1970 C.E....

Recently Received



Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Keith Wilson 1927 – 2009

passing



Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Reading report: Kaia Sand, Yedda Morrison & Kim Rosenfield at Small Press Traffic § AWP events at Links Hall § Infection in...

links | passing



Monday, February 09, 2009

There is a tonal shift in “Dark Matter,” the sequence that composes the second half of Rae Armantrout’s Versed , quite unlike anything els...

Rae Armantrout



Sunday, February 08, 2009

One week from Tuesday February 17 6:30 PM A celebration of The Alphabet Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia

Events



Thursday, February 05, 2009

Nada Gordon’s Folly § Flarf: From Glory Days to Glory Hole § American Hybrid § Blagojevich’s Tennyson § Writing really ...

links



Wednesday, February 04, 2009

A quick note here in response to something Curtis Faville wrote in the comments stream to the links list of January 29: Funny no one ha...

inaugural poetics



Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Anne Blonstein , Correspondence with Nobody , Ellectrique Press, Basel , Switzerland ...

Recently Received



Monday, February 02, 2009

Steve Fama on Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony § Mary Ann Caws: “Poetry Can Be Any Damn Thing It Wants” § Brian Teare on The ...

links



Friday, January 30, 2009

George Schneeman 1934 – 2009

passing | Visual Arts



Thursday, January 29, 2009

Zukofsky in Sussex § Kent Johnson , who knows something about “ fake shit ,” to Nada Gordon re flarf §

links



Wednesday, January 28, 2009

John Updike 1932 – 2009

passing



Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Trying to read a book by Rae Armantrout in a single sitting is like trying to drink a bowl of diamonds. What’s inside is all so shiny & cl...

Rae Armantrout



Monday, January 26, 2009

Sean Cole brings the story of flarf to Studio 360 on NPR ( MP3) Questions for flarf The bicycle view § Talking with Carrie Et...

links



Sunday, January 25, 2009

Today , I wish I were in Portland, Oregon

Events



Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Elizabeth Alexander Colbert at Christmas Colbert Christmas DVD Green Screen Bill O'Reilly In...



Friday, January 23, 2009

There were three instances of poetry during the inauguration of Barack Obama: the anointed inaugural poem by Elizabeth Alexander , and th...

political poetry



Thursday, January 22, 2009

Introducing Erica Hunt § Untitled New York: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing § A large anthology of new Russian poe...

links | Passings



Wednesday, January 21, 2009

There was nothing ironic in my choice of an image for Saturday’s notice of the passing of Andrew Wyeth . “Trodden Weed,” the 1951 painting...

Andrew Wyeth | Chester County | realism | Visual Arts



Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Barack Obama in Paoli, PA nine months ago yesterday Today is one of the most momentous days in American history. Regardless of how far s...

Politics



Monday, January 19, 2009

By the time you read these words, this blog may well have crossed the 2,000,000 visits threshold. The Site Meter counter on the left will ...

blogging | School of Quietude | Schools of poetry | Theory



Sunday, January 18, 2009

Mick Imlah 1956 – 2009

passing



Saturday, January 17, 2009

Andrew Wyeth 1917 – 2009

passing



Friday, January 16, 2009

Yvor Winters , gangsta of Quietude Are the religious strongly drawn to Winters ? § Kenny Goldsmith: ”A bad time for poetry” §...

links | passing



Thursday, January 15, 2009

I have been asked by Joshua Marie Wilkinson to contribute to an anthology on teaching poetry, which, given that I work in a classroom may...

Theory



Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Rabbi Alan Lew 1943 – 2009 Lew on PennSound ( MP3)

passing



Wednesday, January 14, 2009

W . D . Snodgrass 1926 – 2009

passing



Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Lance Phillips In 1953, when The Paris Review published its first issue and included an interview with E.M. Forster ( PDF), the journal ...

Interviews



Monday, January 12, 2009

The concrete poetry of Niikuni Seiichi § Stephanie Young’s Picture Palace § Thinking through the post-avant Close reading the...

links



Saturday, January 10, 2009

Mike Amado 1975 – 2009

passing



Friday, January 09, 2009

We have been without power for 24 hours at this point – I was fortunate to get yesterday’s post done before the branch hit the line. Right n...

Personal



Thursday, January 08, 2009

More books into Braille ! § Poetry & capitalism § Jack Spicer’s “Golem” Spicer celebration at SF Main Library Saturday, Jan. ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Inger Christensen 1935 – 2009 In 1981 , Christensen used the Fibonacci series to compose a book entitled Alphabet ...

passing



Tuesday, January 06, 2009

I have been asked more than once if I would comment on the situation in   Gaza , tho I’ve never proposed myself as an expert on the Middle...

Politics



Monday, January 05, 2009

Robert Grenier on Carol Watts § The program for Emma Bee Bernstein’s funeral Charles Bernstein’s ”Eulogy for Emma” A note from F...

links



Sunday, January 04, 2009

As Captain Harold Dobey in Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s, Bernie Hamilton was one of the very first African-American authority figures ...

passing



Friday, January 02, 2009

Charles Olson today Charles Olson , who would have been 99 on Dec. 27, reading ”The Librarian” (YouTube) § Billy Little died ...

links | passing



Thursday, January 01, 2009

The 1960s didn’t begin with a single moment. One can identify certain days & changes, however, without which what we know now as the Sixti...



Wednesday, December 31, 2008

It is now becoming self-evident that right around the inauguration of Barack Obama, somewhere between the 18 th & 25 th of January 2009, t...

blogging | Personal



Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Harvey Milk taking the oath of office, 1978, photo by Bill Carlson I knew in advance that there was no way the film Milk could live up t...

Film



Monday, December 29, 2008

A lurid NY Times “review” of Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me And another in the LA Times Was Jack Spicer sexy? § A d...

links | passing



Sunday, December 28, 2008

Photo: John Suiter Nanao Sakaki 1923 – 2008

passing



Saturday, December 27, 2008

So there will be not one, but two, major offsite readings in conjunction with this year’s MLA in San Francisco . The first, Sunday night,...

Events



Friday, December 26, 2008

Harold Pinter 1930 – 2008

passing



Thursday, December 25, 2008

Double click on image to read full size

Events | MLA | The academy



Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Responding to Harvey Hix' 20 questions got me to finally sit down and address a set of questions that had been posed to me by David F. Ho...

Interviews



Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Eileen Tabios reads Susan M. Schultz’ Dementia Blog § “ The perfect inaugural poet ” A supporting view

links | Passings



Monday, December 22, 2008

Emma Bee Bernstein 1985 – 2008

passing



Sunday, December 21, 2008

Today, Sunday December 21, 7:00 PM Joel Lewis & Thom Donovan   Zinc Bar 82 W. Third Street Between Thompson and Sullivan¹ ...

Events



Saturday, December 20, 2008

I’ve been battling bronchitis for several days now and have had to admit to myself that I am not going to be able to make it to New York ...

Non-events



Friday, December 19, 2008

An inaugural poet with a small press background & Ivy League / U. of Chicago connections Who is Elizabeth Alexander ? All Thin...

links



Thursday, December 18, 2008

When I linked to H.L. Hix' “20 Questions” project on the Best American Poetry blog the other day, Harvey sent me his questionnaire &, ...

Interviews



Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke , The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New & Selected Poems, edite...

Recently Received



Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Next Sunday December 21, 7:00 PM Joel Lewis & Ron Silliman   Zinc Bar 82 W. Third Street Between Thompson and Sullivan¹ ...

Events | Joel Lewis



Monday, December 15, 2008

Photo by Jonathan Williams 1957 Jacket’s new feature on Denise Levertov includes pieces by Kevin Gallagher Anne-Marie Cusac Anne De...

links | passing



Sunday, December 14, 2008

Photo by Erica Jane Kaufman When in 1946 Gertrude Stein died, she did not leave behind a generation (or, perhaps more pointedly, three ge...

Beverly Dahlen



Saturday, December 13, 2008

Dorothy Porter 1954 – 2008

passing



Friday, December 12, 2008

photo by Erica Jane Kaufman Beverly Dahlen Fest Saturday, December 13 3:00 PM Timken Lecture Hall California College of th...

Events



Thursday, December 11, 2008

Poetry readings in the White House ? A new Federal Writers’ Project ? Top 10 “to dos” for Obama on culture § Flarf vs. conceptual...

links



Wednesday, December 10, 2008

L-R: Viktor Bychkov , Anni-Kristiina Juuso & Ville Haapasalo star in the 2002 film Cuckoo A couple of weeks ago I saw a film that I ha...

Film



Tuesday, December 09, 2008

George Brecht 1924 or 1926 – 2008

Fluxus | passing



Monday, December 08, 2008

Stuart Z. Perkoff – a great profile by John Macker § 2009 NEA Fellowships announced – only Quietists need apply Two books of poe...

links | passing



Friday, December 05, 2008

The library as a form of porn The libraries vs. Google § John Ashbery fights back! Kessler’s offending letter Ashbery the fl...

links | passing



Thursday, December 04, 2008

Dear Ron, Mayor Nutter and Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance invite you to a discussion and Q&A session for the arts community on t...

Politics



Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Literally next door to the towering, majestic & world famous quilts from Gee’s Bend¹, the drawings of James Castle (1899 or 1900 – 1977...

James Castle | Visual Arts



Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Mary & George Oppen at Swarthmore, 1979 photo by Robert S. DuPlessis , courtesy of Jacket The Jacket feature on George Oppen is now c...

links | passing



Monday, December 01, 2008

Is it unseemly to review a book one has already blurbed? Particularly when the claim made – “one of the most important volumes of poetry p...

Jack Spicer



Sunday, November 30, 2008

No title

Politics | social uses of poetry



Thursday, November 27, 2008

Words take wing in North Beach § This year’s BlazeVOX Thanksgiving Menu poem honors Anne Waldman § Chris Nagler’s intro to Joce...

links



Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Caroline Bergvall , Alyson Singes, Belladonna Books, Brooklyn 2008 Daniel ƒ. Bradley , T= ...

Recently Received



Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Here’s a little thought experiment. Place the following three poets into chronological order – A) John Ashbery B) Clark Coolidge C) ...

history



Monday, November 24, 2008

Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman § The Jacket George Oppen feature is emerging, with Rachel Blau DuPlessis George Evans Al Filreis...

links | passing



Saturday, November 22, 2008

I know only one person who’s truly a member of my generation – Yanks on the high side of 60 – who claims not to know where he was or what ...

history | human rights



Friday, November 21, 2008

Change We Can Believe In Three of the finalists for the National Book Award’s prize for fiction had not yet been born when winner Peter Ma...

School of Quietude



Thursday, November 20, 2008

Donald Finkel , Constance Urdang & their family Donald Finkel 1929 – 2008

passing



Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Kostas Anagnopoulos , Various Sex Acts, Insurance Editions, Jackson Heights , NY 2008 R...

Recently Received



Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Russian avant-garde books digitized § Bob Holman & Pappa Susso on the Griot Trail § Translating procedural poetry § Erik D...

links | Passings



Monday, November 17, 2008

Grace Hartigan 1922 – 2008 Hartigan with Frank O'Hara

passing | Visual Arts



Friday, November 14, 2008

My thrust on Tuesday was not that Words in Air, the correspondence of Robert Lowell & Elizabeth Bishop, wasn’t a worthy book. It almost ce...

Clayton Eshleman



Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Five hours with “the famous Ed Baker ” § Burmese blogger sentenced to 20 years of prison for a poem § DuPlessis’ Creeley § ...

links | passing



Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The absolute number of reviews that have come to a book of correspondence, the letters between Robert Lowell & Elizabeth Bishop, Words in ...

School of Quietude



Monday, November 10, 2008

Filipina poets at the Library of Congress § In DC on Monday night , Rae Armantrout with Frank Bidart at the Folger Library § P...

links | passing



Saturday, November 08, 2008

Photo by Tim Yu Essays & excursions for Myung Mi Kim § Rae Armantrout: ”Prayers” § John Ashbery, J.D. McClatchy Auggie Klei...

links



Friday, November 07, 2008

James Liddy 1934 – 2008

passing



Thursday, November 06, 2008

Friday, November 7, 3-5 pm Ron Silliman Yale Working Group in Contemporary Poetics Room 116 Whitney Humanities Center Yale Univers...

Events



Wednesday, November 05, 2008

One great irony last night was that the finest moment in John McCain’s campaign proved to be his concession speech, perhaps the most magna...

Politics



Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Vote!

Politics



Sunday, November 02, 2008

Remember to Vote Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Draft 69 § Geof Huth’s ” Visual Poetry Today ” feature in Poetry (with links to all the...

links | passing



Saturday, November 01, 2008

Today’s note comes from Joe Biden:. If we get out the vote, we will win this election – it's as simple as that. Now, here's where you c...

Politics



Friday, October 31, 2008

My sons are sixteen-years-old, and nothing on this planet holds more disdain for the activities associated with being a “little kid” than ...

health



Thursday, October 30, 2008

Fifty years ago, the Giants moved to San Francisco when I was a 12-year-old boy, the perfect age for a kid to fixate on the hot new excit...

sports



Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Donna Stonecipher reading in Budapest September 1 , when I wrote to praise Donna Stonecipher’s Souvenir de Constantinople , Noah Eli Gord...

Donna Stonecipher



Monday, October 27, 2008

Main Street Meltdown § Vispo in Poetry § Magdalena Zurawski’s The Bruise § Prepare for the World Series by reading Ashbery,...

links | passing



Sunday, October 26, 2008

As bad as that blown call at first base was last night, it made that last inning – with a five-man infield and that wild final play, an in...

blogging | sports



Friday, October 24, 2008

Brett Evans & Frank Sherlock’s Ready-to-Eat Individual § Contemporary politics: “ the darkness surrounds us ” § Jonathan Mayhew...

links



Thursday, October 23, 2008

In his Pulitzer-winning Guns, Germs and Steel, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond argues persuasively – overwhelmingly – for the role o...

George Stanley



Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Robert Adamson, The Golden Bird, Black Inc. Books, Melbourne 2008 Ed Baker, Restorati...

Recently Received



Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Barack Obama & a few of the 100,000 folks who gathered to hear him in St. Louis October 18 th . Two weeks from today, we have the opport...

Responsibility



Monday, October 20, 2008

Talking with Marie Ponsot § Jack Spicer’s bedside reading § Lee Ann Brown on WVPM’s Wordplay (first link is to the MP3) § ...

links | passing



Saturday, October 18, 2008

SUNDAY October 19th, 4pm Pam Brown Magdalena Zurawski Ron Silliman Hosted by CAConrad ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE 108 S. 13th St. ,...

Events



Thursday, October 16, 2008

No title

Sport



Wednesday, October 15, 2008

L-R: Ted Pearson, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Barrett Watten, Lyn Hejinian, Kit Robinson The Detroit Grand Piano readin...

The Grand Piano



Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Anthony Braxton’s score for saxophones & contrabass clarinet I found myself in the curious – indeed, unprecedented – situation on Saturda...

Music



Monday, October 13, 2008

Robert Creeley’s library The archive of Marshall Frady § Great lesbian poets throughout history § Where poetry has its largest...

links | passing



Sunday, October 12, 2008

Available now! Kit Robinson begins: TED BERRIGAN SAID that when he discovered Frank O’Hara’s poetry he found “somebody who wrote the way...

The Grand Piano



Saturday, October 11, 2008

ONE WEEK FROM SUNDAY Pam Brown Magdalena Zurawski Ron Silliman DO NOT MISS THIS READING ! Hosted by CAConrad ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE ...

Events



Thursday, October 09, 2008

John Ashbery’s Pierre Martory Jacques Debrot , John Ashbery & “ anarcho-flarf ” interventionism § Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Paavo...

links



Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Paavo Haavikko 1931 – 2008

passing



Tuesday, October 07, 2008

The success of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets , edited by Jeff Hilson , is such that it throws light on the limitations of other rece...

anthologies | collaborations



Monday, October 06, 2008

Photo by Kaplan Harris Intercapillary Space is building a constellation of articles responding to the poetry of Alice Notley § R...

links



Sunday, October 05, 2008

One advantage of e-books is that you can have an odd number of pages, like Issue 1’s 3,785-page debut. A second is that you aren’t bound, l...

anthologies | hoax



Saturday, October 04, 2008

When I first met Barrett Watten , in 1965, he was a senior at Skyline High School in Oakland , while I was just out of Albany High, hang...

Barrett Watten



Friday, October 03, 2008

Tomorrow in the Motor City!

Events | Readings | The Grand Piano



Thursday, October 02, 2008

Joanne Kyger’s Permission by the Horns § Edward Mendelson on Frank O’Hara’s Selected Poems § Reading Alice Notley’s ”Radical Fe...

links | passing



Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Hayden Carruth 1921 – 2008

passing



Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Jeff Hilson’s new anthology, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets , is flat out the best book of its kind I have ever seen. It is easily – t...

anthologies



Monday, September 29, 2008

Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place § The architecture of Hettie Jones § Frank O’Hara in Italy & at...

links



Sunday, September 28, 2008

Brewers win, Mets lose. Welcome to the playoffs, Milwaukee . We’ll see you in Philadelphia on Wednesday. One sign I saw on the telecast o...

sports



Saturday, September 27, 2008

The Phillies could win the pennant today. When they won it last year, I was on the road & Krishna gave me the play-by-play of the last in...

sports



Friday, September 26, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Jay Bartell , Ever After Never Under: 20 Choruses, Little Scratch Pad , Buffalo 2008 Mi...

Recently Received



Thursday, September 25, 2008

Talking with Lisa Samuels of Laura Riding (Parts 1 , 2 & 3) § The Electronic Poetry Center now has a Canadian portal § Ba...

links



Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The Grand Piano comes to Detroit !

Events | Readings | The Grand Piano



Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Joe Faris & his   collection at Fashion Week In the double narrative that is Project Runway , Joe was eliminated last week and will not ...

TV



Monday, September 22, 2008

50 days of poetry & politics up to & including Muriel Rukeyser’s FBI file ( PDF) § Joan Retallack & Juliana Spahr’s   Poetry and P...

links | passing



Friday, September 19, 2008

I have been asked more than once this week why I do my link lists the way I do – once or twice per week, rosters of links that for the most ...

blogging



Thursday, September 18, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Harold Abramowitz, Dear Dearly Departed , Palm Press, Long Beach 2008 Andr’s Ajens , Qua...

Recently Received



Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Of the 19 authors whose books I read in judging the Poetry Society of America William Carlos Williams’ award that I thought deserved great...

Joe Wenderoth



Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Chad Feldheimer marches to a different drum machine One wonders exactly what motivates any artist to choose a particular project. It’s ...

Film



Monday, September 15, 2008

Sharon Mesmer on poetry after theory § Kevin Davies’ The Golden Age of Paraphernalia § Evie Shockley reads Ed Roberson § 41...

links | Passings



Sunday, September 14, 2008

David Foster Wallace 1962 – 2008 infinite jest

passing



Saturday, September 13, 2008

So far as I can tell, Reginald Shepherd and I agreed about two things, and perhaps two things only: the value of poetry and the idea that ...

Reginald Shepherd



Friday, September 12, 2008

Underestimating Gov. Palin comes at some risk There is no doubt that John McCain’s choice of Gov. Sarah Palin has energized the right and...

Politics



Thursday, September 11, 2008

Reginald Shepherd 1963 – 2008 “ I write because I would like to live forever .”

passing



Thursday, September 11, 2008

It’s here. Twenty-nine years after I jotted down the first words (the opening lines of   “ Force” actually), The Alphabet is real, tangib...

Personal



Wednesday, September 10, 2008

I finally got around to viewing How to Draw a Bunny the other night, and both the documentary and its subject are quite a bit better than...

Film | Fluxus | Ray Johnson | Visual Arts



Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Robin Blaser at 83 § Rae Armantrout reading at Artifact ( MP3) § Censoring Carol Ann Duffy Duffy strikes back § Salt’s...

links | Passings



Monday, September 08, 2008

Ben Kingsley, Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer & Thomas Kretschmann take a walk in the Siberian woods Woody Harrelson is not the world’s...

Film



Sunday, September 07, 2008

A reading at The Five Spot, 1964, Joel Oppenheimer standing in the doorway to the left, Allen Ginsberg reading with hand to forehead at the ...

Joel Oppenheimer



Friday, September 05, 2008

Joel Oppenheimer & Francine Du Plessix Gray at Black Mountain College 1951 (Photo by Jonathan Williams) David Landrey sent the f...

Joel Oppenheimer



Thursday, September 04, 2008

Eileen Tabios – ”I am nobody’s heir” § “Skyscraper” John Ashbery only 4 th living American to see his own Library of America coll...

links



Wednesday, September 03, 2008

The University of Arizona Press has a reputation for being one of – if not the – most active publishers of Native American poetry & poe...

Margo Tamez



Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Photo by Stephanie Young Dodie Bellamy on class vs. gender § Andrew Schelling on “ Post-Coyote ” poetics § Haight poet & one-ti...

links | Passings



Monday, September 01, 2008

Donna Stonecipher’s Souvenir de Constantinople is a terrific little book (94 pages, tho it reads quickly & feels roughly half that length...

Donna Stonecipher



Saturday, August 30, 2008

One of the New American poets who seems to be receding fast from view is Joel Oppenheimer. A one-time student at Black Mountain & a cont...

Joel Oppenheimer



Friday, August 29, 2008

Barack Obama & Bob Casey in Paoli on April 19 The word I least expected to hear at the Democratic Convention in Denver this week was the ...

Politics



Thursday, August 28, 2008

The tribes of art § 11 new poems by Linh Dinh Nguyen Quoc Chanh translated by Linh Dinh § Grammar police busted as vandals ...

links



Tuesday, August 26, 2008

One of the happenstances of being on vacation is getting to see a film a second time that one would not necessarily choose to see twice, in ...

Film



Monday, August 25, 2008

Matthias Steiner of Germany won gold in the heaviest weight class in Beijing As a kid, I used to watch a lot of sports on television. It ...

sports



Saturday, August 23, 2008

I’m going to be at the shore for a few days, then out to the Olympic Peninsula for a wedding in Port Townsend. Expect things to be spotty ...

blogging | Personal



Friday, August 22, 2008

Portrait by / from J’s Theater CAConrad interviews Rachel Blau DuPlessis Alan Gilbert on DuPlessis § Artists’ Books Online (a tr...

links | Passings



Thursday, August 21, 2008

When I picked Aram Saroyan’s Complete Minimal Poems for the William Carlos Williams award earlier this year, I noted that there were some ...

Laura Solomon



Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Available for pre-publication orders today! This is the poem I’ve been working on since 1979. I can’t even begin to tell you just how m...

Personal



Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Javier Bardem & Rebecca Hall are at the center of Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona . There are some spoilers in what follows. Proc...

Film



Monday, August 18, 2008

The Positions Colloquium schedule Mark Wallace on the significance of the conference § Remembering Lawrence Braithwaite Family...

links | passing



Sunday, August 17, 2008

My turn on Joe Milford’s internet radio show – all 90 minutes of it – can be streamed or downloaded from the website today. Just click on t...

Events | Personal



Friday, August 15, 2008

Saturday, August 16 5:00 PM Eastern Joe Milford Hosts Ron Silliman on the Jane Crown Show Call-in Number (646) 200-0176   Ph...

Events | Personal



Thursday, August 14, 2008

Tens of thousands mourn Darwish “ The laureate of all Arabs ” “ Poet and Icon ” Palestinians turn out for Darwish Official cere...

links | passing



Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Roger Rice, Katrina Sings the Blues Quite some time ago – at least 14 years¹ – I was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to give a reading & my host,...

Visual Arts



Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Benjamin’s grave, Portbou , Spain So what role might theory play today, both for poetry and in the broader world? There is no such thin...

Theory



Monday, August 11, 2008

A “state funeral” for Mahmoud Darwish   in the West Bank Tuesday “ Poet of the resistance ” Palestinians mourn national poet Je...

links | passing



Sunday, August 10, 2008

Mahmoud Darwish 1942 – 2008

passing



Saturday, August 09, 2008

Donna Haraway But didn’t theory fail? Didn’t these grand texts that once promised to change to world simply devolve into being one more “...

Theory



Friday, August 08, 2008

Valentin N. Vološinov I’m thinking out loud here. For a future part of the Grand Piano project, we’ve been tossing around the idea of p...

Theory



Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Not the School of Quietude: Williams with cat, Rutherford, NJ, 1916 (Front row, L-R: Alison Hartpence , Afred Kreymborg , WCW, Skip Cannel...

William Carlos Williams



Tuesday, August 05, 2008

I could tell you I’m taking the day off, it being my birthday & all, but the truth is that I’m on my second business trip in as many weeks a...

Personal



Monday, August 04, 2008

photo by Kaplan Harris Andy Gricevich on the work of Barrett Watten Watten’s talk on ”The Expanded Object of the Poetic Field ; or, W...

links | Passings



Friday, August 01, 2008

There is an exactness , both of vision and execution, in Martha Ronk’s Vertigo that literally alters your sense of perception, as if aft...

Martha Ronk



Wednesday, July 30, 2008

I have been rereading William Carlos Williams' Spring & All in the 1970 Frontier Press edition. That edition reprints the original 1923 Co...

WCW



Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Fairfield Porter & John Ashbery § Tracie Morris reading at the Conceptual Poetry & Its Others conference (video) § Walter Benj...

links | passing



Monday, July 28, 2008

There are two books tucked into Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s Green and Gray , which came out last year from the University of California Press ....

Geoffrey G. O'Brien



Saturday, July 26, 2008

Michael Bullock 1918 – 2008

passing | surrealism



Friday, July 25, 2008

Robert Grenier reading the wall § When typographers scribble § Scrawl § This Sunday, reading An Ear in Bartram’s Tree in Ba...

links | passing



Thursday, July 24, 2008

The city of Boston is filled with frogheaded flies and British policemen. The other day I saw the corpse of Emily Dickinson floating up ...

Jack Spicer | Robert Creeley



Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Kim Bridgford , In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records, Contemporary Poetry Review Pre...

Recently Received



Tuesday, July 22, 2008

The Dark Knight is a very good motion picture, a superb one in many respects. But count me out of any attempts to raise this film to the l...

Film



Monday, July 21, 2008

Filreis & Bernstein in the PENNsound studio – photo by Mark Stehle Charles Bernstein on Al Filreis’ Counter-Revolution of the Word: T...

links | passing



Friday, July 18, 2008

Kay Ryan has been named Poet Laureate of the United States (PLOTUS in Donald Hall’s useful acronym). And while she is being pitched as...

PLOTUS



Thursday, July 17, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Christopher Arigo , In the Archives , Omnidawn, Richmond , CA 2007 Julianna Baggott , ...

Recently Received



Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Ben Friedlander on flarf , SloPo & slow food from his vantage in Sicily § The role of the muse in flarf § Juliana Spahr & Eliot...

links | passing



Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Warning: spoilers ahead . If you plan to see Hancock anytime soon, you probably don’t want to read this until you have done so. Hancock ...

Film



Monday, July 14, 2008

Direct by radio from Mars: 11 new poems & letters by Jack Spicer (intro by Kevin Killian & Peter Gizzi) here , here , here , here ,...

links



Sunday, July 13, 2008

Lynn Behrendt has again updated the blogroll, correcting a half dozen accent disappearances, adding & subtracting those that people sent u...

blogging | Lynn Behrendt



Saturday, July 12, 2008

I know I’m repeating myself, but this seems to be a point that a lot of people get stuck on. Plus this is my 2,000 th post to the blog, a...

Schools of poetry



Thursday, July 10, 2008

Alan Gilbert on the King Kong of summer writing conferences § Close reading Rae Armantrout § Minimal man, Aram Saroyan § Kyl...

links



Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Photo: Lorna Dee Cervantes Alfred Arteaga 1950 – 2008   Bruce Conner 1933 – 2008       ...

Passings



Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Because we had an hour between the end of breakfast on Saturday morning & when we needed to be back at the inn to gussy ourselves up for t...

Gloucester



Monday, July 07, 2008

Abusing Laura Riding

links | passing



Thursday, July 03, 2008

For the record, just weeding the blogroll of dead links caused the list to shrink by roughly 250 names, one quarter of its size. There will ...

blogging | Personal



Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Julianna Baggott , Compulsions of Silkworms & Bees, Pleiades Press , Rock Hill, SC / Warrens...

Recently Received



Tuesday, July 01, 2008

William Logan on Frank O’Hara Sharing a coke with Frank O’Hara Is Kent Johnson the new Frank O’Hara? Tony Towle & Andrew Epstein d...

links | Passings



Monday, June 30, 2008

The “bad girl” in the arts is not new, but it has had a new lease on life in & around poetry & performance art since Kathy Acker – who rar...

Chelsey Minnis



Sunday, June 29, 2008

Massive thanks, endless thanks, unbelievable thanks to Lynn Behrendt for updating the entire blogroll! It’s up-to-date for the first time...

blogging | Lynn Behrendt



Saturday, June 28, 2008

The current “summer reading” issue of Poets & Writers magazine has this photo of Marilyn Monroe reading Joyce’s Ulysses on its cover. It’...

photography



Thursday, June 26, 2008

Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Kit Robinson           (photo by Tom Orange) Writing as event: reading The Grand Piano at Orono Langu...

links | passing



Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Otilia ( Anamaria Marinca) contemplates the price she has already paid for helping her roommate obtain an abortion If you saw Chris...

Film



Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Writing as Event! THE GRAND PIANO , Part 6 An Experiment in Collective Autobiography San Francisco, 1975-1980 By Ron Silliman, Stev...

The Grand Piano



Monday, June 23, 2008

A tribute to Keith Wilson § Flood pictures of the University of Iowa § Context, misreading & aggression at the Aggression Conf...

links | passing



Sunday, June 22, 2008

Am I the only one who has noticed that what we have just experienced were three relatively mutually exclusive post-avant poetry conferences ...

Schools of poetry



Friday, June 20, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Joe Bonomo , Installations , Penguin, London & New York 2008 Kamau Brathwaite, Trench Tow...

Recently Received



Wednesday, June 18, 2008

One test of a book is how you feel about the writer & his or her work on completing the volume. In the case of Joseph Lease’s Broken World...

Joseph Lease



Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tom Beckett on three books using the same cover photo § Saving books from the flood in Iowa City § Blogging the “ Poetry of th...

links | passing



Monday, June 16, 2008

This is only going to get me into trouble, but… I was thinking about the debate, to call it that, between flarf & conceptual writing, and ...

Conceptual poetics | Flarf | New American Poetry



Thursday, June 12, 2008

Conceptual Poetry Armor Videos, audio & papers from Conceptual Poetry & Its Others § Retyping On the Road to get inside Kerouac’...

links | passing



Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Sandy Baldwin, I Did the Weird Motor Drive: Emissions, BlazeVOX, Buffalo 2008 Dawn-Mich...

Recently Received



Tuesday, June 10, 2008

”Carrie” has the arms of a weightlifter in Sex and the City My guess is that – just speculatin' here – I’m not exactly whom writer/direc...

Film | TV



Monday, June 09, 2008

Talking with Tao Lin § A profile of Caroline Bergvall § Flarf vs. conceptualism – the war begins § In Moscow , two exhibits...

links



Saturday, June 07, 2008

My point in posting so many links on Thursday – there were 122 sections, many with multiple links – was not to overwhelm you, but to indica...



Thursday, June 05, 2008

Aggression: the conference blog (many, many presentations & readings) “Oh my god, it was like the best conference ever ” § John A...

links | Passings



Wednesday, June 04, 2008

A quick note. I’m getting 300 emails a day in my life, not including spam, maybe half related to my day job, but fully a third related to t...

Personal



Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Brian Henry’s The Stripping Point is a book containing two longish poetic sequences. Yet I could imagine, say, David Markson or Carole ...

Brian Henry



Monday, June 02, 2008

From Children’s Tape by Terry Fox, 1974 , a work not on Ubuweb An Ubu Top Ten (1973 Edition) Kenny Goldsmith asked me to program a “t...

1973 | Archives | Ubuweb



Saturday, May 31, 2008

I’m glad to read this if only because it means that Reginald Shepherd is alive to have written it § Poets on mentorship § Campb...

links | Passings



Friday, May 30, 2008

Paula Gunn Allen 1939 – 2008

passing



Thursday, May 29, 2008

A few of my correspondents have suggested that I should write a note this month about the events of forty years ago. That I’ve taken this ...

1968



Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Pamela Alexander, Slow Fire , Ausable Press, Keene , NY 2007 Jim Barnes, Visiting Pica...

Recently Received



Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Christian Hawkey’s verse is very fast & very smart & never very direct. Here is “Unwritten Poems” from Citizen Of , published by Wave Boo...

Christian Hawkey



Monday, May 26, 2008

Ezra Pound’s birthplace is open to the public § POGsound puts MP3s of nearly three dozen readings online § Paul Zukofsky on ...

links | passing



Saturday, May 24, 2008

George Oppen Centennial Symposium Poets House , NYC (MP3s of the entire event!) § Professor denied tenure over flarf § Students ...

links | passing



Friday, May 23, 2008

If you aren’t already a passionate addict of the Sci -Fi series, Battlestar Galactica , now in the midst of its fourth – and final – seaso...

TV



Thursday, May 22, 2008

Reginald Lockett 1948 – 2008

passing



Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Mary Jo Bang, Elegy , Graywolf Press, St. Paul 2007 Peg Boyers , Honey with Tobacco , Univer...

Recently Received



Tuesday, May 20, 2008

I’ve been struck this week by the value of different models of journal. Sitting on my desk are two that I’ve going through – one is the ...

Journals



Monday, May 19, 2008

Counter-Revolution of the Word: the rightwing attack on the avant-garde Al Filreis on teaching & touching § Aggression: A Conf...

links



Sunday, May 18, 2008

This Sunday May 18 on THE MOE GREEN POETRY HOUR 11 AM Pacific time, 2 PM Eastern Join Rafael F. J. Alvarado as he listens to the poet...

Events



Friday, May 16, 2008

Laynie Browne is conducting a survey about poetry for the forthcoming symposium on Conceptual Poetry in Tucson . Here are my responses to ...

Conceptual poetics



Thursday, May 15, 2008

Paul Blackburn, by R.B. Kitaj The Paul Blackburn page at the Electronic Poetry Center has gone live. Jack Krick’s months of effort h...

Paul Blackburn



Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Dallas Wiebe 1930 – 2008 Robert Rauschenberg 1925 – 2008 David Daniels 1933 – 2008 ...

Passings



Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Král Majáles § Putting poetry readings out of business in Chicago § Louis Zukofsky died 30 years ago yesterday § Tony Wood ...

links | passing



Monday, May 12, 2008

Lisa Fishman is a writer who works – confidently, brilliantly – in close-up, often phrase to phrase, building texts that knock you over w...

Lisa Fishman



Saturday, May 10, 2008

If you set a Google Alert for the name Robert Creeley, one thing you will discover fairly quickly is that there are quite a few blogs and...

social uses of poetry



Thursday, May 08, 2008

photo by Chip Cooper A terrific interview of Cornelius Eady on Fresh Air § Dale Smith on Jonathan Williams’ contributions to small...

links | passing



Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) William Allegrezza, Filament Sense , Ypolita Press, San Francisco 2007 Walter Bargen , West ...

Recently Received



Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Brenda Coultas is one of those startlingly original poets who makes you scratch your head & reach for all manner of inappropriate compari...

Brenda Coultas



Monday, May 05, 2008

Frank Sherlock & Brett Evans’ Ready to Eat Individual § Rae Armantrout’s Next Life § 10 questions for Reb Livingston § 12 o...

links



Saturday, May 03, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Heather C. Ackerberg , Dwelling, Burning Deck , Providence 2008 Ed Baker, What’s a Phantasy...

Recently Received



Thursday, May 01, 2008

Talking with Geraldine Monk § Charlie Simic out as PLOTUS § Jason Shinder has passed away § The Double-Dream of Spring § ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Some thoughts looking back on a busy time – I got to hear live music twice in one week, a rarity at this point in my life. And the two e...

blogging | PSA | vispo | Visual Arts



Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Laurel Blossom’s Degrees of Latitude is a booklength narrative poem about a woman’s life organized through metaphors of geography, start...

Laurel Blossom



Monday, April 28, 2008

Linh Dinh on the art of misnarration on translation the miscegenation of languages & border poetics § Ange Mlinko on National P...

links



Saturday, April 26, 2008

My comment here on April 10, that the William Carlos Williams Award wasn’t your usual exploitive, pay the readers’ fee & hope your manus...

contests



Friday, April 25, 2008

Of the 16 other books from Poetry Society of America entrants that I feel all deserve awards, hoopla, and great notice, three are books...

Jean Valentine | Jennifer Moxley | Laynie Browne | PSA



Thursday, April 24, 2008

When the CUE Art Foundation asked me last year if I would curate a show this spring for its Chelsea gallery, a number of possibilities i...

Cynthia Miller | Visual Arts



Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Toni Brown 1952 – 2008

passing



Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Roberta Beary & Eileen Myles My two William Carlos Williams Award finalists – the term that the Poetry Society of America prefers for th...

Eileen Myles | PSA | Roberta Beary



Monday, April 21, 2008

Barack Obama & Bob Casey right here in Paoli on Saturday     (Photo by Sleeping Cat Beads) Alice Walker on Barack Obama § Jeffrey Si...

links | passing



Saturday, April 19, 2008

Thursday, April 24 th & Friday, April 25 th All at the CUE Art Foundation 511 West 25 th Street , Ground Floor (between 10 th & 11 ...

Charles Alexander | Cynthia Miller | James Fei | Music | Visual Arts



Friday, April 18, 2008

I was planning on running this note next Tuesday, after the awards ceremony dinner on Monday. But as Ugly Duckling Presse has already pos...

Aram Saroyan | PSA



Thursday, April 17, 2008

Aimé Césaire 1913 – 2008

passing



Thursday, April 17, 2008

Continuing with my narrative of the William Carlos Williams Award. The next time through, the stacks on the blue chest were down to two ...

PSA



Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Photo courtesy of Jacket Henry Gould’s In RI § Stephen Burt on John Ashbery § Ron Padgett on A Prairie Home Companion § Mic...

links | Passings



Tuesday, April 15, 2008

I spend the next several weeks reading, reading, reading . This contest is almost a Rorschach of contemporary American poetry. In spite of...

PSA



Monday, April 14, 2008

I emptied the three cartons of books sent to me by the Poetry Society of America onto a blue chest we keep in our foyer to contain a house...

PSA



Sunday, April 13, 2008

PBS does Walt Whitman Ending “ poetry- lite ” (and using Billy Collins to do so) § Today is the day for Tayari Jones’ Dunbar V...

links



Friday, April 11, 2008

It was when the kind reader pointed out to me that not only had I misspelled Matthew Zapruder’s name and that of his book (which, frankly...

Personal



Thursday, April 10, 2008

Photograph by Jonathan Williams When I was asked if I would judge this year’s William Carlos Williams Award for the Poetry Society of Ame...

PSA



Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Mark Wallace on poetry readings. § Ed Mycue’s ten favorite books § Remembering Rochelle Ratner § Aaron McCollough on Barre...

links



Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Mike Allen, The Journey to Kailash , Norilana Books, Winnetka , CA 2008 Allen Bramhall, Days...

Recently Received



Monday, April 07, 2008

I was somewhere in the vicinity of 20 to 22-years-old when, during an intermission at a marathon antiwar reading at Glide Memorial Church ...

George Oppen | Objectivism



Sunday, April 06, 2008

Remembering Anne Spencer in Lynchburg , VA § What do we want digital poetry to be? § What Reginald Shepherd & Rae Armantrout ...

links



Saturday, April 05, 2008

Photo courtesy of Tom Raworth Andrew Crozier 1943 – 2008 on George Oppen on Ed Dorn

Passings



Friday, April 04, 2008

The bpNichol website has gone live Life on bpNichol Lane § What an interview should be: CA Conrad interviewing Rachel Blau DuPless...

links



Thursday, April 03, 2008

A Celebration of George Oppen’s 100 th Birthday 100 minutes of talk & poetry Hosted by Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Thomas Devaney & featu...

Events | George Oppen | Objectivism



Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Photo courtesy of Big Bridge Rochelle Ratner 1948 – 2008

passing



Tuesday, April 01, 2008

If you look at the sax reeds in this picture closely, you will note that each is cut or notched, altered in some fashion so as to render t...

Music



Monday, March 31, 2008

Rod Smith on Ceptuetics ( MP3) Plus Kenny Goldsmith ( MP3) & Bruce Andrews ( MP3) & Kim Rosenfield ( MP3) § New York Times ...

links | passing



Saturday, March 29, 2008

Ange Mlinko on Helen Adam Helen Adam sound files § Jonathan Williams & Guy Davenport § Jordan Davis on Philip Whalen § The ...

links



Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Back in the mid-1980s, all I knew of Ben Friedlander was that he was in the East Bay co-editing a little magazine with the best name, Jimm...

Ben Friedlander



Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Woeser’s Tibetan blog An analysis of “ the Woeser incident ” Woeser’s review of Dreaming Lhasa § Alice Notley wins the Lenore ...

links



Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Llewelyn and the satchel Okay. No Country for Old Men finally made it to DVD & I got it from Netflix right away, watching it twice in th...

Film



Monday, March 24, 2008

Finally, I got hear Lisa Robertson read for the very first time the other evening. It was one of those events that make perfectly clear j...

Lisa Robertson



Sunday, March 23, 2008

Shanna Compton recaps the “book cover” meme § A Jonathan Williams page at the EPC The bard of Scaly Mountain Michael Lally on J...

links



Saturday, March 22, 2008

TIBET (low yellow Renaissance towers frame Ocean Beach mood of Cerulean blue or copper overlaid with blue plate Sympathetic to the...

human rights | Tibet



Friday, March 21, 2008

Further Huzzahs for a “Grumpy Old Fart” Tom Meyer, Alex Gildzen , Jonathan Williams (hint: read Jonathan’s hat) Pierre Joris on Jonat...

Jonathan Williams



Thursday, March 20, 2008

Blockbuster art exhibits are the most brutal way imaginable to view anything & the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Ar...

Frida Kahlo | Visual Arts



Wednesday, March 19, 2008

An obituary for Jonathan Williams & another from The Asheville Citizen-Times Alex Gildzen , Mark Scroggins , Jeff Davis , CA Conrad ,...

links | passing



Monday, March 17, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) George Albon , Momentary Songs , Krupskaya, San Francisco 2008 Tetra Balestri , Cheap Imitat...

Recently Received



Monday, March 17, 2008

Jonathan Williams 1929 – 2008 For fifty years, give or take, Jonathan Williams has been one of the most complete men of ...

Jonathan Williams



Sunday, March 16, 2008

Bob Grenier at Beyond Baroque Robert Grenier & Charles Bernstein: a conversation § Lyn Hejinian & Billy Joe Harris: a conversatio...

links



Friday, March 14, 2008

Today’s note is a get well wish for Geof Huth , who happily has come through double bypass heart surgery this week with photos to show & s...

Geof Huth



Thursday, March 13, 2008

The haiku of Phil Whalen Alice Notley on Whalen Letter to Tom Raworth on “Phil” vs. “Philip” § Margaret Atwood’s new opera § ...

links



Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The most successful actor in film history is the late John Cazale. He made five full-length motion pictures, every one of which is a film ...

Film



Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Back when mastodons roamed the earth & all television was in black-&-white, I could mosey up to Cody’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Ber...

anthologies | Journals



Monday, March 10, 2008

[Warning: There is a “spoiler” below, tho only if you don’t know Gregory Corso’s history or have never read his entry on Wikipedia.] My ...

Beat Poetry | Film | Gregory Corso



Sunday, March 09, 2008

John Ashbery in Haverford § Serge Gavronsky’s Andorthe § Linton Kwesi Johnson , looking back § Al Filreis on the politics ...

links



Friday, March 07, 2008

PEN America is trying to get China to free nearly 40 writers rounded up in advance of this year’s Olympics You can help: Sign t...

human rights



Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Children by Philip Whalen & Aram Saroyan § Linh Dinh , talking with Charles Alexander ( MP3) § Becoming collected: the em...

links



Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Marianne Boruch , Grace, Fallen From , Wesleyan University Press, Middletown , CT , 2008 ...

Recently Received



Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Early this evening, I will wend my way over to The University of Pennsylvania to help record the eighth PoemTalk, a series of podcasts jo...

Rae Armantrout



Monday, March 03, 2008

A festschrift for Phil Whalen’s Collected Poems § Barrett Watten on Lytle Shaw’s Frank O’Hara § Talking with Ken Edwards Edward...

links



Sunday, March 02, 2008

Beyond Baroque’s lease has been renewed !

Beyond Baroque



Friday, February 29, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Anne Boyer, The Romance of Happy Workers , , Coffee House Press , Minneapolis , 2008 B...

Recently Received



Thursday, February 28, 2008

Photo by Howard Junker What national literary landmark appears in the motion picture Annie Hall? Hint: it’s not in New York , but rather ...

Beyond Baroque | institutions | Los Angeles



Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Talking with John Ashbery Poetry that is never “ about ” § Lyn Hejinian & the Tampa Bay Devil Rays § Using Jennifer Moxley’s ...

links



Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Because it is a three-dimensional art, dance functions on at least two planes: one vertical, where the axis is the dancer’s spine (singula...

dance



Monday, February 25, 2008

It took this blog two years & five months – from August 2002 until the end of January 2005 – to receive its first 250,000 visits. But it t...

blogging | Personal



Sunday, February 24, 2008

Les Murray: Publish my wife & I’ll give you a blurb § Auggie Kleinzahler on Creeley’s Selected Poems § Bill Manhire: “bump into...

links



Friday, February 22, 2008

Lawrence King 1993 - 2008

passing



Thursday, February 21, 2008

Alain Robbe-Grillet has died at 85 § Rae Armantrout in The New Yorker § Talking with Peter Gizzi § The New York poetry sc...

links | Passings



Wednesday, February 20, 2008

My instantaneous reaction on first seeing Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Draft 68: Threshold was that it looked very much like my own FBI file. Here...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Photo by Ben Friedlander It’s taken me years, decades in fact, to figure this out – in retrospect it seems obvious – but there are at lea...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Monday, February 18, 2008

The only thing I’ve ever been able to find “wrong” with Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ marvelous life poem Drafts is the idea that some day it’s ...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Sunday, February 17, 2008

Ten questions for Reginald Shepherd § Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley § The poets of Generation X § “The Top Ten Lit Stars of ...

links | passing



Saturday, February 16, 2008

Raúl R . Salinas 1934 - 2008

passing



Friday, February 15, 2008

Photo by Jonathan Williams Somebody who signs him- or herself as Barnes – I have a few cousins with that surname – wrote in yesterday’s c...

William Carlos Williams



Thursday, February 14, 2008

photo by Jonathan Williams   The stain of love Is upon the world. Yellow, yellow, yellow , It eats into the leaves, Smears with saf...



Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe: a short anthology in support of jailed Burmese poet Saw Wai ( PDF) § One year probation f...

links | passing



Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Project Runway’s judges for the final competition (from left): Nina Garcia, Michael Kors, “Posh Spice” Victoria Beckham & Heidi Klum The...

TV



Monday, February 11, 2008

For some time now, political pollsters have been telling me that I vote just like an African-American female under the age of 30. Given ju...

Politics



Sunday, February 10, 2008

This Monday  February 11   7:00 PM   Pacific / 10:00 PM Eastern on   The Moe Green Poetry Hour Listen live or later    Call in n...

Events



Saturday, February 09, 2008

Peter Kaufman, r eal Mailman Jim Leftwich’s Flickr archive of vispo, mail art, etc. , has over 31,000 images § Geof Huth on Carlo...

links | passing



Friday, February 08, 2008

Jorge Liderman 1957 – 2008

Music | passing



Thursday, February 07, 2008

Completing the questionnaire sent by the Poetry Foundation. 3. How can the delivery of poems from writers to readers be improved? The re...

state of the art



Wednesday, February 06, 2008

The Poetry Foundation has sent me a questionnaire. It is part of a joint project on the part of the foundation and the Aspen Institute, a...

state of the art



Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Grace Hartigan on Frank O’Hara § Jeff Clark , book designer extraordinaire § Geoff Huth on Bob Grumman § Talking with Mairead...

links



Monday, February 04, 2008

I’ve been reading Geoffrey Young’s The Riot Act very slowly. It’s one of those delicious books that you never want to end. In one sense,...

Geoffrey Young



Sunday, February 03, 2008

photo © Charles Bernstein Ted Burke on Rae Armantrout § Hank Lazer’s essays are half price until March 31 § A profile of John ...

links



Friday, February 01, 2008

Small Press Distribution is blogging the AWP Bookfair this weekend in New York

AWP | Events | Small Press Distribution



Wednesday, January 30, 2008

“New” poems by Jimmy Schuyler § Talking with Tom Mandel § Thing of Beauty book launch reading ( MP3) § Shin Yu Pai & Rick ...

links | passing



Wednesday, January 30, 2008

“The words are my life” is a peculiarly American sentiment. It is what connects Louis Zukofsky, who actually coined this claim, to Walt Wh...

Dolores Dorantes



Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Paul Thomas Anderson makes intelligent, well focused films: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love & now There Will Be Blood . Becaus...

Film



Monday, January 28, 2008

George & Mary Oppen George Oppen at 100 For the 100 th birthday party , scroll down to April 7 th Oppen’s cousin, Ethel Kremer Sch...

links



Sunday, January 27, 2008

The Grand Piano 5 is now available       obsessively readable — Mark Scroggins The Grand Piano website

The Grand Piano



Saturday, January 26, 2008

A profile of Lilya Brik § Ton van ‘t Hof's brilliant link list § The sexiest poem of the year (2007) is The Big Melt § ...

links



Friday, January 25, 2008

After Verizon escalated my connectivity problems to “the central office” which was supposed to get back to me “within 24 to 48 hours,” but...

blogging



Thursday, January 24, 2008

Burt Hatlen 1936 - 2008 Burt was an excellent scholar & fine friend. I don’t know if In the American Tree would ever have been...

passing



Thursday, January 24, 2008

I have been having internet connectivity issues and they may continue for awhile. Please have patience.

blogging



Tuesday, January 22, 2008

One of the most interesting new poets of 2007 turns out to be Henry Parland , whose first book in English (at least to my knowledge) has j...

Henry Parland



Monday, January 21, 2008

Brent Cunningham’s Interview with Robert Creeley is just the fifth volume of Hooke’s Books, but it’s been a doozy of a run thus far, with ...

Robert Creeley



Sunday, January 20, 2008

Alpha poet § Talking with Laynie Browne § Laura Moriarty reads from A Semblance § 89 interviews with major authors all in t...

links



Thursday, January 17, 2008

Bill Corbett on Phil Whalen § 12 or 20 Questions is a great new interview site from rob mclennan § Boston Globe obit of Vincen...

links | Passings



Wednesday, January 16, 2008

If you give them a little time, poetry anthologies can turn into wonderful instruments for looking at the world of poetry historically, ev...

anthologies



Tuesday, January 15, 2008

A Book of Prophecies , the latest posthumous publication by John Wieners , is a very beautiful & very strange book, a combination that it ...

John Wieners



Monday, January 14, 2008

Thing of Beauty truly is. The first real attempt at a comprehensive selected poems by Jackson Mac Low since the 1986 publication of Rep...

Jackson Mac Low



Sunday, January 13, 2008

Edward Field is just one of two ”NY School poets” from The New American Poetry still alive § “The most influential poet you never...

links



Friday, January 11, 2008

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Ken Belford, Fault Lines, Off-Set House, Prince George , BC 2007 Joel Chace , Cleaning the ...

Recently Received



Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Did Borges invent the internet? § Mary Oliver’s tribute to Molly Malone Cook § The first half of Tom Devaney’s tour of Poe’s ...

links



Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Pierre Bayard is of course correct – there are many different ways to consume books. This is true for films also. Seeing a film for the s...

Film



Monday, January 07, 2008

Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish Many things contributed to the destruction of T.S. Eliot’s reputation as the leading modernist poet – a Sc...

editing | Raymond Carver



Saturday, January 05, 2008

Henri Chopin 1922 – 2008

passing | Sound



Saturday, January 05, 2008

Mike Goldberg 1924 – 2008 WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER Frank O'Hara   I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I woul...

passing | Visual Arts



Friday, January 04, 2008

Remembering Sylvester Pollet § The new poetry editor of The Nation is Peter Gizzi § 42 years after Denise Levertov rejected Jac...

Journals | links | passing



Thursday, January 03, 2008

You start to realize that Todd Haynes has nailed it, produced something close to a miracle, a reasonably big budget motion picture with A...

Bob Dylan | Film



Wednesday, January 02, 2008

John Ashbery on the PBS Newshour § Two views of the MLA Offsite marathon 116MB MP3 of the event (URL good for 14 days only) ...

links | Passings



Tuesday, January 01, 2008

My own note from last January 1 st still seems to me the best possible advice: My resolution for this year remains essentially the same...

blogging



Monday, December 31, 2007

What kind of year was 2007? If you judge by the books that came out – Rae Armantrout’s Next Life, Alice Notley’s In the Pines, collected e...

Passings



Sunday, December 30, 2007

The conscience of Gloucester § Two readings by Philip Whalen (over 2 hours total) § Big-time notice for Dorthea Lasky’s Tiny...

links



Friday, December 28, 2007

The brand new image of Melvin B . Tolson § Marjorie Perloff on John Ashbery § Carol Bly has died § Siv Cedering has ...

links | Passings



Thursday, December 27, 2007

Sylvester Pollet 1939 - 2007

passing



Thursday, December 27, 2007

One reason that it seems clear to me that language poetry needs to be understood as a moment, rather than a movement, is that for many ye...

Journals



Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Photo courtesy of Big Bridge Vincent Ferrini 1913 – 2007

passing



Sunday, December 23, 2007

Films can succeed a million different ways, but when they do, each is entirely different from one another. The three best films I’ve seen ...

Film



Sunday, December 23, 2007

Thom Donovan’s epic review of Hannah Weiner’s Open House § Rod Smith’s Deed § Philadelphia vs. Ho Chi Minh City: a 2000 interv...

links | Passings



Thursday, December 20, 2007

Bob Perelman 4 early books: Braille a.k.a. Primer To the Reader § Liam O’Gallagher has died § Peter O’Leary on Robert D...

links | passing



Wednesday, December 19, 2007

If there is one single book I’d recommend this year as a present for just about anybody who is at all open to the idea of poetry, that boo...

Beat Poetry | Phil Whalen



Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Derek Beaulieu, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions , afterword by Marjorie Perloff, Inform...

Recently Received



Monday, December 17, 2007

"On Whether or Not The Pig is Indigenous to the New World" from “I Hear America Cooking” My own theory is that the pig landed near...

Passings



Monday, December 17, 2007

One model for the magazine that I like a lot is the journal that contains only a limited number of contributors, each of whom is afforded ...

Journals



Sunday, December 16, 2007

Photo of Lewis MacAdams courtesy of Friends of the LA River Lewis MacAdams on the collected poems of Philip Whalen & Joanne Kyger § ...

links | Passings



Saturday, December 15, 2007

A muscled-up Ken Caminiti celebrates winning the 1998 National League championship with champagne. Caminiti, the 1996 NL MVP, would b...

sports



Thursday, December 13, 2007

Ocho 12 is the first poetry mag available on Kindle Ocho 13 Ocho 14 § But Kindle is a total loser argues Cory Doctorow § ...

links



Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Singing “ North Country Blues,” 1963 (photo by Dave Gahr) I see where A.O. Scott of The New York Times has listed Murray Lerner’s docu...

Bob Dylan | Film



Tuesday, December 11, 2007

This way to Hogwarts Not having read Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass is, I suspect, an advantage in watching the film by that same ...

Film



Monday, December 10, 2007

Photo by Leslie Poirier In The Nation , Joshua Clover on Rod Smith § Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech § Barbara H...

links



Sunday, December 09, 2007

A quick note to acknowledge that, in the two weeks since I’ve switched my policy on the comments stream, I’ve only rejected two comments, ...

blogging



Saturday, December 08, 2007

Stockhausen is fifth from the left, back row, just to the left of W.C. Fields Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928 - 2007

Music | passing



Friday, December 07, 2007

Several contributors to the comments stream Tuesday noted the distinction between narrative and plot, and they are of course entirely corr...

narrative



Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Photo by Ben Friedlander A reading of Rob Fitterman’s Metropolis § kari edwards’ ashes returned to the sea § Rae Armantrout ,...

links | Passings



Tuesday, December 04, 2007

When I last reviewed a film here ( Michael Clayton), somebody identified only as Vance wrote in the comments stream ,: Are you ever st...

Film



Monday, December 03, 2007

Quite by accident, I happened to see the final season of The Sopranos on the same week as Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution , the follow-up film, ...

Film



Sunday, December 02, 2007

Poetry & depression: Ken Rumble, talking to CA Conrad § Nate Mackey in The Nation § John Ashbery at the Folger Library A ...

links | Passings



Friday, November 30, 2007

Photo by Ben Friedlander Steve Evans This is the time of year when newspapers that still have book review sections – a dwindling frate...

Steve Evans



Thursday, November 29, 2007

Charles Bernstein on John Ashbery’s Rivers and Mountains & Bernstein on speed § A.L.I.C.E. is “ not completely sure ” about her...

links



Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Maram al- Massri , A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor, translated from the Arabic by Khaled Matt...

Recently Received



Tuesday, November 27, 2007

When Jean Valentine’s Dream Barker won the Yale Younger Poets award in 1965, the award was at its height of legitimation – Adrienne Rich...

Jean Valentine



Monday, November 26, 2007

(from left: cris cheek, Matthew Abess , Dr. Marvin Sackner , Maggie O’Sullivan, Charles Bernstein, unidentified) Photo courtesy of Der...

links | passing



Sunday, November 25, 2007

Two completely separate topics: First, I’ve been going slowly through Geoffrey Gatza’s Thanksgiving poem for me ( PDF), enjoying it m...

blogging | Personal



Saturday, November 24, 2007

Giant Benefit Reading for Will Alexander Saturday December 1, 2007 7:30 PM in Timken Lecture Hall , at the California College of...

Readings



Thursday, November 22, 2007

Lyn Hejinian A quick note on what is Thanksgiving in the United States , a day commemorating the ability of the Plymouth Colony in Massac...

Geoffrey Gatza | The Grand Piano



Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Julian Brolaski on Stacy Szymaszek’s queer poetics § Reginald Shepherd on John Ashbery’s Some Trees § America has stopped r...

links



Monday, November 19, 2007

Photo courtesy of Jacket Landis Everson 1926 – 2007

passing



Monday, November 19, 2007

Hollywood is a bizarre work environment simply because a few people become very rich & famous, while many others eke out livings that mak...

Film



Saturday, November 17, 2007

Kenny Goldsmith’s playlist for November in the NY Times (Marie Osmond does Hugo Ball, Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, Joseph Beuys...

links



Thursday, November 15, 2007

The new issue of Damn the Caesars , Richard Owens’ magazine out of Buffalo , technically vol. III, is worth reading, even if it also is t...

diversity | magazines



Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Books Galore, Festus, Missouri Of books as a system Pierre Bayard’s first chapter Talking with Pierre Bayard § Supreme Court dis...

links | passing



Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Tom Wilkinson has been a professional actor for over thirty years, tho it’s only been in the last decade that he’s been rightfully acknow...

Film



Monday, November 12, 2007

The last time I saw Norman Mailer on the television – I never met him personally – he was on C-Span2 on one of that channel’s all-book day...

Fiction | Norman Mailer | Passings



Sunday, November 11, 2007

Sensing Rod Smith § Woman convicted of terrorism in part because of poetry § CAConrad’s Thanksgiving for Peace § Celebrati...

links



Saturday, November 10, 2007

Norman Mailer 1923 – 2007

Passings



Friday, November 09, 2007

I shouldn’t whine. Whenever I complain that the School of Quietude has held something close to a monopoly position on American poetry’s in...

Peter Cicciarello | vispo



Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Photo by Janie Eisenberg Fred McDarrah 1926 – 2007

passing | photography



Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Shanna Compton, For Girls (& Others) , Bloof Books, no location given, 2007 John Crouse, Monody...

Recently Received



Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Photo by Steve McNamara, courtesy of Jacket Ange Mlinko on poetry & community “ Numbers trouble ” – A.E. Stallings on women & pu...

links



Monday, November 05, 2007

Where is the body? In the North American version of the old game of Clue – Cluedo in its original British setting – Mr. Boddy , two D s...

Oulipo | procedures | the body



Sunday, November 04, 2007

Jane M. Cooper has died § Gil Ott interviews Jackson Mac Low § Three views of Joanne Kyger’s About Now Plus Jacket’s ...

links | passing



Saturday, November 03, 2007

Dear Mr. Silliman: You recently posted as having received The noulipian Analects , noting "author unknown." For 411 purposes, The noulip...

Letters | Oulipo



Friday, November 02, 2007

If Polis is This: Charles Olson and The Persistence of Place isn’t the best motion picture ever made about an American poet – a claim att...

Charles Olson | Film



Thursday, November 01, 2007

Perfection & Ed Baker § Post-avant women Plus talking with Cynthia Hogue & Elizabeth Frost § Adrienne Rich reading in Chi...

links | Passings



Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Jennifer Bartlett, Derivative of the Moving Image , University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque ...

Recently Received



Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Jordan Davis and Chris Edgar know the secret of editing a magazine that is ordered alphabetically. It helps to get work either from a Rae ...

magazines



Monday, October 29, 2007

Rumi as the object of cultural struggle § A primer on Afzaladin Khaghani Shervani & Persian poetry § Kurdish poet nominated ...

links



Sunday, October 28, 2007

True tales of poetry & surveillance. In 1976, I rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART), then just four years old, writing down every...



Friday, October 26, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Janie Fink, Bubble Opera , Carrot Press, Enfield , NH 2007 Basil King, Mirage: A Poem in 22 Se...

Recently Received



Thursday, October 25, 2007

R . B . Kitaj 1932 – 2007

Passings | Visual Arts



Wednesday, October 24, 2007

A note from Eliot Weinberger As you may have heard, Will Alexander is quite ill with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. He's spent ...

Poets-in-need



Wednesday, October 24, 2007

You read it here first: The Boston Red Sox will win the World Series (The last thing you want to give a team that has been playing...

links | Passings | sports



Tuesday, October 23, 2007

In recent years, different Poets Laureate of the United States – a position Donald Hall transforms into the acronym PLOTUS – have seen an...

Charles Simic | Robert Creeley | Schools of poetry



Monday, October 22, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems , translated & introduced by Peter Filkins...

Recently Received



Sunday, October 21, 2007

The limits of a laureate Poetry workshop at Buckingham Palace § The “ alternate laureate ” § A profile of Eleanor Wilner §...

links | Passings



Saturday, October 20, 2007

Ron Silliman Windsor - Detroit Reading & Talks   Thursday, October 25 7:30 to 9:00 PM Informal talk: Recognizability as part ...

Readings



Thursday, October 18, 2007

Laura Moriarty’s An Air Force , just out from Hooke Press , is a beautiful & terribly sad memoir of the author’s youth as an “air forc...

Laura Moriarty



Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Herschel Baron 1913 – 2007

Passings



Tuesday, October 16, 2007

PENNsound has added pages of MP3 files for the magic twins of Philly poetry , Frank Sherlock & CA Conrad § CA Conrad’s account ...

links | passing



Monday, October 15, 2007

A word about naming. Naming really matters. When the Declaration of Independence stated some 231 years ago We hold these truths to be sel...

Schools of poetry



Saturday, October 13, 2007

A quick recommendation here to catch Sean Penn’s magnificent Into the Wild while it’s still in the theaters unless you already have one o...

Film



Thursday, October 11, 2007

A new book from Robert Hass It’s already a finalist for the National Book Award * § Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize f...

links | Passings



Wednesday, October 10, 2007

T HE G RAND P IANO , PART 4 is now available ! An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 , by Carla Harryman,...

Grand Piano



Tuesday, October 09, 2007

One of the tests of a reading – or perhaps I should say of a reading audience – is laughter. Whenever I read, I’m conscious, possibly hype...

humor | Readings



Sunday, October 07, 2007

I’m back – it took 13 hours door to door Saturday ( and Sunday, since I arrived home at 3:00 AM). Five beds in seven nights is a rough way ...

Personal



Friday, October 05, 2007

Some images from Kasey Mohammad of the event at Ashland . I have no idea what the panda was thinking, but he/she applauded in what I like ...

Readings



Thursday, October 04, 2007

Less than two centuries ago, my great-great grandfather, John Franklin, signed his wedding certificate with an X. Living in what was then ...

Visual Arts



Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Some images of my reading at Mills from Howard Junker, who wore a fabulous shirt that would have made Mayakovsky proud.

Readings



Tuesday, October 02, 2007

At two points in David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises , the Russian desk of Scotland Yard puts in an appearance. The first of these functions...

Film



Saturday, September 29, 2007

Ron Silliman West Coast Readings   Tuesday, October 2 5:30 to 7:00 PM Mills Hall Living Room Mills College , Oakland 5000 MacA...

Readings



Friday, September 28, 2007

Jimmy Rollins is not just the best shortstop in the NL , he deserves to be the MVP 159 games into the major league baseball season – w...

Baseball



Thursday, September 27, 2007

While the little tempest in a comments stream over the use of source materials was raging, or at least microraging , in reaction to David...

Film | Source Anxiety



Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Kay Rosen, Blurred Transcendental one-liners § Talking with Pattie McCarthy § An obit of Bill Griffiths § A fractal readi...

links



Tuesday, September 25, 2007

My general reading style is to be in the middle of ten to twelve books at one time, switching back & forth as the whim strikes me. It can ...

Jean Day



Monday, September 24, 2007

Warning: spoilers abound below. Rather by accident, no, entirely by accident, I found myself watching what I take to be the most profoun...

Film



Sunday, September 23, 2007

Ron Silliman West Coast Readings   Tuesday, October 2 5:30 to 7:00 PM Mills Hall Living Room Mills College , Oakland 5000 MacA...

Readings



Saturday, September 22, 2007

New Yorker promises Paul Muldoon as poetry editor does not represent ”some sort of radical aesthetic or theoretical shift” § Rae A...

links



Friday, September 21, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) William Allegrezza, Fragile Replacements , Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena , CA , 200...

Recently Received



Thursday, September 20, 2007

David Giannini responds to my blog on his book, Other Lines: Dear Ron Silliman: Thank you for reviewing Others' Lines . These days, on...

David Giannini | Responses



Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Tom Devaney’s review of Charles North’s Cadenza § “Please welcome John Ashbery ” § Christian Bök on Writing & Failure ( par...

links



Tuesday, September 18, 2007

It took me a long time – seven years – to read Larry Eigner’s last works, readiness / enough / depends / on . Green Integer is the post...

Larry Eigner



Monday, September 17, 2007

3:10 to Yuma has gotten some rave reviews – four stars from Roger Ebert for example – and there is no doubt that it’s a good movie with w...

Film



Sunday, September 16, 2007

Haydeé Rovirosa Gallery The book as sculpture: Brian Dettmer § Draft 85: Hard Copy may be the best in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ g...

links | Passings



Saturday, September 15, 2007

Bill Griffiths 1948 – 2007

Passings



Friday, September 14, 2007

Brian Calvin’s Half Mast is the cover image for Graham Foust’s Necessary Stranger This started out as a rave review for Graham Foust’s ...

Bin Ramke | Graham Foust | recognizability | Schools of poetry



Thursday, September 13, 2007

Perhaps the most shocking revelation in Hannah Weiner’s Open House , out this past spring from Kenning Editions , comes in the very last ...

Hannah Weiner



Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Talking with Nick Piombino § Talking with Charles Bernstein (a Bengali interview) § Talking with Steve Vincent § Reading b...

links



Tuesday, September 11, 2007

It was a Tuesday, just like today. I had an appointment for my annual physical later that morning and Bob Dylan was releasing a new album ...

September 11



Monday, September 10, 2007

David Giannini’s Others’ Lines (Series I and II) * Tricollage , published by Peter Ganick as a small chapbook, really nothing more than a ...

David Giannini | tricollage



Saturday, September 08, 2007

A history of lighght § Taking The Grand Piano literally § William Gibson: countering the antibuzz Node: website for a non...

links



Friday, September 07, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Angela Ball, Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds, University of Pittsburgh Press , Pittsburgh 2...

Recently Received



Thursday, September 06, 2007

The Grand Piano website is live!

Grand Piano



Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Kerouac – “ It was the sentences ” Where On the Road was written The Guardian is doing a week of articles on Kerouac & The L.A....

links



Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Is there any dynamic in the construction of meaning more powerful than the parsimony principle? The principle, which is derived from the l...

Film | parsimony principle



Monday, September 03, 2007

John Ashbery , poet laureate of MTV § Blogging and book promotion § Kerouac, the author vs . Kerouac , the hype § Robert ...

links | Passings



Sunday, September 02, 2007

America's first poet laureate, Joseph Auslander It’s worth thinking about this , five years later: I have never thought of myself as a...

blogging | Personal | School of Quietude



Friday, August 24, 2007

No title

Personal



Thursday, August 23, 2007

I’m going to be heading down to the Outer Banks for a few days, and, as always when I’m trying to take a vacation, I’m leaving the laptop te...

Personal



Wednesday, August 22, 2007

George Bowering: This I Believe § Robert Pinsky on C. Dale Young § Eagle Pond Farm § Remembering Liam Rector § Paul W...

links | Passings



Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Amy England, Victory and Her Opposites: A Guide , Tupelo Press, Dorset , VT , 2007 David Giannini , ...

Recently Received



Monday, August 20, 2007

Not that long ago I received a mailing envelope from England in which there was a small matchbox, the top of which reads, black boldface a...

mini-books



Saturday, August 18, 2007

Photo by Helen Adam Better late than never: a superb bio-page for Jack Spicer on the Academy of American Poets' website § The...

links | Passings



Friday, August 17, 2007

If, as I wrote Monday, the formal advantage of cinema as a narrative art is that you can see the story, the obvious implicit challenge, th...

Film



Thursday, August 16, 2007

Liam Rector 1949 – 2007

Passings



Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The itinerant poet- librarian § Talking with Eleni Sikelianos § A profile of Past Tents Press (one of whose books we recentl...

links | Passings



Tuesday, August 14, 2007

photo by Joan Eichner Margaret Avison 1918 - 2007

Passings



Monday, August 13, 2007

Jon Carroll played the accessibility card the other day & boy did he bungle it. Carroll, a one-time editorial presence at Rolling Stone,...

accessibility | difficulty



Saturday, August 11, 2007

Sally Crabtree , platform poet § Is Language Poetry American ? Leevi Lehto & ”The Un-American Tree” § Linh Dinh & Bill Knot...

links



Friday, August 10, 2007

Photo by Amy King To ask what makes John Ashbery a New American Poet is to ask the implicit question of what made the New American Poetry...

John Ashbery | prose poems



Thursday, August 09, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Christopher Arigo , Into the Archives , Omnidawn, Richmond , CA , 2007 Michael Earl Craig, Yes, M...

Recently Received



Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Photo by Hikmet Koç Ilhan Berk , Turkish postmodernist § An Ubuweb tribute to Mary Ellen Solt § Explaining Ubuweb to the a...

links



Tuesday, August 07, 2007

The other day, I was saying, vis-à-vis some scenes in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni & Jean Eustache, that they “showed me how art, a...

Film



Monday, August 06, 2007

Frank O’Hara (left) & John Ashbery, 1953         (photo by Kenneth Koch) Back when Robert Duncan & Jerome Rothe...

John Ashbery | prose poems



Sunday, August 05, 2007

Absurdism’s apotheosis: Daniil Kharms in The New Yorker § Clayton Eshleman on translating César Vallejo § Saigon 1964 or ...

links | Passings



Saturday, August 04, 2007

This has been a terrible week in the history of film. Even tho their great works were decades behind them, losing Bergman & Antonioni in suc...

Film



Friday, August 03, 2007

The only part of writing that is literally organic is the way in which the rhythms of production fit into the life of an author. This is s...

John Ashbery | prose poems



Thursday, August 02, 2007

Talking with Christian Bök § Charles Simic is the new poet laureate of the United States § Digital lit from a non-avant per...

links | Passings



Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Verushka & David Hemmings in Blow-Up, 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 1912 – 2007

Film | Passings



Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Think about John Ashbery’s Three Poems from the perspective of readers in 1972 when it first appeared as a Viking Compass volume, a photo ...

John Ashbery | prose poems



Monday, July 30, 2007

Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007

Film | Passings



Sunday, July 29, 2007

For sale: An “Objectivists” Anthology ( buy it now: $1399) § Katherine Hayles on the future of paper § Adios to the academic...

links | Passings



Saturday, July 28, 2007

Darrell Grayson 1961-2007 Executed by the State of Alabama Tried by an all-white jury Defended by a lawyer with no experi...

Passings



Friday, July 27, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Jessica Bozek & Eli Queen, cor▪re▪spon▪dence , dusi /e-chap kollektiv , Switzerland , 2007 Ray Crai...

Recently Received



Thursday, July 26, 2007

Yesterday’s link list included both a defense of literary criticism in newspapers and a link to a New York Times review by James Longenbac...

Criticism | newspapers



Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The triumph of Richard Serra § “I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut " § Walter Benjamin’s last day § Weinberger’...

links



Tuesday, July 24, 2007

When, in editing the first volume of Poet’s Bookshelf , Peter Davis got some 81 poets to respond to his request for a list of 5-10 books ...

anthologies | Barrett Watten | Schools of poetry



Monday, July 23, 2007

Peter Davis must be in the process of gathering together a second volume of his anthology, Poet’s Bookshelf , collecting the lists of a n...

anthologies | Barrett Watten | Film | Theory



Sunday, July 22, 2007

Elizabeth Bishop talking with Susan Howe ( MP3) § Other shows from Susan Howe’s WBAI series (includes shows with F.T. Prince,...

links | Passings



Saturday, July 21, 2007

Sekou Sundiata 1948 – 2007           And what if we could show that what we dream               is deeper th...

Passings



Friday, July 20, 2007

Ed Barrett, left, with Bill Corbett I had the strangest experience with Ed Barrett’s “prose poem novel” (as it says on the rear jacket) ...

Boston | Ed Barrett | Fiction | prose poems



Thursday, July 19, 2007

Krishna & I took one of our kids up to summer camp in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania Tuesday & rather than drive close to five hours...

blogging | Personal



Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Dmitri Prigov , Russia's leading conceptualist poet , has died

Dmitri Prigov | Passings



Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Henry Rago (second from right) with the editorial staff of Poetry, 1956 L-R: Robert Mueller, Margaret Danner, Elizabeth Wright, Rago, Fred...

Journals | Schools of poetry



Monday, July 16, 2007

Given the rather mixed & muted reviews it’s received, I was surprised to discover that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( HP5) ...

Film



Sunday, July 15, 2007

This week’s death-of-a-bookstore article comes from Star Books , Madison , Wisconsin § Mahmoud Darwish back in Haifa § Geof ...

links



Saturday, July 14, 2007

Think big (but really small), Kenny G Outsourcing Mr. Goldsmith § A lengthy interview of Kathleen Fraser by Sarah Rosenthal ...

links



Friday, July 13, 2007

Songs Aside appears to collect ten years’ poetry by Ted Pearson into a single volume. Depending on how one reads the book, this represent...

Ted Pearson



Thursday, July 12, 2007

I’ve been thinking about poetry readings & their importance, especially to poets from my own generation. It’s not an accident, for example, ...

Readings | The Grand Piano



Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Ruth Stone succeeds Grace Paley as Vermont State Poet § Petrarch & Brad Paisley § Talking with Chinua Achebe § An Irish p...

links



Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Rae Armantrout, Concentrate , Longhouse , Green River , VT , 2007 Valerie Coulton , The Cellar Drea...

Recently Received



Monday, July 09, 2007

In 1957, a 23-year-old Joanne Kyger arrived in San Francisco , having just graduated from UC Santa Barbara where she had studied poetry wi...

Joanne Kyger



Sunday, July 08, 2007

The third volume of The Grand Piano is now available from SPD

Grand Piano



Saturday, July 07, 2007

Poet & performance artist Sandy Crimmins has died § Harvey Goldner , ” the Bard of Belltown ,” has also died § Alzheimer’s k...

links | Passings



Friday, July 06, 2007

You know you’re older than dirt when somebody finds a poster like this with your name on it. It’s from 1968, and I can still vaguely remem...

Readings



Thursday, July 05, 2007

I get, as you might imagine, some unusual mail, some of it virtual, some not. Right now I’m receiving maybe ten poems every day from diffe...

Ellen Baxt



Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Gloria Helfgott , one of the first great contemporary book artists , has died § The Tom Phillips fetishism project § The ...

links | Passings



Monday, July 02, 2007

No two books of Jennifer Moxley’s really seem remotely alike, so it’s no surprise that The Line feels like a radical departure not just f...

Jennifer Moxley



Sunday, July 01, 2007

The Zinc Bar reading is now online (My thanks to MiPo radio)

Readings



Saturday, June 30, 2007

Mary Ellen Solt , a pioneer of vispo , has died § Some translations Ms. Solt might have approved of: Ron Padgett of Francis P...

links | Passings



Thursday, June 28, 2007

Jay Wright is not the sort of poet you would expect to see publishing with a post-avant house like Flood Editions. Although The Homecomin...

Jay Wright



Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The book machine § Poet Rahim al- Maliki killed in Baghdad blast § Coming to Rushdie’s defense in Pakistan … but not in T...

links | Passings



Tuesday, June 26, 2007

At first, the poems of Chris Tonelli remind you of the off-beat wit associated with the New York School: Night Terror I had a dream...

Chris Tonelli



Monday, June 25, 2007

The use of names in jacket blurbs or, for that matter, as points of comparison anywhere is a process that needs to be handled with conside...

blurbs | Marvin Bell | School of Quietude



Sunday, June 24, 2007

A very nice review of The Age of Huts Obviously I owe Andrew Ervin , of whom I’d not heard before, some serious thanks!

Personal



Saturday, June 23, 2007

Juan Ramón Jiménez: sex with the nuns § Poetry from Guantanamo (video, may require subscription to the Wall Street Journal) An...

links | Passings



Friday, June 22, 2007

The first time I ever read an excerpt from Ketjak publicly, at a restaurant on Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue, either very late in 1974 or po...

Jessica Smith | Kathy Acker | Readings



Thursday, June 21, 2007

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Kostas Anagnopoulos , Irritant, Ugly Duckling Presse , Brooklyn , NY , 2007 Stan Apps, Info Ration, Ma...

Recently Received



Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Coming to the Bowery Poetry Club Saturday, June 23 (also, Boston , Cambridge , Danbury , Nyack & back in NYC over the next ten days),...

links | Passings



Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The most exciting and satisfying anthology I’ve acquired in the past month is The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century , edite...

anthologies



Sunday, June 17, 2007

See you at the Zinc!

Readings



Saturday, June 16, 2007

A guide to Chinua Achebe Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie on Achebe § Today is Bloomsday ! § Talking with ” Downriver Dan ” Feat...

links



Friday, June 15, 2007

Sunday in New York City at the Zinc Bar , 90 W. Houston , corner of LaGuardia Place, 212-477-8337 7:00 PM Jessica Smith &...

Readings



Thursday, June 14, 2007

In 1965, one of the most interesting and innovative anthologies of American poetry ever published appeared as, of all things, a Doubleday ...

anthologies



Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Merwin or McKuen , you decide And even more (I always thought Rod was better than that) § Ousmane Sembène , the great Afri...

links | Passings



Tuesday, June 12, 2007

A great idea badly executed can be much worse than a bad idea. My evidence for this assertion is Michael Benedikt’s anthology, The Prose ...

anthologies | collaborations | prose poems



Monday, June 11, 2007

Donald Allen There’s no such thing as a perfect anthology. For one thing, the form is too complex, carrying as it must a world of social...

anthologies | Donald Allen | New American Poetry



Sunday, June 10, 2007

My little informal poll on Friday looked like the sort of election Fidel Castro would love – the Ayes got over 97 percent of the vote, inclu...

blogging



Saturday, June 09, 2007

The National Poetry Map § Kenny Goldsmith’s Traffic now available as a book § Tim Peterson’s report of the Gil Ott memorial r...

links | Passings



Friday, June 08, 2007

A couple of quick questions today. First , I’m curious as to whether or not anybody finds it useful when I post a list of what’s been rece...

blogging | Readings



Thursday, June 07, 2007

A few quick notes & photos of last Sunday’s reading in memory of Gil Ott & to celebrate the publication of the first winner of the annual...

Gil Ott | Readings



Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Stalin greets the Muse § Ken Rumble is the latest addition to Kate Greenstreet’s first-book interview blog Cold Front review of...

links



Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Christopher Alexander & Kristen Gallagher, Tony Snow’s Band, no publisher listed, no location listed, 200...

Recently Received



Monday, June 04, 2007

It’s hard to imagine that it’s been seventeen years since Gil Ott was the writer in residence at the Headlands Institute in some old mili...

Gil Ott



Saturday, June 02, 2007

photo © 2006 by Gordon Ball (Courtesy of Jacket) A fabulous photo essay on Allen Ginsberg & Co . by Gordon Ball § 50 years ago ...

links | Passings



Friday, June 01, 2007

Gil Ott Tribute & the First Annual Gil Ott Book Award Sunday, June 3, 4:00 pm Robin’s Bookstore 108 S.13th St. , Philadelphia 215 -...

Gil Ott | Readings | Tim Peterson



Thursday, May 31, 2007

To the Cognescenti is Tom Mandel’s twelfth book ¹ in just under 30 years. But it’s also his first in ten, eleven if you disallow his co...

Tom Mandel



Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Sarah Hannah took her life last Wednesday § Lydia Davis in translation § Rae Armantrout in The Nation (subscription requir...

links | Passings



Tuesday, May 29, 2007

I generally despise I-95 & there’s nothing about the Memorial Day Weekend that is apt to make me love it any more deeply. As it happened, ...

Beat Poetry | Jack Kerouac | recordings



Monday, May 28, 2007

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Lynn Behrendt , 8 Poems from Meridian Roundelay , Lines Chapbooks, Red Hook, NY 2007 Joel Bettridge, T...

Recently Received



Saturday, May 26, 2007

Gary Snyder on Jack Kerouac & against the new nuclear enthusiasts § Linh Dinh’s video archive § Wise men fish here § Au...

links | Passings



Friday, May 25, 2007

In my note on Paul Auster’s poetry the other day, I wrote: Auster’s work looks on its surface a little like New York School verse, esp...

Ted Berrigan | translation



Thursday, May 24, 2007

This Weekend in the Mid-Atlantic Tom Mandel & Ron Silliman Baltimore Saturday May 26 8:00 PM i.e. reading series Dionysus Rest...

Readings



Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Dancing on Hippie Hill, Golden Gate Park ( Photo by Robert Altman) Summer of Love 40 years later -- Michael McClure’s memory Law...

links



Tuesday, May 22, 2007

That average tenure of a web page being between 44 and 75 days is carried upwards some by the presence of Ygdrasil , which makes a good c...

magazines



Monday, May 21, 2007

Of my reluctance in 1970 to include Bob Grenier in the “15 New Poets of the San Francisco Bay Area” feature that David Melnick & I edited ...

Aram Saroyan | Minimalism | Robert Grenier



Saturday, May 19, 2007

Profiling Jim Behrle § Language poetry and the body § Profiling Molly Saccardo § John Cage has a secret § A theory of...

links



Friday, May 18, 2007

Microtonal guitarist Rod Poole has been murdered Rod with Nels Cline & Jim McCauley Nate Dorward’s review of The Acoust...

Passings



Thursday, May 17, 2007

Recently Received Books / Broadsides (Poetry) Charles Alexander, near or random acts , Singing Horse Press, San Diego , CA , 2004 D...

Recently Received



Wednesday, May 16, 2007

For rent (or sale, perhaps) Jack Kerouac’s birthplace § Troy Jollimore in transition § Jollimore’s Hitchens ( Hitchens' G*d...

links



Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Saturday afternoon, I came back from a long walk in Jenkins Arboretum – it’s azalea season here in Chester County & the arboretum is one ...

Stephen Vincent



Monday, May 14, 2007

Tottel’s is now online. At least partly. Craig Dworkin’s Eclipse archive, which, in its own words, is dedicated to “digital facsimiles ...

Archives | Tottel's



Sunday, May 13, 2007

The sonnet is a sewing-machine for the monostich Ian Hamilton Finlay’s neons close today at Victoria Miro in London § How the...

links



Saturday, May 12, 2007

The Poetry Project has just named Stacy Szymaszek as its new artistic director, succeeding the outgoing Anselm Berrigan. This is terrific ...

Poetry Project | Stacy Szymaszek



Friday, May 11, 2007

In my note on Mark Mirsky’s memoir, Creeley, I wrote that “When someone who is important to a lot of people dies, the survivors stand aro...

Lew Welch



Thursday, May 10, 2007

Friday, May 11 7:00 PM At the Last Word Bookshop 220 S. 40th Street (near Walnut) ,  215 -386-7750 Philadelphia A Mad Poets Soc...

Readings



Wednesday, May 09, 2007

“ My name is Jerry and I’m a poet ” § Talking with Barry Schwabsky § The affairs of C. Day-Lewis § Patti Smith in The New...

links



Tuesday, May 08, 2007

I have a question about the line and linebreaks. I’m mindful of a monograph I read by Bertram Bronson when I was in college on the stand...

Jorie Graham | line



Monday, May 07, 2007

There was a time when a serious novelist got his start, or perhaps his training, by writing poetry. Less common now than it once was, one ...

Paul Auster



Sunday, May 06, 2007

Saluting Jack Gilbert A note on Jack with some of my favorite poems of his § The newspaper book review: a thing of the past ? ...

links



Saturday, May 05, 2007

There I was making a snide remark in the blog yesterday about riding gloves when one of my sons and I found ourselves behind a car with a ...

Chester County | horse racing | sports



Friday, May 04, 2007

photo by Tom Raworth We are no doubt going to see a fair number of books quite like Mark Jay Mirsky’s memoir, Creeley, published as a cha...

Mark Jay Mirsky | memoir | Robert Creeley



Thursday, May 03, 2007

What I didn’t mention about Tony Trehy the other day is that he works as a visual arts curator – the hidden hand behind the Irwell Sculpt...

Jill Magi



Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Amy King is the 2007 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere § The Washington Post’s big ”Celebrating Poetry” Book World feature, with...

links



Tuesday, May 01, 2007

One of the questions I have about some of the categories I’ve concocted in my own head over the years, such as School of Quietude (SoQ) ...

Tony Trehy



Monday, April 30, 2007

One possible, if erroneous, interpretation of the term post-avant might be “not avant anymore.” It certainly is the case that there are a...

Spencer Selby



Sunday, April 29, 2007

Ron Silliman: Spring Readings Philadelphia Friday May 11 7:00 PM , Last Word Bookshop , with Christina Davis , a Mad Poe...

Personal | Readings



Saturday, April 28, 2007

How your eyes move about the screen (implications for page layout) § Robert Pinsky: “ In Praise of Difficult Poetry ” (an examp...

links



Friday, April 27, 2007

You will note that I’ve finally begun revising the blogroll in the lefthand column for the first time since a virus ate the underlying Word...

blogging



Thursday, April 26, 2007

Readers of this space will recall that I have been an advocate of Linh Dinh’s work for some time now, and this note will mark the thir...

Linh Dinh



Wednesday, April 25, 2007

August Kleinzahler tries to deal with the “ precipitous, rather mysterious, falling off in the quality ” of Ed Dorn’s poetry § T...

link



Tuesday, April 24, 2007

“Language is eyes,” Zukofsky’s Shakespeare reminds us repeatedly throughout Bottom, which is perhaps why it seems so odd that Zukofsky & s...

Cole Swensen



Monday, April 23, 2007

Over the past month, I’ve received three focused anthologies, focused in the sense that none pretends to be “best poets of X” or whateve...

anthologies



Sunday, April 22, 2007

John Chamberlain at 80 § Pianist Andrew Hill has died § All of Ezra Pound’s recorded poetry downloadable on MP3s § Ava...

links | Passings



Friday, April 20, 2007

In Doubt a Rose Is a Grotesque Thing The property line extends to the shore line a dead otter fish buoys and driftwood. I meant no...

Passings



Friday, April 20, 2007

Recently Received   Books / Broadsides (Poetry) Dan Boehl , Work, Pavement Saw , Columbus , OH , 2007 Joseph Bradshaw, The Way Birds Bec...

Recently Received



Thursday, April 19, 2007

Nikki Giovanni I’ve walked around all week vaguely nauseated & depressed by the events at Virginia Tech on Monday. Remembering that one ...



Wednesday, April 18, 2007

I’ve arrived at that stage in life when poets whom I think of as being clearly a generation younger than me – hence “youngsters” – are sta...

Laynie Browne



Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Neal Cassady’s family has created a website in his honor § The new Origin can be downloaded as a PDF file here Includes Andre...

links



Monday, April 16, 2007

It was, I believe, Walter Benjamin who, writing of photography, first distinguished between titles and captions. Titles, in Benjamin’s mod...

Tim Peterson



Sunday, April 15, 2007

Reading Postponed Because of the Nor’easter – it’s pouring at the moment, tho the strong winds are yet to arrive – and a couple of case...

Readings | weather



Saturday, April 14, 2007

Gil Ott Tribute & the First Annual Gil Ott Book Award Sunday, April 15th, 3pm Robin’s Bookstore 108 S.13th St. , Philadelphia More...

Gil Ott | Readings | Tim Peterson



Friday, April 13, 2007

Happy Birthday , Rae Armantrout !

Rae Armantrout



Thursday, April 12, 2007

So it goes Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007

Passings



Thursday, April 12, 2007

I know Ken Rumble originally from his participation in the Lucifer Poetics group of North Carolina , very possibly the liveliest poetry c...

Ken Rumble



Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Talking collage with John Ashbery § Patchen Fest ! § A great little note on the origins of the School o’ Quietude from Andove...

links



Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Sol LeWitt 1928 - 2007

Passings | Sol Lewitt | Visual Arts



Monday, April 09, 2007

“It must be hard getting out of graduate school without a book contract.” That sentence, which was spoken publicly at a party a few years ba...

anthologies | School of Quietude



Sunday, April 08, 2007

Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch Among this year’s recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships are Nick Spitzer, host of Americ...



Saturday, April 07, 2007

Of Darren Wershler - Henry in The New Yorker § More on the idea of a poet laureate for Boston § William Logan on Derek Walco...

links



Friday, April 06, 2007

While I was away in Boston, I received two anthologies one could characterize as thoroughly immersed in something akin to a School-of-Quietu...

anthologies | Schools of poetry



Thursday, April 05, 2007

Allen Ginsberg Gone ten years today Scenes from Allen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit by Jonas Mekas 1997

Allen Ginsberg | Beat Poetry | New American Poetry | Passings



Wednesday, April 04, 2007

George Quasha rocks ! § This week’s featured book on the Academy of American Poets home page is The Age of Huts § “ Geoffr...

links



Tuesday, April 03, 2007

(Photo by Larry Keenan) I’ll wager that I knew who Hettie Jones was as an editor, and as a presence on the New York City poetry scene,...

Beat Poetry | Hettie Jones | New American Poetry



Monday, April 02, 2007

Echoes of Jimmy Carter & Eugene McCarthy: the poetry of Barack Obama § As Borders sinks indies struggle § The Caravan Project...

links



Sunday, April 01, 2007

For what it’s worth, this blog received 36,845 visits in March as readers accessed 63,788 page views, both records for the site. That transl...

blogging



Saturday, March 31, 2007

I was pleased to find The Age of Huts (compleat) at Harvard Books in Cambridge the other day. Behind Harvard Books, at 9 Plympton , Grol...

Bookstores



Friday, March 30, 2007

Rachel Blau DuPlessis has a fascinating, even disturbing, critical piece in Jacket 31, which is technically the most recent issue of thi...

DuPlessis | New American Poetry | Theory



Thursday, March 29, 2007

Another New York School poet who would do very well to have a big, well-edited, selected poems from a publisher with good distribution (yo...

Lewis Warsh | New American Poetry



Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Influencing Paul Muldoon (tho it still misses the Jim Morrison allusion in Horse Latitudes) § Borders bails on Britain (also Ire...

links



Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Poets send me work all the time asking me if I will comment on what they’re doing. It’s something to which I can seldom reply, simply beca...

Beth Joselow



Monday, March 26, 2007

1961 US Figure Skating Team boarding flight to Brussels I took just enough time out over the weekend from some projects, ferrying the ki...

sports



Sunday, March 25, 2007

I’m going to be on the road for the next week. I hope to keep posting, but one never knows. At least the snow has finally melted here in Che...

Personal



Saturday, March 24, 2007

Happy 50 th Birthday Helvetica ! § The scourge of Arial § The Poetry Foundation & Americans for the Arts find themselves poor...

links



Thursday, March 22, 2007

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Melanie Almeder , On Dream Street , Tupelo Press, Dorset , VT , 2006 Kemeny Babineau , VDB Worldl...

Recently Received



Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Text paintings by Stephen Rodefer § Rae Armantrout , reviewed by Stephen Burt in the New York Times Book Review , transcends her ...

links



Tuesday, March 20, 2007

For a reader of my generation, a collection like Way More West: New and Selected Poems by the late Ed Dorn comes as a potentially usefu...

Ed Dorn | New American Poetry



Monday, March 19, 2007

Nothing is harder or more tricky than a selected poems. As Robert Grenier demonstrated when he delivered a selected Creeley that showed t...

David Shapiro | New American Poetry



Saturday, March 17, 2007

First Screening: bp Nichols’ computer poems from 1984 in numerous formats including Java § A “new” poem by William Carlos Wil...

links | Passings



Friday, March 16, 2007

The strangest film I’ve seen in some time is an experimental docu -drama from Thailand called Mysterious Object at Noon , directed by Api...

Film



Thursday, March 15, 2007

Venus , the film for which Peter O’Toole received his most recent Oscar nomination for acting, may be one of the first in a genre that I c...

Film



Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Talking with Martín Espada (An MP3 of a reading at Fox Lane High School) § Mary Ann Caws on translation § Albert Mobilio...

links | Passings



Tuesday, March 13, 2007

It’s worth noting that the continual appearance of new books of John Ashbery’s short poems has not resulted in the same complaints that ...

Ashbery



Monday, March 12, 2007

In 2004, Berkeley-born Ryan Fleck won awards at the Aspen Shortfest, the Boston Independent Film Festival & the Sundance Film Festival f...

Film



Sunday, March 11, 2007

It’s here !

Personal



Saturday, March 10, 2007

What Do Cyborgs Want? ( Paris , Suburb of the Twentieth Century) In this "Xerox degree of culture" that has come to be known, for reason...

Baudrillard | Theory



Friday, March 09, 2007

My trip to Missoula , Montana , was memorable for a number of reasons. Taking place in May of 1989, it occurred just a matter of weeks befor...

Baudrillard | The academy | Theory



Thursday, March 08, 2007

March is Small Press Month § According to the Wall Street Journal , The LA Times Book Review is about to be toast with the Washingto...

links



Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Jean Baudrillard 1929 - 2007

Baudrillard | Passings



Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Jordan’s note to the comments stream regarding my note about Conjunctions was short, but to the point: Never mind the names – any work i...

Journals



Monday, March 05, 2007

I’ve always found critical writing to be a useful activity. Indeed, when I first began writing relatively theoretical articles, first with “...

Theory



Sunday, March 04, 2007

Frank Bidart has won the Bollingen Prize § The Brits love lists: the 100 most loved books of all time (4 of the top 5 are b...

links



Friday, March 02, 2007

Musidora as Irma Vep , 1915 We were in the mood for a change of pace & so decided to watch Irma Vep , a 1996 French flick by Olivier Ass...

Film



Thursday, March 01, 2007

It is a sign of a considerable amount of editorial confidence for a literary journal, any literary journal, to start running three poems ...

Journals



Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The poet is In § The best discussion of torque in poetry I’ve ever read § Linh Dinh talking with Barry Schwabsky § Seymour...

links



Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Leroy Jenkins 1932 - 2007

Jazz | Passings



Monday, February 26, 2007

I haven’t always read Elaine Equi’s poetry as enthusiastically as I seem to be doing right now. As is often the case for me with poems th...

Equi



Sunday, February 25, 2007

Gene Frumkin 1928 – 2007

Passings



Saturday, February 24, 2007

When I was 16 years old and mowing lawns after school around Berkeley to make a little money, there were two publications that I always s...

newspapers



Friday, February 23, 2007

Ray Winstone & Leonardo Di Caprio Try and look at The Departed , Martin Scorsese’s masterful crime drama that’s up for the Best Picture...

Film



Thursday, February 22, 2007

Tom Devaney on Charles Bernstein § A remembrance of Emmett Williams & an interview with same § Merilene Murphy dead at 51 ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Michael Benedikt , John Perrault , Vito Acconci, John Giorno , Hannah Weiner, Summer ‘69 Michael Benedikt 1935 – 2007

Passings



Tuesday, February 20, 2007

You would think that living in New York for roughly the past 20 years would stamp Elaine Equi as a certifiable New York poet, but somet...

Equi



Monday, February 19, 2007

I’m obviously a sucker for Mongolian movies. One of my favorite films ever is Urga , which was distributed in the United States under the...

Film



Sunday, February 18, 2007

T HE G RAND P IANO , PART 2 An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 , by Barrett Watten, Ted Pearson, Rae Ar...

Grand Piano



Saturday, February 17, 2007

A terrific anthology of contemporary poetry from Taiwan edited by Shin Yu Pai 7 poets each with an interview , & the poems incl...

anthologies | Journals | links | Passings | Readings



Friday, February 16, 2007

Emmett Williams 1925 - 2007 photo by Anne Tardos

Fluxus | Passings



Thursday, February 15, 2007

Written between 1919 & 1921, & published in 1927 in a Russian émigré journal, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s short novel We insured that he would ne...

science fiction



Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Eric von Schmidt one of the best of the ‘60s folkies has died ( 2 nd Row, 3 rd Right remains one of the great albums of that dec...

links | Passings



Tuesday, February 13, 2007

When ROVA: Orkestrova’s Electric Ascension started last Saturday night at Philadelphia’s International House, the audience hadn’t even st...

Jazz | ROVA



Monday, February 12, 2007

I know that some people are going to cringe to hear this note’s topic sentence, so let’s just be blunt about it. We can come back and addres...

Flarf | Magee



Sunday, February 11, 2007

Linh Dinh & Frank Sherlock on the streets of Philadelphia One of the lessons I think anyone learned who came into the orbit of the late G...

Poets-in-need



Saturday, February 10, 2007

Jasper Johns talking with John Yau about artists, O’Hara , Sitwell & UFOs § Digital text is different § Why tags are like po...

links | news



Thursday, February 08, 2007

David Melnick and I were riding a BART train that seemed far more tattered & worn than I had remembered them, the screech of the under-the...

Armantrout



Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Unveiling / Marianne Moore , the latest chapbook from Michael Cross’ Atticus/Finch Press consists of two movements from a larger work by ...

Taggart



Tuesday, February 06, 2007

One poem in Next Life that strikes me as revealing a good deal about how Rae Armantrout weaves her verbal magic is called “Close”: 1. ...

Armantrout



Monday, February 05, 2007

This blog will receive its one millionth visit sometime later this week. I may very well miss it since I’m on the road on a business trip...

blogging



Saturday, February 03, 2007

Frosty, the snow job (what’s wrong with Irish poetry) § Designing book covers § “The only people writing should be those who...

links



Friday, February 02, 2007

There is something about the construction of a book as object that ensures that a 78-page hard-cover volume of poems will appear to be “sl...

Armantrout



Thursday, February 01, 2007

Molly Ivins 1944-2007 When I was the executive editor of The Socialist Review, back betwixt 1986 & 1989, I found myself reading The Te...

Passings



Wednesday, January 31, 2007

photo courtesy of Woollahra Library What readings look like down under – the 2006 Valentine’s Day reading on the shores of Sydney...

links



Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver is the most original motion picture I’ve seen in ages. With a plot worthy of Hitchcock at his most whimsical, t...

Film



Monday, January 29, 2007

Krishna had made a pun at her book club and nobody had gotten the joke. It had been something that substituted yam for Ya as in Ya-Ya S...

Robert Kelly



Sunday, January 28, 2007

“Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust” A portrait of Jim Harrison § “ Don’t feed the poets ” (!?!) § Robert Pinsky t...

links



Saturday, January 27, 2007

This week’s blog at the Poetry Foundation has been Kenny Goldsmith on the virtues of uncreative writing . While this sounds like coa...

Conceptual poetics



Friday, January 26, 2007

Warning: spoilers below What I think of as the ensemble film of globalization is evolving into a genre all its own, and the results so ...

Film



Thursday, January 25, 2007

As you might have gathered from what I wrote Tuesday, reading what William Deresiewicz passed off as literary criticism in The Nation mad...

Theory



Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The tip of a Robert Kelly interview § The impact of Katrina on the poetry of Lagos § A celebration of Mahmoud Darwish in Te...

links



Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I know a young man who is currently doing his doctoral dissertation examining the nature of characters in novels who die. What does it mean...

Theory



Monday, January 22, 2007

More than any other poet of my generation, the work of Nathaniel Mackey comes directly out of the projectivist poetics of Charles Olson, R...

Nathaniel Mackey



Saturday, January 20, 2007

You still have until 9:00 PM Eastern on Sunday to bid on any of the 88 auction items in Rain Taxi’s annual fundraiser. It’s a terrific c...

Journals



Friday, January 19, 2007

The title poem of Bob Perelman’s IFLIFE is a long piece, 26 pages in all, that occurs in its own section, the book’s second, entitled “Su...

Bob Perelman



Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Questions for John Ashbery § Questions for Charles Bernstein § It’s pretty much last call, Kyle Schlesinger tells me, for Woundw...

links



Tuesday, January 16, 2007

I have this desire to read each poem of Bob Perelman’s IFLIFE closely, to worry over it and poke at it. Andy Gricevich’s comment to yest...

Bob Perelman



Monday, January 15, 2007

IFLIFE , all one word, is Bob Perelman’s 16 th book of poetry¹ and his most ambitious. Like many of his earlier volumes, dating back to 7 ...

Bob Perelman



Sunday, January 14, 2007

Hearing Creeley with Steve Swallow & Steve Kuhn § This is actually the most important story in publishing right now § Canad...

links



Saturday, January 13, 2007

Nick Carbó has edited an Asian/American issue of MIPOesias and it is AWESOME .

anthologies



Friday, January 12, 2007

In a webnote that he calls “ Dark Clouds over Mordor ,” Greg Rappleye has been wondering “how long Silliman will go without responding” ...

School of Quietude



Thursday, January 11, 2007

Of my checklist for a decent poetry section in a bookstore, Beth Kanell writes, “we fit the four criteria here at Kingdom Books .” Bet...

Bookstores



Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Ginsberg Interrupted § The best minds of Palmer, Alaska , diverse & responsive § Thy sins are forgiven , Wichita ! § Jack’s...

links



Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Just what I needed. Yesterday, my primary system picked up a virus. I keep copies of all the important – and complete – stuff elsewhere. ...

blogging



Monday, January 08, 2007

El Greco, The View of Toledo To look at The Sienese Shredder “ #1,” you would not immediately think of this luscious amalgam of art, cr...

Journals | New American Poetry



Sunday, January 07, 2007

Maya buys a brownstone § How to win an NEA grant (scroll down, this tale is a bottom feeder) § A poetry marathon that includes ...

links



Saturday, January 06, 2007

For much the same reason why I can write an article on the half dozen major poets who died in 2006, but none for those who were born this s...

Bookstores



Friday, January 05, 2007

Bill Knott Three times in the past week, I’ve seen missives from poets that echoed one another. One was an email from a friend of mine, n...

School of Quietude



Thursday, January 04, 2007

Tillie Olsen , an icon of short fiction who published her first book at the age of 50, has died § Alice Munro says she’s done ...

links



Wednesday, January 03, 2007

To accompany the Modern Language Association (MLA) in Philadelphia , the local paper ran an upbeat article with the improbable headline “ Cr...

The academy



Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Echoes in the mind’s eye after the 2006 MLA: Somebody – I think it may have been Dan Waterman of the University of Alabama press – tel...

MLA | The academy



Monday, January 01, 2007

My resolution for this year remains essentially the same one I’ve had for two years now: Blog better, blog less. There is, I think, a di...

blogging



Sunday, December 31, 2006

It’s going to take 30 years at minimum, and 50 years is more likely, to get any fair sense of which major poets & artists were born in 2006....

Passings



Saturday, December 30, 2006

photo by Jill Kramer A Theory's Evolution The Theory of Flawed Design is not a scientifically proven Alternative to evolution. It is b...

Charles Bernstein



Friday, December 29, 2006

Thus far, Jordan Davis , Eileen Tabios , and Joseph Massey have responded to my tagging them earlier this week, tho none of them followed t...

links



Thursday, December 28, 2006

Keanu Reeves is under there, somewhere A Scanner Darkly , which just came to DVD this past week, may be the most unusual “ Hollywood ”...

Film



Tuesday, December 26, 2006

I’ve been “ tagged ” by J.P. Rangaswami to reveal 5 little known things about myself, and then to tag five other bloggers. Here goes: 1) ...

Personal



Sunday, December 24, 2006

An Appeal for Paula Gunn Allen   The Paula Gunn Allen Fund has just been established to provide financial assistance to Paula, whose ...

poets-in-need



Friday, December 22, 2006

From an article in the New York Times about yet another bookstore closing: There are currently about 2,500 independent bookstores in th...

Bookstores | Personal



Thursday, December 21, 2006

Sometimes the best things come in small, even mysterious packages. The envelope at first looked like a Christmas card. That’s what my wife...

Rob Halpern



Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Perhaps this is a question for Gary Sullivan, someone who knows in some depth the world of the graphic novel &, behind it, the several gen...

comics | Film



Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Project Row Houses: community as art , art as community § Heck of a job, Gracie! Grace Shulman , who made The Nation , America’...

links



Monday, December 18, 2006

I’ve been reading The Sonnets by Ted Berrigan for what must be the sixth or seventh time. Not only does reading this series every few year...

New American Poetry | Ted Berrigan



Friday, December 15, 2006

For its 60 th anniversary, Chicago Review has put online work from its archives including seriously silly work of mine from the 196...

links



Thursday, December 14, 2006

One of my kids was in the school play this past month, a performance of Reckless by Craig Lucas, but – and this says pretty much everythi...

Film



Wednesday, December 13, 2006

There is a wonderful, fascinating, even funny moment in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers when Alice Notley , in the midst o...

Alice Notley



Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Photo by John Tranter It strikes me as bizarre that John Ashbery , of all people, never has received a National Medal for the Arts . The...

Ashbery | New American Poetry



Monday, December 11, 2006

The best reading I’ve heard in the suburbs of Philadelphia in the past couple of years took place last Thursday night, upstairs (and in the ...

DuPlessis | Osman | Readings



Sunday, December 10, 2006

One museum opens in a new location while another is perilously close to flickering out § A review of Boston's ICA suggesting ...

links



Friday, December 08, 2006

Thomas Pynchon speaks out on the question of plagiarism § Norman Mailer tries to head such charges off at the pass with a bib...

links | Pynchon



Thursday, December 07, 2006

This is my 1491 st comment on this blog since I started back in August 2002. Over very much the same period of time, Kevin Killian has p...

Criticism



Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Terry Riley , Robert Creeley & Steve Swallow and Kiss all in one (admittedly disjunct) discussion ? § kari edward’s first post...

links



Tuesday, December 05, 2006

The nature of influence changes over time. I have sometimes thought that the New Western poets who came along after Snyder, Whalen, Dorn e...

Influence



Monday, December 04, 2006

kari edwards died of heart failure on Saturday. kari was 52. kari and I read together once and I liked the work, which was at once both r...

Passings



Saturday, December 02, 2006

Is Dia MIA ? § A new Museum of Contemporary Art opens in Detroit § Of Wharton Esherick . the great modernist wood-carver , ...

links



Friday, December 01, 2006

Nuova Poesia Americana – San Francisco is the second volume ( Los Angeles was the first) in a series of nice fat anthologies translati...

anthologies | Schools of poetry



Thursday, November 30, 2006

Ken & Ann, Ken & Ann DRIVING back the edge with art that cares This short poem, two syllables, three, then four, almost the essence o...

Presses



Wednesday, November 29, 2006

An excellent piece on New Western poet-painter John Brandi § Chax Press receives a 60-day reprieve § Alice Notley in Poet...

links



Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Hannah Weiner, 1967 (photo © 2002 by Carolee Schneeman) I’ve written on numerous occasions, starting indeed with the forward to the anth...

Hannah Weiner



Monday, November 27, 2006

So, having written that note Sunday about Ubuweb and its film archives, I finally did download & watch Frank Film by Frank & Caroline Mo...

Film



Sunday, November 26, 2006

The favorite artist of British artists ever § And the top rated woman artist § Brice Marden at length in the New York Review ...

links



Friday, November 24, 2006

I finally got around to seeing Ron Howard’s film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code and it’s every bit the disaster that the reviews said t...

Fiction | Film



Thursday, November 23, 2006

YOU CAN GET ANYTHING YOU WANT…   Arlo Guthrie sings Alice’s Restaurant   Here’s Alice   & the late Officer Obie   Obie ...

links



Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Joanna Newsom , folk-rock poet with a harp of gold § Evicting Chax § Poetry, prizes & markets in Canada § Happy 80 th bi...

links



Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Low Carb One of the pleasures of eating insects alive is how their legs thrash, tickling the tongue and roof of your mouth – it’s ...

Bertolino



Monday, November 20, 2006

It helps, reading this Jack Spicer poem for the first time, to know that Paul Morphy was the greatest of the 19 th century chess players...

anthologies



Sunday, November 19, 2006

“ The most important postwar painting that is not in a museum” changes hands for a mere $137.5 mil § If Kevin Smith, Matt Groenin...

links



Friday, November 17, 2006

The only Thomas Pynchon reading you may ever hear § CNN’s film of Pynchon walking down the street i n   s l o w m o (Winner...

links | Pynchon



Thursday, November 16, 2006

Nate Mackey has won the National Book Award for Splay Anthem § Norman Mailer in Texas § A letter from Günter Grass § Po...

links



Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Sometime today, the National Book Awards will be announced. Among the nominees in poetry are Berkeley’s Ben Lerner & Nathaniel Mackey of...

Journals



Tuesday, November 14, 2006

On Wednesday of last week, there was a book party & reading for Charles Bernstein’s latest collection, Girly Man , at Kelly Writer’s Hou...

Charles Bernstein



Monday, November 13, 2006

Barrett Watten was in town this past week and, as the trope would have it, was taking no prisoners, offering two dense, high-energy even...

Watten



Sunday, November 12, 2006

An interview with Ben Lerner § Ellen Willis has died § Those who have drunk the Kool-Aid wait for it to take effect § Read...

links



Saturday, November 11, 2006

photo by Tom Raworth If you happen to be in New York City today, you would do well to head down to the Poetry Project, East 10th Street...

Leslie Scalapino



Friday, November 10, 2006

Donald Hall & Liam Rector were musing about whether or not the “boomer generation” had any “ iconic poems ” to call their own. It’s an in...

Theory



Thursday, November 09, 2006

It was the Russian Formalist critics who first noted that one of the historic roles of art – and one of art’s inexorable drivers toward in...

Conceptual poetics | Noah Eli Gordon



Wednesday, November 08, 2006

My page on Poets.Org from the Academy of American Poets § Paul Auster is useless , so says Paul Auster § Geez , why haven’t...

links



Tuesday, November 07, 2006

I first met Barrett Watten in the fall of 1964, when he was a senior at Skyline High School in Oakland & I was hanging out on Telegraph Av...

Journals | Watten



Monday, November 06, 2006

If, tomorrow, Bob Casey wins his election and becomes the senator-elect from the state of Pennsylvania , as I sincerely hope he will, he w...

Politics



Sunday, November 05, 2006

I have 4 tickets to hear Bob Dylan live at the Spectrum in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 18 But I can’t go. If you would like...



Saturday, November 04, 2006

To watch Bruce Andrews spar with Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor click on the image above, then scroll down to “Other Features...

links



Friday, November 03, 2006

David Bromige   Early in 1968, a friend at SF State, David Perry (a graduate of the writing program at Bard & master’s level writing st...

Journals | Melnick | Tottel's



Thursday, November 02, 2006

Cid Corman I noted Tuesday that Whereas I felt intimidated by the poetry gods who turned up in Coyote’s Journal … I actively campaigned...

Journals



Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Susan Weil , an artist at Black Mountain § Mose Tolliver 1920-2006 A good collection of his work § The anthropologist Cli...

links



Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Jed Birmingham sent me an email last week, asking me about poetry journals. Which were the ones that had had the greatest impact on m...

Journals



Monday, October 30, 2006

Imagine how much harder it would have been for Gutenberg to have invented the Western version of the printed book if he had also had to inv...

eLit | Theory



Sunday, October 29, 2006

Yes, that was the most poorly played World Series I’ve ever seen also. And my memories thereof go back all the way to 1954, which was when...

Baseball



Saturday, October 28, 2006

Against lemmings § Good news for Salt (It’s not every day I find my name in The Guardian) § Salt’s web site has received ov...

links



Friday, October 27, 2006

The top 40 American magazine covers ever § And for 2006 § This being “the premier trade association ” for consumer magazines...

links



Thursday, October 26, 2006

In addition to a wonderful tribute to Barbara Guest by Peter Gizzi, and a rather puffier one for Stanley Kunitz by Michael Ryan & Gregory ...

Journals



Wednesday, October 25, 2006

What Nikki Giovanni said § Steve Evans on Poets for Bush § The passing of a linguist of the old school, Bill Bright , (also ...

links



Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Archive of the Now is, on day one, the most significant new site for poetry I’ve seen in well over a year. It is a perfect complement to ...

Archives



Monday, October 23, 2006

There is an advantage to being the guy who gets the most mail in town – the postal people recognize your name. Meteoric Flowers made it t...

Willis



Sunday, October 22, 2006

For decades now, the international community of electronic writers has been expanding the notion of what constitutes literature. Operating...

eLit



Saturday, October 21, 2006

Uli’s swimwear was the top-rated outfit in this year’s finale according to viewers The television equivalent of a print ad’s mouse-ty...

TV



Friday, October 20, 2006

Publication announcement and subscription offer! THE GRAND PIANO An Experiment in Collective Autobiography San Francisco, 1975-1980 ...

Grand Piano



Thursday, October 19, 2006

I make use of a lot of bots, automated web tools and searches that bring me things in which I might be interested. For example, a good per...

Objectivism | Zukofsky



Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Former Congressman Gerry Studds died last week, the victim of a blood clot in his lung. The first out-of-the-closet gay member of Congres...

Passings



Tuesday, October 17, 2006

In 1979, Michael Andre – perhaps best known now as the impresario of the Unmuzzled Ox listserv (technically it’s a Yahoo group) – publis...

anthologies



Monday, October 16, 2006

I would say that I’m in Dutch again for something I’ve written but, the way things have been going lately, I’d start getting all kinds of ...

British literature | Sound | Theory



Sunday, October 15, 2006

When I think of Shirley Kaufman I think of a poet who attended San Francisco State roughly the same years I did , not of somebody wh...

links



Saturday, October 14, 2006

Speaking of UC Press, you can now pre-order my next book, The Age of Huts (compleat) , over the web. As you might imagine, I’m more than a...

Personal



Friday, October 13, 2006

If you were only going to own two books of poetry, you could do far worse than making them the two volumes of The Collected Poems of Rober...

New American Poetry



Thursday, October 12, 2006

It’s ironic that I should find myself in a dust-up over the question of blurbs right at the moment when I am reading what I at first took ...

Fiction | Sorrentino



Wednesday, October 11, 2006

John Tranter responded to my comments regarding Aaron Kunin’s text that deploys both verse and prose within the same text without having ...

Journals | Theory



Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Robert Anton Wilson needs our help § How indie bookstores can change to survive the current market ( hint: get rid of most of th...

links



Monday, October 09, 2006

f Eleanor Anne Porden (1797-1825)   Silliman’s Blurb This past week has not been an easy one – I’m paying the piper, so to speak, for...

blogging



Sunday, October 08, 2006

Brother Cavil (Dean Stockwell) interrogates insurgent leader Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan) Season three of Battlestar Galactica is the ...

TV



Saturday, October 07, 2006

RFID comes to bookstores so that book clerks will soon need to know even less than most do now § Pete Doherty of The Libertines ...

links



Friday, October 06, 2006

Of late, I’ve been checking out proofs and page design for The Age of Huts (compleat), which the UC Press will be bringing out next spring...

Theory



Thursday, October 05, 2006

Rubbish § Great looking "rubbish" § The visual art world lags behind poetry in women's participation § Somebody is doin...

links



Wednesday, October 04, 2006

There are Words , the collected poems of Gael Turnbull , is an indispensable volume. At nearly 500 pages, it contains virtually all of Tu...

British literature | Turnbull



Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Coliseum Books on 42 nd Street in Manhattan has announced that it too will soon shut its doors §

Bookstores



Monday, October 02, 2006

Debra Di Blasi , with whom I read at the KGB bar in New York the week before last, has two books out, Drought & Say What You Like from ...

Fiction



Sunday, October 01, 2006

John Ashbery reading on Wednesday at a coffee house in Providence , a tale of Robert Creeley & 3 Michaels (Magee, Gizzi, Corso)



Friday, September 29, 2006

The Sony Reader will start out October 1 st offering 10,000 ebooks , all from the Gang of Six § A poet from Kurdistan § Blogs...

links



Thursday, September 28, 2006

Carlisle , Pennsylvania , is further west from Philadelphia than New York is to its north. Home to Dickinson College & the one-time s...

Film



Wednesday, September 27, 2006

What if, instead of a jazz combo, Kenneth Rexroth had sat in the 1940s with a mandolin player instead? That’s a thought I sometimes have, ...

Readings



Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Tracy Grammer & Dave Carter (Photo by Jeff Bizzell) I was talking with Craig Bickhardt during a break at our reading / event with Ei...

Music



Monday, September 25, 2006

Beverly Dahlen is the most enigmatic American poet since Laura (Riding) Jackson . Not that Dahlen is unnecessarily difficult or obtuse, b...

Dahlen



Sunday, September 24, 2006

Gabriel Okara at 85 § Poetry in Iran from Hafez to O-Hum

links



Saturday, September 23, 2006

Hugo’s book club pushes Chomsky onto best seller list § Who needs to read ? § Mazisi Kunene poet laureate of South Africa has...

links



Friday, September 22, 2006

I’ve been reading Eileen Tabios since I came across her blog and her Meritage Press website almost four years ago – she’s just one of m...

Readings | Tabios



Thursday, September 21, 2006

There is a certain aptness to reading Nicole Brossard’s 1987 novel Le Désert mauve in translation: Mauve Desert , which was recently ret...

Fiction



Wednesday, September 20, 2006

You can tell that it’s an Aaron Sorkin production just by the way the camera weaves & slides throughout the entire studio, before it settl...

TV



Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The most moving & profound work of art I see on my day in Chelsea is neither the most well crafted (that would have been Chie Fueki at th...

Visual Arts



Monday, September 18, 2006

photo by Ben Friedlander When Lyn Hejinian’s book My Life first was published by Burning Deck in 1980, I couldn’t read it for a year. Eve...

Steve Benson



Sunday, September 17, 2006

No title

Readings



Friday, September 15, 2006

Tonight in New York City, The Mad Hatter’s Review & Anything Goes Poetry Series at the KGB Bar , Samuel R. Delany , Debra Di Blasi ...

Readings



Thursday, September 14, 2006

For the second time in three years, Lisa Robertson has been the poet whose book has been mentioned most often in Steve Evans' annual rou...

Theory



Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Stephanie Young has been having one helluva time lately. Not only is Bay Poetics almost certainly the best anthology of new poetry we h...

Stephanie Young



Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Maybe from down in Tribeca or Battery Park it looked majestic, but from midtown Manhattan , where I found myself on business yesterday, th...

Politics



Monday, September 11, 2006

I began reading Fanny Howe’s On the Ground in the summer of 2004 when the family decamped for a couple of weeks to the Olympic Peninsul...

Fanny Howe



Sunday, September 10, 2006

This Friday, September 15 , in New York City, The Mad Hatter’s Review & Anything Goes Poetry Series at the KGB Bar , Samuel R. Delany , D...

Readings



Saturday, September 09, 2006

Thanks to the efforts of Joseph Mosconi , the Gmail mail-abuse team & several friends who actually forwarded old emails to prove I had been ...

blogging



Friday, September 08, 2006

Listening to Modern Times , the new album by Bob Dylan, two different & competing thoughts pop into my mind. The first is that the sound i...

Music



Thursday, September 07, 2006

“Don’t tell the secret,” admonish the ads for The Illusionist . Which it may in fact be, if you don’t notice the actor (or character) who ...

Film



Wednesday, September 06, 2006

The third season of Project Runway ( PR) has whittled a particularly inchoate initial group of would-be fashion designers into a more coh...

TV



Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Of the 30 books I took with me to the shore last week – not that I ever once got out onto the sand, let alone into the surf – none proved ...

Elrick



Monday, September 04, 2006

I was born in Pasco , Washington , one of three towns that form the Tri-Cities region along the southern border of that state. The other t...

Politics



Sunday, September 03, 2006

I have had to sing this song before, alas. Somebody has captured my Gmail account, changed the password and the security question. Until I c...

blogging



Sunday, August 27, 2006

I’m heading down to the shore for a week.



Saturday, August 26, 2006

Lionel Essrog is the direct descendant of Benjamin Compson , the developmentally disabled narrator of the opening section of William Faul...

Fiction



Thursday, August 24, 2006

When I reviewed that anonymous collection of poetry on Tuesday of last week, I knew of course that Larry Fagin had a hand in the project, al...

anthologies



Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Julia’s Wild Come shadow, come, and take this shadow up, Come shadow shadow, come and take this up, Come, shadow, come, and take this sh...

Objectivism | Zukofsky



Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The University of Alabama is offering, via Charles Bernstein’s blog (& just until the end of this month) a 30 percent discount on two of...

DuPlessis



Monday, August 21, 2006

I was on the plane coming back from California & trying to get a little sleep, so I of course turned to Poets & Writers , the trade journal ...

Journals



Sunday, August 20, 2006

Steven May’s blog reviewing chapbooks is not just a good idea , it’s also the 900 th blog linked in the roll to the left § Somethi...

links



Saturday, August 19, 2006

An interview with Allyssa Wolf is just the 24 th in a series all about the impact of first books. Others interviews in the series include...

Interviews



Friday, August 18, 2006

Depression stole a friend last Friday. One of my favorite co-workers at Gartner, Bruce Caldwell, died after spending more than a year on d...

Passings



Thursday, August 17, 2006

All this week I’ve been writing about projects that seem to withhold something – as Jessica Smith does her reins over reader response, or ...

Interviews



Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Danish documentary Thomas Pynchon: Journey into the Mind of P . inadvertently demonstrates the problematics involved with anonymity i...

Fiction | Film | Pynchon



Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Setting out Late An autumn leaf trembles in its guise of paling green, feeling slightly out of date or off key. The unsure basso is th...

Theory



Monday, August 14, 2006

I respond positively to ambitious work. Not every twenty-something who sets out to change the world into his or her vision manages to make...

Jessica Smith



Sunday, August 13, 2006

Steve Reich at 70 § One more reason why poets should read linguistics – Killing Time: Metaphors & their implications for lexicon...

links



Saturday, August 12, 2006

One new journal that has started up this summer that promises to make a significant contribution to American poetics is Celery Flute: The Ke...

Journals



Friday, August 11, 2006

Tsewang Dandup & Sonam Lhamo play Dondup & the rice paper maker’s daughter Since the age of seven, Bhutanese lama Khyentse Norbu ( D...

Film



Thursday, August 10, 2006

Of all the poets included in the watershed 1960 anthology The New American Poetry, edited by Don Allen, perhaps only Bruce Boyd is less wi...

New American Poetry



Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Photo © 2003 by John Tranter By any reasonable measure, the most successful of the literary tendencies associated with the New American...

Pettet



Tuesday, August 08, 2006

A word about book jackets & the question of how much is too much. A book that arrived this week – which appears to be an interesting, well...



Monday, August 07, 2006

A lot of the reading I do when I’m on vacation – which as of this morning is over, alas – is actually rereading. Favorite books, new editi...



Sunday, August 06, 2006

A note on comments. I have been moderating them this past week, which is to say that I have had to approve each one before it was published...



Saturday, August 05, 2006

In winter 1947, my father, who had just turned 20, crashed a Cessna whose wings had iced up near The Dalles , Oregon , while smuggling alcoh...

Personal



Friday, August 04, 2006

It was Fred Jameson , the Stephen Colbert of literary theory, who first called Robert Duncan’s onetime housemate, Philip K. Dick , the ...



Thursday, August 03, 2006

Of all the major language poets, the one whose work is the hardest to get a sense of in its entirety almost certainly is Robert Grenier ,...



Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Here, in its entirety, is the history of Jack Kerouac’s Book of Sketches as given in that book itself: In 1951, it was suggested to Jack...

Kerouac | New American Poetry



Tuesday, August 01, 2006

James L. Weil 1929 – 2006                                 Another Last Poem                                 In the end, what  ...



Monday, July 31, 2006

Sometime today, this blog received its 800,000 th visit.



Monday, July 31, 2006

Clark Coolidge gets credit for a lot of things, virtually all of it deserved, but generally I don’t think there has been enough recognit...

Clark Coolidge | Jack Kerouac | New American Poetry



Sunday, July 30, 2006

This is an experiment. I’m turning the comments stream back on today. I’ve looked fairly closely at three comments stream alternatives and n...



Saturday, July 29, 2006

Sylvester Pollet’s Backwoods Broadsides have finally come to a conclusion, with the publication of Jonathan Green’s Songs of Farewell, a g...

Journals



Friday, July 28, 2006

It’s hard not to like John Phillips’ Language Is, from Sardines Press. Phillips, a British poet who has spent the past decade in Slovenia ...

British literature | John Phillips



Thursday, July 27, 2006

Writing of Gabe Gudding’s essay on the impact of creative writing programs on the evolution of American poetry yesterday, I noted that at ...

Gudding | Sherwood Anderson | Theory



Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Gabe Gudding loves the role of trouble maker. You can see it in his poetry , his criticism, his weblog , his missives to listservs, the p...

Gudding | The academy | Theory



Monday, July 24, 2006

While I was in California back on July 10, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on Afghan poetry in the U.S. on its front page. The articl...

School of Quietude | Schools of poetry | Theory



Saturday, July 22, 2006

There are at least two kinds of vacations - the frenetic "let's do this, let's visit that" mode & the "get away from civilization & chill"...

Personal



Friday, July 21, 2006

I'm not making this up: "there's no more reliable way of initially entering a poet's private domain than by examining what he or she rhymes ...

School of Quietude



Thursday, July 20, 2006

In the breath-taking context of Yosemite Falls & Half Dome, long hikes & a little river rafting, I've also been doing some reading on my vac...

Ignatow



Monday, July 17, 2006

My day job is a reasonably stressful 80-hour per week gig as a market analyst. This little sabbatical - three weeks added to my usual vacati...



Sunday, July 16, 2006

I'm back on Gmail, tho the route back seemed circuitous and made me wonder about Gmail security in general. One serious problem in visitin...

blogging



Friday, July 14, 2006

For reasons I don't understand yet, I seem to have been locked out of my gmail account. If you have sent me email in the last ten days or so...

blogging



Tuesday, July 04, 2006

I will be on the road for the next few weeks, mostly in the Bay Area, but with side excursions to Yosemite & San Diego. As always when I try...



Monday, July 03, 2006

Some last (and lasting) images of the Naropa Summer Writing Program: Both Naropa and the program have grown up quite a bit since I was her...

links | Naropa



Sunday, July 02, 2006

I told Anne Waldman earlier this week that I thought my best teaching at Naropa when I was here last in 1994 consisted simply of giving Ma...

Naropa



Saturday, July 01, 2006

The most expensive reading ticket I’ve heard of in some time promises to be a bargain. $60 Canadian gets you a book-length reading o...

links | Passings



Friday, June 30, 2006

I don’t teach that often, maybe once every five or six years, save for one-day deals here & there. Over the years I’ve turned down a coupl...

Naropa | The academy



Thursday, June 29, 2006

Laird Hunt , Rebecca Brown and Thalia Field were discussing “The Poetics of Prose” on Tuesday morning, although from my bailiwick at th...

Naropa



Wednesday, June 28, 2006

When I was a student at Berkeley circa 1970, Fred Crews used to teach a course on literature & ideology. His reading list had all the usual...

Naropa | The academy | Theory



Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Last Sunday night at Naropa, there was a celebration of Howl , in print now continuously for the past 50 years. There were excerpts from a...

Naropa



Monday, June 26, 2006

Philosophy after Auschwitz is barbaric . That sentence, which is true in the sense that it is possible, that we can say & think it, can...

Theory



Saturday, June 24, 2006

Thursday’s comments stream proved a breaking point. One person posted over 70 messages & another descended into overtly sexist name ca...

blogging | links



Thursday, June 22, 2006

The ninth and final work in Proprioception is in some ways the strangest precisely because it isn’t. Composed for the most part in – for Ols...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Wednesday, June 21, 2006

I remember Joe Brainard & so should you. If you’re in St. Johnsbury , Vermont , next Saturday, June 24, around 3 pm , you should hie thee...



Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The single longest section in Charles Olson’s Proprioception is the seventh, “GRAMMAR – a ‘book’,” checking in at five pages, six sections. ...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Monday, June 19, 2006

Never one to leave his bibliography to the end, Charles Olson uses the fifth of his nine pieces in Proprioception to a reading list. Or, m...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Sunday, June 18, 2006

Genentech is blocking access to a drug for the wet form of macular degeneration so that it can market a second drug for the condition that...



Saturday, June 17, 2006

Thanks to everyone who offered assistance in our search for a place to stay in the East Bay It appears to have worked out just fine. ...



Friday, June 16, 2006

Charles Olson, I noted a week ago Thursday, insists on being taken as a crank. The fourth section of Proprioception, a page and a half to ...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Thursday, June 15, 2006

A good friend is undergoing surgery today – ten hours plus – to remove a tumor that the doctors believe is cancerous from her adrenal gland....



Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Donald Hall , Poet Laureate § William Logan’s latest blast , targeting Heaney, Gallagher, Geoffrey Hill, Anne (“the acceptable fac...

links



Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Word writing. Instead of ‘idea-writing’ (ideogram etc). That would seem to be it. Thus begins “Logography,” the second essay, note or ...

Charles Olson



Monday, June 12, 2006

Sometime toward the end of the previous millennium, back when Google sculpting was but a rumor & flarf but a glimmer in Mr. Sullivan’s eye...



Sunday, June 11, 2006

If you post your poems, songs or work of any sort to MySpace , the copyright to your work now belongs to Rupert Murdoch. So sayeth ...



Sunday, June 11, 2006

Robert Pinsky asks ” What is bad poetry? ” § Counting book sales § The artistic hub that is Tijuana § The second greatest ...



Saturday, June 10, 2006

The economics of attention § BookExpo America § Lewis MacAdams on Timothy Leary § Studs Terkel on Pete Segeer § Gyordy ...



Friday, June 09, 2006

Is it possible to produce a quality anthology of poetry on a single theme? More dreadful collections of poetry have been organized around...

anthologies | Mark Lamoureux



Thursday, June 08, 2006

Suzanne posted a comment to Monday’s note that’s worth repeating: PROPRIOCEPTION is the true sixth sense not defined as Olson does it...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Wednesday, June 07, 2006

One of the interesting – problematic may be a better word – aspects of reading not just Charles Olson, but any poet of the last century on s...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I was asked to come & teach this summer at Naropa, specifically to talk about “dialectical materialism” as part of a weeklong unit on phil...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Monday, June 05, 2006

In his address to the May 20 OlsonNow event at MIT, Ben Friedlander proposes that “Olson’s ideas were not static, but always in flux....

Charles Olson



Sunday, June 04, 2006

Today this weblog will register its 750,000 th visit. The readership here has been stable for roughly a year now, suggesting that it will r...



Saturday, June 03, 2006

Zoe Strauss: Detail I-95 ( Camden Mattresses)   You only have until June 11 to catch the work of Zoe Strauss , Philly’s hottest ar...



Friday, June 02, 2006

When I read the sexist language in Olson’s “Projective Verse,” my instinct is to see Olson as a not-too-atypical male of his generation, ...

Charles Olson | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | sexism



Thursday, June 01, 2006

Charles Olson between Robert Duncan & Ruth Witt Diamant San Francisco State , 1958 Of the slightly more than 4,500 words that m...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Wednesday, May 31, 2006

But the syllable is only the first child of the incest of verse (always, that Egyptian thing, it produces twins!). The other child is the ...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Eliot Weinberger responds to Andrew Schelling (and, secondarily, to Curtis Faville) in a new email on the subject of New Directions . I s...



Monday, May 29, 2006

Now that I’m a subscriber to the Chicago Review , I can whine that I haven’t gotten my copy yet of the latest issue. Timothy Yu has a sig...



Sunday, May 28, 2006

Margaret Rockwell Finch & her daughter Annie § Five Afghani women poets § A great 5-CD set of Derek Walcott’s selected poems th...



Saturday, May 27, 2006

Democracy for America is the organization that originally began as the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. With Governor Dean off ...



Friday, May 26, 2006

Andrew Schelling replies today to Eliot Weinberger, noting the gender issues evident in the New Directions catalog. Hi Eliot, Looking...



Thursday, May 25, 2006

Eliot Weinberger, who has himself attempted to persuade New Directions to publish William Carlos Williams’ Spring & All as a separate ed...

Eliot Weinberger | New Directions | post-avant | publishings



Wednesday, May 24, 2006

When I began the project of this weblog back in 2002, I had multiple models abstractly in my mind of what I might want to do. My nephew, D...

Sorrentino



Tuesday, May 23, 2006

There is a hinge of sorts in Charles Olson’s argument in “Projective Verse,” and I’ve learned over time that one should pay close heed to ...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Monday, May 22, 2006

Breathe , say all manner of meditators . Tho he was obviously interested in the work of Carl Jung, it’s hard – impossible – to envisio...

Charles Olson



Sunday, May 21, 2006

The latest book from Jawat Haidar , a Lebanese poet two years older than the late Stanley Kunitz. § A two-sentence article in the Wa...



Saturday, May 20, 2006

Pam Rosenthal / Molly Weatherford   Thanks only partly to the New York Times Book Review , people have lists on their minds. Beth Quit...



Friday, May 19, 2006

Gilbert Sorrentino 1927-2006



Friday, May 19, 2006

On Wednesday, Andrew Schelling noted the importance of the Christmas broadsides that Moe’s Books published during his days (1982-90) worki...



Thursday, May 18, 2006

New Directions founder James Laughlin in his office, 1941   One day later, I got a second note from Andrew Schelling, which, in additi...



Wednesday, May 17, 2006

My comments regarding the forthcoming closing of Cody’s on Telegraph Avenue brought me several responses, including this wonderful note f...



Tuesday, May 16, 2006

I’m intrigued by the fact that Allen Ginsberg’s interest in what he identifies rightly as the gap of meaning that can open up between word...



Monday, May 15, 2006

A device that is often associated with language poetry – and with surrealism – the conjoining of words from dissonant discursive schema is...



Saturday, May 13, 2006

Henry Theodore Tuckerman – “ Tuckermanities ” live on   I continue to get asked, primarily by newbies to this blog, about the phrase...



Friday, May 12, 2006

A couple of people have pointed out that the Times has posted a list of “ the writers, critics and editors the Book Review asked” – a tot...



Friday, May 12, 2006

On Sunday, the New York Times Book Review will publish a survey of “a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other lite...



Thursday, May 11, 2006

When George Oppen & his wife returned from exile, they drove up from Mexico City with a young couple who were moving up to Berkeley to s...



Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Stephanie Young’s description of how she put together her anthology is worth looking at more closely: I started with my friends, and th...



Tuesday, May 09, 2006

A read-through of Bay Poetics, Stephanie Young’s new anthology of Bay Area poetry, leaves one with a distinct impression that one possible i...



Monday, May 08, 2006

Stephanie Young’s Bay Poetics is a stunning achievement. The attempt to put together any kind of representative collection of Bay Area p...



Sunday, May 07, 2006

For the second time in three years, a Chester County horse has won the Kentucky Derby.



Saturday, May 06, 2006

Daniel Green does some counting and comes to an obvious conclusion: Niche Markets From a Business Week article on small presses: Es...



Friday, May 05, 2006

I’ve been reading – rereading mostly – interviews with poets from the early days of the Paris Review ¹ . Creeley, Kerouac, Olson, Williams, ...



Thursday, May 04, 2006

Turning the corner and suddenly coming into its space, I had the sensation of meeting an old friend. It is, in fact, the least impressive of...



Wednesday, May 03, 2006

CBS News took notice of Saturday’s note here. Now if they’ll just do some good investigative reporting….



Wednesday, May 03, 2006

A week ago Monday, I noted what I took to be a curious claim in the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry in America study, that “The Poetry Foundatio...



Monday, May 01, 2006

For the past few months, I’ve run a link on the blog roll to the U.S. Senate campaign of Chuck Pennacchio. Two weeks from tomorrow, Pennsy...



Sunday, April 30, 2006

On Monday evening, I will be reading at Bard College in the John Ashbery Poetry Series, 6:30 PM , Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Center , Annan...



Saturday, April 29, 2006

This weekend, it would be a good idea to check out the plot to carve the internet up and turn it over to the major telcos . Save the Inter...



Friday, April 28, 2006

The Da Vinci Code is to great literature what Indiana Jones is to great cinema. The book is a relentless plot machine – with only one r...

Film



Thursday, April 27, 2006

If you look at the chart at the bottom of the note from Tuesday, you will see that Simmons B. Buntin gave his survey takers just six choices...



Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Of course the fun part of a survey like the Terrain.Org study of poets and their use of online resources is when they get down to naming na...



Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Yesterday, I looked at Simmons B. Buntin’s survey of poets conducted thru Terrain.Org, noting in part how Buntin’s cross-section of writers ...



Monday, April 24, 2006

Last July 16, I posted the following note to the blog: Terrain.Org is conducting a comprehensive survey about the online reading & publis...



Sunday, April 23, 2006

Ashraf Osman added a note yesterday suggesting that I ought to let you know that I’ve been nominated for 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosp...



Saturday, April 22, 2006

We’re all home again, physically & emotionally drained but basically okay.



Friday, April 21, 2006

Yesterday, while all my psychic energy was being spent , This blog’s 700,000 th visitor came and went. I really appreciate all the notes...



Thursday, April 20, 2006

One of my boys is in the hospital, so I’m there, not here, today.



Wednesday, April 19, 2006

I’ve been mulling over the old question of what Walter Benjamin called aura. During the few days we were down in Virginia, DC & Baltimore ...



Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Andi Olsen   One of the “problems” of outsider art is its reliance on biography, an “externality” not unlike the referential issues o...



Monday, April 17, 2006

Margaret Brown’s Be Here to Love Me: A Film about Townes Van Zandt has been having its theatrical release this past month in Dallas , ...



Sunday, April 16, 2006

To celebrate ten years of its Poet’s Choice column, commemorate National Poetry Month and because nobody reads the paper on Easter Sunday, ...



Saturday, April 15, 2006

There is an instant – tho only that – immediately prior to the “live” performance of George Antheil’s Le Ballet mécanique in the Nationa...



Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Last May and June, I ran a couple of notes ( here , here and here) on the idea of what one might include in a selected poems for Louis Z...



Monday, April 10, 2006

The cover story of this week’s Publishers Weekly is on poetry’s engagement with the web, with some references to this blog. Special thank...



Monday, April 10, 2006

Redell Olsen & Drew Milne gave a smashing reading at Slought on Tuesday evening. It was a short event – maybe 45 minutes total for the ...



Saturday, April 08, 2006

Kamu Brathwaite, Michael Palmer, Sylvia Legris & Erin Mouré are all shortlisted for Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize . § A Flarf Anthology...



Friday, April 07, 2006

Allan Kaprow 1927 – 2006

Passings



Thursday, April 06, 2006

This one is for Krishna: Friends ask us why we decided to get married , friendly puzzlement reflecting true affection. As close to a ...

Krishna Evans



Wednesday, April 05, 2006

It was only when I began to put together this note that I realized that Zach Barochas' book, Among Other Things , was not published by F...

review | Zach Barochas



Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Mohawk / Samoa Transmigrations, just out from Subpress, is a slender project for a perfect-bound book, containing really just eight short ...

Caroline Sinavaiana | James Thomas Stevens | review



Monday, April 03, 2006

Thursday, when I got back from Boston , among of the stack of books that had come in the mail while I’d been traveling was On Earth: Last ...

review | Robert Creeley



Friday, March 31, 2006

There is a moment in The Iliad when the useless devastation of war suddenly comes into focus, when all its associated bravery & implicit n...

Lisa Jarnot | review | translation



Thursday, March 30, 2006

Stanislaw Lem 1921 - 2006

Passings



Thursday, March 30, 2006

Watten’s Braxton



Wednesday, March 29, 2006

I think that I expected Selah Saterstrom to be ten, maybe 20 years, older than she actually is. That was my first thought when I met her ...

review | Selah Saterstrom



Tuesday, March 28, 2006

An image I saw of an African-American man’s skin nailed to the wall like a hunting pelt, constructed (fortunately) not of flesh but rusted...

race | racism | Visual Arts



Monday, March 27, 2006

Ian Hamilton Finlay 1925 – 2006

passing | vispo



Monday, March 27, 2006

My first thought when I saw “One Hundred People You Should Know” in Derek Fenner’s My Favorite Color is Red was – O no! – not another epi...

Derek Fenner | review



Friday, March 24, 2006

Anthony Braxton played four straight nights at Iridium in New York last week. I didn’t get there, alas, but Steve Smith did, and repor...



Thursday, March 23, 2006

I am not, as you might have gathered, an unabashed fan of rhyme & regular meter for their own sake in poetry. When it makes sense, when it...

Film



Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Before there was Kenny Goldsmith, there was Dmitri Prigov . Conceptual poets emerged in the 1970s in the old Soviet Union as the answer to...



Tuesday, March 21, 2006

From an email from Blogger technical support: Due to a temporary problem with our servers, many users are having intermittent problems p...



Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Taryn Manning “in charge” in Hustle & Flow   If Abigail Child had a weblog, I would have hoped that she would have written about Cr...

Film



Monday, March 20, 2006

I saw a promotional paragraph for a forthcoming reading by Rosmarie Waldrop “of Brown University ” & had to chuckle. While Rosmarie’s husba...



Sunday, March 19, 2006

Before it tries to rule the world, Google should try to get some control over its own server farms. The Blogspot server this weblog is hoste...



Thursday, March 16, 2006

I’m not quite certain what the Brooklyn Rail is, but in the March issue you will find this piece on Charles Reznikoff by Charles Bernste...



Wednesday, March 15, 2006

A member of my immediate family has been in a health crisis for some time now. One very minor (to me) side effect of this has been that I ha...



Tuesday, March 14, 2006

The suffix – itis has evolved over the centuries from merely meaning diseased to its contemporary medical connotation of inflamed or swol...



Monday, March 13, 2006

One of the first things I noticed in Russia in 1989, besides the lethal callousness of our driver, perfectly content to roar onto the side...



Sunday, March 12, 2006

Bertolt Brecht on the new sentence ? § Nothing like the Sunday book review sections to put you in mind of the politics of literary dis...



Saturday, March 11, 2006

A good but brief interview with Kyle Schlesinger in Buffalo's ArtVoice . § A couple of good posts on Thomas Meyer by Jeff Davis , i...



Friday, March 10, 2006

I have come across a perfectly wonderful book of antiwar poems. Or perhaps I’ve come across a perfectly wonderful book of love poems. It’s t...



Thursday, March 09, 2006

With regards to Project Runway, my first instinct, as it turned out, was correct: I’ve already decided – weeks ago in fact – that [Danie...



Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Tonight is the finale of Project Runway, about which I’ve written before . After looking at all three of the finalists’ collections up on ...



Tuesday, March 07, 2006

When Mark Linenthal first introduced George Oppen to Robert Duncan, Oppen’s first words were, “Robert, I want to talk with you about your...



Monday, March 06, 2006

One of the ironic coincidences of American history is that the oldest buildings still standing in San Francisco date from that fateful ye...



Sunday, March 05, 2006

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Saturday, March 04, 2006

It only took the New York Times eighteen days to run an obituary of Barbara Guest . My favorite part is when Margalit Fox, an editor for th...



Friday, March 03, 2006

One of the telling differences between the Poetry Project Newsletter ( PPN) &, say, Poets and Writers , is that the latter, relatively ...



Thursday, March 02, 2006

I can go to a folk music concert one day, spend the next listening to the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, follow this with an old Public Enemy CD (b...



Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Octavia Butler 1947 – 2006



Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Flarf, with its Google-sculpting, often feels like a rough-edged street version of Oulipo. Uncreative Writing, which tries to squeeze ever...



Monday, February 27, 2006

What does it mean for a work of art to be eminently likeable and almost completely unreadable? That, I think, is the ultimate trick at the...



Sunday, February 26, 2006

Michelle Buchanan is donating her portrait of me as a baby to WSKG’s forthcoming arts auction. I’m totally flattered, even if my eyes ar...



Saturday, February 25, 2006

In the midst of the flarfest on Thursday, Jee Leong Koh became the 800 th member of the blogroll to your left. Among other recent additi...



Friday, February 24, 2006

I knew that I was going to like World Jelly before I even opened this slim, elegant 24-page chapbook whose back cover admonishes put this...



Thursday, February 23, 2006

Sometimes, like yesterday, the comments stream is a lot more interesting than the blog note that provoked it. Some of Nada’s comments – that...



Wednesday, February 22, 2006

I put my foot in it the other day when I listed Madeline Gleason as “the founder of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State .” Actually,...



Tuesday, February 21, 2006

I only caught three of the four dance pieces put on by the Seán Curran Company at Bryn Mawr the other evening. The large room of Goodhar...



Monday, February 20, 2006

Of the four women included in the Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry, the one who has been least celebrated & least widely read has to...



Sunday, February 19, 2006

At some moment during every episode of Inside the Actor’s Studio, host James Lipton is going to ask the evening’s celeb to identify anoth...



Sunday, February 19, 2006

There have only been a couple of sports I’ve been interested in enough to try to get to one or more of its pinnacle showcases. The obvious...



Friday, February 17, 2006

I only met Barbara Guest a few times, when her move back to the town of her college days, Berkeley , overlapped with the final years of ...

Barbara Guest



Thursday, February 16, 2006

Barbara Guest 1920-2006



Thursday, February 16, 2006

My favorite poet named Wystan has a new book out. Actually, my favorite poet named Wystan , Wystan Curnow , known also as editor & crit...

Wystan Curnow



Wednesday, February 15, 2006

I’m convinced that, for whatever reason, Kent Johnson just isn’t having fun if he isn’t up to mischief . Fortunately – an adverb I use...

Kent Johnson | Yasusada Araki



Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Kent Johnson After sending me the note I posted yesterday, Kent Johnson went on in a later...

Kent Johnson



Monday, February 13, 2006

Kent Johnson sent me a note, asking me to promote the following: Anniversary of the Political Lie -20th of March An Appeal for a worldw...



Sunday, February 12, 2006

Starting to make some interesting use of its $100 million endowment, the Poetry Foundation has put up the skeleton of a massive poetry we...



Saturday, February 11, 2006

Wilbur Wood Graham Foust reminded me of something Steve Vincent had pointed out to me at the time, that when William Anderson died in 2...



Friday, February 10, 2006

Gian Lombardo’s Quale Press is nothing if not hardy & independent. Holly Iglesias’ volume on women’s prose poetry is calculated to deli...



Thursday, February 09, 2006

When it occurred to me last Sunday that Cary Nelson’s Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memor...



Wednesday, February 08, 2006

I have been waiting for Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone for damn near 40 years. The subtitle of this brand new book, co-edited by Aldon Lynn ...



Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Daisy Fried had just been accepted into an MFA program when, eight years ago, she learned that she had been named a Pew Fellow in the Art...



Monday, February 06, 2006

Back in the days when an 8088 was the only computer chip anyone seemed to have heard of & a PC meant a “green screen,”¹ I knew folks who a...



Sunday, February 05, 2006

William Shakespeare on the attack on the World Trade Center , the tsunami (alternate reading: Katrina) & the Bush administration:   ...



Saturday, February 04, 2006

Darrell Gray , photo by Alistair Johnston CA Conrad’s Neglectorino Project now is up on its own weblog. § And Tom Orange has a nice...



Friday, February 03, 2006

At some point, the spread of literacy in any given culture has an impact on that culture’s poetry, an instance in which the formal embelli...



Thursday, February 02, 2006

Just how bad does a poem have to be before the poet is swatted around the head & neck & forced to go sit in the corner wearing a dunce’s cap...



Wednesday, February 01, 2006

When I first met Abigail Child in the mid-1970s, she had just moved to San Francisco from Boulder where she had been studying dance & p...

Film



Tuesday, January 31, 2006

The bad news is that the link to the Impeach Bush website is down, at least temporarily. The good news is that it’s because it exceeded i...



Tuesday, January 31, 2006

I own four books of poetry by Harold Dull . One of the books, Venus and the Moon Poem, which offers no publishing information on its 8.5x1...



Monday, January 30, 2006

Nam Jun Paik   1932 - 2006     &   Stew Albert 1939 – 2006



Monday, January 30, 2006

Joanne Kyger’s Night Palace wasn’t the only Backwoods Broadside I received from Sylvester Pollet last week. Enclosed in the same envel...



Sunday, January 29, 2006

I mentioned Helena Bennett among my roster of poets who died too young awhile back. Now Bill Luoma , her widower & a fine writer in his own...



Saturday, January 28, 2006

Jesse Glass is re-examining the work & life of yet another Deep Neglectorino, Lindley Williams Hubbell , a confidant of Gertrude Stein who...



Friday, January 27, 2006

There are nine poems in Night Palace, printed on a single sheet of paper – there must be a name for this somber yellow-orange¹ – which cam...



Thursday, January 26, 2006

After reading my piece Monday on Holly Iglesias’ Boxing inside the Box, François Luong sent me the following interview with Kimiko Hahn ...



Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Sometime tonight, this blog should be getting its 600,000 th visitor…depending, that is, on the Blogger outage that is scheduled for 7 PM E...



Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Carve has begun to issue chapbooks, beginning with Jess Mynes’ birds for example . I love that title, perhaps because it is so very Eigner...



Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Susan Bee, Diving into the Wreck, 2005, oil and collage on linen   Michael & Pam Rosenthal visited last week, bringing with them Pa...



Monday, January 23, 2006

An angry book on the history & dynamics of the prose poem is an inherently interesting project. I opened Holly Iglesias’ Boxing Inside th...



Sunday, January 22, 2006

A nice review of The Poems of Charles Reznikoff 1918-1975 by Joshua Clover in the New York Times .



Saturday, January 21, 2006

Really, I don’t need a degree from the University of California . UC San Diego already has the early archives and I’m presently working...



Friday, January 20, 2006

Alfred Starr Hamilton was on Larry Fagin’s list of Neglectorinos & I was fortunate enough to find a copy of The Poems of Alfred Starr Ha...



Thursday, January 19, 2006

It was a sign of just how strong my reaction was to Linh Dinh’s latest book, Borderless Bodies, that when I picked up the new issue of T...



Wednesday, January 18, 2006

In the not-quite-four-decades since Michael McClure was prosecuted for representing an act of cunnilingus at the climax of his play The Be...



Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Shanna Compton has made available Poems by Joan Murray, another neglectorino who died young – in her case just shy of her 25 th birthday...



Monday, January 16, 2006

When a poet dies early, in his or her twenties – as in the case of Joan Murray , Samuel Greenberg , Helena Bennett or Marc Kuykendall – se...



Saturday, January 14, 2006

I’m heading down to Orlando for a few days on business. I’ll try to post as time & hotel connections to the net permit.



Friday, January 13, 2006

Another list of so-called Neglectorinos for CA Conrad’s project can be found on Cosmoetica , the website of Dan & Jessica Schneider. Again, ...



Thursday, January 12, 2006

The function of number in poetry seems always to privilege small numbers & prime numbers. We don’t, for example, discuss the ten-syllable ...



Wednesday, January 11, 2006

In 1964, Michelangelo Antonioni , an Italian director already famed for a painterly impressionism in black & white cinema, moved into colo...

Film



Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Jack Gilbert once told me that when he received copies of his first book, Views of Jeopardy, in the mail, he slept with one under his pillow...



Monday, January 09, 2006

Although she has lived in Boston, Morocco & even right here in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, PA, everything on the back cover of An...



Sunday, January 08, 2006

Ken Rumble posted the following note to yesterday’s comment stream, but it deserves to be read by everyone, so I’ve bumped it up here. I ...



Saturday, January 07, 2006

Jim Behrle has changed his URL once more. The other day Jim made the following remark on his blog: Silliman's comments fields have become t...



Friday, January 06, 2006

Larry Eigner, 1984 Photo by Alistair Johnston   In his roster of “neglectorinos” on Tuesday, Larry Fagin includes Larry Eigner, speci...



Thursday, January 05, 2006

One of the momentous publications of 2005 had to be Allen Fisher’s Place , one of the epic longpoems of the 20 th century & one of the f...



Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Irving Layton 1912-2006



Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Writing of the Jonathan Greene-Thomas Merton correspondence the day after Christmas took me to my swollen bookcase of books yet to be rea...



Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Larry Fagin sent the following list in response to my reply to CA Conrad’s inquiry concerning neglected poets. Larry’s list includes book...



Monday, January 02, 2006

One way to start the new year is to take a look at an anthology that promises to be the newest of the new. This year, that book is clearly S...



Sunday, January 01, 2006

I’ve made this resolution before: Blog less, blog better . It may appear that I don’t know how to do that, but it’s a goal toward which I ...



Saturday, December 31, 2005

Derek Bailey , the great jazz guitarist , passed away on Christmas. This has been one great year for death, robbing us of so many wonderf...



Friday, December 30, 2005

Back in the 1960s & ‘70s, Marxist theorists, particularly those who practiced some variant of Western Marxism, had a phrase for the retrog...



Thursday, December 29, 2005

Yesterday’s note on Brett Evans reminded me that I owe (and am way past deadline) CA Conrad an answer to an email I received earlier this...



Wednesday, December 28, 2005

The absolute antithesis – in publishing terms, although not in spirit – of the UC Press 750-page impeccably hardbound Ted Berrigan Collected...



Tuesday, December 27, 2005

On several occasions of late – for example, when looking at the poetry of Ray DiPalma – I’ve suggested that the writing calls out for a “...



Monday, December 26, 2005

Twenty or so years ago, when I first began to seriously contemplate preparing my early archives for sale to a university library, I sought...



Sunday, December 25, 2005

For many years now, Sheila E. Murphy has been offering a poem as her holiday card to friends. Her text for this year is worth reading a d...



Saturday, December 24, 2005

I’ve turned off the feature that allows for anonymous comments. Three abusive comments about the sexual habits of female poets from an anony...



Friday, December 23, 2005

Seth Abramson has questions. He is a poet who works as a lawyer & was a sociology minor in college, and who concedes to a fascination wit...



Thursday, December 22, 2005

(L-R) Reed Bye, Harry Smith, Jack Collom & Steve Taylor on Flagstaff Mountain , 1988 (Photo by Allen Ginsberg)   The question of poe...



Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Eight days after September 11, 2001 , Semezdin Mehmedinović, a Bosnian national who first came to the United States five years earlier as...



Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Today would have been John Spencer’s 59 th birthday. The actor, best known for his role as Leo McGarry, the former White House chief of ...



Monday, December 19, 2005

Kind words about this weblog from Ian McMillan on BBC’s Newsnight . And thanks to Keith Tuma for pointing this out.



Monday, December 19, 2005

The very last item in the new Chicago Review is Paul Hoover’s “note,” entitled “My Kind of Town: Local Literary Community,” the text act...



Sunday, December 18, 2005

For a film that is basically the cinematic equivalent of a roller coaster ride, King Kong is surprisingly effective, making the Indiana J...

Film



Saturday, December 17, 2005

She may live in Beirut , but Lilac is so profoundly an American that she will appreciate that on the blogroll to the left, she is number ...



Friday, December 16, 2005

A tip of the mouse to the very first creative writing teacher I ever had, Audrey Elwood , who passed away last Saturday. Audrey Rein (pronou...



Thursday, December 15, 2005

Not to be outdissed , Jessica Belluci , PR director of the Village Voice, called my attention to their version of a notable books list fo...



Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Plus ça change, plus c’est le meme chose. The New York Times has been doing a December “notable” or “best” books list since 1967. This tim...



Tuesday, December 13, 2005

When Krishna first put 3-Iron into the Netflix cue, I could not understand why she wanted to see a movie about golf – I was thinking tha...

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Monday, December 12, 2005

When I first glanced at C.D. Wright’s “Rising, Falling, Hovering” in the new Chicago Review , my first thought was that this might be a t...



Sunday, December 11, 2005

I wrote a considerable amount of Ketjak not too far from this exact location in San Francisco's Dolores Park. So when I saw this image on...



Saturday, December 10, 2005

Kate Greenstreet is the 700 th participant in the blogroll to the left.   Θ Φ Θ   You can watch Harold Pinter...



Friday, December 09, 2005

What about all this writing? O “ Kiki ” O Miss Margaret Jarvis The backhandspring Named references in poems have variable half-l...



Thursday, December 08, 2005

Julie Mehretu, “Excerpt (Suprematist Evasion),” 2003   Don Byrd sent an email in response to my note on OlsonNow that I think deserve...



Wednesday, December 07, 2005

An image set by Ray DiPalma from the East Village Other The new Chicago Review is out, continuing its recent run of issues so first...



Tuesday, December 06, 2005

The elements for greatness were all in place, but also all a little out of kilter, when Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet played Interna...



Monday, December 05, 2005

I seem to have amused Matt Lafferty . In the comments stream to my reading of Rob Read’s work, he quotes my line But then I realized th...



Saturday, December 03, 2005

New poetry & poetics blogs are coming along these days at a pretty steady clip. But perhaps the most interesting recent addition to the bl...



Friday, December 02, 2005

One great consequence of this weblog is that people send me books & magazines that they want me to see. Some are just so-so, a few are rea...



Thursday, December 01, 2005

Some time back, I started receiving – pretty much daily – a series of emails whose header always included the phrase “Daily Treated Spam.”...



Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Perhaps nothing could be further from the swell of extras, computer-generated effects & dizzying pace of Harry Potter than Spring, Summer,...

Film



Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Coming out of a showing of Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire the other evening, the film that my mind free associated over to wasn’t any...

Film



Monday, November 28, 2005

Practice, Restraint just may be the first book of poems ever to list, on its acknowledgements page, “My co-workers at Home Savings Bank.”...



Sunday, November 27, 2005

I can tell when a post of mine – like yesterday’s – is problematic. One clue is that one of the smartest (albeit briefest) responses gets w...



Saturday, November 26, 2005

Ben Friedlander   The dispute of sorts over the relationship of the 3 rd Gen New York School & the University of Chicago – it seems c...



Friday, November 25, 2005

Wooly Bully? Hurly Behrle!   You may have noticed that MiPOradio is now listed to the left as a Silliman Site, just two up from PENN...



Thursday, November 24, 2005

I’m taking today off. Hope you have a great day.



Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Jordan Davis   Once upon a time, when Small Press Traffic was primarily a poetry-centered book store on 24 th Street in San Francis...



Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Vanitas after Pietr Claesz , circa 1634   Right before I went to sleep the other night, an anonymous poster, perhaps offended at my T...



Monday, November 21, 2005

The band ButterSprites all wearing dirndls   What everybody notices about Larissa MacFarquhar’s “Present Waking Life: Becoming John ...



Sunday, November 20, 2005

I had very close to a perfect day in New York yesterday. Lunch at Katz’ Delicatessen , a chance to visit the Downtown Music Gallery , a hol...



Saturday, November 19, 2005

Today DAVID SHAPIRO & RON SILLIMAN Segue Reading Series @ Bowery Poetry Club Saturday, November 19: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 308 Bo...



Friday, November 18, 2005

Carl Thayler died last Sunday at the age of 72. He was a poet whose work I always associated with that of Paul Blackburn, what one might ...



Thursday, November 17, 2005

The very first page is so strong it nearly took my head off: If the judgment’s cruel that’s a wake-up call: increase energy, attention...



Wednesday, November 16, 2005

In 1981, Steve Benson participated in a series of performances that included – there was more going on than just this – verbal improvisat...



Tuesday, November 15, 2005

If there is an American Siberia, a land of complete remoteness, my vote goes to anywhere in Texas south of Waco . When you are in El Paso...



Monday, November 14, 2005

Within the history of the School of Quietude (SoQ) , there may not be a better – nor more problematic – poet than Elizabeth Bishop . Mor...



Sunday, November 13, 2005

Some of the people who have visited this blog just this weekend have logged in from the following locations: Chennai, Kerala, Bangalore, M...



Saturday, November 12, 2005

Shann Palmer It was Shann Palmer’s comment in response to my note on Nadia Anjuman that brought me up short: am i the only woman w...



Friday, November 11, 2005

One of the benefits of the model that Temple University uses for its poetry readings – pairing up one of its students with the main reader...



Thursday, November 10, 2005

Thanks to Jack Krick, I found myself Friday night sitting in the front row of the all-but-sold-out auditorium of Philadelphia's Internati...



Wednesday, November 09, 2005

William Carlos Williams                        I had just met Ian Keenan, sometime contributor to this blog’s...



Tuesday, November 08, 2005

I want to take this moment to acknowledge the short life and passing of Nadia Anjuman , a 25-year-old Afghani poet popular in her native c...



Monday, November 07, 2005

Alan Dugan   Consider, if you will, just the linebreaks: This Morning Here This is this morning: all the evils and glories of las...



Sunday, November 06, 2005

On the edge of a ridge removed from the sea lay a small wooden inn half-buried in snow. Four hooded figures, grunting against the storm, s...



Saturday, November 05, 2005

A couple of people have suggested that it was brave to run my early work here, a little like posting one’s second-grade photo with the terri...



Friday, November 04, 2005

A couple of folks, led by Kirby Olson, have suggested that I ought to talk more about my Quietist youth, and what led me to abandon that pat...



Thursday, November 03, 2005

Philip Hobsbaum   I’m just far enough removed from reading John Ashbery’s Other Traditions for it to begin to resonate in my thinking ...



Wednesday, November 02, 2005

A Vocabulary Gatha for Peter Rose   I once took a job with a weekly newspaper in San Francisco just to get my hands on their review co...



Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Edward R. Murrow To this day, I think of Dog Day Afternoon as the apotheosis of fact-based drama. Director Sidney Lumet so completely r...



Monday, October 31, 2005

Rochelle Nameroff (in circle) listening to Phil Ochs Vietnam Day Teach-in, Berkeley , 1965   Today is the fortieth anniversary of my ...



Sunday, October 30, 2005

Perhaps of greater interest will be the fact that I’ve been writing a couple of these notes of late in OpenOffice 2.0’s version of Writer. ...



Sunday, October 30, 2005

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Frank Warner's Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Group...



Saturday, October 29, 2005

Some time this weekend, this site will have its 500,000 th visitor. That is, reader-wise, an unimaginable number. When, in August 2002, I s...



Friday, October 28, 2005

Reading the comments stream to my note on Wednesday has been interesting & instructive, in a slightly lurid fashion. It is interesting to ...



Wednesday, October 26, 2005

I have just received word that Under Albany is one of five books named “Books of the Year 2004” by Small Press Traffic in San Francisco ...



Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Reading Other Traditions, watching John Ashbery explain, patiently & with humor, how to read to his audience at Harvard is instructive, an...



Monday, October 24, 2005

Because he is the most gracious of poets – the unquestioned king of the generous jacket blurb, worded just vaguely enough so that you’re n...



Saturday, October 22, 2005

David Bromige, unarmed   Today is the birthday of one of my favorite poets, ever, David Bromige. Bromige is one of those people of w...



Friday, October 21, 2005

I’ve never been clear if Bill Deemer ever lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, where so much of the New Western poetry of the 1960s came tog...



Thursday, October 20, 2005

Easily the best expression of what I called yesterday the New Western aesthetic within the New American Poetry was the magazine Coyote’s J...

Journals



Wednesday, October 19, 2005

I’ve written on numerous occasions that the so-called San Francisco Renaissance was largely a fiction, perpetrated in part by Donald Allen...

Beat Poetry | David Meltzer | New American Poetry



Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Finally, belatedly, I got around to viewing Crash , not the Cronenberg film from the J.G. Ballard book of the same name, but Paul Haggis’ f...



Monday, October 17, 2005

Ever since he took over as director at St. Marks’ Poetry Project, Anselm Berrigan has insisted, repeatedly & publicly, that there is no sing...



Sunday, October 16, 2005

You may have to register with the website to read this report of a writer’s conference in Mexico City , but it’s worth the effort.



Saturday, October 15, 2005

Is this year’s poetry shortlist for the National Book Award a hoot or what ?. Nominees include five white males: John Ashbery, W.S. Merwin...



Friday, October 14, 2005

There are two poems in the new Cue that fascinate me. Both are by Janet Kaplan, of whom I had not previously heard. That in itself is some...



Thursday, October 13, 2005

I have some new work in Cue, which subtitles itself A Journal of Prose Poetry. The type on the cover itself is all but unreadable, orange o...



Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Left to right: Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Ruth Witt Diamant, San Francisco State University 1958   This is a test. I want to see i...

New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Robert Grenier Tony Trehy posted a message entitled “Robert Grenier at the Text Festival ” to the British Poetics List , but what sho...



Monday, October 10, 2005

RESPONSE TO SILLIMAN AND OTHERS I appreciate Ron’s comradely display in printing my poem, and urging others to read me. However, by coco...



Sunday, October 09, 2005

Jeff Twitchell-Waas sends the following note, which is indeed worth passing on: Z-site: A Companion to the Works of Louis Zukofsky i...



Saturday, October 08, 2005

Some poetry news from around the world you might not find on the news page of Poetry Daily: Chennai Dublin Gaza Johannesburg Lon...



Friday, October 07, 2005

I have several books by Jay Millar , or as he capitalizes it, Jay MillAr (perhaps so that non-Red Sox fans will understand how to pronoun...



Thursday, October 06, 2005

CSI: Poetry would find my fingerprints on Linh Dinh’s great new book, American Tatts . There is my blurb on the back, a dead give away....



Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Paul Pena 1950-2005 song writer , blues musician & western master of Tuvan throat singing



Tuesday, October 04, 2005

It took me a long time to get around to reading the first of Joseph Torra’s novels, Gas Station, precisely, I think, because of the title ...



Monday, October 03, 2005

I first thought of Renee Gladman’s The Activist as a booklength poem. That was before I read it. Later, I felt as though I were in the m...



Sunday, October 02, 2005

Speaking of archival film footage, Ubuweb is back. And to it, a superb library of downloadable classics of avant-garde & experimental ci...



Saturday, October 01, 2005

I’ve added word verification as a requirement to the comments section. Some spam tool has been going into old comments chains and adding lin...



Friday, September 30, 2005

Richard Manuel & Bob Dylan   Some thoughts on seeing No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese’s masterful biography of Bob Dylan, earlier th...



Thursday, September 29, 2005

If Rodrigo Toscano & Maxine Chernoff have both produced volumes that are really chapbooks posing, through the miracle of book design, as m...



Wednesday, September 28, 2005

A really useful – if in one way bizarre (because completely gratuitous – I simply happened to be reading the two books at the same time) –...



Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Maxine Chernoff’s poems often feel like palimpsests around a given topic, image or idea & in Among the Names – her most ambitious proje...



Monday, September 26, 2005

What is a lap? It exists only when we are sitting down, disappears the instant we rise . It, in some sense, is a fold in the body that is ...



Sunday, September 25, 2005

On Monday and Tuesday of this coming week, Martin Scorsese’ documentary portrait of Bob Dylan, No Direction Home , will be broadcast on P...



Saturday, September 24, 2005

David Melnick’s “Hasty Fields” reminds me of how image schema can set up large areas of connotation within a given work of poetry. The poem,...



Friday, September 23, 2005

“Hasty Fields” is not necessarily the most typical poem from David Melnick’s Eclogs. It is, however, one that I could imagine setting in HTM...



Thursday, September 22, 2005

The first book I ever blurbed must have been David Melnick’s 1972 Ithaca House volume, Eclogs . Would that all of my blurbs stand up to 3...



Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Rachel Loden’s The Richard Nixon Snow Globe is a brilliantly crafted suite of 20 poems that take – with some generous exceptions – the 197...



Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Sometimes I come to even a small book late, as with Marc Kuykendall’s My Picayune Anxiety Room, a charming chapbook published three years ag...



Monday, September 19, 2005

Who was it who first proposed the Bolivian government’s display of the corpse of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in 1967 as an instance of bourgeois...



Sunday, September 18, 2005

Jim McCrary   A very nice write up on the new Black Spring in today’s Lawrence Journal-World. Tho this weblog beat them to it by a...



Friday, September 16, 2005

Born into Brothels is a difficult film to watch, more difficult because, as a documentary, the fate of its primary characters – eight chi...



Thursday, September 15, 2005

The Chronicle of Higher Education just published Bill Lavender’s account of escaping New Orleans . Considering just how many of Bill’s ...



Wednesday, September 14, 2005

The perfect counterpoint to Marjorie Perloff’s Vienna Paradox has to be Rosmarie Waldrop’s Ceci n’est pas Rosmarie , half of a pair of ...



Tuesday, September 13, 2005

The Kibera slums in Nairobi , where over one million people live is an important setting for The Constant Gardner tho images of it sho...

Film



Monday, September 12, 2005

The Vienna Paradox , the title of Marjorie Perloff’s intense & fascinating memoir, was that the Jews of the capital of the Austro-Hunga...



Sunday, September 11, 2005

This is the best photo essay I’ve seen from a resident of New Orleans .



Sunday, September 11, 2005

Robert Rahway Zakanitch , 2001 Worth noting: Arthur Danto, the philosopher who serves as art critic for The Nation, has curated an exh...



Saturday, September 10, 2005

Ron: To blog, or not to blog: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the sitemeter to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageou...



Friday, September 09, 2005

For years, people have been telling me what a wonderful poet Lisa Robertson is. Tho I thought her work was competent & smart, I never real...



Thursday, September 08, 2005

There are different kinds of minimalism. One of the most common, thanks to Robert Grenier &, behind him, Robert Creeley & Louis Zukofsky, fo...



Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Having watched the chaotic personal style of Terry Gilliam documented in Lost in La Mancha , I’m amazed that anyone in Hollywood would ex...

Film



Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Be there or be square, Jim Behrle says. Actually, I suspect you could be both. Silliman’s blog as a sitcom? I envision Olivier doing Ham...



Tuesday, September 06, 2005

The autumn before my boys were born, Krishna and I rented a small cabin in the Sierras for a few days. It was the first time in a relatio...

Personal



Monday, September 05, 2005

“Some horror is beyond words.” I wrote that sentence in this space last December 31 as the horror of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean ...



Monday, August 29, 2005

I'm not really back - I'm actually in Martinsburg, WV, at the moment, using a "guest PC" in the Comfort Suites lobby. Yesterday we spent th...



Sunday, August 28, 2005

The 2005 NewSong Contest Co-Winners are: K.J. DENHERT, Ossining, New York. She was also picked to perform on today's Mountain Stage NewSong...



Saturday, August 20, 2005

As anyone who has read these notes closely in recent weeks can tell, I am in need of some time away from the grid. Accordingly, the laptop i...



Friday, August 19, 2005

Google says that it has put its program of scanning and posting searchable texts of books on hiatus until November. However, Google alrea...



Thursday, August 18, 2005

Wherefore art thou, Romeo?   Of all the Shakespeare productions committed to film, perhaps the most gaudy is Baz Luhrmann’s product...



Wednesday, August 17, 2005

One of the grimmer aspects of the response I got to my two notes regarding Amiri Baraka last week – and I received nearly as many emails a...



Tuesday, August 16, 2005

The Tiny is perhaps the first little magazine ever to be named for its typeface, that nine-point Times Roman that always looks smaller th...



Monday, August 15, 2005

Alexandre Rodrigues portrays Rocket caught between two gangs & two worlds in City of God   When I reviewed Assassination Tango on...



Saturday, August 13, 2005

Phil Whalen It’s worth reprinting the following note for any readers not on one of the listservs to which Michael Rothenberg has sent th...



Friday, August 12, 2005

Lorenzo Thomas   The brouhaha surrounding my comments regarding Amiri Baraka on Monday has been instructive. It sent me back to an i...



Thursday, August 11, 2005

I knew, within maybe five minutes of first meeting Mary Burger at Naropa in 1994, that I was in the presence of a brilliant & completely...



Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Annie Finch can’t be a new formalist, precisely because she’s passionate both about the new and about form. She is also one of the great ...



Tuesday, August 09, 2005

More than a few folks have written to note that the following characterization of the participants of Breathing Fire 2 stuck in their craw:...



Monday, August 08, 2005

I forget – have forgotten more than once – that Amiri Baraka came from a more privileged background than I did. His mother graduated from ...



Sunday, August 07, 2005

Rest in rhythm, Ibrahim Ferrer



Sunday, August 07, 2005

Barbara Jane Reyes gives an interesting & even inspiring interview to the Asian American Press. I haven’t seen the book yet, but every...



Saturday, August 06, 2005

Hanford Nuclear Site I was born just two hours too soon to have arrived on the first anniversary of Hiroshima . That I was born in Pasc...

Personal



Friday, August 05, 2005

Peter Sommer’s Continued is interesting from many different perspectives. It is a selected poems that moves backward from the present t...



Thursday, August 04, 2005

I’ve been in Keystone, Colorado, 100 or so miles west of Denver, for the past couple of days, at a conference where I presented yesterday mo...



Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Omoo , I have been told, is the Herman Melville title most apt to show up on a crossword puzzle. To call Melville’s second book a novel st...



Tuesday, August 02, 2005

It’s been some 34 years since Al Purdy’s collection Storm Warnings first appeared, introducing Canadian readers to such new poets as bill...



Monday, August 01, 2005

The Shakespeare festival at our house continues apace, as we watched Michael Radford’s minimalist interpretation of The Merchant of Venice...



Sunday, July 31, 2005

The death scene of You Know Who from the latest Harry Potter novel, as written in the style of William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S. El...



Saturday, July 30, 2005

Allen Bramhall & Jeff Harrison are using a blog in what appears (to me at least) a new way, as a mechanism for an ongoing interview. Bra...



Friday, July 29, 2005

Happy 100 th birthday , Stanley Kunitz !



Thursday, July 28, 2005

It was just too hot when I got out of my meeting to drive 135 miles in an un-air-conditioned car (a vestige of my days in Berkeley, where no...



Wednesday, July 27, 2005

I finally got around to seeing Robert Duvall’s Assassination Tango the other night & it makes for a fascinating study of what makes narra...

Film



Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Alice Notley   If the new edition of Chicago Review devotes 137 pages to Christopher Middleton, that’s just for openers – the issue co...

Journals



Monday, July 25, 2005

I need, I suspect, a big collected or selected poems by Christopher Middleton . Then, just maybe, I’ll be able to figure out what I think ...



Sunday, July 24, 2005

Views & reviews of the Charles Bernstein – Brian Ferneyhough opera Shadowtime .   ·          New York Times , July 23, 2005 (Ant...



Saturday, July 23, 2005

Friday afternoon, this site received its 400,000 th visit. My reaction to this level of response is pretty much what’s it been from the sta...



Friday, July 22, 2005

The day my piece on the PIP 5 anthology runs, what do I get in the mail but a package from Joshua Kotin , managing editor of the Chicago Re...

anthologies



Thursday, July 21, 2005

Early Saturday morning, Jesse started (and finished) rereading – skimming really, even for him – the fifth Harry Potter book in anticipati...



Wednesday, July 20, 2005

The average age of the poets in The PIP¹ Anthology of World Poetry of the 20 th Century, Volume 5: Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Sou...



Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Rod Smith   I was shocked when the Robert Creeley reading – one might even call it the Robert Creeley evening – ended on the CD that a...



Monday, July 18, 2005

Somebody awhile back suggested that, since I had been thinking out loud about what a selected Zukofsky might include, and had noted the pr...



Sunday, July 17, 2005

Lee Herrick is the 600 th member of the blogroll to the left – his blog focuses on Asian American poetry and activism. Welcome aboard!



Saturday, July 16, 2005

Terrain.Org is conducting a comprehensive survey about the online reading & publishing habits of poets. Go here and fill out the form.



Friday, July 15, 2005

(L-R) Stan Lombardo, Kenneth Irby, Jordan Davis & Judy Roitman at the Hall Center on the Lawrence Campus, 3-29-04 photo by Jonathan M...



Thursday, July 14, 2005

My blog for the day isn’t here. It is at Tom Beckett’s blog, E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S , where Crag Hill & I have just interviewed visp...



Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Another magazine that has emerged as one of the better publications of our time is Kiosk , published out of the Poetics Program at SUNY-Bu...



Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Writing about ezines Jacket & How2 last Thursday, I ended with this question: Where is the journal that steps up to looking at the world ...

Journals



Monday, July 11, 2005

A curious fact that I’ve known now for nearly 40 years – I am constitutionally incapable of taking in more than one longpoem at a time. Ri...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Sunday, July 10, 2005

Michael Palmer Photo by John Tranter   Robert Pinsky’s column in today’s Washington Post focuses on Michael Palmer .



Sunday, July 10, 2005

It would be great if everyone would check their link on the blogroll to the left. Let me know if there are mistakes or old URLs lurking abou...



Saturday, July 09, 2005

Gustaf Sobin   1935 – 2005



Friday, July 08, 2005

Steve Benson, who’s not a chronic reader of blogs, finally saw my June 24 th note on the ball (30 times in 2 days) & posted the following ...



Thursday, July 07, 2005

A few folks have written to let me know that they were “disappointed” or “hurt” that their ezines were not mentioned as the obvious answer ...



Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Aaron Kunin first caught my attention back in April 2003 when he sent a note to Kasey Mohammad concerning John Milton & Leslie Scalapino...



Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Last Wednesday, when I was demonstrating that a ten year old could write better than some work offered by the School of Quietude , and u...

School of Quietude



Monday, July 04, 2005

Lorenzo Thomas 31 August 1944 - 4 July 2005



Monday, July 04, 2005

One hundred fifty years ago today, Walt Whitman self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass , a book that one could easily claim d...



Sunday, July 03, 2005

I’m not going to argue that Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds is a great, or even good, movie. It is a good index, I suspect, of just ...



Saturday, July 02, 2005

Ralph Stanley had heart surgery last Monday. Stanley's signature song has the chorus, O, Death Won't you spare me over til anoth...



Friday, July 01, 2005

From my perspective, there are two negatives to the concept of the School of Quietude , the idea of an aesthetically & culturally conserv...

School of Quietude



Thursday, June 30, 2005

Alli Warren   K. Silem Mohammad has an extravagant mini-review of Alli Warren’s Hounds, a chapbook that arrived recently with a pu...



Wednesday, June 29, 2005

When I say, as I have been known to do, that a ten-year-old could write better poetry than many School of Quietude poets, I’m not being s...



Tuesday, June 28, 2005

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

George Oppen   Writing on Devin Johnston’s Aversions last December sent me back to reread his first book, Telepathy . This time, tho...



Monday, June 27, 2005

For somebody who eventually was sent to an institution “for the feeble-minded,” Henry Darger knew how to read before he began grammar sch...



Sunday, June 26, 2005

Language poets get blamed for everything. Now I’ve even made Eileen Tabios' bathwater turn cold . .



Sunday, June 26, 2005

Sappho , dead 2,600 years, is still coming up with new work .



Saturday, June 25, 2005

The following list comes from an email sent out by Arianna Huffington this week, noting the priority of American TV’s news organizations: ...



Friday, June 24, 2005

While I may not approve of the idea of having heroes in poetry, I do have a few of my own. One of these is – and has been for decades – St...

Steve Benson



Thursday, June 23, 2005

A brain tumor finally silenced Jimmy Weinstein last week at the age of 78. Jimmy – or James as he was called on the cover of his several ...



Wednesday, June 22, 2005

The RealPoetik email zine imploded over the weekend. The way I read the process of what happened is roughly like this. Editor Kirby Olson a...



Tuesday, June 21, 2005

One of the side effects of the evolution of literary generations in the 1970s was that more than a few of the poets who, age-wise, fell in...



Monday, June 20, 2005

Rosa Luxembourg’s grave   I am often surprised at just how little poets seem to know of what they are actually doing. There are many b...



Sunday, June 19, 2005

Olympia still manufactures typewriters ! Including manual ones, perfect for that post-WW3 memoir. Rick Poynor fondly remembers his on ...



Saturday, June 18, 2005

You make me dizzy, Mr. Gizzi Ш A belated welcome to blogland , Pamela Lu . Ш K. Silem Mohammad has a poem with a title that I wis...



Friday, June 17, 2005

Consider the following elements of insinuated stylization: of the first nine actors listed in the credits of Batman Begins , only one – Ka...



Thursday, June 16, 2005

Megan Swihart asked a couple of questions that I’ve heard more than once before: What possibilities are opened and what problems/limitati...

The academy



Wednesday, June 15, 2005

This is a coda to yesterday’s note on the idea of books as representation. It’s also a follow-up to my complaint back on the comment strea...

Objectivism | Zukofsky



Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Louis Zukofsky (L) & Jerry Reisman I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me th...

Objectivism | Zukofsky



Monday, June 13, 2005

All the way from Beijing , Bob Marcacci wants to know if I see a rift “between online poets and print poets. It seems like they are two dif...



Sunday, June 12, 2005

Some recent publications of mine on the web: From VOG: Latchkey.Net Sections of Zyxt: BigBridge Drunken Boat Latchkey.Net Lat...



Saturday, June 11, 2005

Happy 23 rd birthday to the fellow who, through his example, first inspired me to become a blogger!



Friday, June 10, 2005

Roman Jakobson characterized language as having six distinct functions. In fact, the functions form three sets of pairs. Modified very sli...

language



Thursday, June 09, 2005

Least likely headline for an article that refers to Robert Creeley’s unpublished poetry: “Former CIA director calls for Iraq withdrawal”



Thursday, June 09, 2005

Thomas A. Clark   For over 30 years, the literary renaissance in Guilford , Vermont has been thanks entirely to the efforts of Bob & ...



Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Because she is one of our smartest, as well as one of our finest, poets, Jennifer Moxley always offers her readers much to think about. A...



Tuesday, June 07, 2005

I wish that, some 35 years ago, when I first began seriously to wonder about the nature (& differences) of Canadian poetry, something like...



Monday, June 06, 2005

Clark Coolidge   In a comment to my replies to Jonathan Mayhew’s questions the other day, Pris Campbell asked a pointed question: ...



Saturday, June 04, 2005

Before I headed out last Wednesday for a few days of birding along the Eastern Shore & Tred Avon river in Maryland , I got a note from Pe...



Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Obviously, I think that editing a selected poems for a writer like Louis Zukofsky needs to begin by defining how one approaches the longpo...

Objectivism | Zukofsky



Tuesday, May 31, 2005

All weekend I’ve been thinking that there’s an absent third missing between Collecteds & “Books as They Happen” – it’s the case of the S...

Charles Olson | Objectivism | Zukofsky



Monday, May 30, 2005

The signature on Shakespeare’s will   Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare is one of those touc...



Sunday, May 29, 2005

You're John Keats! You were born poor, trained to be a doctor, and then decided you wanted to be a poet. You threw yourself into poetry with...



Saturday, May 28, 2005

Craig Allen Conrad   I made a point of not reading Gary Sullivan’s answers to Jonathan Mayhew’s questions until after I had answered...



Friday, May 27, 2005

Jonathan Mayhew, second from left in hat, with (L-R) David Shapiro, Katie Degentesh , Drew Gardner & Douglas Rothschild Photo © 2005 b...



Thursday, May 26, 2005

Grave of William Carlos Williams Hillside Cemetery , Lyndhurst , NJ   Tuscaloosa-bound Jeremy Hawkins , whom I met for the first...



Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Gravitations! reads Ronald Johnson’s one-word message inked – he had gorgeous penmanship, bordering on calligraphy – on the inside cover ...



Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Jordan Davis, somewhere in the West Village   By my count, 22 of the 81 contributors to Hat are bloggers – in that they are now (or ...



Monday, May 23, 2005

Allen Ginsberg & Gregory Corso   The last time I saw Gregory Corso was in a liquor store at the corner of Columbus & Union in San Fran...



Sunday, May 22, 2005

Matt Hart, second from right, in the band Squirtgun   After my piece on Matt Hart, I heard from both. The following letter, run here w...



Saturday, May 21, 2005

At Colin’s behest, we were watching Julius Caesar , and the kids were responding to one of the great little games kids can play with Shakesp...



Friday, May 20, 2005

A quick note: I’ve toggled the Blogger settings to require that anyone making comments be registered. The civility (or lack thereof) of the ...



Friday, May 20, 2005

I got a questionnaire from Fulcrum asking some very basic questions.   1. What is and what isn't poetry? What is poetry's essential nat...



Thursday, May 19, 2005

My publicist & fantasy biographer, Jim Behrle , is writing a series of works entitled Why I Am Not Post Avant. In the process, he proves h...



Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Two of the oldest – and most cherished – volumes in my library are Amen, Huzzah, Selah and Elegies and Celebrations, technically volumes ...



Tuesday, May 17, 2005

My Matt Hart I had a full-on Yogi Berra experience when I went up to New York last week to read with Anselm Berrigan & Matt Hart at ...



Monday, May 16, 2005

Perhaps the single best example of the ways in which the web has emerged as a more powerful publishing solution for progressive arts than tr...



Sunday, May 15, 2005

Only a few weeks left before the School of Quietude's most hushed event of the year – the annual fest at West Chester University . Chris...



Saturday, May 14, 2005

Ben Mazer , editor of the Berkeley Renaissance feature in Fulcrum 3 and the Landis Everson feature in Jacket , and Landis Everson himself...



Friday, May 13, 2005

Hugh Steinberg’s response in the comments log to Monday’s note triggered a thought. He was surprised that I hadn’t gotten into Taylor Brad...



Thursday, May 12, 2005

Glenn Gould   Although my interest in classical piano is very close to nil, I’ve been meaning to see 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould ...



Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Writing of Ronnie Primack here last month, I kvetched yet again about the lack of an anthology of the Spicer Circle and its various off-sh...



Monday, May 09, 2005

Did you ever have the experience of opening up a new book by somebody you had never heard of, or maybe just barely, and in flipping throug...



Sunday, May 08, 2005

Monday, May 9, 7:30 PM 11 th Street Bar 510 E. 11 th Street (betwixt Avenues A & B) Manhattan   Anselm Berrigan Matt Hart...



Saturday, May 07, 2005

We Knew a Man: Robert Creeley Memorial Reading   Saturday, May 7, 4 PM MIT 77 Mass. Ave., #10 - 250 Cambridge, M’ass   ...



Friday, May 06, 2005

The California Department of Fish & Game describes Eureka Slough as 3 acres of tidal salt marsh. Egrets, herons, seals and sea lions ar...



Thursday, May 05, 2005

My idea of the relationship of mindfulness to reading & to the new sentence is not a prescription, by any means. There are – and indeed alwa...



Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Whenever I’ve been paired up at a reading alongside a poet who makes great use of memory to recite poems sans reference to any written text ...



Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Rivers and Tides is a documentary that follows British earthworks artist Andy Goldsworthy as he proceeds about his work – in Nova Scotia...



Monday, May 02, 2005

Of the 28 theater companies selected to receive funding from the NEA’s Shakespeare in American Communities program, one – People’s Light ...



Sunday, May 01, 2005

It may seem paradoxical, but I was pleased to see so many people make use of the comments box to inform me that my reading of Evie Shockley...



Saturday, April 30, 2005

The real Pere Ubu: Kenny Goldsmith   News that stays news: Ubuweb & Dial-a-Poem in the New York Times , oh my .



Saturday, April 30, 2005

Jack Spicer’s back. But this time he’s an “evil boy genius” with “his custom-built robot army” in the anime TV series, Xiaolin Showdown . T...



Friday, April 29, 2005

As I noted yesterday, Diane Wakoski’s question wasn’t just about the importance of our early social networks in creating the grounds for our...



Thursday, April 28, 2005

Diane Wakoski wrote me the other day: I'd like to read on the blog, should you care to write one, your dissertation on how our poetics re...



Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Curtis Faville , as you must have realized by now, is an old friend, someone I’ve known since we attended UC Berkeley together circa 1970. C...



Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Erica Hunt   Erica Hunt & Christian Bök gave a great reading last Thursday. It wasn’t, however, the same reading – Hunt was at Kelly...



Monday, April 25, 2005

Nothing, literally nothing, angers me more than overt intellectual dishonesty. When Jacques Derrida misrepresented Roman Jakobson’s work in ...



Sunday, April 24, 2005

Your Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 35% Yankee 5% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern What Kind of American...



Sunday, April 24, 2005

Geof Huth, NZXT   Geof Huth considers his role as the first real theorist of visual poetry. Except that he doesn’t give himself the c...



Saturday, April 23, 2005

Shiny, I have decided, has to be the most aptly named publication currently going. It arrives, just like the Harvard Business Review, in a ...



Friday, April 22, 2005

Some people have asked me why I haven’t done an in-depth piece about the outing of Foetry.Com and its subsequent demise. After all, the New ...



Thursday, April 21, 2005

Tom Raworth has set up a web site for Kamau Brathwaite and the struggle to save CowPastor , Barbados , where Brathwaite lives.



Thursday, April 21, 2005

Four or Five Things: Originally, this was a note to link to something Ronnie Pontiac had written concerning a topic on this blog. For var...



Wednesday, April 20, 2005

I have written here before that one of the great omissions from the set of Obviously Necessary Resources for poetry over the past half...



Tuesday, April 19, 2005

John Bloomberg- Rissman asks some interesting (and complex) questions: I’m reading John Xiros Cooper’s Modernism and the Cultur...



Monday, April 18, 2005

It was Gabe Gudding who made me stop to think twice about Poet's Bookshelf , Peter Davis’ collection of poets’ lists of the books that ha...



Sunday, April 17, 2005

I’ve almost never had a reading in my life where I didn’t have some instant of profound doubt half way through, where I didn’t feel like s...



Sunday, April 17, 2005

Do me a favor. If you are on the blogroll – see the left column – can you double check your link and let me know if it’s out of date...



Saturday, April 16, 2005

One of the people involved in the incident described in my earlier post asked me to take it down. And I decided to agree with him on that. ...



Friday, April 15, 2005

Feeding a bird on the head of Charles Olson If the current regime in Washington appears to be the most hostile to intellectuals since ...



Thursday, April 14, 2005

Black Sparrow is back. John Martin’s deservedly famous small press imprint, which from 1966 until Martin’s retirement in 2003, publ...



Wednesday, April 13, 2005

I’ve toyed around with a variety of different solutions, and think I’m going to stick with this for awhile. I even thought about Curtis’ ide...



Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Sometime after I went to bed last night, a major portion of my Blogger template got blown away. How, I do not know. But it’s going to take a...



Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Wendell Berry receives a lifetime services award from the Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission, Earth Day 2004     Wendell ...



Monday, April 11, 2005

I was in Austin for 22 hours last week, did a quick spot on Bloomberg TV (not about blogging or poetry), then headed back out again only ...



Saturday, April 09, 2005

I’m ambivalent about most forms of poetry contests, at best. But the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Poetry Face-Off at least seems l...



Friday, April 08, 2005

Henry Darger Read-a-Thon   Susan Bee notes that on April 12, there will be a Henry Darger read-a-thon at the American Folk Art Museum ...



Thursday, April 07, 2005

The question came up concerning the New American Poetry. I’m always referring to it here as though everyone understands the reference. Cou...



Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Scene from The Vivian Girls, The Pat Graney Company, 2005   After I posted my note on the Vodou shrines of Nancy Josephson, the ho...



Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Robert Smithson – Hotel Palenque   The most important – to me at least – exhibit I saw in Baltimore last week was one I wasn’t abl...



Monday, April 04, 2005

A student at Penn writes:   For my individual project I have been asked to assess whether the contemporary poetry avant-garde ac...



Sunday, April 03, 2005

(Some hours later): Paul Adrian Mabelis notes that there are 23 different Creeley recordings available on the Naropa archives website . I’m...



Sunday, April 03, 2005

One of the great guilty pleasures over this past week of complicated emotions was seeing the New York Times print Robert Creeley’s ...



Saturday, April 02, 2005

L-R: Allen DeLoach , Tom Pickard, RS, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Bob Creeley.   Community . I use that term rather a lot & I kno...



Friday, April 01, 2005

My nephew Daniel reminded me that I posted this review here a little over a year ago. It certainly feels relevant today.   Tues...



Thursday, March 31, 2005

I walked around all day yesterday with a huge ball of emotion inside of me, feeling completely bereft at the death of Robert Creeley...



Wednesday, March 30, 2005

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

John Tranter is reading tonight at Kelly Writers House at 6:00 PM here in Philadelphia & I wonder just how large a crowd will tu...



Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Just around the bend from Harbor Place on Baltimore's rapidly gentrifying waterfront, the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is...



Monday, March 28, 2005

To understand the accomplishment of Susan M. Schultz , you have to realize that it is – or always has been, up to now – virtually im...



Saturday, March 26, 2005

It has been just under 20 years since the New Poetics Colloquium occurred in Vancouver , sponsored by the then-new-kid-on-the-poetics-bloc...



Friday, March 25, 2005

This week I was on the road – in Virginia , D.C. & Maryland – and expected that I’d have a chance to get online once or twice. As it turn...



Tuesday, March 22, 2005

I’ve heard of the press Tolling Elves before, tho I’m not sure where. Lollipop , the list of little press publications of the U.K.,...



Monday, March 21, 2005

After nearly a decade in Philadelphia, I finally went to the Rodin Museum last week, a relatively small building a few blocks down the ...



Sunday, March 20, 2005

This short note has been deleted as of May 17, 2005, at the request of one of the individuals involved.



Saturday, March 19, 2005

You can now download an MP3 of my talk on Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book from the PENNsound site. The talk lasts an hour & a half, with ...



Friday, March 18, 2005

While toodling about in my motorcar the other day, I heard Garrison Keillor broadcasting Prairie Home Companion from St. Catherine’s Un...



Thursday, March 17, 2005

One of the positive aspects of the use of a standard set of questions in Lance Phillips’ Here Comes Everybody interview blog is tha...



Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Amidst the backwash of Alyssa Lappen’s attack on Ammiel Alcalay in a rightwing online zine called The American Thinker, reprinted by th...



Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Presence is the center of attention. The old admonition Be here now literally is accurate. It is also exceptionally difficult. At or very ...



Monday, March 14, 2005

I have sometimes said that at least part of the reason why Jack Gilbert has been so vituperative in his rejection of language poetr...



Sunday, March 13, 2005

Didi Menendez offers this version of a portrait, much more flattering than Jim Behrle’s . I was never this good looking.



Saturday, March 12, 2005

Any time I find myself getting too full of myself, all I have to do is read the Ron is Ron comics on the Jim Behrle website. Cur...



Friday, March 11, 2005

Philip Lamantia     1927-2005



Friday, March 11, 2005

I was thinking of d alexander the other day & decided to see what of the man’s poetry I could track down. Through Abebooks.com , I manage...



Thursday, March 10, 2005

Erika Marie Eckart is a student at Loyola University in Chicago . She wrote & asked me if I would respond to some questions and I sai...



Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Part of the way through Roy Kiyooka’s Pacific Windows, I went to bed wondering to myself if a major reason why there did not seem to be mo...



Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Steve Petermeier added a note to the Squawkbox thread a couple of days ago, then sent me a longer version that I thought deserves wider ci...



Monday, March 07, 2005

Roy Kiyooka is a name I first heard from the lips of Robert Creeley a long time ago. Kiyooka was, I gathered, one of those Canadian...



Sunday, March 06, 2005

I’ve been scrolling through the blogroll of late, trying to see who has gone dark & who is up to something interesting (viz. Gary Sullivan...



Saturday, March 05, 2005

Instead of us all going to New York for Jackson Mac Low’s memorial today at St. Marks, we’re all home sick with this winter crud, a deep co...



Friday, March 04, 2005

Last week I gave a presentation for work in the morning in Stamford , Connecticut , then headed down to Philadelphia in order to g...



Thursday, March 03, 2005

What is the literary equivalent of the narrated audio that accompanies so many “major” museum shows these days? Is it footnotes? A f...



Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Dalí’s Photoshop is a phrase that kept running through my head as I wandered through the immense – and densely, brutally packed – S...



Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Eliot was wrong. April is hardly the cruelest month – for one thing, it’s the one moment of the year when many baseball fans, Philad...



Monday, February 28, 2005

Orange Alert   On Monday, February 28, New Yorkers will begin to see what Central Park looks like without The Gates, the 7532 b...



Friday, February 25, 2005

If William Gibson is the Wordsworth of cyberpunk fiction, Bruce Sterling is the Coleridge.¹ It was in fact Sterling who coined th...



Thursday, February 24, 2005

It is my duty to report that Lyn Hejinian is writing the best poetry of her career right now. The bizarre thing is , I’ve been able to r...



Wednesday, February 23, 2005

I was saddened, but not surprised, by the suicide on Sunday of Hunter S. Thompson. You can only play around with rum, hard drugs and guns ...



Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Mark Tursi proposes what he calls a final question:   We’ve talked a lot about past poetic movements and current poetry, as well as y...



Monday, February 21, 2005

The cover is felt. The binding is one large rubber band. The page would be square except that it’s not four-sided at all, with a substanti...



Saturday, February 19, 2005

Theorizing presents:   Ron Silliman   Plotless Prose: Robert Duncan & The H.D. Book   Wednesday, February 23 6:00 PM , K...



Friday, February 18, 2005

Beyond choice of form, how does a magazine that focuses exclusively on the prose poem differ from one that focuses on haiku? Or on the son...



Thursday, February 17, 2005

Not long ago, Cameron Bass reposted my little Venn diagram of poetry, prose poetry & the concept of plotless prose under the heading of “...



Wednesday, February 16, 2005

I’ve told this story about David Gitin a few times before. So if you already heard it once, indulge me. Back when I was a stude...



Tuesday, February 15, 2005

The differences between Robert Duncan’s A Selected Prose, edited after his death by Robert Bertholf, published in 1995, & Duncan's ...

New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Monday, February 14, 2005

Style is an en effort to exorcise or to control the magic or glamour of sound in music, stone in sculpture or evocation in words. The effo...



Sunday, February 13, 2005

Theorizing presents:   Ron Silliman   Plotless Prose: Robert Duncan & The H.D. Book   Wednesday, February 23 6:00 PM , K...



Saturday, February 12, 2005

I was in DSL hell for a couple of days, complements of Verizon. I needed to switch the credit card that automatically paid the account each ...



Friday, February 11, 2005

C.A. Conrad has posted an interview with yours truly up on the PhillySound blog site. Partly it’s about Woundwood, of which C.A. s...



Wednesday, February 09, 2005

The Paris Review board has told current editor Brigid Hughes that her contact will not be renewed when it comes up again in M...



Tuesday, February 08, 2005

I’ve disagreed with Eliot Weinberger with so many things over the years that it is probably easier to note the few things abo...



Monday, February 07, 2005

I stopped for lunch at El Sombrero Grocery Store in Avondale , PA , a farm town west of Kennett Square where some of the Mexican famili...



Sunday, February 06, 2005

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Saturday, February 05, 2005

Folks who have traditionally written to me via either my GTE.Net or Verizon.Net addresses should know that my version of Outlook “blew u...



Friday, February 04, 2005

I was reading & rereading the new Robert Creeley book, surprised actually at the turn his new poetry had taken, working ...



Thursday, February 03, 2005

When I was reading Truong Tran’s Within the Margin last week, a curious echo – I’m not sure that’s the right word, really – sounded of a...



Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Larry Ochs   Mark Tursi just keeps firing questions:   Is the inertia you speak of related in anyway to Olson’s not...



Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Kevin Thurston has asked me to discuss my “ideas that distinguish 'plotless prose' from 'prose poetry'?” I could, I suppose, dip back i...



Monday, January 31, 2005

I’m not particularly a fan of the Academy of American Poets , as bland a gathering of information on poets, good, bad or indifferent, as...



Sunday, January 30, 2005

And the 250,000 th visitor is . . .   SiteMeter & SquawkBox concur. Michael Harold was the 250,000 th visitor to the websit...



Saturday, January 29, 2005

Leslie Scalapino & Ron Silliman   Talking & Reading in the Lannan Poetry Series   Georgetown University Washin...



Friday, January 28, 2005

What is a margin? That is one of those questions that, in order to answer it intelligibly, requires a surprisingly wide ...



Thursday, January 27, 2005

Sometime in the next week, this blog will have its 250,000 th visitor. Not bad for poetry & poetics. If it happens to be you, let me kn...



Wednesday, January 26, 2005

After my conference on Saturday, I crossed over Market Street and headed up to the Paule Anglim Gallery at 14 Geary to see the Jess sho...



Monday, January 24, 2005

Collage by Helen Adam   When my roommate Stan Klein first introduced me to Abigail Child, circa 1976, she was exploring the...



Saturday, January 22, 2005

A couple of people who should be turned over to their parents will discover that their right to post to the commentary tool has been suspend...



Friday, January 21, 2005

On the flight between Chicago & San Francisco, I pulled a book by Jesse Seldess out of my laptop bag – O’Hare airport must literally ha...



Thursday, January 20, 2005

On the road to Moe’s   I’m on the road & will be traveling for about a week. During this trip, my laptop is also going to be eit...



Wednesday, January 19, 2005

I will wager that when Bob Dylan turned in the manuscript for Chronicles: Volume One to the editors and Simon & Schuster, it contained f...



Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Reading Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One , you realize that Dylan is never going to let you see the source of the residual, ...



Monday, January 17, 2005

Colin & Jesse turned 13 last Thursday, pleased to have become teenagers at last. Having twins is, as you might imagine, a bit of a...



Friday, January 14, 2005

On Wednesday, I thought to write a note on the changing status of literary magazines in the age of post-mechanical reproduction. For, wh...



Thursday, January 13, 2005

Martin Scorsese at the top of his form is a sight to see. I’ve seen some reviews that have suggested that The Aviator i...



Wednesday, January 12, 2005

logl   *   ganizer   *   oleum   *   trickler   *   mmon  ...



Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Jill Scott – Taped, 1975   Lately I have been asked more than once about this weblog’s “conservative” stance on poetics. The...



Monday, January 10, 2005

Last Monday, I asked , of the appearance of a half dozen ballads showing up among the 47 performances at the MLA off-site read...



Sunday, January 09, 2005

There is a question in the interview that each poet responds to on the Here Comes Everybody website that reads “ What is something whic...



Saturday, January 08, 2005

The Sexiest Poem of 2004 Photo: Charles Bernstein, New York , November 1997, copyright © John Tranter, 1997   C.A. Conrad ha...



Friday, January 07, 2005

L-R: Morgan Gibson, Karl Young & Karl Gartung   In 1967, nine years before I was to first meet Lyn Hejinian face-to-face a...



Thursday, January 06, 2005

Here I am writing twice in recent weeks about the problem of character in writing & then I sit down to watch Richard Linkla...



Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Notes from Charles Bernstein & Al Filreis – I’ve received four & read others on various listservs – announce that PENNsound is “n...



Tuesday, January 04, 2005

There is an inevitability implicit in the directness of Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s poetry that leaves the reader quite unprepared for the s...



Monday, January 03, 2005

The only time I ever attended the St. Mark’s Poetry Project’s Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Reading was the year the Church ...



Friday, December 31, 2004

http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/   Some horror is beyond words. Watching the news footage this past week from So...



Thursday, December 30, 2004

Susan Minot wrote the screenplay to Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty . Best known perhaps as the “breakthrough” role for ...



Wednesday, December 29, 2004

I laughed – guffawed actually – when I first opened the carton that brought David McAleavey’s Huge Haiku to my door. At 289 poems, it’s ...



Tuesday, December 28, 2004

For the second Christmas in a row, David Shapiro has spent at least part of the day reading my blog & sending me a series of no...



Monday, December 27, 2004

It was 20 years ago next summer that the Vancouver poetry conference took place, a great event that resonates still in this participant’s ...



Sunday, December 26, 2004

MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 8:30-10:30 PM   Highwire Gallery 1315 Cherry St., 4th floo...



Friday, December 24, 2004

This is as close to the North Pole as this blog is going to get. Karri Kokko in Helsinki, Finland, ran a nice fat quotation from my...



Thursday, December 23, 2004

All these years I’ve associated Red Grooms – his given name is “Charles Rogers Grooms” but I’ve never heard him referred to as anyth...



Wednesday, December 22, 2004

The Blake Test   When I compared Brian Kim Stefans’ Please Think Again (Poem for Airports) with Carla Harryman’s Open...



Tuesday, December 21, 2004

David Milofsky, who has a column in the Denver Post, asks the following:   (W)hat I'd like to know is what function you see the ...



Monday, December 20, 2004

Stan Brakhage – Still from The Text of Light, 1974 (Collection MoMA)   Another question from Mark Tursi:   I agree...



Friday, December 17, 2004

Somebody spilled coffee on page 7 of Walter Mosley’s Walkin' the Dog & the Paoli Library, 800 square-foot edifice that...



Thursday, December 16, 2004

It’s not every day that somebody hands you a set of eleven books bound in string that you can then fit into the side pocket of a suit ja...



Wednesday, December 15, 2004

If all you knew about Devin Johnston as a poet was that he was involved in the publication of Flood Editions , you wo...



Tuesday, December 14, 2004

One of the little ironies of poetry is that “open readings” are not truly open, at least not in the sense of any randomness of infinite ...



Monday, December 13, 2004

Of all the contributors to In the American Tree, the writer who has done the most to challenge & expand our sense of what genr...



Friday, December 10, 2004

It was twenty years ago today that I last had a drink. Not that anyone’s counting. Well, as people who know me must understand by now, I...



Thursday, December 09, 2004

Jackson Mac Low   1922 - 2004   It’s always a shock to think of Jackson as being of the same generation ...



Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Since 1997, The New York Times has listed 57 “notable” books of poetry in its annual Books of the Year issues. Of these, 84 percent of t...



Tuesday, December 07, 2004

The reason The New York Times has never had a comics section is that it already has its book review. Last Sunday’s list of the “100 Most...



Monday, December 06, 2004

The Poker is back, issue number 5, demonstrating all over again what it is like to be shockingly good. Shockingly because the ...



Saturday, December 04, 2004

On Monday, I will be reading at the Philadelphia Free Library, 1901 Vine , in the Skyline Room at 6:30 PM. The event is free a...



Friday, December 03, 2004

Well, here I am in this new anthology alongside Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, Brenda Hillman, Thom Gunn, Czeslaw Milosz & Sand...



Thursday, December 02, 2004

Typing up the poems of others, as I suggested yesterday, works a lot better with poets who wrote in the age of the typewriter....



Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Typing up the Muriel Rukeyser poem the other day, I reminded myself of the salutary functions of typing up somebody else’s poem as a ste...



Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Imagine, if you will , The Selected Poems of Robert Lowell as edited by Larry Fagin. Fagin is a serious reader & would no dou...



Monday, November 29, 2004

Has anyone ever written in depth on the relationship – or lack thereof – between Muriel Rukeyser & the Objectivists? Only two ...



Sunday, November 28, 2004

Suzanne Frischkorn is the 400 th listing on the Alphabet of Blogs. My guess is that about 97 percent are literary. In August of'02, I kne...



Saturday, November 27, 2004

An image from a different era:     L to R: Allen DeLoach , Tom Pickard, RS, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley.  ...



Friday, November 26, 2004

I was reading Latchkey.net & came across the poems of Elyse Friedman , a Toronto poet whose work I’d not encountered b...



Thursday, November 25, 2004

Thomas Jefferson was an enormously complex man – bankrupt slaveholder, inventor, the finest architect in the new world, ...



Wednesday, November 24, 2004

From Steven Fratelli in Taiwan comes a question with a challenging tone:   Your Blog seems devoid of any mention of Kerry's dis...



Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Last year, on the week before Christmas, I began the third volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way. On June 10...



Monday, November 22, 2004

Rae Armantrout read at Penn last week, and got one of those great audiences – at least in terms of quality – tha...



Sunday, November 21, 2004

One website that every American should have to see: Falluja in Pictures .   Thanks to Chris Murray for pointing this o...



Friday, November 19, 2004

My latest book, Under Albany , just arrived via UPS from the publisher, Salt. I would say that it looks beautiful, but t...



Thursday, November 18, 2004

And Mark Tursi has another question:   I really like this notion of your ‘larger structures’ as a kind of territory or a way of...



Wednesday, November 17, 2004

I’m doing an interview with/for Frances Raven & it begins with some questions about blogging.   (1)      When did you start blog...



Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Two other elements need to be added to my little linguistics for poets curriculum. The first is the application of a single simple idea,...



Monday, November 15, 2004

A couple of people have written in the past week about the cryptic comments I made with regard to Ruth Altmann, to wit:   I po...



Friday, November 12, 2004

Another variant of micropublishing is the self-published chapbook intended solely to be distributed for free to friends. I’ve written in...



Thursday, November 11, 2004

Micropublishing books has a long & honorable place in the literature of poetry. Editions with small runs & often small editions with sma...



Wednesday, November 10, 2004

It was Rachel Blau DuPlessis at the Zukofsky Centennial who reminded me of the profoundly political nature of resentment – that this was...



Monday, November 08, 2004

When I wrote last Thursday that the New York School was still evolving, I was thinking not only of Ron Padgett’s lovely new memoir of Jo...



Friday, November 05, 2004

What a terrible irony that the least moral person ever to have served as president of the United States, a man pathologically incapable ...



Thursday, November 04, 2004

Of all the literary tendencies associated with the New American Poetry in the 1950s & ‘60s, just one continues to both thrive & evolve...



Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Six girls from a rural village in Burkina Faso escape from a “purification” ceremony, the female circumcision ritual that is still pract...



Tuesday, November 02, 2004

V o t e !   Take a photo i.d. with you when you go to the polls, just in case . . .   If someone interferes with your ri...



Monday, November 01, 2004

Tomorrow, I’m taking the day off work. After a doctor’s appointment in the morning, I will be doing a four-hour stint at my local precin...



Friday, October 29, 2004

How do I decide what’s right for me?   As quickly as possible, with as little thought into the decision as I can humanly muster....



Thursday, October 28, 2004

It’s another question from Mark Tursi! So, how do you decide what’s right for you? And, I don’t mean to be glib – I’m thinking abo...



Wednesday, October 27, 2004

My first thought when reading K. Silem Mohammad’s “ A Language Poetry Dossier ” was that Kasey had, a la some Mark Peters’ projects, run...



Tuesday, October 26, 2004

An idyllic tale of a young man’s search for himself & the need for peasant-led communist revolution is so not 2004, particularly ...



Monday, October 25, 2004

Okay, so where Goest Cole Swensen, exactly? Her book of that title itself presents a text in three sections, the first & last of whic...



Sunday, October 24, 2004

Joseph Safdie was a San Francisco poet back when I was a San Francisco poet. Now he’s a Seattle poet. I’m printing this partly as a res...



Friday, October 22, 2004

A copy of The House that Hijack Built , by Adeena Karasick, is going Harry Thorne of Long Island City, who was the 200,000 th visitor...



Thursday, October 21, 2004

It is often the case that the baseball playoffs are more exciting to watch than the World Series to which they lead. And it may turn out...



Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Mark Tursi is working on a dissertation & sent me a question, which follows. He warns that, if I post my response to this blog, any com...



Tuesday, October 19, 2004

My comments yesterday on how to organize one’s thinking about the surfeit of good writing by younger poets when faced with absolute cons...



Monday, October 18, 2004

While I was in California, Krishna bought a couple of 84” bookcases – one for each of us – to upgrade the four-foot high ones in our bed...



Sunday, October 17, 2004

Then, every once in a while, somebody really seems to get it. Really get it. And one feels read. This is the best review I have...



Saturday, October 16, 2004

Meta-Flarf?     If you’ve always thought “I’ve never met a flarf I didn’t like,” try this.   WinningWriters.Com has a c...



Friday, October 15, 2004

In the past month or so, I’ve posted just under 10,000 words on the topic of Robert Duncan & The H.D. Book on this blog, enough so that ...



Thursday, October 14, 2004

I first began reading the work of Cole Swensen sometime around 1980, so that I had already formed an impression before...



Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Both Deborah Ager and P.J. Taylor chronicled the Mabel Dodge Poetry Festival. I don’t think either intends their commentary to be read...



Monday, October 11, 2004

I’m half-ignoring Spider Man 2 on the miniature LCDs of the in-flight movie screens, wending my way back to Paoli. Alfred Molina, a won...



Sunday, October 10, 2004

Jacques Derrida   1930 - 2004



Thursday, October 07, 2004

After my reading on Tuesday, I went out with Jonathan Mayhew & David Perry. I’d met Mayhew the day before, but hadn’t met Perry before – thi...



Wednesday, October 06, 2004

I've never envied bookstore workers their jobs, since in addition to inadequate pay & not nearly enough benefits, it's always felt as if the...



Monday, October 04, 2004

Seeing Kenneth Irby last night & today has been a great pleasure. I hadn’t seen Kenneth in at least a decade until I ran into him at the Zuk...



Saturday, October 02, 2004

Ron Silliman Ruby Slippers Tour 2004 Lawrence, KS Monday, October 4 , 1:30 PM: Seminar Room of the Hall Center for the Hu...



Friday, October 01, 2004

Forty years ago next week, the administration of the University of California of Berkeley, at the behest of Senator William Knowland, fo...



Thursday, September 30, 2004

Thinking about how Structure of Rime sort of peters out in Bending the Bow ( there is an exception, a piece that turns up right at the e...



Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Only one poet received a MacArthur Fellowship in the current round. But that one is C.D. Wright, one of our very finest poets, and a g...



Tuesday, September 28, 2004

The H.D. Book was not the only major critical project that occupied Robert Duncan’s attention in the 1960-63 timeframe, a period in which h...

Robert Duncan



Monday, September 27, 2004

In attempting to combine theosophy and psychology to create the grounds for a critical discourse for the poem, Robert Duncan makes of H.D. s...



Saturday, September 25, 2004

There are now a number of accounts (plus comments upon accounts) of the Zukfosky 100 conference on the web. For detailed & accurate rep...



Friday, September 24, 2004

While Alan Golding, Norman Finkelstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Bob Perelman covered Louis Zukofsky’s A Test of Poetry from a wide range...



Thursday, September 23, 2004

The first panel at the LZ / 100 conference was a superb affair on the topic of A Test of Poetry, Zukofsky’s curious – and relatively bri...



Tuesday, September 21, 2004

From the perspective of its organizers, the Louis Zukofsky / 100 – it sounds like an auto race, or possibly a mass arrest (“Free the LZ ...



Monday, September 20, 2004

While I was off on a 60-hour trip to New York City for the LZ / 100 . . .   ·          My office at home was flooded by the rem...



Friday, September 17, 2004

I’m off to the Zukofsky Centennial . This picture was taken by Jonathan Williams, as great a photographer as he is a poet.



Thursday, September 16, 2004

Tom Pickard is a poet from the north of England who may be best known over here as the former bookseller who once tracked down Basil Bun...



Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Robert Duncan’s concept of the Elder Poem – of the poet who prepares him or herself to embark at a reasonably advanced age – 60 and abov...



Monday, September 13, 2004

It was blogging that finally brought me to Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book. Or perhaps it was the other way around. I was spending a couple of...



Sunday, September 12, 2004

Ron Silliman Forthcoming Readings & Talks New York Friday-Sunday, September 17-19 , times vary , Zukofsky /100, celebration of...



Saturday, September 11, 2004

Pieces of the past arise out of the rubble .   Which evokes Eliot and then evokes Suspicion .   Ghosts all of them. Doers of no good. ...



Friday, September 10, 2004

Newsweek journalist learns about the New York trade presses the hard way . Terry Teachout chews her out for it.



Thursday, September 09, 2004

I first enrolled in the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State in the fall of 1966. It was something I did almost at the last m...



Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Of all the major projects undertaken by the New American generation of poets – which for the sake of definition lets presume consists of...

New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Tuesday, September 07, 2004

This is one of those stories that makes clear to me – if nobody else – why I’m so happy to be doing what I do. Although, as you will see...



Monday, September 06, 2004

Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar v. 3.1     September 8, Wednesday, 7:00 PM: Frank Sherlock & Alex...



Friday, September 03, 2004

To my August 19 th blog entry on places to go in Seattle, which included a trip to Open Books, Seattle’s poetry bookshop, Glenn Ingersoll p...



Thursday, September 02, 2004

Donald M. Allen   1913 – 2004



Wednesday, September 01, 2004

The sequence of eleven poems at the beginning of The Opening of the Field is one of the most remarkable moments – or movements – in the h...



Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Robert Duncan, in writing to H.D. during the last two years of her life, sought to connect himself to the generation of Imagism (which was...

Robert Duncan



Monday, August 30, 2004

And sometimes it just has to do with how busy I am.



Saturday, August 28, 2004

I'm going to be heading down to San Antonio, Texas for a few days. As always when I travel for work, it's hard to know if I'm going to...



Friday, August 27, 2004

Collaborations between poets & painters have evolved into a genre thanks in good part to the work of Robert Creeley & several members of the...



Thursday, August 26, 2004

Of all the books I brought with me on the trip to Washington, the most surprising, or surprisingly intense, is David Perry’s New Years . I’v...



Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Something I can’t quite place my finger on tells me that, deep down, Elizabeth Willis and I have very different aesthetics. The prose poems ...



Tuesday, August 24, 2004

The first (of eleven) books that I actually finish on my vacation is Joanne Kyger's God Never Dies, a sixteen-poem suite that is itself the...



Monday, August 23, 2004

The main place we rented in Washington was a house right on the Dungeness River, immediately south of Sequim proper, in a small retirement v...



Sunday, August 22, 2004

There is, you will note, a new little gizmo at the top of my screen, what Blogger calls its "navbar." In theory, it is less obtrusive and ru...



Friday, August 20, 2004

I'm writing this from Rem Koolhaas' new Seattle Public Library, which opened this past May and is definitely the hot new building in...



Thursday, August 19, 2004

I'm in the Seattle Public Library, a great new structure with neon yellow escalators, using an IBM in the fifth floor "mixing center" -- the...



Saturday, August 14, 2004

I had a great time at my reading Thursday, and am generally having a good time, period. One dental emergency to leaven the bread, plus vario...



Friday, August 06, 2004

I will be “on vacation” for the next two weeks or thereabouts, mostly in the area between Port Angeles & Port Townsend, west of Seattle. I’m...



Thursday, August 05, 2004

Two sites worth turning your attention to: Mini-Mag’s PhillySound feature , guest edited by CA Conrad. The typeface is the best a...



Thursday, August 05, 2004

Something I can't quite place my finger on tells me that, deep down, Elizabeth Willise & I have very different aesthetics. The prose poems i...



Wednesday, August 04, 2004

One work that is clearly not included in Tenney Nathanson’s forthcoming Erased Art is the seriously booklength poem, Home on the Range (The...



Tuesday, August 03, 2004

At one level, Tenney Nathanson's One Block Over appears to represent an intersection between the more playful elements in Projectivism (the...



Monday, August 02, 2004

Every thriving U.S. literary community, with the possible exception of New York City, thrives in good part because a couple of poets functio...



Sunday, August 01, 2004

I am told that The Sophist , which Salt has not yet published, has become the second best selling item in its catalog this past week.



Friday, July 30, 2004

Seventeen years later, after books like Charles Bernstein’s A Poetics and My Way , The Sophist doesn’t necessarily look as radical to the ...



Thursday, July 29, 2004

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Thursday, July 29, 2004

It took me more than one reading of The Sophist to understand why, at the conclusion of “The Simply,” Bernstein takes a step back rather tha...



Wednesday, July 28, 2004

The Sophist is a jumble, a jungle, a jangle of – dare I say? – overdetermined elements hodged-podged together. If it has an antecedent – th...



Tuesday, July 27, 2004

An unwritten premise of the well-formed book of poems has to do with the self-similarity of its contents. The poems tend – that verb’s flexi...



Monday, July 26, 2004

In 1987, when Sun & Moon Press first published The Sophist , Charles Bernstein was already one of the dozen or so best known poets of his ge...



Saturday, July 24, 2004

Ron Silliman Forthcoming Readings & Talks Seattle Thursday, August 12, 7:30 PM , SubText, Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Av...



Friday, July 23, 2004

Also on Jonathan Mayhew’s blog is a plea to Joshua Corey not to “use the Izenberg article as inspiration for a dissertation chapter.” The Iz...



Thursday, July 22, 2004

Jonathan Mayhew has a terrific piece on his blog about Clark Coolidge’s ear & prosody and its relationship to Coolidge’s experience as a jaz...



Wednesday, July 21, 2004

First, I was catching up on my reading in The Nation , that progressive publication that has barely updated either its format or its poetics...



Tuesday, July 20, 2004

What is the role of expectation in art? That question haunts me one half hour after having watched I, Robot with my sons over in the King o...



Monday, July 19, 2004

I received the following email last week:    Thanks for your blog! I'm an MFA student (a disgruntled grateful one) who has been reading ...



Sunday, July 18, 2004

Has Laurable's weblog gone dark? It's been a month now since it has been updated. One of the first two serious weblogs relating to poetry (t...



Saturday, July 17, 2004

While I was on the road this week, Blogger made some "improvements" to its input process that makes it harder than ever to fully figure out ...



Friday, July 16, 2004

Robert Duncan’s model of the older poet as someone who takes on “in the last years of their lives, a major creative phase” is worth explorin...



Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Thinking of Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book, which I’ve been mulling over now literally for years, it seems, one of the questions that digs at me ...

Robert Duncan



Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Here, finally, is the last question (and answer) in the 9 for 9 Poets project:   You have just won the Poem to Music Award, and can...



Monday, July 12, 2004

Here is the eighth question in the 9 for 9 poets project.   Most poets seem to have at least one poet they've read and admired who i...



Sunday, July 11, 2004

Today, I finished The Alphabet.



Saturday, July 10, 2004

Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar July Sky Edition     July 19, Monday, 7:00 PM: Walter Mosley , Robins Boo...



Friday, July 09, 2004

A note from Chris Stroffolino. The ellipses in what follows are his.   Dear Ron —   Just a quick note about Michael Moore's ...



Thursday, July 08, 2004

The following note from Anne Berkeley concerns the Korean censorship of all blogs emanating from Blogspot.com, not just this one. Personally...



Wednesday, July 07, 2004

As noted in this blog before, Ahsahta Press , now a part of the Boise State University publishing empire, has – in addition to publishing bo...



Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Gael Turnbull 1928 - 2004                                                                          ...



Monday, July 05, 2004

There is a wonderful evocation of a lost world in a 1980 note by Josephine Miles that serves as a preface to Genevieve Taggard’s To the Na...



Friday, July 02, 2004

It’s been about a week since my twelve-year-old sons & I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11 in nearby Oaks, Pennsylvania, a dot of a town northwes...

Film



Thursday, July 01, 2004

Judson Crews is a name I recognize from little magazines some 30 years ago & remember more distinctly from positive mentions of it by Rober...



Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Sitta europaea   nut hack jobber cracker woodhacker jobbin stopper mud dabber jar topper blue le...



Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Three of the four remaining Slack Buddha / La Perruque chapbooks have in common forms that might be characterized as quirky. Stephen T. Vess...



Monday, June 28, 2004

I went to Boston and enjoyed myself quite thoroughly, especially considering that I got lost every single time I attempted to drive anywhere...



Sunday, June 27, 2004

Ron Silliman Forthcoming Readings & Talks     Seattle                  Thursday, August 12, 7:30 PM , SubText , Richard Hugo...



Saturday, June 26, 2004

Carl Rakosi   1903 – 2004   Amulet   But you are ideal, O figurette, and cool as camphor. ...



Friday, June 25, 2004

A final excerpt from Lance Phillips’ Here Comes Everybody mass interview:   What is the relationship between the text and the body ...



Thursday, June 24, 2004

This question from Lance Phillips’ Here Comes Everybody questionnaire struck me as fun:   How would you explain what a poem is to m...



Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Yet another literary questionnaire, this one from Lance Phillips for his Here Comes Everybody interview blog. I’m not going to answer all t...



Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Tuesday, June 22 7:00 PM   Daniel Bouchard Ron Silliman   Wordsworth Books 30 Brattle Street ...



Monday, June 21, 2004

There is an almost Rexrothian feel to Joseph Torra’s new book of poems, After the Chinese that surprised me. Kenneth Rexroth, at least to my...



Friday, June 18, 2004

I had twenty minutes between this & that so I turned on the television & was flipping through the channels when SpikeTV, which often has the...



Thursday, June 17, 2004

Here is the seventh question in the 9 for 9 project, and of course my response.   Have your sleeping dreams ever influenced your po...



Wednesday, June 16, 2004

One of the more curious aspects of Anne Waldman’s new In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2003 , is the starting point...



Tuesday, June 15, 2004

It sounds like an exercise from acting class. An actor sits at a table on which the primary props are cups of coffee, an ashtray and a pack ...



Monday, June 14, 2004

The other day I got an email that asked, and I quote, “I was wondering what your thoughts are on revolutionary poetry after poets like Dalto...



Sunday, June 13, 2004

It’s a two- fer . Both David Nemeth of New Castle, Delaware, and Jay Slone of Delray Beach, Florida, claim to have been the 150,000 th visi...



Sunday, June 13, 2004

Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar June Croon edition     June   13, Sunday, 2:00 PM: Tom Devaney will ...



Saturday, June 12, 2004

Ron Silliman Forthcoming Readings & Talks     Boston                   Tuesday, June 22, 7:00 PM , WordsWorth Books, 30 Bra...



Friday, June 11, 2004

If the 150,000 th visitor* to this blog will identify him-, her- or itself to me , you will receive a signed copy of Woundwood , plus ackno...



Friday, June 11, 2004

Then I looked at today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, only to discover that the New Formalists have “ declared victory ” less than ten miles from ...



Friday, June 11, 2004

There is an interesting – if a tad strange – debate visible in the comments section to my review of Lisa Lubasch on Monday. Eric Elshtain, w...



Thursday, June 10, 2004

I passed the halfway mark in The Guermantes   Way, the third volume in Proust’s great work. I started reading the book the week before Chris...



Wednesday, June 09, 2004

When I first heard that Alfonso Cuarón was hired to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , I’m sure my eyebrows must have twitche...

Film



Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Self-parody is everywhere this week.   The worst collection of poetry I have ever read can be found here . Complete with this justi...



Monday, June 07, 2004

There is a heft to Lisa Lubasch’s To Tell the Lamp – not the 120 pages of the book so much as its shape, which is square, 8½ inches in all ...



Saturday, June 05, 2004

Steve Lacy   1934-2004



Friday, June 04, 2004

I received this email the other day & it caught my attention because the question it asks is a good one & the answer I might immediately thi...



Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Jordan Davis posted a comment in the Squawkbox for Monday that got me thinking:   Not really here to take the bait, Ron, but curious...



Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Herewith please find the response to question 6 of the next round of the 9 for 9 project:   QUESTION 6 Poet Lee Ann Brown write...



Monday, May 31, 2004

A review by Troy Jollimore in the San Francisco Chronicle, in its Sunday edition, uses Jeff Clark’s Music and Suicide as a vehicle for att...



Sunday, May 30, 2004

Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar June Swoon edition     June   3, Thursday, 6:30-8:00 PM: The Big Noth...



Friday, May 28, 2004

Ray Bianchi is the hidden hand (or maybe not so hidden) behind a couple of the more exciting websites related to Chicago poetry these days, ...



Thursday, May 27, 2004

I heard Peter Gizzi at Writers House quite a while back (as in pre-blog) & was taken both with how many echoes there are in his work, and a...



Wednesday, May 26, 2004

There are those Dylan lyrics again, running through my head:   When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Easter time too ...



Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Janet Holmes sent me a note scolding me (but very nicely) for failing to mention all of the other elements of the Boise Renaissance, inclu...



Monday, May 24, 2004

Every few years one of the “major” trade presses identifies a young poet who might be thought of as post-avant in some manner or other & sta...



Friday, May 21, 2004

Here is the next question in the 9 for 9 project .   QUESTION 5: How did you first come to enter the larger community of poets? Does...



Thursday, May 20, 2004

Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books is a relatively slender anthology, but an absolutely shocking one. Shocking because t...



Wednesday, May 19, 2004

I mentioned John Tipton’s Surfaces in passing yesterday, but the volume warrants a deeper look. Tipton’s a Chicagoan, at least as an adult –...



Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Yesterday I looked at Lev Rubinstein’s Catalogue of Comedic Novelties , translated from the Russian by Philip Metres & Tatiana Tulchinsky . ...



Monday, May 17, 2004

Poets don’t reflect their societies directly, but neither are they entirely free of the societies in which they wo...



Sunday, May 16, 2004

It is true, as somebody suggested, that I can figure out who is posting anonymously, even pseudonymously, to the comments section of this w...

School of Quietude



Saturday, May 15, 2004

In the comments section that accompanies my kvetching last Monday about Blogger’s unannounced – and underdocumented – “relaunch” of its se...



Friday, May 14, 2004

Here is Question 4 in the 9 for 9 Project , along with my response.   NEA chairman Dana Gioia has recently implemented a writing pro...



Thursday, May 13, 2004

Question 3 in the next round of the 9 for 9 Project is as follows:   The U.S. presidential election debates between Bush and Kerry...



Wednesday, May 12, 2004

There is a sureness in Prageeta Sharma’s writing that is so straightforward that it’s disarming. Particularly after the signaled complexiti...



Tuesday, May 11, 2004

I’ve been in Boise exactly once in my lifetime, although it’s not so terribly far from where I was born in Pasco, Washington. The year was 1...



Monday, May 10, 2004

Blogger "launched" a new version this morning without giving any of its users fair warning. It doesn't handle code as easily as the old vers...



Monday, May 10, 2004

I took Fence up on its special three- fer offer: three of its books, normally priced at $12 each, for a mere $25. I picked up Catherine Wa...



Sunday, May 09, 2004

Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar v2.24     May   13, Thursday, 5:30 PM: Samuel R. Delaney, Giovanni’...



Friday, May 07, 2004

I have a love-hate relationship with the poetry of John Taggart . Always have. When I was a young poet in college, particularly while I wa...



Thursday, May 06, 2004

My last Rhodia Bloc notebook was dissolving in my 501s – one of the orange covers was already off – when I forgot all about it as I ...



Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Tom Orange had an interesting follow-on question to something I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I thought I would pose the question here, th...



Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Iowa born Mytili Jagannathan grew up in West Virginia and has degrees from Brandeis & Penn. Habenicht Press published her first book, Ac...



Monday, May 03, 2004

Bob Perelman was a young poet living in Cambridge , MA , when he first sent me a copy of Hills #2, which included work by Steve Benson , Bo...



Sunday, May 02, 2004

During her reading at the Rosenbach, Susan Stewart used hand signals literally to indicate the presence of virgules & parentheses. Afterw...



Saturday, May 01, 2004

Paul Muldoon characterized his work for the Rosenbach Alphabet as a “rock lyric” & he assures me that it really is intended to be printed...



Friday, April 30, 2004

“How will I know what I thought until I read it in your blog?” – thus sayeth a friend, in jest I trust, shortly after the lightning-like p...



Thursday, April 29, 2004

Last September , I came down harshly on the work of Jake Berry , a retro-avant- gardist whose work was included in the anthology Another S...



Wednesday, April 28, 2004

The next-to-last line in my own poem for the Rosenbach Alphabet was suggested by the physical history of the letter J as outlined in the A...



Tuesday, April 27, 2004

I first met Daisy Fried because we were in the same “class” of Pew Fellowship recipients back in 1998. You can find her work in Ploughsh...



Monday, April 26, 2004

Here is the “X” section of the Rosenbach alphabet. Linh Dinh has just returned to Philadelphia , having spent in recent years in Italy &...



Sunday, April 25, 2004

Some critical items newly up on the web that are worth reading & thinking about:   The first is Hank Lazer’s “The People’s Poetr...



Saturday, April 24, 2004

If you are going to Molly's, I seriously recommend that you call ahead to confirm. Within the past couple of weeks, the dates for the Berrig...



Saturday, April 24, 2004

The final calendar of this school year has now moved to May 9.



Friday, April 23, 2004

There was a time when the progressive poetry community in Philadelphia consisted entirely of Gil Ott, Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Toby Olson...



Thursday, April 22, 2004

I ran my contribution to the R as in Rosenbach (26 Letters, 26 Poets) project (culminating in a big group readin g n ext Wednesday at 6 ...



Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Here is the second question for the next batch of the 9 for 9 project:   You are granted access to put anything you want on a hig...



Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Craig Allen Conrad’s 9 for 9 project is a collection of 9 questions for 9 poets and their answers – being done, I believe, in 9 sets. I’v...



Monday, April 19, 2004

Robert Creeley came to Villanova last week, the final reading in that school’s annual series curated by poet Lisa Sewell . Where Harryette...



Saturday, April 17, 2004

I’m getting jaded. I didn’t even notice that the visitor count had gone over 125,000 this past week. The idea that one might have readers,...



Friday, April 16, 2004

Here’s a project. Twenty-six poets take one letter of the alphabet each & write a poem that is supposed to last, when read aloud, no more ...



Thursday, April 15, 2004

Note: Robert Creeley's reading tonight at Villanova will be in the President’s Lounge in the Connelly Center , the school’s student c...



Thursday, April 15, 2004

Readers of this blog will know by now that while I am interested in most aspects of the post-avant writing landscape, one sector that I ha...



Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Books, chaplets & literary journals that came via mail or UPS on Monday, the day after I got back from one week’s vacation:   Po...



Tuesday, April 13, 2004

While I was away some folks decided to turn my comments section into their own little listserv, which then descended into at least three p...



Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Much of what makes Hellboy so much fun as a motion picture relates, I think, precisely to this question of influence I was mulling over ...

Film



Monday, April 12, 2004

How does one gauge influence?   Two of the books I carried around with me during my Virginia roundabout this past week were Kevi...



Sunday, April 11, 2004

The calendar has moved to Saturday, April 24.



Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Involuntary Vision: After Kurosawa’s Dreams , edited by Michael Cross, from Avenue B , isn’t “really” a One Shot, although it partakes ver...



Tuesday, March 30, 2004

7 is a beautiful, but extremely modest, chapbook that was prepared, perhaps even written, to be distributed to the audience at a poetry re...



Monday, March 29, 2004

Readers of this blog will know that I do love categories – you can’t discuss something until you have a noun around which to put some lang...



Friday, March 26, 2004

My nephew Peter turns one tomorrow. So I wrote him a letter. As letters go, it wasn’t much, just a one-page affair that his mother or fath...



Thursday, March 25, 2004

This seems a good moment to mention trobar clus . When I write of the novel & then cinema taking on some of the social functions of poetr...



Wednesday, March 24, 2004

The number of active screenwriters whose work is so distinct that it matters relatively little – oh, that may be an overstatement, so how ...



Monday, March 22, 2004

I went to hear Harryette Mullen read to a standing-room-only crowd at Villanova the other night. She was – as she has been every single t...



Sunday, March 21, 2004

Revised again -- and moved to Sunday, April 11.



Saturday, March 20, 2004

I don’t agree with many of his conclusions, but Gary Norris certainly has examined my riff on anonymity & context with as close an eye as...



Saturday, March 20, 2004

The Lyn Hejinian events at Writers House – reading Monday evening, conversation on Tuesday morning – have had to be postponed. I’ll post t...



Friday, March 19, 2004

I took yesterday off as part of my Blog Less, Blog Better campaign & noted that, as has happened a few times before, days – especially du...



Wednesday, March 17, 2004

“Leaving the Atocha Station” became an elegy last week. The poem, one of John Ashbery’s most famous early works, beginning with the lines ...



Tuesday, March 16, 2004

1     Unlike the scattered seamount, unlike the ridges, unlike the bed of the sea, unlike a typical volcanic cone. Unlike wind...



Monday, March 15, 2004

Word Worn   even your doggerel-scratch has a beat to it and the heart condenses into rain if I take the time to listen in the firm...

Charles Borkhuis



Sunday, March 14, 2004

Enormous changes at the last minute caused me to update this calendar just one week later on March 21.



Saturday, March 13, 2004

Cid Corman   1924 -2004       Death is the dance life does. Alone with alone on the crowded floor. Sile...



Friday, March 12, 2004

95.9   It could be when you gave me a book of quiet thoughts the moths had already eaten through, the section on the luxury of grow...



Thursday, March 11, 2004

Swamp Formalism for Don ald Rumsfeld   As if they were not men, amphibious, gill-like, with wings, as if they were sunning...



Wednesday, March 10, 2004

This is going to be impossible. On Monday, the day I posted my four-part test of poetry, this blog received 546 visitors, the most ever. I...



Tuesday, March 09, 2004

One thing I sometimes do when I visit New York is to visit the galleries just to see who is doing what in the visual arts space. I’ve onl...



Monday, March 08, 2004

A Test of Poetry     (A)   Swamp Formalism   for Don ald Rumsfield   As if they were not men, amphibi...



Saturday, March 06, 2004

Today, my favorite page on the internet – the whole internet – is right here . Kyle Schlesinger has done a terrific job.   The ...



Friday, March 05, 2004

Chris Stroffolino saw The Dreamers , then responded to my two blogs thereon.   Ron –   I just saw this movie last night. I ...

Film



Thursday, March 04, 2004

Drew Gardner offers his perspective on the reading last night at St. Marks.



Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Michael McClure & Ron Silliman   Wednesday, March 3, 8 PM St. Marks Poetry Project, NYC   Ron Silliman 's life can be ...



Tuesday, March 02, 2004

On Sunday mornings at the Grand Café, 61 Union Square , Somerville , MA , a group of poets gather to talk & share their work. Sunday Morn...



Monday, March 01, 2004

I was ragging on John Latta the other day, but his weblog has a couple of very nice pieces on Bill Bathurst , a San Francisco poet of...



Sunday, February 29, 2004

The calendar has moved to Sunday, March 14.



Saturday, February 28, 2004

Brad Senning of the Dissociated Writer’s Project asked me to post this:   March 25-27, in Chicago , the Dissociated Writer's Pro...



Friday, February 27, 2004

In acting, the problem of the unmarked case is always a difficult situation for an actor. Michael Pitt, who stars as Matthew in The Dreame...



Thursday, February 26, 2004

Back before Mel Gibson figured out how to market a splatter flick through the evangelical community, the immediate controversy in film was...



Wednesday, February 25, 2004

The only way there was enough seating at the Painted Bride for Gil Ott’s memorial service on Sunday was because (a) they put up a couple o...



Tuesday, February 24, 2004

John Latta was amused to see me “ thrashing about, trying to place Kathleen Fraser .” He seems not to want to see me struggling with disc...



Monday, February 23, 2004

Kathleen Fraser's Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling is composed of six different writing projects – I want to say it that way, pr...



Sunday, February 22, 2004

I never knew Kay Boyle terribly well, but I had several friends at San Francisco State in the late ‘60s who were students of that school...



Saturday, February 21, 2004

Over the years, National Public Radio has learned that the value of using commentators with fabulous accents, whether Southern (Bailey Whi...



Friday, February 20, 2004

It’s been a busy week, jobwise . Driving to & from Connecticut has left me no time to think about blogging properly.



Wednesday, February 18, 2004

When Kathleen Fraser first arrived in San Francisco sometime around 1970 in order to direct the Poetry Center at SF State, it was a m...



Tuesday, February 17, 2004

What if Frank O’Hara had been, literally, a court jester? Or, at the very least, tutor of the King’s children? Those are questions that li...



Monday, February 16, 2004

The most radical change between the 1986 first edition of my anthology In the American Tree & the 2002 edition, both published by the Na...



Sunday, February 15, 2004

The calendar has moved to Sunday, February 29, a day that turns up not so terribly often.



Friday, February 13, 2004

I know Alice Jones not through the literary world, but the political one – among the progressive scene of the San Francisco Bay Area, es...



Thursday, February 12, 2004

Some bloggers can be more than a little cryptic. Michael Helsem , possibly better known as graywyvern or xvarenah , (tho under his own na...



Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Ask any reader familiar with contemporary U.S. poetry which writer might be most likely to appropriate the title of the tune “ ChoCho Ch’...



Tuesday, February 10, 2004

My blogroll passed the 250 mark tonight. I'm sure that some of these are dormant or worse & not every one is strictly about poetics. But vir...



Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Pound for me was always the beginning. By that I don't mean that he was the greatest -- I'm reasonably sure I don't believe in such a th...



Monday, February 09, 2004

Lawrence Rozanski, who is a student at Villanova just down the road, sent me an email that really made me stop and think. Here’s his messa...



Sunday, February 08, 2004

There will be a memorial for Gil Ott at the Painted Bride, Sunday, February 22, 2004 at 2 PM . The Bride is at 230 Vine Street , near 2 nd ...



Friday, February 06, 2004

My Walk with Gil   I had something different in mind for today, but it can wait. Everything can wait. Even though I’ve known just ...



Thursday, February 05, 2004

Gil Ott   Gil passed away this morning. He was the first poet I ever associated with the city of Philadelphia & ha...



Thursday, February 05, 2004

I can’t make it to the Boog City extravaganza early this evening in New York – it’s a fete in honor of one of my favorite presses, Chax ...



Wednesday, February 04, 2004

Q: How does one pronounce the title of kari edwards' new O Books volume? A: Iduna.   Sorry about that.   Iduna, if ...



Tuesday, February 03, 2004

The 100,000 th visitor to this website arrived at 5:23:26 pm EST & looked only at the top page. He or she has an IP address of 128.114.1...



Tuesday, February 03, 2004

It may be impossible to overstate Robert Creeley’s influence on American writing. When the New American poets came of age in the early 19...



Monday, February 02, 2004

BKS , the large block letters that adorn – indeed, that are – the front cover to a chapbook whose actual title, if you but look inside to t...



Sunday, February 01, 2004

Countdown to 100K   Sometime within the next week, this site will greet its 100,000 th visitor. The actual number of each visit i...



Sunday, February 01, 2004

Follow the bouncing calendar to 21 February, also a Sunday.



Saturday, January 31, 2004

Ray Bianchi replies to Curtis Faville’s comments on Chicago:   Dear Ron:   Read the post on your Blog about Chicago from...



Friday, January 30, 2004

Ken James, who is preparing a screenplay of Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren , responds to my comments on expectation.                    ...



Thursday, January 29, 2004

Curtis Faville shares my interest in architecture, so I was not surprised to hear from him after my comments on the work in Chicago of Th...



Wednesday, January 28, 2004

My note about expectation & perception in Chicago yesterday got me thinking. Back in 1970, when I spent the summer in Buffalo , I had an ...



Tuesday, January 27, 2004

I got home too late Sunday to see & hear Thomas Pynchon on The Simpsons. Fortunately, Amy’s Robot has both screen captures & an MP3 of Py...

Pynchon



Tuesday, January 27, 2004

I could have been excoriated, but I wasn’t. Although I was teased ever so gently over the weekend for my “poor Chicago ” crack, Stacy Szym...



Monday, January 26, 2004

Two radically different books that are, at some level, both involved in the process of coming to terms with a major poet are Michael Rothe...



Friday, January 23, 2004

Ron Silliman forthcoming events   January   24, Saturday, 1 PM: reading with Stacy Szymaszek, Chicago Poetry Project, Ch...



Thursday, January 22, 2004

Part of the myth of Lorine Niedecker is that of the “woman in the woods,” the isolated poet working at such a remove from literary centers...



Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Like Jules Boykoff, Kaia Sand is a D.C. poet whose work can be found in Antennae 4 who also appeared last February in the Social Mark co...



Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Jules Boykoff is a D.C. poet, co-editor of Tangent , who I got to hear read at the Social Mark conference last February. Because he’s a ...



Monday, January 19, 2004

I’ve had this mental block with the fourth issue of Antennae, Jesse Seldess' biannual out of Chicago . I really shouldn’t – I have wor...



Sunday, January 18, 2004

Bizarre-Misreading-of-the-Week Award: Mike Snider writes , and I quote: “Ron Silliman thinks that the line exists in space, not in time.”...



Saturday, January 17, 2004

I added several additional Writers House events to the calendar.



Saturday, January 17, 2004

The calendar moves around it does, most recently to February 1.



Thursday, January 15, 2004

It was a mention on Drew Gardner’s blog, Overlap , that called my attention to the fact that Roof Books has put up a few selections from...



Wednesday, January 14, 2004

An opportunity to feel ambivalent: I find myself in an anthology of critical writing by 20 th century poets whose co-editors include Dana...



Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Density is a nebulous quality in a poem, as it can be also in painting. Some visual works feel light, airy, ready to drift away while othe...



Monday, January 12, 2004

About seven miles west of my home in Paoli , Pennsylvania , is a mid-sized corporate hotel of no particular distinction, the Sheraton Gre...



Friday, January 09, 2004

I'm in Florida where I've realized that the version of Word that comes with this corporate ThinkPad won't let me save in html with the degre...



Thursday, January 08, 2004

Another note from Curtis Faville . He wants to see my discussion of Dickinson-Niedecker-Moore-Armantrout as an issue of taste (I don’t t...



Wednesday, January 07, 2004

I saw three films over the holidays &, as it happened, all three – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King ; Cold Mountain ; & House of San...



Tuesday, January 06, 2004

The first book I received this year – Rae Armantrout’s Up to Speed – already has a 2004 copyright date. It also has a book jacket on whic...



Monday, January 05, 2004

On New Year’s Eve, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a review * of Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works by John Timpane, who is a poet & autho...



Sunday, January 04, 2004

The big news in blogville is Nada’s ring ! Congratulations to both her & Gary! And while you’re admiring the ring, check out that very co...



Saturday, January 03, 2004

Ron Silliman forthcoming events   January   24, Saturday, 1 PM: reading with Stacy Szymaszek, Chicago Poetry Project, C...



Friday, January 02, 2004

One of the things I like about Glenn Ingersoll is that he gets to the point . Responding to my comments on the line “ being ‘implicit...



Thursday, January 01, 2004

Resolved for the new year: Blog less, blog better.



Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Saving the best for last, our postal carrier delivered John Godfrey’s Private Lemonade , just out from Adventures in Poetry . Considering...



Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Marianne Moore’s silent rhyme can be placed into a tradition of what I would characterize as lineated prose that stretches back at least t...



Monday, December 29, 2003

Marianne Moore’s poetry for me has always posed the question of the line. Or, perhaps more exactly, the line’s intersection with language, ...



Sunday, December 28, 2003

This version fills out most of the La Tazza events through April.



Sunday, December 28, 2003

The calendar has moved to January 17, 2004.



Saturday, December 27, 2003

One of the gifts I got for Christmas this year was The Poems of Marianne Moore , edited by Grace Schulman. It is, above all else, a great ...



Friday, December 26, 2003

The other day I characterized Jena Osman as one of the disruptive influences in contemporary poetry because her work forces one to rethin...



Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Last night I put the finishing touches on my weblog note on Jena Osman & then lay awake for a while wondering at how much the world has c...



Tuesday, December 23, 2003

There is a page in Jena Osman's next book, An Essay in Asterisks, that reads, in its entirety   lif e s ent ence          ...



Monday, December 22, 2003

Mary Margaret Sloan has risen to the defense of the Windy City .   Hi, Ron. I can't remember if Larry and I had moved to Chica...



Sunday, December 21, 2003

To everything there is a season – a line I hear in my head invariably in the voice of my inner Pete Seeger. Having done the weblog now for...



Saturday, December 20, 2003

I’m just starting The Guermantes Way, the long slow march through Proust – long, slow, luxurious, I should say – is taking the better part...



Friday, December 19, 2003

James Rother is a man after my own heart. It’s his head about which I’m less certain. Rother, a comp lit professor at San Diego State, has...



Thursday, December 18, 2003

I go on the road for a couple of days & all heck breaks loose.   Specifically, I appear to have turned into a windmill. That at l...



Tuesday, December 16, 2003

I’ve been looking at unusual formats of late & one of the strangest to come across my door is Lorine Niedecker’s Paean to Place, co-publi...



Monday, December 15, 2003

Gabe Martinez’ Confidence & Faith was a site-specific work that existed for a little over two hours at the Philadelphia Art Alliance – ...



Sunday, December 14, 2003

This list is replaced by the one on December 28.



Saturday, December 13, 2003

I have never been what my friends in the gay community might refer to as a size queen. With regards to poetry, what I mean by that is that...



Friday, December 12, 2003

In the spring & summer of 1958, Hilda Doolittle was living in Klinik Hirslanden in Kűsnacht, Switzerland, functionally a private hospital...



Thursday, December 11, 2003

Along with my copy of Michael McClure’s Fifteen Fleas came the fourth issue of Sal Mimeo , a publication whose title never ceases to caus...



Wednesday, December 10, 2003

A question implicit in Michael McClure’s Fifteen Fleas, for me at least, is one of timing – of velocity, really. As the stanza I quoted y...



Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Perhaps because he went through a period of such intense notoriety for his plays in the late 1960s – The Beard was the focal point of a m...



Monday, December 08, 2003

Rodney Koeneke responds to my comments on prizes & awards.   Hi Ron,   I share your suspicion of contests and what they m...



Sunday, December 07, 2003

Krishna is home & doing well. Give or take 10 inches of snow & the fact that the new PC for my job "died" the minute I tried to load the DSL...



Saturday, December 06, 2003

Curtis Faville is on my case for my footnoted critique of No.   Dear Ron:   Re: Your crit of a new magazine striving for...



Friday, December 05, 2003

Growing up on the edge of Berkeley in a house with very few books – and most of them Readers Digest condensed novels – I was what in co...



Thursday, December 04, 2003

You may have noticed that this blog won another award the other day – Blogger Forum listed it as a Top Ten Weekly weblog for Thanksgiving...



Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Some time back, I had a day in which my mailbox was filled almost entirely with poetry & other work from Boston . This past week, I had a...



Tuesday, December 02, 2003

Krishna is in the hospital – at Hahnemann in Philadelphia – for a five-day treatment program for reflex sympathetic dystrophy ( RSD)...



Monday, December 01, 2003

The new No is now. Which is to say that the second issue of this exceptionally intelligent – but bafflingly designed* – journal has arrive...

Journals



Sunday, November 30, 2003

The calendar has moved to Sunday, December 14



Saturday, November 29, 2003

Curtis Faville sent the following thoughts concerning my comments on Ulla Dydo’s reading of Stein.   Stein: Now there's a psyche t...



Thursday, November 27, 2003

Somebody in the next 24 hours will be visitor number 80,000. To everyone who stops here from time to time, I do indeed want to say thank you...



Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Years ago, an interviewer asked Allen Ginsberg what he thought of the language poets. The way he asked the question, you knew he was hopin...



Tuesday, November 25, 2003

The Washington Post changed its online format over the weekend, so that I couldn’t find Edward Hirsch’s weekly poetry column until I got m...

School of Quietude



Monday, November 24, 2003

My sock puppet, my self.   The cult of the person casts a long shadow in the history of poetry: Whenever I speak, I speaks , as Cr...



Sunday, November 23, 2003

The calendar hath moved to Sunday, November 30.



Saturday, November 22, 2003

It's strange what one remembers after nearly 40 years. Only this week did I recall that in my senior year of high school I brought a rifle...



Friday, November 21, 2003

I was carrying around Brenda Iijima’s In a Glass Box because it fit perfectly into one of the interior pockets of my suit jacket, so when...



Thursday, November 20, 2003

The first time I ever read any poetry by Marcelin Pleynet , a translation I believe by Serge Gavronsky, I remember having the reaction tha...



Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Ed Foster asked me for a review of Ulla Dydo’s new book. Here is what I sent.   Stein at Her Word   Ron Silliman   ...



Tuesday, November 18, 2003

I think that Curtis Faville must think I’m crazy. But he’s very polite, to me at least, in the way he suggests this.   Dear Ron: ...



Monday, November 17, 2003

There is a great line right at the end of the Jack Collom interview in the October/November Poetry Project Newsletter: “I think I’ve fin...



Sunday, November 16, 2003

Only one change this week -- I corrected the date of Anita Desai's reading. Still trying to find out the Spring schedule for La Tazza.



Sunday, November 16, 2003

Hippity hop, the calendar has jumped to Sunday, November 23rd.



Saturday, November 15, 2003

Mario Merz died last Sunday – to those of us who have used the Fibonacci series in our art, this is not minor or distant news. While eve...

Fibonacci | Mario Merz | Numbers



Friday, November 14, 2003

Nothing blows a hole in your work plans like 15 hours without electricity.



Thursday, November 13, 2003

When, last week in Orono, Jennifer Moxley asked me what the role of jazz is with regards to poetry for poets of "my generation,” she had s...



Wednesday, November 12, 2003

A question posted more or less anonymously – signed only “AT”* – to my blog in response to my piece on Bruce Andrews the other day asked p...



Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Each issue of The Poker is available for $10. Two-issue subscription is $18, three issues for $24. All orders post p...



Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Props to Scott St. Martin, the 75,000 th visitor to this blog. Props also to the person who can tell me the most convincing story as to h...



Tuesday, November 11, 2003

There is a new Poker out, numero 3, & the darned thing just keeps getting better. There is some terrific new poetry, including major cont...

Journals



Monday, November 10, 2003

Sometime today, this blog will greet its 75,000 th visitor. Is it you?



Monday, November 10, 2003

Keston Sutherland is being vague. Actually, this isn’t accurate. Keston Sutherland is being very exact about being vague, almost painfully...

Theory



Sunday, November 09, 2003

This week's calendar adds readings from Villanova as well as my reading with kari edwards at La Tazza. It still looks like everybody is anti...



Sunday, November 09, 2003

The calendar has skipped ahead once again, this time to November 16.



Saturday, November 08, 2003

No surprise – Gary Sullivan , whom I described the other day as Daniel Davidson’s old friend & literary executor, wrote in response to m...



Thursday, November 06, 2003

Getting online here in Orono is proving more challenging than I had expected. But it's a modest trade off for the quality of conversation I'...



Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Once you start looking, Ur-blogs & protoblogs abound. Whoever had the bright idea to start running the diary of Samuel Pepys as a blog g...



Tuesday, November 04, 2003

Jake Berry responds to my review of his work & to Bill Lavender’s response thereto:   Thanks Bill for the sending the Open Letter...



Monday, November 03, 2003

One of the curiosities of Culture, Daniel Davidson’s collection of poetry that – save for one major collaboration with Tom Mandel – const...



Sunday, November 02, 2003

I added the Carl Rakosi 100th birthday party even though it's in San Francisco just because it's something we should all celebrate wherever ...



Sunday, November 02, 2003

The calendar has moved to Sunday, November 9.



Saturday, November 01, 2003

Lyn Hejinian’s sentences are more straightforward than Scalapino’s &, indeed, those in My Life in the Nineties are noticeably more straig...



Friday, October 31, 2003

Unlike the New Sentence, the characteristic Scalapino sentence shifts direction two, three, many times before coming (occasionally) to a p...



Thursday, October 30, 2003

Books I took with me to Reno:   Ø        Lyn Hejinian, My Life in the Nineties Ø        Stephen Ratcliffe, SOUND / (system...



Monday, October 27, 2003

On Saturday night, I finished watching the World Series, then went back to my study to finish preparing a talk I’m giving for work on Wedn...



Sunday, October 26, 2003

The webcast of George Stanley's reading & my conversation with him at Writers House last Thursday is now available here .



Sunday, October 26, 2003

The calendar has moved to November 2.



Saturday, October 25, 2003

I’ve been trying to imagine the best way to respond to Bill Lavender's open letter & am not quite sure that there is a best way, finally....



Friday, October 24, 2003

When I published a negative review of Another South, I expected to hear back from its editor, Bill Lavender . I didn’t get anything until ...



Thursday, October 23, 2003

George Stanley is reading today at Writers House, at 6:30 PM Eastern. It will be webcast live by Writers House – for more information, e...



Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Here is a Squawkbox conundrum. Some people have posted comments that I can see in the Squawbox management tool but which do not seem to be...



Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Here are some of my notes & reflections on the Poetry & Empire retreat. While John Koethe at one point commented that I seemed to be ta...



Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Let’s answer Malcolm Davidson’s questions as they apply to my poetry today. The process I’m describing here applies specifically to my pro...



Monday, October 20, 2003

CA Conrad informs me that I’ve made some terrible mistakes on the dates for readings at Writers House this week – the taping of Live at t...



Monday, October 20, 2003

Malcolm Davidson, of the poetics blog Eeksy Peeksy and the poetry blog Tram Spark , has sent out a survey to a number of poets (and per...



Sunday, October 19, 2003

I’ve added the November and December readings for the La Tazza series.   Non-Philadelphians should note that the George Stanley ...



Sunday, October 19, 2003

The calendar has now moved to Sunday, October 26.



Saturday, October 18, 2003

Last night, 30 of us – 17 men & 13 women – sat in a circle & read our poems to one another. It’s great to see some people who are very dea...

Poetry and Empire



Friday, October 17, 2003

This next-to-last question for the Poetry & Empire retreat is unique in that it has literary implications:   Do genre models (lyr...

Poetry and Empire



Thursday, October 16, 2003

If you have read the questions for the Poetry & Empire retreat from the past three days, this one should not surprise you:   To wh...

Poetry and Empire



Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Here is the third question from the series given for the Poetry & Empire retreat:   How do the structures of poetic communities re...

Poetry and Empire



Tuesday, October 14, 2003

A second question those of us participating in the retreat have been asked to consider is the following:   What underlying ethical...

Poetry and Empire



Monday, October 13, 2003

Next weekend I will be participating in a retreat with some 34 other poets, having conversations around a variety of topics in a setting fre...

Poetry and Empire



Sunday, October 12, 2003

Jodie Reyes is the 200th member of this blog’s blogroll. Not all are poetry related, but at least 180 are.



Sunday, October 12, 2003

The calendar has been moved to Sunday, October 19.



Saturday, October 11, 2003

Michael Bogue wants to extrapolate my question of Boston & scenes to the context(s) of smaller metropolitan areas in a different nation a...



Friday, October 10, 2003

Jeffrey Jullich asks if line breaks still have meaning   Hi! Long time no see.   I made a comment in Kasey Mohammad's blog...



Thursday, October 09, 2003

Curtis Faville raises the question of spacing & fonts once again.     Dear Ron:   Reading just now your "blog" on Eigner's...



Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Tim Peterson sent me an email on the Boston question(s) as well, which, after asking his permission, I posted only to find a second email ...



Monday, October 06, 2003

Aaron Tieger, the editor of Carve & himself a blogger , sent me the following email that, among other things, contrasts the reading style...



Sunday, October 05, 2003

Lydia Davis has won a MacArthur . Good for her & good for them.   So did Corrine Dufka & Sarah Sze . In all, one of the best ...



Sunday, October 05, 2003

The calendar has moved to Sunday, October 12



Saturday, October 04, 2003

How often do you get to hear the significant poets in your region? Once a year maybe? That number has always seemed about right to me, bu...



Friday, October 03, 2003

Yesterday, I characterized Fanny Howe’s booklength verse drama Tis of Thee as a “completely narrative work” that “focuses on parallel st...



Thursday, October 02, 2003

The Nobel Prize for literature has just been awarded to novelist J. M Coetzee .



Thursday, October 02, 2003

There is a motto that has stuck in my head for a quarter century that says “Aspire to read more than what comes in the mail.” The source f...



Wednesday, October 01, 2003

In recounting his visit with collagist Wendy Kramer on the Philly Sound website, CA Conrad mentioned of Jonathan Williams that “so man...



Tuesday, September 30, 2003

I got one complaint yesterday from a color-blind reader who had trouble with my coding of Charles Bernstein's poem. My own color-blind ...



Tuesday, September 30, 2003

The DC Poetry web site is one of the smartest ideas I’ve seen in terms of both documenting a community & making poetry more widely availa...



Monday, September 29, 2003

Thank You for Saying Thank You   This is a totally accessible poem. There is nothing in this poem that is in any...



Sunday, September 28, 2003

Today's version of the calendar adds some events, notably Daphne Gottlieb's reading at Robin's books, and finally has sufficient details con...



Sunday, September 28, 2003

The calendar has been moved to October 5.



Saturday, September 27, 2003

Blogging is both incestuous & serendipitous. Chris Murray commented upon my own remarks concerning genre in response to my forthcoming ...



Friday, September 26, 2003

Edward Said   1935-2003



Friday, September 26, 2003

I want to take a closer look at some of the writing that appears in Another South . I’ve been mulling over Hank Lazer’s definition of kudz...



Thursday, September 25, 2003

I’ve noted before that one of my favorite experiences as a poet was the opportunity to give a reading in the Composers’ Union Hall in what...



Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Setting down Paul Blackburn’s The Journals , I picked up literally the nearest book, wherein I read the following piece, entitled...



Tuesday, September 23, 2003

On Friday, with the power still out – it came on for five minutes around 9 AM, just long enough for me to get a cup of tea & Krishna a cup...



Monday, September 22, 2003

I have some work coming out in Double Room , a Web del Sol e-zine that focuses on that nebulous terrain between the prose poem, the short...



Sunday, September 21, 2003

Worth noting: Fred Jameson on William Gibson & Bruce Sterling.



Sunday, September 21, 2003

The latest calendar corrects the weekday for the DaVinci Art Alliance reading & makes some additions, most notably the Beckett Festival.



Sunday, September 21, 2003

The calendar has been moved to Sunday, September 28



Saturday, September 20, 2003

The death of Wayan Limbak at the age of 106 the other day caught my eye for the same reason that Barrett Watten later posted a link ...



Friday, September 19, 2003

After 17 hours without power, the lights have flickered on again.



Thursday, September 18, 2003

Salam Pax is on Fresh Air today!



Thursday, September 18, 2003

I wasn’t supposed to be here today. I had a “mandatory company meeting” in Stamford , Connecticut . But over the weekend, I began to pay a...



Wednesday, September 17, 2003

A chapbook-length poem about ships is not what I would normally expect to come from Milwaukee , but Milwaukee is a surprising city. This ...



Tuesday, September 16, 2003

It was Kasey Mohammad’s brilliant note, appended as a comment to my September 9 blog, that got me thinking more about the Houlihan questio...

School of Quietude



Monday, September 15, 2003

I thought about stepping into the Joan Houlihan fiasco – especially the exchange betwixt Dale Smith & Bill Knott on the Skanky Possum bl...

School of Quietude



Sunday, September 14, 2003

Wayan Limbak was an inventor of the Ketjak. He just passed away at the age of 106.



Sunday, September 14, 2003

The new version of the calendar has moved to Sunday, September 21.



Saturday, September 13, 2003

My piece Wednesday on H.D., Noveliste, has me thinking about the further question of how form, genre & chance impact our lives. Several t...

Theory



Friday, September 12, 2003

Coromandel is an Indian term referring originally to the coastal region of Southeastern India along the Bay of Bengal – essentially the ...

Thomas Meyer



Thursday, September 11, 2003

Pieces of the past arise out of the rubble .   Which evokes Eliot and then evokes Suspicion .   Ghosts all of them .   Doers ...



Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Today is H.D.'s birthday! I had to read the WOM-PO list today to realize that?!



Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Just about everyone I know thinks of Jack Kerouac as a novelist who wrote poetry. But what about Gilbert Sorrentino ? Before Mulligan Stew...

Fiction | H.D. | Poets as fictioneers



Tuesday, September 09, 2003

There is an interesting image in Barbara Guest’s excellent biography of Hilda Doolittle, Herself Defined , of imagism as a movement after E...

H.D. | isms | Theory



Monday, September 08, 2003

The Philadelphia Progress Poetry Calendar has been moved to Sunday, September 14.



Saturday, September 06, 2003

And this note is now up on status.blogger.com: Blogger and Blog*Spot are currently experiencing a denial-of-service attack. We are very ...



Saturday, September 06, 2003

Blogger has been up & down today, mostly the latter. From Sitemeter , I can tell that it must gone south sometime around 3:00 AM Eastern,...



Friday, September 05, 2003

One of the best conservative poets, Alan Dugan , has died.



Friday, September 05, 2003

In order to fully read Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book , which I’m still doing one year after starting this weblog – it was one of my ver...



Thursday, September 04, 2003

You, I, us, them, we – pronouns are at once both the most anonymous of all names and positions within a field of relations. As Sam Becket...



Wednesday, September 03, 2003

A note on translation from Murat Nemet-Nejat:   Dear Ron , I just read your thoughts on translation in your August blog: ...



Tuesday, September 02, 2003

The self-designated Wily Filipino, Benito Vergara , quotes Caterina Fake citing my blog on poets’ novelists & notes that the John Zorn...



Monday, September 01, 2003

I’ve been mulling the idea for the past several days of whether or not to add these two last items to my list of “essential titles” for Pe...



Sunday, August 31, 2003

Saturday marked this blog’s first anniversary – over 50,000 visitors & more than 330,000 words (that’s just under 1,000 pages single space...



Saturday, August 30, 2003

My second example of what I might characterize as a noble shipwreck in poetry is Chris Tysh's homophonic translations from the French, “Ac...



Friday, August 29, 2003

The new poet laureate is Louise Gluck and her plan, says the New York Times , is to promote poetry contests.



Friday, August 29, 2003

Necessity is an interesting test of a poet. It reveals itself most clearly in those projects that have almost no chance whatsoever of succ...



Thursday, August 28, 2003

Luther Blissett, distant cousin of Ern Malley & Araki Yasusada, has been "longlisted" for the Guardian First Book Award.



Thursday, August 28, 2003

A note from Annie Finch:   Dear Ron,   In your great blog this week there is one point on which I must comment. I could...



Wednesday, August 27, 2003

I normally am sitting down when I read anything online, so I must have looked a little awkward jumping for joy at The Skeptic John Erhard...



Tuesday, August 26, 2003

In the fall of 1971, I was preparing to start work in the prison movement with a San Rafael-based organization called the Committee for Pr...



Monday, August 25, 2003

While you're at it, I recommend reading Pat Herron's essay on Jack Spicer that can be found in the Squawkbox comments to my August 22nd blog...



Monday, August 25, 2003

Only 28 poets under 40 have book deals with the trade publishers in the UK, according to this piece in the Independent, and their list of p...



Monday, August 25, 2003

Lee Ann Brown in the Charlotte Observer has some excellent things to say (no surprise there).



Monday, August 25, 2003

Of the ten books on my “essential titles” list for Peter Davis, only two – Williams’ The Desert Music & Creeley’s Pieces – were originally...



Sunday, August 24, 2003

This completes my selection of “essential works” for Peter Davis’ anthology.   Kathy Acker, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula ...

anthologies | Barrett Watten



Saturday, August 23, 2003

The third (of four, I think) installment in my chronology of “essential texts.”     Louis Zukofsky, “A” 22 & 23 What was the s...



Friday, August 22, 2003

More entries for Peter Davis’ Barnwood Press anthology on “Essential Titles” in contemporary poetry. Again the order is chronological in t...

anthologies



Thursday, August 21, 2003

Peter Davis, who is editing a collection for Barnwood Press , a collective from Ball State University in Indiana that has been operating w...

anthologies



Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Kelly P. Kimball is running for Governor and he's only one of two candidates whose campaign revolves around beer. But, and I do mean but, h...



Wednesday, August 20, 2003

The Ultimate California Gubernatorial Recall Candidate List This is the best breakdown of California's gubernatorial sweepstakes I've ...



Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Last Thursday we wanted to express solidarity with our neighbors to the north stuck in the blackout, so we decided also to spend the eveni...

Film



Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Plus there is a new blog just for The Philly Sound .



Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Here is Craig Allen Conrad’s report on The Philly Sound weekend.   Dear Ron Silliman,   there's something about you that really made T...



Monday, August 18, 2003

I bracketed my characterization of Greg g Biglieri’s Reading Keats to Sleep as “book” in quotation marks the other day not because this l...



Sunday, August 17, 2003

The Census Bureau reported that between 1995 & 2000, more people moved from New York City to Philadelphia than the other way round. More ...



Saturday, August 16, 2003

The UPS guy just showed up, looking as he always does, somewhere between a squat version of Patrick Stewart & a shorter David Antin, luggi...



Friday, August 15, 2003

The first substantial publication of previously unavailable work by Louis Zukofsky since the private printing of Eighty Flowers shortly ...



Thursday, August 14, 2003

The New Brut: I hadn’t expected my comments on the stereotypical representation of langpo in James Meetze’s Quizmo survey to be read as ...



Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Somebody today will be this blog’s 50,000 th visitor. An exact count is available at the bottom of this page. If it is you, send me an em...



Wednesday, August 13, 2003

The sun hasn’t shined more brightly on New York City since the early poems of Frank O’Hara than it does in Jordan Davis’ Million Poems J...

Jordan Davis



Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Impressions of the first evening’s reading from The Philly Sound fest at La Tazza 108:   ¨        Starting an hour late works wel...



Monday, August 11, 2003

Inventions of Necessity , Jonathan Greene's 18th book, is a Selected Poems. I've followed his writing at a distance for a long time: Rober...



Sunday, August 10, 2003

Why do so many young poets smoke? Given that nearly all the younger writers I know have militant anti-capitalist positions, why do they tu...



Saturday, August 09, 2003

The latest slander against langpo can be found in the “New Brutalism” quiz’ first question:   “You align your poetics more towar...



Friday, August 08, 2003

F. T. Prince (1912-2003)   Here is to the memory of F.T. Prince who died yesterday at 90.   Here is an obit . His most...



Friday, August 08, 2003

The Philly Sound: New Poetry Weekend   When I first moved to Philadelphia in 1995, the people here were already talking about how...



Thursday, August 07, 2003

Ronald Johnson's final work The Shrubberies is a text of exceptional concision very much in the vein of Louis Zukofsky's parallel text...



Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Harold dying sleeps sleep   *   Susan daughter of Harold teaches   Robert Grenier was good...



Tuesday, August 05, 2003

There is a poem in Barbara Guest's slender new book Miniatures and Other Poems — at 45 pages, it's almost more of a chapbook in spite o...



Monday, August 04, 2003

Jack Kerouac, Kathy Acker, Douglas Woolf , Bill Burroughs & Samuel R. Delany have all been characterized, with reason, poets' novelists. ...



Sunday, August 03, 2003

David Hess & Jim Behrle claim that I should have taken my boys to the zoo rather than to have carried all those books to California . In...



Saturday, August 02, 2003

Books & literary journals that came for me while I was away in California:   Anthology §          Writing to be Seen: An Anth...



Friday, August 01, 2003

At 21 Grand, I characterized VOG as being a section of The Alphabet unlike any other in that it was itself "a book of ordinary poems." ...



Thursday, July 31, 2003

The gallery 21 Grand is a former auto body shop along the northern edge of Oakland 's downtown. Whatever exhibit is showing has been temp...



Wednesday, July 30, 2003

I received this email from Nick Lawrence while I was out west:   Dear Ron,   Here's my response to Louis' post (7/08) on...



Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Books I took with me to the west coast.   Poetry ·          Flemish School , Old Paris , & Night & Its Spells, Aloysius Bert...



Monday, July 28, 2003

During the two weeks I was out in California, 1,968 people checked the blog. I take that as some register of the number of individuals (as...



Sunday, July 27, 2003

I'm back.



Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Please send me your definition of FLARF.



Friday, July 11, 2003

Mary Burger, with whom I’m reading at 21 Grand on Sunday evening, is a personal favorite & has been ever since I first ran into her work...



Thursday, July 10, 2003

This coming Sunday   Reading in Oakland , CA Sunday, July 13 7-9 PM   Mary Burger Ron Silliman  ...



Wednesday, July 09, 2003

I’ve thought about responding in detail to Brian Kim Stefans’ screed over the first half of my Lowell commentary, but found (find) it im...

School of Quietude



Tuesday, July 08, 2003

My comment on a single allusion to David Bowie in Louis Cabri's “Salon, salon” in the new Kiosk 2 , evoked a response from Louis that...



Monday, July 07, 2003

An especially delightful project is Spidertangle: the_book , a collection that is, regardless of its title, more website than not. Spidert...



Monday, July 07, 2003

·          mIEKAL aND & camille bacos ·          william james austin ·          william james austin & igor satanovsky ...



Monday, July 07, 2003

·          peter ganick ·          jesse glass ·          bob grumman ·          scott helmes ·          crag hill ...



Monday, July 07, 2003

·          jim leftwich ·          jim leftwich & andrew topel ·          joel lipman ·          carlos luis ·   ...



Monday, July 07, 2003

·          lanny quarles ·          marilyn r. rosenberg ·          igor satanovsky ·          nico vassilakis ·    ...



Monday, July 07, 2003

I’m not sure about that last guy or gal – those brackets are its “name” – & I’d wager that Ficus Strangulensis is a pen name as w...



Sunday, July 06, 2003

One week from today   Reading in Oakland , CA Sunday, July 13 7-9 PM   Mary Burger Ron Silliman   at t...



Saturday, July 05, 2003

The first time I saw “Biotherm,” my impulse was to squint. As published in A Controversy of Poets , the 1965 anthology edited by Paris Lea...

New American Poetry



Friday, July 04, 2003

A Final Sonnet     for Chris   How strange to be gone in a minute!         A man Signs a shovel and so he digs    ...



Thursday, July 03, 2003

But I think the reality of the situation is different. For one thing, Lowell himself was never so hostile to the New American poetry &, af...

School of Quietude



Thursday, July 03, 2003

Yesterday, I noted the degree to which the reception of Robert Lowell’s Collected Poems constitutes an act of literary CPR, an attempt to...

School of Quietude



Thursday, July 03, 2003

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Wednesday, July 02, 2003

Whenever I feel too completely dismissive of Robert Lowell, I think of Bob Grenier. Grenier studied with Lowell at Harvard &, I believe, ...

School of Quietude



Wednesday, July 02, 2003

In a sense, it was on Lowell's watch as the Guardian of High Literary Value that the barbarians, led by Olson, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Leverto...

School of Quietude



Tuesday, July 01, 2003

I'm still getting the "Big Post Error" message if I don't break something like this into multiple posts. So far, nobody at Blogger has even ...



Tuesday, July 01, 2003

Consider “Another Artifact”:   Open lips for sucking and pouting were all stopped up with a plug that wouldn’t come out. Without re...



Tuesday, July 01, 2003

Unlike much post-avant writing, the individual sentences in “Another Artifact” integrate unimpeded into narrative frames, enabling Chara...



Tuesday, July 01, 2003

What makes this object the opposite of Baby is that its existence is derived entirely from the observation of external features – somethin...



Monday, June 30, 2003

Suprematism (Construction in Dissolution) [1918] is one of the later works in Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist retrospective at the Guggen...



Sunday, June 29, 2003

The mystery of the internet – what does K. Silem Mohammad’s limetree blog have to do with this Mariah Carey fan site ? Kasey has the be...



Saturday, June 28, 2003

Blogger has yet to address the "Big Post Error" problem. Indeed, as of this morning, none of my "error report messages" to Blogger have even...



Saturday, June 28, 2003

I was being flip when, in mentioning Lanny Quarle’s weblog, :: (solipsis)//:phaneronoemikon:: – there’s that colonitis again – I commen...



Saturday, June 28, 2003

Ron,   Lanny, when he hears that your question is out there, will probably provide his own translation of "phaneronoemikon", but: ...



Friday, June 27, 2003

I can tell that I'm going to have to break this one down into multiple posts as well. My patience with Blogger is definitely becoming limit...



Friday, June 27, 2003

For what still might be characterized as a “student publication,” Kiosk 2 continues to demonstrate just how the editing of a journal sho...



Friday, June 27, 2003

Star Concept Originating Directed System In the gaze Circuit of the years Vast darkness Pain I hem in ...



Friday, June 27, 2003

Being one stanza from Louis Cabri's “Salon, salon.” What if the reader isn’t immediately transformed into rhythm of the chorus of David B...



Friday, June 27, 2003

How can you think or talk about Leslie Scalapino’s work without confronting the problem of genre? Her piece in Kiosk , as is so often the ...



Thursday, June 26, 2003

So how inelegant is this? In order to avoid the "Big Post Error" in the new Blogger software, I had to break today's belated blog into four ...



Thursday, June 26, 2003

One of the historic weaknesses of poetry that relies heavily on spatial position on the page is that, too often, that is all the poet app...



Thursday, June 26, 2003

bambi on parole says prick pestilents by the dollar. ooh porn is it porn porn porn ooh dirty. and the cent. makes ...



Thursday, June 26, 2003

or the simple two-liner:                      In Canada , I can’t find my pants.   printed high & to the right ...



Thursday, June 26, 2003

In this prostrate carry legs, but the word, compose legs, in thisness , you say, that’s my leg, says mouth, quit the club when my leg fel...



Thursday, June 26, 2003

Blogger's new software has been creating havoc with my site and my ability to post. When I get it figured out, I will be back.



Tuesday, June 24, 2003

There was a time when all the poets whose work I liked and whom I’d hoped to meet and hear read were older than I was. Now, it’s just the ...



Monday, June 23, 2003

Ray Davis, whose Bellona Times is one of the Grand Old Blogs, thought that if I’m going to be flippant about the history of weblogs, I s...



Sunday, June 22, 2003

Line Reading   Rae Armantrout Jean Don nelly Ron Silliman   Tuesday, June 24 6:30 PM ...



Saturday, June 21, 2003

I have a dream. It’s the idea that once each quarter, all of America's major metropolitan newspapers should publish & distribute, as a Su...



Friday, June 20, 2003

My big summer reading book has arrived. It might also be my fall one as well, truth be told. It’s a volume I’ve been waiting for literally f...

Barrett Watten



Thursday, June 19, 2003

Another writer whose poetry appears in Van Gogh’s Ear 2, as it seems to be doing virtually everywhere of late, is Eileen Tabios . On to...



Wednesday, June 18, 2003

There is a new Bob Perelman poem in Van Gogh’s Ear 2 that reminds me – yet again – of why he is one of my favorite poets. A single parag...



Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Van Gogh’s Ear (VGE) is one of those strange journals that focuses almost exclusively on the writing of poets and authors who possess maj...

Journals



Monday, June 16, 2003

Before he began Fait Accompli , Nick Piombino had to put up with me encouraging / harassing him to do so. Nick is one of the most intell...



Sunday, June 15, 2003

On Friday, I made Technorati’s “ Top 50 Interesting Recent Blogs ” roster, checking in at number 20. That’s out of a total of over 360,0...



Saturday, June 14, 2003

So what do poets from the school of quietude mean when they say that they’re “more traditional,” if in fact their tradition is no longer, ...

School of Quietude



Friday, June 13, 2003

For the past couple of days, ever since I got Chris Lott’s email, I’ve been drafting & redrafting a response. I haven’t been happy with an...

School of Quietude



Thursday, June 12, 2003

Ange Mlinko has a response to Chris Lott’s email yesterday.   Dear Ron,   I have often wanted to drop you a note saying h...

School of Quietude



Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Chris Lott, who blogs Ruminate , and I traded emails. Here is Chris’ take on things.   On Friday, June 06, 2003 , Ron Silliman < ...

School of Quietude



Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Sometimes a new book, or a book by a new poet, raises all kinds of interesting questions. Even when it’s not a book, but a pack of cards in...



Monday, June 09, 2003

School is out and this blog’s daily hit rate has dropped somewhere around five percent. There went the people who read this because their ...



Saturday, June 07, 2003

Cathy Eisenhower writes about my note   ron:   thanks for your blog.   i just wanted to mention that your googl...



Friday, June 06, 2003

The bicycle as an image of technology is not something I had expected when I first began to read Bruno Schulz’ The Street of Crocodiles ,...



Thursday, June 05, 2003

John Ashbery isn’t the only influence to pop up in the “Early Poems” section of Jack Collom’s giant Red Car Goes By volume. And the infl...

Influence



Wednesday, June 04, 2003

Every Monday morning, the email in-box contains a message from the well-intentioned folks at Poetry Daily . In addition to listing whose p...

links



Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Sometime back around the days of the Kennedy admin istration, an American poet was penning lines such as these:   Cetus -white fla...

Schools of poetry



Monday, June 02, 2003

One of the most democratizing aspects of literature – and especially poetry – is that it remains one of the few fields in which people who...



Saturday, May 31, 2003

A copy of Cid Corman’s translation of Things, which includes “Notebook of the Pine Woods,” is on its way to me at this very moment. Thanks...



Friday, May 30, 2003

Do any readers know where I might be able to get a copy of an English translation of Francis Ponge’s Notebook of the Pine Woods? I had a c...



Wednesday, May 28, 2003

One of the advantages of bird watching as an activity is that the process organizes one’s experience of any given hike, yet does so in suc...



Tuesday, May 27, 2003

Imagine Billy Crystal doing his Ricardo Montalban impression for a one-sentence review: “This book is wanderful , dahling!” This book, of...



Monday, May 26, 2003

Before I wrote my piece on doubt Friday, Rob Stanton sent in this perspective, suggesting that the author’s & the reader’s relation to th...



Sunday, May 25, 2003

This blog greeted its 35,000 th   visitor last night. I continue to be amazed at the level of response. Thank you.



Saturday, May 24, 2003

Several bloggers ( Jordan Davies , Jonathan Mayhew , Henry Gould) take exception to my association of the New York School v.1.0 with Aude...

School of Quietude



Friday, May 23, 2003

Rodney Koeneke posed some intriguing questions about the nature of doubt in his response to the Fanny Howe prose poem by that title. Note...



Thursday, May 22, 2003

A version of Kristin Prevallet’s Lead, Glass and Poppy ( LGP) which I reviewed here on 12 May, can be found in Scratch Sides , Prevalle...



Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Before I got up this morning, I spent some time in bed reading through Joe LeSueur’s delicious new memoir, Digressions on Some Poems by F...

Schools of poetry



Tuesday, May 20, 2003

It’s evident that I’m a firm believer in close reading. It’s a process that I think can be easily extracted from its origins in New Critic...



Monday, May 19, 2003

Rodney Koeneke offers his own reading of Fanny Howe’s great prose poem, “ Doubt ”:   Dear Ron,       I enjoyed your post t...



Sunday, May 18, 2003

Kit Robinson, responding to – and extending – my reading of Merrill Gilfillan:     Ron,   I am glad to see your fine...



Saturday, May 17, 2003

Nate Dorward rises to Charles Tomlinson’s defense.     Ron – while I wouldn't exactly go out on a limb re: Tomlinson – not an ...



Friday, May 16, 2003

I’ve been thinking about poetry & types. By which I think I mean something more or other than just genres. I was, for example, thinking th...



Thursday, May 15, 2003

Certainty has killed more people than doubt.   This thought echoed in my mind repeatedly as I read “ Doubt ,” a prose poem / medi...



Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Rob Halpern wrote concerning my reference of Aloysius Bertrand in my blog the other day about Merrill Gilfillan, who long ago translated ...



Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Reading “In Particular,” the first of the four poems gathered into Let’s Just Say , an intensely beautiful chapbook by Charles Bernstein ...



Monday, May 12, 2003

Primitive Press is a funny name for a publishing venture that would print a book such as Kristin Prevallet’s Lead, Glass and Poppy ( LG...



Sunday, May 11, 2003

Some quick thoughts.   Flood Editions is going to be publishing the first full-length book by Graham Foust later this summer, As ...



Saturday, May 10, 2003

I’ve been vaguely aware of Joel Bettridge as a Ronald Johnson scholar, a Buffalo grad now working at Cal State San Bernadino, out where...



Friday, May 09, 2003

Dirty Dingus Magee was a 1970 comedy western starring that least credible of outdoors actors, Frank Sinatra, along with George Kennedy ...



Thursday, May 08, 2003

Who is Graham Foust? All I really know about the man is that he is, or was, a grad student at SUNY Buffalo who once made some curious com...



Wednesday, May 07, 2003

Half with editing, half with a strange humor, The Poker 2 has arrived at the door. The busy retro cover of the first issue has been repli...



Tuesday, May 06, 2003

It’s hard for an outsider to know just whom Charles Tomlinson might be. On the one hand, he’s the British poet who edited the Selected P...



Monday, May 05, 2003

Mea culpa for calling Joseph Duemer “Jim” on Saturday. It took me awhile to figure out why people were referring to me as “Rick.” There ...



Monday, May 05, 2003

If there is a single comprehensive list of links to post-avant poetry bloggers, I haven’t found it. The one that Gary Sullivan has on hi...



Sunday, May 04, 2003

K. Silem Mohammad has some interesting comments on my piece concerning H.D.’s “Helen.” In a slightly more skeptical mode, so does Henry ...



Saturday, May 03, 2003

Halvard Johnson no longer lives & teaches in Baltimore , but continues “serving the tri-state area” as the tag line on his email used to ...



Friday, May 02, 2003

One poem from H.D.’s 1924 volume, Heliodora , seems to have stuck in my imagination. In the week or so since I first read it in my long ...



Thursday, May 01, 2003

Another work in Raddle Moon 20 worth thinking more about is Robert Glück’s “The Visit,” a series of 12 prose meditations executed in – as ...



Wednesday, April 30, 2003

If you never received a letter from the late Larry Eigner , you should go out and buy Raddle Moon 20 at once. An issue devoted to the pro...



Tuesday, April 29, 2003

An email from Dale Smith:   Dear Ron,   Thanks for addressing my notebook / poem question on your blog today . You open up...



Monday, April 28, 2003

A flourish:   You tip the question back to a period of anesthesia when the emblematic horn returns overflowing with num...



Sunday, April 27, 2003

Folks in DC need to pay heed to an event tonight.   Whale Cloth Press announces the publication on its web site of:   two selections ...



Saturday, April 26, 2003

Pores calls itself an “avant- gardist journal of poetics research” & is edited out of Birkbeck College in London by founder Will Row...



Friday, April 25, 2003

Nick LoLordo , who teaches at UNLV, had several thoughtful comments about my take on Emily Eakins' New York Times article concerning ...



Thursday, April 24, 2003

I love Shakespeare, whose 439 th birthday was yesterday. For the past quarter century, I’ve seen maybe one of his plays year. Since I’ve ...



Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Dale Smith asked me if I had any theories why “the day book, dated poems and journals became so important” to the New Americans. It’s a go...

Theory



Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Relying on information second hand, even from The New York Times, is invariably risky. But Anastasios Kozaitis posted this story from ...



Monday, April 21, 2003

Hotel Amerika is the strangest new magazine I’ve come across in some time. Published out of the English Department at Ohio University, Ath...

Journals



Saturday, April 19, 2003

I received an email from Tsering Wangmo Dhompa:   Dear Ron, It was a surprise, and such honor, to see my name this morning in ...



Friday, April 18, 2003

As in T as in Tether, David Bromige’s most recent book, is divided into four sections: “T as in Tether,” and three others recognizably ti...



Thursday, April 17, 2003

How neurotic is this? I have stacks of books that I’m in the middle of reading pretty much everywhere. I keep one group in my bedroom, a s...



Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Who was the first successful U.S. poet to write in English while having grown up in a Spanish-speaking home? It just might have been Will...



Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Heriberto Yepez has shut down his English language blog, The Tijuana Bible of Poetics which is a damn shame, as it was one of the very be...



Monday, April 14, 2003

I’ve said this before , I know, but if there is one poet whose work rests at the absolute center of American poetry over the past 50 years...



Saturday, April 12, 2003

Live at the Writers House is a radio program that has been produced out of the Kelly Writers House at Penn from its earliest days – bac...



Friday, April 11, 2003

Each April, Alfred A. Knopf, once an independent publisher but now just a “brand” at Random House, sends out weekday emails that “celebrat...



Thursday, April 10, 2003

A letter from Chris Stroffolino. I’ve left it unedited, save for the addition of two footnotes:   Dear Ron—   Having rece...



Wednesday, April 09, 2003

James Wagner is a practitioner of compactness. The poems contained in The False Sun Recordings, a forthcoming book that will be published...



Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Robert Creeley's Yesterdays is, in fact, a slim volume, printed with just six sheets of paper, plus cover stock, just 22 chapbook-sized ...



Monday, April 07, 2003

Between his New Direction volumes, Robert Creeley has developed a pattern of issuing one or more small chapbooks in the interim – they en...



Sunday, April 06, 2003

No blog today. It’s my anniversary & I’m doing other things.



Saturday, April 05, 2003

Robert Duncan began publishing poetry when he was just out of his teens in 1939. Yet during the last twenty-five years of his life – not t...



Friday, April 04, 2003

Worse I fear by far than this obscene war – just yesterday the world was treated to hearing a mother’s tale of seeing her two daughters, a...



Thursday, April 03, 2003

The poem tells a simple enough story, one with which virtually anyone who has visited Russia over the past 15 years will identify. A man i...



Wednesday, April 02, 2003

I got a few   notes about my absences the past few days – been traveling & my access to the web has been constricted. When I was online y...



Tuesday, April 01, 2003

Tim Yu credits Stephanie Young for posing a question about my blogging style: that in choosing the miniature essay form rather than, say...



Monday, March 31, 2003

A back-channel comment from a blogger out in my old stomping grounds of the Bay Area made me sit up straight:   One thing that’s b...



Saturday, March 29, 2003

Peter O’Leary adds some light – and layers of complexity – to my comments about Ronald Johnson’s Radi Os and has a few questions of his ...



Friday, March 28, 2003

We have been reminded again this week of why the saying “May you live in interesting times” was a curse. In Mosul & Basra , citizens have r...

Politics



Thursday, March 27, 2003

As I browsed through the tapes available from the Berkeley Language Center , one of the things that caught my attention about the Berkel...



Wednesday, March 26, 2003

A few words from Jack Spicer about poetry and politics.   It only took me 38 years, but I finally got to Jack Spicer’s talk on “P...



Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Somebody not long ago – possibly on a blog or perhaps the Poetics List – suggested that John Ashbery wrote relatively quickly and without ...



Monday, March 24, 2003

It was an inspired reading line-up, to say the very least. On Friday, March 21, the Walt Whitman Arts Center in Camden , NJ , presented...



Monday, March 24, 2003

I came across the short list for the 1953 National Book Award for poetry &, a little like the 1957 Evergreen Review that I was looking a...

School of Quietude



Saturday, March 22, 2003

I almost never think of David Shapiro as a New York School poet. Like, say, Peter Schjeldahl, Shapiro has never been associated with any...



Friday, March 21, 2003

Lourdes Vázquez is a poet, essayist & fiction writer, a librarian by profession who is a leader in developing resources on Latin America...



Thursday, March 20, 2003

Kirk Johnson yesterday encouraged me to keep going, to provide “something to read in normal circumstances,” though indeed the circumstance...



Wednesday, March 19, 2003

No message for today. I’m too sick at heart at the impending onset of the war. It really is the end of a United States that was conceived ...



Tuesday, March 18, 2003

What my kids know about Paul Goodman is that their father regales them with a few lines of “The Lordly Hudson” every time we cross the Tap...



Monday, March 17, 2003

When I was but a pup, still in high school or just barely out of it, I would frequent the South Campus environs of the University of Cali...



Sunday, March 16, 2003

I want to give a hearty Yes to No , the new book-sized journal from Lost Roads Publishers, edited by Deb Klowden & Ben Lerner. It’s a ric...



Saturday, March 15, 2003

It can be interesting when a great poet writes something that doesn’t quite work. There are more than a few examples of this particular su...



Friday, March 14, 2003

Yesterday, Matthew Zapruder made some comments in his email here that are worth examining in greater depth, both for what they say and wha...

School of Quietude | Theory



Thursday, March 13, 2003

Matthew Zapruder & Noah Eli Gordon both sent in lengthy & thoughtful responses to their exchange previously on this blog. John Erhard...



Wednesday, March 12, 2003

This is an especially fun correspondence, taken from the archives of Whale Cloth Press , concerning its recent publication of Robert Greni...



Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Reading Jenn McCreary’s doctrine of signatures, one might expect that the immediate association from McCreary’s text would be in the dire...



Monday, March 10, 2003

It’s been 20 years at least since I last did a day as a poet in a school, so when I was asked to participate in a special one-day program a...

middle school readings | pronounced "treh-Diff-ren"



Sunday, March 09, 2003

Intellectual fashions tend to wash over poetry. Robert Duncan, in The H.D. Book, marvels at the secular imagination of the Imagists even as...

Imagists | Robert Duncan



Saturday, March 08, 2003

Matthew Zapruder objects: Dear Mr. Silliman, I was one part amazed, and one part appalled, to read the recent entry featuring the ...

Matthew Zapruder | Noah Eli Gordon | poetry of dissent | Theory



Friday, March 07, 2003

One thing about the Internet: when you get it wrong, you can be corrected from a great distance almost instantly. From Capetown , South Afr...

Seitlhamo Motsapi | tripwire



Thursday, March 06, 2003

A couple of people wrote to suggest that my general list of outsider poets was far too “inside.” Michael Helsem notes that Xexox Sut...

outsider poets



Wednesday, March 05, 2003

A letter with some correspondence & a question from Noah Eli Gordon: Dear Ron, Since it seems like yr blog has become somewhat of a...

Noah Eli Gordon | poetry of dissent | Poets Against the War



Tuesday, March 04, 2003

Rob Stanton has some follow-up questions. Dear Ron, Huge thanks for your thorough and thoughtful blog-response to my query about E...

Charles Olson | New American Poetry



Monday, March 03, 2003

Sometime this morning, around 10 AM East Coast time, we will have our 20,000 th visitor. The ratio of 1.4 pages read per visit continues e...

YAY!



Monday, March 03, 2003

Slought is a sizeable storefront gallery in an abandoned bank, complete with vault, at the southwest corner of the University of Pennsylv...

Alan Gilbert | Carol Mirakove | David Buuck | Jeff Derksen | Josh Schuster | Jules Boycoff | Kaia Sand | Kristen Prevallet | Laura Elrick | Lousi Cabri | Mark Nowak | Nick Piombino | Rodrigo Toscano | Slought



Sunday, March 02, 2003

Brian Kim Stefans responds to my blog on K. Silem Mohammad’s article on Stefans’ Creep anti-manifesto: Hi Ron and Kasey, I try not...

K. Silem Mohammad | Kim Stefans



Saturday, March 01, 2003

David Shapiro on collaboration, the late John Hejduk, architecture, politics & the New York School:     About writing the history of...

collaborations | David Shapiro



Friday, February 28, 2003

Jason Earls asks some questions. I’ll offer some responses (if not exactly answers) below. Dear Ron, I have a question concerning f...

John Nash



Thursday, February 27, 2003

Perhaps the article in tripwire 6 that most directly tackles the question of community is K. Silem Mohammad’s “Creeping it real: Brian Kim...

K. Silem Mohammad | Kim Stefans | Radiohead | tripwire



Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Try this poem out with an American ear – or, for that matter, with whatever variant of English you happen to have: moni & so the ne...

African Poetry | Poetry International | South African Poetry | tripwire



Tuesday, February 25, 2003

Every once in awhile, I come across a magazine or website that just reeks of the poetry of the future – it’s like accidentally opening the ...

Heriberto Yepez | Mexican Poetry | tripwire



Monday, February 24, 2003

Rob Stanton in the U.K. asks an interesting question:   Reading back through your blog's archive I notice that you've referred to Rae A...

collaborations | Rae Armantrout



Sunday, February 23, 2003

Odds & Ends ***************************************** I will be reading in the Temple Writers Series, Temple Gallery, 45 Nor...

Rae Armantrout | Religion



Saturday, February 22, 2003

Annie Finch wants to reframe my entire discussion with Rodney Koeneke.   Dear Ron, In your response to Rodney Koeneke you accept q...

Rodney Koeneke



Thursday, February 20, 2003

The discussion of poetry, the unconscious & spirituality continues to generate interesting responses. Today, Michael McColl invokes the wo...

Julia Kristeva



Wednesday, February 19, 2003

“Free association in poetry facilitates connection with others.” So says Nick Piombino . Do Poindexter & Ashcroft know about this? Dear...

American Poetry | European Poetry | Free Association | Nick Piombino



Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Consider the first ten sections of Complete Thought by Barrett Watten , first published in 1982, available now in Frame (1971-1990) (Sun & ...

Barrett Watten | Rodney Koeneke



Monday, February 17, 2003

Rodney Koeneke asked a number of pointed & relatively loaded questions yesterday predicated on one key presumption – that there is a critic...

Rodney Koeneke



Sunday, February 16, 2003

An email takes the question of poetry and the unconscious further, to poetry (especially langpo) and the spiritual. Dear Ron, Rodn...

Rodney Koeneke



Saturday, February 15, 2003

What does Peter Coyote have in common with Marvin Bell? The same thing that Clayton Eshleman has in common with Anselm Berrigan, Bill Berks...

Poets Against the War | political action | Politics | Sam Hamill



Friday, February 14, 2003

“As Close to a Love Poem”   for Krishna     Friends ask us why we decided to get married, friendly puzzleme...



Thursday, February 13, 2003

“Job share archivists” Susan M. Schultz & Pam Brown have augmented the Department of Dislocated Memory with a new installment of their c...

New York School | Politics | Schools of poetry | surrealism



Wednesday, February 12, 2003

One of the great lessons of the Vietnam War is that a nation of people opposed to a foreign war can actually constrain & eventually halt th...

Poets Against the War | political action | Politics | vietnam | Washington



Tuesday, February 11, 2003

I received multiple emails concerning my recent blog on the work of Rachel Blau DuPlessis and the issue of the subconscious, one of which ...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Monday, February 10, 2003

I’m totally jealous. Kevin Davies wrote “Lateral Argument” and I didn’t. “Lateral Argument” is an as yet unpublished poem that is circ...

Kevin Davies | New York Poetry



Sunday, February 09, 2003

There are just four works in Chris McCreary’s The Effacements, half a of two-volume book (or is it a two-book volume?) published by Gil Ott...

Chris McCreary | Ernest Hemingway | Simon Perchik



Saturday, February 08, 2003

Reading a magazine that I have not yet seen, Tom Fink notes the containment strategy often imposed by conservative poets with regards firs...

School of Quietude



Friday, February 07, 2003

There is never a word nor syllable nor the slightest scratch upon the paper in any of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Drafts that has not been thor...

Jack Spicer | Louis Althusser | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Thursday, February 06, 2003

Unquestionably the most ironic inclusion in the new issue of Radical Society is Andrei Codrescu, the Romanian exile turned Louisiana acad...

Andrei Codrescu | Radical Society



Wednesday, February 05, 2003

Reading Eleni Sikelianos’ poem, an excerpt from a longer text entitled “ California ,” in the new issue of Radical Society , I had a strang...

Eleni Sikelianos | Michael McClure | Radical Society



Tuesday, February 04, 2003

Radical Society is here. Its very first issue is labeled Vol. 29, No. 1, because the journal is in fact a reinvention, a resurrection of t...

Radical Society | Socialist Review



Monday, February 03, 2003

One poet who appears to be doing something completely different from virtually anything I’ve written about on this blog is Marianne Shaneen...

Marianne Shaneen



Sunday, February 02, 2003

I was explaining to a would-be anthologist who asked, just how I had selected works for my anthology In the American Tree, how I had set up...

Curtis Faville



Saturday, February 01, 2003

Robert Grenier’s Sentences , much discussed previously on this site, most recently January 24 , are now up on the net at the Whale Cloth Pr...

Robert Grenier



Friday, January 31, 2003

It’s an old joke among writers that the two ways work can get into a publication – submission & solicitation – entail terms whose sexual con...

anthologies | feminism



Thursday, January 30, 2003

Dan Featherston, who edits A•Bacus these days, has some thoughts on the question of editing & shape in today’s far different literary land...

ABacus | Dan Featherston



Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Another new-poet-to-me in Bird Dog 2 whose work catches my eye is Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, a Tibetan-American poet who grew up in exile comm...

Linh Dinh | Richard Deming | Tsering Wangmo Dhompa



Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Nico Vassilakis writes a very clean line: The posture of an event is directly Related to the posture of its participants For inst...

Nico Vassilakis



Monday, January 27, 2003

Two, no, three things this morning have me thinking about the value of the local. The first was a dream I was still in the middle of when ...



Sunday, January 26, 2003

The poetry of John Ashbery is all about surfaces: the text glides, line by line, from image to image, subject to subject, seldom permitting...

John Ashbery | textuality



Saturday, January 25, 2003

Last Wednesday would have been my father’s 76 th birthday. It’s been 38 years since he died from burns suffered in a plant explosion while...

John Ashbery | Wesleyan



Friday, January 24, 2003

My blogs on the work of Robert Grenier generated several responses. Allen Bramhall wrote with a first-hand account of Grenier’s cards at Fr...

Gertrude Stein | Minimalism | Robert Grenier



Thursday, January 23, 2003

Back in November , I used Richard Deming as one example of reading a poet “cold” – that is, about whose work & life you know nothing – and ...

Richard Deming



Wednesday, January 22, 2003

In the past week, I’ve read on various discussion lists that nobody reads blogs but other bloggers. I’ve also read that bloggers “control” ...

Language Poetry | post-avant



Tuesday, January 21, 2003

There are many instances of poets who do excellent work over a number of years & receive far too little credit for their labors. One poet w...

Stephen Ratcliffe



Monday, January 20, 2003

My copy of Tom Raworth's Collected came straight from Carcanet, which tucked in a bookmark that was, as these things often enough are the...

Sophie Hannah | Tom Raworth | trade presses



Sunday, January 19, 2003

It’s big. It’s yellow. It’s beautiful. It, in this instance, is the Tom Raworth Collected Poems , just out from Carcanet , making an early...

collected works | Tom Raworth



Saturday, January 18, 2003

Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar   Version 1.3     January   18, Saturday, 8 PM: Alicia Askenase , Mo...



Friday, January 17, 2003

After Berkeley, Robert Grenier taught at Tufts University, then moved on to Franconia College, an experimental school tucked in the White M...

Robert Grenier



Thursday, January 16, 2003

If “a long walk” was not speech, Robert Grenier’s “WINTRY” certainly was:   German Magnus massive Dagny Dagny calling call me c...

Robert Grenier



Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Twenty five years ago, Whale Cloth Press published what at the time was the most radically innovative poetry project I’d ever seen, Robert ...

Language Poetry | Robert Grenier



Tuesday, January 14, 2003

NB: Monkey Puzzle would love you to know that they can be reached at monkey_puzzle@earthlink.net



Tuesday, January 14, 2003

Insurance Books will publish Knowledge Follows , a chapbook-length poem by David Perry, later this year. If the excerpt that appears in the...

#bookstoread | David Perry | New York School



Monday, January 13, 2003

My blog on film & poetry last Wednesday provoked a lot of thoughtful email. Murat Nemet-Nejat picks up the Godard thread: Dear Ron, ...

Film | Godard



Sunday, January 12, 2003

It’s rare for a poet to radically change the primary drive of their verse as they age. If anything, the very opposite is more apt to occur,...

Alan Davies | process



Saturday, January 11, 2003

In an email response to the first of my two blogs on his work, Tom Raworth remarks “I’ve never thought I was reading fast,” commenting als...

Louis Zukofsky | syntax | Tom Raworth



Friday, January 10, 2003

A few notes: Salt Publishing has just published a new edition of my poem Tjanting with a forward by Barrett Watten , also new for thi...

tjanting



Thursday, January 09, 2003

Rachel Blau DuPlessis has told me, on more than one occasion, that no writer of long poems before me apparently commented in any particula...

DuPlessis | long poetry | longpoem | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Wednesday, January 08, 2003

The representation of art as a process in cinema is a perpetually vexing situation. I was reminded of this as I was watching Frida the oth...

Film | process



Tuesday, January 07, 2003

The next thing one notices about “Survival,” and about Clean & Well Lit in general, is that Raworth is not amused. The puckish wit of “Lio...

British poetry | Tom Raworth



Monday, January 06, 2003

Read Tom Raworth’s poetry aloud & you begin to understand almost instantly why, or more accurately how, he developed his reputation as – a...

Tom Raworth



Sunday, January 05, 2003

To the best of my knowledge, I’ve never seen René Ricard read live. Although we’re the same age & have both been around the post-avant sce...

post-avant | Rene Ricard



Saturday, January 04, 2003

Christian Bök’s String Variables is one of those initially deceptive projects in that you begin to read the two minuscule chapbooks On and...

Christian Bök | Criticism



Friday, January 03, 2003

Lyn Hejinian has offered the readers of My Life a unique look into the compositional strategies of the project by publishing two different ...

Lyn Hejinian | My Life



Thursday, January 02, 2003

Some works appear destined to change one’s mind. It took me several months to get around to reading Lyn Hejinian’s My Life when it was...

Ketjak | Lyn Hejinian



Wednesday, January 01, 2003

Murat Nemet-Nejat suggests two complicating factors for the question of context – the reader’s contribution and the issue of what he charac...

context



Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Waking this morning at 6:00 to write three pages of Zyxt, the last section of The Alphabet , out in the notebook – it will probably transl...

procedures | process



Monday, December 30, 2002

Sometime today, this blog will greet its 10,000 th visitor. For a genre like poetry in which a turnout of 50 people to a reading is consid...

blogging | Politics



Sunday, December 29, 2002

It was a bad dream that we were at war. I was involved with a company that held some support function, not involved directly in the fightin...

Lorine Niedecker | political poetry



Saturday, December 28, 2002

At the core of his email on irony, Chris Stroffolino asks: but it seems that what you're driving at is the question of WHAT OTHER WORK...

irony | Jennifer Moxley | meaning



Friday, December 27, 2002

Chris Stroffolino suggests that the term irony covers up a broader range of issues: Dear Ron – – I've been wanting to respond to a...

irony



Thursday, December 26, 2002

Bad writing isn’t always a sign of a poet’s incompetence. Sometimes it seems even to be intentional. Let’s read a poem, something from the ...

accessibility | Billy Collins



Tuesday, December 24, 2002

It was quite dark the other morning between rain storms, and, as is almost always the case when this occurs, the gloom reminded me of “The ...

Barrett Watten | Robert Grenier



Monday, December 23, 2002

How did Shiny get to be 16 years old already? Michael Friedman’s journal of poetry, now a biennial, has pushed quiet excellence just about...

Michael Friedman | New York School | Shiny



Sunday, December 22, 2002

Gary Sullivan ended his dissertation on humor & context the other day with what I would characterize as an imponderable: “ How is Celan’s ...

Charles Bernstein | humor | Jennifer Moxley | Paul Celan



Saturday, December 21, 2002

Peter Ganick is an extremophile of American letters. Extremophiles, as any ten-year-old addicted to the science shows on the Discovery Chan...

Language Poetry | Peter Ganick



Friday, December 20, 2002

Responses to my reading of Jennifer Moxley’s The Sense Record fell rather evenly into three categories: §        ...

Jennifer Moxley | Leslie Scalapino



Thursday, December 19, 2002

On the issue of humor, I got emails from several people. The most detailed response came from Gary Sullivan , who advocates a temporal the...

humor | irony



Wednesday, December 18, 2002

Between the poem & the longpoem come several intermediate modes. One that interests me greatly, because it’s one with which I have a lot of...

Jack Spicer | longpoem | Pattie McCarthy



Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Looking at Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Draft 1: It again this morning, I realize that what I’d previously taken for a more abstract drawing that...

Language Poetry | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Monday, December 16, 2002

Commenting upon George Stanley’s excerpt from Vancouver in The Poker turned out to bring goodies in time for the holiday season. Kevin Dav...

George Stanley | longpoem | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Sunday, December 15, 2002

On the Poetics List, there was a certain to-do over the wink I suggested was absent in the poetry of Jennifer Moxley. This was not, as I n...

Alexander Pope | humor | Jennifer Moxley | Walter Conrad Arensberg



Saturday, December 14, 2002

Like George Stanley’s forthcoming selected poems, A Tall, Serious Girl, Besmilr Brigham’s selected short poems, Run Through Rock , derive...

Besmilr Brigham | book cover | Frank Stanford



Friday, December 13, 2002

Jonathon Wilcke , a Canadian poet now living in Japan , noticed my complaint that I’m almost invariably unable to “hear” the poetry of so m...

J.H. Prynne | Jonathon Wilcke | voice



Thursday, December 12, 2002

Turning to George Stanley’s “Vancouver, Book One” in The Poker this morning, I realize several things:   §          The Poker’s ...

Canadian Poetry | George Stanley | New American Poetry



Wednesday, December 11, 2002

The Poker has arrived in my mailbox, with an information rich (a.k.a. busy) blue cover that lists, along with all the first issue participa...

Kimberly Lyons | publishings | readership | The Poker



Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Dalkey Archive has always been an interesting project. While its track record publishing poetry has been more erratic than not – there is a...

David Markson | Fiction | syntax



Monday, December 09, 2002

The title piece of Jennifer Moxley’s extraordinary The Sense Record is an astonishing poem – astonishing because it dares to go where virt...

Jennifer Moxley | post-avant



Sunday, December 08, 2002

Rachel Blau DuPlessis gave a reading Tuesday night at Kelly Writers House at Penn & it was wonderful. It was wonderful because Drafts , the...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Saturday, December 07, 2002

Don ald Wesling was the first person to tell that I had to read Geoffrey Hill some twenty years ago. I finally got around to it recently w...

Geoffrey Hill



Friday, December 06, 2002

Metablog: Somebody named Silliman’s Blog as the Blog of the Day for today, December 6. We’re humbled & amused. Also, Brian Kim Stefans w...



Friday, December 06, 2002

Carl Boon, in his very first question during the interview that ran here a few weeks back, asked me to position my work towards what he ca...

Interviews | the invisible



Thursday, December 05, 2002

My allusion, in the interview with Carl Boon , to “getting a complete version of The Age of Huts ready” generated a number of email questio...

Interviews | Ketjak | The Age of Huts



Wednesday, December 04, 2002

When Curtis Faville’s L Press published Blue is the Hero , a comprehensive collection of Bill Berkson's poetry between 1960 & 1975, it demo...

Hoa Nguyen | Subpress



Tuesday, December 03, 2002

Daisy Fried writes to challenge my use of the term conservative to characterize members of the broad literary heritage that I’ve generally...

post-avant | School of Quietude



Monday, December 02, 2002

Robert Kelly’s Finding the Measure is full of poems of great interest beyond the “prefix” I looked at yesterday, only five of which (out of...

Robert Kelly | Sound poetry



Sunday, December 01, 2002

Although I knew his work slightly from his own A Controversy of Poets, I hadn’t focused on Robert Kelly’s poetry until I got to know some ...

Projectivism | Robert Kelly



Saturday, November 30, 2002

Robert Kelly self-published Axon Dendron Tree in 1967 as Salitter / 2, distributed variously through his other small press journal, Matte...

Axon Dendron Tree | Robert Kelly | Zukofsky



Friday, November 29, 2002

Parceled, not parceled, ever the light.                                       Trismegistus to Tat: our bones will want velvet, ...

New American Poetry | Robert Kelly



Thursday, November 28, 2002

A note: Monday’s total of 183 visitors to the blog was a record. Since its inception at the end of August, the blog has been visited more...



Wednesday, November 27, 2002

If Sylvester Pollet’s Backwoods Broadsides chaplet series represents the epitome of pristine design and text presentation in micropublishi...

House Organ | magazines | micropublishing | page space | Projectivism



Tuesday, November 26, 2002

One of the very best things about poetry is micropublishing. My definition of micropublishing is any book or journal done in such a fashio...

Backwoods Broadsides | Taggart



Monday, November 25, 2002

Sometime in 1967, Jack Gilbert introduced George Stanley to his creative writing class at San Francisco State by calling Stanley, “the f...

Canadian Poetry | George Stanley | New American Poetry



Sunday, November 24, 2002

An email from Juliana Spahr:   Ron,   I know I'm late on the BLOG reading, but can I take issue with this :   she...



Saturday, November 23, 2002

Ruth Lilly, heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune, has made a donation to Poetry magazine estimated to be worth at least $100 milli...

Journals



Friday, November 22, 2002

Here is the third & final installment of Carl Boon’s questions:   7.  "Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World" is your...

Interviews



Thursday, November 21, 2002

Carl Boon’s sixth question feels more complex to me and, as it also addresses the question of blogging per se, I’m going to just focus on t...

blogging | Criticism | Interviews



Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Doing research for his dissertation, Carl Boon sent me a series of 15 questions. It’s going to take me a couple of days to get through them...

Interviews | Jones | The Alphabet



Tuesday, November 19, 2002

To read another take on this same material by Spicer, check out John Erhardt’s blog . Two blogs on the same Spicer poem in two days & a m...



Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Of all the New American Poets, just two proceed as though the language of poetry were primarily a process of logic and not of speech: John ...

Jack Spicer | John Ashbery | New American Poetry



Monday, November 18, 2002

My favorite blog-specific email of the past week came from Kevin Davies, who takes exception to one of my comments concerning my 1974 Burn...

author's intention | nox



Sunday, November 17, 2002

Reading through The Angel Hair Anthology , I come upon a Robert Duncan poem I have never seen before. My heart literally skips a beat. I ...

New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Saturday, November 16, 2002

Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar Version 1.2   Updates, this version: La Tazza readings added; also more Spring event...



Friday, November 15, 2002

On Tuesday, I noted my confusion as to whether Thom Don ovan’s “ towards 24 Stills” in Kiosk no. 1 should be read as a complete work or as...

abstract lyric | Thomas Meyer



Thursday, November 14, 2002

I sat down with yesterday’s post to the blog from K. Silem Mohammad & Tom Orange & just listed the points to which I personally wanted to r...

abstract lyric | close reading | Jackson Mac Low | K. Silem Mohammad | Larry Eigner



Wednesday, November 13, 2002

K. Silem Mohammad responded to a question of Chris Stroffolino’s on the Poetics List concerning my comments regarding Barbara Guest , whic...

abstract lyric | Clark Coolidge



Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Thinking more about the problem of how one reads truly new poetry , writing by people whose work one doesn’t know. Let’s try another exampl...

Language Poetry | Richard Deming | Thom Donovan



Monday, November 11, 2002

I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave all out would be another, a...

John Ashbery



Sunday, November 10, 2002

Tom Devaney has an interesting review of John Ashbery’s new book Chinese Whispers in this Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, of all places. ...

Tom Devaney



Sunday, November 10, 2002

John Ashbery wrote “The Hod Carrier” in the mid-1960s, publishing it first in Angel Hair before collecting it in The Double Dream of Sprin...

New American Poetry



Saturday, November 09, 2002

First thought, best thought I’ve always been interested in the poem’s relationship to the process of thinking & often see poems as docu...

Frank Stanford | procedures | Rae Armantrout



Friday, November 08, 2002

This blog is not the official sponsor of the Canadian poetry wars. Nor, for that matter, any other. There has been speculation on at lea...

Canadian Poetry



Thursday, November 07, 2002

In a footnote on Halloween, I wrote that “it seems unlikely” that Jack Spicer “would have heard of” the fictive literary figure Ern Malley...

Ern Malley | Jack Spicer



Wednesday, November 06, 2002

I was reading an Allen Curnow poem from the early 1960s, “A Small Room with Large Windows,”* when the prosody of its fourth section struck ...

Allen Curnow | prosody | William Carlos Williams



Tuesday, November 05, 2002

NB: Tom Devaney tells me that the next-to-last item among the poetry links of his below ( http://www.toolamagazine.com/Zone.html) actuall...

Tom Devaney



Tuesday, November 05, 2002

Hearing Ange Mlinko at La Tazza, a cavern of a tavern with a modicum of food on Chestnut off Second in Philadelphia . I know Mlinko’s work...

Ange Mlinko | Tom Devaney



Monday, November 04, 2002

David Bromige & New Zealand poet & book dealer Richard Taylor have been discussing the relative value of some of David’s books in the rare ...

David Bromige



Sunday, November 03, 2002

There may be antecedents to the abstract lyric in English before Barbara Guest – I would point to Gertrude Stein, to David Schubert, Edwin...

abstract lyric



Saturday, November 02, 2002

“What about all this writing?”   WCW, 1923   When I wrote on Wednesday that when one refers to Carl Rakosi as an Objectiv...



Friday, November 01, 2002

A correspondence rather in the Open Letter tradition on the “Canadian/New York School Question” has sprung up.   Tom Orange: ...

Canadian Poetry



Thursday, October 31, 2002

Yesterday I posed the question of time on literary formation in terms of how individuals inevitably position themselves differently as ext...



Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Objectivist poet Carl Rakosi turns 99 this week. At 7:00 PM Eastern tonight, Kelly Writers House on the Penn campus will sponsor a webcast o...

Objectivism | Schools of poetry



Tuesday, October 29, 2002

At his reading Sunday with Chris McCreary and Rosmarie Waldrop at the Painted Bride, Lewis Warsh referred to the stories in his Singing Ho...

Classic American Poetry | Fiction | Herman Melville | Italo Calvino | Poets Prose | Robert Creeley



Monday, October 28, 2002

It was summer 1985, the week after the Vancouver poetry conference of that year, and I was still in Canada , having a conversation with Va...

Frank O'Hara | Louis Cabri | Louis Dudek | New York School | Steve McCaffery | Ted Berrigan | Vancouver Poetry Conference



Sunday, October 27, 2002

Patrick Herron almost always has something interesting to say, viz this note to the ImitaPo list: The presence of the quotidian in ver...

Classic American Poetry | Patrick Herron | Theory | William Carlos Williams



Saturday, October 26, 2002

Narrative Drive would make a good name for one of those winding streets up in the hills around Los Angeles . But for post-avant writing, ...

Jena Osman | literary technique | post-avant



Friday, October 25, 2002

Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar Version 1.1 Updates, this version: times & details on readings by Erica Hunt, Norma Cole, E...

Philadelphia Poetry



Thursday, October 24, 2002

Contrasted with the CD that comes with the Short Fuse anthology, Arundo’s Triumph of the Damned and Edwin Torres’ Please present divergen...

Actualism | anthologies | Edwin Torres | Short Fuse Anthology



Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Happy Halloween: Trick or treat .

Dana Gioia



Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Write about performance poetry and very quickly you will find yourself the possessor of a flurry of CDs that relate variously to this side ...

Bob Holman | Edwin Torres | Glyn Maxwell | Performance | Short Fuse Anthology



Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Of all of writing’s illusive qualities, none invokes more magic – at least in the sense of requiring a leap of imagination that transcends ...

Jena Osman | Juliana Spahr | New American Poetry | Zukofsky



Monday, October 21, 2002

I have mentioned Chain on several occasions on this blog, for good reason – it is the premier hard copy poetry journal of the day. My firs...

Chain Magazine | Jena Osman | Juliana Spahr | Language Poetry



Sunday, October 20, 2002

A third question posed by the new anthology Short Fuse has to do with the volume's underlying agenda. Its ambition can be gauged by the fa...

anthologies | Edwin Torres | New American Poetry | Short Fuse Anthology | Todd Swift



Saturday, October 19, 2002

Todd Swift 's work in the poetry-music duo Swifty Lazarus allowed us to pose the question of how well intermedia presents writing as writi...

anthologies | Edwin Torres | New American Poetry | Penn Kamp | Short Fuse Anthology | Todd Swift



Friday, October 18, 2002

Short Fuse is an extraordinarily ambitious project. In addition to the 400 page book released this week by Rattapallax Press is a CD and a...

Bob Cobbing | Bob Holman | Edwin Torres | Fusion Poetry | Glyn Maxwell | Guillermo Filice Castro | Hazel Smith | Jerome Rothenberg | Journals | Patricia Smith | Simon Armitage | Steve McCaffery | Willie Perdomo



Thursday, October 17, 2002

Michael Rosenthal came to visit last weekend – he is the senior member of the collective that runs Modern Times, one of the four large inde...

Bookstores | economics of poetry | trade presses



Tuesday, October 15, 2002

I’m going to New York for a few days for the readings to launch the Short Fuse anthology & won’t be taking my laptop. Since my Palm Pilo...

boontling | language | Language Poetry | New American Poetry



Monday, October 14, 2002

Vocabulary fascinates me. Individual writers often have very distinct styles that are identifiable entirely through the words they choose. ...

H.D.



Sunday, October 13, 2002

I’ve made caustic comments here about a few poets whom I’ve associated with the tradition I’ve characterized (to borrow from Edgar Allan P...

#poetsyouneedtoknow | Classic American Poetry | Edgar Allen Poe | Hart Crane | Robert Lowell | School of Quietude



Saturday, October 12, 2002

Tom Bell writes: Ron,      Is there room on your blog for a consideration of “asyntactical tactics of Language poetry?” (p. 13 in O’L...

Bruce Andrews | Metacommentary | New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Friday, October 11, 2002

A Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar A lot of what follows comes from Nat Anderson’s wonderful omnibus literary calendar for Phi...

Kelly Writers House | New American Poetry | Philadelphia Poetry



Thursday, October 10, 2002

A first book of 175 pages is simply remarkable. It can also be tough going at times. When I noted at the outset of the blog that I am a slo...

Bruce Andrews | Language Poetry | Tan Lin



Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Special thanks today to Jordan Davis for catching more typographical anomalies than I care to admit. They’ve been corrected.



Wednesday, October 09, 2002

What does it mean to rethink the poetry of the 1950s & ‘60s without the canonical boundaries set out in Donald Allen’s The New American P...

New American Poetry



Tuesday, October 08, 2002

The fourth issue of The Electronic Poetry Review is now live and includes a talk that I gave a couple of years ago at the annual confab of...

Black Mountain College | Kenneth Rexroth | Objectivism | William Carlos Williams | Zukofsky



Monday, October 07, 2002

Actualism vanished as a literary tendency as thoroughly as Objectivism seemed to have done in the early 1950s. While the annual Berkeley Ac...

Actualism | Anselm Hollo | Darrell Gray | Ted Berrigan | The Actualist Anthology



Sunday, October 06, 2002

The reduction or narrowing of discourse that is a fundamental dynamic of the thematic exists for publications as it does for poems. One pro...

Chain Magazine | theme poetics



Saturday, October 05, 2002

One point that I’ve made three times* since I began the Blog a little over a month ago is that themes, for me at least, don’t work. That is...

Allen Ginsberg | Amiri Baraka | Robert Duncan | theme poetics



Friday, October 04, 2002

For a very long time, Kit Robinson has been one of the finest writers of the lyric around, very possibly the finest. In an age that, for ...

Kit Robinson | Language Poetry | post-avant



Thursday, October 03, 2002

O for Opacity: I have been devouring the poetry of David Bromige with interest ever since I first went to hear him read with Harvey Bial...

David Bromige | Language Poetry | Manroot Magazine



Tuesday, October 01, 2002

I will be giving three readings in two days in New York City this month: October 15, 2002 at 8:00 pm, New School, Tishman Auditorium at...

Readings



Monday, September 30, 2002

A note: I shall be traveling the next few days and am not certain how, or even whether, I shall be able to post here until my return.



Monday, September 30, 2002

The death of Darrell Gray ensured that Actualism could only meet a very different fate than Objectivism. Death enters the equation as well ...

Actualism | Darrell Gray | Jack Spicer | Manroot Magazine



Sunday, September 29, 2002

In 1969, Jonathon Williams’ Jargon Society published a volume of Lorine Niedecker’s poetry entitled T&G . The book’s subtitle was The Colle...

Besmilr Brigham | Lorine Niedecker | Women writers



Saturday, September 28, 2002

I posted something nice about Anselm Hollo to the Poetics List and two things immediately happened. A friend wrote to let me know that war...

Anselm Hollo | science fiction



Friday, September 27, 2002

I pulled out Michael Lally’s None of the Above: New Poets of the USA (Crossing Press, 1976), searching for that quote I used from Jim Gus...

Michael Lally | New American Poetry



Thursday, September 26, 2002

Patrick Herron writes to ask about my comment that “irresolvable conflict is the primary Spicerian theme.” It seemed to me, as I wrote tha...

Jack Spicer | Robert Creeley



Wednesday, September 25, 2002

One of literature’s great latent potentials is the capacity to take a reader to far and distant places. In my own life, I have had the occa...

Besmilr Brigham | Ivan Zhdanov | Larry Eigner



Tuesday, September 24, 2002

Bob Perelman was thumbing through my copy of Ed Ruscha’s They Call Her Styrene ( Phaidon , 2000) the other evening, which raises the ques...

Ed Ruscha | vispo | Visual Arts



Monday, September 23, 2002

The World in Time and Space arrived in the mailbox yesterday and it’s a big fat wonderful collection of essays & interviews about contempo...

#bookstoread | New American Poetry



Sunday, September 22, 2002

Rereading “Bean Spasms” in The Angel Hair Anthology does so many different things for me: Reminds me of what a great poet Berriga...

New American Poetry | Ted Berrigan



Saturday, September 21, 2002

Philadelphia is just large enough as a literary scene to occasionally present the “problem” of two good readings on the same evening. Due ...

Dale Smith | Hoa Nguyen



Friday, September 20, 2002

Corrected the link in today's note – thanks to Laura of Laurable.com for catching that. Ron

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Friday, September 20, 2002

Having praised Joseph Massey’s Minima St., one aspect of the book continues to haunt. If its truest predecessor might be George Oppen’s Dis...

George Oppen | Joseph Massey | poem news



Thursday, September 19, 2002

In his statement for Michael Lally’s 1976 anthology, None of the Above, the late Jim Gustafson admonished, “Suggest that one strives to r...

#bookstoread | Joseph Massey | Minimalism



Wednesday, September 18, 2002

The Envelope, Please by Swifty Lazarus, a collaboration between Canadian expatriate poet Todd Swift and composer Tom Walsh, is the lates...

Leonard Cohen | mixed media | Music | Todd Swift



Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Against the orgy of unrelievably bad public poetry commemorating the first anniversary of the September 11 th attacks, I had the occasion ...

Alan Curnow | Jack Spicer | JFK | vietnam



Monday, September 16, 2002

Where is the center of human suffering? A tight pit at the pit of the city with the brighter flesh radiating outward. Or inside out, t...

Charles Olson | Eleni Sikelianos



Saturday, September 14, 2002

A thoughtful response to my comments on Chain from Juliana Spahr: i like to think of magazines not as arguments but just as conversati...

Chain Magazine | Juliana Spahr



Friday, September 13, 2002

Of course Allen Curnow and Gary Snyder are not precisely generational equivalents. Snyder’s first publication, in the Reed College studen...

#poetsyouneedtoknow | Alan Curnow | Other traditions



Thursday, September 12, 2002

Thinking more about the role of narrative – literally the unfolding of meaning over time – one of the fascinating aspects of the late great...

Alan Curnow



Wednesday, September 11, 2002

The new issue of Chain is out and continues the magazine’s run as the premier American literary journal. No other publication in the past ...

Chain Magazine | Journals



Tuesday, September 10, 2002

John Latta and James Sherry both wrote to note that Our Nuclear Heritage was published by Sun and Moon, not Roof --> John Latta ...

James Sherry | John Latta



Tuesday, September 10, 2002

The best book I’ve read on the world after September 11 was published in 1991 – two years before the initial bombing of the World Trade ...

James Sherry | September 11



Monday, September 09, 2002

Most of the time, when I read poetry – by anyone, even Billy Collins – I read it aloud. The prosody of the text is for me always an essenti...

prosody | Sound



Sunday, September 08, 2002

One of the most interesting inclusions in the ridiculously named The Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner), guest edited by Robert Creeley,...

George Oppen | Projectivism | Robert Creeley



Saturday, September 07, 2002

Dear Ron Silliman , I noticed your Blog entries this evening & wonder if you take   requests . Roger Farr & I are in the middle of a l...

anti-voice | Peter Inman | voice



Friday, September 06, 2002

Two books that surprise me with their similarity are Frank Stanford’s The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You and Lyn Hejinian’s A ...

Frank Stanford | Lyn Hejinian



Thursday, September 05, 2002

There is a fallacious presumption in my comments about Christian Bök: the implication that one might “improve” a poem or that a “better ver...

Christian Bök | creativity | Curtis Faville



Wednesday, September 04, 2002

It is not simply the Oulipo -derived games, impressive as they are, that makes Christian Bök’s Eunoia (Coach House, 2001) so notable, winner...

Christian Bök | Conceptual poetics



Tuesday, September 03, 2002

When I read Keats, I sense the potential for a new and different kind of relationship between the sentence and line, one that is more modu...



Monday, September 02, 2002

The abstract lyric certainly existed before Barbara Guest – Stein, for example, and some of Williams’ work, especially prior to World War ...

abstract lyric | New American Poetry | School of Quietude



Saturday, August 31, 2002

During his life Robert Duncan alternately called his booklength critical project both The H.D. Book and The Day Book . Individual chapter...

New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Friday, August 30, 2002

http://www.factoryschool.org/content/pubs/rhood/duncan/HD_Book.pdf   I am the slowest of readers, so much that when I was a student...

New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Thursday, August 29, 2002

I have never thought of myself as an experimental writer, but this project is clearly a step into un- (or at least under-)charted territory....

#firstpost | blogging | poetry