Photo by Ben Friedlander
Reading Carla Harryman
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Travis Nichols:
This is Your Brain on Poetry
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Lorine Niedecker
DuPlessis on how
Pound managed a “muse”
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Strictly speaking on Caroline Bergvall
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Geof Huth
on a reading by
Lynn Behrendt, Anne Gorick,
Deborah Poe & Kate Greenstreet
with recordings by each
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The Threads Talk Series
on the book arts
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“Poets, really, they’re the laziest, stupidest people I know”
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Christian Bök & Carmine Starmino:
The Cage Match of Canadian Poetry
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Edwin Torres on Viva Futurism!
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Gerrit Lansing’s journal Set
available for download
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John Ashbery’s Planisphere
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Charles Bernstein’s Republics of Poetry
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Busting the chauffeur of Kenward Elmslie
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An NPR profile of Keith Waldrop
“If transcendental immanence were possible,
it would be because
Keith Waldrop had invented it…”
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Talking with Ron Padgett
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Is this the only reading by
Ronald Johnson
ever recorded?
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A reading & talk by Robert Glück
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Marianne Moore on animals
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The poems of Eugene Field
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Typebound:
books as sculpture,
typewriter poems
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Darwish’s map
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3 readings by Christopher Dewdney
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Leevi Lehto’s Lake Onega & Other Poems
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Pierre Joris,
remembering Robert Creeley
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A forgotten manifesto from the 1960s
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More Naked Lunch
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The semantic limitations of visual poetry
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Anselm Berrigan: “Reading Habits”
Part I, II, III
(part II is Gloria Frym’s response,
a talk she gave at Chautauqua in 1996)
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Victor Shklovsky:
“Art as Technique”
(reg. req.)
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Dmitri Golynko
talking with Charles Bernstein
Transcript of the conversation
Golynko reading
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Remembering Miklos Radnoti
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From an opera on
the Battle of Seattle
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Descent & transcendence
in African-American poetry
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Nobody fathered
contemporary African literature
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Theoretically unpublishable works
all published here
(Full disclosure: I declined to participate
since I don’t believe this category really exists)
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An open letter to Kent Johnson
on the subject of Boston
having “fallen into the sea”
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Poetic economies of performance
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Is BlazeVOX the Sub Pop of poetry?
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Can experimental poetry save the earth?
Yes, says John Kinsella
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A tale of 2 archives:
Poetry Archive’s Basil Bunting page
& that of PennSound
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The Mexican journal
Luvina
devotes its current issue
to the poets of LA
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Sophie Robinson & Nick Thurston
at The Other Room
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Leigh Davis
wins New Zealand’s
Kathleen Grattan Award
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Basil King reading
at the Side Walk Café in NYC
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Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes Prize
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LRL #4 has a big John Taggart feature
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Doug Messerli on Robin Blaser
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Are e-books the end of great writing?
What good is Kindle
without Dan Brown or Philip Roth?
The Atlantic turns to Kindle
Plan to sell Sony e-books
thru indie bookshops falters
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Emily Critchley on Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson: Dispatch from Jouhet
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Giuseppe Mazzotta:
Introduction to Dante
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Remembering Larry Eigner
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Tina Darragh & Marcella Durand
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Farrah Field’s Rising
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Talking with John Yau
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Beyond Neruda (Huerta & Bolaño)
Pablo Neruda’s seashells
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Finally, Whitman’s Camden home is a landmark
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3 poems by Nakahara Chuya
translated by Jerry Rothenberg & Yasuhiro Yotsumoto
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Divya Victor’s Sutures
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Universities won’t save journalism
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The future of literary magazines
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Poetry in new media
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Cormac McCarthy’s Lettera 32 Olivetti
brings $254,500
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Response to Bromige & Denner’s Spade
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A look back at Jack Kerouac
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Norma Cole’s Do the Monkey
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Jessica Wilkinson on Susan Howe
Howe’s Poems Found in a Pioneer Museum
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Stephen Spender, poet as printer
(part I) (part II)
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Haiku & its related forms
Haiku in the snow
William Appel
wins this year’s Haiku Challenge
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School snubs poet over body of work
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Fact vs. fiction in Machado de Assis
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60 years of
National Book
Award novels
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Philip Roth & “Stupidity’s Progress”
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W.S. Merwin’s “pure poetry”
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Translation now?
“Admit the chaos”
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The NY Times’ notable book list
keeps it local (and corporate)
(and, for the most part, hardback)
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D.A. Powell, Louise Glück & the Bible
make LA Times 2009
“favorite fiction” list
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The library of Paddy McGuinness
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Reflections on the First International
Poetic Ecologies Conference
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Pynchon’s California novels
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Appropriation, intertext & authorship
in 21st Century poetry
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Paul Chowder’s presumptions
Nicholson Baker grows up
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Paula Bohince’s
Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
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Ken Tucker
on H.L Hix & David Lehman
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Talking with Kassia Krozser
of BookSquare
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James Hoch’s Miscreants
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Robert Holdstock has died
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Walter Grallert has died
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Heaney:
Plant Hughes in the Poets’ Corner
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The Nabokov you weren’t supposed to read
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The value of hard copy
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A shopper’s guide to e- book readers
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Talking with Mark Coker
of Smashwords
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Katie Ford’s Colosseum
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Lethem skewers Manhattan
Lethem’s
“The Ecstasy of Influence – A Plagiarism”
(reg. req.)
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3 Peter Ganick works
“embodying contemporary literary theory”
tend. field. (a philosophy enters…)
(reg. req. for all 3)
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Can poetry mutter?
(A look back 15 years later)
Parts I, II, III, IV
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Geoffrey Hill’s Selected Poems
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Sarkozy honors Camus
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“The black tulip of American lit”
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Larry Levis remembered
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Going negative
on David Lehman’s dismissal
of “Going Negative”
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Peter Campion’s The Lions
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The San Francisco Chronicle’s
poetry gift guide
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Ken Kesey on the lam
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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Talking with Caroline Leavitt
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Larkin loved mum & dad, really
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Victoria Chang’s Salvinia Molesta
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Anne Atick:
How It Was:
A Memoir of Samuel Beckett
(reg. req.)
Andrew Gibson:
Beckett and Badiou
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The poems of Al-Saddiq AlRaddi
as a book, PDF download or podcast,
each in two languages
Plus 10 other bilingual books
available in bound or PDF formats
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Anna Journey’s
If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting
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“Feminist Road Trip Uncovers Girl Power”
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Gravity’s Rainbow and The Spiral Jetty
(reg. req.)
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Just in time for the holidays:
snow globes of the deadly sins
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Judith Butler:
“Torture and the Ethics of Photography”
(reg. req.)
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Chaim Gross:
The Body, In Pieces
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Vermeer’s Milkmaid at the Met
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Andy Warhol’s “Red Portraits”
“Warhol ruptured all of art history.”
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Pat Steir:
Self-Portrait 1987-2009
David Carrier on Pat Steir
Anne Waldman & John Yau
reading for Pat Steir
Dec. 13 @ 4 PM
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The decade in art
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Museum shortfall derails Koons
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Anish Kapoor’s Memory
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The “state of unreal”
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Hal Foster:
“An Archival Impulse”
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Painting, Paris & the will to power
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The Whitney’s web redesign
almost works
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A recommendation of
David Rawlings
that I will second
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Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes
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Annie Gosfield:
Advice to a Young Composer
Talking with Annie Gosfield
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Harry Northup
on being at Altamont
40 years ago this week
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The “imprisoned birdsongs”
of Thelonious Monk
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John Gallaher’s
Morton Feldman files:
(on art vs. craft)
(Give My Regards to Eighth Street)
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The Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
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Queering the Pitch:
New Gay & Lesbian Musicology
(reg. req.)
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The last of the Clancy brothers, Liam, has died
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Setting Yeats to music
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A home in Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Rinde Eckert’s Orpheus X
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Tony Kushner on climate change
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The decline of Cornell West
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Jennifer Bartlett
on mothering as a rebellious act
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David Bell
on Manuel Castells & Donna Haraway
(reg. req.)
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Ales Debeljak:
In Praise of Hybridity
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Chris Lott’s
Closing the Gutenberg Parenthesis
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Editors at Wikipedia are bailing
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Talking with Ayn Rand
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The new issue of
The Continental Review
offers lots to see & think about
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Tiger Woods
promotes a physics text
the hard way
