Ted Berrigan by Alex Katz
Ted Berrigan:
Adamic
Remembering Leslie Scalapino:
Fanny Howe
Tim Atkins
Robert Grenier
Rob Holloway
Lisa Samuels
Caroline Bergvall
Peter Middleton
Barry Schwabsky
Stephen Ratcliffe
Carol Watts
Laura Hinton’s
How2 feature on Scalapino
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Bob Perelman & Charles Bernstein
close-reading Charles Olson
Photo by Alan Bernheimer
An interview with Rae Armantrout
6 new poems by Armantrout
Contextualizing Gerardo Diego’s
Handbook of Foams
Leslie Scalapino’s plural time
Susan M. Schultz at PennSound
Rachel Blau DuPlessis and the poetry of textual reverence
Delmore Schwartz, reading
Stephen Burt
on poetry as political narcissism
in a time of real political need
Jordan Scott:
Flub and Utter
Jerome Rothenberg:
the anthology as manifesto
Tao Lin:
Interview questions I feel
interested / less interested
in answering
Dennis Cooper’s critical prose
Ellen Davis on Fanny Howe
Mary Manning Howe reads Finnegans Wake
(& much much more!)
Eating & drinking through Bloomsday
What happened to the Black Literary Canon?
Mary Ponsot’s stroke
Joan Retallack’s Rethinking Poetics Log
Wendell Berry takes back his papers
from the University of Kentucky
Talking with Wendell Berry
Joseph Massey’s Exit North
Gustaf Sobin’s Collected Poems
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
POET: the world’s largest ethanol producer
Aram Saroyan on Jim Carroll in Bolinas
“stud lover boy”:
NY Times obit for David Markson
James Yeh on David Markson
Preparing to misspell Wittgenstein
David Markson: An Introduction
LA Times obit
RIP David Markson:
where postmodern meets pulp
2 new videos of
Leslie Scalapino reading
Lyn Hejinian:
Remembering Leslie Scalapino
Memorials for Leslie Scalapino
Talking with Rae Armantrout
(check the audio!)
Armantrout on PBS Newshour’s “Artbeat”
Radio Rae Armantrout: On Point
A critique of Tom Ashbrook’s
On Point interview of Armantrout
A more charitable reaction to the same interview
John Gallaher on Chiasson’s Armantrout
Chiasson’s Lydia Davis
Christopher Reiner on Armantrout’s Pulitzer
B&N’s bookclub blog on Armantrout
An Armantrout resource guide for writers
Armantrout is just one
of the poets announced
for the 2011 US Poets in Mexico confab
Jeet Thayil’s “landmark anthology”
60 Indian Poets
Deaf American Poetry: An Athology
Endi Bogue Hartigan:
new poems
Marcella Durand, Jessica Lowenthal,
Jennifer Scappettone & Al Filreis
read Howe’s Dickinson
Albert Huffstickler: the way of art
Clayton Eshleman’s Anticline
“Ron Silliman Rocks”
(the real story is here)
Gevirtz’ “Orion”
Joanne Kyger’s notational noetics
Erica Hunt’s oppositional poetics
Interviewing Rae Armantrout
Dan Chiasson’s “goosechase of supposition”
John Latta on Chiasson’s
“post-trajectory hooey coming unstuck”
The Jim Brodey buried manuscript myth
Jim Brodey’s “Jack Kerouac”
Charles Olson
& the Nature of Destructive Humanism
Ray DiPalma & Michael Lally
@ the Poetry Project
Lally’s take on the same reading
Jerome Sala on Michael Lally
6 months after brain surgery
Nick Piombino at the Zinc Bar
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino
talks with Piombino
John Olson on
Alvaro Cordona-Hine & George Kalamaras
Aram Saroyan recalls the 1960s
Rae Armantrout’s
“uniquely broken heart”
“Who is Rae Armantrout?”
“But what about the nipples?”
Blake Butler, Roxane Gay, Kate Zambreno & Amy King
on gender, publishing & more
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
A conversation with Kathy Acker
(reg. req.)
Brontë Sister Power Doll Action Figures
When you’re lost in the rain in Juárez
Sina Queyras unleashed
Talking with Marguerite Abouet
Smothering your mother with treacle
Marjorie Evasco’s Skin of Water
Charles Bernstein in Banff
(part 1) (part 2)
Official Catalog
of the Library of Potential Literature
Theory, literature, hoax
(Yes, this appeared in the NY Times in 2010!)
10 questions on poets & technology:
Amy King
Notes on 8 years of book blogging
Talking C. Max Magee
Does Google’s book deal violate treaties?
Amazon to drop freebies
from Kindle “best seller” list
Talking with Saadi Youssef
Poets under 30 go MIA
(In fairness, the group reading of Ashbery’s “Europe”
& a reading by Kate Durbin & Cara Benson
were at the same time, no??)
Why are university presses so good for poetry?
Harriet’s move from blog
to aggregation
is a mistake
Ted Enslin’s I, Benjamin
100,000 rare books lost
in Oregon bookstore fire
Willits loses Leaves of Grass
The specialty bookshops of Cambridge, MA
The 2010 UCLA Campbell
Book Collecting Award
Don Share & Paul Vangelisti
on the “uneven distribution of the future”
Jimmy Schuyler on Frank O’Hara
Jennifer Karmin’s “Aaaaaaaaaaalice”
A writers-in-residence program
that actually matters
& a journal to go with it
rob mclennan: “Alberta, Redux”
Norman Finkelstein on Burt Kimmelman
The Franz Wright critique of the MFA generations
Ralph Ellison’s Three Days After the Shooting
Marilyn Hacker’s “A Braid of Garlic”
A call to end Canada’s barrier to imported books
“A patch for your novel is ready to download”
Howard Junker, wandering poet,
making like Li Po (sort of)
What is Canadian literature?
Fence manifesto:
Please write poetry
Interrupture, a “word band”
Amelia Roselli’s The Dragonfly
Tagore at 150
R.S. Thomas & the Welsh
Simon Jarvis’
Wordsworth’s Philophic Song
(reg. req.)
On Samuel R. Delany on writing
T.S. Eliot is not obliged to love me
Inna Grade has died
A profile of Lynn Xu
Talking with Corey Mesler
Daniel Pritchard on Daisy Hay’s Young Romantics
The Writings of Jonathan Bayliss
The perpetual life of Philip K. Dick
The Art of American Book Covers
My first time, or I lost it to fine binding
Scott Esposito on John D’Agata
Ed Baker’s De:Sire Is
Talking with Ed Baker
May 18, Norwich, UK:
An evening with Les Murray & Andrew Motion
Infinite regret: David Foster Wallace
A profile of Wallace from 1996
Henri Cole’s Pierce the Skin
Pittsburgh’s patron saint of poetry
Did Nick Clegg doom his party
by naming Samuel Beckett as his favorite author?
Love Over 60:
An Anthology of Women’s Poems
Jack Gilbert’s The Dance Most of All
Wine & friendship in Tang Dynasty poetry
Poetry of the 19th century Northwest
Talking Alain de Botton
What brought Twain fame
Walker Percy’s weirdest book
Martin Amis’
“remarkably tedious new novel”
“such an exasperating novelist”
The curse of the English novelist
2 Books on E.M. Forster
Banned books you read in high school
The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
edited by Andrea Brady & Emily Butterworth
(reg. req.)
“Top 10 Absurd Classics”
& not a word about Daniil Kharms
No such thing as silence:
John Cage’s 4’33”
Andrei Codrescu on conceptual art
Crichton the collector
Crichton’s Johns brings in $29M
5 questions for the author of
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The mystery bidder
Amy Sillman:
How many lightbulbs does it take to change a painting?
How to display a contemporary work of art
The photos of Tinker Greene
Craig Kauffman has died
Avigdor Arikha has died
Warhol film curator, Callie Angell has died
Maps with an agenda
Intellectuals in the age of Obama
Wittgenstein’s Notebooks 1914 – 1916
Noam takes the day off
Levi Asher responds to Harold Bloom on
“The Jewish Question”
When is anti-Zionism also anti-Semitism?
Jupiter goes without a belt
A writer’s guide to Microsoft Office
Reina MarÃa RodrÃguez,
a bilingual reading
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
on the earthquake in Kyegu
Barrett Watten goes post-moot
Clark Coolidge’s The Act of Providence
New work by Eleni Sikelianos
Curtis Faville on Jack Gilbert
(part I) (part II) (part III)
The Dominant and the Long Durée
Talking with Sara Larsen & David Brazil about Try
Maid as Muse:
How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson’s
Life & Language
Lil Picard: Mama Dada
Buffalo’s
Canadian Poetry Festival
of 1980
The Bloodaxe Book of Indian Poets
Authors start to boycott Arizona
Poet-editors,
What is (or has been)
your favorite editing project
and why
(43 poet-editors, curated with an intro by
Eileen R. Tabios)
Editors on editing: a roundtable
The William Bronk-Charles Olson correspondence
(one part of Burt Kimmelman’s contribution)
Otoliths 17 has much to offer
May 3 & 4 @ CUNY,
Chapbook Festival (& marathon reading)
May 6 @ CUNY,
talks in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
by Jack Kimball, Stacy Szymaszek & CAConrad
On John Gould Fletcher
& Charles Bernstein
Talking further with Charles Bernstein
The “thought-opera” of Walter Benjamin
Jerry Rothenberg:
A Pre-Face for David Meltzer
Tintin on trial
The David Foster Wallace audio project
Michael Horovitz jumps into the Oxford poetry swamp
The intent of The Alphabet
Was Robert Frost a modernist?
Britain’s best indie bookshops
Janet Adelman has died
Random House gets more random
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Plus 39 other Dick titles
Remembering Jonathan Williams
Remembering Peter Porter
LA’s Skylight Books
Talking with Tan Lin
Definitely check out the new Barzakh!
(viz Ted Berrigan collages)
Ryokan, translated by Dennis Maloney
The danger in neglecting translation
The city of endangered languages
Parlay vu globish?
Google Search to add
virtual keyboards for 35 languages
How to Write in 700 Easy Lessons
AWP:
“you get to dance, you get drunk, you get laid”
The EU Commission nixes a poetry contest
The perils of meeting your favorite author
When Chaplin met Einstein
Emily Dickinson’s garden
Paulann Peterson, Oregons new laureate
Missouri’s laureate, David Clewell
13 Howard Fellows in Fiction & Poetry
Always almost obsolete,
always almost new
“If I were to raise my children
the way I write my books…”
Reznikoff & conceptualism
A site just for the juxtaposition
of literature & technology
The Found Poem Student Challenge
The poetry of golf
Art of the slam
not a contradiction in terms
Talking with Amir Sulaiman
Bloomberg the poet?
Nick Clegg:
“My hero Samuel Beckett”
William Burroughs:
Cities of the Red Night
(reg. req.)
Burroughs’ Naked Scientology
(reg. req.)
Burroughs’ The Electronic Revolution
(reg. req.)
Burroughs’ Queer
(reg. req.)
Lewis Carroll, experimental poet
Dramatic monologs,
from the Victorians to Maximus & Niedecker
New York’s sidewalk booksellers
The latest in Gently Read Literature
Photos from Collapsible Poetics Theater
Eigner, Cummings & the typewriter
Can the iPad or Kindle
save book publishers?
The right age to buy an iPad
What the experience of reading
might look like
in the near future
Talking with Ben Mazer
Moving the Dodge to Newark
Edwin Morgan at 90
Do the Monster mash-up,
everyone else is
Charlie Simic:
Confessions of a Poet Laureate
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
& the colors of depression
Shakespeare who?
Twittering Romeo & Juliet
(parting is such tweet sorrow)
A poem for Arizona
Padraic Fiacc,
Belfast’s “patron saint of the insane”
Talking with Andrei Codrescu
Poetry in Person:
25 Years of Conversations
with America’s Poets
Paul Elisha’s Swash
Anonymous feminism of the 19th century
Talking with Janaka Stucky
Who is your favorite religious poet?
Cambridge changes rules
to ease the silencing & sacking of
“difficult dons”
What makes a feminist poet?
Marilyn Monroe on Beckett, Joyce
Joltin’ Joe & just maybe JFK
Well, at least it wasn’t her cat
Talking with Kathy Acker
The diaries of Madonna
Nicola Barker: “I love suffering”
Coming Through the Rye
is not making it through the courts
Teens flock to live poetry events
Telling tales in Ojai
Silvi Alcivar, poet on demand
“Poetry can be a portable prairie”
Poetry from
the 92nd Street Y “Discovery” winners
Talking with Elizabeth Spires
Huffington Post’s fave literary twitters
is mostly publishing industry
& no poets
Adjectives in Sappho
& other obsessions
The Picture of Oscar Wilde
How is this better than Calvin Trillin?
Adam Kirsch close reading Robert Lowell
The best book trailer of the year?
Sci-fi publisher Phoenix Books shuts down
The calcification of Caryl Phillips
Anne Carson’s Nox
With the death of Alan Sillitoe,
the 1950s are finally over
Philip Davenport
@ the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds
Save Beyond Baroque!
Graphic Gatsby
One drawing for every page
of Moby-Dick
Poetry, the movie
Bad Writing, the documentary
Talking with Joseph Beuys
William Furlong, the archivist
Robert Natkin has died
3 finalists for the new
Berkeley Art Museum
The recession hits Big Art:
Koons’ fabricator shuts down
Talking with Daniel Libeskind
The Harvard Arts Medal to
Catherine B. Lord
Sitting with Marina Abramović
Talking with Jenny Holzer
The conceit of Cartier-Bresson
Allen Ginsberg, the photographer
The bones of Francois Robert
Events at the Sculpure Center
in Long Island City
June 18-19 in NYC,
a 65th birthday celebration for
Anthony Braxton
The life of Artie Shaw
Laurie Anderson seeks “expert” remixes
& looks to the future
The astrolabe
Brion Gysin:
How to make a dream machine
(reg. req.)
Epistemic closure on the far right
Stephen Wolfram’s
theory of everything
Henri Lefebvre:
State, Space, World: Selected Essays
(reg. req.)
The internet as a social movement
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
