Armantrout’s Money Shot
is “a stunner”

Geoffrey Gatza’s
2010 Thanksgiving Feast menu
& poetic cycle celebrates
David Shapiro

Talking with Kim Lyons

Monica Youn’s Ignatz

Talking & talking & talking
with Tao Lin

Terrance Hayes’ Lighthead

Pierre Joris: Justifying
Justifying the Margins

Talking with Sheila E. Murphy

Lisa Robertson, Edward Hirsch
& Derek Walcott
all make the NY Times
100 Notable Books of 2010 list

Dwight Garner puts Kay Ryan
at the top
of his personal list

The Guardian asks all their writers
& gets quite a lot of poetry,
including John Ashbery & Timothy Donnelly

Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation

19 poets recommend 19 titles

Talking with Margaret Atwood

Lunar Chandelier reading report

New Directions’ new colophon

On Patti Smith

National Book Award-winning novelist
Jaimy Gordon
has deep roots in the small press,
post-avant world

Early poems by Terrance Hayes

No fairy tales at the NBA

But surprise all around

A Ayyappan has died

So has Norris Church Mailer

Talking with John Tranter

Mimi Gross & Charles Bernstein
Some of These Daze
(64MB PowerPoint file)

5 poems by Aimé Césaire
from the unexpurgated first edition of
Soleil cou coupé

Talking with Edwin Torres

Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ elective affinities

P. Lal has died

The Collected Essays of
Robert Creeley
online

2010 “Sexiest Poem” award goes to
Brenda Iijima’s “Panthering”

Can Philadelphia love Sonia Sanchez?

Numbers trouble
at the Academy of American Poets

Germane Greer:
no fan of D.H. Lawrence

A Poetics of Radical Evil

Talking with Vanessa Place

Thom Donovan:
The New (Chor)us

The Merwin Conservancy

Talking with W.S. Merwin

“safe choice,” “safe poet”

Kevin Killian on Secret Historian

Money Shot
& 32 other poetry titles
to look for in 2011

Rae Armantrout takes center stage

“The Dwelling Place”

Plus I have a new bibliography

Anne Tardos:
from “The Nines”

Fanny Howe:
Documenting the secret self

Openned Eyes

Renegade

Viva Lamantia!

Gilgamesh
read in Babylonian
(with other Babylonian & Assyrian texts)

Dodie Bellamy:
“a powerful feminist strategy”

Saudi female poet
defies men & law

A Berkeley poet of the 1960s
& social justice activist,
Lowell Levant has died

Who remembers
Ksenia Nekrosova

Bryan Beck on John Godfrey

Jean Valentine & Lyn Hejinian:
“Pure poetry”

Amy King:
“A Geography of Pleasure”

Olson @ the Century

A profile of the Buffalo conference

Gloucester celebrates Olson

As does Vancouver

Paris Review “Language Sampler”

Berkshire Eagle obit for Michael Gizzi

Close reading aloud
poems about poppies
by H.D. & Jennifer Scappettone

Steve Fama on varieties of vispo

John Timpane on Mario Vargas Llosa

Writing & winning

Betting on the Booker prize suspended

Delirious Hem’s
Tribute to Leslie Scalapino
(day 1) (day 2)
(day 3) (day 4)

Leslie Scalapino leaves
a scholarship at Reed

The New Hybridity:
Thalia Field & Leslie Scalapino

Steve Benson:
3 videos for Leslie Scalapino

Eigner’s Rimbaud

What is the state of American poetry?
Clayton Eshleman, Annie Finch,
moi & Danielle Pafunda
start the debate

Clayton Eshleman’s “For the Night Poem 8 Aug 2010”
Annie Finch’s “Earth That Our Forest Looks Back For”
RS: “from Revelator”
Danielle Pafunda’s “The Dead Girls Speak in Unison”

Every literary magazine in Canada
gets defunded

Steve Evans’
Attention Span 2010
has just begun

The Autobiography of Larry Eigner

Joseph Mosconi’s Word Search

Recordings of most of
Oakland’s Labor Day extravaganza

Bhanu Kapil on “duplicate territory”

David Wolach featured on PhillySound

Kate Greenstreet’s
“notes for Called”

Rodger Kamenetz:
introducing Kafka to Rabbi Nachman

Kamenetz discusses Burnt Books

Talking with Harry Northup

Talking with Tyrone Williams

“Ease awes”

Talking with 55 Words

What causes language?

Leslie Scalapino on
The Dihedrons Gazelle –
Dihedrals Zoom

George Bowering,
“bullshit artist”

Best UK poetry site
I’ve yet seen

Talking with Elisa Gabbert
in an incredibly small font

Talking with Natasha Trethewey

Susan M. Schultz’
Old Women Look Like This

On grief –
& dying without finishing
your book

Talking with Ken Edwards

The Bowery Poetry Club Live!

Who wrote the poems of Frank O’Hara?

Tony Towle’s “true account”

Flânerie ending with oi

The Personism moment

“The Ghost of Frank O’Hara”

From Ray DiPalma’s
“Obloquium & Committer of Tidings”
(plus a second set)

What Khlebnikov means

Robert Grenier on Robert Creeley

Talking with Ana Božičević

Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season

The first form of
voice recognition software
was women

Vanessa Place’s
Tragodía – 1: Statement of Facts

Flarf may have Belarus
but Conceptualism claims Finland

Tweeting Gone with the Wind

Vote for Rae Armantrout
in Library of Congress’
“favorite author” poll

A KickStarter page for
Robert Kelly’s Oedipus After Colonus

Mamet’s doctrine

Talking with Chimalum Nwankwo

Reading The New Sentence

Talking with Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly’s sudden fictions

Talking with Rae Armantrout

What The New Yorker doesn’t publish

Jena Osman on Bern Porter

The Bern Porter website

Ken Edwards
on innovative British writing
& the lack thereof

Tim Carmody
on Lydia Davis & Edith Grossman

Lunch with Lydia

Wilde Boys

Gurlesque:
The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque
Poetics

Ange Mlinko:
Can a “global poet” exist?

Life on the content farm

Gustaf Sobin’s Collected Poems

Will Alexander:
Mirach Speaks to His Grammatical Transparents
(selections)

Talking with Gerard Malanga

Screen Test Superstar

Eric Baus’ Bee-Stung Aviary

Andrea Cohen’s Long Division

A history of the Peter F. Yacht Club writing group

Lisa Robertson & Avra Spector on Henri Meschonnic

Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract

Ammiel Alcalay’s Islanders

Sandra Simonds’ “Lines Written on Nursery Wall”

Simonds’ “Landscape Made from Egg and Sperm”

The EPC’s brand new John Wieners page

CAConrad,
talking to himself

Kay Ryan’s Collected Poems