Close Listening with Nathaniel Mackey

And reading

Robin Tremblay-McGaw
on reading

Mourning Édouard Glissant

Tisa Bryant on Claudia Rankine @ AWP

Ange Mlinko on The H.D. Book

Tyrone Williams’ “Genesis”

C.D. Wright’s
tour de force

Lisa Jarnot:
“After Catullus”

The plan to create a
Scottish Academy of Literature
has been dropped

Eileen Myles’ Inferno
has the best book trailer ever

Numbers trouble 2010

What is the real story?

“The numbers speak for themselves”

Poetry notes dissents

Stephen Elliot:
Vida just scratches the surface

Meghan O’Rourke asks about causes

Slate:
why it matters

The literary glass ceiling

Jezebel:
the sorry state of women

Submitting work
as a “woman’s problem”

Jim Behrle weighs in

Laynie Browne’s
“Periodic Companions”

Are you ready for
Demi Moore’s poetry?

Maria Shriver,
poetry editor

Vanessa Place @ EPC

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
(Please note the two alternate chapters 73 –
not that I could find Door Number One –
& don’t miss the translation of Dante into haiku)

That’s one big book!

Peter Schjeldahl on
Painters & Poets

Talking with Tom Raworth

Close reading aloud:
Susan Schultz’ Dementia Blog
with Leonard Schwartz, Michelle Taransky,
Jamie-Lee Josselyn & Al Filreis

Code of Best Practices
in Fair Use
for Poetry

Peripheral Writing
edited by Tan Lin
in the new issue of EAOGH

Vanessa Place on
Caroline Bergvall’s
Meddle English

3 poems by
Kim Gek Lin Short

6 questions with Amy King

Talking with Joel Chace

Chace’s Periods, 16-21

Ursula K LeGuin on Roberto Bolaño

Ian Hamilton Finlay’s detached sentences

The poetry & prose of
Deborah Digges

Michael Palmer on Robert Duncan

Stephen Kessler’s obit
for F.A. Nettelbeck

The Nettelbeck archives

bring light towards you –
poems from survivors of the Holocaust
with Philip Davenport & Lois Blackburn

Charles Bernstein on
Reznikoff’s voices

Yehoshua November’s
God’s Optimism

A reading to celebrate Israel

Language shapes thought

Rhetoric!

Joseph Massey’s “The Process”

Satu Kaikkonen: 7 visual poems

Kajal Ahmad’s “Pregnancy”
(a translation podcast via iTunes)

Prince of Poets
competitor causes stir

Robert Pinsky on
poets under pressure

Somali poet goes into hiding

Gwen Ifill
on poetry in Haiti

Anna Yablonksaya
died in the Moscow airport bombing

Fairfield Porter: Jimmy and John, 1957-58

Tibor de Nagy:
Poets & Painters

Talking with Rae Armantrout

2 new poems by Armantrout

Armantrout’s “magnum opus”

David Trinidad:
“Miss D. Smokes”

Talking with Sarah Dowling

Kit Robinson’s “Modern Living”

Turkish vispo

Chris Hamilton-Emery
saves a public poem

Joseph Torra:
“The Farmer Panics”

Michael McClure’s
Of Indigo and Saffron

The Conceptual North Pole –
11 Interviews
Lytle Shaw talking with
Matthew Coolidge, Kenneth Goldsmith,
Monica de la Torre, Matthew Buckingham,
Emilie Clark, Cabinet,
Jeff Derksen, Rob Fitterman,
Gerard Byrne, Heriberto Yepez
& Lisa Robertson

“So I Shot Him” –
a new story by Dashiell Hammett

Lydia Davis:
Miniatures from a mind on fire

Mark Scroggins on
academic geneaologies

Photo by Aldon Lynn Nielsen

front row, L – R: Carla Harryman, Rae Armantrout, Kit Robinson
back row, L – R: Barrett Watten, Helene Aji, Lyn Hejinian, Antoine Caze, Ted Pearson

The Grand Piano @ the MLA

Hear the chorus here

Al Nielsen on the MLA

Barry Schwabsky on
Ketjak, langpo & The Grand Piano
in The Nation
(subscription required)

Subscription not required here

Rae Armantrout’s
Money Shot

“Robotic surveyors”

Tom Mandel’s
To the Cognoscenti

Lyn Hejinian’s Fatalist

A grander piano

More close-reading
the links list

Thom Donovan:
A course on appropriation

Visual poetry on trial!

John Olson on
Rosmarie Waldrop &
the ∞ of language

Norman Fischer’s “Sixty Five”

Mark Doty, Juan Felipe Herrera
& Anne Waldman
elected chancellors of
The Academy of American Poets

Jordan Davis on
Thomas Sayers Ellis

Charles Bernstein’s
“Poetics of the Americas”

Charles Bernstein on the fly

Geof Huth’s review of the year,
with thanks

Talking with Anne Gorrick

John Martone’s scrittura povera

The Newly Complicated
Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston’s “Monkey Junk:
A Satire on Modern Divorce”

The only “best poetry of 2010”
to get it right

Rich Owens
also puts the Collected Eigner
at the head of his list
(Owens’ essay in the latest
Poetry Project Newsletter
is tremendous)

C.D. Wright:
“In a Word, a World”

Judaism & radical poetics

Rob Halpern’s
“Becoming a Patient of History”

Rosmarie Waldrop’s
Driven to Abstraction

Brian Kim Stefans’
Bank of America Online Banking:
A Critical Evaluation

New poems by Rae Armantrout
plus a teaser for an interview

Talking with Laura Moriarty

Lyn Hejinian’s
The Fatalist

Jaimy Gordon’s
Lord of Misrule

2 articles on Dean Young’s health

Talking with Anne Waldman:
“From the Larynx”

A poem from Liu Xiaobo

The laureate’s curse

13 poems from Sharon Mesmer

Chapter 1 of Robert Duncan’s
The H.D. Book,
just out from UC Press

Clayton Eshleman on Paul Blackburn

“ah, so, yes”

Young Ez

Digital maps of Robert Creeley’s email

Creeley’s edge

William Burroughs: disturbed

Robert Kelly reads at Bard

Anne Gorrick’s I-Formation Book I

Tom Beckett interviews Anne Gorrick

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
reading & talking at Kelly Writers House

Plus reading at the Bowery Poetry Club

Thomas Devaney
getting eidetic with James Castle