A sonnagram
from K Silem Mohammad

Q&A with Rae Armantrout

Talking with Elaine Equi

Philip Levine:
Poet Laureate of the United States

A selection of poems by Levine

What will Philip Levine do as PLOTUS?

John Wieners, 1968, with a portrait of Joanne Kyger

John Wieners
707 Scott Street
(ebook thanks to Douglas Messerli’s
Project for Innovative Poetry)

Rae Armantrout:
Focus

Ange Mlinko on Roy Fisher

Clayton Eshleman:
While Drinking Coffee at Zingerman’s

Peep/Show
post-VIDA

New work by Laurie Price

Talking with Ryan Eckes

Caroline Bergvall’s Meddle English

3 poems by Ben Friedlander

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

at the Poetry Society
in London

William Carlos Williams:
new translations from the Spanish

The epic of
the great Lithuanian-American poet
is back in print

The making of Tender Buttons

Jeanette Winterson:
All I Know About Gertrude Stein

Stephen Ratcliffe’s trilogy:
Human / Nature
Remarks on Color / Sound
Temporality

Previously unpublished poems
by the Baroness
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Numerousness & its Discontents:
Peter Nicholls on
George Oppen & Lyn Hejinian

Dean Young’s new heart

Remembering Darrell Gray

Don Wentworth’s
Past All Traps

Pigrimage to the sources
of Javier Sicilia

Daisy Aldan’s A New Folder

Satu Kaikkonen:
from totems

In Syria, Ali Dirbak
arrested for reading poetry

Phil Whalen:
excerpts from Kyoto Notebooks

On Robert Duncan’s
The Opening of the Field

Duncan’s notes on Silliman’s “Opening”

The Flame is Ours:
The Letters of Stan Brakhage & Michael McClure
1961 – 1978

Javier Sicilia,
moving beyond words

Jerome McGann’s
Postmodern Poetries

Flarf turns 10

Geof Huth’s 365 Ltrs

Tom Beckett on Huth

Bahraini forces rape & kill
Ayat al-Ghermezi

China bars
Liao Yiwu from traveling

In Yemen,
a poet has his tongue cut off

A Mexican poet abandons poetry

The importance of writing in prison

Craig Santos Perez:
Why are white editors so mean?

Vietnam arrests award-winning publisher

Jerry Rothenberg on Khurbn

Publisher on trial in Turkey
for publishing William Burroughs

Joe Enzweiler has died

Kristin Prevallet
on Robert Kelly &
the need to say thanks

Finally,
the Poetry Center Digital Archive
is coming online

William Carlos Williams,
reading at the SF Museum of Art
May 19, 1955

Robert Creeley on anger
in the work of WCW

Marianne Moore
reading at the SF Museum of Art
October 10, 1957

Denise Levertov
reading for 80 minutes
at SF State
February 10, 1958

Robert Duncan
reading Opening of the Field
May 18 1959

Lisa Jarnot
on Robert Duncan’s
HD Book

Bob Perelman on Louis Zukofsky

The Ulysses of poetry

Hugh Kenner on Zukofsky,
the OED & more

A teaser for Anew,
Zukofsky’s shorter poems

Meet the Objectivists

Michelle Detorie’s
American Poetry House

Fresh Poems by the Dozen

Reports of my demise
are a wee bit premature,
don’t you think?

Ron Silliman:
A few short questions
about a very long long poem

Reading with Steve Farmer @ Moe’s
(for cards, see here)

The (post) avant-garde
that won’t go away

Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot

Armantrout’s “At Least”

Charles Bernstein’s My Way
as a free e-book

2 books by Lynn Behrendt

Behrendt’s petals, emblems

Julie Carr:
The Witch’s House: A Poetics

Doug Hall – Highway 50, Nevada #1, 1998

Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian:
The Wide Road

Lyn, Carla et al
at Belladonna’s Wide Road launch

Carla Harryman:
Cutting Corners
(a score)

Talking with Rae Armantrout

“Ambiguous pronouns are hot” –
Robert Archambeau on Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout:
“The language of the will to live”

Jean Day’s “Undersong”

Readings from The Grand Piano

Susan Howe
awarded the Bollingen Prize

A talk on the lyric
by Rae Armantrout
at the University of Chicago

Rae Armantrout reading

Remembering Akilah Oliver

To write as a woman
is political

The Critical Flame:
women & magazines

Fauzia Mughal
& the future of women’s poetry
in Pakistan

Elizabeth Bishop:
too much information

Tom Beckett on Lynn Behrendt

Geof Huth on Behrendt

Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
Drafts 77-95

Anis Shivani
on Michael McClure

McClure still rings true

Beat poet helped to create
the hippie movement

Congratulations to Jordan Davis
for becoming poetry editor of
The Nation

3 Jordan Davis reviews
of Ed Sanders (two) &
Tadeusz Rozewicz

A walking poem
against censorship

Dickinson’s dashes

And her statue

Eileen Myles:
Being Female

Katha Pollitt
on numbers trouble:
old news

The NY Times asks why

Annie Finch on the gender count

Where have women poets gone?

The hermeneutics of a woman’s body

2 new books from Susan Howe

Susan Howe / James Welling:
Frolic Architecture

Lauren Ireland:
4 poems

Cia Rinne’s
“radeverbrechen”