Li Bifeng in 1993 (center, front row)

In PRC, Li Bifeng gets 12-year jail term

Texting in difficult city

Chris Tysh on Alice Notley

Segue @ 35

Robin Tremblay-McGaw on recent readings in SF

Translation as facticity

Translation & revolt

Rachel Blau DuPlessis:
Draft 112: Verge

In memory of Anne-Marie Albiach

Ian Hamilton Finlay: avant-gardener

NY Times obit for Jack Gilbert

American Women’s
Experimental Poetics

This year’s Thanksgiving poetry extravaganza
from BlazeVOX
will honor Bill Berkson

Carla Harryman:
Notes on Poets Theater

Talking with Bruce Andrews

A new poem from Tracie Morris

Qatar urged to free Mohammed al-Ajami

Maria Damon on Lew Welch

Fanny Howe: Second Childhood

Barrett Watten: Dream of a Post-Soviet MLA

 

Tony Lopez: Weymouth Sands

Beverly Dahlen: 2 poems

When Vispo was young: bpNichol’s computer poems of 1984

Arseny Tarkovsky: 3 poems

Cheyenne Nimes: Index & Rest Stop

GOP targets little magazines as “government waste”

25 little mag twitter feeds to follow

Poetry turns 100

Tyrus Miller on Jackson Mac Low’s The Pronouns

Erín Moure: Translation is a performance

Poets, artists honor Al-Mutanabbi Street

Corina Copp on The Electrocution of Ruth Snyder

Poetry is dead, I killed it
(warning: may cause ennui)

Well, no, academics did

Vanessa Place will buy your soul

Luis Enrique Gutierrez Ortiz Monasterio (“LEGOM”) needs a kidney

Mo Yan wins the Nobel Prize

Li Changchun congratulates Mo

A delicate dance with Chinese authorities

Mo Yan calls for Liu Xiaobo’s freedom

Talking with Sabina Knight about Mo Yan

Baghdad bookmart bulldozed by dawn raid

Zukofsky’s integral

Anselm Berrigan: Sure Shot & other poems

Hank Lazer’s intro to the essays & interviews of Harryette Mullen

Talking with Vanessa Place

Rejectees of The New American Poetry

One question: who is David Lyttle?

Duncan unbound

Robert Kelly & contemporary American poetry

Boston loses Bill Corbett

Furor over shutting down UNO press draws national attention

Susan M Schultz
edits a feature on writing & dementia

Pussy Riot is found guilty of hooliganism

Syrian sculptor Wael Kaston killed by torture

U of New Orleans sacks Bill Lavender,
potentially shutting down press & low-rez MFA program

The Bowery Poetry Club closes

Robin Tremblay-McGaw on the Poetry of the 80’s Conference

Close-reading aloud: Charles Reznikoff

Talking with our favorite marsupial, CAConrad

Steve Benson & Suzanne Stein are performing LiveChats

Marjorie Perloff on Wittgenstein, modernism & Christianity

Modernism, Christianity & Apocalypse

Talking with Eileen Myles

Remembering Lew Welch

On the Bro’d

The Life of Alden Van Buskirk

Jordon Davis on Spring and All

The Bowery Poetry Club to close

The influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde

Is Leonard Cohen’s poetry a form of sexual harassment?

Poetry, immigration & the FBI

Here come the Poetry Police

Laura Hinton’s report on the 80’s conference in Orono

Judith Goldman on non-retinal literature

The love letters of Emily Dickinson

Jennifer Chang: How to read a prophecy

Tony Trehy: Curating the Text Festival

Translating Russian poetry

Book burning: fan fiction

Barry Schwabsky on the return of Denise Riley

Talking with Sina Queyras

Queyras: the ethics of the negative review

How international is poetry?

Tim Yu makes the case for Asian-American poetry

Harryette Mullen wins the Stephen Henderson Award

Otherstream poetics

The academisation of the avant-garde

Anne Gorrick: Text Event with Fire 2

Heaps of language but even more amnesia

A new poetry barn in Maryland

The Etherdome anthology

CWILA: Women in Canadian lit mags – the numbers

Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman:
Memorial Day

The Paris Review & the CIA

Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘The University Poem’

Shakespeare in Indian prisons

10 feminist poets you should know

Naomi Shihab Nye’s Transfer

A good ‘taste’ of moi

Wanda Coleman, Lewis MacAdams & the rhythms of LA

Joe Safdie on Lewis MacAdams

Talking with Gary Snyder

Lev Rubinstein leads a writers’ march in Moscow

Rubinstein: The cosmonauts have landed

Ilya Kutik’s Dreams—the--Interlinears

A tribute to Andrey Voznesensky

Rachel Blau DuPlessis after Drafts

Talking with César Vallejo

Setting Stein’s wartime record straight

Why Afghan women risk death to write poetry

Poetry of the Taliban

The BlazeVOX heritage: self & sponsored publishing from Emily & Walt to James Merrill & Louis Simpson

KickStart 100,000 Poets for Change

Talking with Geoffrey Gatza
about the NEA assault
on small presses

Ai Weiwei:
censorship
cannot defeat the internet

Ai Weiwei’s
streaming video site
gets shut down

On the death of Guillermo Fernández

Free Abdulelah Shaye

Afaa M Weaver:
8 questions for African-American poetry