Showing posts with label Passings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passings. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2014




25 years after Tienanmen Square
Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Michele Leggott
David McFadden
on trying to carry on as a writer
with Alzheimer’s
A woman reviews Patricia Lockwood
Resisting tropes:
on poetry, masochism &
domestic violence
Martón Koppány
on the 4th international
Text Festival
21st Century poetry written in 1964
by Frank O’Hara
David Trinidad:
10 cherished books

Monday, June 02, 2014



Ilham Tohti:
My Ideas & the Career Path I Have Chosen
Tohti’s daughter testifies
before Congress
Natasha Trethewey
concludes her term as PLOTUS
The Dark Room Collective:
where black poetry took wing
Alan Gilbert on Peter Gizzi
My problem with VIDA
Jessica Smith on Susan Howe
Literature is supposed to be
a “
trigger
Why we won’t use trigger warnings
Trigger warnings
& the novelist’s mind
On bullying:
Isla Vista,
Seth Abramson
& social media
When your own publisher
repudiates you
Kit Robinson:
5 new poems
Olson @ the repair shop

Monday, April 28, 2014

The widening gender gap
in contemporary American poetry
Camille Rankine:
What We Write About when We Write About
A National Book Award longlist
as if it weren’t reserved
strictly for the big trade presses
Stephen Burt’s spring & all
A real life poetry top ten
From the intro to Ray Johnson’s
Not Nothing
Some reviews of Paper Snake
From Kevin Killian’s “A Ray Johnson Story”
Ray Johnson & snakes
Making Modernism:
Literature & Culture in 20th-C. Chicago
Tim Liu on Brenda Coultas

Monday, April 21, 2014



 Emily Dickinson
pushing the envelope
Poems on surveillance
by Ashbery, Armantrout, Bernstein, King, Pinsky
et al
Talking with Rae Armantrout
Amy King:
I want my poetry & I want to eat too
Charles Bernstein:
The 12 Tribes of Dr. Lacan
Anselm Berrigan’s
serious linebreaks
Stacy Szymaszek on Paul Blackburn
Camille Dungy
on Jake Adam York,
& on poetry & football
Poetry from the catbird seat:
Don Share
Talking with Wayne Koestenbaum
Richard Blanco
& the problem of accessibility

Friday, February 28, 2014


Women feel less comfortable
in their literary communities
Pussy Riot members re-arrested in Sochi
A profile of Lukáš Tomin
“the René Crevel of post-communist Prague”
Amy King, Tom Pickard
& Julia Bloch
close read Basil Bunting’s
reading of Walt Whitman’s
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Bunting’s Persian Poems
Cedar Sigo on Bob Kaufman
Steve Benson:
Notes on Revision & Evasion
Tyrone Williams,
Thom Donovan & Patrick Durgin
discuss Steve Benson’s
Did the Lights Just Go Out?
Seth Abramson’s
wide-ranging selection of reviews
in HuffPo for the AWP
(full disclosure: I’m included)
Elizabeth Bryant: Residuum
Adam Plunkett on Denise Levertov
Barrett Watten:
Boycott Language & Poetics Diplomacy
(note: these are 3 posts)

Monday, February 03, 2014



Binyavanga Wainaina
comes
out
to challenge Kenya’s
anti-gay laws
Barrett Watten:
My Presentism
2014:
The Year of Reading Women
2 new poems by Sappho
Frank Sherlock
is Philadelphia’s
second poet laureate
What will your verse be?
Apple hijacks
poetry
to  hawk iPads
Poetry vs. prose argument
leads to stabbing death
in Russia
Penelope Creeley:
Robert Creeley & his books
Robert Creeley’s
home movies
For Love:
Robert Creeley’s The Warning
Interviewing Hank Lazer
from the perspective of
Chinese poetry
Robert Duncan, Jess
& their wonderland of art

Thursday, January 02, 2014



Talking with Alice Notley
Notley’s collage fans
Aram Saroyan:
Notes at 70
Younger women
are changing poetry
Joanna Fuhrman & Toni Simon:
The Ruler of Rusted Knees
Lisa Cattrone:
Trash Theory
Anne Tardos:
More than 9 Nines
Peter O’Leary on Márton Koppány
Don Share’s list
of memorable poetry from 2013
in the Boston Globe
Rob Halpern:
from Hocus Pocus
Reb Livingston: from Bombyonder
Talking with CAConrad
CAConrad: Suspension Fluid Magnificence
John Ashbery & the arts
Amiri Baraka hospitalized
Norma Cole:
Unforgettable Trash
Should Ezra Pound be shot?
Closing the word gap
between rich & poor