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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Neal Cassady’s family
has created a website
in his honor

The new Origin
can be downloaded
as a PDF file
here

Includes
Andrew Schelling / Gail Sher,
Howard McCord, Ethan Paquin,
Brooks Johnson, Hettie Jones,
Clive Faust, Michael Rothenberg,
Duncan McNaughton, Carol Bergé,
Mikhail Horowitz, Kirpal Gordon,
Patricia Smith, Bobby Byrd,
Lisa Jarnot / Robert Duncan,
Joseph Massey, Cid Corman,
Barbara Moraff, Eliot Katz,
Andy Clausen, Ira Cohen,
Brenda Iijima, Sam Hamill,
Albert Saijo, Will Petersen,
Gary Snyder, Daisy Zamora,
Edward Sanders, Ron Padgett,
David Shapiro, Kent Johnson
& much more

Olson’s legacy in Buffalo
(by Mike Kelleher)

Fully Awake:
Experiencing Black Mountain College
(a profile of the new documentary
and more)

A poetry auction
to benefit
Frank Sherlock

A profile of rob mclennan

Edmonton poets
extend their reach
through podcasts

“Much of the most
successfully daring postwar fiction
has been by writers committed to
the long dramatic sentence….”

A classic response
to
National Poetry Month

And another

In Chicago,
Women & Children First
(a bookstore)
is on the brink

Why indies might not matter:
except for Eshleman’s Vallejo,
this “top ten list”
mostly shows
indie store owners
to be dismal readers

Shakespeare’s
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
in D.C.
and in Cambridge, MA

Hello, Silence, my old friend

Librarians vs. the “Patriot” Act

Teaching
the other
writing

English is no longer
the first language
of blogging
(& other aspects
of the web)

(side note:
Technorati tracks 70 million blogs
& ranks this one 7,119
in terms of the number
of blogs that link to it
-- which put this blog
into the top
0.0001
percent of all blogs)

A celebration of
Farid al-Din Attar,
Iranian master poet
of the 12^th century

Aaron Belz
reviews
Jayne O. Wayne

and
the ten Jens

Sonnet L’Abbé & Kenneth Sherman
reviewed

Profile of Julia O’Connor,
the very active poet laureate
of Sacramento

Missing Nikki Giovanni

Rafael Campo
posed
as the Anti-Pound

Natasha Trethewey
has won
the Pulitzer Prize
for poetry

The shortlist also included
Martín Espada
& David Wojahn

Houghton Mifflin
W.W. Norton
& U. of Pittsburgh Press
respectively

Nominating jurors
for poetry
included
Cynthia Huntington
Rafael Campo
(the Anti-Pound)
& Claudia Emerson

While Ornette Coleman
won for
music

(with a special citation
awarded to John Coltrane)

John Leonard
on
Kurt Vonnegut

A Vonnegut piece online

And another

“Thank you for being a cow.”

Carlin Romano
on
Kurt Vonnegut

“A rather daft
and kind old man”

This text,
”Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal”
by Naomi Shihab Nye
has become a blog & listserv
sensation in the last few weeks
with some reason

(I’ve seen it several times,
never with the same
formatting twice)

Far more treacly
sentimentality
from Nye

Banning Kaffir Boy

Reading Gillian Allnut

The LA Times guide to poetry
& confessionalism:

The Amputee’s Guide to Sex
really is the title
to a book of poetry

As is My Body

William Pritchard
on Lowell’s Selected

A profile of Carolyn Forché

A Joyce scholar
is the new president
of Sarah Lawrence

The art of binding books

The latest in reading fads

Wordsworth rap

And a perspective thereon

James Fenton
on Elizabeth Bishop’s
”The Unbeliever”

The poetry of Kingsley Amis

Tony Harrison
on the joy of rhyme

Attacking Craig Raine’s Eliot
from the right

“that faintly alarming figure,
the happy poet”

Frieda Hughes
on Auden

Privilege still prevails
at Yale

The end of Tonic

The influence
of black Americans

Kenneth Baker
on
Sol LeWitt

The view from Chelsea

Great painters from the neck down

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Talking collage
with John Ashbery

Patchen Fest!

A great little note
on the origins
of the
School o’ Quietude
from Andover, NH

A profile of Artie Gold,
the late, great
Anglophone poet of Montreal

Talking
Noah
Eli
Gordon

“away with buttons lips underwater”

Noah Eli Gordon
on
Clark Coolidge’s
Bond Sonnets

You can find
Bond Sonnets
online here

Chris McCreary on Graham Foust

Mark Scroggins & John Latta
on
The Grand Piano

Talking with
Martín Espada

Same national poetry month,
different nation

A celebration of the centennial of
Parvin E’tesami,
a major woman poet
from Iran

My reign is done
& you can now
nominate
The Poet Laureate
of the Blogosphere 2007
here

Jilly Dybka & I,
as previous winners,
are not eligible

The Poet Laureate
of New Bedford, MA

An omnibus review
that covers
all the bases –
Michael O’Brien, Franz Wright,
Charles North, Elaine Equi
& more –
by William Corbett

Stephen Burt
on
The Imaginary Poets

A review of
Pam Rehm & Michael O’Brien

“While Ochester
is proud of the poets he's published,
he's not about to anoint any
of them as being
for the ages”

The eco-poetics of
Helen Dunmore

"it's a metaphor, you know,
it's not literally a novel about poets.
It's about poetic temperament in the world.
It's romantic.
It's about young idealists
coming up against
corruption and tragedy."

It came from Helvetica

A profile of
Erica Funkhouser,
one of the new
Guggenheim Fellows

Funkhouser’s PBS moment

Another Cody’s
bites the dust

In Atlanta,
the aptly named
Chapter 11
goes from 16 bookstores
to just one

Putting Baudelaire
into iambic pentameter

Ada Limón’s
big verse narrative

Brad Leithauser
on the social functions
of poetry,
1880-1950

Cat sells autobiography
for $1.25 million

Just getting to an open reading
can be an event

BillyBlog
(aka Bill Cohen)
has a big collection
of mostly signed
Poetry-in-Motion posters
& is running one a day
for the month of April

(click on them
to see versions
large enough to read)