Silliman's Blog: links

Now I must tag 5 others
who likewise
inspire me
with what they write
& how they focus
their blogwork:

Eileen Tabios,
who is creating a new literary audience
in part through her blog,
& for translating kari edwards
into Ilokano

Zoe Strauss
for never blinking
at what she sees

Mark Scroggins,
a scrupulous literary scholar
who doesn’t take short cuts
even in his blog

Stephen Burt
& Jessica Bennett,
for their integration
of literature & life
(tho basketball is neither)

&
Geof Huth
for using the form
to create
a critical language
for vispo

“’to be a writer of contemporary verse,
there’s really no place better
than Minnesota,’ says Stephen Burt.”

You need to get to the sidebar
to find out about
the job
at Harvard

The Lettrist

Art of the blurb

Once
they took E.A. Robinson
seriously

Poetry and bread
in New Haven

Another Irish poet
beloved
by the School of Quietude

Who needs more
of the novel?

Another poet
at Virginia Tech

Palestinian poet
Taha Muhammad Ali

A biography of
e.e. cummings

Audios from the past
alas

One more review
of Bill & Sam

Ooga-Booga
finally
wins a prize

At 31,
Meghan O’Rourke
has graduated from Yale,
worked for The New Yorker,
become culture editor of Slate
& poetry editor of
The Paris Review

O’Rourke’s first book
(from FSG)
is reviewed in the
New York Times

Donald Hall
on
All Things Considered

Writers workshop
sounds alarm

Cruising for culture
with Lincoln Kirstein

The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema
(Slavoj Zizek of course)

Check out
the reading list

About to become
the top-grossing
visual artist
of all time

Emotion’s role
in thought

All the news that’s fit to spin:
”BAGHDAD, May 2 – The Bush administration
is planning to withdraw
most United States combat forces
from Iraq over the next several months
and wants to shrink the American military presence
to less than two divisions by the fall,
senior allied officials said today.”
New York Times article
by Michael R. Gordon & Eric Schmitt
May 2, 2003

Saturday, April 28, 2007

How your eyes
move about
the screen
(implications for page layout)

Robert Pinsky:
“In Praise of Difficult Poetry”

(an example of
”the difficult”
being Kenneth Koch)

Number 40
on the list of
50 Bullsh**t Jobs:
Poet

Nate Mackey
has won
the Northern California Book Award
for poetry
for 2007,
an award notable
for the strength of the competition

Other recipients included
two books by Ko Un
receiving the translation award,
a special citation to Maxine Hong Kingston
& the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award
going to Andrew Hoyem

Who sits
on the Pulitzer board?

The winnowing of
book review supplements

An argument for saving
the book supplement sections
of American newspapers…
coming from Britain

Three articles
on the poetry of
Kaiser Haq,
English-language poet
from Bangladesh

The likes & dislikes
of Brendan Lorber

The role of poetry:
the view from Morris County, NJ

Poetry
on the streets
of New Haven

Kazim Ali’s
experience of racism
at Shippensburg State
as seen by an alum

“Call me Zits”:
the latest novel
from Sherman Alexie

“I’m with you in Rockland”

This season’s
Shakespeare books

“the mythic resonance
and grim sense of inexorable fate
found in Greek tragedy”

What books won’t tell you
about a person

Exploring 811.08

A profile of
John Cooper Clarke

Bemoaning
the decline of rhyme
in American poetry

Modern Times Bookstore
has won
the Bay Guardian
2007 Community Institution
Award

The success
of Philip K. Dick

The most important development
in globalization
in a couple of years

Thugs
at the theater

See step 3 of
”Fascist America
in 10 Easy Steps”

The Afro-rhythms
of George W. Bush

William Burroughs
has dinner at Chez Warhol

Is Donald Lipski
the most popular artist
in America?

A review of the recent
Wallace Berman & His Circle
show in New York

Rebuilding The Wall
in SoHo

The rise of
the atelier
in Seattle

Some kind words
about yours truly
from
rob mclennan

Sunday, April 22, 2007

John Chamberlain
at 80

Pianist
Andrew Hill
has died

All
of Ezra Pound’s
recorded poetry
downloadable
on MP3s

Avant-gardener

Can this really be
the first anthology
devoted entirely
to poems
about Brooklyn?

Why literary awards can be useful

But when they don’t work:

Of the 1,006 words
Washington Post writer
Bob Thompson
uses to discuss
the “non-journalism” Pulitzers
awarded last week,
exactly 9
are devoted to poetry

Scott Timberg
of the LA Times
devotes
even fewer –
8 out of 692,
the first of which is
and

Jeffrey Burke
of Bloomberg News
devotes 51 words
from his allotment of
679

And when prizes do work:

More on the Pulitzer
for Ornette Coleman

Knopf took away
three Pulitzers

On the process
& politics
of the
Pulitzer for drama

§

30 years
of the Pushcart

The London Book Fair
&
the art of the deal

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel,
”the Okie poet,”
has died

Talking with
Sonia Sanchez

Talking with
Michael Ondaatje

Anny Ballardini’s
extensive
Poet’s Corner