Direct by radio from Mars:
11 new poems & letters by Jack Spicer
(intro by Kevin Killian & Peter Gizzi)
here, here, here, here, here, here & here
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Barrett Watten on the Poetry of the 1970s,
the Orono conference &
the structures of history
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Reviews by Alan Davies, of
Fritz Peters’ Boyhood with Gurdjieff,
Carla Harryman’s Open Box,
Kristin Prevallet’s Shadow Evidence Intelligence,
Leslie Scalapino’s “Can’t” is “Night”
& my own The Age of Huts (compleat)
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Sameness vs. Otherness in American poetry:
Robert Archambeau does his Rodney King speech
in the face of history
Archambeau on Bad Ron vs. Good Ron
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“The pleasure of this book
is that it’s a slow read”
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al purdy’s home is for sale
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Lyn Hejinian’s Saga / Circus
is about to appear
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Is Elizabeth Bishop
a Canadian poet?
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Tagore’s voice
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Egyptian star Angham
appears on Prince of Poets
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Sitting with Fire
(Tassajara fire blog)
The Henry Miller Library’s
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Flood update on Iowa museums
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Haki Madhubuti on meeting Gwendolyn Brooks
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Mike Begnal on the Selected Zukofsky
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L’affaire faux FOH
Andrew Epstein’s letter on
”Finding ‘Finding Leroi a Lawyer’”
Tony Towle’s letter
Andrew Epstein’s reply to Tony Towle
Bill Berkson’s letter
Kent Johnson’s “true account”
Further thoughts by Epstein & John Latta
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Tim Atkins on Araki in the
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Steve Dalachinsky,
jazz poet for the 21st century
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Contemporary poetry:
schizophrenia vs. aphasia
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In its first 32 issues,
Shampoo
has had 717 contributors
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Gary Sullivan on art & consumption
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Talking with
In
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Joe Hutchison
takes exception to my note
of last Saturday
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Marjorie Perloff on
the clichés of Auggie Kleinzahler
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Vincent Ferrini’s last works
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Literary Tats, I kid you not
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Geoffrey Gatza reading on the rooftop
(with video)
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The MFA weblog
announces the forthcoming
program at UCSD
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A South African blog
with a sharp focus
on William Carlos Williams
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Preparing for a poetry fest
in Jerusalem
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How is the net changing style?
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David Orr on poetry & politics
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Karen Houle’s During
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A critical biography of Ruth Pitter
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Copyediting jobs are the latest
to be outsourced to
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In the culture wars,
do facts matter?
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An article on poetry & cities
that’s reasonably fact free
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National Review reporter
attends poetry reading
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Timothy Kelly’s The Extemities
Not to be confused with
Rae Armantrout’s classic collection
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Alan Wearne
on the cultural scene
in
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Edward Byrnes lists his blog’s
12 most popular reviews
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Robert Glück:
I Boombox
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Scroll down here
to read about
the pigeon poetry championship
in
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A profile of Guyanese novelist
Edgar Austen Mittelholzer
(& part 2)
Before Naipul & Walcott
there was Mittelholzer
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A three-hour video conversation with Katha Pollitt
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Funny dude: Salman Rushdie
The key: literary tourism
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Shakespeare first folio recovered
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Eleanor Wilner on Howard Nemerov
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“the greatest American novel … about marriage”
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Marjorie Perloff on Guy Davenport
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Keeping literature alive in Baghdad
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John Donlan & Louise Bernice Halfe
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In
books & borders
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Homer is where the heart is
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“The girl with colitis goes by”
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“critics resent poets who are understandable”
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Talking with Tom Daley
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Talking, for 3 hours, with Alice Walker
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A good report on
the Warwick Writers’ Circle
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Chick Lit cover trend: headless women
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“the short and brutal careers”
in the humanities today
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Jacob Bennett on low-residency MFAs
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Are books on the brink?
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Today’s death-of-a-bookstore piece
is more like suspended animation
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Can newspapers survive?
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The book business bible on
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de Chirico and poetry
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Leah Garchik, Paule Anglim & Michael McClure on Bruce Conner
Kenneth Baker on Conner’s work & wit
LA Times obit for Bruce Conner
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Dutch cartoonist arrested
for “offensive” work
(may require sub)
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Music has its own
And it’s just as off-key
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If they use your music for torture,
do they owe you a fee?
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George Lewis: Improvised Music after 1950 (PDF)
George Lewis’ history of the AACM
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Die Soldaten in
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In Chicago, the blues is dying
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Richard Brody’s Godard bio:
Everything is Cinema
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The “long tail” debate
