The tribes of art

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11 new poems by
Linh Dinh

Nguyen Quoc Chanh
translated by Linh Dinh

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Grammar police
busted as vandals

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Nine poems
by Namdeo Dhasal

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Rain Taxi reviews
The Age of Huts (compleat)

One of my favorite early poems
(i.e. pre-Ketjak)
is now available on the web

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Recordings of readings by
Adeena Karasick, Jaap Blonk,
Gregory Betts & Gary Barwin

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Kenny Goldsmith’s “New York Trilogy”

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Tracie Morris down under

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Top ten endangered languages

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The most widely spoken
English dialect
in the world

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Forrest Gander:
”Homage to Translation”
plus
”A Clearing”

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Noah Eli Gordon
on 3 great chapbooks

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More by Geof Huth
on the cover of
The Alphabet

Geof visits SPD

Visiting Richard Lopez & Richard Hansen

Geof on 2 booksellers in Berkeley

“a strange netherworld
between work and art”

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The Daily Planet
agrees with Huth
about Berkeley bookstores

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The idea of artists
in a museum

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Sven Birkerts:
”Pensées”

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Rushdie wins apology

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Emily’s tryst

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Anne Waldman:
”Che Guevara Came to Me in a Dream”

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In Macedonia,
the 47^th Struga Poetry Nights

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One more reason
to avoid
contests that promise
to publish your book

Narratives of poetry publishing

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Claudio Magris’
”The Self that Writes”

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Moleskine vs. Rhodia Bloc

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Joshua Corey
teaches creative writing

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Norman Mailer:
werewolf autobiography

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Tim Gaze
has a perfect name
for a visual poet
(Noology)

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Hyphenated authorhood

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Talking with Kanwar Dinesh Singh

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Talking with Siri Hustvedt (MP3)

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Paul Auster’s bait & switch

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What is the least literary
place of all?

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School of Quietude Everywhere

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Mary Karr on Meghan O’Rourke

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What Darwish’s death tells us of Palestine

The view from Pakistan

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“50 perfekt German poets”

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Publishing & social networks

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Buffalo’s Cultural Walk
stubs its toe

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Book reading declines among college students

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What best sellers say of a nation

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Robert Burns & Michael Jackson
(yes, that Michael Jackson)

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Plumly’s Posthumous Keats
reviewed in The Economist

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Honoring Ed Lahey

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Justin Marks & Ana Bozicevic-Bowling

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A profile of Ibé Kaba

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Poets of the laboratories

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Chase Twitchell
on selling Ausable

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The return of Ulysses

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A Russian conductor
returns his native Osettia
to perform

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Pierre Boulez
at 83

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Tim Davis in Zurich

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T.J. Clark on Matisse

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Scrawl

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“Unmentionables”
hung out to dry

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Was Leger simply tossed?

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A tip of the hat to
Almost Island
for a terrific new issue

Portrait by / from J’s Theater

CAConrad interviews
Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Alan Gilbert on DuPlessis

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Artists’ Books Online
(a tremendous resource
from Johanna Drucker)

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Rae Armantrout’s
Collected Prose

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Periodizing Robert Creeley

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Watten, Kristeva & the ‘80s

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Lyn Hejinian’s
The Beginner

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Aesthetics & ethics in
the School of Quietude

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Bookstores in Berkeley

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Robert Pinsky
on Milton in America

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Geof Huth
on his work
on the cover of The Alphabet

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Poetry & the law

Is Radovan Karadzic’s poetry
evidence?

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Close reading
John Ashbery

John Ashbery on autobiography & language

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The PLO’s obit of Mahmoud Darwish

At Darwish’s funeral

A man of many homes

Honoring Darwish’s translator,
Fady Joudah

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Coney Island of the Mind
at 50
(note that the Guardian
actually tries to get the lines right)

City Lights at 55

Al Filreis on Ferlinghetti’s
”Baseball Canto”

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Louise Glück
looking for the perfect (German) word

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How many types of poetry are there?

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Postal poetics

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Linh Dinh on
poetry & Stalin

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Should books be rated
for age appropriateness?

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Bloggers blog on bloggers:
21 reviews of each others’ work

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Q&A with Kay Ryan

On chickens & comics

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Talking with Kamla Kapur

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A profile of Jan Steckel

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How should poets help one another?

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Kenneth Fearing & the future of journalism

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“Language is about ambiguity”

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Sex and the semi-colon

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The ePockyLips of Speling

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“50 Near-Perfect Books of
German Poetry”

The prose of Heinrich Heine

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Kafka’s papers

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Do you buy poetry?
(analysis) (raw data)

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On buying poetry &
on Landis Everson

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In Chicago, Transition Books closes

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How not to run a bookstore

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What should you do with all those books?

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On signing books

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Anthony Hecht:
Auden’s advice

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Coleman Barks in Iran

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Not so Scruffy after all

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A profile of John Toledo

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Paul Siegell’s Poemergency Room

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Poems etched in glass

Christopher Fritton’s My Fingernails are Fresnel Lenses

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The “digital” (free) textbook debate

But hard copy book costs just go up

& price fixing is back

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The Kindle controversy

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& then there’s Kapil Sibal,
writing books on his Blackberry

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Blogs vs. newspapers

6,311 jobs lost
in the nation’s 100 largest papers
in just the last year
(PDF)

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Texistence

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Kristi Maxwell’s Realm Sixty-Four

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W.S. Merwin:
meeting Ezra Pound

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The letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

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The “most beloved” author ever
in the United Kingdom

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A thumbnail tour
of ancient Chinese classics

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Audio of “faculty readings”
from this year’s
West Chester Poetry Conference

& from 2007

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Cowboy poets
come to Stony Plain

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A poet’s path
from Sierra Leone to Minnesota

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Poetry at the Big Chill

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Talking with D.C. Chambial

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Talking with Jackie Kay

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First Edwin Morgan Prize awarded

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A profile of Allison McVety

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What if Harvard’s English Department
had the same attitude
as its new theater director?

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What college freshmen do & don’t know

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Movies ruin novels --
here come Watchmen & On the Road

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A boxing movie
based on a poem

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Shakespeare & music

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Finishing Kubla Khan

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Music & language

Podcast on
music & the brain
(MP3)

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Solzhenitsyn & music

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Sampling & intellectual property
in Botswana

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Louis Zukofsky
& the Silver Jews?

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Archiving art & poetry online:
a panel discussion

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Post-literate:
asemic writing

One dozen asemic books
in PDF format

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Extreme collecting:
the Cone sisters of Baltimore

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CAPTCHA paintings

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Richard Serra:
Thinking on Your Feet

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LACMA lands Keinholz’
The Illegal Operation

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Photography in the age
of total surveillance

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Nic & Sloy:
life = art = poetry

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Donald Baechler on style
in Lower Manhattan

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Dance & the problem of genre

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Count this

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11 issues for the future
according to the
RAND Corporation

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Jerry Wexler has died

As has Manny Farber

The Positions Colloquium schedule

Mark Wallace on the significance
of the conference

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Remembering Lawrence Braithwaite

Family obit

Wikipedia

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Talking with Lydia Davis

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An underground classic of conceptual writing
finally is available to all:
Mark Peters’ Men (PDF)

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Larry Rivers & Frank O’Hara

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Haim Gouri remembers Mahmoud Darwish

The place of Mahmoud Darwish
(includes a last poem)

A second perspective

Darwish’s funeral

An award in Darwish’s name

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Seedi Mohammed Weld Bamba
is the Prince of Poets

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John Ashbery:
”Attabled with the Spinning Years”

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Belonging:
New Poetry by Iranians
Around the World

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Rodney Koeneke checks in
on poetry & technology

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“When did I start to ignore my elders?”

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Andy Gricevich on Michael Palmer’s Active Boundaries

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The BlazeVOX
raffle & bake sale!

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Blurb wars

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The value of a compact edition

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Listening to poems from PENNsound
whilst trekking thru France

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Jeffrey Beam
talking about & reading from
The Beautiful Tendons
(MP3)

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my Dear coUntess

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Martin Burke’s I Ching

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derek beaulieu on Jordon Scott’s blert

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Frank Ledwell has died

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Paul Martínez Pompa
is the winner of
the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

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Travis Nichols on SloPo

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Sous Rature

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White Heat –
Emily Dickinson & Thomas Higginson

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Polis is this:
writing & place

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Meetings with Improbable Danglers

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Remembering Gerald Burns

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Penchant –
a poetry collective
in Northfield, MN

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Parks & poetry

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New pages at the
Electronic Poetry Center
for
Donato Mancini
rob mclennan
Gustave Morin

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A library of (mostly) unread books

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A list of newsletters & blogs
focused on publishing

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Indexing as a form of visual art

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© & the problem of
private property

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Appeals court rules against family
in Steinbeck rights case

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“a fungus that’s seep into the marrow of
the Body Poetic”

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Steve McCaffery, Bob Perelman, Charles Bernstein:
What’s the Word?
(MP3)

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Howard Junker to retire

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Reginald Shepherd on Poetry & Criticism
(part 2) (part 3)

Plus a poem in this week’s Nation
(sub may be required)

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Bob Dylan’s book of poems

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Dylan Thomas’ wife’s diary
is for sale

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Dannie Abse:
writing through grief

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Cynthia Anderson
leaves Santa Barbara

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Talking with Sebastian Matthews

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Alan Cheuse on Doris Lessing

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Some eyebrow-raising quotations
from John Gardner’s
On Moral Fiction

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A salute to Ted Solotaroff

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Banjo Paterson poems
found in 109-year-old diary

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Kafka & porn?

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Matthew Cheney’s list of lists

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Mary Biddinger’s
“unwritten rules” for writing poetry

Deborah Ager’s

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The “worst writing of 2008” is …
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“a place in the line of distinguished
light-verse practitioners”

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Mary Karr on Philip Larkin

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Defending Robert Burns

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Robert Lowell
& the summer of too many poets

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Last lines

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A profile of Francis Wyndham

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Cyril Goffe –
the poet at 100

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Shklovsky, Barthes, James Wood?

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Barnes & Noble
will pass
on buying Borders
(sub required for full article)

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The uselessness
of the literary agent

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Should Germany unban Mein Kampf?

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How romantic
are today’s authors?

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Byron’s fan mail

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“kind of like
a beauty pageant”

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Alan Sokal
continues to harvest
his little mischief

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4 questions for arts education?

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Coming soon to Black Rock

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Theodore A Harris’ Our Flesh of Flames

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Should Iowa sell the Pollock?

The governor thinks not

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Losing money on Richard Serra

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Why are movies about
Andy Warhol
always so bad?

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Music geeks

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Replacing the B.A. with a test?