Photo by Keith Tuma
Mark Weiss’ introduction to
The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
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The drama of Jimmy Schuyler
9 unpublished poems by Schuyler
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Talking with Beverly Dahlen
(part one) (part two)
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Is Tim Gunn
the perfect literary critic?
(Stephen Burt tries to make it work)
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A profile of Keith Waldrop
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis
at Bard
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William Carlos Williams’ Poems (1910)
& other burnt books
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Rae Armantrout on NPR
Close-reading “New” from Versed
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Bob Perelman, Al Filreis & Ron Silliman
all talking with Robert Grenier
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Graham Foust:
Jack Spicer resisting print
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Small Press Traffic’s
lineup of events this fall
is the best I’ve seen in years
from any venue
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The Guardian
on Tao Lin’s
Shoplifting from American Apparrel:
“deliciously odd”
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Guess who authored
Karri Koko’s Next Work?
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Reliving the mimeo revolution
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H.D. & the image
An H.D. feature
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The case for including
flarf & conceptual poetry
in the next economic stimulus package
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Three cheers for The New Sentence
Which you can obtain right here
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This Thursday in Boca Raton,
Barrett Watten
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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore tale
involves 200 stores!!
How Waterstone’s killed bookselling
“We did not!”
Spoonbill & Sugartown turns ten
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Using nationalism to save a bookstore
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Jonathan Lethem’s own bookstore
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The publisher’s enemy
(hint: it’s not Jeff Bezos)
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A win for the stacks
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Why Chinua Achebe
is still the father of African fiction
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What does risk encompass in a poem?
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Even worse poetry jokes
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An obit for Donald Harington,
“Ozark Surrealist”
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Mahmoud Darwish’s translations live on
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“American Poetry after 1975” –
a special issue of boundary 2
edited by Charles Bernstein
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Beckett the tinkerer (part two)
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Mun Dok-su’s Postman
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Gina Myers’ A Model Year
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“Best books of 2009” –
the No Tell Motel lists
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“The 100 Books
That Defined the Noughties”
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Dennis Cooper,
talking & reading
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Terrance Hayes,
painter as well as poet
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Details of the (new) deal
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Fighting for
Carol Ann Duffy’s banned poem
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The Siegfried Sassoon Collection
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One more reason
not to trust
reader reviews
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Talking with Wu Ming,
sort of
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Wednesday at St. Marks:
Kit Robinson & Ted Greenwald
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Churchill, Hemingway, Burgess
flunk computerized exams
Dickens & Austen do no better
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Anne Bradstreet:
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
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The “dynamic turn”
in cognitive linguistics
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Talking with Graham Masterton
about William Burroughs
William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac
& the “gay panic” defense
Bill Burroughs & the history of junk
Norman Mailer & William Burroughs
The myths & manuscripts of
Naked Lunch
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Justice Kennedy (mis)interprets the passive
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John Taggart’s Unveil
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Poetry Review’s ahistorical history
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Stephen King’s
Under the Dome
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Russell Brand & Katy Perry
do Edward Lear
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Nabokov’s Laura:
From Humbert Humbert to Hubert Hubert?
Nabokov’s dream book
Martin Amis:
A genius in decline
A curiosity for the completist
The reviews pour in
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Little videos of
Jennifer Bartlett & Bill Kushner
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The Internet Archive
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The Acorn Book of Contemporary Haiku
& a haiku registry
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The Historical Thesaurus of English
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Good local newspapers are worth saving,
but not these
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Talking with Damion Searls
about Thoreau’s Journal
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Anger metaphors in English
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Talking with James Galvin
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The “essays” of Wallace Shawn
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Not Much Fun:
The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker
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Here comes Philcon
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Death masks of Keats, Blake, Dante,
& maybe Ben Johnson
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A new Paul Auster
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Revision & identity
in the early work of Joyce
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Opacity is not the problem
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A skeptic’s view
of Zukofsky’s “A”
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Paul Zukofsky,
meet Rupert Murdoch
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Carl Sandburg & John Crowe Ransom
in the Virginia Quarterly Review
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Soul-searching in Shakespeare
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How memoirs
overtook the literary world
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Reading James Dickey
on Veterans’ Day
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Provincetown poet
lands in Poets Corner
@ the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
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Gopi Warrier’s
Varaha – The Secret Evolution
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One Fast Move
& you’re a dreadful movie
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Talking with Jeanette Winterson
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Talking with James Ellroy
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The best book you never read:
a (consciously) conservative reading list
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Talking with Robert Pinsky
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Rethinking synonymy
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4 poets walking:
Fanny Howe @ Oxford
W.S. Di Piero in San Francisco
Kay Ryan in Marin County
Peter Cole in Jerusalem
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Truthout on GirlDrive
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Maya Angelou:
“Fine as wine in the summertime”
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Dave Eggers on Kurt Vonnegut
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A John Ashbery parody
that’s not quite as funny
as it thinks it is
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Jung at heart
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From Here to Eternity’s
gay storyline
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The most widely read woman in America
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The Matrix
as a Charlie Chaplin short
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Winnie-the-Pooh
goes to court
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Rudy Wurlitzer’s revival
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Judith Malina on
The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater,
1945-1985
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An improbable As You Like It
takes shape
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Anne Carson’s
Cassandra Float Can
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Tony Trehy explains all
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Cool Men in a Golden Age:
Alfred Leslie & Frank O’Hara
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Martha Buskirk’s
The Contingent Object
of Contemporary Art
(reg. req.)
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Same-sex couples
making marks as arts donors
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Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc
(reg. req.)
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The photography of Jonathan Williams
An amazing Jonathan Williams feature
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Damien Hirst:
“Anyone can be Rembrandt”
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Arthur Danto’s “The End of Art:
A Philosophical Defense”
(reg. req.)
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Isabel Rucker’s long, long memoir
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Why hasn’t Tracey Emin
crossed the big pond?
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The 11th International
Collage Exhibition & Exchange
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A party for the new Barnes
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Polish art on tour
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The painter of writers’ portraits
you already know
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Cornelius Cardew:
Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
(reg. req.)
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Beatles’ ©s down the legal rabbit hole
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Green Day to Broadway
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Why computer music sucks
(reg. req.)
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“thousands of shows
have curdled his voice
into a viscous, gut-shot croak”
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Scratch Orchestra scores
(reg. req.)
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Kris Kristofferson, poet?
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Rockpile comes to Chi-town,
Nov. 19
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Art D’Lugoff has died
& with him, The Village Gate
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The clues in Synecdoche, New York
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Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Philosophical Investigations
(reg. req.)
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Adam Savage on obsession
(yes, that Adam Savage)
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Remembering Roland Barthes
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Talking with Slavoj Žižek
Žižek on the fall of the wall
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Malcolm X was bisexual,
get over it
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Talking with Noam Chomsky
