Some great photos of William Carlos Williams
in Yale’s Beinecke collection
are coming online
Robert Grenier, Charles Bernstein, Bob Perelman & Al Filreis
close reading William Carlos Williams
Larry Eigner & the news
Eigner’s sensibility
Jill Magi: Notes for Labor
Talking with Susan Howe
Poetry reviews: What’s the point?
In which I am lumped together with William Logan
“Ron Silliman is definitely a nerd”
CFP: The Alphabet – a symposium on the poem
The gothic castle that is the new HQ for the Poetry Foundation
Talking with Geoffrey Gatza
Aimé Césaire’s “Mississippi”
Peter Porter’s Better than God
CA Conrad: Poetry in commotion
In Ashbery’s attic
May 1st @ St. Marks in NYC,
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror for 6 voices
The trill is gone
“The truth is that poetry gets
way more coverage
than any other art…”
Wired on Christian Bök
Bök & the Butthole Surfers
Talking with Gerard Malanga
(part two) (part three)
Gerard Malanga at Pierre Menard
Gurlesque: What it isn’t
A Room of One’s Own
turns 35
“Dover Beach” & Anthony Hecht
Talking with Alice Walker
Jonathan Lethem: “Crazy Friend”
Philip Whalen & the great printers
Talking with Pierre Joris
Edith Grossman: Quixotic
& in Vancouver
Kōji Yasui, translated by Eric Selland
California Book Award nominations:
Rachel Loden & 4 quietists
Rachel Loden’s Hotel Imperium
Anthology of Russian Minimalist & Miniature Poems:
Part I, The Silver Age
Epigraphs will kick your butt
Marie Ponsot:
“70 is great, but 80 is terrific”
Cognitive theory in literature
“creativity may reside
on a continuum with psychopathology”
Reciting your own poems is for supernerds,
or the worst project of my life
Don’t loiter in paradise.
Moonstone Marathon:
14th annual Poetry Ink reading in Philadelphia, April 11
140 poets reading!
Alice Oswald wins the Ted Hughes prize
The archives of
The Joe Milford Poetry Show
is an impressive collection of audio casts
Marjorie Perloff picks Road Runner’s Scorpion Prize
Carl Adamshick has won the Walt Whitman Award
Talking with Marilyn Nelson
Canadian poets with far-away roots
More on Cyril Dabydeen
Montgomery County (PA)’s poet laureate
is Grant Clauser
Talking with Dorothea Grossman
The healing power of Jane Austen
Talking with Brad Liening
Another Poultry Month torment
Poetry Super Highway’s
6th annual
E-book Free-for-All
The influence of Lycidas
Minding: Feeling, Form & Meaning
in the Creation of Poetic Iconicity
The prophetic Delmore Schwartz
New ebooks from
Tom Clark, Annie Finch & Jack Foley
@ the Ahadada ebook site
Nick Montfort on
the University of North Dakota Writers Conference
“It’s not your grandmother’s poetry”
Your grandmother’s poetry
is exactly what you’ll find on PBS
Helen Dunmore wins National Poetry Competition
Talking with Celia Gilbert
Vonnegut library gets a home
Elsewhere in Indiana,
samplings from the Mid-East
A big Don DeLillo sale
Telling a book by its cover
when ebooks don’t have one
Apple iPad has Amazon & B&N at its mercy
Apple tells publishers how much to charge
Is Amazon a bully?
Penguin & Amazon: no deal
David Pogue on the iPad
Self-published ebooks
to make it to the iPad
What this article on the value of
print on demand vs. e-books
doesn’t tell you is how much store space
Paige M. Gutenborg takes up – it’s huge!
YouTube’s response to the © fight
Cecil Touchon:
vispo in Fort Worth
A history of blue
Who will save the arts in Detroit?
Pennsylvania Arts Advocacy Rally, April 26
Looking for Nicole Peyrafitte in Trump Tower
Remembering Running Fence
(slide show)
2 views of Twyla Tharp
Dirk Bogarde Season
Jean-Luc Nancy on Faust
Allen Ginsberg vs. Spalding Gray
Talking with Marty Erlich
William Schuman, American muse
Talking with Laurie Anderson
Tom Clark’s Jim Carroll
Another rocker turns to poetry
(Thank you, thank you, thank you)
Sam Sadigursky on The Words Project
Derrida: “Waging war against myself”
E.M. Cioran & the blessings of insomnia
Gay men in history,
day by day
