Why is Gertrude Stein so important?

Juliana Spahr on Gurlesque

Rebecca Loudon: from Queer Wing-ed

Nicole Brossard’s Selections

Remembering Leslie Scalapino:
Laura Hinton
Ann Bogle
Cynthia Hogue

The death & life of the book review

Poets respond to the BP disaster

Ana Božičević’s Stars of the Night Commute

Richard Deming on Charles Bernstein

Talking with Charles Bernstein

Michael Cross on Norma Cole

Completely mangling William Carlos Williams?
There’s an app for that

Eileen Myles on CA Conrad

Bill Pearlman on Rae Armantrout

Stan Apps:
Notes on the value of recuperating language poetry

Language poetry & normativity

So?

Who’s that on the cover of Poetry this month?

Iamb What Iamb

After decades as one of Chicago’s signature poets,
Paul Hoover finally appears in Poetry

Area Sneaks’ Visual Poetry Forum

Talking with Bevery Dahlen

Bev Dahlen & the Writing of the Real

“the different body”
& “the ideal landscape
from which to write a poetry that is
broken, disjointed or fragmented”

Ange Mlinko: my poetry illiberalism

“The American Peacock”

Lara Glenum:
Welcome to the Gurlesque

Abigail Child:
Form & Content

Lynn Behrendt:
For Leslie Scalapino

SPD remembers Leslie Scalapino

NY Times obit of Andrei Voznesensky

Talking with Rae Armantrout
(check the audio!)

Armantrout on PBS Newshour’s “Artbeat”

Radio Rae Armantrout: On Point

A critique of Tom Ashbrook’s
On Point interview of Armantrout

A more charitable reaction to the same interview

John Gallaher on Chiasson’s Armantrout

Chiasson’s Lydia Davis

Christopher Reiner on Armantrout’s Pulitzer

B&N’s bookclub blog on Armantrout

An Armantrout resource guide for writers

Armantrout is just one
of the poets announced
for the 2011 US Poets in Mexico confab

Jeet Thayil’s “landmark anthology”
60 Indian Poets

Deaf American Poetry: An Athology

Endi Bogue Hartigan:
new poems

Marcella Durand, Jessica Lowenthal,
Jennifer Scappettone & Al Filreis
read Howe’s Dickinson

Albert Huffstickler: the way of art

Clayton Eshleman’s Anticline

“Ron Silliman Rocks”
(the real story is here)

The Tolerance Project

Susan Gevirtz & Eileen Tabios

Gevirtz’ “Orion”

Joanne Kyger’s notational noetics

Erica Hunt’s oppositional poetics

Feminist sentences

Interviewing Rae Armantrout

Dan Chiasson’s “goosechase of supposition”

John Latta on Chiasson’s
“post-trajectory hooey coming unstuck”

The Jim Brodey buried manuscript myth

Jim Brodey’s “Jack Kerouac”

Charles Olson
& the Nature of Destructive Humanism

Ray DiPalma & Michael Lally
@ the Poetry Project

Lally’s take on the same reading

Jerome Sala on Michael Lally

6 months after brain surgery

Nick Piombino at the Zinc Bar

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino
talks with Piombino

John Olson on
Alvaro Cordona-Hine & George Kalamaras

Aram Saroyan recalls the 1960s

Rae Armantrout’s
“uniquely broken heart”

“Who is Rae Armantrout?”

Armantrout’s questions

“But what about the nipples?”
Blake Butler, Roxane Gay, Kate Zambreno & Amy King
on gender, publishing & more
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

A conversation with Kathy Acker
(reg. req.)

Brontë Sister Power Doll Action Figures

When you’re lost in the rain in Juárez

Sina Queyras unleashed

Talking with Marguerite Abouet

Smothering your mother with treacle

Marjorie Evasco’s Skin of Water

Charles Bernstein in Banff
(part 1) (part 2)

Rob Wilson on C.S. Perez

Official Catalog
of the Library of Potential Literature

Unrealized futures

Theory, literature, hoax
(Yes, this appeared in the NY Times in 2010!)

10 questions on poets & technology:
Amy King

Notes on 8 years of book blogging

Talking C. Max Magee

Google makes you stupid

Does Google’s book deal violate treaties?

Amazon to drop freebies
from Kindle “best seller” list

Talking with Saadi Youssef

Poets under 30 go MIA
(In fairness, the group reading of Ashbery’s “Europe”
& a reading by Kate Durbin & Cara Benson
were at the same time, no??)

Why are university presses so good for poetry?

Harriet’s move from blog
to aggregation
is a mistake

Ted Enslin’s I, Benjamin

Troy Jollimore on Gary Snyder

The Berks County Boys

100,000 rare books lost
in Oregon bookstore fire

Willits loses Leaves of Grass

The specialty bookshops of Cambridge, MA

The 2010 UCLA Campbell
Book Collecting Award

Chairs & poetry

Don Share & Paul Vangelisti
on the “uneven distribution of the future”

“Does poetry matter?”

Jimmy Schuyler on Frank O’Hara

Jennifer Karmin’s “Aaaaaaaaaaalice”

A writers-in-residence program
that actually matters
& a journal to go with it

rob mclennan: “Alberta, Redux”

Norman Finkelstein on Burt Kimmelman

The Franz Wright critique of the MFA generations

Ralph Ellison’s Three Days After the Shooting

Marilyn Hacker’s “A Braid of Garlic”

A call to end Canada’s barrier to imported books

“A patch for your novel is ready to download”

Howard Junker, wandering poet,
making like Li Po (sort of)

What is Canadian literature?

Fence manifesto:
Please write poetry

Interrupture, a “word band”

Amelia Roselli’s The Dragonfly

Tagore at 150

Yeats & Arnold

R.S. Thomas & the Welsh

Simon Jarvis’
Wordsworth’s Philophic Song
(reg. req.)

On Samuel R. Delany on writing

“Why men don’t read books”

Paul Pines podcast

T.S. Eliot is not obliged to love me

Inna Grade has died

A profile of Lynn Xu

Talking with Corey Mesler

Daniel Pritchard on Daisy Hay’s Young Romantics

The Writings of Jonathan Bayliss

Jonathan Bayliss, 1926 – 2009

The perpetual life of Philip K. Dick

The Art of American Book Covers

Revisualising Oz

My first time, or I lost it to fine binding

Rob’s Word Shop

Scott Esposito on John D’Agata

Ed Baker’s De:Sire Is

Talking with Ed Baker

May 18, Norwich, UK:
An evening with Les Murray & Andrew Motion

Infinite regret: David Foster Wallace

A profile of Wallace from 1996

Henri Cole’s Pierce the Skin

Pittsburgh’s patron saint of poetry

Did Nick Clegg doom his party
by naming Samuel Beckett as his favorite author?

Love Over 60:
An Anthology of Women’s Poems

Jack Gilbert’s The Dance Most of All

Wine & friendship in Tang Dynasty poetry

Poetry of the 19^th century Northwest

Talking Alain de Botton

What brought Twain fame

Walker Percy’s weirdest book

Martin Amis’
“remarkably tedious new novel”

“such an exasperating novelist”

The curse of the English novelist

2 Books on E.M. Forster

Banned books you read in high school

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
edited by Andrea Brady & Emily Butterworth
(reg. req.)

“Top 10 Absurd Classics”
& not a word about Daniil Kharms

Adapting books to film

No such thing as silence:
John Cage’s 4’33”

Andrei Codrescu on conceptual art

What color is this?

Crichton the collector

Crichton’s Johns brings in $29M

5 questions for the author of
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

The mystery bidder

Amy Sillman:
How many lightbulbs does it take to change a painting?

How to display a contemporary work of art

Keinholz’ Roxys

The photos of Tinker Greene

Craig Kauffman has died

Avigdor Arikha has died

Warhol film curator, Callie Angell has died

The tramp

How to treat the burglar

Maps with an agenda

Intellectuals in the age of Obama

Wittgenstein’s Notebooks 1914 – 1916

Noam takes the day off

Levi Asher responds to Harold Bloom on
“The Jewish Question”

When is anti-Zionism also anti-Semitism?

Jupiter goes without a belt

Facebook friendaholics

A writer’s guide to Microsoft Office

Andrea Brady:
Is there a Cambridge School?
[& Robert Archambeau replies]
(scroll down)

Talking with Lynn Behrendt

Diann Blakely
offers an in-depth look
at the state of southern poetry
(preface) (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
(just for Tennessee)

Talking with Michelle Taransky

The Afghan Women’s Writing Project:
Out of Silence

Laura Moriarty on post-moot

Heriberto Yepez on Rae Armantrout
& the Pulitzer Prize
(in Spanish)

Libbie Rifkin on
Theory of the Avant-Garde

Catriona Strang’s Low Fancy

Jessica Smith’s roster of
contemporary female poets

Sandra Doller: “Like Sugar Like”

The Némirovsky paradox

Marianne Moore & her mother

H.D.’s desk

Talking with Celia Gilbert

Speaking with Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan

The real title of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Talking with CAConrad

Is blogging dead?
(A: Not if you’re reading this)

Neil Gaiman:
Connect, don’t network

Aaron Lowinger’s
The House at 24 Huntington Ave

The new Galatea Resurrects
has at least 40 reviews
of more than 50 books!!

Samuel Greenberg & grammatic truth

Samuel Greenberg: American Poet

Robert Creeley on prosody & pacing

The future is uncertain
for Serendipity Books

An afternoon in hell:
contemporary writers on the classics

Retyping On the Road

Talking with Thomas Fink

Robert Grenier:
2 autobiographical interviews

Ashbery vs. Ashbery

Geof Huth on Paul Siegell

Patti Smith & Jonathan Lethem at
the PEN World Voices Festival

Retro-surrealism of the 21^st century

Poetry & age

May 11, San Francisco:
Norman Fischer & Charles Bernstein
Radical Poetics & Secular Jewish Thought

May 12 in New York,
Ray DiPalma & Michael Lally

May 16 in Oakland,
Julian T. Brolaski & kathryn l. pringle

November in Arlington:
Computational Models of Narrative

Lemony Snicket on Jimmy Schuyler

Bill Murray
dwells in possibility

Larry King & e.e. cummings

William Burroughs
shooting Shakespeare

Howard Junker’s
Top Ten Poets Reading

Sentences about a favorite sentence

Ron Padgett in Scandanavia

Ten Walks / Two Talks by Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch

A reading by Jon Cotner
with Alex Karpovsky reading for Andy Fitch

Preparing for Charles Olson’s centennial in Gloucester

Esiaba Irobi in London

Edward Hirsch in Mumbai
without leaving home

Redefining Indian Writing in English

Edward P. Jones makes it to Oprah’s book club

Robert Hass & Kay Ryan

Robert Hass on Walt Whitman

Harriet goes tweet

A festival in Ashville
as though Black Mountain never happened

Honoring the dead at Potter’s Field

More books for the blind

Viz,
a journal that seeks
“to blow the field wide open”

Writing vs. Composition

Larry Fagin in Austria in the 1950s

A two-part essay on the work of Zukofsky

Carlos Reyes on Rafael Jesús González

Yvette Neisser Moreno on González

David Mitchell by David Mitchell

David Biespiel:
Why aren’t poets more politically active?

Except when they are…

“How do you miss Silliman?”

Read free books online

LA Public Library is facing 15% cuts

Talking with a library custodian

2 mutually exclusive literary festivals
in Jerusalem

2 New Jersey writers
win a free trip to NY

The tweets of William Styron

Everyone’s a critic

Another review scam on Amazon

Ted Hughes, back in favor?

The two Raymond Carvers

John Latta
on some micropoetics

An old Bush speechwriter gets with the iPad

The “best sellers” on Kindle are all freebies

“the Hunter Thompson of Silicon Valley”

Talking with Bill U’Ren

Frank Kermode: Eliot & the shudder

Getting around to not reading Ralph Ellison

Daniel Nester
on the necessity of leaving New York

Nester: how not to promote your book

Talking with Jake Berry

Getting books across borders

SMU closes down its press

A profile of Hugo Gernsback

Matthew Falk on Justin Marks

“A life lived elsewhere”

A history of Globish

Attempting to untangle Chinglish

Fragrant and hot Marxism

Doubting (R.S.) Thomas

A form of Japanese poety called Shaigin

Some examples

Poetry therapy can improve emotional health

Shaped verse from Rory Gates

Why are comic book movies so bad?

Kristen Stewart On the Road

Allen Ginsberg’s photography @ the National Gallery
(A podcast about the show)

Art since 1950

All of Donald Judd’s books

Kevin Killian on Brent Green

Green at Andrew Edlin in NY

Barry Schwabsky on Christian Købke

Daniel Silliman’s “It Sounds Weird”

Rockin’ in the Ph.D. world

Bruce Springsteen on Robert Pinsky

Dana Gioia: “To hell with period instruments!”

Charles Bernstein & Brian Ferneyhough’s Shadowtime
is now in iTunes

Franklin Bruno on Fela!
(subscription required)

Miles Davis passed out here

The house that Wittgenstein built
in Vienna
(now the Bulgarian embassy)

Who draws the borders of culture?

Paul Berman turns his ongoing narratives
of liberal betrayal
from the USSR & the CP to the Middle East

Heidegger the Nazi

Twitter’s contribution to history

Berlin after WW2

Fukuyama’s Nietzsche

The coming meltdown in higher education

Joshua Slocum:
Sailing Alone Around the World

The Language Fairies

Library scientists

Is this anything?