Armantrout’s Money Shot
is “a stunner”

Geoffrey Gatza’s
2010 Thanksgiving Feast menu
& poetic cycle celebrates
David Shapiro

Talking with Kim Lyons

Monica Youn’s Ignatz

Talking & talking & talking
with Tao Lin

Terrance Hayes’ Lighthead

Pierre Joris: Justifying
Justifying the Margins

Talking with Sheila E. Murphy

Lisa Robertson, Edward Hirsch
& Derek Walcott
all make the NY Times
100 Notable Books of 2010 list

Dwight Garner puts Kay Ryan
at the top
of his personal list

The Guardian asks all their writers
& gets quite a lot of poetry,
including John Ashbery & Timothy Donnelly

Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation

19 poets recommend 19 titles

Talking with Margaret Atwood

Lunar Chandelier reading report

New Directions’ new colophon

On Patti Smith

National Book Award-winning novelist
Jaimy Gordon
has deep roots in the small press,
post-avant world

Early poems by Terrance Hayes

No fairy tales at the NBA

But surprise all around

A Ayyappan has died

So has Norris Church Mailer

Talking with John Tranter

Mimi Gross & Charles Bernstein
Some of These Daze
(64MB PowerPoint file)

5 poems by Aimé Césaire
from the unexpurgated first edition of
Soleil cou coupé

Talking with Edwin Torres

Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ elective affinities

P. Lal has died

The Collected Essays of
Robert Creeley
online

2010 “Sexiest Poem” award goes to
Brenda Iijima’s “Panthering”

Can Philadelphia love Sonia Sanchez?

Numbers trouble
at the Academy of American Poets

Germane Greer:
no fan of D.H. Lawrence

A Poetics of Radical Evil

Talking with Vanessa Place

Thom Donovan:
The New (Chor)us

The Merwin Conservancy

Talking with W.S. Merwin

“safe choice,” “safe poet”

Kevin Killian on Secret Historian

Money Shot
& 32 other poetry titles
to look for in 2011

Rae Armantrout takes center stage

“The Dwelling Place”

Plus I have a new bibliography

Anne Tardos:
from “The Nines”

Fanny Howe:
Documenting the secret self

Openned Eyes

Renegade

Viva Lamantia!

Gilgamesh
read in Babylonian
(with other Babylonian & Assyrian texts)

Dodie Bellamy:
“a powerful feminist strategy”

Saudi female poet
defies men & law

A Berkeley poet of the 1960s
& social justice activist,
Lowell Levant has died

Who remembers
Ksenia Nekrosova

Bryan Beck on John Godfrey

Jean Valentine & Lyn Hejinian:
“Pure poetry”

Amy King:
“A Geography of Pleasure”

Olson @ the Century

A profile of the Buffalo conference

Gloucester celebrates Olson

As does Vancouver

Paris Review “Language Sampler”

Berkshire Eagle obit for Michael Gizzi

Close reading aloud
poems about poppies
by H.D. & Jennifer Scappettone

Steve Fama on varieties of vispo

John Timpane on Mario Vargas Llosa

Writing & winning

Betting on the Booker prize suspended

Harriet Tarlo’s “Recycles:
The Eco-Ethical Poetics
of Found Text
in Contemporary Poetry”

Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
Pitch: Drafts 77-95

Poetic Ecologies

Dorothea Lasky’s Poetry Is Not a Project

Bob Perelman’s 7 Works

The Dublin Poetry Review
includes (among others)
Sagicho Aibara, Rae Armantrout, Jenny Bornholdt,
David Brooks, Mairéad Byrne, Julius Chingono, Kwame Dawes,
Annie Finch, Forrest Gander, Eamon Grennan, Kimiko Hahn,
Michael S. Harper, Jill Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa,
Maha Elamin A Mahmoud, Jennifer Maiden, Mary Jo Bang,
Chris Mansell, rob mclennan, Paul Muldoon, Emma Neale,
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Niyi Osundare, Robert Pinsky,
Chris Price, Muhammad Haji Salleh, Ana Vega,
C.D. Wright, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lorna Goodison,
Andrew Motion, Richard Tillinghast
& of course moi

Beyond Borges:
Argentina now

Susan Bee:
Little Orphan Anagram
(with poems by Charles Bernstein)

Brenda Iijima with flowers
(or at least ferns)
in her hair

All of
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, vol. 4

Cole Swensen’s Flare

Jeffrey Side on
Wordsworth the empiricist

Whitman’s collapsing
taxonomy of poetry

Scott Helmes:
recent vispo

Is conceptual writing
the new confessionalism?

Mary Ellen Solt:
Toward a Theory of Concrete Poetry

Mathew Timmons:
The Arachnoids
(world’s largest sound poetry choir)

LaMonte Young’s
“Poem for Chairs, Tables,
Benches, Etc. (or other sound sources)”

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl
on sound poetry

Barrett Watten:
Jackson Mac Low as Reading Machine

Nu Shu:
the secret written language of women

The Whorf Hypothesis:
don’t believe the hype

5 women among 6 finalists
for the Wales Dylan Thomas Prize

Nathalie Stephens & Steve Farmer

Talking with Charles Olson

Steve McCaffery:
Afterword to his selected poems

Tribute to Frank O’Hara

Talking with Jack Gilbert

Ukraine secret police
declassify criminal case archives
of Rose Auslander

Steve Fama on Mark Lamoureux

Lamoureux’s Dance Poems

Habib Tengour:
Surrealism in the Maghreb

Sina Queyras:
Criticality vs. negativity

From David Schneider’s
forthcoming biography of
Philip Whalen
(thanks to Coyote’s Journal)

Big Bridge Whalen fest

Was Oskar Pastior a spy
for the Romanian secret police?

Poetry & The Poetry Foundation
announce their 2010 prize winners
& I’m on the list

The Levinson Prize
puts me in some interesting company

“Unlearning to Write”

Margaret Atwood:
“On Being a Woman Writer”

Rae Armantrout in The Nation
(subscription required)

An Alli Warren Report

Vanessa Place
on poets without products

Timothy Yu:
Making the Case for
Asian American poetry

A rare stash of
the David Bromige issue of
The Difficulties
is for sale

Delirious Hem’s
Tribute to Leslie Scalapino
(day 1) (day 2)
(day 3) (day 4)

Leslie Scalapino leaves
a scholarship at Reed

The New Hybridity:
Thalia Field & Leslie Scalapino

Steve Benson:
3 videos for Leslie Scalapino

Eigner’s Rimbaud

What is the state of American poetry?
Clayton Eshleman, Annie Finch,
moi & Danielle Pafunda
start the debate

Clayton Eshleman’s “For the Night Poem 8 Aug 2010”
Annie Finch’s “Earth That Our Forest Looks Back For”
RS: “from Revelator”
Danielle Pafunda’s “The Dead Girls Speak in Unison”

Every literary magazine in Canada
gets defunded

Steve Evans’
Attention Span 2010
has just begun