To Be,
Lynn Behrendt’s
collage poem master work
A teaser for
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
The Collage Poems of Drafts
Mark Wallace, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
&Sueyeun Juliette Lee
on Jupiter 88
La Monte Young & Jackson Mac Low:
An Anthology of Chance Operations
Talking with Rae Armantrout
Talking with Hank Lazer
Satu Kaikkonen:
from totems
In Syria, Ali Dirbak
arrested for reading poetry
Phil Whalen:
excerpts from Kyoto Notebooks
On Robert Duncan’s
The Opening of the Field
Duncan’s notes on Silliman’s “Opening”
The Flame is Ours:
The Letters of Stan Brakhage & Michael McClure
1961 – 1978
Javier Sicilia,
moving beyond words
Jerome McGann’s
Postmodern Poetries
Flarf turns 10
Geof Huth’s 365 Ltrs
Tom Beckett on Huth
Bahraini forces rape & kill
Ayat al-Ghermezi
China bars
Liao Yiwu from traveling
In Yemen,
a poet has his tongue cut off
A Mexican poet abandons poetry
The importance of writing in prison
Craig Santos Perez:
Why are white editors so mean?
Vietnam arrests award-winning publisher
Jerry Rothenberg on Khurbn
Publisher on trial in Turkey
for publishing William Burroughs
Joe Enzweiler has died
Kristin Prevallet
on Robert Kelly &
the need to say thanks
Finally,
the Poetry Center Digital Archive
is coming online
William Carlos Williams,
reading at the SF Museum of Art
May 19, 1955
Robert Creeley on anger
in the work of WCW
Marianne Moore
reading at the SF Museum of Art
October 10, 1957
Denise Levertov
reading for 80 minutes
at SF State
February 10, 1958
Robert Duncan
reading Opening of the Field
May 18 1959
Lisa Jarnot
on Robert Duncan’s
HD Book
Bob Perelman on Louis Zukofsky
The Ulysses of poetry
Hugh Kenner on Zukofsky,
the OED & more
A teaser for Anew,
Zukofsky’s shorter poems
Meet the Objectivists
Michelle Detorie’s
American Poetry House
Fresh Poems by the Dozen
Reports of my demise
are a wee bit premature,
don’t you think?
Ron Silliman:
A few short questions
about a very long long poem
Reading with Steve Farmer @ Moe’s
(for cards, see here)
The (post) avant-garde
that won’t go away
Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
Armantrout’s “At Least”
Charles Bernstein’s My Way
as a free e-book
2 books by Lynn Behrendt
Behrendt’s petals, emblems
Julie Carr:
The Witch’s House: A Poetics
Doug Hall – Highway 50, Nevada #1, 1998
Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian:
The Wide Road
Lyn, Carla et al
at Belladonna’s Wide Road launch
Carla Harryman:
Cutting Corners
(a score)
Talking with Rae Armantrout
“Ambiguous pronouns are hot” –
Robert Archambeau on Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout:
“The language of the will to live”
Jean Day’s “Undersong”
Readings from The Grand Piano
Susan Howe
awarded the Bollingen Prize
A talk on the lyric
by Rae Armantrout
at the University of Chicago
Rae Armantrout reading
To write as a woman
is political
The Critical Flame:
women & magazines
Fauzia Mughal
& the future of women’s poetry
in Pakistan
Elizabeth Bishop:
too much information
Tom Beckett on Lynn Behrendt
Geof Huth on Behrendt
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
Drafts 77-95
Barack Obama
awards Maya Angelou
the Medal of Freedom
Frances E.W. Harper,
the best-known
African American poet
of the 19th Century
Readings from poets
of Africa & its diaspora
Zimbabwe poets
commemorate Black History Month
Nikki Giovanni’s
The 100 Best African American Poems
(*but I cheated)
Rita Dove channels Rosa Parks
Why does a white girl
get to write about lynching?
CAPITALIZATION
in Robert Grenier’s Series
My poem ®
translated into Spanish
Anis Shivani
on Michael McClure
McClure still rings true
Beat poet helped to create
the hippie movement
Congratulations to Jordan Davis
for becoming poetry editor of
The Nation
3 Jordan Davis reviews
of Ed Sanders (two) &
Tadeusz Rozewicz
A walking poem
against censorship
Dickinson’s dashes
And her statue
Eileen Myles:
Being Female
Katha Pollitt
on numbers trouble:
old news
The NY Times asks why
Annie Finch on the gender count
Where have women poets gone?
The hermeneutics of a woman’s body
2 new books from Susan Howe
Susan Howe / James Welling:
Frolic Architecture
Lauren Ireland:
4 poems
Cia Rinne’s
“radeverbrechen”
Close Listening with Nathaniel Mackey
And reading
Robin Tremblay-McGaw
on reading
Mourning Édouard Glissant
Tisa Bryant on Claudia Rankine @ AWP
Ange Mlinko on The H.D. Book
Tyrone Williams’ “Genesis”
C.D. Wright’s
tour de force
Lisa Jarnot:
“After Catullus”
The plan to create a
Scottish Academy of Literature
has been dropped
Eileen Myles’ Inferno
has the best book trailer ever
What is the real story?
“The numbers speak for themselves”
Poetry notes dissents
Stephen Elliot:
Vida just scratches the surface
Meghan O’Rourke asks about causes
Slate:
why it matters
The literary glass ceiling
Jezebel:
the sorry state of women
Submitting work
as a “woman’s problem”
Jim Behrle weighs in
Laynie Browne’s
“Periodic Companions”
Are you ready for
Demi Moore’s poetry?
Maria Shriver,
poetry editor
Vanessa Place @ EPC
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
