Syrian sculptor Wael Kaston killed by torture

U of New Orleans sacks Bill Lavender,
potentially shutting down press & low-rez MFA program

The Bowery Poetry Club closes

Robin Tremblay-McGaw on the Poetry of the 80’s Conference

Close-reading aloud: Charles Reznikoff

Talking with our favorite marsupial, CAConrad

Steve Benson & Suzanne Stein are performing LiveChats

Marjorie Perloff on Wittgenstein, modernism & Christianity

Modernism, Christianity & Apocalypse

Talking with Eileen Myles

Remembering Lew Welch

On the Bro’d

The Life of Alden Van Buskirk

Jordon Davis on Spring and All

The Bowery Poetry Club to close

The influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde

Is Leonard Cohen’s poetry a form of sexual harassment?

Poetry, immigration & the FBI

Here come the Poetry Police

Laura Hinton’s report on the 80’s conference in Orono

Judith Goldman on non-retinal literature

The love letters of Emily Dickinson

Jennifer Chang: How to read a prophecy

Tony Trehy: Curating the Text Festival

Translating Russian poetry

A Jimmy Schuyler feature @ Jacket2

Barrett Watten: An Annotated History of Chance

Seth Abramson: the poetry wars

The battle lines are shifting

Jennifer Moxley: find the missing line

Robert Kelly: Lattices Inspired

Don Wellman: editing Coherence in 181

“Pitchers are obviously not human” (Spicer & baseball)

US Poets in Mexico 2013

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s correspondences

Gary Snyder’s foreword to Lew Welch’s Ring of Bone

Book burning: fan fiction

Barry Schwabsky on the return of Denise Riley

Talking with Sina Queyras

Queyras: the ethics of the negative review

How international is poetry?

Tim Yu makes the case for Asian-American poetry

Harryette Mullen wins the Stephen Henderson Award

Otherstream poetics

The academisation of the avant-garde

Anne Gorrick: Text Event with Fire 2

Heaps of language but even more amnesia

A new poetry barn in Maryland

The Etherdome anthology

CWILA: Women in Canadian lit mags – the numbers

Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman:
Memorial Day

The Paris Review & the CIA

Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘The University Poem’

Shakespeare in Indian prisons

10 feminist poets you should know

Naomi Shihab Nye’s Transfer

A good ‘taste’ of moi

Wanda Coleman, Lewis MacAdams & the rhythms of LA

Joe Safdie on Lewis MacAdams

Talking with Gary Snyder

Lev Rubinstein leads a writers’ march in Moscow

Rubinstein: The cosmonauts have landed

Ilya Kutik’s Dreams—the--Interlinears

A tribute to Andrey Voznesensky

Rachel Blau DuPlessis after Drafts

Talking with César Vallejo

Setting Stein’s wartime record straight

Why Afghan women risk death to write poetry

Poetry of the Taliban

The BlazeVOX heritage: self & sponsored publishing from Emily & Walt to James Merrill & Louis Simpson

KickStart 100,000 Poets for Change

Talking with Geoffrey Gatza
about the NEA assault
on small presses

Ai Weiwei:
censorship
cannot defeat the internet

Ai Weiwei’s
streaming video site
gets shut down

On the death of Guillermo Fernández

Free Abdulelah Shaye

Afaa M Weaver:
8 questions for African-American poetry

by Anna Korintz

Brenda Iijima’s
Untimely Death
Is Driven Out Beyond the Horizon

Negotiating the social bond
of poetry

A new portrait of me
by Didi Menendez
in action

Didi Menendez
does another portrait

Indian poets escape
Karachi gunmen

Fitting poetry to HTML

Talking with Bill Mohr

Rae Armantrout’s Induction

China arrests poet-blogger Tsering Woeser

Woeser:
Fire on the Mountain

Kyung-sook Shin wins the Man Asia prize
& uses the occasion
to plea for Koreans

Dead Poets Society

Hamza Kashgari
deported to Saudi Arabia
where he faces death
for his writings

Villanova
cancels Tim Miller
at last minute
over concerns re
gay art & “Catholic values”

& Bryn Mawr steps in

The book banned
because it was
too embarrassing

Colleen Thibaudeau has died

Shahryar has died

Remembering Stacy Doris

Sir Geoffrey Hill

The edited version
of Rae Armantrout
on PBS Newshour

Poet-in-residence
in the newsroom:
Tracy K. Smith

When it comes to reviews,
which gender
is at a disadvantage?

Marsha Bryant’s
Women’s Poetry & Popular Culture

John Kliphan has died

Todd D’Anna has died

Pearse Hutchinson has died

John McWhinnie has died

Carl Weissner has died

Homage to Charles Bernstein

William Allegrezza:
Introduction to The Salt Companion
to Charles Bernstein

Occupy Poetics:
You can’t evict an idea

GOP poetry

Fred Wah
is Canada’s
Parliamentary Poet Laureate

“Multicultural obsession”
drives Fred Wah

Talking with Tyrone Williams

Sometimes the choice
is real easy:
Sonia Sanchez
finally named
Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate

Two from the typosphere

Emmett Bennett, Jr has died

Bob Hare has died

CAConrad gives the
2011 Sexiest Poem Award to
Samantha Giles & Thom Donovan

Talking with Carolyn Cassady

How the “father of the beats” (?)
was forgotten

LeftWrite: 30 years after the fact