CA Conrad:
I loved Earth years ago

Sherman Alexie’s
top 10 Native American poets

Maria Shriver
on the origins of VIDA

Boston bookstores
react to bombings

Dan Chiasson
finds a poem for Boston
in Piers Plowman

aka bpNichol: a preliminary biography
by Frank Davey

Sina Queyras
walks the tightrope

Google search trends:
poetry, hybrid poetry, flarf
& conceptual poetry

Talking with John Tranter

Hambone:
‘the most important
magazine of innovative poetry
in the country
to operate without
a Web presence’

Marjorie Perloff:
Why the slightest loss of attention
leads to death

Daisy Fried on Anne Carson

Margaret Christakos on Anne Carson

Is Poetry racist?

Nance Van Winckel:
Pho-Toems

Camille Guthrie:
Why I am not a nature poet

Paul Hoover
on the PBS Newshour

7 by Cedar Sigo

Talking with Dorothea Lasky

The poetry thief

Talking with
Daisy Fried, Aricelis Girmay
& Lisa Russ Spaar

Introducing Adeena Karasick

New Hampshire laureate
Walter Butts has died

Harry Northup on Ann Stanford

4 by Joseph Massey

John Tranter in Philadelphia

Alfred Starr Hamilton’s Cinderella

NY Times’ belated
Daniel Hoffman obit

A photo & poem of Hoffman
from Tom Devaney

Talking with Eric Selland

CAConrad:
Poetry will not apologize

Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Wishes on the Wish Tree

 Desiring visual texts:Maria Damon & Rachel Blau DuPlessis
in conversation

Rae Armantrout: 3 poems
Loop
Will
The Eye

Lisa Robertson:
poetry as citizenship

Andrew Ervin:
Being part of the problem – a response to VIDA

The Women’s Prize For Fiction longlist

Talking with Eileen Myles

Reading Zong!

M NourbeSe Philip’s
unrecoverable subjects

Not Against Expression

Queering ecopoetics

Responding to Fred Wah

Meredith Quartermain:
The Wah in the Water

Tom Raworth on collaboration

After 30 years,
Clark Coolidge’s
epic poem
is finally
here

Hidden herstories: Mary Butts

Collaborative essays
from West Coast language poets

Fact-Simile 8 has a great
interview with Rebecca Brown
& Chris McCreary’s
The Great American Songbook : Radio Free Disney
+ many other delights

Photo by Geof Huth

Reading
Robert Grenier’s
Cambridge, M’ass

Some poems by Chinua Achebe

NY Times obit for Achebe

Marjorie Perloff:
John Ashbery in the 21^st Century

Homage to Tom Raworth

Cathy Park Hong & Mores McWreath: The Rub

Hong, Marilyn Hacker, Alfred Corn et al
jump into the Mlinko-Rich brouhaha
(subscribers only)

On the road with Erica Hunt

VIDA count 2012:
the numbers are not getting better

Dmitri Prigov’s Little Coffins

Barrett Watten & the Gnostics in Louisville

Thomas Fink
reading my reading of
Joe Ceravolo

Spain’s great untranslated writers

Ian Keenan on Mallarmé

Talking with Molly Weatherfield

Fred Wah on the literary edge

When artspeak masks oppression

Carol Muske-Dukes
trashes Ange Mlinko’s
reassessment of Adrienne Rich

A symposium on Muriel Rukeyser

Syrian poetry now

Community in a tech center:
poetry & geeks

Picturing poets

In the Lambda shortlists,
how come lesbian poetry
is so much more exciting
than that of gay men?

Peter O’Leary: Apocalypticism

A new poem
shows Jupiter Hammon
changing his mind

Curtis Faville on Joe Ceravolo

Faville on Anselm Hollo

Steve Benson:
Never Hear, Never See

JH Prynne & dialectics

Luke Harley:
poetry as virtual community

Talking with Rachel Blau DuPlessis

2 uncollected poems by Paul Celan

Jenn McCreary is talking to herself

Serendipity:
the poets of Venice

Ben Ehrenreich on Viktor Shklovsky

Brian Kim Stefans on speculative realism

Talking with Brandon Brown

Linh Dinh:
art is always political

Patti Smith reading Virginia Woolf
+ Woolf reading Woolf

Brian Ang & Joshua Clover
on theory, action, poetry

Lyn Hejinian:
Wild Captioning

They write a long conceptual poem
based on Christian Bök’s tweets

Close-reading aloud: Charles Alexander

India bans Pakistani diplomats
from Jaipur lit fest

Malala’s progress

London bookstore firebombed

Talking with Naren Bedide about Dalit Lit

Turkey lifts ban on 23,000 books

The Woodland Pattern archive is for sale!!

Queneau by the numbers

Stephen Burt on 2 types of minimalism

CAConrad’s life manual

From Michael Gottlieb’s The Colorama

If you do a version of BART
in Australia,
will the trains run backwards?

Zen catalyzed conceptual art

Erín Moure:
translating Tarzan

Emily online
& in her own hand

Maria Damon:
Cross-Stitch Poetry

Orson Welles interviews Isidore Isou
on Lettrism & sound poetry

Fanny Howe: Three Persons

Susan Howe’s Thiefth

Marilyn Nelson, Claudia Rankine & CD Wright
become chancellors of the Academy of American Poets

Foundation for Contemporary Arts awards
to Beverly Dahlen & Robert Grenier

Ben McFall,
the oracle of Strand Books

Reading Jackson Mac Low’s 154 Forties

Mohammed Rashid al-Ajami is “the Gulf’s Mandela”

In Turkey, a journalist is freed

8 charged in 1973 murder of Victor Jara

An obit for Jayne Cortez

Carolyn Lei-Lanilau has died

Vanessa Place on Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven

Gender problems in conceptual poetry?

Sueyeun Juliette Lee on Danielle Pafunda

Bill Berkson by Alphonse Van Woerkom

Talking with Bill Berkson

Berkson’s Portrait and Dream

Evie Shockley:
binaries divide
in order to conquer

j/j hastain: Engaging my Trans

US Filipino writing in the early 20^th Century

A new Bruce Andrews archive site

Jean Vengua on Lew Welch

Avenues of Access:
an exhibit of e-lit

Marcella Durand:
Mysterium Cosmographicum