25 years after Tienanmen Square

Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Michele Leggott

David McFadden
on trying to carry on as a writer
with Alzheimer’s

A woman reviews Patricia Lockwood

Resisting tropes:
on poetry, masochism &
domestic violence

Martón Koppány
on the 4^th international
Text Festival

21^st Century poetry written in 1964
by Frank O’Hara

David Trinidad:
10 cherished books

Free Ilham Tohti

FREE ILHAM TOHTI!

Ilham Tohti:
My Ideas & the Career Path I Have Chosen

Tohti’s daughter testifies
before Congress

Natasha Trethewey
concludes her term as PLOTUS

The Dark Room Collective:
where black poetry took wing

Alan Gilbert on Peter Gizzi

My problem with VIDA

Jessica Smith on Susan Howe

Literature is supposed to be
a “trigger”

Why we won’t use trigger warnings

Trigger warnings
& the novelist’s mind

On bullying:
Isla Vista, Seth Abramson
& social media

Abramson’s poem

When your own publisher
repudiates you

Kit Robinson:
5 new poems

Olson @ the repair shop

The widening gender gap
in contemporary American poetry

Occupy Poetics

Camille Rankine:
What We Write About when We Write About

A National Book Award longlist
as if it weren’t reserved
strictly for the big trade presses

Stephen Burt’s spring & all

A real life poetry top ten

The first emoticon?

From the intro to Ray Johnson’s
Not Nothing

Some reviews of Paper Snake

From Kevin Killian’s “A Ray Johnson Story”

Ray Johnson & snakes

Making Modernism:
Literature & Culture in 20^th-C. Chicago

Tim Liu on Brenda Coultas

 Emily Dickinson
pushing the envelope

Poems on surveillance
by Ashbery, Armantrout, Bernstein, King, Pinsky
et al

Talking with Rae Armantrout

Amy King:
I want my poetry & I want to eat too

Charles Bernstein:
The 12 Tribes of Dr. Lacan

Anselm Berrigan’s
serious linebreaks

Stacy Szymaszek on Paul Blackburn

Camille Dungy
on Jake Adam York,
& on poetry & football

Geoffrey Gatza’s Apollo

Poetry from the catbird seat:
Don Share

Talking with Wayne Koestenbaum

Richard Blanco
& the problem of accessibility

 The next
100,000 Poets for Change
event is scheduled
for 27 September 2014
(thinkin’ this # might even be a little low)

Political poets continue to be targeted

Barrett Watten
on poetic diplomacy

3 poems by Ange Mlinko

WCW’s To a Solitary Disciple

Duffy organizes opposition
to prison censorship

Nick Laird’s Go Giants

Rob A Mackenzie
on 20 moments
@ StAnza 2014

Tyrone Williams: Radical Mimesis:
Conceptual Poetics & the African Diaspora

 Here’s VIDA

Women feel less comfortable
in their literary communities

Iran hangs Hashem Shaabani

Torture used to obtain conviction

Pussy Riot members re-arrested in Sochi

Who funded the Iowa Writers Workshop?
The CIA

A profile of Lukáš Tomin
“the René Crevel of post-communist Prague”

Amy King, Tom Pickard
& Julia Bloch
close read Basil Bunting’s
reading of Walt Whitman’s
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Bunting’s Persian Poems

Cedar Sigo on Bob Kaufman

Steve Benson:
Notes on Revision & Evasion

Tyrone Williams,
Thom Donovan & Patrick Durgin
discuss Steve Benson’s
Did the Lights Just Go Out?

Seth Abramson’s
wide-ranging selection of reviews
in HuffPo for the AWP
(full disclosure: I’m included)

Elizabeth Bryant: Residuum

Adam Plunkett on Denise Levertov

Barrett Watten:
Boycott Language & Poetics Diplomacy
(note: these are 3 posts)

Binyavanga Wainaina
comes out
to challenge Kenya’s
anti-gay laws

Barrett Watten:
My Presentism

2014:
The Year of Reading Women

2 new poems by Sappho

Frank Sherlock
is Philadelphia’s
second poet laureate

What will your verse be?
Apple hijacks poetry
to  hawk iPads

Poetry vs. prose argument
leads to stabbing death
in Russia

Penelope Creeley:
Robert Creeley & his books

Robert Creeley’s
home movies

For Love:
Robert Creeley’s The Warning

Interviewing Hank Lazer
from the perspective of
Chinese poetry

Robert Duncan, Jess
& their wonderland of art

Talking with Alice Notley

Notley’s collage fans

Aram Saroyan:
Notes at 70

Younger women
are changing poetry

Joanna Fuhrman & Toni Simon:
The Ruler of Rusted Knees

Lisa Cattrone:
Trash Theory

Anne Tardos:
More than 9 Nines

Peter O’Leary on Márton Koppány

Don Share’s list
of memorable poetry from 2013
in the Boston Globe

Rob Halpern:
from Hocus Pocus

CodePo

Reb Livingston: from Bombyonder

Talking with CAConrad

CAConrad: Suspension Fluid Magnificence

John Ashbery & the arts

Amiri Baraka hospitalized

Norma Cole:
Unforgettable Trash

Should Ezra Pound be shot?

Closing the word gap
between rich & poor