Lorine Niedecker
& the Obstinacy of the Particular

HD’s imagism

Talking with Patricia Lockwood

MFA rape culture

Does alt-lit have a rape problem?

Alt-lit is dead,
burn the corpses

“Hipster scene” falls apart

Sexism & sexual assault
in the writing world

Stop denying rape culture

Elizabeth Ellen’s
letter to the Internet

Kirk Nesset
charged with child porn

YouTube’s “creep problem”

Stephen Tully Dierks:
I quit

Talking with Erin Belieu

Gender genre

Hazel White
on sonnets & rage

Anthony McCann’s Thing Music

Tao Lin interviews Ben Lerner

Fresh Air:
a rave review for Lerner’s new novel

High Muck a Muck
A collective interactive text

Graham Foust:
Remainer

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
talking with Jennifer Bartlett

Bartlett:
Compassion in Po-Biz

Gary Barwin:
the hotel of language

Talking with Gina Myers

Cole Swensen:
from On Walking On

A Don Share master class

Talking with Don Share

Sir Andrew Motion’s
How to be a poet
in ten easy steps

Hanif Kureishi:
creative writing courses
are “a waste of time”

Nobel judge:
creative writing courses
are killing literature

Creative writing courses
aren’t killing literature --
sanctimonious rich white tossers are

“Get a real degree”

How to win the Nobel Prize

Modiano: a modern Proust

Flanagan wins the Mann

Kei Miller wins the Forward

2 poems by Wendy Xu

Yale acquires the papers of
Charles Bernstein

Visiting Thoreau & Finlay

Jason Christie:
poetry and horses and shit

Mathias Énard’s Zone

The world’s most awesome library

The poetry of non-poetry

Publishing in 1991 & 2014

The seizure meds
that will make you a poet

Bridgette Bates:
from What is Not Missing is Light

Benjamin Franklin’s
200 synonyms for “drunk”

Poe immortalized
in the city of quietists

Neglected books

How bookstores survive
in the age of Amazon

Literary lions
unite to fight Amazon

“L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Lines”
from The Line in Postmodern Poetry

Bye-bye, Heriberto Yepez

Il Groupo responds

ModPo reaches
tens of thousands readers

Joyelle McSweeney:
Prologue

The poet as boring witness

Morocco in the 1950s:
Burroughs, Bowles & boys

Talking little magazines
with David Rose

A site devoted to
the nanopress

University of Alaska
targets AQR for cuts

The history of English in one chart

How English became
the language of science

Luis Rodriguez
is LA’s new poet laureate

Charles Wright:
“an old man’s poetry”

Johanna Skibsrud:
The real is that
which always comes back
to the same place

One giant paragraph
with Christian Bök’s 2,000+ tweets

Clive James
embarrassed not to be dead

Wittgenstein
picturing language

Letters of the
“New American” poets

Cesar Vallejo’s Trilce
translated by Clayton Eshleman

Waiting for Stephen Fry

Martin Harrison has died

Garamond
saves the world

Poetry’s “Hot 100”

2 poems by James Franco

A poem for James Franco

Zadie Smith:
Find your beach

Seamus Heaney’s last poem

GC Waldrep:
Indian Pipe

Ebola is
the Scarriet of Scarriets

Bill Murray’s addiction to poetry

New book  by Dylan
sells for $200
AND
$5,000

Green Integer
is making PDFs
of La Bas
available for free
(scroll to bottom of page)

Should literature be considered useful?

The paradox of poetry

What to read next?

Joshua Marie Wilkinson:
Poem for Laynie Browne

Talking with Daniel Nadler

John Bennett
publishes a rave review
of John Bennett

Zane files for bankruptcy
as her book
becomes a movie

Jeannine Hall Gailey
does an art walk

When does art
become non-art?

Maya Lin
wins the Gish Prize

Jeff Koons & Kara Walker

Jed Perl’s
Art in America 1945 – 70

Anselm Kiefer:
art is not entertainment

Crossing Brooklyn

How Arman
opened the door
for assemblage

Ray K Metzker has died

SF galleries

Why Camille Henrot
envies painters

The Figure

The history of cave painting
goes way beyond Europe

The paintings of
David Lynch

Frank Gehry
on labor at
the Guggie Abu Dhabi

5 rules for kinda viewing art

John Baldesarri:
unforgivingly humorous

Photo show in Chelsea
attacked by neo-Nazis

Privacy backlash
 cancels Berlin art project

Paul Yore
acquitted of pornography
in Australia

Graffiti removal guy
becomes the graffiti

bell hooks:
not a fan of twerking

Steven Salaita:
University of Illinois censorship
ruined my academic career

Self-plagiarizing Slavoj Žižek

CEOs should read philosophy

Talking with Rosi Braidotti
about speculative realism

Business elites
are waging a brutal class war,
sez Noam

Gregory Orr
on killing as a child

The Essential Ellen Willis

Stephen Ratcliffe’s Selected Days
has been awarded
The Poetry Center Book Award

The Poetry Center Book Award
has a better track record
than any of the “major” prizes

David Abel’s Sweep

Robert Kelly:
An Alchemical Journal

Tyrone Williams on Fred Moten

Susan  Briante:
Notes Toward a Poetics of the Dow

Alanna Bondar has died

Thomas Devaney’s rear window

Vernacular criticism

What is serious?

Give a poet a chance to talk with Barack Obama
& what does he talk about?
His clothes!

Compulsive versifying
after amnesia

Valerie Macon was briefly the laureate of North Carolina

Laureate resigns
in latest round of
the North Carolina Poetry Wars

Thomas Weatherly
has died
& I am appalled
how little is available
online about this poet

Tjanting Bot:
Joe Newlin’s
twitterization of
my poem Tjanting

Against apocalypse:
Jessica Smith
reviews Revelator

Frank Davey
reviews
Against Conceptual Poetry

And Northern Soul

The Kelly Writers House Fellows
(full disclosure: I was one)
is cited by the Huffington Post
as no. 1 in its list of
The 12 Most Unique College Courses in the US

166 reviews of ModPo

Norman Fischer
on A Mammal of Style

Attempts to save Stevens’ house
for a museum
fall through