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Karlheinz Stockhausen
1928 - 2007
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Saturday, December 08, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
(from left: cris cheek, Matthew Abess, Dr. Marvin Sackner, Maggie O’Sullivan, Charles Bernstein, unidentified)
Photo courtesy of Derek Love & PENNsound
Bob Cobbing:
Sockless in Sandals
(PDF)
Plus
Bob Cobbing at Penn
(last 3 weeks)
Plus plus
Bob Cobbing archives
at PENNsound
Plus plus plus
Bob Cobbing archives
on Ubuweb
§
Richard Owens responds
to my review of
Damn the Caesars
§
Howard Junker
reads Paul Muldoon
as editor
& has some interesting
observations
(why I call this
neophobia,
part 1)
§
Al Filreis
on anti-modernism
in 1960
(why I call this
neophobia,
part 2)
Al Filreis
on responses to
The Grand Piano
Al Filreis’
bookmarks
§
The New York Times’
list of “100 notable books of 2007”
contains just four volumes of poetry,
including one by Rae Armantrout
The three others
continue the hegemony
of what I once called
the “Gang of Eight”
(This year it’s just FSG & Ecco/Harper)
§
Erin Mouré’s
Transparency Machine
exhibit
§
Two books
from George Bowering
§
After 73 years
of publishing poetry,
Ruth Brin
tries a novel
§
Celebrating John Ashbery
in utter bafflement
§
Charles Bernstein
& Susan Bee
collaborating in 1971
§
Jim Harrison
on
Charles Bukowski
§
Vernon Scannell.
”drunk, boxer, and Army deserter,”
who “emerged a poet,”
has died
As has
Paul Roche
§
Kindle me this
§
Talking with
Kim Addonizio
§
Worth attending:
in
Geoffrey Young
reads
The Riot Act,
December 1
§
Worth attending
in
Big book
party/reading
for
The Collected Poems
of Philip Whalen,
Dec. 4
@ Moe’s
§
Worth attending
in NY:
David Shapiro
in conversation with
David Lehman
Dec. 11
@ The New School
§
Poets against the war
on the Monterey Peninsula
§
250 attend
marathon reading
in Traverse City, Michigan
§
In
20 years of poetry
at the Laughing Goat
§
22 poems
by 17 men
with one thing in common:
Guantanamo
§
Israeli verse
written in
European languages
§
A profile of
Nasreen Syed,
a Canadian poet
writing in
Urdu & Punjabi
§
African Asian Scottish
performance poet
§
Short profile of
Pham-Tien Duat
§
Slammin’
down under
§
From
Is English a foreign language?
§
A little YouTube vispo
from Nico Vassilakis
§
Poet Populist
isn’t an academic
§
Bringing Gulzar
to Bollywood
§
Bringing Western writing
into Arabic
at last
§
Performer murdered
during play
in
§
A profile of
David Solway
§
W.S. Merwin
at 80
§
Seamus Heaney
on the poetry
of
§
year of Quietude
(plus Galway Kinnell)
in review
§
Andrew Motion’s
Christmas recommendations
find Ted Hughes’s world
”as compelling as Yeats's,
but more instantly sympathetic
and approachable”
§
§
Robert Pinsky
offers
Merwin’s Neruda
§
Norman Mailer’s work
in the
New York Review of Books
§
Software
to guide you
through your
paint-by-the-numbers
novel
§
Jenny Holzer
gets literary
and
political
at Mass MoCA
§
Barry Schwabsky
on
Kara Walker
§
§
In a land where
the few hundred
publishing poets
of the 1950s
have begat
over 10,000 today,
the rise of arts culture
is inescapable
§
Peter Gay’s
pop modernism
§
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Books Galore, Festus, Missouri
Of books as a system
Pierre Bayard’s first chapter
Talking with
Pierre Bayard
§
Supreme Court disses
Amiri Baraka
§
Talking with
Aram Saroyan
§
Adam Day’s
Roar Shock
§
A profile of
Glenna Luschei
§
Talking with
Robert Hass
Placing Bob Hass
& Mark Strand
on a spectrum
that stretches
all the way from
Robert Lowell
to
John Berryman
Completely flustered
by that old avant-gardist,
Robert Hass
§
Big Brother
is reading your verse
§
§
Norman Mailer
reading
at the
Mailer
on Bush & Iraq
§
Talking with
David Amram
§
The Poetry Farm
§
§
A profile of
Lawson Inada
§
Remembering
Nima
§
Philip Schultz’ Failure
§
Leonard Cohen
with
Philip Glass
§
§
David Trinidad’s
”confection-laced”
Late Show
§
Arab poets
at Jack Hirschman’s
International Poetry Fest
§
A fall reading tour
that includes
20 separate colleges
§
On the road movie
§
Poets’ mugs
adorn
poets’ mug
§
Jean Valentine
once again in
The New Yorker
§
Pinsky wins
lifetime award
Pinsky on
Margaret Atwood
§
A poet worthy
of the
Mütter Museum
§
Anne Stevenson,
Paula Gunn Allen
&
Sineád Morrisey
receive
Lannan Literary Fellowships
for their poetry
§
Canadian
bookstore rage
§
When it comes to rereading,
The Bible
comes in behind
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
§
History poems
from
§
$1 million demand
to ensure
a poetry reading
by cowboy poets?
§
James Michie
has died
§
A “cringe-making” book of poetry
by the Tory candidate
for mayor of
§
Vairamuthu
unplugged
§
Jay Rogoff’s
Long Fault
§
Robert Bly,
reduced to
parodying himself
§
Six
quietists
§
A novel from
Ha Jin
§
As Albee
nears 80
§
Re-launching
the real
DIA
§
A defense of public art
in
§
A new eye
in
§
The Radiohead “experiment”
§
Žižek:
”Resistance is Surrender”
§
Andrew Sullivan
reads this blog
Sunday, November 04, 2007
§
Gil Ott
interviews
Jackson Mac Low
§
Three views
of
Joanne Kyger’s
About Now
Plus
Jacket’s
2000 feature
on Kyger
§
Helen Adam
on
PENNsound
§
12 poets
look at the impact
of their first books
§
Thomas Fink
on
the poetics
of questions
§
Did Kenneth Koch
really write
”A True Account
of Talking to the Sun
at Fire Island”?
& a dreadful review
of Koch’s
On the Edge:
Collected Longer Poems
§
Maggie O’Sullivan
on
PENNsound
§
Reading
On the Road
in
§
Lucas Klein
on Victor Segalen’s
Stèles / 古今碑錄,
stone prose poems
of a pre-modern
(Volume 2
&
the complete
original text
of
Stèles / 古今碑錄
are available online)
§
Thomas Fink
interviews
Noah Eli Gordon
§
English
as an
invention
§
Is an MFA
or PhD
really necessary?
§
Washoe,
the first chimp
to use sign language,
has died
§
Rigoberto González
on online journals
§
Digitalization
& its discontents
§
§
§
Talking with Philip Corbett,
the man in charge
of grammar & style
at The New York Times
§
Tom Beckett
interviews
Alan Davies
§
“33 Rules of Poetry
for Poets
23 and Under”
from old man
Kent Johnson
(one should be
”never use
poetry & poets
in the same sentence”)
Plus Kent’s
”I Once Met”
which includes
”I once met Ron Silliman”
§
Rethinking
d.a. levy
§
Amos Oz
on
literature vs. hate
§
Harriet Monroe
&
Alice Corbin Henderson’s
1917
New Poetry anthology
digitized by Google Books
§
Microsoft will scan
Yale library
§
Mina Loy
& the myth
of
Arthur Cravan
§
Tom Beckett
interviews
Stephen Vincent
§
“
Vilas Sarang
is like eating
blue cheese”
§
language school
goes bankrupt
§
Pinsky
on teaching English
at
§
Check out
Michael Ondaatje’s answers
to questions posed
of the Giller Prize shortlist
§
A profile of
Carlos Piocos
§
A review of
Janet Malcolm’s
Gertrude and Alice
almost as unsympathetic
to Stein’s work
as Malcolm herself
§
Leigh Ann Couch
&
Andrew Kozma
§
Rethinking
Wilfred Owen
§
“How to Get Your Poetry Published”
(a panel
with the least appropriate
speakers imaginable)
§
The Tales of
Beedle the Bard
§
Mikhail Epstein’s
Cries in the New Wilderness
§
Nathan Brown
blames his obscurity
on writers
who demand
more from readers
§
Rafael Campo,
new formalist
§
Graham Mort:
”consequences
cannot
be avoided”
§
§
A profile of
Dave Schonfelder
§
Where retro meets metro:
what’s new
with the Paris Review
§
More about
what’s wrong with
The Atlantic
§
Why Latin lives
§
Women
& modernist architecture
§
§
Right now
we’re around numbers
6 through 8
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
PENNsound
has added pages of MP3 files
for the magic twins
of Philly poetry,
Frank Sherlock & CA Conrad
§
CA Conrad’s account
of the
Bob Cobbing celebration
at Writers House
§
Susan Howe
& the
”Joy of Sects”
§
Poetry in
in a time of crisis
§
The future
of the past tense
§
Laura Ulewicz,
who declined to be in
The New American Poetry,
has died
§
Javanese poet & translator
Toto Sudarto Bachtiar
has also died
§
Of Doris Lessing,
Nobel laureate
§
The New York Times
calls Alice Notley
many names,
including
a Language poet
Alice
has won this year’s
Lenore Marshall Prize
(No word, tho,
on why this prize,
which was given for decades
by The Nation,
has shifted to
the Academy of American Poets)
§
The day
J.K. Rowling
won the Nobel Prize
§
Ange Mlinko
reviews
David Shapiro
in Poetry
§
Is the Web
good for writers?
§
An ezine
that focuses
on the review
of first books
§
How far off the grid
is Joe Plum?
§
Poez
returns
& so does
Dylan Thomas
§
100 years
of
Korean modernism
§
§
“Margaret Atwood
&
empty space”
§
The book market
in the
Czech Republic
§
§
Oscar Wilde turns 40
§
A portrait of Edmund Wilson,
the lion of Quietude
§
§
§
A tense interview with
Linton Kwesi Johnson
§
Talking with
Margaret Gibson
§
Talking with
Mitchell Kaplan,
bookstore owner
& head of
the ABA
§
Poetry in the streets
is divisive
in
§
§
“My Poet”
§
Waiting for the publisher
§
A profile of
Richard Wilbur
§
Robert Pinsky
on
Anne Bradstreet
&
Philip Freneau
§
Wittgenstein’s Longfellow
§
“One ought really
to do philosophy
only as a form
of poetry.”
§
Jimmy Santiago Baca
at The Big Read
§
Growing old
with Anne Stevenson
§
Slammin’ in Bahrain,
just slammin’ in
what a wonderful feeling,
I’m happy again
§
Talking with
Ishle Yi Park & Bob Holman
§
Reading report:
Ada Limon &
Michael Cirelli
§
Remembering
Archie Ammons
§
poet laureate
& the laureate
of
Warwick, Coventry
§
More silliness
about
who wrote
Shakespeare
§
An anthology of
”It’s not dense
and obscure”
§
Ned Snell,
Poet of the Year
§
A history of
The New Left Review
§
§
Peter Schjeldahl
on
Richard Prince
§
A one-woman show
by
Jay DeFeo,
a painter
active among the Beats
§
A profile of
Louise Bourgeois
§
“the most popular
and most successful
American artist
who ever lived”
§
Museums as
terror targets
§
§
Debating the future
of British art
§
Collaborations from Hell Dept.:
Leonard Cohen & Philip Glass
§
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