Monday, April 21, 2008
Barack Obama & Bob Casey right here in Paoli on Saturday (Photo by Sleeping Cat Beads)
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Jeffrey Side interviews Marjorie Perloff
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Tom Clark needs your help
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Lyn Hejinian at
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Michael Dirda on Scroggins' Zukofsky
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Wikipedia discriminates against small press poets
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Elizabeth Willis talking with Charles Bernstein
Elizabeth Willis reading
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In
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Talking with Al Young
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Contemporary poetry from the Middle East, Asia & beyond
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Thomas Braichet has died of cancer at 30
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NY Times obit for Aimé Césaire
The Associated Press obit
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Langdon Hammer on John Ashbery
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Community & post-colonial poetics
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An excellent obit of Andrew Crozier
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On the question of the line
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Stephen Burt against argument
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Talking with Robert Creeley
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Yet another appreciation of Jonathan Williams
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Walt Whitman reads aloud
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Craig Perez on Aram Saroyan & the “ethnic-avant”
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What went on at the
Chicago Poetry Symposium
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A free verse novel about werewolves
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A poem by Gustaf Sobin
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North Carolina’s contributions to Beat culture
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Jack Hirschman remembers the Beats
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Talking with Jorie Graham
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The globalized fictioneer
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Sam Cornish in Jamaica Plain
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Robert Pinsky’s poetry FAQs
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Axel Pinpin, poet & political prisoner
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Bernard O’Donoghue’s Selected Poems
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Letters from Stephen Burt, Slavoy Žižek, Frank Kermode et al
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The history of poetry in 362 words
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Talking with Anne Stevenson (PDF)
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10 questions for Ivy Alvarez
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Rereading The Morning of the Poem
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The failures of Philip Schultz
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Imagining Akhmatova
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Cavafy vs. Dylan & Catullus
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A profile of Darrell Kinsey
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The national poets of Wales
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New Brazilian anthology seems bland
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James Winn on The Poetry of War
And in the hands of the troops
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Writing at V Tech
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“A professor, a poet, and a nun all walk into a bar . . . “
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In
& in
Face-off challenger Sandra Dunn
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The poem in your pocket
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A profile of Beth Ann Fennelly
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Frost’s prose
& Frost as fiction
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John Betjeman’s “muse”
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Charlie Simic goes to Choate
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A profile of George Barker
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With Ted Kooser, WYSIWYG
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A panel on the art of translation
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Slammin’ for “Greek Week”
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Ed Hirsch on what poetry is
Hirsch’s “Cotton Candy”
A profile of Hirsch
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The gender gap in contest panels
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Snippets of quietude
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Amsterdam:
World Book Capital 2008
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Recent Library of Congress readings:
Philip Nikolayev (MP3)
Naomi Shihab Nye (RAM)
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The new Parnassus
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Poetry for the young
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LSU & two small presses
make up the SIBA poetry shortlist
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Mishima on stage
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Rescuing Steinbeck
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Joyce Carol Oates on the last days
of famous writers
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Family vs. writing in the fiction of
Erica Jong
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Creating Slaughterhouse Five
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Talking with Lewis Turco
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Studying the smell of old books
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Favorite bookstores
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Bruce Sterling at Innovationsforum
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Sit shiva for narrative
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Is Georgia State the new Kinko’s?
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Free, online, open source textbooks
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French Theory is not “just another Fish story”
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Against critics as “neuroscience groupies”
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The “100 most powerful people” in British culture
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Happy birthday, John Chamberlain
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Remembering Pippa Bacca
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“Benefits Supervisor Sleeping”
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The photographs of Walter Crump
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Kitaj’s last works
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Amy Sillman – the ultimate
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The Beijing art market
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Rodchenko at the
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Film revisits the case of Roman Polanski
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The heritage of being Wagner
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Battlestar Galactica’s composer
blogs the show
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A YouTube blues tour
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Felicity,
the center of the world
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Rod Smith on Ceptuetics (MP3)
Plus Kenny Goldsmith (MP3)
& Bruce Andrews (MP3) & Kim Rosenfield (MP3)
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New York Times obit for Jonathan Williams
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Talking with Blas Falconer
Emily Pérez on Falconer
Falconer on the experience & aesthetics of
”the Other Rican”
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Joshua Marie Wilkinson
reading at Stephanie Young’s house
(MP3)
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Rae Armantrout’s Next Life
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Javier Huerta in conversation with Miguel Murphy
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The poems of Vaan Nguyen
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Robert Fagles has died
A test of translation
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Gordon Brown’s favorite poem
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Textsound, accent on the sound
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Beth Ann Fennelly’s Unmentionables
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The oldest bookstore in Canada is kaput!
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Humans were not built for reading
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From John Lowther’s long poem Stoppages
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A Rotary Club takes note of Robert Creeley & John Ashbery
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Muggles enrolling in Potter studies
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Have books about books
replaced books?
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Patricia Smith’s Teahouse of the Almighty
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Talking with Mark Strand
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Talking with Alfred Arteaga
Craig Santos Perez on Arteaga
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Hugo Claus has died
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Bill Brown’s Late Winter
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A new e-book on iPaper from Tomaž Šalamun
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On finding one’s name in The Constructivist Moment
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Ruth Dallas has died
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The poet as rock star – Mary Oliver
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Lorenzen’s, the last used bookstore in
is shutting down
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Indie bookstores in Austin
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What British teens
do & do not read
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Joyelle McSweeney on Mónica de la Torre
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Six new poems from John Wilkinson
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Oe & Okinawa
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Why plagiarism in books gets by
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Rich Villar’s “Ars Poetica in Progress”
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A profile of Kevin Higgins
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April is the cruelest month
& getting crueler every year
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Poetry Everywhere in
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A reading series in Salem, MA
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The most successful Indian novelist
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A profile of Robin Robertson
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Touring Longfellow’s home
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Form, formalism & literary memory
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The poetry scene in Northern Nevada
And Central Michigan
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Robert Crawford, “agog at technology”
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The Polish journalist’s posthumous poems
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A new collection from Young Smith
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Locating the book review section
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The worst Henry James title ever
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The love poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner
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When writing fiction shuts down the poetry
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The end of customer service
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Why is El Greco worth less than a Koons?
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Enrique Chagoya at the
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Art vs. history in San Francisco
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The latest chapter in the old
”Is graffiti art?” debate
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A Governor General’s Award
to a performance artist
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Alvin Ailey gets both a street
& a Barbie Doll
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The chimp who thought he was a boy
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A big tip of the hat to
The Latino Poetry Review
from whose big first issue
we’ve taken just a few choice links
