Thursday, September 11, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Positions Colloquium schedule
Mark Wallace on the significance
of the conference
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Remembering Lawrence Braithwaite
Family obit
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Talking with Lydia Davis
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An underground classic of conceptual writing
finally is available to all:
Mark Peters’ Men (PDF)
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Haim Gouri remembers Mahmoud Darwish
The place of Mahmoud Darwish
(includes a last poem)
A second perspective
An award in Darwish’s name
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Seedi Mohammed Weld Bamba
is the Prince of Poets
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John Ashbery:
”Attabled with the Spinning Years”
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Belonging:
New Poetry by Iranians
Around the World
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Rodney Koeneke checks in
on poetry & technology
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“When did I start to ignore my elders?”
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Andy Gricevich on Michael Palmer’s Active Boundaries
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The BlazeVOX
raffle & bake sale!
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The value of a compact edition
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Listening to poems from PENNsound
whilst trekking thru France
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Jeffrey Beam
talking about & reading from
The Beautiful Tendons
(MP3)
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Martin Burke’s I Ching
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derek beaulieu on Jordon Scott’s blert
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Frank Ledwell has died
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Paul Martínez Pompa
is the winner of
the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
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Travis Nichols on SloPo
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White Heat –
Emily Dickinson & Thomas Higginson
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Polis is this:
writing & place
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Meetings with Improbable Danglers
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Remembering Gerald Burns
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Penchant –
a poetry collective
in
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Parks & poetry
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New pages at the
for
Donato Mancini
rob mclennan
Gustave Morin
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A library of (mostly) unread books
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A list of newsletters & blogs
focused on publishing
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Indexing as a form of visual art
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© & the problem of
private property
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Appeals court rules against family
in Steinbeck rights case
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“a fungus that’s seep into the marrow of
the Body Poetic”
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Steve McCaffery, Bob Perelman, Charles Bernstein:
What’s the Word?
(MP3)
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Howard Junker to retire
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Reginald Shepherd on Poetry & Criticism
(part 2) (part 3)
Plus a poem in this week’s Nation
(sub may be required)
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Bob Dylan’s book of poems
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Dylan Thomas’ wife’s diary
is for sale
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Dannie Abse:
writing through grief
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Cynthia Anderson
leaves
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Talking with Sebastian Matthews
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Some eyebrow-raising quotations
from John Gardner’s
On Moral Fiction
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A salute to Ted Solotaroff
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Banjo Paterson poems
found in 109-year-old diary
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Matthew Cheney’s list of lists
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Mary Biddinger’s
“unwritten rules” for writing poetry
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The “worst writing of 2008” is …
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“a place in the line of distinguished
light-verse practitioners”
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Mary Karr on Philip Larkin
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Defending Robert Burns
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Robert Lowell
& the summer of too many poets
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A profile of Francis Wyndham
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Cyril Goffe –
the poet at 100
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Shklovsky, Barthes, James Wood?
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Barnes & Noble
will pass
on buying Borders
(sub required for full article)
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The uselessness
of the literary agent
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Should
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How romantic
are today’s authors?
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Byron’s fan mail
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“kind of like
a beauty pageant”
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Alan Sokal
continues to harvest
his little mischief
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4 questions for arts education?
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Coming soon to Black Rock
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Theodore A Harris’ Our Flesh of Flames
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The governor thinks not
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Losing money on Richard Serra
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Why are movies about
Andy Warhol
always so bad?
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Tens of thousands mourn Darwish
Palestinians turn out for Darwish
Agence France Press obit for
Mahmoud Darwish
A salute to Darwish
in Dar Al-Hayat
Al Jazeerah
(video)
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Laura Carter reads Rae Armantrout
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Charles Olson:
Language as Physical Fact
(a conference in
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Khlebnikov Carnival
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Tonight in Philly --
Mina Loy celebration
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SlamCharlotte
repeats as National Slam Champion
A detailed account
of the final night
The week in review
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The day Robert Creeley met Franz Kline
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Close reading John Ashbery
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Remembering (reconjuring?)
Steve Abbbott
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Best summer reading list, 2008
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Stan Apps on how flarf differs
from previous avant tendencies
Kasey Mohammad on the value
of critical distance
Dark Fantom’s
”Breaking News”
How to avoid fleeting poetry trends
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Mayakovsky’s Night Wraps the Sky
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Russians reverse themselves
on the censoring of
Sofi Oksanen
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The accidental Keats
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Terry Teachout’s
unfortunate omissions
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Lisa Russ Spaar’s
Satin Cash
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Talking with Elizabeth Trew
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Crossing TV’s alps
with Charles Van Doren
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Kindle hype boosts Amazon stock
Can Kindle break the e-book curse?
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6 months of short reviews
from the librarians at
the University of Arizona
Poetry Center
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Lorna Page
takes care of her posse
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April Ossman’s
Anxious Music
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Why yuck?
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Nate Pritts’
Sensational Spectacular
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“The Englishness of English Poetry”
(part 1) (part 2)
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Fady Joudah’s
The Earth in the Attic
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The short story wars
in
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This year’s Hugo Awards
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Susan Hutton’s
On the Vanishing of Large Creatures
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“the finest of modernist poets…”
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“Haiku’d” –
McCain & Obama ads
reduced to 17 syllabobbles
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Paige Ackerson-Kiely’s
In No One’s Land
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Caitlin Thomas’ diary is for sale
Her copy of Dylan Thomas’ first book
valued at £25,000
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Ted Solotaroff has died
Richard Stern on Solotaroff,
Dariwsh & the Olympics
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The new Photo-Eye
is devoted to the 50th anniversary
of Robert Frank’s Americans
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Is this your art?
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Saving Iowa City
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Dog turd runs amok
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John Cage
In a Landscape
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A chord sequence you’ve never heard before
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When tape was king –
The San Francisco Tape Music Center
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Where size is all
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What is the Singularity?
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Jürgen Habermas :
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Some 80 blogs
added to the roster
this past month,
thanks to Lynn Behrendt!
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Monday, August 11, 2008
A “state funeral” for
Mahmoud Darwish
in the
Palestinians mourn national poet
Should Darwish be taught in Israeli schools?
(see the article on
Darwish article in Al-Ahram Weekly
New York Times obit
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51 years after publication,
Mad Men hype provokes a run on
O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency
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Kristin Prevallet’s I, Afterlife
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George Oppen & the value
of a well-edited Collected
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Hearing Creeley read
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Talking with Michelle Naka Pierce
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Stephen Burt on Juan Felipe Herrera
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“I have seen the future…
and it is Hermitage Books”
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“I remember Al Purdy”
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Gina Myers on Justin Sirois
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Defining fine press categories
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August 8, 1876 –
the start of the mimeo revolution
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Kindle sales reach 240,000
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From slams to marriage
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Ten things to do
at the 2008 National Poetry Slam
Day one of the National Slam
The Wednesday night competition
The Thursday night quarter finals
Plus the Nerd Slam
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Slams across the border
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An actual poetry-in-the-Olympics story!
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Brent Cunningham in Publisher’s Weekly:
why small press publishing
is like baseball
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Talking with Sun Yung Shin
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John Ashbery on Elizabeth Bishop (MP3)
Ashbery reading from Chinese Whispers (MP3)
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“Picking winners” & the “true avant-garde”
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Kazem Al Saher
to perform on
Prince of Poets
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Ten propositions on flarf
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A survey on purchasing poetry
Geof Huth’s answers
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A profile of Fady Joudah
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A Kurdish bestseller
about poetry
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Celebrating Jonathan Williams
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Publishing & literary culture
in the shadow of
The Birds’ Nest
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In India,
a pol publishes a book
of poems written
on his cellphone
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“I thought language poetry was…”
(scroll down)
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When cowboys come to Prescott
Marge Tucker, cowboy poet
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Solzhenitsyn obits & articles:
The Stratfor intelligence group
Philadelphia Inquirer
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
NY Times again
The Guardian
LA Times
Reuters
Pravda
BBC
NPR
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As entertaining as C-SPAN2 ever gets
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Ted Greenwald at the EPC
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Some Iowa City press releases
never change
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One topic on which
Reginald Shepherd & I
agree 100%
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A year of reading alphabetically
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Where to sit
when writing poetry or prose
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A response to a reading by
Michael Cross & Rob Halpern
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Los Angeles, Detroit &
critical regionalism within PoMo theory
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Ray Bradbury:
Long Beach is at war
with books
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Dodie Bellamy’s
bedtime reading
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Doris Lessing’s parents
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A report on the Pigeon Poetry Cup
with a great photo
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Amazon has agreed to buy Abebooks.com
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Talking of Dickinson & Higginson
with Brenda Wineapple
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A profile of Susanne Dubroff
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The LA Times is backfilling
some old literary pieces online,
including this assessment of Charles Bukowski
by Aram Saroyan
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Ron Slate on Warren Woessner
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Heidi Williamson,
poet-in-residence
at the
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Stanley Plumly’s Posthumous Keats
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Reading Philip Larkin in
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Mick Imlah, master of verse
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The future of Hebrew
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Zilka Joseph between two worlds
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Tagore in the rain
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On the Road – a radio tribute
(available until 8/15)
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Getting Guyana’s national poet
into the schools
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Pentti Saarikoski’s The Edge of
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The francophone poetry
of the
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New writing in South Africa
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A novel too dangerous to publish?
Random House thinks so
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The impact of the market on
(mostly) School of Quietude
recording archives
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James Tate reading (MP3)
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The art scene in Taos
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“100 Near Perfect Books of Poetry”
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Poetry invites introspection
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Mary Karr on Robert Hayden
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Saving the library
in Timbuktu
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A profile of the Book Barn
(one of 3 indies
still in my neck of the woods)
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One way to boost book revenues
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Floods in Montpelier
hit a bookstore
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Why McNally works
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Finnish PEN
protests Russian censorship
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Longing for Ye Olde New Criticism
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Who framed George Lakoff?
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More on Orwell’s diaries online
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Kayoko Hashimoto & Ban’ya Natsuishi
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Pearse Hutchinson’s At Least for Awhile
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Poet, goaltender, nut bar
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Talking with Gulzar
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What role for the Prime Minister in
the Prime Minister’s Awards
in Australia?
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Gift poetry & music
in Zimbabwe
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“Good bad
but not evil”
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Binding Charles Alexander (MP4)
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This is your brain
on Shakespeare
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Larry Lessig:
When art becomes crime
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Is the BBC
killing the writing?
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French publishing
looks forward to
a gloomy fall
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Film, translation, subtitles & dubs
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Paul Lansky unplugs
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Anthony Braxton:
Trans-idiomatic model building
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Music theory
in the academy vs.
music theory
in music
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David Byrne’s bike racks
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“What I call a sound”
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The dean of Indian painting
takes up poetry
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Visual culture’s number 1 subject
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Jim Murdoch on poetry & art
(part 1) (part 2)
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Who was Francis Bacon?
Damien Hirst on “dirty painters
who wrestle with the dark stuff”
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Shades of John Ashcroft!
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When the judge quits over the art
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Jackson Pollock & the Iowa City flood
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Tagging Keith Haring
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Anthropology – “’postmodern’ cesspool”
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Boredom as cultural resistance
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In praise of elitism
(a tale of Vegas & Chicago)
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How theory “damaged” the humanities
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But the East Bay Vivarium
is still my favorite store
for browsing!
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Farewell to Tony Russo
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