Showing posts with label passing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label passing. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2008

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

Wikipedia

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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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Larry Rivers & Frank O’Hara

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Haim Gouri remembers Mahmoud Darwish

The place of Mahmoud Darwish
(includes a last poem)

A second perspective

Darwish’s funeral

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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Blurb wars

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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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my Dear coUntess

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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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Sous Rature

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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
Northfield, MN

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Parks & poetry

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New pages at the
Electronic Poetry Center
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
Santa Barbara

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Talking with Sebastian Matthews

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Alan Cheuse on Doris Lessing

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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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Kafka & porn?

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Matthew Cheney’s list of lists

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Mary Biddinger’s
“unwritten rules” for writing poetry

Deborah Ager’s

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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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Last lines

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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 Germany unban Mein Kampf?

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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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Should Iowa sell the Pollock?

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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Music geeks

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Replacing the B.A. with a test?

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Tens of thousands mourn Darwish

The laureate of all Arabs

Poet and Icon

Palestinians turn out for Darwish

Official ceremony

I begged him not to go

BBC

Agence France Press obit for
Mahmoud Darwish

A salute to Darwish
in Dar Al-Hayat

Al Jazeerah
(video)

Jidariyya

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Laura Carter reads Rae Armantrout

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Charles Olson:
Language as Physical Fact

(a conference in
Tucson)

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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

Zizek / flarf  / Gurlesque

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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Six classic wordle poets

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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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Odd’s odd

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Why yuck?

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Top 10 Literary Virgins

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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
Canada

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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 :
Europe at an impass

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Distinct moral systems

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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
West Bank Tuesday

Poet of the resistance

Palestinians mourn national poet

Jerusalem Post:
Should Darwish be taught in Israeli schools?
(see the article on
Guyana below)

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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Remembering Al Purdy

“I remember Al Purdy

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Gina Myers on Justin Sirois

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Is poetry a technology?

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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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Spoonbill & Sugartown

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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

Another perspective

The Thursday night quarter finals

Plus the Nerd Slam

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Poetry slam in 2012 Olympics?

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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Wordle does Hejinian

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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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Tarpaulin Sky

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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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Pratilipi

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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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Voices & Visions

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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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The King’s English

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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
London Science Museum

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Stanley Plumly’s Posthumous Keats

First Chapter

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Reading Philip Larkin in Pakistan

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Mick Imlah, master of verse

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The “real” tree

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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 Europe

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The francophone poetry
of the
Indian Ocean

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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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Save our bookstore

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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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Non-virtual book buying

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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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Allegories of disablement

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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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A critic on the receiving end

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“What I call a sound

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The Embassy of Anaphoria

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The dancing death

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Jazz & social relations

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Don’t blame the newspapers!

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Andy Warhol & Gertrude Stein

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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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Eye-detic

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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Quantification & art history

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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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The insect museum

But the East Bay Vivarium
is still my favorite store
for browsing!

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Farewell to Tony Russo

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