Friday, January 16, 2009
Yvor Winters,
gangsta of Quietude
Are the religious strongly drawn to Winters?
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Kenny Goldsmith:
”A bad time for poetry”
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Mark Wallace, K. Lorraine Graham & Joseph Mosconi
on new directions in writiing
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Close reading Kathleen Fraser
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Stephen Vincent at Braunstein / Quay
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Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater
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Israeli poets protest
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Last weekend of the Dmitri Prigov show at
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Elizabeth Alexander on the inaugural poem
The AP asks 10 poets for their inaugural poems
How to write an inaugural poem
How not to write an inaugural poem
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Ada Limón:
Five ways to practice poetry
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“New Lit Boy” Tao Lin
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New York Times obit
for W.D. Snodgrass
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This is so soothing
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Where po’ Poe’s
telltale heart really belongs
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Jerry Rothenberg
on translation & Celan
& on Langpo & the academy
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Talking with Marjorie Perloff
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The rest of Linh Dinh’s Seven Contemporary Italian Poets:
Marina Pizzi
Vanni Santoni
Florinda Fusco
Michele Zaffarano
Alessandro Broggi
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Mesmerized by flarf
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Is Poegles flarf?
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Three (inter)views of John Ashbery
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Hank Lazer
photo & videocast
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Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm archives
(over 900 MP3s)
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Charles Bernstein’s The
Subject
Sound files of Charles Bernstein-Ben Yarmolinsky operas
including two versions of The Subject
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Remembering Jason Shinder
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Liam Agrani lives in the margins (PDF)
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Edward Hirsch & Marilyn Hacker
have been named
Chancellors of the
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Literary reading perks back up
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Booksmith beats the odds
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Book Thug’s very big subscription deal
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WCW meets the MLA (PDF)
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The poetry of Paul Auster
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Shakespeare & deep
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Talking with Luc Sante
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The antiwar poetry of Robinson Jeffers
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The library
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A note on the Gotham Book Mart – Penn deal
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An agent in the making
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Who will be the last media giant standing?
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Borders hedges it board
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Arts orgs at risk
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Battlestar Galactica’s final season
starts tonight!
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The Chicago Tribune
on
Where Does It or You Begin?
(Memory as Innovation)
Writing, Performance & Video Festival
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The graying of the jazz world
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The Steve Layton songbook
(with lyrics and vocals from everyone
from
Ezra Pound to Edmond Jabès to Leroy Jenkins)
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Peter Voulkos,
the godfather of ceramics
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Coosje van Bruggen has died
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“Entropa” offends European sensibilities
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The History Show,
a retrospective of A.I.R.,
the first all-women’s gallery
has been extended to April 24
(PDF)
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The Critical Art Ensemble
at Printed Matter
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
As Captain Harold Dobey in Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s, Bernie Hamilton was one of the very first African-American authority figures on American television. He passed away last week at the age of 80. I got to know
Once
I still have one minor vice I can directly blame on Hamilton. He swore that everybody he knew in “the business” was hot for this new show that was going to appear on NBC and that it would be the hippest thing in the history of television. That show was, and is, Saturday Night Live.
Friday, January 02, 2009
Charles Olson,
who would have been 99 on Dec. 27,
reading ”The Librarian”
(YouTube)
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Billy Little died of cancer this morning
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Jack Spicer & the law
rob mclennan’s review
Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me
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Investigating Ed Sanders
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Joe Safdie and Rae Armantrout
at Beyond Baroque
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Post-avant is here to stay!
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George Packer of The New Yorker
gets some mail
about his reservations about
Elizabeth Alexander
as the inaugural poet
Why do pols gravitate
to crappy poetry?
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The books & poetry of
John Martone
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2 new sets of DVDs of readings
in France
(includes Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein,
Rosmarie Waldrop, Jacques Roubaud, Keith Waldrop,
Norma Cole, Bill Berkson, Emanuel Hocquard,
Robert Grenier, Kristin Prevallet,
Jerry Rothenberg, Tom Raworth
& many more)
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Blanchot at 100
(15 YouTube videos
of the conference at Bard)
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Elisa Gabbert on Stephanie Young
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Robin Tremblay-McGaw at the MLA
MLA notes
From the Chronicle of Higher Medication
On the plane ride home
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David Horowitz at the MLA
And here
And here
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Aileen Ibardaloza
on her mother reading
Eileen Tabios
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Didi Menendez:
Why I write
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Talking with Larissa
Szporluk
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Carolyn Cassady speaks of Jack Kerouac
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Three-day-old Fish
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John Taggart’s There are Birds
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On first seeing Iceland
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The left bank of New England
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Michael Amnasan’s Liar
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Farewell to
3 poets named John
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J.D. Salinger at 90
The wisdom of Holden Caufield
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Eleven things writers should know
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Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler
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Laura Moriarty
reading from A Semblance
(YouTube)
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Positioning contemporary
reading Rae Armantrout
in The New Yorker
(in Spanish)
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Carey Perloff on Harold Pinter
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Donald Revell reading Rimbaud
(YouTube)
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Talking with Dmitry Golynko
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“Anyhow” –
summing up an amazing year
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Talking with Harryette Mullen
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Form
is / is not
an extension of content
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“8 Found Poems from
Schaum’s German Grammar”
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The Longhouse photo album
is a visual history
of poetry in
over the last 30 years
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Gotham Book Mart arrives at Penn
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Saving Philly libraries
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Interviews with Seamus Heaney
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10 books that screwed up the world
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Christopher Arigo
reading from
In the Archives
(YouTube)
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“The
Talking with Molly Fisk & Yuko Adachi
about their collaboration
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The Corpse walks
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Mark Doty: feeling validated
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Preparing to be Susan Sontag
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A note on Hugh Fox
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Village Voice lays off Nat Hentoff
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Top 10 language stories of 2008
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Misogynist tagger
banned from carrying pens
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12 cross-sections of the
Ubuweb archive
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Guerrilla Girls on Tour
New Year’s Resolutions
(here, here & here)
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LA MOCA should
”show its own”
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A profile of Jasper Johns
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Instruction art
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Nathaniel Anthony Ayers
& the Disciples of Beethoven
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2008 Village Voice Jazz Poll Winners
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The Making of Americans – the opera
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Philosophers at work
& looking for more
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Monday, December 29, 2008
A lurid NY Times “review” of
Jack Spicer’s
My Vocabulary Did This to Me
And another in the LA Times
Was Jack Spicer sexy?
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A detailed,
multi-part look at
The Best American Poetry 2008
answers
my 20th question
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My list of upcoming marathons missed
”When Does It or You Begin (Memory as Innovation):
Writing, Performance & Video”
from Jan. 9 to Feb. 1
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Wishing it was
Will Alexander
at Obama’s inaugural
Oops, somebody’s read Venus Hottentot
The NY Times weighs in
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Gerry Meisenhelder,
poet laureate of
has died
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Emma Bee Bernstein:
”What I Learned in School Today”
A Flickr memorial website
for Emma Bee Bernstein
Charles Bernstein’s website
with memorial service information
Nona Aronowitz on Bernstein
Remembering Bernstein
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New York Times obit
of Adrian Mitchell
Remembering Mitchell
And here
A Socialist Workers obit
with links to videos
from 1965 & 2008
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Tributes to Harold Pinter
Pinter & Creeley on war
Pinter’s last interview:
”Cricket is better than sex”
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Remembering Dorothy Porter
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Steve Fama’s “20 Great Poetry Books of 2008”
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Gary Sullivan’s 2008 in review
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Close reading
one sentence
from Robert Grenier
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In
an actual campaign
for Poet Laureate
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I’m Dreaming of AJunky’s Christmas
just like the one Bill Burroughs used to know
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Genealogy of the School of Q
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Robert Mittenthal
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Being interviewed
without being asked
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3 questions for Ed Baker
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Gary Snyder
on corresponding with Allen Ginsberg
Henry Kissinger & Allen Ginsberg
naked together on TV
(scroll down)
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Reading the journals you’re already in
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Alexander Trocchi:
Seize the world!
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Flarf + conceptualism
(conspiracy theory)
Quietism pretending not to take sides
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Spun Puns (& Anagrams)
in the work of Harryette Mullen
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Waiting for Sam Beckett
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“Polis is What?
Finding one’s way in
The Maximus Poems,”
a talk Jan. 3 in
(scroll down)
Black Mountain spirit lingers
in
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Dirk Johnson is posting
sections of Ronald Johnson’s
out-of-print masterwork
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Jack Kerouac’s Pull My Daisy
(or maybe
Robert Frank’s & Alfred Leslie’s)
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Remembering the Rubiot in Tulsa
where in 1960
Ron Padgett gave his first public reading
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The poetics of Frank Samperi
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Literature after the death of trade publishing
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News after the death of newspapers
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Washington Post, Baltimore Sun –
something less than competitors
in the same market
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The new Luddism
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Poetry & the British imagination
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Talking with Abdel-Rahmen El-Abnoudi
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And here also
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Patti Smith:
An interview, a review
& videos of a reading & song
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Robert Bly turns 82
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Zadie Smith: race & speech (MP3)
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Lisa Russ Spaar’s Satin Cash
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Kate Brady gets to profile Kate Brady
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Beyond Baroque
finally has signed
a 25-year lease on its facility
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Pastoral now
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Remembering Parveen Shakir
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Gerald Stern:
5 poems & a video
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Boot camp with Brenda Shaughnessy
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John Updike,
having become
”a David Levine caricature of himself”
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Nabokov’s choice
of Russian poetry
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Rachel Forrest
returns to poetry
with 30 poems in 30 days
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Coherence & the undergraduate English major
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Fitzgerald’s characters & their schools
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Giving voice to William Stafford
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Young Susan Sontag
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Interviews from “Seamus Famous”
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Phyllis McGinley &
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Setting Kathryn Stripling Byer to music
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Olivier Messiaen at 100
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When Waiting for Godot
played at San Quentin
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Whitman’s Lincoln
coming to Philly
A rare Whitman edition for auction
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Wallace Berman & Richard Prince
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Remembering Grace Hartigan
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Michael Goldberg et al in
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Considering James Castle
from a great distance
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A new work from Yoko Ono
in The NY Times
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A shake-up at Christie’s
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Learning from Venturi
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The return of Bruno S.
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Penn Museum
cans research,
goes pop to survive
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An alternate history of
Deep Throat
from inside
the intelligence community
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In case nobody’s noticed,
this war ain’t over!
