Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Photo by David Highsmith
A polished apple for David Melnick
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Secret © treaty leaks – & it’s bad
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Murdoch’s plan:
block Google search
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What’s going on in Russian poetry?
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Bolaño for beginners
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My original 1979 talk on The New Sentence,
all 3 hours & 4 minutes of it,
or divided into two 90-minute sessions
(part one) (part two)
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Lydia Davis & Jonathan Lethem
in Philly, Nov. 12
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Keith Waldrop reading
& in conversation
with Charles Bernstein
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Bay Area Lit Scene:
Books & Bookshelves
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Ange Mlinko: linguistic currency
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& who’s offended by Anne Frank?
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Rodrigo Toscano
on the financial meltdown, the bailout & poetics
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Close listening aloud:
Alice Notley
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The Nook takes off
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Seattle bookstores
go in for Espresso
(the book machine, that is)
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Robert Kelly:
The Will of Achilles
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Nov. 14:
Stanza’s virtual vispo festival
will be online
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The beauty of Black Sparrow
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Paul Evans’ The Door of Taldir
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Bob Grenier at Kelly Writers House
October 27
Audio / Video
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The poetry of Juliana Spahr
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Ed Ruscha’s On the Road
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“The Bone Church,”
a poem by Stephen King
in an unusual venue for poetry
But it’s uptown for his fiction
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Marjorie Perloff
Nov. 12 in NYC
on Wittgenstein’s Voice
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The Stokes-Whibley Natural Index of
Supernatural Collective Nouns
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Ann Lauterbach: 2 poems
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Talking with 109 authors
(rob mclennan’s
12 or 20 questions, second series)
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Publishers Weekly
very male “top ten” list
Oh yeah?!?
“Great Books by Women Writers in 2009”
includes 63 books poetry!!
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The futurisms of American poetry
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Miami Book Fair cuts poetry
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Babies “cry in mother’s tongue”
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John Ashbery:
The blather is profound
& beautifully formed
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Arkansas novelist Donald Harrington has died
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David Antin: two proverbs
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Keats speaks
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The Project for Innovative Poetry (PIP)
index
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Kristen Wiig
reading the early poems of
Suzanne Somers
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Great cities need great libraries
Libraries – where the action is
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What is narrative in poetry?
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$455,000 for Byron’s
letters to Hodgson
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The future arrives this week at Yale
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A profile of Gary Lawless
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Chris Pusateri on Peter Jaeger
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Charles Bernstein recommends books by
Sarah Dowling, Joel Bettridge & Norman Fischer
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The firm behind
all the e-readers
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Sherman Alexie
@ the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Talking with Benjamin Harrell
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Talking with Colson Whitehead
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Poe in context in Texas
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Two poems by David Lehman
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Public libraries & the internet
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Radio still has the broadest reach
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Poetic Arts Performance Project
audio archives
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Bram Stoker’s pal, Walt Whitman
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The Governor General’s shortlist
The Quebec Writers’ Federation shortlist
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Megan Burns on Summer Brenner’s I-5
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The Proust Questionnaire Portraits
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Nov. 16 in Paris:
Jerry Rothenberg & Jean-Pierre Faye
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Poetry blog battle
“to the death”
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The poetry of Abu Nuwas
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“the most unjustly forgotten poet
of the 20th century”
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How to publish a literary journal
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International Poetry Nights
in Hong Kong
Nov. 26-29
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Poets & Writers MFA program rankings
Why people don’t like them
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Talking with Cory Doctorow
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Harold Bloom on Samuel Johnson
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Talking with Paul Muldoon
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Slow Motion Hiroshima
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No place like Holmes
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A new translation of The Tin Drum
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Dean Young’s intentions
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Allison Benis White:
Self-Portrait with Crayon
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Nicholson Baker
reading in Philly
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Black Face & the Poetry Foundation?
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The book thief
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Caducity in life
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The prosody of Richard Powers
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The Huntington inherits
Octavia Butler’s papers
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Saving the papers of Siegfried Sassoon, maybe
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Poetry, music & the spoken word
at the White House
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Sestina: “Terminal Étude”
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Mary Karr,
playing Anne Sexton writ small
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A new volume of Eliot’s letters
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Talking with Gore Vidal
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Rick Marlatt on Charlie Simic
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The Impac long list
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Reading Louis Zukofsky
& here
Considering the Big Picture
LZ & the hidden dangers of haiku
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Barbara Kingsolver’s
Lacuna
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Barnes’ Maupassant
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David Kirby on Amy Gerstler
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Talking with Annie Freud
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Gerald Stern, force of nature
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Marion Ettlinger’s author photos
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Talking with James Ellroy
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Yet another set of literary awards
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Following the road to the Nambikwara
A Claude Lévi-Strauss gallery
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Talking with Philip Roth
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Bennett’s Auden, Auden’s Bennett
Bennett’s Gielgud
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Elie Wiesel speaking at a John Haggee event
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Federal stimulus for the arts?
No cause for nostalgia
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New paintings by Susan Bee
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Discounts for
Richard Foreman’s Idiot Savant
with Willem Dafoe
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Steve Benson:
Views of Communist China (1977)
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Tan Lin’s Chalk Playground
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Talking with Peter Blegvad
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The Red Book Dialogues
at the
Rubin Museum of Art
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Tom Clark:
Thinking about George Schneeman
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Mary Ann Caws:
Surrealist Painters and Poets
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Jenny Diski on Roman Polanski
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Yoko Ono:
Imagine Peace
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LA Times obit for Nancy Spero
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Baryshnikov & Ana Laguna
in Santa Monica
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Lets gentrify Florence
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Josh Harris:
Warhol of the Web
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With good reviews
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Dominic McIver Lopes:
A Philosophy of Computer Art
Talking with Lopes
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Yacov Gabay:
Interiors & Jerusalem
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AG3:
The Third International
Arakawa & Gins
Architecture & Philosophy
Conference
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Electronic & Experimental Music
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Tom Waits is the devil
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“Even the birds are chained to the sky”
“He makes William Shakespeare
look like Billy Joel”
Hark! The Herald Dylan Sings
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Taylor Mitchell has died
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100 most outrageous quotes in music
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Ward Sutton’s cartoon history
of Bruce Springstein
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How preserve modern dance?
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Minima Moralia
(When I started blogging,
this was my model)
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Special thanks to Don Wentworth
for lots of these links
& to Lynn Behrendt for updating
the 1,200 names on the blogroll
