Wednesday, November 25, 2009
(Photo used by permission, all rights reserved, © Fiona Templeton)
Annette Barbasch & Steve Buscemi in Fiona Templeton’s Against Agreement, 1982
Fiona Templeton & Poets Theater
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Tan Lin Chalk Playground & LitTwitChalk
A review by Thom Donovan
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Arkadii Dragomoshchenko on Alexei Parshchikov
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Talking with Rosmarie Waldrop
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Bruce Boone & Gail Scott
at Small Press Traffic
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Mel Nichols’
Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon
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Sunday, Nov. 29
@ the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC:
a monster celebration of
Gerrit Lansing’s
Heavenly Tree, Northern Earth
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Mina Loy is not Myrna Loy
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Jim McCrary:
poet, anti-poet
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What Kerouac’s scroll
tells us about his art
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Allen Ginsberg’s
“Mind Writing Slogans”
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Charles Bernstein
talking at 80 Langston Street, 1983,
on characterization
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Margaret Atwood at 70
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75 years
of the
Academy of American Poets
“A Future for Poetry”
Marie Bullock
on the Academy of American Poets
in 1937
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Maggie Nelson: on color
(reg. req.)
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The US has SPD,
but Australia’s
got SPUNC
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SPD staff picks for 2009
Aren’t the best book lists
coming earlier this year?
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Clayton Eshleman does 2
broadcasts with the
Joe Milford Poetry Show
here & here
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Over 140 episodes
of the Joe Milford Poetry Show
can be accessed here
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PoemTalk,
the close-reading poetry show
from PennSound & the Poetry Foundation,
now has a Dutch cousin
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Dublin in December
means
the Wurmfest
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Neglectorinos of Ireland
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Susan Schultz
on the poets of Australia
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A short history of flarf
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K. Silem Mohammad’s
“Squirting Ringworm Taco”
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Where do the dogs go
in Baudelaire?
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If only I could read Afrikaans…
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She writes
about
SheWrites.com
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What is it to imagine a public?
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What would Jane Austen do?
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Spell-checking Hugh MacDiarmid
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Chris Tysh
translating Beckett’s novel Molloy
into verse
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Proust on Twitter
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Philip K. Dick,
deconstructing madness
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Hankering for a better map
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Shakespeare & Co’s new mural
Portraiture of the artists
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Noir tweets?
Pulp Fiction writer
is twittering from jail
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Anna Mendelssohn (Grace Lake)
has died
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Playing politics
with the bones of Camus
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The people in Stanley Kunitz’ house
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Auster’s Invisible
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Lorrie Moore:
“How to Talk to Your Mother”
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The forms of Sébastien Smirou
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Oulipo reading list
(reg. req.)
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The plagiarism of academic co-authorship
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Bring back the olde style book shoppe
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Oxfam seeks peace
with used bookdealers
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The demise of Borders UK
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The Nook sells out
its Christmas stock
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Black Friday is for suckers
(& so are e-readers, it says here)
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McClatchy papers
launch editions for the Kindle
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Stephen King on Raymond Carver
An “astonishingly complete” biography
“Carver didn’t fight Lish as vigorously as he should have”
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Saving Leopold Bloom’s soap shop
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Reading Kay Ryan
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Code X
transforms your PC
into a sound-poem machine
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Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch’s
Conversations over Stolen Food
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Crowns & Oranges:
Works by Young Philippine Poets
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Compulsively seeking quietist verse
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Alice Jones
won the first annual
Narrative poetry contest
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Remembering Don Carpenter
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Talking with Wayne Miller
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Joyce Kilmer talks with
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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More on
The Acorn Book of Contemporary Haiku
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A little Bashō reading list
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50 years of Beatitude
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Talking with Paul Chowder
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2 poets for the birds –
Simon Armitage
Billy Collins
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Literary primes – AARP Division
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Louis Zukofsky & the objectified poem
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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Memories of the Future
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DIY Harlequin
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Talking with Illinois laureate Kevin Stein
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Book reviews as “payback”
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Alice Munro “keeps getting better”
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Highway 74 revisited
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The Metrocard as art
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Getting a response to your poetry
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The Governor General’s Awards for 2009
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60 years of National Book Award
fiction winners
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The NBA’s Keith Waldrop page
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A conflict of interest
in the National Book Awards
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The “National Best Book Awards”
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Su Tong wins Man Asia
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There goes the Man Booker
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“We’re legit,”
ReaderSpoils protests
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Zadie Smith:
the essay has as much art as fiction
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Syllabus for a class on
literary editing
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John Gallaher’s
“Watermelon in the Afternoon”
Gallaher on Unterecker on Ashbery
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Douglas Skrief, stone poet
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Michael Longley in Calcutta
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Can Nick Cave
beat the modern Bulwer-Lytton
for the “bad sex” award?
(It’s not just the sex that’s bad
in The Humbling)
The bad sex “shortlist”
So where is the good sex?
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Can you name the last 3
National Book Award novels?
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A poetry tour of Washington, DC
& of Chicago
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Academe & the decline of news media
Needed: a philosophy of journalism
Can university-based reporting
keep journalism alive?
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The San Francisco Panorama:
a new newspaper
that costs $16
& plans to print
just one issue
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Microsoft offers to
rescue Murdoch’s group
from Google Search
Can Murdoch pull this off?
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NaNoWriMo ends soon
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In praise of scattershot reading
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Judith Robinson’s Dinner Date
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Nabokov, “reduced to notes”
A debate over its publication
Laura manuscript is up for sale
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Vonnegut’s leftovers
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Michelle Huneven’s Blame
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When experts educate,
what do their metaphors say?
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“It might as well have cooties”
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Deleuze & Guattari:
Aesthetics & Politics
(reg. req.)
Deleuzean literary machines
of Woolf, Lawrence & Joyce
(reg. req.)
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Reading GirlDrive in St. Louis
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Eric Gans’ “generative anthropology”
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These are the sounds of silence
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Michael Löwy’s Morningstar:
Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism,
Situationism, Utopia
(reg. req.)
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6 practical reasons
for arts education
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The handmade books
of Alice Austin
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Mark Scroggins
on modernist prints
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The modernist difference
can been seen in the sex
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MoCA at 30
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Van Gogh’s letters
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Epilepsy as an art form?
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UC museum
cancels its new building
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Andy Warhol:
October Files
(reg. req.)
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The dark side of Francis Bacon
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When in Marfa…
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Talking with Fanfarlo’s
Simon Balthazar
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Talking with Timothy O’Dwyer
about The Braxton Project
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Bob Dylan:
Must Be Santa
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Patricia MacCormack:
Cinesexuality
(reg. req.)
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The linguist behind the language
of Avatar
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Conversations with Žižek
(reg. req.)
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Heidegger déjà vu
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Claude Lévi-Strauss:
an introduction
(reg. req.)
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The war within the Left
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Faculty members mediate
between protestors & the cops
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A Zombie Manifesto
(reg. req.)
