Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Juliana Spahr:
Rethinking poetics
John Keene:
A Poem-Report
Rebecca Wolf:
The personal vs. “social poetics”
Stephanie Young’s “Repoport”
Marjorie Perloff’s response to Stephanie Young
K. Silem Mohammad’s post-conference thoughts
Nada Gordon:
“you can’t rethink poetics…very well…
in the same old theatre of power”
Joshua Clover:
“where all dialectical thought begins –
with Silliman’s blog”
(reg. req.)
Josh Corey:
on not rethinking poetics
On really not rethinking poetics:
the Oxford Poetry Professorship goes to Geoffrey Hill
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Who’s that on the cover of Poetry this month?
After decades as one of Chicago’s signature poets,
Paul Hoover finally appears in Poetry
Area Sneaks’ Visual Poetry Forum
Talking with Bevery Dahlen
Bev Dahlen & the Writing of the Real
“the different body”
& “the ideal landscape
from which to write a poetry that is
broken, disjointed or fragmented”
Ange Mlinko: my poetry illiberalism
Lara Glenum:
Welcome to the Gurlesque
Abigail Child:
Form & Content
Lynn Behrendt:
For Leslie Scalapino
SPD remembers Leslie Scalapino
NY Times obit of Andrei Voznesensky
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Robert Grenier,
reading outside the box
Helen Lopez,
thinking with the box
New poems by Cara Benson
Steve Fama on Mairéad Byrne
The new online issue of l’Ulisse
includes an Italian translation of my essay,
“The New Sentence”
Talking with Charles Bernstein
Why bookstores are dying:
The Powell’s Pain Index is up
Milkweed, SPD, 92Y
& many others
receive Amazon grants
All hail the Found Poem
Louis Bury on conceptual poetry
“taking poetry seriously at all was exciting”
Joseph Massey talks to Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout, Pat Metheny & Culture Lust
May 4, San Francisco,
After Spicer
Josh Hafner on Ken Irby
John Latta on Irby
“Am I respecting the voice of the poet?
Do I need to respect it?”
Talking with Carol Sklenicka
about her bio of Raymond Carver
How to win at Millions Poets
Stephen Burt on Terrance Hayes,
Connie Wanek, Lisa Robertson,
& Jimmy Schuyler
Jordan Davis on Terese Svoboda & Poets Theater
Shakespeare in bed
Chicago appears to have survived
the day of Da Bard
The First Asemic Exhibit in Russia
The visual poetry of Ed Baker
Oh, do read to me Argentina
Translating “Donal Og”
Why poets flock to Arlington, Vermont
Clive James on why Les Murray
deserves the Nobel
Talking with Carrie Olivia Adams
Hiromi Itō’s Killing Kanoko
U.S. writers on the Orange shortlist
The sins of Orlando Figes
An Australian obit for Peter Porter
Porter tributes pour in
A recent poem by Porter
Talking with Brian Clements
Jonathan Lethem takes David Foster Wallace’s
old job
5 questions for C.K. Williams
C.K. Williams’ Whitman
While you are at the library,
get the groceries
How to pronounce author’s names
(SILL-ә-mәn & it’s Italian)
Twain’s travel with the “savages”
Lions & tigers & haiku, oh my
Festival takes off,
tho some writers don’t
Thursday, April 29,
Susan Howe in Minneapolis with David Grubbs
Paris, May 4:
Anne Waldman, Edith Azam
Friday, May 14,
a celebration of Midwestern writing
in Minneapolis
Who was Irène Némirovsky, really?
Will Molly Ivins or the Tree Lady stop
Abert Huffstickler Park?
Ten best literary visions of hell
& then there’s Derision Points
Maxine Kumin in Cambridge
Where is the real hoax
in the Rimbaud photo?
Martin Amis – “saviour of modern lit?”
Andrew Joron’s
“Spine to Spin, Spoke to Speak”
Talking with Kathleen Spivak
Translating Gombrowicz
Kurt Vonnegut & the “no asshole rule”
Shocker:
Cal Poly poets aren’t identical
Alan Sillitoe has died
Angry young man dead at 82
E.L. Doctorow’s “Edgemont Drive”
Dick Tillinghast on
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
Peter Carey: Marshan chronicles
Being a Tolkien, wanting to write
Walcott’s Egrets –
an Eliot for our time
PEN awards to
Edward P. Jones, Nam Le
Piquancies & attributes
in Seamus Heaney’s verse
Styron’s heirs
gain some digital rights
Print isn’t dead, says Dave Eggers
Amazon’s “Poetry Community”
has over 10,000 contributors
2Up, April 30 in Brooklyn:
poster, poems, artwork, party
Kafka done creepy
Talking Howl
A motion picture based on the poetry
of Gerald Stern
Talking with Walter Salles
Casting for On the Road
Following the Beats in Mexico City
Don Draper eats a Naked Lunch
Emily D, the musical
Toumani Diabate’s “Fantasy”
“The communication of emotion & ideas
(& other beings)
through sound”
Compose your own music
The revolution will not be novelized
Joni Mitchell then, now & in your mind
Joni accuses Bobby of being a fake
Leonard Cohen is coming to Sligo
I remember you well
in the Chelsea Hotel
This Sunday, May 2nd,
Zoe Strauss’ final I-95 show
(the annual event that made
photography in Philly famous)
Some hot auctions at Sotheby’s
A new Russian revolution in visual arts
Oakland:
putting back the there there
Purvis Young has died
Barry Schwabsky on the Whitney Biennial
The gay kid joining Archie & Veronica?
It’s Kevin K!
Kevin Killian on American Cinema
Market Day – the image speaks
Merging Bill T. Jones with the Dance Theater Workshop
May 4 in Brooklyn,
Ronald K. Brown with Sonia Sanchez
Dancer has her hip replaced
& keeps the bone
Arts admins forced to sleep under bridges
Noam Chomsky on the new far right
Monday, April 12, 2010
Madhubuti forced out at Chicago State
The finalists in Million Poets
Hissa Hilal finishes third in Million Poets competition,
comes away with just $817,000
Person of the Week: Hissa Hilal
Not everyone is impressed with Hissa Hilal
One-word lines in the work of Larry Eigner
