Sir Geoffrey Hill
The edited version
of Rae Armantrout
on PBS Newshour
Poet-in-residence
in the newsroom:
Tracy K. Smith
When it comes to reviews,
which gender
is at a disadvantage?
Marsha Bryant’s
Women’s Poetry & Popular Culture
John Kliphan has died
Todd D’Anna has died
Pearse Hutchinson has died
John McWhinnie has died
Carl Weissner has died
Weissner’s Death in Paris
Weissner, Bill Burroughs,
Claude Pélieu:
So Who Owns Death TV?
Burroughs calls the law
Frank O’Hara & Jan Cremer:
prints & poems with
Michael Ball, Chris Mason,
David Beaudouin, Megan McShea
& Chris Toll
An obit for Ted Enslin
Talking with Ted Pearson
(Part one is here)
Adonis:
a life in writing
Coldfront’s
Top 30 books of poetry
for 2011
The origins of the prose captions
in HD’s Helen of Egypt
Remembering Leland Hickman
Tucson schools
ban books
by Chicano & Native American
authors
In Oakland,
cops are busting journalists
The Oxford Handbook
of Modern and Contemporary
American Poetry
Charles Bernstein’s Mortality
3 poems from Charles Bernstein
How description fosters connection
in the work of Julie Carr, Noelle Kocot,
Ange Mlinko & Jena Osman
Close-reading aloud P. Inman
Keeping Gertrude Stein
in the present
How to be an avant-garde publisher
9 dumbest things poets say
The complete works of
Henry Gould
Gould on a poetry
of the imperfect
Bern Porter & Mark Melnicove:
Name, Address, City, State, Zip
Talking with Alan Davies
Marilyn Hacker on Adrienne Rich
SCOTUS:
Congress may re-©
works already in the
public domain
The author of SOPA
is a © thief!
Al Filreis:
Listening to poetry in the shower
Earth after Earth
is coming
An economist
on the dangers of narrative
Nicholas Carr
on books that are never finished
Yoko in India
Kazim Ali on Yoko Ono
Salman Rushdie to attend
Jaipur conference
under tight security
New Delhi:
Rushdie is welcome
Rushdie cites danger,
pulls out of Jaipur litfest
Salman Rushdie,
still beset by bigots
Rushdie vents on Twitter
A macabre start to Jaipur
Was the threat to Rushdie real?
Jaipur without literature
This article is not about Rushdie
in spite of its title
(really, it’s about poetry vs. other genres)
Celebrating Hindi
to celebrate India
via poetry
John Ashbery:
The Bicameral Eyeball
Dining with Marianne Moore
Is poetry dead?
Doggerel by Kent Johnson
that’s not by Kent Johnson
Joyce mostly goes
into public domain
Günter Grass
on Christa Wolf
Martín Espada
on poet-lawyers
Joseph Lease’s
Testify
Rachel Blau DuPlessis:
On hearing Xi Chuan
A sampler of Iris Cushing
Tony Leuzzi & Joan Larkin discuss poetry
Talking with Joan Houlihan
From Houlihan’s Ay
Craig Morgan Teicher
previews 2012
books of poetry
from Lucille Clifton to Lyn Hejinian
Poetry & social justice
on the Chagos Islands
Philip Schultz’
My Dyslexia
Jonathan Galassi’s
Left-Handed
Grace Cavalieri
on Galassi’s translations
Nadine Gordimer
as a hero
The Complete Poems
of Philip Larkin
Marilyn Nelson
to receive the Frost Medal
Ian Hamilton Finlay
@ the Tate
Costa Biography prize
goes to bio of Edward Thomas
& Duffy wins for verse
The politics of the Costa Prize
Is this the best
Duffy can do?
Creeley prize
goes to the poet
least sympatico with
Robert Creeley
(Can you imagine
what the Creeley of the 1950s
would have written about this!?!)
John Burnside
wins the Eliot Prize
Politics dominates
the Eliot Prize
The Eliot Prize
controversy
that should not have happened
Perhaps the editor
deserves the prize
How the National Book Critics Circle
picks prize winners
Indie Literary Award
shortlists
Kresge honors
Naomi Long Madgett
Best science books
of 2011
William Gibson’s
time travel to the present
A minor addition
to the Gibson canon
The Fantastic Flying Books
of Mr Morris Lessmore
Ms. Winterson’s daughter
The male mystique
of Henry Miller
The future of novels, if any
Why write novels at all?
WCW:
bad-tempered, brilliant
Umberto Eco:
What Europe really is
Book life in the OC
Elizabeth Bishop,
MFA idol
Stephen Burt on
Juliana Spahr, Anna Moschovakis,
Noah Eli Gordon, Kathleen Ossip
Amazon’s hit man
George Wilkinson’s
micro-bookstore
in the SF financial district
In Jerusalem,
a Palestinian bookstore owner
wins the right of return
LA’s The Last Bookstore
NY’s pop-up bookshop
will stay up until May
B&N:
the bookstore’s last stand
Will B&N
spin off the Nook?
Jonathan Franzen:
e-books are eroding values
Haptic feedback for e-reading?
Libraries struggle to stock e-books
What’s available in DC libraries,
e- vs. hardcover
A tribute to “A”
that doesn’t realize
that the quotation marks
are 2/3rds of the title
Fighting for Pound’s name
JD Salinger’s
45-year “hiatus”
Smith’s Polaroids
Janet Hamill’s Patti Smith archive
is for sale
Faulkner & the Black Arts Movement
Ed Sanders’ Fug You
Talking with Ed Sanders
Charles Bukowski:
“not too famous a whore”
An MA in crime & thriller fiction
David Lehman’s
3 favorite poems
of 2011
Jules Supervielle’s
Homesick for the Earth
Eric Baus’ Sacred Text
In Elko, the cowboys are coming
& it could be verse
Restoring Ghalib’s home
What do we mean
when we say
a poem is a machine?
When the madwoman in the attic
turns out to be Anne Frank
The anonymous blog / novel / film
that is a worldwide best-seller
Houellebecq’s
The Map and the Territory
(The e-book translated here)
Close-reading Steve Kistulentz
Seth Abramson’s
9 January mini-reviews
Reviving Wampanoag
How monolingual are Americans?
Salt’s Younger Poets
+ Vikram Seth
Vanessa Place on
Mouth Eats: Color
by Sawako Nakayasu
with Chika Sagawa
Ed Baker’s Stone Girl E-pic
Remembering Carol Novack
Reading Tranströmer
Timothy Donnelly’s
The Cloud Corporation
+
Timothy Donnelly’s
The Cloud Corporation
Lisa Samuel’s
Mama Mortality Corridos
Where typewriters live on
The lesbian-feminist poet
Romney loves to quote
An exhibition
on Emma Lazarus
The poetry of
North Korea’s first family
South Korea
is still looking for commies
under every bed
Roald Dahl in stamps
Billy Collins
has sold 1 million
copies of his books
“Thirty days hath …”
dates at least to 1425
LikeStarlings,
an e-zine dedicated to collabs
The Continental Review
focuses instead on videos of poems
Pierre Guyotat’s Coma
Celebrating black poetry
in Portsmouth, NH
Anita Desai’s
The Art of Disappearance
Robert Duncan:
Unkingd by Affection
Gass vs. Updike
in criticism as in fiction
William Gass
votes for sentences
Eviscerating Dickens
Life on Planet Dickens
Coleridge:
A messy life
Robert Pinsky
on Melville’s poetry
DeLillo’s deliriums
Anne Sexton’s
letter to her daughter
Linda Gray Sexton’s
version of family life
Loving Charles Wright
Harry E Northup
on Holly Prado
Literally
what is wrong with
literally
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri’s
Images of Being
New Year’s haiku
Talking with J.A. Tyler
Just how good
is Elmore Leonard?
Is McGonagall
an alternative to Robbie Burns?
David Biespiel
on the poetry of poise
Poetry & place
in the Pacific Northwest
A Ben Jonson bio
Almost Island’s
form vs. content issue
In Spartanburg, SC,
poetry = men with beards
Linda Jo Scott:
There’s a right way to write
Cobourg, Ontario
poetry group
marks tenth year
The Rumpus
tries out snail mail
for a price
Poetry Out Loud
in Sparta, NJ
In Durham, NC
a reading inspired by MLK
Why I miss Jack Spicer
The Palm Beach poetry fest
HuffPo hires DSK’s wife
as editor of its French site
Tolkien snubbed
by Nobel jury
(Hey, so were you)
Will Peter Jackson
change the ending
of The Hobbit?
A graphic novels
best-seller list
& the return of
The Unwritten
The best comics book store
in the world?
Print/Out:
art meets books
Remembering Vaclav Havel
Sontag, Reborn
A history of the N word
in Porgy & Bess
The number of artists in the US
has grown, but not
the revenue to support them
I-95 @ the ♥
of Zoe Strauss’
Philadelphia Stories
NY Times’ slideshow
of Strauss’ work
Orange Avenue:
Thomas Devaney & Zoe Strauss
Devaney’s Blue Stoop
Zoe Strauss’s Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss photo billboards
The genius of Zoe Strauss
Chen Wei & Chen Xi imprisoned
Liu Xiaobo:
No Enemies, No Hatred
Liu Xia’s show
@ Columbia
China to hear
Ai Weiwei tax appeal
Ai Weiwei:
evolution of a dissident
3 of the top 5 artists
in terms of 2011 auction sales
come from China
The art of Arab Spring
Gagosian sued
for selling
a Lichtenstein
that was not for sale
How much do we believe
in abstract art?
The first art blockbuster:
Picasso @ the Tate, 1960?
7 decades of Ellsworth Kelly
Pollock @ 100
Art history majors
rule the US economy
Jan Groover has died
Damien Hirst dots the i
David Hockney at the Royal Academy
Hockney:
A life in art
Is Hockney Britain’s
greatest living artist?
Hockney invokes author/ity
Talking with David Hockney
Art from the Haitian earthquake
One gal’s bath
becomes a form of art
Francesca Woodman @ the Tate
The photos of Katinka Matson
Snapshots of an event
that may become historic
Ricardo Legorreta has died
Woody Guthrie
at 100!
Talking with the great
Etta James
Hundreds gather for
James’ funeral
Johnny Otis,
anti-racist R&B pioneer
Terry Gross
talks to Johnny Otis
Sonoma musicians
remember Johnny Otis
Joel Selvin on Johnny Otis
Talking with
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
David Alvin’s
California Songbook
Talking with
Kamala Sankaram
Gil Scott-Heron
on touring with Stevie Wonder
to create MLK Day
Gil Scott-Heron’s Last Holiday
Scott-Heron
saves the best for last
Music’s original hipster
(white big band division)
The cell phone
at the symphony
Talking with Joe Henry
Youssou N’Dour
to run for president
of Senegal
New work from George Crumb
Talking with Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen’s
speech receiving
the Asturias Prize
Dance & politics:
talking with Danny Yung
Phil Ochs:
the bard of Occupy
Don’t try this at home!
Talking with
Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman
Nietzsche in America
The Martin Luther King archive
Žižek’s jokes
are no laughing matter
Žižek on the need
to reinvent democracy
Philosophers
come to town
Philosophy:
What’s the use?
Philosophy & addiction
Talking with John Brockman
A NY Times editor asks:
How servile should we be?
A brillig theory of everything
Bertolt Brecht:
The God of War
Newt Gingrich’s
workforce of tomorrow
