China arrests poet-blogger Tsering Woeser
Kyung-sook Shin wins the Man Asia prize
& uses the occasion
to plea for Koreans
Some things don’t change:
Cleveland 1967
Trailer for a documentary
on d.a. levy
Another clip
of d.a. levy reading
Cambridge student suspended
for 7 terms
for reading poetry in protest
The trial of Angye Gaona
In Delhi,
Salman Rushdie
calls for the defense of free speech
Lynn Behrendt:
Wardrobe Poems
Szymborska examined absence
Szymborska’s
erotic poetry to be published
The gender count
of major mags in 2011:
so bad it’s embarrassing
The Guardian thinks it’s newsworthy,
why not American papers?
The Globe and Mail
sends John Barber
to check out
the gender imbalance
in publishing
Ten days after The Guardian,
the Huffington Post chimes in
Young women set the trends
in vocalization
Juan Felipe Herrera
is California’s Poet Laureate
Laura Kasischke
has won the
National Book Critics Circle
prize for poetry
Looking at
the National Book Critics Circle
poetry award shortlist
Kasischke’s March
John Barr announces
his retirement from
the Poetry Foundation
Attempts to save
Al Purdy’s home stall
Charles Bernstein
on Lyn Hejinian’s
The Book of A Thousand Eyes
William Gay has died
Peggy Zuleika Lynch
has died
Simin Daneshvar has died
Tom Wilson has died
That letter of the alphabet
nobody admits is there
comes from Africa
Encyclopedia Britannica
ceases print
Webster’s has gone AWOL
Guaraní:
the indigenous language that could
Two languages
are better than one
Do the Pirahã
disprove Universal Grammar
Is there a
universal grammar
of religion?
Smuggling books into Arizona
Crowdsourcing book reviews
Joseph Massey:
Another Rehearsal for Morning
George Oppen’s
Boy’s Room
Herb Gold on Barney Rosset
Poets & politics:
Ron Silliman, Fady Joudah,
Prageeta Sharma, Matthew Zapruder,
Rae Armantrout & Douglas Kearney
I’m interviewed by The Lance
rob mclennan
on my day in Ottawa
Pearl Pirie
on my day in Ottawa
Jack Gilbert,
cranky & goatish
virtuoso of the appetites
Another review of john martone
Imagism:
modernism began in the mags
Lu Anne Henderson’s experience
of On the Road
Celebrating Kerouac @ 90
The one time
Charles Olson met Jack Kerouac
Reading Anne Waldman’s Iovis
on Charles Olson’s birthday
Save Olson’s neighborhood!
Cascadian poetics
(being a foggy variation
of what I’ve called New Western
or Zen Cowboy poetics)
Ben Lerner & Cyrus Console:
Topeka Vortex Sutra
Translating Tranströmer
Best Translated Books –
the short list
ain’t so short
James Atlas
to edit for Amazon
E-books
are the future of the academy
What is Christian fiction?
Making sense of Wallace Stevens
For Stevens,
Hartford as muse
Will Robert Silvers
ever give up
that middle-brow rag?
Talking with Eugene Ostashevsky
Ostashevsky:
The Pirate Who Does Not Know
the Value of Pi
Talking with CA Conrad
Metta Sáma:
Nocturne Trio
Amy King:
The Moon in Your Breath
Kevin Young’s
The Grey Album
Eat your heart out, Kenny Goldsmith,
Tom Armitage has upped the ante
The Poetry Project Newsletter:
the first 5 issues
Jeanette Winterson:
from the ruins of her prose
Yet another book by
David Foster Wallace
A pope, a poet
& a drug war
Talking with Eavan Boland
Poetry books for children
Talking with Armistead Maupin
The convict who learned
hieroglyphics
Sometimes a pen is just a pen
The meaning of Scrabble
Little free libraries
are starting to spread
What they’re reading
on the subway
Obama creates
trade unit to protect ©
Meeting with ebook pirates
5 years in the Texas pen
for © theft
Apple won’t sell an e-book
with too many links to Amazon?
The problems of e-books on tablets
The work of poetry
in the age of mechanical reproduction
23 UK publishing idioms
& what they really mean
Book cases I want
Especially this one
Charles Alexander:
What book?
Auckland’s
long poem symposium
The poetry of Mpanga
World Poetry Day
goes by unnoticed
Carl Van Vechten
& the Harlem Renaissance
Inti García Santamaría’s
The Bougainvilleas
Tom Raworth’s Gaslight
Jargogle your lexicon!
Toni Morrison
abandons her autobiography
Adil Jussawalla’s Trying to Say Goodbye
Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild
Beckett: Storming for beauty
Talking with Joyce Carol Oates
Imagine going to a karaoke bar
& having an academic conference
break out
Why law school is like
a degree in creative writing
Ellen Bass & Dan Gottlieb
on poetry & healing
Alex Gilden:
Tie One On
(yes, that is me,
looking ridiculous in that tie)
Putting faith in poetry
Can the great American novel exist?
“Lost” tale from Charlotte Brontë
to be published
A splendid translation of Montale
Charlie Pratt in Worcester
Jesse McKnight
prolapses into poetry
Esi Edugyan’s
Half-Blood Blues
Hugh MacDiarmid: The Watergaw
Best book blurbs ever
Bookmark 2.0
Spelling Bee season
Houellebecq is funny
Where Margaret Atwood
likes to read
Karen Kline,
the laureate of North Andover, MA
Talking with Frank Delaney
Daniel Everett’s universal grammar
Ursula Rucker
on Cee Lo Green
(and an article
ignorant of Ed Sanders!!!)
Issa meets John Lennon:
Gimme Some Truth
A profile of J. Karl Bogarte
In Greece,
poets against austerity
The Dodge returns to Newark
as conservative as ever
Philip Lopate on John Leonard
Lots of video clips of
Richard Wilbur
Anatole Knotek,
the inverse of vispo?
Kickstarter & the arts
The impact of the Steins
on the French avant-garde
What the Steins bought
Paul Siegell’s
wearable vispo
Who owns
the archeological treasures
of Cambodia?
Web censorship in China
China bans the phrase for
iodized salt
Why B&N is losing to Amazon
Geoff Dyer’s Tarkovsky
Bernardo Paz,
the emperor of Inhotim
I am a rock!
The neuroscience of art
Zoe Strauss
on her billboard project
Books may go digital
but Damien Hirst
is forever
Damien Hirst
& his implications
for the art marketplace
Ellsworth Kelly gives the
new Barnes
a single, crooked finger
Finding the hidden da Vinci
Erasing Robert Frank
Eleanor Callahan has died
The videos of Neil Goldberg
Remembering Rammellzee
A treasure trove
or cache of fakes?
Pete Doherty, painter
Wang Shu wins the Pritzker
Jessica Stockholder
colors The Loop
The Big Rock
is on the move
Art stolen by the Nazis
ordered returned
to its owner’s heirs
& the Whitney
No dead chickens
for art’s sake
in Kansas
In Sydney,
the MCA is growing
Erwin Frankel has died
Artists on belief:
Barbara Hammer, Alison Knowles,
George Quasha
On being contemporary:
Charles Bernstein, Linda Weintraub
On performance & science:
Anne Bogart, Pauline Oliveros
On writing & performance:
Sybil Kempson, John Jesurun,
Paul Lazar
The Zen of Woody Allen
Wallace Shawn & André Gregory
in My Dinner with Ibsen
Carlin Romano on Claude Lanzmann
Putin cracks down on Pussy Riot
David Byrne,
the collaborator
Firesign Theater’s Peter Bergman
has died
The Rolling Stones @ 50
50 years this week
since the release of
Bob Dylan
60 seconds in social media
The Internet Archive
as the ultimate library
The name of philosophy
Analytic vs. continental philosophy
China Miéville on London
The Port Huron Statement at 50
4 strategies for saving newspapers
Talking with Nada Bakri
the widow of
Anthony Shadid
Harvard refuses
to remedy old homophobic acts
Jonathan Morse
on the use of the term “coed”
This American Life
& the problem of writing
in journalism
Worst president ever
(hint: it’s not W)
Seriously mean girls
The saddest commercial
ever made
