Baghdad bookmart bulldozed by dawn raid

Zukofsky’s integral

Anselm Berrigan: Sure Shot & other poems

Hank Lazer’s intro to the essays & interviews of Harryette Mullen

Talking with Vanessa Place

Rejectees of The New American Poetry

One question: who is David Lyttle?

Duncan unbound

Robert Kelly & contemporary American poetry

The Best American Poetry 2012

Marriage, parenting & poetry

Fortino Sámano: poetry, philosophy, revolution, death

Keston Sutherland: The world and John Wieners

A profile of Kevin Varrone

4^th century Chinese palindrome

12 unexpected facts about George Bowering

Amy Catanzano: The Imaginary Present

Attention Span 2012 is starting to happen

A fabulous SF reading roundup from Robin Tremblay-McGaw

Catherine Wagner: My New Job

Global Modernism & its discontents

In Michigan, the Great Write-Off

Michael Chabon on the street of my youth

American Hybrid: everyone’s a teacher

Rebecca Seiferle is the new Tucson laureate

Celebrating the New Weird

Keats was an opium addict

Poetry celebrates its 100^th birthday

Roy Harvey Pearce has died

Alex Dimitrov: American Boys

What is literary criticism?

What is lost by race & gender biases in reviews

The Attack of the Difficult Poems

Charles Bernstein goes to college

The autobiography of Charles Bernstein (sorta)

Talking with Sina Queyras

Redell Olsen: Not, a Conceptual Art Poetics

Donation helps NYPL keep books onsite

Michael Joyce: teaching in the margins

A review of Al Filreis’ online Modern & Contemporary Poetry course

Online learning grows up

In the UK, my mother’s birthday is National Poetry Day

What Mitt Romney might learn from Wallace Stevens

Junot Diaz but no poets in this year’s MacArthur crop

Jorie Graham, Sam Riviere & Denise Riley win Forward prizes

Granada halts search for Lorca

November 2 in NYC: Bruce Andrews fest

CBC Poetry Prize goes to Sadiqa de Meijer

The CBC longlist

Allen Ginsberg on Gary Snyder

Talking with Sherman Alexie

Penguin wants unfulfilled advances returned

October 19 in NYC: an evening for Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

Talking with Nuruddin Farah

Washington Post obit for Louis Simpson

Simpson’s BBC obit

Poetry & politics in Myanmar

Against web pagination

E-books expand potential with serialized fiction

Apple, trade pubs settle with EU on e-book price fixing

Can moguls succeed selling e-books?

If you think you what e-books might look like, read this

Salman Rushdie: nothing’s off limits

Rushdie on the fatwa

Talking with Rushdie

Margaret Drabble: Rushdie is brutally honest

JK Rowling: bracing for the snark

And getting some

Mugglemarch

Zadie Smith’s NW

A literary torturer stops

A renaissance in Canadian poetry

Talking with Natasha Trethewey on PBS

Sheila Heti on Paris Review Interviews

Brooklyn’s indie lit impresarios

9 Brooklyn writers & how they work

The Essential Guide to Brooklyn Lit

Maria Teresa Horta declines to receive prize from Portuguese PM

The poetry of Smokey Robinson

American Sign Language & race

Al Jazeera’s poets of protest

A bio of Philip Roth

Kerouac laid bare

Zack Barocas: Givens

In defense of the future laureate of LA

The gringo-loco poetics of Larry Goodell

Is free verse killing poetry?

A hut of one’s own

The dreadful demise of Edgar Allan Poe

An essay from Agatha Christie

Beware the grammar nazis

How to read the King James Bible

Working with Auden on The Psalms

Innovation: poetry vs. science

The poem that inspired The Astoria Haunting

Talking with John Lavan

Number trouble: the old kind

National Book Fest on the DC mall

Talking with Marilyn Dahl

Hearing Beckett

Sophie Lancaster remembered in play by Armitage

Lady Gaga on a first-name basis with Rilke

Say Digital Humanities one more goddamn time

Van Dyke Parks: Letter from Berlin

Abbey Aresty’s Music of the Trees

On the future of jazz among black folk

Handicapping the Nobel

Dylan’s Nobel odds rise, but not his chances

Dylan working on next volume of Chronicles

Neil Young’s memoirs

The Kate Hepburn award goes to Patti Smith

More new music from the Adams Family

Efrat Ben Zur’s latest (a hit in Israel) is all Emily D

Talking with Tim Burton

KickStarting Charlie Kaufman

Who supports rural theater? The USDA!

Reykjavik: Spring time for Reagan?

John Yau on Wendy White

Rimpa comes to NYC

Wade Guyton at the Whitney

The most iconic art works of the past 5 years

Piss Christ in NYC

Ai Weiwei as reporter

An award for Pussy Riot

Church to Pussy Riot: repent!

Pussy Riot appeal delayed

Alex Keelan @ Manchester reading for Pussy Riot

Free speech in the age of YouTube

Rauschenberg’s politics

Saarinen’s chairs

Andreas Slominski: how bad is bad?

Barry Schwabsky on Bruce Conner

Eugen Schönbeck is back

Davy Rothbart & Found

Is science more beautiful than art?

Gehry redesigns Toronto

Walk & talk: best campaign ad of the century

Designing for multiple screen-sizes

Eric Hobsbawm & Eugene Genovese have both died

October 1962: the birth of modern culture