Marilyn Hacker on Adrienne Rich

Katie Degentesh:
Legitimate and illegitimate poems

John Ashbery’s new poem

Suburban Burma

Why typing Ashbery’s “The Instruction Manual” is a good thing

Robin Tremblay-McGaw’s SF reading report

Sean Bonney:
rewriting Baudelaire & Rimbaud

Roberto Calasso: My Baudelaire

La Folie Baudelaire

When Bruce met Sally – part two

Homophonics translations of Andrews’ Fractura into English

Martha Ronk: No Sky

A feature on Pinay poets edited by Barbara Jane Reyes

Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi?

Kent Johnson, Frank O’Hara & the question of author/ity

Kenny Goldsmith’s Lift Off

Talking with Andrea Selch

Stephen Burt on ways to the new

Gifts for the Beat wannabe that has everything

Some unfinal thoughts on ModPo

One ModPo response

One class, 36,000 students

The end of the world as we know it?

ModPo:
the view from the Paris Review

Mash-ups, not MOOCs

Poetry & the philosophic imagination

Mergermania is destroying the trade publishers

© has failed

Handicapping the LA laureate race

Eloise Klein Healy is LA’s first poet laureate

Artemis in City Hall

A new laureate for Belfast, Maine

Bill Gratwick & WCW

Signage underground

Shaken, not stirred – no buts

The Shire in Milwaukee

Burroughs: The Movie restored

Graham Foust: The Good Historian

Vonnegut’s rules for reading fiction

CS Giscombe: Reading Denzel Washington

Mo Yan defends censorship

Garlands & mud for Mo Yan

The reluctant Nobel laureate

Why Mo Yan?

Is censorship ‘necessary’?

The “normal” fate of Nobel laureates in China

Muerong Xuecun challenges China’s censors

Has the Nobel lost it?

Judith Butler & the cause of the Other

Alan Moore’s Neonomicon banned in SC

Should B&N spin off the Nook?

Shut up & write

The essays of TR Hummer

Four weddings & a haiku?

Children as absurdists

How to create suspense

This year’s NEA fellowships for poetry

‘Books are dead’

The dictionary of scandal vs.
the scandal of dictionaries

The OED as a global dictionary

The most “looked up” word of 2012:
socialism & capitalism?

Geoffrey Pullum: who’s whom?

Science in sign – not!

Sianne Ngai lives in “interesting” times

Lady vs. girl

Language & the problem of unicorns

Amy King: One Bird Behind One Bird

Ian McEwan: still reading poetry

Ecopoetics from Antler to Forrest Gander

Documenting Disappearing Shanghai

Tom Clark’s Ad Marginem / Men and Women

The lure of the writer’s cabin

Let’s publicize
just how weird
Publisher Weekly’s Person of the Year
selection is

The LA Times list of poetry books for Xmas

Lots of comics but no poetry in
WashPo’s “best books” of 2012 list

Talking with Thaisa Frank

A Grant Souders sampler

Dickens’ disappointments

Random House staff gets bonuses

Talking with James Franco

‘It was The New Yorker with cornpone’

Mark Strand is Almost Invisible

Living within
‘the most fashionable literary set’

When a successful playwright flops

Pacino rescues Mamet

Nancy Huston wins the Bad Sex award

Edmund White on writing good sex

A Wrinkle in Time:
the graphic novel

Doug Messerli on John Hurt
in Krapp’s Last Tape

When Beckett
drove André the Giant to school

Jonas Mekas:
scenes from an extraordinary life

Joyce reviews Ibsen

Shakespeare & gender

Danny Boyle vs. Shakespeare

Taking Shakespeare out of the curriculum

Trisha Brown is retiring

Who owns the choreography?

Where are the black ballet dancers?

China looks at British Modernism

Jock Reynolds, king of art

Dancing with Duchamp

Inventing abstraction

Raphael’s stock rises

Praising Andy Warhol

Corcoran will stay put

Ronald McDonald on the cross
sparks investigation
at The Hermitage

Barry Schwabsky on Wade Guyton & Gerhard Richter

NY Times obit for Spain Rodriguez

Europe cuts back on public art

Robert C Jackson painting The Critic

Pollock @ 100

Art Ba$el Miami

Miami’s other art fair

Sebastião Salgado: photographing the Nenets

Talking with Alice Hope

A lifetime of work destroyed at Westbeth

Remembering architect Oscar Niemeyer

Niemeyer dead @ 104

NY Times obit for Dave Brubeck

The Guardian obit

NPR obit

Brubeck’s innovation

HuffPo on Brubeck’s sacred music

Charles Rosen has died

A guide to Philip Glass

Cuba bans reggaeton

A history of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

The Pathé Brothers: Le Faune

Frederick Neumann has died

Detroit is the Place to Be

Taking MIT’s Media Lab to the Motor City

Michael Bérubé on the crisis in the humanities

What humanities job crisis?

The persecution of the rational worldwide

Who needs the Constitution?

Slut label refuses to die

How is that not Lacan?