Reading Jackson Mac Low’s 154 Forties

Mohammed Rashid al-Ajami is “the Gulf’s Mandela”

In Turkey, a journalist is freed

8 charged in 1973 murder of Victor Jara

An obit for Jayne Cortez

Carolyn Lei-Lanilau has died

Vanessa Place on Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven

Gender problems in conceptual poetry?

Sueyeun Juliette Lee on Danielle Pafunda

The Jewish Daily Forward’s
5 favorite books of poetry for 2012

A speaking portrait of Basil King

Erín Moure: Merdique

Sonia Sanchez: Blues for Smoke

Divya Victor corresponds with Rachel Zolf

Is all American poetry Jewish?

Do we still need libraries?

Libraries see opening as bookshops close

Bye-bye to Robin’s Books

A selection of indie bookstores

The “quintessential bookshop” is on al-Mutanabbi Street

E-book price-war is a non-event:
collusion anyone?

E-book readership rises rapidly

Print is coming to a final chapter

Jolabokaflod!

Where card catalogs get to dance

Homer, CSI

Publisher’s Weakly gives a «
to Postmodern American Poetry
(but doesn’t know how to spell Olson!)

100 years of Poetry

Tony Lopez: Living Systems

WCW on TV

Our words, our selves

Words-of-the-year
gangnam style

The OED apologizes
for a gruesome word of the day

Marcel Duchamp for Secretary of the Treasury

Ray DiPalma: The Apples of New York

Robert Kelly on Uncertainties

Little videos confronting text

Alison Watkins on The Last Vispo Anthology

An excellent guide to self-publishing resources

Havel’s heart

Reading Celan in the South Pacific

Back when poets could live in Manhattan

Just how much of a team
were the New American Poets?

Olson’s Mass.

Making Thomas Mann accessible

Steve Dickison’s
Against the Grain radio
includes Robert Duncan, Langston Hughes
& more

Ron Charles on EL James

AE Stallings & Titos Patrikios
on PBS Newshour

Plus Ersi Sotiropoulos
on the Greek economic crisis

No sunlight in the world of Louise Glück

Gertrude Stein in pictures

Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku

Find the dog,
become a Dennis Lehane character

Talking with Peter Robinson

Amazon “purges” “rigged” reviews

Douglas Messerli:
raising  Sun & Moon

Whaddya mean, “We”?

The fragrance in Parveen Shakir’s poetry

Hemingway’s cats

John Agard to receive Queen’s Medal

Robert Frost’s Christmas cards

Joel Chace’s Grab

Is Ron Silliman sane?

The whole nine yards

The variety of Christian fiction

Has fiction lost its faith?

The postmodern techniques
of the best-selling Christian novel of 2012

10 Christian fiction writers on
why the novel matters

George RR Martin’s
3 favorite books of 2012

The darkness in Saul Bellow

The secret lives of readers

Kevin Young: hungry for crossover success

What Ploughshares nominates for Pushcarts

Michael Zapruder’s Pink Thunder

Verlaine & Trakl

Tony Kushner:
remembering Maurice Sendak

Manifold Blackbox #9

Reading all of Dickens in a single year

Philip Roth, secular saint

On Twitter, no one knows you are Zuckerman

Assaying the essay

Seth Abramson defends The Hobbit

Post-apocalyptic
art conspiracy theory

Jumping from the thousand words to the picture

5 art trends in 2012

Theater in Nantes

Why is this museum shaped like a tub?

Male artists, naked ladies

The president of Wesleyan
on Camille Paglia & Eleanor Antin

Dance after the Judson Church

Merce Cunningham dances
continue in Philadelphia

Ravi Shankar’s memorial service

Talking with Brian Eno

Finding Eno

A Buddhist reading of 4’33’

Noise from the 18^th Floor
(The Pew’s music channel)

The music of Friedrich Nietzsche

Ray Collins has died

The Wright House in Phoenix is saved

Messerli’s Bond

Pasolini’s legacy

Mark Binelli’s Detroit

Philip Lopate on brothers

Susannah Cahalan’s missing month

Alan Turing in 3 words

The limits of ethnography

Young-Girl theory

Talking with Jared Diamond

When speakers talk too long

This is not a profile of Nassim Taleb

America’s Unwritten Constitution

How the NY Times
airbrushes history