Erín Moure:
translating Tarzan

Emily online
& in her own hand

Maria Damon:
Cross-Stitch Poetry

Orson Welles interviews Isidore Isou
on Lettrism & sound poetry

Fanny Howe: Three Persons

Susan Howe’s Thiefth

Marilyn Nelson, Claudia Rankine & CD Wright
become chancellors of the Academy of American Poets

Foundation for Contemporary Arts awards
to Beverly Dahlen & Robert Grenier

Ben McFall,
the oracle of Strand Books

Jena Osman & Kenneth Goldsmith
on John Cage

Kenny G @ MoMA

Richard Blanco, inaugural poet

Talking with Richard Blanco

Poetry for presidents

Fear of poets

A Raymond Roussel website

All of Roof

Josef Kaplan’s
Segue introductions

The Tale of the Heike

Close-reading aloud:
Bill Berkson’s Signature Song

The lonesome death of
The Partisan Review

Arts & social transformation:
Antonio D’Ambrosio
Hari Kunzru
Staceyann Chin
Billy Bragg
Yetta Kurland
DJ Spooky
Stanislao G Pugliese
Edwidge Danticat

The bookstore strikes back

Looking for Bill Knott

Sylvia Plath’s secret book

Charles Bernstein:
the kind of poetry I want

Talking with Don Share,
Memphian of Denmark

Don Share: glutton for poetry

The Greek cult of Kiki Dimoula

Elena Fanailova’s Lena and Lena

Popular Poetry

Harry Northup on laureates & power

Talking with Eileen Myles

Daffy Duck in Hollywood
as op art

Has the e-book bubble burst?

Did © cops
lead Aaron Swartz to suicide?

A war of definitions:
what is a hacktivist?

Musical scores as visual poetry

Wendell Berry on gay marriage

Who comes in
when your publishing house
is $3 billion (not a typo) in debt

Fiction as identity building

The Portable Boog Reader: NY & Philly

Julian Talamantez-Brolaski:
3 poems from Advice for Lovers

Wilderness House
says no to the Pushcart

Talking with Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Talking (in the New Yorker) with Michael McClure

Kerouac’s verse

Kerouac’s voice

Paradise Road:
Dean Moriarty’s old nabe
is full of juice bars

William Burroughs, Scientologist

Allen Ginsberg, photographer

Siduri Beckman:
Philly’s Youth Poet Laureate

Itō Hiromi:
cooking & poetry

NY Times obit for Jayne Cortez

Sheila Heti:
how should a writer be?

Michael Schiavo:
first notes on ‘spheric meter’

Christian Wiman to leave Poetry

Delmore Schwartz: sure

Coping with bookshelf chaos

Maxine Kumin:
How I got serious

Bob Grumman
on poetry & math in
Scientific American

Casting the lead for the Ron Silliman story

I read “Carbon” from The Alphabet

The poems of Paz

Kitasono Katue:
3 poems from Black Fire

The big bang of prose poetry

The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker
by Michael DuPlessis

The Oracle of Hollywood Boulevard

Ilya Kaminsky in Celania

The meaning of John Ashbery

Ritsos in exile

Longenbach’s Keats vs Nicholas Roe’s

Self reads Borges

Orwell, the style cop

Prison poetry in Oregon

Should you go to the Iowa Writers Workshop

Saving the whistling language
Silbo gomera

Yet another kerfuffle over creaky voice

Repurposing anthimeria

New voices in Mennonite poetry

David Foster Wallace among the Mennonites

Our markets, our selves

Sharon Olds on Stag’s Leap

Nicholas Alexander Hayes:
ThirdSexPot

Poetry & Gunsmoke

Cynthia Cruz & CK Williams

Jill Magi on Evie Shockley

Swimming with Jim Harrison

The January Poetry is the “takedown” issue:
Michael Robbins on Dylan Thomas
Jason Guriel on e.e. cummings
Laura Kasischke on Wallace Stevens
Peter Campion on DH Lawrence
Daisy Fried on Baudelaire
Ange Mlinko on Elizabeth Bishop

Natasha Trethewey:
Poetry showed me I wasn’t alone

Margaret Atwood on George Orwell

Poe’s mystery visitor
comes nevermore
(not since David Franks died)

John M Bennett & Nicolas Carras:
Parolbjects

The short list for the last Man Asia

A novelist & his brother
sell out Carnegie Hall

Philip Roth:
it’s all over but the marketing

Max Schwartz has died

Salman Rushdie & Joseph Anton

David Kirby on
the lectures of Mary Ruefle

The book trade
looks ahead

Ditto for poetry

1,000-year-old manuscripts
from the caves of Afghanistan

Love the typewriter:
the workspace of Harry E Northup

Stephen Burt on Lucy Perillo

The bar on book trailers keeps going up:
elephants?

Styron’s letters

NYRB turns 50
(it doesn’t look a day under 100)

Libraries find
few are using the books

Librarians of the twitterverse

10 books that exist only because of self-publishing

Quotes about poetry

30 under 30: women photographers

Top concerns while
degrading myself for art

Schwitters in England

Eddie Johnson:
the value of the little-known artist

Art works that shine

Juxta-poseurs
(as the article itself put it
before the NYT copy-editors
vandalized the text)

Nayland Blake on
FREE!LOVE!TOOL!BOX!

No prem for
Indiana Love sculptures

Marcel Duchamp,
grandpa of the avant

The quiet in Cage

Robert Morris on
50 years of the
Judson Dance Theater

Sergei Filin, Bolshoi director,
injured in acid attack

Artists, spies

John Yau on Hiroshi Sugimoto

Jorge Selaron dies on his own steps

Isaiah Zagar has new walls coming

Cordy Ryman’s subversive formalism

Censoring Kara Walker

Barry Schwabsky on Ian Wallace

Best artist statement generator yet

Diego Rivera turns up on
Antiques Roadshow

Black Cake at Team Gallery

Žižek: the opera

David Bowie & the late lyric

Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya

Siegfried Kracauer, early film critic

Nagisa Oshima has died

Michael Mack’s
Conversations with My Molester

The Iliad as mush

Taraf’s troubles

Where cease & stop go their separate ways

An atlas of “true” names

Christopher Hitchens:
from socialist to neocon

Burning Man time lapse

The delights of disgust

Why young-girl theory?

What should we be worried about?

Rebooting graduate education in the humanities
(i.e., it’s not about teaching if there are no jobs)