Linh Dinh:
art is always political

Patti Smith reading Virginia Woolf
+ Woolf reading Woolf

Brian Ang & Joshua Clover
on theory, action, poetry

Lyn Hejinian:
Wild Captioning

They write a long conceptual poem
based on Christian Bök’s tweets

Close-reading aloud: Charles Alexander

India bans Pakistani diplomats
from Jaipur lit fest

Malala’s progress

London bookstore firebombed

Talking with Naren Bedide about Dalit Lit

Turkey lifts ban on 23,000 books

The Woodland Pattern archive is for sale!!

Queneau by the numbers

Stephen Burt on 2 types of minimalism

CAConrad’s life manual

From Michael Gottlieb’s The Colorama

If you do a version of BART
in Australia,
will the trains run backwards?

Zen catalyzed conceptual art

Subcompact publishing

Rusty Morrison’s After Urgency

Remembering Anselm Hollo in the UK

An obit by Tom Raworth in The Independent

Naropa bids Anselm Hollo farewell

Hollo’s Your Friend

La Noche

Hollo’s Lover Man

A hut of one’s own

Or a retreat

The Free Book Incident

Eat this book!

Racist language debate in Germany

Bringing  back Manx

Ange Mlinko on Adrienne Rich:
not impressed

Hey Mr Tambourine Man

Boog City 78

10 questions for Diane Sahms Guanieri

Sophia Stewart wins $2.5B
(not a typo)
in © case over
Terminator & Matrix franchises

Storing poetry on DNA

Pew on libraries: Not dead yet

The one thing
Americans all value:
libraries

Robots run
world’s “most awesome” library

Mali Islamists torch historic library

Saving rare manuscripts in Timbuktu

Saving Russia from English

B&N to shut 20 stores a year
for the next decade

Death spiral @ B&N?

Wall o’ books

How to prune a personal library

Randall Couch on Susan Stewart

Remembering Morgan Lucas Schuldt

The Poetry Project’s mentoring program
makes me wish I was a NYC resident

Everyone Has a Mouth

Talking with Jerry Rothenberg in 2001

The 2 histories of Larry Eigner

Allen Ginsberg on Louis Zukofsky

Still unpublished Kerouac projects
probably worth reading

Kerouac’s voice, Kerouac’s archive

Kerouac’s literary agent

Talking with Sheila Lanham

A poetic encounter of 2 countries
(in Spanish)

Is poetry dead?

Nonsense, says Coldfront’s John Deming

BS, sez poetry

Is confessional poetry dead?

Sharon Olds wins the TS Eliot prize

Why we write

Camille Dungy:
what the writer does

The 2013 StAnza program is up

Langston Hughes @ 111

Grove CEO retracts snarky U Press comment

Seth Abramson’s
January book reviews
(big focus on the Ceravolo Collected)

James Joyce is a hit in China
tho some think he’s mentally ill

Maya Angelou:
Shakespeare must be a black girl

Poets Theater in SF

Raymond Roussel by Michel Foucault
(in French)

Stephen King’s gun control ebook

Richard Blanco’s inaugural flop

Did Blanco lip-synch his poem?

The inauguration as literature

This is a Poem for President Drone

Historical linguistics:
‘the most advanced and demanding known human science’

The latest TextSound

The Library of Unwritten Books

Who tweets @ Knopf?

20 words we get from Shakespeare

One-man Macbeth

Moving Lance Armstrong to fiction

Being difficult

Best 2012 poetry books by women

Sam Hamill:
10 years of poetic resistance

A poetry chronicle of books by
Penguin, FSG, Sarabande & Copper Canyon

Another scroll, this one de Sade’s

John Giorno: Thanks 4 Nothing

2 by Mo Yan

The unique form of the essay

What is an author
if we include Kent Johnson?

Martin Amis, unfiltered

Merwin as translator

What the digital archives tell us

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics

An Anthology of Chicago is underway

Salman Rushdie among the blasphemers

Rushdie cancels Calcutta visit

Rushdie blames Banerjee for cancellation

10 key lessons from high school reading

Verbally, can the NY Times
get its shit together?

In praise of the language police

In Connecticut, Written Words
looks for a new home

The economics of genre lit

Ali Smith’s Artful criticism

The worst novelist ever?

Hemingway’s gate

For sale: Hemingway story, never written

Hillary Mantel wins the Costa

Mantel: you need to experience fat

Chick Lit impacts your body image

Shortlist for the Crashaw Prize

Tufts shortlists revealed

Charles Wright wins $150K Bollingen

Engaging Eliot

TS Eliot, employee of the month

Eliot as artist

Without Austen, no Eliot

Paul Auster’s Winter Journal

Talking with Dave Eggers

Fitzgerald’s Baltimore home for sale
(See Jim Dine’s below)

Sylvia Plath goes to NY

The Bell Jar’s new cover

Designing The Bell Jar

Finding The Bell Jar funny

The Great Falls poetry scene is blossoming

10 controversial book passages

Talking with Nadeem Aslam

Who is (or would be) Orwell now?

Music in literature

On being stalked

Mainstreaming Marx

Unpacking Walter Benjamin

On the virtues of pre-existing material

A trove of Blake etchings found in Manchester

The reading habits of Joe Queenan

Jailed Tibetan filmmaker gets slightly better conditions

Žižek Dark Thirty

Llewyn Davis: not quite Dave Von Ronk

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sent to hospital

Craig Dworkin: Unheard Music

ROVA Remix Contest submissions

Glass does Disney

Kate Etchingham: Foxy Lady

Bolshoi director “calm” after acid attack

Stepanenko steps in at the Bolshoi

Filin: I will return

Filin knows attacker

Dancer flees Bolshoi after threats

Bolshoi postpones Rite of Spring

A last dance from Trisha Brown

Millepied to Paris

In Goettingen

A 98-minute “informance” by Butch Morris
(registration required)

Art vs. folk art

The first sculptures

Andy Warhol pre-pop

For Sale: Jim Dine’s house

Pearl of a girl

Hal Foster goes to MoMA

Ahn Jun goes to great heights

Ai Weiwei @ the Hirshhorn

Will the Corcoran get the Monet?

Getting censored by Facebook

Barry Schwabsky on hotel artists

Drawing surrealism

Does the art market need some regs?

Sniff art

The inventor of Etch-a-Sketch
has died

Picard & Gandalf in Waiting for Godot

Diderot & progressives

The new know-nothings

Marx, Keynes & uncle Miltie @ Davos

Interacting physically with digital tech

Mo’ MOOCs

From academic to school teacher
(how are teachers not academics again?)

Susie Bright goes to the inauguration

Bright on the death of Aaron Swartz

2 views on liberal arts education

Paris in color circa 1900

Star Trek into Darkness

Nonprofits suck at fundraising
(tip of the hat to the memory of Hank Rosso)