Peter O’Leary: Apocalypticism

A new poem
shows Jupiter Hammon
changing his mind

Curtis Faville on Joe Ceravolo

Faville on Anselm Hollo

Steve Benson:
Never Hear, Never See

JH Prynne & dialectics

The unread vs. the unreadable

Rae Armantrout:
‘as avant-garde as the Grammys’
(registration required)

When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry: Introduction

Talking with Robert Sheppard

Norma Kassirer has died

This is Yeats talking

Sueyeun Juliette Lee: Reft

Terry Eagleton’s
The Event of Literature

A universal alphabet?

Libraries are kaput!

The Library of Babel
& the limits of libraries
(in Spanish)

When authors attack libraries

Our typos, our shelves

Self-publishing in the digital age

Book history & the poetry reading

Indie booksellers
sue Amazon & publishers
over e-book monopoly

Amazon = sweat shop?

English can make you poor

Can Poetry  Brain kill CliffNotes?

Russia adopts a “Poetry Idol” show:
Babushka Pushkin

Anne Waldman has a website
(Does this mean people
will start spelling her first name correctly?)

Sarith Peou’s Corpse Watching

MF Tolson on Alan Davies’ Raw War

Kathleen Rooney on Eileen Myles

Lesley Wheeler: Rhymes with poetess

Objectivism begins

@pentametron is counting your syllabobbles

Talking with CA Conrad

Talking with Paul Siegell

Siegell reading @ Penn Book Center

& at the late, lamented Moonstone

In Loveland, CO
Anthology Books will close

In Toronto,
Nicholas Hoare is closing

Mali’s last master calligrapher

Deciphering an ancient language
in El Salvador

Will Alexander’s
Kaleidoscopic Omniscience

Kern this!

Revolution of the Word (1929)

The interviews of Paul Nelson

All great art becomes boring

Eileen Tabios on Ed Baker

Tabios’ The Awakening

Sherlock Holmes & the public domain

Al Filreis & PoemTalk

Ann E Michael:
aggressive introverts

Divya Victor: Subjects of Poetry

The International Poetry Center of Marseille
has a great archive of readings
& events

The autobiography of JG Ballard

Bob (“Haas”) Hass & Brenda Hillman
arrested @ White House

Pound’s mistress,
Olga Rudge

How powerful is the web?
Readers Digest goes bankrupt

Frances de Bruit Kruk’s
Down You Go or Négation

Gardening & women in the arts

Poets on Beauty
starts with Sachiko Murakami

What can we learn from Ariel now?

Is the new Bell Jar cover a travesty?
(registration required)

The photographs of Allen Ginsberg
& their captions

Is Louis CK our Gogol?

French publishers break with Europe,
sign with Google

Philip Rowland’s Before Music

Allusions elude
or maybe not

Worst advice ever?
Don’t use adverbs

Editing as pruning

50 sci-fi & fantasy works
every socialist should read
according to China Mieville
(but no Chip Delany??)

Jo Shapcott reads Emily Dickinson

It’s come to this:
Emily Dickinson – hot nude celebrity

Ms Dickinson composes herself

Carrie’s Story
returns
to a post-50 Shades world

What is the function of criticism now?

Jamaica Kincaid,
getting even

A Frosty for Robert Bly

Famous Seamus
channels Marianne Moore:
That’s the way
(uh huh huh)
the way I like it

Book covers & classics

100 “greatest” novels

100 years of Swann’s Way

Simon Armitage on the road

George Lakoff
close-reads
Obama’s State of the Union message

Barak Obama:
editor-in-chief

Ishmael Reed’s advice to the GOP

To critique rap as poetry
not to mention Lewis Carroll

Nicholson Baker on dreaming

The Real Jane Austen

Austen & 18^th C. views
of Richard III

Elizabeth Nunez’
Prospero’s Daughter

One last book
from Maurice Sendak

UK judge:
victims of © theft
have no rights to
thieves’ profits

Not impressed
with Josef Kaplan

Talking with Steven Cramer

Pedro Pieti’s Underground Poetry

Summoning John Betjeman

Auden on
romanticism

Loving Berryman’s Dream Songs

Public poetry in the UK

The glories of classicism

Boston’s MLA:
in touch with the 18^th Century

Speaking fees for top authors

Burroughs & Nike

Christa Wolf’s
Minima Moralia

Hilary Mantel:
Is monarchy suitable for a grown-up nation?

Mantel is “wrong” about Kate

Kate Middleton needs friends like Hilary Mantel

Joshua Cohen’s Four New Messages

Translating the ‘Rat Pack Rigoletto’

Barry Schwabsky:
What was abstract art?

Early modernism at the MLA

Duchamp decamps to the Barbican

Is the Mona Lisa a copy?

Banksy art
recovered in fraud probe

Saving or selling Banksy

Man charged with stealing Dali

Leaving art to the nation

Home is where the art is

Roy Lichtenstein:
heresy to visionary

Portrait of Picasso
as a young man

Fred Tomaselli:
‘art world drug guy’

Stanley Marsh
settles child sex suits
while others call for an end
to Cadillac Ranch

Defecation & death
at Australian art museum

David Lynch’s favorite photographs

Marguerite & Armand
together again

Laurie Anderson
goes to the dogs

Yoko Ono @ 80

Magic Slim has died

As has Wolfgang Sawallisch

Mingus among us

Musical America’s
new artist of the month:
Dylan Mattingly

Michael Chabon:
the worlds of Wes Anderson

What is the best
film about writing?

Kryptonite’s nothing:
will Orson Scott Card’s homophobia
sink Superman?

Arts education,
having never left,
is back

Donald Richie has died

Academics in love

Troy Jollimore
on the secularism of ethics

Michael Bérubé:
unraveling the humanities

A profile of Napoleon Chagnon

Surprise:
conservatives are governed
by fear