CA Conrad:
I loved Earth years ago

Sherman Alexie’s
top 10 Native American poets

Maria Shriver
on the origins of VIDA

Boston bookstores
react to bombings

Dan Chiasson
finds a poem for Boston
in Piers Plowman

aka bpNichol: a preliminary biography
by Frank Davey

Sina Queyras
walks the tightrope

Google search trends:
poetry, hybrid poetry, flarf
& conceptual poetry

Talking with John Tranter

Hambone:
‘the most important
magazine of innovative poetry
in the country
to operate without
a Web presence’

Marjorie Perloff:
Why the slightest loss of attention
leads to death

Daisy Fried on Anne Carson

Margaret Christakos on Anne Carson

Is Poetry racist?

Academy of American Poets’
Flarf fest @ Lincoln Center

Patti Smith gives advice

The first US book is up for sale

Digging up Neruda

Neruda comes to the USA

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s
Americanah

The poetry vending machine

Christian Bök on Jupiter 88

Replacing librarians with robots!

The Rosenbach is talking merger
with the Philadelphia Free Library

ALA prez to Scott Turow:
librarians are so not killing authors

Simon & Shoestore to offer e-book lending
via NYC libraries

Finally, a publisher you can trust

Talking with Reagan Arthur,
the new publisher @ Little, Brown

Stately, plump Irish coin gets it wrong!

Christian Wiman, in the midst of change

Amelia Bentley’s A Lily Alone

Al Filreis’ introduction to Charles Bernstein

James Herbert has died

rob mclennan,
Ottawa’s prolific literary treasure

The realism of HP Lovecraft

Linh Dinh:
Postcard from the End of America

Bob Grumman
on The Last VISPO Anthology

Talking with Lynn Xu

Frank Bidart: 2 poems

They don’t care who wins the Pulitzer
for fiction,
just so long as somebody does

Sharon Olds wins the Pulitzer for poetry
& yes there is fiction

Talking with Olds

Brian Teare: Sore Eros

New work by Teare in The Offending Adam

Ron Slate on Teare

Remembering Daniel Hoffman

Talking with Elizabeth Cantwell

Cantwell’s
Nights I Let the Tiger Get You

Sexy letters betwixt the Dostoevskys

Blood & tragedy:
the Caucasus in the literary imagination

Talking with Clive James

James’ Dante

Simone White & Alli Warren read
@ Small Press Traffic

The life & work of Paul Petrie

David Biespiel,
reveling in the Mlinko-PoMo kerfuffle

The zine scene in Chicago

The novelists of 1993 had it easy

Topping library censorship lists this year:
Fifty Shades & Captain Underpants

Jorie Graham’s Caravaggio

Deborah Copaken Kogan:
My so-called ‘Post-Feminist’ life
in arts and letters

John Borling’s
poems from the Hanoi Hilton

Stupid Writer Tricks

What rhymes with poetry month?

Ange Mlinko, Michael Lista & Gwyneth Lewis
on Carmine Starmino, Glyn Maxwell & Mary Ruefle

Finding your voice
wherever you may have lost it

A map of literary LA

Neil Gaiman:
“At the end of the doodlage”

Gaiman @ London Book Fair:
Try everything

Poetry & video games:
talking with BJ Best

Keeping books until they disintegrate
& then keeping them even longer

New work from Kathryn Cowles

Kay Ryan on the utility of poetry

William Logan on Carol Ann Duffy

Louise Glück wins the LA Times Book Prize

E-books = 22.5% of all publishing revenue

E-books that tell the teacher
what you’ve really read

Digesting Saul Bellow’s Heart

The Griffin Poetry Prize shortlists

Poem Charlotte Bronte wrote @ 13
sells for $47K per inch

Hilary Mantel & Zadie Smith
head up
the list for the Women’s Fiction Prize

Jean Thompson’s The Humanity Project

2013 Newman Prize:
videos of Yang Mu getting the prize

NY Times poetry chronicle:
Daisy Fried, Rachel Hadas,
David Yezzi & A Van Jordan

Peter McDonald’s The Overcoat

A career in ©

K Silem Mohammad: the poet’s ear
(1) (2)

Waiting for Murakami

John le Carré has not mellowed

A le Carré starter kit

Compulsory science fiction
in West VA

Not your grandmother’s Hamlet

Dan Brown is giving clues

Advice from William Logan

Back in the USSR, boys:
How the Beatles destroyed communism

Bi Kidude has died

As has Jimmy Dawkins

& Dean Drummond

Maria Tallchief has died

As has Daniel Reich

The slow language of sculpture,
the fast language of words

A context for Claes Oldenburg

A petition asking MoMA
to spare
the American Folk Art Museum building

Ai Weiwei: putting the state on trial

International stakes
in NYC art raid

What is the real story behind
the Flea Market Renoir?

Is the Indianapolis Museum of Art in jeopardy?

£50M Picasso leaving UK for Qatar

The photography of Thurston Hopkins

Demolishing a Frank Lloyd Wright building in NYC
& nobody complains?

Time to reckon with architectural sexism
& Denise Scott Brown

The lineup at Cannes

32 pages of critical response to
Spring Breakers

What the brain can tell us about art

Who is Jacques Ranciere?

Slavoj Žižek:
Looking for a Thatcher of the left

1913:
When Hitler, Trotsky, Stalin,
Tito & Freud all lived in Vienna

Some colleges are struggling
to stay afloat

Bryan College student
wins journalism award
for self-publishing
story school tried to spike

Chester Co., PA, is so retro
we’re getting a new record store

The globalization of coffee