Catherine Wagner interviews Rae Armantrout

Jane Austen on the ₤10 note?

The woman behind the Austen campaign
subjected to Twitter threats & abuse

Twitter apologizes & takes action

Austen campaign brings out both
pride & prejudice

And an arrest is made

Kelly Clarkson
banned from taking
Austen’s ring out of UK

William Corbett’s
Elegies for Michael Gizzi

A view of Fanny Howe
from Martha’s Vineyard

Growing up
in the New York School

33 reasons
not to date a small press publisher

The Turnip Princess

500 “new” fairytales discovered

Dumbing down conceptual writing

Kenneth Goldsmith deforesting the Amazon

In re the conceptual debate,
Marjorie Perloff weighs in

Robert Archambeau
on conceptualism being
charmless & interesting

Seth Abramson:
the most interesting thing about conceptualism
is that it doesn’t exist

Conceptualism vs. Art & Language

Johan Jönson’s soiled conceptualism

Tony Lopez
on the Dublin Pound conference

Remembering Lise Sinclair

Talking with Maureen N McLane

A bio of Czeslaw Miłosz

& a bio of Wisława Szymborska

‘Poland’s Sappho’:
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzeska

The late poems of
Aleksander Wat

Digitizing a Homer mss. from 1059

The 100 best-selling
small press poetry books
of the decade thus far

Talking with Jim McCrary

Jean Daive:
from Narration of Equilibrium 4: W

Talking with Anne Waldman

Dangling Denglisch

Talking with Matthea Harvey

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror:
first page of the original draft

Why fiction writers
should read poetry

© & the death of mid-century literature

Just how much quoting
is fair
in poetry & song?

Paul Hoover
on editing the Norton PoMo

Dutch Leonard in hospital after stroke

Sesame Street tries reality TV
with Sons of Poetry

US proposes a penalty
for Apple’s e-book price-fixing

Who’s unhappy
@ Apple’s penalties?
Trade publishers

America’s largest library
used to be a Walmart

Imagining newspapers that publish poetry

Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post

What was Bezos thinking?

Bezos: I just clicked on the Post by mistake

5 myths about Jeff Bezos
(according to the Washington Post)

Time’s former editor is “thrilled”

For-profit-education:
WashPo’s bad bet

The economics of journalism

Newspapers aren’t worth squat

Jane Yeh’s The Ninjas

Samuel Vriezen:
Beckett’s failure to fail

Endgame online

George Stanley:
a trailer for After Desire

Jeroen Mettes:
Political Poetry

23 people
who will make you care about poetry
in 2013

A list of things to ask yourself
when making a list of poets

23 poets
Flavorwire ought to be thinking about instead

Time spent reading?
USA ranks 23^rd

What happened to Canadian literature?

Do a skipping beat & great
book production values
make David Rakoff’s verse novel
good poetry?

Riot Grrrl reaches The Paris Review
(The ‘90s really are over)

Seth Abramson:
America, meet your poets

On Rob Mackenzie & Ian Bamforth

Robert Pinsky:
poetry for the verse averse

On being “too old” for Saul Bellow,
tho his junior by 40 years

Daisy Fried
@ a conference of laureates
ten years ago

Flanner O’Connor’s peacocks

Photos from Black Mountain College’s archives

What is a Compendium?
Parataxis, Hypotaxis &
the Question of the Book

The Ransom Center goes pop,
acquires McSweeney’s archive

Vonnegut fan fiction
is legal
so long as Amazon controls it

Stephen King’s family business

Barbara Mertz, Barbara Michaels
& Elizabeth Peters have died,
all one woman

Rob Wilson’s
Towards the Nuclear Sublime

Scarriet declares itself
both anti-modern & pre-modern

The sounds of English

Poets with opinions

10 things emerging writers
need to learn

David Kirby reviews Adam Fitzgerald
in the NY Times

To love literature is necrophilia

The story coaster

Twitter as an art form

My copier, my collaborator

The NY Times
goes all heteronymic

Shakespeare’s “dark lady”

Rowling’s law firm pays dearly
for having leaked
her authorship of
The Cuckoo’s Calling

The ten “best” writer-in-novel novels:
a very conventional list

John Updike’s
Lovely Troubled Daughters

Michael Robbins
feels benevolent toward song

Harry E Northup: Amarillo Born

Todd Swift:
The Wanted are not wanted

Remembering Paul Butterfield

The opening chord to
A Hard Day’s Night

Talking with Phill Niblock

Dylan’s portraits
@ the London National Portrait Gallery

Collectors in search of “comforting” art

The avant-garde should cheer up

Live from the grave of Andy Warhol!

‘Buy Local’
can apply to the arts

Detroit museum director:
too soon to panic

Schjeldahl apologizes
for his Detroit gaffe

What Detroit art really needs
is a big can of Crisco

How does your economic reality
relate to your art practice?

How to destroy works of art

Nelson Shanks @ the Michener

Bacon’s brushes are up for sale

Art Everywhere in the UK
by popular choice

Glasgow School of Art
threatens street artist
with expulsion, deportation

Building a major art collection
on a limited budget

A gallery of the forged

Basil King:
Painter & poet

Calligraffiti

Philly performance artist
takes a break

Balanchine & the Lost Muse

Paul Szilard has died

How not to get ahead in the Viennese orchestra:
be an Asian woman

Scott Scheidly’s The Pinks
& of course this

What now for Jeffrey Deitch?

ReadyMades in the Social Sphere:
Talking with Daniel Peltz

The return of Doug Wheeler

“Critics” don’t explain
The Lone Ranger’s
rotten tomatoes score of 28%

Museum Hours

Bad art is definitely bad,
scientists say

Poverty is good for the arts,
it says here

Dear Herbert, Dear Teddy:
The Marcuse – Adorno correspondence

The media is superfluous

Slavoj Žižek: The Great Pretender

“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe”

Edward Snowden is not the story

The politics of privacy,
the privacy of politics

George Saunders
on failures of kindness

Jack White Flight:
hipsters flee Oakland