Sushmita Banerjee
murdered in Afghanistan

Lyrikline:
900+ poets in 60 languages
(Inger Christensen declares
in Danish
that apricot trees exist)

A Lemony Snicket selection
of poems for Poetry

Wall Street Journal:
poetry is everywhere in NYC

ModPo,
the most popular poetry course ever,
begins anew

Talking with Kenny G

CAConrad & Thom Donovan:
Arthur Echo

3 poems by Thomas Devaney

AC Crispin has died

Did football kill Kerouac?

The New Criterion
still
hates Jack Kerouac

Kerouac in his own words

Talking it out vs. writing it down

Are novelists afraid
to criticize in print?

Philly
is looking for a new laureate

Qualities to like in poems

Talking with Maxine Kumin

Sherman Alexie
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author hand-selling days

The Man Booker shortlist

The places you’ll go
with e-Seuss

Judge lays out Apple e-book restrictions

Angelou & Doctorow
(EL, not Cory)
to get honorary Nat’l Book Awards

Top 13 poets
most likely to think
that Amish Trivedi is not a bad driver

32 Words:
An Anthology of
Post-Art Anti-Poetics

Choctaw Books
in Jackson, Mississippi
is shutting its doors

Why you should buy used books

Redesigning The NY Times Book Review
for the post-book generation

Fiction in the 21^st century

Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens

Talking with Lethem

Write a memoir, find a sibling

Talking with John LeCarré

Amazon to give away
cheap or free
Kindle versions
to purchasers of hardcopy books

15 revelations
from the new Salinger bio
(including
his phone # & testicles)

Salinger biopic:
the empire strikes back

Trocchi as monster

Authors behaving badly

Seth Abramson is using me!

Writing prof yanked
after dissing the GOP

Joe Amato:
Show and Tell

Talking with Stephen Burt

A selection of Kenneth Patchen

100 years ago:
Yeats’ September 1913

Kirsty Gunn:
Form is a challenge

The world’s shortest poem?
(he doesn’t know
Joyce Holland’s Alphabet Anthology
or how to pronounce Saroyan)

Artists’ Books Online

Talking with Norman Rush

Atwood’s zombies

Pronouns & Chelsea Manning

Amanda Lohrey:
Should literature be political?

Stefan Collini
on literature & politics

Talking with Rosanna Warren

Heaney was a joy to listen to

The cell phones @ Heaney’s funeral

The Writers Group & Seamus Heaney

Longley on Heaney

Talking with Jhumpa Lahiri

The new economy of letters

Nationalism &
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetics

Death of a typewriter repairman

A prize for the late Dennis O’Driscoll

Luke Davies’
Four Plots for Magnets

Frederik Pohl has died

Remembering Katie Jacobson

Larissa Behrendt:
The novel after the novelist

5 novels by & about women

Teju Cole:
the future of the novel

LOL: Txting is fingered speech

Murakami emerges as favorite
for the Nobel Prize

How to query a poetry press

Roger McGough dishes poems on plates

Maureen McLane:
My Poets

How English professors ruin everything

Will James Franco please stop?

Jeff Bezos saves newspapers
(seriously?)

Don’t ditch Deutsch!

A Schwitters exhibition
on the island
where he was interned
during WW2

Beuys to debut
new Sotheby’s gallery in London

Chris Burden:
Conceptualism before the nostalgia

The thingness of light

Modernism from Iran

AE’s missing link

The muralists
who defied Pinochet

Unhiding Horace Pippin

The Van Gogh in the attic

Jack Beal has died

Drawing the US from memory

Simon Hantai’s discontent

Call of the weird

Talking with Pat de Groot

Sound recordings
of Alison Knowles

Dick Raaymakers has died

Is Beethoven an Indian plot in Kashmir?

Talking with Stephen Sondheim

George Lakoff on
Obama’s attempt at reframing
the Syrian War debate

The “Black Budget” of US counter-intelligence

Prime time
with Adam Spencer

The complete archive of
Internationale Situationiste
(in French)

‘OK, Glass’

Victor Serge in Mexico

6 critical theorists
according to the haters

WBAI:
Death by democracy

6 other NYC institutions
in danger of disappearing
this fall