The death of Kofi Awoonor
@ Westgate Mall

Remembering Kofi Awoonor

NPR & Kwame Dawes
on the legacy of Kofi Awoonor

Awoonor:
13 poems & a bio note

JD Salinger
as sexual predator

Who should play Salinger
in the movie?

Not talking about conceptual poetry

Brandon Brown
on ‘the contemporary’

David Gilmour:
Not all jerks are US citizens

Reviews are still a male domain in Australia

36 letters, 19 syllables,
she has the right to her name

The expanding realm of
Nepali poetry

The slave who wrote
The Bondwoman’s Narrative

The beat of language

Divya Victor’s discourses on orality:
with Vanessa Place
with Kim Rosenfield
with Rachel Zolf
between Divya & Myung Mi Kim

Talking with Pat Nolan

Jonathan Safran Foer:
novels could learn a lot
from poetry

Carol Watts on JH Prynne

National Book Award longlists

Snippets from the long list

This alternative longlist
makes you realize how pathetic
the “official” one really is

No poets on this year’s Macarthur list

One thing white writers get away with
that authors of color don’t

CJ Allen
drops out of the Forward Prize
over plagiarism

The ugly underbelly of Aussie poetry

Worldwide epidemic of poetic plagiarism

Plagiarism:
the word that cannot be uttered

Books no bigger
than a grain of rice

Highlights of the NEA survey
on arts participation

Eliot Weinberger on Herbert Read

Man Booker:
there goes the neighborhood

A NY Times obit for Carolyn Cassady

Edgar A Guest,
millionaire poet

Olson’s gift

High school poets get national honors

Kill the apostrophe!

Poetry  trading cards
before Fact-Simile

The trailer for Big Sur
is a cringer

Donors save Austen’s ring for the UK

The ‘long 19^th century’
still dominates
world’s oldest poetry radio show

Poet recants ‘former errors,’
now opposes Scottish independence

Poetry playing cards

Libiro only sells self-published books

A history of esoteric punctuation

Punctuation mistakes
that will drive you crazy

An intro to John Riddell

Check out Jessica Smith’s
interview of Michael Basinski
on the back page of
Boog City 83

Poetry Project Newsletter archives

Post-MFA resources

Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge

An essay a day

What’s the matter with the modern world:
Jonathan Franzen

Springsteen’s tribute to Victor Jara

Go outside to write

What do you say
to a fellow poet in prison?

Poetic impulse:
to perform as a machine

Jamaal May
on participating in not terrible readings

Burt Kimmelman
on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac

James Patterson
donating $1M
to save indie bookshops

Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria home
headed for the wrecking ball

The cost of libraries
vs. an ignorant nation

Uses for paper in the digital age

Writing negative reviews as a career

$100K for Phil Levine

Books banned for the dumbest reasons

Invisible Man banned in NC

Let my novels go:
banned book week @ the Vonnegut Library

Censors target teen fiction

Most surprising banned books

Idioms are a censor’s wet dream

Censored by Google

I got 8 out of 10
on this
banned book quiz

Who said it,
Don Draper or Sylvia Plath?

Michael Hoffman on translating

The 100 best novels
written in English

Camus’ Algeria

Clarence Major is well versed

The poets’ dinner party

10 of literature’s most unreliable narrators
(none of whom come from The Sound & the Fury!)

Dostoevsky, Chekov, Tolstoy:
Russia’s sex educators

A perfect tribute to Seamus Heaney

10-book deal for Terry Pratchett

30 books to read
 before you are 30

Too much Shakespeare?

The dominance of English
is leading to disapproval
of English speakers
using other tongues

How to say blog in German

The shining Doctor Sleep

Stephen King on his alcoholism

50 essential works of LGTB fiction

B-grade Nicholson Baker

Norman Rush’ Big Chill

Putting James Franco on all the book covers

22 eye operations later,
Bolshoi director & acid victim
returns to the theater

Women & the Harlem Renaissance

Harlem, women artists & WW2

John Yau:
More to Paul Feeley
than meets the eye

Sol LeWitt’s advice to Eva Hesse

Talking with Amy Sillman

Do white men rule the art world?

Installation:
9,000 corpses
silhouetted on Normandy beach

When bad things happen to good museums:
Detroit Institute of the Arts

30% of the Art Institute of Chicago’s
modern wing is closed

The scattered fates of closed museums

But 5 new museums
ready for take off

The painter at
the North Philly carwash

Talking with Robert Indiana

Sculpture in the garden

Is everything at art fairs the same-ish?

Barry Schwabsky on Thomas Hirschhorn

The subtle subversions of Gary Hume

15 years of art fraud

Reed Krakoff on collecting art as inspiration

Everything including
your mom’s house
on view @
the Moscow Biennale

Hirst helps Tate set record

The painting the Met won’t show you

Rauschenberg & photography

Talking with Alexis Rockman

Lee Tanner has died

As has Fred Katz

Pussy Riot member goes on hunger strike
@ her prison

Mingus:
an argument with instruments

The Beatles go platinum in the UK
finally

Disarm:
music with a bang

New works on a large scale
including one from
Dylan Mattingly

The art of David Tudor

Roger Waters:
I was wrong to sue Pink Floyd

Talking with Matthew Shipp

A © victory after 35 years
for YMCA

UK pirates face
intellectual property crackdown

Record companies go after Vimeo over ©

Saul Landau has died

The art house theaters of LA

Joshua Clover: White House Down

Soderbergh’s farewell

Sheldon Hackney dies of ALS

Doug Messerli
on the carnage of 2013

The man who invented
the search engine

The surge in MOOCs

How to get a job with a
philosophy degree

In Russia,
argument over Kant
ends in shooting

Object-oriented Marxism

Kolakowski & the long march to Catholicism

Chinese philosophy
rising in the US

Marshall Berman
melts into air

Why Edward Snowden
& Chelsea Manning
are American heroes

The death of an adjunct

Adjuncts
are the new working poor

Why snake handlers go on TV