Lyn Hejinian:
from The Unfollowing

A poem worth
a life sentence
in a Qatari prison

No mercy for Qatari poet

Avant-garde in Istanbul

Poems for the Millennium: North Africa

Catherine Wagner:
from Fear Light Susan Type

Amaranth Borsuk & Kate Durbin:
Abra

Al Filreis
on Stephen Collis

Rae Armantrout:
Transport

Plus 4 poems

A nice review of Revelator
from rob mclennan

A reading of mine
from Sunset Debris

Troubling the Line:
Trans and Genderqueer Poetry & Poeticws

You can read Peter Quartermain’s introduction
to Robert Duncan’s
Collected Later Poems & Plays here

Brian Teare
on Lisa Jarnot’s Duncan bio

Talking with Carla Harryman & Catherine Meng

Harryette Mullen’s Urban Tumbleweed:
Notes from a Tanka Diary

No signs of poison
in Neruda’s remains

Lou Reed & the NY School

Talking with Lou Reed

Patti Smith:
Remembering Lou Reed

Lou Reed’s incorrigible genius

Reed never gave it away

Lou Reed estate
goes to Laurie Anderson & family

Dueling Russian poets
keep Putin in power

50 tough books
for extreme readers

Do different languages
confer
different personalities?

How to write
whatever’s current in poetry

Mapping SF’s literary history

100 years of Proust

GC Waldrep:
from discrete series

Tomaž Šalamun:
To the Heart

Alysia Abbott:
first you write the book,
then it writes its own book

Wondering in Bangalore:
Is literature still an
‘old boys club’?

Confessions of a Booker Prize judge

Literary citizenship:
the vast gap between
writing for a living
& a day job as a bike messenger

Seminary Coop splits from Newberry

45 great indie bookstores

Alli Warren:
5 new poems

Sara Nicholson:
Hall of the Woods

Elizabeth Gilbert,
the author of Eat, Pray, Love
on the work of Jack Gilbert

Pushpa Thangadurai
has died

A trailer for
The Line Has Shattered:
Vancouver’s Landmark
1963 Poetry Conference

Roberto Tejada:
The avant-garde in crisis

Conceptual art
as anti-humanism

Sex & Sensibility

Margaret Atwood
congratulates
Alice Munro

Talking with Myung Mi Kim

Tom Clark: Wild

The Dude
is a dandy

Matsuo Bashō’s Poetic Spaces

Typewriter:
an artist book for writing

Handwritten manuscripts
you can read online

Censoring Harry Potter

Aaron Tucker on writing

The world’s 60 largest book publishers

A short history of the term glitch

Adam Kirsch & Anna Holmes
on tweeting vs. criticism

Book sellers say no
to selling Kindles

Talking with Cecilia Vincuña

Michael Palmer:
2 poems

Michael (not the poet) Palmer
has died

A roundtable on Edmund Jabès

Ange Mlinko’s
Marvelous Things Overheard

Eliot Weinberger interviews Gary Snyder

Seth Abramson & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
on poetry reviewing

Uniquely compelling & poignant

What to wear at a reading?

Can book snobbery
kill books?

Amanda Earl
to be inducted into
the VerseOttawa Hall of Honour

(Mis)Reading Inger Christensen
as a conceptualist

Rich poet / comfortable poet merch

Talking with Suzanne Scanlon

Salman Rushdie
on being a guy

Talking with Sherman Alexie

DIY:
self-publishing acronyms

All self-publishers
need a good editor

Talking with Yona Harvey

On interviewing William Burroughs

Allen Ginsberg
reading Sunflower Sutra (in 1960)
over a 1957 video of him, LeRoi Jones,
Frank O’Hara & Ray Bremser
@ a reading at Living Theater

Talking with Barbara Henning

Writing & technology

The Russian version of
politics & poetry

Talan Memmot:
On Codework:
Phenomenology of an Anti-Genre

Talking with Hazel Carby

Seamus Heaney’s last poem?

Zadie Smith:
Winning prizes is “everything”

James Yeary & David Abel
in conversation

Problems of the Uni-voice

Chuck Calabreze & Arthur Sze:
Poetry unexplained

17 poems by Mark Weiss

The Whole Island:
Six Decades of Cuban Poetry

Karena Youtz & Jane Lewty
in conversation

Kevin Varrone’s Box Score app

1260 audio poems
in a single mashup

Meg Kearney on 14^th Street

D’Annunzio bio
wins Samuel Johnson Prize

Finnegans Wake
& the NSA

David Lehman on sestinas

Talking with David Lehman
but failing to ask about stamp collecting

FW Harvey’s “lost” novel found

Amina Cain’s Creature

Women & Children First
is looking for new owners

Are Mormons too optimistic
for great literature?

Beware zombie nouns

From Whitman to
the School of Quietude
in South Huntington

Denise Duhamel on sestinas

The Huntington is back

Alfred Corn’s Tables

Mailer’s mark

Is Amazon Publishing in trouble?

All the wrong reasons
for writing

Poetry SuperHighway
goes to the other extreme
with its annual e-book potlatch

Tara Betts on
Sestina for the Sin

Daniel Alarcón:
At Night We Walk in Circles

Donna Tartt’s anti-epic

Dan Gerber’s
Sailing Through Cassiopeia

Kent Johnson
on the sestina

Attica Locke
wins the Earnest J Gaines Award

Talking with Stephen Burt

Burt on Six Kinds of Noodles

Mary Cappello & David Lazar
in conversation

Talking with Paula Bohince

Prufrock:
the comic

Matt Kish
illustrating
Heart of Darkness

Talking with Dessa

Billy Collins on PBS Newshour

Talking with Aaron Belz

Robert Paterson:
famous poems set to music

The 20 most powerless
“people” in the art world

Remembering Arthur Danto

Arthur Danto & the end of art

Danto’s sense of wonder

Painting & philosophy

2 founders of Dia
sue to stop auction
of its iconic collection

Bill Gates:
Donations to museums
are morally reprehensible

Why Lucy Lippard
never gets writers block

Vanity Fair’s
‘greatest living artists’

Banksy alters painting,
donates it to charity…

…whose buyer
then backs out

Banksy in NYC:
Jerk or Genius?

Banksy’s NYC finale
brings the cops

10 tough women artists
who stand up to the bad boys

RosaLee Goldberg
on the future of performance art

How performance art
took over the art world

Mary Mattingly:
Performance artist as bag lady
or vice versa

The difference between
comedy & performance art

Artist nails himself to Red Square

Damien does Doha:
a Trojan shark?

Going big with Richard Serra

why Hitler hated modernism

Nazi art horde
puts art world into uproar

Talking with Eduardo Sarabia

John Yau
on Peter Acheson’s talismans

Yau on Lester Johnson’s
painting of the 1960s

Yau on Karl Wirsum

& on Francisca Sutil

It’s not The Hermitage:
Russian Museum in St. Petersburg
shows work by Sylvester Stallone

The painting of Miles Davis

Debate:
the cost of being an artist

Lunch with Lucian

Oregon artists
bring archived surveillance to light

Jack Mitchell has died

Albert Mobilio on Edward Burtynsky

Talking with Raoul Middleman

Picasso’s print maker

N Korean art
celebrating China’s
socialist utopia

Orchard Beach

Coltrane’s
handwritten outline for
A Love Supreme

Pussy Riot member
banished to Siberia

Elliott Smith:
“Mr Misery” 10 years later

Smith turns up as a figure
in Dennis Cooper’s latest poems

Talking with Rabih Mroué

Michael Lally on
12 Years a Slave

Ed Pincus has died

Fighting to stay in SF as an artist

Dissent
connects with readers under 80

French journalists killed in Mali

Egypt suspends TV satirist

Cuba shuts down private cinemas
& video game parlors

UK approve press regulation

Reddit Politics Forum
announces publisher blacklist

Argentine media law upheld by court

Liberian editor
hopes “libel” case
will soon be settled

Cancer bracelet censorship
could go to Supreme Court

A campaign in Germany
to offer Snowden asylum

Tim Berners-Lee
on spies, metadata & the web

Socialize social media!

Talking with Jacques Rancière