The widening gender gap
in contemporary American poetry

Occupy Poetics

Camille Rankine:
What We Write About when We Write About

A National Book Award longlist
as if it weren’t reserved
strictly for the big trade presses

Stephen Burt’s spring & all

A real life poetry top ten

The first emoticon?

From the intro to Ray Johnson’s
Not Nothing

Some reviews of Paper Snake

From Kevin Killian’s “A Ray Johnson Story”

Ray Johnson & snakes

Making Modernism:
Literature & Culture in 20^th-C. Chicago

Tim Liu on Brenda Coultas

Disembargo:
An open diss
one letter at a time

Talking with Lydia Davis

Alistair MacLeod has died

As has Myanmar poet & democracy advocate
U Win Tin

Doris Pilkington Garimara has died

& also Phillip Hayes Dean

& Richard Hoggart,
who defended Chatterly

Remembering Bill Knott

& Justin Vitiello

Libraries:
A World History

The library that hid its books

A librarian in the Pentagon

James Baldwin, poet

Bringing Baldwin
back to the classroom

Searching for Cervantes

rob mclennan wins Ottawa arts award

Twin memorials for
Gabriel García Márquez

Macondo in mourning

Gabo’s guide
to Latin America,
real & surreal

Salman Rushdie
on Gabo

Mexico honors a Colombian writer
as one of its own

An obit note for Gabo
from Shelf-Awareness

Andrés Neuman’s
Talking to Ourselves

Writing in one’s
“other” language

Ubu Sings Ubu

Nevermore:
Form is never more
than an extension of
Tony Lopez

Philip Whalen:
Prolegomena to a Study of the Universe

Whalen:
Prose [Out] Takes

The Beyond Baroque
awards 2014,
honoring Bill Mohr & Rick Lupert

A profile of Afaa Michael Weaver

Lola Lemire Tostevin:
What’s in a Name?

Talking with Adrian Harte

Claudia Rankine
wins $50,000 prize

The Caine Prize shortlist
for African writing

The tomb of an ancient writer

Germany’s largest publisher
blasts Google

Al Filreis & Jennifer Summit
named to the Minerva Institute

What is a reader?

Make room for e-books

The e-book or hard copy debate

BookBub:
deals on e-books

Shakespeare the icon

Roland Prevost:
Knack to Promise

NYU’s MFA program:
alums had 50 books in 2013

Teaching literature with music

Talking with Grzegorz Wroblewski

Michael Schmidt’s Present Tense

Charlie Simic
waxes nostalgic over brawling
without naming names
(nostalgic because brawling
suggests that poetry
is strictly male behavior)

“Top 10” writers to see live

Ed Hirsch
on the “soul-making”
activity of poetry

Hirsch’s A Poet’s Glossary

John Donne at the Odeon

Is The Black-Eyed Blonde
a fan fic or merely a ripoff?

How to talk Philly, yo!

Collecting Shakespeare

Willie the Shake @ 450

Blaming the birds on Shakespeare

Hapless o’er haplology

Stephen Emmerson:
Poetry Wholes

Frank O’Hara & the substance of joy

Best. Correction. Ever.

The history of the found object

John Yau on Peter Dreher

Talking with Julian Schnabel

Jasper Johns’ Regrets

Treasures on Warhol’s floppies

Why remember Valerie Solanas?

Talking with Sarah Lucas

Maya Lin:
Seven Square Inches of Water, 2014

Talking with Josephine Halvorson

What New York really needs --
another art fair

Meeting Duchamp posthumously

Talking with Peter Brant

Banksy street works
to be auctioned

Matt Freedman’s cancer chronicles

Song vs. dance
in Russian ballet

Russian Duma
bans swearing in films

Tarantino loses suit against Gawker:
a link doesn’t violate ©

Sex as a renewable resource:
the philosophical view

FCC caves to Verizon:
internet goes to highest bidder

Thomas Piketty:
To Have and Have Not

The Piketty Panic

Krugman: Why are we in
a new gilded age?

Piketty, the French economist
US liberals “love”

What was socialism?

Piketty has bookstores scrambling

Sen. Warren
summarizes Piketty:
“trickle down doesn’t work”

Hal Myerson:
Revolt of the Cities

Neoliberalism’s war on democracy