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Sunday, January 31, 2021

I was just 22 when Clayton Eshleman first accepted my work for Caterpillar, encouraged no doubt by Robert Kelly. It was an important appeara...

Clayton Eshleman | passing



Friday, June 26, 2020

Philadelphia's mayor and police commissioner concede that the 676 police riot was exactly that. One cop will be fired. A week late & a do...

2020 | Black Lives Matter | police | socialism



Sunday, December 15, 2019

I have been wrong about 2020’s presidential election and I should say so. I had expected that by the end of Super Tuesday (March 3rd...



Sunday, December 15, 2019

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Bob Dylan | community | Film | history | 2020 | elections | Politics | Events | Readings | 2020 | Politics | socialism



Sunday, November 10, 2019

We only saw the after-effects of one Catalan independence rally when we were in Barcelona last month, though there had been a wilde...



Monday, July 01, 2019

Bob Dylan’s Eyes The films by or about Bob Dylan are every bit as strange, unique, intimate & evasive, as he is and Martin Scor...

Bob Dylan | community | Film | history



Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Some Limits of Space Spatial metaphors can be useful in providing a visual frame for any activity. To think outside the box, you need ...



Monday, April 29, 2019

The Real Race for the Democratic Nomination The need to replace the Fascist-in-Chief is so desperate that the race for the Democratic ...

2020 | elections | Politics



Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Thursday, April 11 th 5:30 – 6:30 PM Living Arts 307 E. MB Brady Street Tulsa, Oklahoma (a part of Tulsa LitFest) ...

Events | Readings



Monday, March 18, 2019

I was a no vote, even though I enthusiastically support Bernie in his campaign for the presidency in 2020. But I also support Elizabet...

2020 | Politics | socialism



Monday, February 25, 2019

The Oscars as always are a mixed bag, often better for the couture than for the films that grab the gold. The Green Book was not a dr...

Film | Prizes



Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Multitudes Walt Whitman often is characterized as an apotheosis of the American cult of individualism with Song of Myself presented ...

Multitudes | Walt Whitman



Friday, January 11, 2019

This coming Monday The Fab Four come to the Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant 247 S. 17th Street Phil-EYE-delphia 7:30 - 9:30 PM ...

Readings



Monday, January 07, 2019

Ben Friedlander jokingly introduced me at the 2017 National Poetry Foundation conference on the poetries of the 1990s by saying that t...

Conceptual poetics | Flarf | literary history | periodicity



Friday, January 04, 2019

China has to know by now that it can seize Taiwan any time it wants and that Trump has so ravaged the US’ ability to mount a coalition in...

Globalism | Politics | Trump



Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Is power a function of speech? That, in essence, was the core of the Supreme Court decision we know under the deeply cynical – but curious...

Capital | history | Linguistics | political action



Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Today in DC Sunday, September 30, 6PM Bridge Street Books 2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC Readers in addition to co-editors Sil...



Friday, September 28, 2018

Realized today that I have attended something like 4,000 poetry readings in my life. What a great gift that has been. And, yes, the Bromig...



Thursday, September 20, 2018

David Bromige: Posthumous World Tour continues The tour continues...



Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Where We Are Now When I was a young man, I wrote law. I was not a lawyer, having no degree beyond my high school diploma, altho...



Friday, August 24, 2018

Incremental Windows , James Garrahan's documentary of David Bromige, available for viewing NOW on YouTube. Don't forget to come to the Po...



Monday, August 06, 2018

David Bromige: Posthumous World Tour There will be a series of r...



Monday, January 22, 2018

Writing Across Borders Penn Students: I still have a few seats available in my Writing Across Borders class that meets on Wednesdays...



Saturday, November 04, 2017

Reading Tonight with Peter Manson fresh from the symposium on the man & his work at the University of Glasgow @ The ...



Wednesday, October 25, 2017

My nephew, Luke, turns 18 today. His plan in life is to become a filmmaker. This past August, he spent most of the month at our...



Sunday, September 03, 2017

The Worldwide Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on September 6, 2017 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Presented by ...



Saturday, July 22, 2017

My reading at the University of Paris Diderot with translations by Martin Richet March 7, 2017

Paris | Readings | translation



Monday, May 22, 2017

Within the past year, there have been three major motion pictures built around poets and poetry – Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson,   Pabl...

Film



Thursday, March 23, 2017

Joanne in the Himalayas 1962, photo by Allen Ginsberg e-mail to Linda Russo from Ron Silliman From:      rsillima@ix.netcom.com ...

Joanne Kyger | Passings



Friday, February 24, 2017

Tour de France Nantes Reading & Interview with Martin Richet Sunday, March 5,   2:00 pm Maison de la Poésie de Nantes The ...

Coming Events | France | Readings | Talks | translation



Monday, February 20, 2017

Not to be confused with the Vichy regime being set up in DC and elsewhere. The following are Twitter accounts for the legitimate govern...

Defend the Constitution



Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Tom Raworth 1938 -- 2017 A link here to the Poetry Foundation's recording of Tom Raworth reading " Gaslight ": a line of faces...

passing | Tom Raworth | We'll not see the likes of him again



Wednesday, January 11, 2017

No title

censorship | Freedom of speech | political action | political poetry



Saturday, December 31, 2016

David Meltzer 1937 - 2016 Here is a note I wrote on David's work here in 2005. I’ve written on numerous occasions that the so-c...



Tuesday, October 04, 2016

My mother, Patricia Tansley Silliman, would have been 90 today

Personal



Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Paul Blackburn and Me  Edie Jarolim It’s been thirty years since I finished editing the Collected Poems of Paul Blackbur...

Edie Jarolim | Paul Blackburn



Wednesday, April 20, 2016

As someone who has always – at least since I was 10 – been reading a lot of books at one time, it’s rare that I don’t find at least one...

current reading | good books



Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Philly poets -- bad news. Readers’ Forum Books in Wayne (N. Wayne Ave just above route 30, half a block from the tra...

Bookstores



Thursday, January 14, 2016

Some 30-plus years ago, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State, concerned at having given its annual book award the previous two y...

passing



Friday, December 25, 2015

No title



Thursday, December 03, 2015

Ryan Costello, the GOP congressman from our district in Chester County, PA, looks like one of those farm implement or panty-ho...

NRA | Politics



Sunday, August 30, 2015

Penn students (also students at schools with a reciprocal class agreement with Penn) There are still plenty of spots avail...

class | experimental writing | Penn



Saturday, August 22, 2015

I have a dream. The first time as history, the second time as farce. My dream is this. The disaster that is Hillary Clinton’s em...

2016 | Bernie Sanders | Claire McCaskill | Donald Trump | Hillary Clinton | Joe Biden | Richard Nixon | Ronald Reagan | Tammy Baldwin



Wednesday, August 19, 2015

The syllabus for my University of Pennsylvania course English 111 Experimental Writing: Poetry and Poetics   can now be fo...



Monday, August 10, 2015

Reading & talking in Gloucester, MA

Personal | Post-Anthropocene | Readings | Talks



Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Today

Events | Personal



Monday, July 13, 2015

In 1968, Ed van Aelstyn, my linguistics professor at San Francisco State & co-founder of Coyote’s Journal, my favorite poetry ma...

David Gitin | passing



Thursday, June 25, 2015

Lev Rubinstein & Pierre Alferi Poetry International 2015

Lev Rubinstein | Pierre Alferi | Readings



Monday, June 22, 2015

Kenneth Goldsmith & Pierre Alferi The Art of Uncreative Writing Poetry International 2015

Conceptual poetics | Kenneth Goldsmith | Pierre Alferi



Friday, June 19, 2015

Tonight! Reading in Berkeley Friday, June 19 (Door 7:00, reading begins 7:30) Brian Ang Laura Moriarty Ron Sil...



Sunday, June 14, 2015

This Week! Reading in Berkeley Friday, June 19 (Door 7:00, reading begins 7:30) Brian Ang Laura Moriarty Ron ...

Coming Events



Saturday, June 13, 2015

Juan Felipe Herrera: A Natural History of Chicano Literature

Juan Felipe Herrera | Talks



Monday, June 08, 2015

John Yau talking with Charles Bernstein’s students at Penn, April 21, 2015

conversation | John Yau



Monday, June 01, 2015

A celebration of Robert Duncan’s HD Book

H.D. | Robert Duncan



Thursday, May 28, 2015

Reading in Berkeley Friday, June 19 (Door 7:00, reading begins 7:30) Brian Ang Laura Moriarty Ron Silliman A...

Coming Events



Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The crowd at the ball game By William Carlos Williams The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a spirit...

bullying | censorship | crowdthink | history | homophobia | racism | silence



Monday, May 25, 2015

Richard Zenith talking on Fernando Pessoa

Alain Badiou | Fernando Pessoa | Richard Zenith | Talks



Friday, May 22, 2015

The most important of all rights, the one whose absence sooner or later permits the shutting down of every other one, is the righ...

AWP | blasphemy | censorship | fascism



Thursday, May 21, 2015

The kerfuffle over Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind tweets & Kenneth Goldsmith’s “performance” of Michael Brown’s autopsy is rai...

Canonicity | Steven Vincent Benet | White Guy Needing an Explanation



Monday, May 18, 2015

Elizabeth Bishop & James Merrill reading at the Library of Congress 1974

Elizabeth Bishop | James Merrill | Readings



Monday, May 11, 2015

Philip Glass   talking   with Terry Gross

Interviews | Music | Philip Glass



Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Louise Bogan & JV Cunningham reading & discussing their poems @   the Library of Congress 1968 ...

conversation | JV Cunningham | Louise Bogan | Readings



Thursday, April 30, 2015

A Celebration of Countee Cullen on his 111 th birthday with Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Tim Seibles ...

Countee Cullen | Readings | Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Tim Seibles



Monday, April 27, 2015

Audre Lorde reading in the recording library of The Library of Congress 1977

Audre Lorde | Readings



Saturday, April 25, 2015

Randall Jarrell interviewing Robert Frost 1959

Interviews | Randall Jarrell | Robert Frost



Thursday, April 23, 2015

Claudia Rankine reading @ Temple University March   19, 2015

Claudia Rankine | Readings



Monday, April 20, 2015

“ The New Sentence ” The original talk given September 16, 1979 at the San Francisco Art Institute in Bob Perel...

Personal | Talks | The New Sentence



Friday, April 17, 2015

Nathaniel Mackey hosts Tanganyika Strut 2004

Music | Nathaniel Mackey



Sunday, April 12, 2015

Ivan Doig 1939 – 2015

passing



Saturday, April 11, 2015

Judith Malina 1926 – 2015

passing



Saturday, April 11, 2015

Peter Culley 1958 – 2015 Reading @ Kootenay October 18, 2003

passing



Sunday, April 05, 2015

Steve Kowit 1938 – 2015

passing



Sunday, April 05, 2015

Bob Grumman 1941 – 2015

passing



Friday, April 03, 2015

Melvin B Tolson reading Dark Symphony

Melvin B Tolson | Readings



Monday, March 30, 2015

Tomas Tranströmer 1931 – 2015

passing



Sunday, March 29, 2015

Richard O Moore’s USA: Poetry Robert Duncan & John Wieners

Interviews | John Wieners | Richard O. Moore | Robert Duncan



Saturday, March 28, 2015

Richard O Moore’s USA: Poetry Frank O’Hara

Alfred Leslie | Frank O'Hara | Richard O. Moore



Friday, March 27, 2015

Michael McClure from a film by Richard O Moore

Michael McClure | Readings | Richard O. Moore



Thursday, March 26, 2015

Richard O Moore 1920 – 2015

passing



Monday, March 23, 2015

I have been using this blog somewhat differently this year, and suspect that I will continue to do so going forward. Rather than constr...

Personal | Politics



Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Gertrude Stein & Virgil Thomson Four Saints in Three Acts Act One Act Two Act Three

Gertrude Stein | Opera | Virgil Thomson



Sunday, March 15, 2015

Talking with Nicole Markotić

Interviews | Nicole Markotić



Thursday, March 12, 2015

Portrait by Fairfield Porter Jimmy Schuyler reading

James Schuyler | Readings



Monday, March 09, 2015

Robin Blaser reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 1995 ( first part)  ( second part)

Readings | Robin Blaser



Saturday, March 07, 2015

Nicole Brossard reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 1985

Nicole Brossard | Readings



Thursday, March 05, 2015

George Bowering reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 2004

George Bowering | Readings



Monday, March 02, 2015

Nicole Markotić reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 2004

Nicole Markotić | Readings



Sunday, March 01, 2015

Leonard Nimoy “ Do what scares you ”

passing



Friday, February 27, 2015

Deanna Ferguson reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 1998

Deanna Ferguson | Readings



Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Tom Raworth reading @ the Kootenay School of Writing Vancouver, BC 1998

Readings | Tom Raworth



Sunday, February 22, 2015

Brian Teare talking @ Evergreen State College on Queer Theory & Ecopoetics 2013

Brian Teare | Talks



Saturday, February 21, 2015

Joe Brainard reading from I Remember 1971

Joe Brainard | Readings



Friday, February 20, 2015

Rae Armantrout Trendspotting: Poetry’s New Thing Armantrout is reading tonight with Brian Teare @ Dahlak Paradise 4708 Balt...

Rae Armantrout | Talks



Thursday, February 19, 2015

Cynthia Hogue reading in New York’s Segue Series 2000

Cynthia Hogue | Readings



Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Ali Mazrui: The State of African Literature

Ali Mazrui | Interviews



Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The Queer Gaze: Bureau of General Services Queer Division A panel with Samuel R Delany , Ana Božičević , Saeed Jones & T...

Ana Božičević | Panel | Saeed Jones | Samuel R Delany | Tim Trace Peterson



Monday, February 16, 2015

Philip Levine 1928 – 2015

passing



Sunday, February 15, 2015

Photos by Richard Avedon @ William Carlos Williams’ house, 1958 Ezra Pound reading & expounding from the Ezuversity ...

Ezra Pound | Readings



Saturday, February 14, 2015

Barbara Guest reading @ the Library of Congress 1969

Barbara Guest | Readings



Friday, February 13, 2015

Carl Rakosi reading @ the Library of Congress 1996

Carl Rakosi | Readings | Robert Hass



Thursday, February 12, 2015

Muriel Rukeyser reading @ the Library of Congress 1962

Muriel Rukeyser | Readings



Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Jennifer Scappettone talking about Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice ( part one)   ( part two)

Interviews | Jennifer Scappettone



Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Talking with Brent Cunningham about Small Press Distribution

Brent Cunningham | Interviews | Small Press Distribution



Monday, February 09, 2015

Ann Hamilton Making & the Spaces We Share

ann hamilton | Interviews



Sunday, February 08, 2015

David Bromige reading @ SUNY Buffalo 1976

David Bromige | Readings



Saturday, February 07, 2015

Charlemagne Palestine Strumming Music

Charlemagne Palestine | Music



Friday, February 06, 2015

Suzanne Lacy Prostitution Notes

conceptual art | Performance | Suzanne Lacy



Thursday, February 05, 2015

Patrick Eyres: Ian Hamilton Finlay & Little Sparta

Ian Hamilton Finlay | Patrick Eyres | Talks



Wednesday, February 04, 2015

John Berger in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

conversation | Hans Ulrich Obrist | John Berger



Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Bob Holman Language Matters

Bob Holman | documentary | language



Monday, February 02, 2015

Rod McKuen 1933 – 2015

passing



Sunday, February 01, 2015

Jasper Morrison A World Without Words

design | Jasper Morrison | language | photography



Saturday, January 31, 2015

Self Publish, Be Happy

photography | Self Publish Be Happy | video



Friday, January 30, 2015

Michael Stipe Michael Stipe Michael Stipe Michael Stipe

Michael Stipe | Talks



Thursday, January 29, 2015

Judith Butler , Hélène Cixous & Avital Ronell The Notion of Affinity

affinity | Avital Ronell | conversation | Hélène Cixous | Judith Butler | Panel



Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Giorgio Agamben Language, Media & Politics

Giorgio Agamben | Talks



Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Jacques Roubaud Mnemonic Hand

Jacques Roubaud | Oulipo | Talks



Monday, January 26, 2015

Etel Adnan @ the Extinction Marathon London 2014

Etel Adnan | Readings



Sunday, January 25, 2015

Yoko Ono interviewed by Waldemar Januszczak London 2012

Interviews | Yoko Ono



Saturday, January 24, 2015

Gilbert & George @ the Extinction Marathon London 2014

conceptual art | Gilbert & George | Performance



Friday, January 23, 2015

Tomaž Šalamun reading & in conversation with David Rivard

conversation | David Rivard | Readings | Tomaž Šalamun



Thursday, January 22, 2015

Ted Berrigan reading in Buffalo, 1968

Readings | Ted Berrigan



Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Cecilia Vicuña reading  in Buffalo, 2001

Cecilia Vicuña | Readings



Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Norman Fischer Two talks on mindfulness ( first talk)   ( second talk)

mindfulness | Norman Fischer | Talks



Monday, January 19, 2015

Eugene   Ostashevsky , Holly   Pester &   Sophie   Seita live at the   Serpentine Galleries in collaboration with The Wh...

Eugene Ostashevsky | Holly Pester | Readings | Sophie Seita



Sunday, January 18, 2015

Next Saturday January 24 Ron Silliman & Sophie Seita reading for the Segue Foundation @ the Zinc Bar 82 nd W. 3 rd St...

Coming Events | Personal



Saturday, January 17, 2015

Akilah Oliver reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club 2007

Akilah Oliver | Readings



Friday, January 16, 2015

Dale Edwin Sherrard 1961 – 2015

Music | passing | Sound



Thursday, January 15, 2015

Garrett Caples reading @ Pegasus, 2007

Garrett Caples | Readings



Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Frank Sherlock reading @ Small Press Traffic, 2009

Frank Sherlock | Readings



Tuesday, January 13, 2015

CAConrad reading @ Small Press Traffic, 2009

CAConrad | Readings



Monday, January 12, 2015

Geoffrey G O’Brien reading @ McNally’s Irish Pub, 2008

Geoffrey G. O'Brien | Readings



Sunday, January 11, 2015

A Walking Tour of Paris

Paris



Saturday, January 10, 2015

Emily Apter on In-comparative Literature: The Problem of Untranslatability

Emily Apter | translation



Friday, January 09, 2015

Alexander Gelley on Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project

Alexander Gelley | Arcades Project | Talks | Walter Benjamin



Thursday, January 08, 2015

No title

passing



Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Michele Serros 1966 – 2015

passing



Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Wow ! Ted Joans Lives !

documentary | Ted Joans



Monday, January 05, 2015

On Claudia Rankine’s Citizen Erica Hunt on Citizen E Ethelbert Miller: Is our language broken? Raymond Roussel: godfathe...

links | Passings



Sunday, January 04, 2015

Ursula K Le Guin at Berkeley

conversation | Ursula K Le Guin



Saturday, January 03, 2015

Miller Williams 1930 – 2015

passing



Friday, January 02, 2015

Muddy Waters Unplugged Field Recordings, 1941-42

blues | Muddy Waters



Thursday, January 01, 2015

Fanny Howe reading @ The University of Chicago

Fanny Howe | Readings



Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Henry Hills' Emma’s Dilemma featuring Emma Bee Bernstein & friends

Emma Bee Bernstein | Film | Henry Hills | Interviews



Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Paul Thomas Anderson talking about Inherent Vice

Film | Interviews | Paul Thomas Anderson | Thomas Pynchon



Monday, December 29, 2014

Steve Benson reading @ Segue 2013

Readings | Steve Benson



Sunday, December 28, 2014

Tomaž Šalamun 1941 – 2014

passing



Saturday, December 27, 2014

Fanny Howe talking at The University of Chicago

Fanny Howe | Talks



Friday, December 26, 2014

John Wilkinson on Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas | John Wilkinson | Talks



Thursday, December 25, 2014

Nina Simone on BBC’s Hard Talk, 1999

Interviews | Nina Simone



Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Nina Simone Live at Montreux, 1976

Music | Nina Simone



Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Nina Simone The Ballad of Hollis Brown

blues | Bob Dylan | Nina Simone



Monday, December 22, 2014

Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder in Louisville , 2014

conversation | Gary Snyder | Readings | Wendell Berry



Sunday, December 21, 2014

Anne Carson & friends in Seattle

Anne Carson | Performance | Readings



Saturday, December 20, 2014

Diane Wakoski in Grand Rapids

Diane Wakoski | Readings



Friday, December 19, 2014

Charles Olson reading @ the Vancouver Poetry Festival , 1963

Charles Olson | Readings



Thursday, December 18, 2014

Klaus Kertess & Carroll Dunham in conversation @ NYPL

Carroll Dunham | conversation | Klaus Kertess



Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Kit Robinson reading & talking @ Canessa Park, SF 2011

conversation | Kit Robinson | Readings



Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Jennifer Bartlett talking on Larry Eigner (note sale on The Collected Poems)

Jennifer Bartlett | Larry Eigner | Talks



Monday, December 15, 2014

James Koller 1936 – 2014

passing



Sunday, December 14, 2014

Jane Freilicher 1924 – 2014

passing



Saturday, December 13, 2014

Ralph Maud 1928 – 2014

passing



Friday, December 12, 2014

Geof Huth on Visual Poetry

Geof Huth | talk



Thursday, December 11, 2014

Vanessa Beecroft: The Female Body as Art

conceptual art | Performance | Vanessa Beecroft



Wednesday, December 10, 2014

On December 10, 2004, I posted the following note here: It was twenty years ago today that I last had a drink. Not that anyone’s count...

Personal



Tuesday, December 09, 2014

CAConrad , Jennifer Moxley , Lynn Melnick , Mark Bibbins at the Miami Book Fair

CAConrad | conversation | Jennifer Moxley | Lynn Melnick | Mark Bibbins



Monday, December 08, 2014

John Ashbery reads The Skaters

John Ashbery | Readings



Sunday, December 07, 2014

Fanny Howe , Claudia Rankine & Maureen N McLane at the Miami Book Fair

Claudia Rankine | Fanny Howe | Maureen N McLane | Readings



Saturday, December 06, 2014

John Ashbery reads Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

John Ashbery | Readings



Friday, December 05, 2014

Claudia Emerson 1957 – 2014

passing



Thursday, December 04, 2014

Karin Roffman: an audio journey thru John Ashbery’s early life in poetry

John Ashbery | Karin Roffman | Talks



Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Mark Ford & John Ashbery reading @ the 92 nd Y

John Ashbery | Mark Ford | Readings



Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Talking with Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov | Interviews



Monday, December 01, 2014

Talking about   Revelator

Interviews | Personal



Sunday, November 30, 2014

Mark Strand 1934 – 2014

passing



Saturday, November 29, 2014

Photo by Jonathan Williams Mina Loy: Feminist & Futurist from WFHB’s Books Unbound

documentary | Mina Loy



Friday, November 28, 2014

George Crumb: Music for the Starry Night

George Crumb | Music



Thursday, November 27, 2014

Bernard Heidsieck 1928 – 2014

passing | Sound poetry



Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts reading with Jaap Blonk 2011

collaborations | Gary Barwin | Gregory Betts | Jaap Blonk | Sound poetry



Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Talking with Alan Golding: The first broadcast from the Wexler Recording Studio @ Kelly Writers House, with Al Filreis , Bob Per...

Al Filreis | Alan Golding | Bob Perelman | Orchid Tierney | Personal | Talks



Monday, November 24, 2014

Allan Kornblum 1949 – 2014

passing



Sunday, November 23, 2014

Gregoire Pam Dick reading from Metaphysical Licks

Gregoire Pam Dick | Readings



Saturday, November 22, 2014

Ursula K Le Guin at the National Book Awards

Talks | Ursula K Le Guin



Friday, November 21, 2014

Jon Stallworthy 1935 – 20014

passing



Thursday, November 20, 2014

Eric Mottram talking on Hugh MacDiarmid @ SUNY Buffalo 1992

Eric Mottram | Hugh MacDiarmid | Talks



Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Michael Gottlieb reading from I Had Every Intention

Michael Gottlieb | Readings



Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Michael Boughn reading @ the 2014 BookThug launch

Michael Boughn | Readings



Monday, November 17, 2014

Ralph Kolewe reading @ the 2014 BookThug launch

Ralph Kolewe | Readings



Saturday, November 15, 2014

Rachel Zolf reading at Berkeley, 2010

Rachel Zolf | Readings



Friday, November 14, 2014

Louis Cabri & Michael Magee reading at Kelly Writers House 2001

Louis Cabri | Michael Magee | Readings



Thursday, November 13, 2014

Adeena Karasick reading in the Segue Series, 2006

Adeena Karasick | Readings



Wednesday, November 12, 2014

The trailer for The Complete Works Justin Stephenson’s forthcoming film on the work of bpNichol

bpNichol | Film



Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Sonnet L’Abbé on Canadian identity

Canadian Poetry | ideology | Sonnet L’Abbé | talk



Monday, November 10, 2014

Stephen Vincent reading & talking on Poet as Radio

Interviews | Readings | Stephen Vincent



Sunday, November 09, 2014

This week in Windsor, Ontario The Windsor International Writers Conference

Events



Saturday, November 08, 2014

This Sunday in Toronto 4:00 – 6:00 PM @ the Supermarket Restaurant & Bar 268 Augusta Avenue Louis Cabri , Ron Silliman...

Donato Mancini | Events | Louis Cabri | Personal | Tom Dilworth



Friday, November 07, 2014

Sally Silvers Dance Storming Heaven Sound Design & Text: Bruce Andrews Set Design & Visuals: Antonio Martorell ...

Antonio Martorell | Bruce Andrews | dance | Sally Silvers



Thursday, November 06, 2014

Zapotec poet Natalia Toledo interviewed on Tkio TV, a show that focuses on the indigenous experience in Mexico ...

Interviews | Natalia Toledo | Spanish | Zapotec



Wednesday, November 05, 2014

a rawlings & Maja Jantar reading @ North of Invention 2011

a rawlings | Maja Jantar | Performance | Readings | Sound poetry



Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Franck Leibovici & his Orchestra     @ Global Conceptualisms Paris 2012

Conceptual poetics | Franck Leibovici | Performance | Poets Theater



Monday, November 03, 2014

Paal   Bjelke   Andersen ,  Marco A. Huerta , Vanessa   Place ,  Franck   Leibovici @ Global Conceptualisms Paris 2012 ...

Franck Leibovici | Marco A. Huerta | Paal Bjelke Andersen | Readings | Vanessa Place



Sunday, November 02, 2014

Nick   Thurston ,  Christian   Bök   Swantje   Lichtenstein  &  Carlos   Soto - Román       @ Global Conceptualisms Paris ...

Carlos Soto Roman | Christian Bök | Nick Thurston | Readings | Swantje Lichtenstein



Saturday, November 01, 2014

This week in St. Catherines, Ontario

Conferences



Friday, October 31, 2014

bpNichol panel Toronto September 2014 with Stephen Cain , editor of bp:Beginnings Lola Lemire Tostevin & Brian D...

bpNichol | Brian Dedora | Gregory Betts | Lola Lemire Tostevin | Panel | Stephen Cain



Thursday, October 30, 2014

Galway Kinnell 1927 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, October 29, 2014

bpNichol & bill bissett interviewed by Phillis Webb   way back when

bill bissett | bpNichol | Interviews | Phillis Webb



Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Laure - Anne Bosselaar Reading for The Cortland Review at the 2008 AWP

Laure-Anne Bosselaar | Readings



Monday, October 27, 2014

Maria Baranda Reading at  National University March 2014

Maria Baranda | Readings



Sunday, October 26, 2014

This week in Oaxaca US Poets in Mexico Special Guests:  Andrei Codrescu & Maria Baranda Guest Lecturer:  Ron Silliman with...

Conferences



Saturday, October 25, 2014

Larry Fagin reading in Bolinas 1974

Larry Fagin | Readings



Friday, October 24, 2014

Andrei Codrescu remembers the impact of The Kaypro II

Andrei Codrescu | material conditions of the text



Thursday, October 23, 2014

Edward Dorn reads from North Atlantic Turbine ( part 1) ( part 2)

Ed Dorn | Readings



Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Let’s Do Lunch Poems (part 3) @ the Poetry Project October 2014

Frank O'Hara | Readings



Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Let’s Do Lunch Poems (part 2) @ the Poetry Project October 2014

Frank O'Hara | Readings



Monday, October 20, 2014

Let’s Do Lunch Poems (part 1) @ the Poetry Project October 2014

Frank O'Hara | Readings



Sunday, October 19, 2014

Bhanu Kapil @ the Poetry Project October 2014

Bhanu Kapil | Performance | Readings



Saturday, October 18, 2014

Jibz Cameron @ the Poetry Project October 2014 With Bhanu Kapil

Bhanu Kapil | Jibz Cameron | Performance | Readings | TS Eliot



Friday, October 17, 2014

Lorine Niedecker & the Obstinacy of the Particular HD’s imagism Talking with Patricia Lockwood MFA rape culture Does alt-lit ...

links | Passings



Friday, October 17, 2014

Ron Loewinsohn 1937 – 2014

passing



Thursday, October 16, 2014

David Jones reads The Hunt

David Jones | Readings



Wednesday, October 15, 2014

How to Survive without a Gallery Talking with Angela Lyn

Angela Lyn | conversation | Visual Arts



Tuesday, October 14, 2014

In Search of Haruki Murakami

documentary | Haruki Murakami



Monday, October 13, 2014

CAConrad & Anne Waldman go to Harvard     2013

Anne Waldman | CAConrad | Readings



Sunday, October 12, 2014

Carolyn Kizer & Lucille Clifton in conversation Carolyn Kizer 1925 – 2014

Carolyn Kizer | conversation | Lucille Clifton | passing



Saturday, October 11, 2014

Sylvia Plath a documentary

documentary | Sylvia Plath



Friday, October 10, 2014

Anne Waldman & Ted Berrigan reading Memorial Day 1973

Anne Waldman | Readings | Ted Berrigan



Thursday, October 09, 2014

Steve McCaffery reading from Carnival Glasgow, 2009

Readings | Steve McCaffery



Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Caroline Bergvall reading at the Bowery Poetry Club 2011

Caroline Bergvall | Readings



Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Bill Berkson reading at Kelly Writers House March 15, 2007

Bill Berkson | Readings



Monday, October 06, 2014

The Four Horsemen from Ron Mann’s documentary Poetry in Motion   1981 The Four Horsemen were bp Nichol , Steve McCaffery ,...

bpNichol | Paul Dutton | Performance | Rafael Barreto-Rivera | Sound poetry | Steve McCaffery | The Four Horsemen



Sunday, October 05, 2014

Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley introduction by Robert Duncan 1965 This “reading” is longer than The Godfather ...

Charles Olson | Readings



Saturday, October 04, 2014

Joanne Kyger reading at the Berkeley Poetry Conference July 24, 1965

Joanne Kyger | Readings



Friday, October 03, 2014

Marjorie Perloff on divergences in 20 th century poetry with Charles Bernstein 2009 ...

Charles Bernstein | Interviews | Marjorie Perloff



Thursday, October 02, 2014

Barbara Guest Line Break with Charles Bernstein 1995

Barbara Guest | Charles Bernstein | Interviews | Readings



Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Alastair Reid 1926 – 2014

passing



Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Dannie Abse 1923 – 2014

passing



Monday, September 29, 2014

Live fro m Helsinki! It’s Friends of the Cannibal Sunset Debris from the album Whose Language Is This ? ...

Friends of the Cannibal | Music | Performance | Personal



Sunday, September 28, 2014

Charles Bukowski The last reading

Charles Bukowski | Readings



Saturday, September 27, 2014

100,000 Poets for Change Happening today Everywhere

100 Thousand Poets for Change | Events



Friday, September 26, 2014

Talking with Basil Bunting 1980

Basil Bunting | Interviews



Thursday, September 25, 2014

Jonathan Williams reading in Warwick 1978

Jonathan Williams | Readings



Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Muriel Rukeyser reading in Warwick January, 1972

Muriel Rukeyser | Readings



Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Robert Duncan reading @ the University of Warwick 1978

Readings | Robert Duncan



Monday, September 22, 2014

Theodore Roethke In A Dark Time A film by David Myers

Readings | Theodore Roethke



Sunday, September 21, 2014

Ron Silliman reading for the University of Houston – Victoria Downtown Arts Friday, September 26 8:00 pm ...

Events | Personal



Saturday, September 20, 2014

Rae Armantrout reads Susan Wheeler & talks with Paul Muldoon

Interviews | Paul Muldoon | Rae Armantrout | Susan Wheeler



Friday, September 19, 2014

Nick-e Melville reading in London, 2012

nick-e melville | Readings



Thursday, September 18, 2014

Hugh MacDiarmid A Drunk Man Looks the Thistle ( part 1)   ( part 2) ( part 3)   ( part 4)

Hugh MacDiarmid | Readings



Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Carol Ann Duffy reading in Warwick 2002

Carol Ann Duffy | Readings



Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Thomas A Clark The Poet’s Voice Seminar 1980

Readings | Talks | Thomas A Clark



Monday, September 15, 2014

Tom Leonard on language & class

Interviews | Tom Leonard



Sunday, September 14, 2014

Dorothea Lasky reading @ José Pistola’s in Philadelphia 2013

Dorothea Lasky | Readings



Saturday, September 13, 2014

Charles Reznikoff reading @ SUNY Buffalo 1973 Introduction by George Oppen

Charles Reznikoff | Readings



Friday, September 12, 2014

Carlos Soto Román reads in the Chapter & Verse Series 2012

Carlos Soto Roman | Readings



Thursday, September 11, 2014

Amy King reads @ Pete’s Candy Store Brooklyn, 2008

Amy King | Readings



Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Kathy Acker gives a talk @ SUNY Buffalo 1979 Introduction by Robert Creeley

Kathy Acker | Talks



Tuesday, September 09, 2014

George Oppen reading @ the Poetry Center San Francisco State University 1963

George Oppen | Readings



Monday, September 08, 2014

Nicanor Parra turned 100 on Friday

Nicanor Parra | Readings



Sunday, September 07, 2014

Wallace Stevens reading @ the 92 nd Street Y 1951

Readings | Wallace Stevens



Saturday, September 06, 2014

Adrienne Rich reading @ the 92 nd Street Y 1968

Adrienne Rich | Readings



Friday, September 05, 2014

John Ashbery reading “one-size-fits-all autobiography” 1983

John Ashbery | Readings



Thursday, September 04, 2014

Ernesto Cardenal reading at Vanderbilt 2011

Ernesto Cardenal | Readings



Wednesday, September 03, 2014

' Cecilia Vicuña in London, 2010

Cecilia Vicuña | Readings



Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Zaccheus Jackson 1978 -- 2014

passing



Monday, September 01, 2014

Gregory Orr on killing as a child The Essential Ellen Willis Stephen Ratcliffe’s Selected Days has been awarded The Poet...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 31, 2014

Sophie Seita , Holly Pester   & Eugene Ostashevsky read at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery London, May 2014

Eugene Ostashevsky | Holly Pester | Readings | Sophie Seita



Saturday, August 30, 2014

Desmond O’Grady 1935 – 2014

passing



Friday, August 29, 2014

Alain Badiou & Joe Litvak perform the scene Terror from Badiou’s play Ahmed the Philosopher

Alain Badiou | Joe Litvak | Philosophy | Theater



Thursday, August 28, 2014

Fielding Dawson Reading at the Allentown Community Center Buffalo, 1974

Fielding Dawson | Readings



Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Peter Seaton reading from The Son Master NYC circa 1980

Peter Seaton | Readings



Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Lucille Clifton Reading at the 92 nd Street Y, NYC 2008

Lucille Clifton | Readings



Monday, August 25, 2014

Robert Creeley reading at the University of Helsinki February, 1989 ( part one) ( part two)

Readings | Robert Creeley



Sunday, August 24, 2014

Anselm Hollo reading in Grand Valley, Michigan, 1971

Anselm Hollo | Readings



Saturday, August 23, 2014

Karri Kokko Two plus Two Sound poetry by Kaikkonen & Karri Kokko

Karri Kokko | Sound poetry



Friday, August 22, 2014

Leevi Lehto: My Finnish Poetries ( Text of the talk) University of Pennsylvania, 2005

Leevi Lehto | poetics | Talks



Thursday, August 21, 2014

Satu Kaikkonen Leterrors & miron tee eter Lop ers Kaikkonen feature in Peep Show Visual poems in Moria So...

Karri Kokko | Satu Kaikkonen | Sound poetry | vispo



Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Anne Carson Cassandra Float Can & more @ the 92 nd Street Y, NYC 2008

Anne Carson | Performance | Readings



Tuesday, August 19, 2014

3 Lectures on Emily Dickinson by Robert Creeley ( one)   ( two)   ( three) New College of California September 1...

Emily Dickinson | Robert Creeley | Talks



Monday, August 18, 2014

Cascadian Poetics: Innovations from Here a panel with Joanne Kyger Jeanne Heuving Stephen Collis George Stanley ...

George Stanley | Jeanne Heuving | Joanne Kyger | Panel | poetics | Stephen Collis



Sunday, August 17, 2014

Where I will be next weekend Poetry Moon Festival Helsinki, Finland Saturday & Sunday August 23 & 24 Saturday, Aug...

Coming Events | Festival | Finland | Personal



Saturday, August 16, 2014

Tom   Weatherly   reading   in Grand Valley, Michigan 1971 Mau Mau American Cantos Thumbprint

Readings | Tom Weatherly



Friday, August 15, 2014

Lydia Davis on Bookworm

Interviews | Lydia Davis



Thursday, August 14, 2014

Gilbert Sorrentino on Bookworm

Gilbert Sorrentino | Interviews



Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Editing Alfred Starr Hamilton Talking with Ben Estes , Alan Felsenthal &   Amanda Nadelberg on Bookworm ...

Alan Felsenthal | Alfred Starr Hamilton | Amanda Nadelberg | Ben Estes | Interviews



Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Robin Williams 1951 – 2014 The Shawl



Monday, August 11, 2014

Diann Blakely 1957 – 2014

passing



Sunday, August 10, 2014

Catherine Wagner reading in Tucson 2006 Wagner is scheduled to be at US Poets in Mexico in Oaxaca this coming Octo...

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Saturday, August 09, 2014

Catherine Wagner talking with Leonard Schwartz on Cross-Cultural Poetics Wagner is scheduled to be at US Poets in Me...

Catherine Wagner | Cross-Cultural Poetics | Interviews | Leonard Schwartz



Friday, August 08, 2014

Catherine Wagner in the UK Wagner is scheduled to be at US Poets in Mexico in Oaxaca this coming October

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Thursday, August 07, 2014

Jack Gilbert interviewed in 1995

Interviews | Jack Gilbert



Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Jack Gilbert reading in Los Angeles, 1995

Jack Gilbert | Readings



Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Robert Grenier , Bob Perelman , Al Filreis & yours truly discussing the early 1960s

Al Filreis | Bob Perelman | New American Poetry | Personal | Robert Grenier



Monday, August 04, 2014

Abigail Child Mayhem 1987

Abigail Child | Film



Sunday, August 03, 2014

Abigail Child talking with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening , 2006

Abigail Child | Interviews



Saturday, August 02, 2014

Abigail Child reading on Close Listening , 2006

Abigail Child | Readings



Friday, August 01, 2014

Siri Hustvedt reading @ Brown, 2009

Readings | Siri Hustvedt



Thursday, July 31, 2014

Joanna Scott reading @ Brown, 2008

Joanna Scott | Readings



Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Cole Swensen reading @ Brown, 2013

Cole Swensen | Readings



Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Norman Fischer Talking with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening , 2006

Interviews | Norman Fischer



Monday, July 28, 2014

Norman Fischer reading on Close Listening , 2006

Norman Fischer | Readings



Sunday, July 27, 2014

Keith Waldrop reading at Brown, 2011

Keith Waldrop | Readings



Saturday, July 26, 2014

Rosmarie Waldrop reading at Brown, 2013

Readings | Rosmarie Waldrop



Friday, July 25, 2014

Robert Creeley reading at Brown, 1998

Readings | Robert Creeley



Thursday, July 24, 2014

Miles Champion talking with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening June 25,   2014

Interviews | Miles Champion



Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Miles Champion reading on Close Listening June 25,   2014

Miles Champion | Readings



Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Fred Moten reading at Brown, 2011

Fred Moten | Readings



Monday, July 21, 2014

Valerie Macon was briefly the laureate of North Carolina Laureate resigns in latest round of the North Carolina Poetry War...

links | Passings



Sunday, July 20, 2014

Bruce Andrews Reading @ Brown, 2011

Bruce Andrews | Readings



Saturday, July 19, 2014

Kevin Killian Reading @ Brown, 2013

Kevin Killian | Readings



Friday, July 18, 2014

Katie Degentesh reading at the Downcity Poetry Series Providence, RI, 2006

Katie Degentesh | Readings



Thursday, July 17, 2014

On Kawara 1933 – 2014

conceptual art | passing



Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Mary Burger reading at the Downcity Poetry Series Providence, RI, 2006

Mary Burger | Readings



Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Nadine Gordimer 1923 – 2014

passing



Monday, July 14, 2014

Kenneth Irby reading at Brown, 2002

Kenneth Irby | Readings



Sunday, July 13, 2014

Charlie Haden 1937 – 2014

Jazz | passing



Saturday, July 12, 2014

Vito Acconci: Into & Through & Out of Landscape

Architecture | Talks | Vito Acconci



Friday, July 11, 2014

Elizabeth Willis talking with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening 2008

Elizabeth Willis | Interviews



Thursday, July 10, 2014

Elizabeth Willis reading on Close Listening 2008

Elizabeth Willis | Readings



Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Gene Frumkin reading @ SUNY Buffalo 1991

Gene Frumkin | Readings



Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Michael Davidson reading in New York’s Segue series 1988

Michael Davidson | Readings



Monday, July 07, 2014

Carla Harryman reading in New York’s Segue series 1999

Carla Harryman | Readings



Sunday, July 06, 2014

Daniel Remein on Beowulf & the Berkeley Renaissance

Daniel Remein | Jack Spicer | Robin Blaser | Talks



Saturday, July 05, 2014

Jim Brosnan 1929 – 2014 The Long Season & Pennant Race are the finest books ever written about baseball

passing



Friday, July 04, 2014

Jack Spicer & the English Department A talk by David Hadbawnik

David Hadbawnik | Jack Spicer | Talks



Thursday, July 03, 2014

Jack Spicer reading The Holy Grail

Jack Spicer | Readings



Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Bobbie Louise Hawkins reading at Naropa, 2011

Bobbie Louise Hawkins | Readings



Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Talking with Hettie Jones

Hettie Jones | Interviews



Monday, June 30, 2014

Edmund & Anselm Berrigan

Anselm Berrigan | Edmund Berrigan | Music | Readings



Sunday, June 29, 2014

Talking with Julie Joosten about Light Light

Interviews | Julie Joosten | photography



Saturday, June 28, 2014

Allen Grossman 1932 – 2014

passing



Friday, June 27, 2014

Al Mutanabbi Starts Here !

Al-Mutanabbi Street | Bookstores



Thursday, June 26, 2014

David Foster Wallace talking to David Kipen in San Francisco, 2004

David Foster Wallace | David Kipen | Interviews



Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Laura Sims & Ann Beattie talking on David Markson @ The Strand in NYC

Ann Beattie | David Markson | Laura Sims | Letters | Talks



Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Robert Peters 1924 – 2014

passing



Monday, June 23, 2014

Don DeLillo & Jonathan Franzen talking at the New York Public Library 2013

Don DeLillo | Interviews | Jonathan Franzen | Readings



Sunday, June 22, 2014

Larry Fink & Gerald Stern talking on The Beats @ The Strand in NYC

Beat Poetry | Gerald Stern | Larry Fink | photography | Talks



Saturday, June 21, 2014

One Week from Today Saturday, June 28 2:00 PM Random Name Poetry presents Amelia Bentley & Ron Silliman reading...

Amelia Bentley | Coming Events | Personal



Friday, June 20, 2014

Horace Silver Quintet & Elvin Jones Trio, 1968 Horace Silver 1928 – 2014

Jazz | passing



Thursday, June 19, 2014

Eric Baus reading @ Counterpath Denver, April 2014

Eric Baus | Readings



Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Stephanie Strickland reading @ Counterpath Denver, April 2014

Readings | Stephanie Strickland



Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Vincent Katz on Black Mountain College @ Counterpath Denver, April 2014

Black Mountain College | Talks | Vincent Katz



Monday, June 16, 2014

Noah Eli Gordon reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Noah Eli Gordon | Readings



Sunday, June 15, 2014

George Albon reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

George Albon | Readings



Saturday, June 14, 2014

Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein reading @ Counterpath Denver, April 2014

Gertrude Stein | Readings



Friday, June 13, 2014

Karla Kelsey reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Karla Kelsey | Readings



Thursday, June 12, 2014

Isaac Linder reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Isaac Linder | Readings



Wednesday, June 11, 2014

What I’m up to over the next few months Random Name Poetry Series Philadelphia Saturday, June 28 Reading with Amelia...

Coming Events | Personal



Tuesday, June 10, 2014

25 years after Tienanmen Square Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Michele Leggott David McFadden on trying to carry on as a writer wi...

links | Passings



Monday, June 09, 2014

Saturday, June 28 2:00 PM Random Name Poetry presents Amelia Bentley & Ron Silliman reading @ The Penn Book ...

Amelia Bentley | Events | Personal



Sunday, June 08, 2014

Richard Froude reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Readings | Richard Froude



Saturday, June 07, 2014

Rodney Koeneke reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Readings | Rodney Koeneke



Friday, June 06, 2014

Aditi Machado reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Aditi Machado | Readings



Thursday, June 05, 2014

Elisabeth Leister Strange Loop Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Elisabeth Leister | Performance



Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Against Conceptual Poetry Ron Silliman Counterpath Press, Denver ON SALE NOW

Personal



Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Divya Victor reading @ Counterpath Denver, May 2014

Divya Victor | Readings



Monday, June 02, 2014

Free Ilham Tohti FREE ILHAM TOHTI ! Ilham Tohti: My Ideas & the Career Path I Have Chosen Tohti’s daughter testifies ...

links | Passings



Sunday, June 01, 2014

Three friends from Reed College: Lew Welch, Gary Snyder, Phil Whalen Philip Whalen Scenes from Life in the Capital ...

Philip Whalen | Readings



Saturday, May 31, 2014

Prageeta Sharma reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club 2003

Prageeta Sharma | Readings



Friday, May 30, 2014

CAConrad reading @ Giovanni’s Room 2011

CAConrad | Readings



Thursday, May 29, 2014

Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Nathaniel Mackey Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol Discussion

Nathaniel Mackey | Talks



Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Talking with Armand Schwerner Interview by Guy de Bievre , 1988

Armand Schwerner | Interviews



Monday, May 26, 2014

Roy Kiyooka reading in Vancouver, 1991 Voice: Roy Kiyooka A wonderful film by Michael de Courcy

Film | Readings | Roy Kiyooka



Sunday, May 25, 2014

Muriel Rukeyser The 1977 Caedmon Records recording   produced in association with the 92 nd Street Y

Muriel Rukeyser | Readings



Saturday, May 24, 2014

Talking with William Carlos Williams with John Wingate, WABD 1957 This is perhaps Williams’ least comf...

Interviews | William Carlos Williams



Friday, May 23, 2014

Tadeusz Różewicz 1921 – 2014

passing



Thursday, May 22, 2014

Portland as a city is every bit as nice as everyone claims that it is. The big branded chain stores are hard to find, there really does...

Bookstores | Portland



Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Photo by Erica Jane Kaufman Beverly Dahlen: Close reading A Reading

Beverly Dahlen | Readings | Talks



Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Rae Armantrout A discussion @ Kelly Writers House April 29, 2014

Interviews | Rae Armantrout



Monday, May 19, 2014

Rauan Klassnik Live @ 851

Rauan Klassnik | Readings



Sunday, May 18, 2014

Most of the staff of HOW(ever) L-R: Bev Dahlen, Susan Gevirtz, DuPlessis, Frances Jaffer, Fraser Kathleen Fraser & Rachel ...

Kathleen Fraser | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Talks



Saturday, May 17, 2014

Renee Gladman @ Small Press Traffic

Readings | Renee Gladman



Friday, May 16, 2014

Vanessa Place “ Conceptualism is Feminism; Feminism is Conceptualism ” A talk at Smolny College Saint Petersburg, Russia ...

Conceptual poetics | Performance | Talks | Vanessa Place



Thursday, May 15, 2014

A taste of Drift by Caroline Bergvall ( order the book here) Visiting Charles Bernstein’s Experimental Writing Semi...

Caroline Bergvall | Interviews | Performance | Readings



Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Alice Notley in conversation with Rachel Blau DuPlessis @ Temple 2001

Alice Notley | Interviews | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Douglas Oliver Five short readings from The Shattered Crystal A Little Night Evening descending mauve Trink From rue d’E...

Douglas Oliver | Readings



Monday, May 12, 2014

Hillary Gravendyk 1979 – 2014

passing



Sunday, May 11, 2014

< Edmund Berrigan 2013

Edmund Berrigan | Readings



Saturday, May 10, 2014

Anselm Berrigan reading on Ceptuetics Radio 2008

Anselm Berrigan | Readings



Friday, May 09, 2014

Ted Berrigan   reading @ Bard 1982

Readings | Ted Berrigan



Thursday, May 08, 2014

Russell Edson 1935 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Robert Duncan reading in Berkeley 1952

Readings | Robert Duncan



Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Sally Mann talks to Charlie Rose

Interviews | photography | Sally Mann | Visual Arts



Monday, May 05, 2014

Carrie Mae We e ms in Portland

Carrie Mae Weems | photography | Visual Arts



Sunday, May 04, 2014

John Baldessari & Ed Ruscha discuss the legacy of Richard Artschwager

Ed Ruscha | John Baldessari | Richard Artschwager | Talks



Saturday, May 03, 2014

Talking with Marcel Duchamp

Interviews | Marcel Duchamp | Visual Arts



Friday, May 02, 2014

Talking with Derek Beaulieu

Derek Beaulieu | Interviews



Thursday, May 01, 2014

Zhimin Li on New Chinese Poetry

Chinese poetry | Talks | Zhimin Li



Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sharon Hayes & Lawrence Weiner in conversation

Lawrence Weiner | Sharon Hayes | Visual Arts



Tuesday, April 29, 2014

PoemTalk: Tracie Morris , Kristen Gallagher & Michael Magee discuss Will Alexander’s “ Compound Hibernation ” ...

Kristen Gallagher | Michael Magee | PoemTalk | Tracie Morris | Will Alexander



Monday, April 28, 2014

The widening gender gap in contemporary American poetry Occupy Poetics Camille Rankine: What We Write About when We Write Ab...

links | Passings



Sunday, April 27, 2014

Vern Rutsala 1934 – 2014

passing



Saturday, April 26, 2014

Brian Ang reading on KChung radio 2011

Brian Ang | Readings



Friday, April 25, 2014

Rae Armantrout A talk on silence ( part 1) ( part 2) 1983

Rae Armantrout | Talks



Thursday, April 24, 2014

Samuel R Delany interviewed by Charles Bernstein April 2014

Interviews | Samuel R Delany



Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Susan Bee: Doomed to Win @ AIR Gallery , Dumbo April 12, 2014 (video excerpts by Joanne McFarland)

Interviews | Susan Bee | Visual Arts



Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Text Festival Bury, Lancashire May 2 through July 2014 Lawrence Weiner, Ron Silliman, Phil Davenport, Simon Pat...

Text Festival



Monday, April 21, 2014

Emily Dickinson pushing the envelope Poems on surveillance by Ashbery, Armantrout, Bernstein, King, Pinsky et al Talking...

links | Passings



Sunday, April 20, 2014

Beyond the Dark Would Performances and conversation from Caroline Bergvall , Derek Beaulieu , Phil Davenport & Ron Sill...

Caroline Bergvall | Coming Events | Derek Beaulieu | Personal | Phil Davenport



Saturday, April 19, 2014

Poetry Is (Volume I) By George Quasha With Ammiel Alcalay, Hector Alves, David Antin, Arman, Coleman Barks, Caroline Bergv...

George Quasha | Interviews



Friday, April 18, 2014

Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014

passing



Thursday, April 17, 2014

Oaxaca,  October 27-31, 2014 5th Annual Poetry Conference Discussion & Workshop with  Andrei Codrescu Writing Workshops wit...

Coming Events | Conferences | Festival | translation



Wednesday, April 16, 2014

LaTasha N Nevada Diggs in Deep Oakland

LaTasha N Nevada Diggs | Readings



Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Talking with Forrest Gander & Magdalena Edwards on Cross Cultural Poetics

Forrest Gander | Interviews | Magdalena Edwards | translation



Monday, April 14, 2014

Talking with Brent Cunningham On Cross Cultural Poetics

Brent Cunningham | Cross-Cultural Poetics | Interviews



Sunday, April 13, 2014

Trinity College 1970: Simon Schucat, Eric Torgersen, Michael Lally standing (l-r) Steve Shrader (circled), Raymond diPalma, Pau...

Cross-Cultural Poetics | Interviews | neglectorinos | Steve Shrader | Susan M Schultz



Saturday, April 12, 2014

Talking Pierre Reverdy with Mary Ann Caws On Cross Cultural Poetics

Cubism | Mary Ann Caws | Pierre Reverdy | surrealism



Friday, April 11, 2014

Talking Alexander Vvedensky with Eugene Ostashevsky On Cross Cultural Poetics

Absurdism | Alexander Vvedensky | censorship | Eugene Ostashevsky | Gulag | Interviews



Thursday, April 10, 2014

Talking with Gillian Conoley On Cross Cultural Poetics

Gillian Conoley | Interviews



Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Talking with Johanna Drucker On Cross Cultural Poetics

Interviews | Johanna Drucker



Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Talking with Don Share

Don Share | Interviews



Monday, April 07, 2014

Travis Macdonald & David Goldstein reading @ Kelly Writers House March 2014

David Goldstein | Readings | Travis Macdonald



Sunday, April 06, 2014

TC Boyle reading @ Kelly Writers House March 2014

Fiction | Readings | TC Boyle



Saturday, April 05, 2014

Matthew Zapruder reading @ Kelly Writers House April 2014

Matthew Zapruder | Readings



Friday, April 04, 2014

Tonight in NYC @ The Instituto Cervantes 211 E. 49 th Street (between 2 nd & 3 rd Avenues) 7 PM Scott Hightower ...

Events | Mercedes Roffe | Personal | Roger Santivanez | Scott Hightower



Thursday, April 03, 2014

Talking with Albert Goldbarth

Albert Goldbarth | Interviews



Wednesday, April 02, 2014

The next 100,000 Poets for Change event is scheduled for 27 September 2014 (thinkin’ this # might even be a little low) Pol...

links



Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Colleen Lookingbill 1950 – 2014

passing



Monday, March 31, 2014

This Friday in New York City

Events | Mercedes Roffe | Personal | Readings | Roger Santivanez | Scott Hightower



Sunday, March 30, 2014

Talking with Kay Ryan

Interviews | Kay Ryan



Saturday, March 29, 2014

A reading in Ptuj, Slovenia with Marjana Savka (Ukraine), Ferenc Rakoczy (Switzerland), Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (...

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko | Ferenc Rakoczy | Festival | Georgi Gospodinov | Hadžem Hajdarević | Marjana Savka | Readings | Sylvia Treudel



Friday, March 28, 2014

Talking with Ian McMillan

Ian McMillan | Interviews



Thursday, March 27, 2014

Campbell McGrath reads at TEDxCoconutGrove

Campbell McGrath | Readings



Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Alvin Pang talking @ StAnza 2013

Alvin Pang | Interviews



Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl talking @ StAnza 2013

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl | Interviews



Monday, March 24, 2014

Samuel R Delany: Talking @ Pratt

Fiction | Interviews | Samuel R Delany



Sunday, March 23, 2014

Samuel R Delany: Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

Fiction | Readings | Samuel R Delany | science fiction



Saturday, March 22, 2014

William S Burroughs at 100

William Burroughs



Friday, March 21, 2014

Allegra Fuller Snyder on her father Buckminster Fuller’s time @ Black Mountain College & its impact on his work ...

Albert Einstein | Black Mountain College | Buckminster Fuller | history | Josef Albers | Performance



Thursday, March 20, 2014

Guillermo Filice Castro @ the Poetry Project December, 2013

Guillermo Filice Castro | Readings



Wednesday, March 19, 2014

(Photo: Alan Bernheimer) Larry Fagin: Portraits & Home Movies (1968 – 69)

history | Larry Fagin | New York School



Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Remembering Besmilr Brigham

Besmilr Brigham | Readings



Monday, March 17, 2014

Tonya Foster reading @ the Poetry Project October 2013

Readings | Tonya Foster



Sunday, March 16, 2014

Laura Elrick reading @ the Poetry Project March 2013

Laura Elrick | Readings



Saturday, March 15, 2014

George Szirtes talking @ StAnza 2013

George Szirtes | Interviews



Friday, March 14, 2014

) Bill Knott 1940 – 2014

passing



Thursday, March 13, 2014

Hannah Silva talking @ StAnza 2013

Hannah Silva | Interviews



Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Gillian Clarke talking @ StAnza 2013

Gillian Clarke | Interviews



Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Paula Meehan talking @ StAnza 2013

Interviews | Paula Meehan



Monday, March 10, 2014

Today in Edinburgh , Scotland 7:00 PM The Sutton Gallery , 18a Dundas Street   I'm reading with JL Williams ...

Anne Laure Coxam | Events | JL Williams | nick-e melville | Personal | Readings



Sunday, March 09, 2014

Robert Ashley 1930 – 2014

Music | passing



Saturday, March 08, 2014

Today in Saint Andrews , Scotland 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM The Green Room, St. Leonard’s Quad A discussion of Post-E...

Arjen Duinker | Events | Personal | Readings | Talks



Friday, March 07, 2014

Ken Babstock talking @     StAnza 2013

Interviews | Ken Babstock



Thursday, March 06, 2014

Erín Moure talking @     StAnza 2013

Erín Moure | Interviews



Wednesday, March 05, 2014

StAnza 2014 will take place from: 5-9 March, 2014 Location: St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK Venues: The Undercroft, Parliamen...

Festival | StAnza



Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Today in London Swedenborg Hall 20-21 Bloomsbury Way 7:30 PM I'm reading with Simon Perril

Events | Personal | Simon Perril



Monday, March 03, 2014

Simon Perril reading @ The Crumblin’ Cookie Leicester, UK November 2012 Archilochus on the Moon

Readings | Simon Perril



Sunday, March 02, 2014

Martha Ronk @ the Poetry Project October 2013

Martha Ronk | Readings



Saturday, March 01, 2014

Steven Alvarez @ the Poetry Project December, 2013

Readings | Steven Alvarez



Friday, February 28, 2014

Here’s VIDA Women feel less comfortable in their literary communities Iran hangs Hashem Shaabani Torture used to obt...

links | Passings



Thursday, February 27, 2014

Rangi McNeil @ the Poetry Project January, 2014

Rangi McNeil | Readings



Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Sophia Le Fraga @ the Poetry Project January, 2014

Readings | Sophia Le Fraga



Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Felix Bernstein @ the Poetry Project January, 2014

Felix Bernstein | Readings



Monday, February 24, 2014

Program Click the link text to open full event page StAnza 2014 Brochure now online Tuesday 04 March Tue 04 M...

Festival | program | StAnza



Sunday, February 23, 2014

Today in Brooklyn

Readings



Saturday, February 22, 2014

Step Across the Border a documentary about Fred Frith 1990

Fred Frith | Jazz | Music



Friday, February 21, 2014

Michael McClure reading poetry to lions from Richard O . Moore’s USA Poetry

Michael McClure | Readings



Thursday, February 20, 2014

No title

Events | Personal



Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Talking with David Hockney 1982 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

David Hockney | Interviews | Visual Arts



Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Joseph Kosuth: Freud, Beckett & the Uncanny: Some Thoughts on Art as Installation

Installation | Joseph Kosuth | Samuel Beckett | Sigmund Freud | Talks | Visual Arts



Monday, February 17, 2014

The Northern Soul Tour I’m heading across the pond London Tuesday, March 4 Swedenborg Hall 20-21 Bloomsbury Way 7:30 PM ...

Events | Personal



Sunday, February 16, 2014

Maxine Kumin 1925 – 2014

passing



Saturday, February 15, 2014

Talking with Romare Bearden 1979 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Romare Bearden | Visual Arts



Friday, February 14, 2014

Talking with Larry Rivers 1978 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Interviews | Jazz | Larry Rivers | Visual Arts



Thursday, February 13, 2014

Maggie Estep 1963 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Nancy Holt 1938 – 2014

passing | Visual Arts



Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Stuart Hall 1932 – 2014

Cross-Cultural Poetics | passing | social history



Monday, February 10, 2014

Peter Schjeldahl @ the School of Visual Arts 2010

Peter Schjeldahl | Visual Arts



Sunday, February 09, 2014

Talking with Louise Nevelson 1978 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Louise Nevelson | Visual Arts



Saturday, February 08, 2014

Talking with Lee Krasner 1978 Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Lee Krasner | Visual Arts



Friday, February 07, 2014

This Not That a profile of John Baldessari

John Baldessari | Visual Arts



Thursday, February 06, 2014

Brice Marden @ The Tate Modern

Brice Marden | Talks | Visual Arts



Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Vito Acconci @ USC

Architecture | Talks | Vito Acconci



Tuesday, February 04, 2014

René Ricard 1946 – 2014

passing



Monday, February 03, 2014

Binyavanga Wainaina comes out to challenge Kenya’s anti-gay laws Barrett Watten: My Presentism 2014: The Year of Reading ...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 02, 2014

Cole Heinowitz reading   @ Chapter & Verse   Philadelphia, 2009

Cole Heinowitz | Readings



Saturday, February 01, 2014

William Corbett reading @ Kelly Writers House Philadelphia, 2005

Readings | William Corbett



Friday, January 31, 2014

Yours truly The BookThug Interview

Interviews | Personal



Thursday, January 30, 2014

Amiri Baraka on Charles Olson & Sun Ra in Gloucester October 2013 Plus reading his own poetry Thanks to Fer...

Amiri Baraka | Charles Olson | Readings | Sun Ra | Talks



Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Pete with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee Pete Seeger 1919 – 2014 Pete Seeger and the Avant-Garde In the autumn ...

Music | passing



Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Many Allen Ginsbergs - only the middle row is real In 2008, the late Carolyn Cassady, one-time wife of Neal –...

Beat Poetry | Film | history | Projectivism



Monday, January 27, 2014

José Emilio Pacheco 1939 – 2014

passing



Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Poetics List is coming to the end of its run after 20 years. I don’t know how many messages were posted, but as of the last ...

history | Internet | Poetics List



Saturday, January 25, 2014

Rob Halpern reading in Oakland February 2013

Readings | Rob Halpern



Friday, January 24, 2014

Brenda Iijima reading in Oakland February 2013

Brenda Iijima | Readings



Thursday, January 23, 2014

Jamie Townsend reading in Oakland September 2013

Jamie Townsend | Readings



Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Oki Sogumi reading in Oakland September 2013 (part 2 is here)

Oki Sogumi | Readings



Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Robert Kocik & friends reading @ Small Press Traffic A choral reading of Supple Science: A Robert Kocik Primer Nove...

Performance | Readings | Robert Kocik



Monday, January 20, 2014

Brandon Brown reading in Oakland November 2013

Brandon Brown | Readings



Sunday, January 19, 2014

CS Giscombe reading in Oakland November 2013

CS Giscombe | Readings



Saturday, January 18, 2014

Carla Harryman reading in Oakland November 2013

Carla Harryman | Readings



Friday, January 17, 2014

Sean Bonney Reading @ the Poetry &/or Revolution Conference UC Davis, October 2013

Readings | Sean Bonney



Thursday, January 16, 2014

Juan Gelman 1930 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Queer Masculinity A reading featuring Brian Pietras , Stephen Motika , Mark Wunderlich , Ronaldo Wilson & Jack Halber...

Brian Pietras | Jack Halberstam | Mark Wunderlich | Readings | Ronaldo V Wilson | Stephen Motika



Tuesday, January 14, 2014

ModPo: The Robert Frost Debate with Al Filreis , Taije Silverman , John Timpane , Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Bob Pere...

Al Filreis | Bob Perelman | John Timpane | ModPo | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Robert Frost | Taije Silverman



Monday, January 13, 2014

Ammiel Alcalay “ To Write a Republic ”: Experience, Heroism, and Poetry in the National Security State School of Vis...

Ammiel Alcalay | Capital | Charles Olson | history



Sunday, January 12, 2014

Jim Brodey reading @ The Ear Inn 1986

Jim Brodey | Readings



Saturday, January 11, 2014

Yusef Lateef 1920 – 2013 Lateef on YouTube

Music | passing



Friday, January 10, 2014

LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka 1934 – 2014

passing



Thursday, January 09, 2014

Madeline Gins 1941 – 2014

passing



Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Tim Dlugos reading @ The Ear Inn 1978

Readings | Tim Dlugos



Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Stephanie Strickland talking on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Stephanie Strickland



Monday, January 06, 2014

Keston Sutherland @ WaveMachine reading series New Haven, CT September 2013

Keston Sutherland | Readings



Sunday, January 05, 2014

Shann Palmer 1950 – 2013

passing



Saturday, January 04, 2014

Kickstart Larry Eigner’s biography

Jennifer Bartlett | Larry Eigner



Friday, January 03, 2014

The Dark Would in Edinburgh

conceptual art | Installation | language | Performance | Sound poetry



Thursday, January 02, 2014

Talking with Alice Notley Notley’s collage fans Aram Saroyan: Notes at 70 Younger women are changing poetry Joanna Fuhr...

links | Passings



Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Sonia Sanchez: Poetry & Activism

Interviews | Sonia Sanchez



Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Remembering Anselm Hollo

Anselm Hollo | Readings



Monday, December 30, 2013

In the turn of voice: Dadá Soirée Featuring Luis Bravo , John M Bennett , Catherine Mehrl Bennett , Santiago Olivera , D...

Catherine Mehrl Bennett | Damian Taveira | John M Bennett | Juan Angel Italiano | Luis Bravo | Santiago Olivera | Sound poetry



Sunday, December 29, 2013

A conversation with Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich | Interviews



Saturday, December 28, 2013

A visit with Jennifer Scappettone

Interviews | Jennifer Scappettone



Friday, December 27, 2013

John Tranter In Philadelphia

Interviews | John Tranter



Thursday, December 26, 2013

Harry Mathews Intro to Oulipo

Harry Mathews | Talks



Wednesday, December 25, 2013

3 American Poets Anne Tardos Kenneth Goldsmith Charles Bernstein 2008

Anne Tardos | Charles Bernstein | Kenneth Goldsmith | Readings



Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Jackson Mac Low 1993

Interviews | Jackson Mac Low | Performance | Sound poetry



Monday, December 23, 2013

Dick Higgins 1993

Book as Art Object | concrete poetry | Dick Higgins | Fluxus | Interviews



Sunday, December 22, 2013

Joseph Ceravolo reading @ The Ear Inn 1978 If you only bought one book in 2013, it should have been this one ...

Joseph Ceravolo | Readings



Saturday, December 21, 2013

Sandra Doller reading @ UC San Diego 2011

Readings | Sandra Doller



Friday, December 20, 2013

Lydia Davis reading @ The Ear Inn 1984 Not to be confused with this TV character of the same name ...

Lydia Davis | Readings



Thursday, December 19, 2013

Bill Berkson by Joe Brainard courtesy of Big Bridge Bill Berkson & Joe Brainard reading @ Intersection San Francisco ...

Bill Berkson | Joe Brainard | Readings



Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Ange Mlinko reading @ The Double Happiness NYC 2000

Ange Mlinko | Readings



Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Dodie Bellamy on Kathy Acker @ Kelly Writers House 2007

Dodie Bellamy | Kathy Acker | Readings



Monday, December 16, 2013

Pierre Joris talking with Al Filreis on Paul Celan & the Shoah (video)

Interviews | Paul Celan | Pierre Joris | Shoah



Sunday, December 15, 2013

Ron Padgett reading @ Dia: Chelsea November 2012

Readings | Ron Padgett



Saturday, December 14, 2013

Thomas Devaney reading @ Dia: Chelsea November 2012

Readings | Thomas Devaney



Friday, December 13, 2013

F o u r t h i r t y t h r e e: Caged ! Performances from the two-day celebration of John Cage’s centennial at Naropa University i...

Asalott | Barbara Dilley | dance | Elyse Brownell | Joanna Rotkin | John Cage | Kate Zipse | Kirstin Wagner | Kyle Pivarnik | Marc Devine | Melissa Mae | Paul Fowler | Performance | Peter Jaeger | Robert Spellman



Thursday, December 12, 2013

Joan Retallack Writing on Rim: Poetry’s Alterity The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture @ Naropa University Spring 2012 W...

Joan Retallack | Talks



Wednesday, December 11, 2013

CAConrad G litter P erversions Best viewed full screen with volume cranked to 11

CAConrad | videopoetry



Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Pussy Riot to be freed The leaking of the 3 JD Salinger stories Guardian news staff may be prosecuted for aiding Edward Snowde...

links | Passings



Monday, December 09, 2013

John Wieners reading in Buffalo , 1967

John Wieners | Readings



Sunday, December 08, 2013

Colin Wilson 1931 – 2013

passing



Saturday, December 07, 2013

Gerry Gilbert reading in Buffalo , 1965

Gerry Gilbert | Readings



Friday, December 06, 2013

No title

Nelson Mandela | passing



Thursday, December 05, 2013

Margaret Avison reading in Vancouver , 1963

Margaret Avison | Readings



Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Basil Bunting reading in Buffalo , 1963

Basil Bunting | Readings



Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Gael Turnbull reading in Albuquerque , 1963

Gael Turnbull | Readings



Monday, December 02, 2013

Fielding Dawson reading in Buffalo , 1964

Fielding Dawson | Readings



Monday, December 02, 2013

Dorothea Lasky reading @ The Bowery Poetry Club 2010

Dorothea Lasky | Readings



Sunday, December 01, 2013

George Oppen reading in Buffalo , 1967

George Oppen | Readings



Saturday, November 30, 2013

Denise Levertov reading in Albuquerque, 1964

Denise Levertov | Readings



Friday, November 29, 2013

Image courtesy of Big Bridge Philip Whalen reading in Vancouver, 1963

Philip Whalen | Readings



Thursday, November 28, 2013

Stephen King @ UMass – Lowell (the “stadium show”) 2012

Interviews | Stephen King



Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Celebrating Joseph Ceravolo with CA Conrad , Brian Teare , Michelle Taransky , Stacy Szymaszek , Rod Smith , Frank S...

Brian Teare | CAConrad | Frank Sherlock | Jena Osman | Joseph Ceravolo | Marcella Durand | Michelle Taransky | Personal | Readings | Rod Smith | Stacy Szymaszek



Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Nikki Giovanni talking with Tavis Smiley

Interviews | Nikki Giovanni



Monday, November 25, 2013

Martin Corless - Smith @ Berkeley 2012

Martin Corless-Smith | Readings



Sunday, November 24, 2013

Wanda Coleman 1946 – 2013

passing



Saturday, November 23, 2013

Stephen King @ UMass - Lowell

Interviews | Stephen King



Thursday, November 21, 2013

David B Goldstein reading from Laws of Rest

David B Goldstein | Readings



Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Eric Amling, From the Author’s Private Collection , The Song Cave, Northampton, MA 2...

Recently Received



Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Talking with Tracie Morris , Kenny Goldsmith , Michael Magee & 42,000 other ModPo participants

Conceptual poetics | Flarf | Kenneth Goldsmith | Michael Magee | ModPo | Performance | Tracie Morris



Monday, November 18, 2013

Doris Lessing 1919 – 2013

passing



Sunday, November 17, 2013

Ann Lauterbach reading @ Kelly Writers House November 4, 2013

Ann Lauterbach | Readings



Saturday, November 16, 2013

Jan Beatty reading & talking on Radio Free Albion with Tony Trigilio

Interviews | Jan Beatty | Readings



Friday, November 15, 2013

David Sedaris on the poetry of Susan Wheeler

David Sedaris | Susan Wheeler | Talks



Thursday, November 14, 2013

Michael Blouin reading from I Don’t Know How to Behave

Michael Blouin | Readings



Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Kitasono Katue @ LACMA

Japanese poetry | Kitasono Katue



Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Lyn Hejinian: from The Unfollowing A poem worth a life sentence in a Qatari prison No mercy for Qatari poet Avan...

links | Passings



Monday, November 11, 2013

C Natale Peditto 1943 – 2013

passing



Sunday, November 10, 2013

Tato Laviera 1950 – 2013

passing



Saturday, November 09, 2013

Jonathan Brannen 1950 – 2013

passing | vispo



Friday, November 08, 2013

André Alexis reading from A

André Alexis | Readings



Thursday, November 07, 2013

Julie Joosten reading from Light Light

Julie Joosten | Readings



Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Colin Fulton reading from Life Experience Coolant

Colin Fulton | Readings



Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Sandra Ridley reading from The Counting House

Readings | Sandra Ridley



Monday, November 04, 2013

Reading from Revelator

Personal | Readings



Sunday, November 03, 2013

Evan Kennedy @ The Poetry Project

Evan Kennedy | Readings



Saturday, November 02, 2013

The Penultimate Truth about Philip K Dick

documentary | Philip K Dick



Friday, November 01, 2013

Micah Ballard @ The Poetry Project

Micah Ballard | Readings



Thursday, October 31, 2013

Ari Banias @ The Poetry Project

Ari Banias | Readings



Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Emily Dickson’s archive is live The R is back Lynn Behrendt’s Scrawl Talking with Lisa Robertson Tyrone Williams: ...

links | Passings



Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Arthur C Danto 1924 – 2013

passing | Philosophy



Monday, October 28, 2013

Lou Reed 1942 – 2013

passing



Sunday, October 27, 2013

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera A 1985 documentary by Chrisann Verges & Mark Obenhaus ...

dance | Music | Theater



Saturday, October 26, 2013

Holly Pester’s SoundCloud

Holly Pester | Readings



Friday, October 25, 2013

Talking Einstein on the Beach with Philip Glass , Robert Wilson & Lucinda Childs

dance | Interviews | Lucinda Childs | Music | Philip Glass | Robert Wilson | Theater



Thursday, October 24, 2013

Talking with David B. Goldstein

David B Goldstein | Interviews



Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Photo by Heather Conley Frank Lima 1939 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Happy 80 th Birthday , David Bromige (being a reading @ SUNY Buffalo 1992)

David Bromige



Monday, October 21, 2013

Anne Boyer @ the Poetry Project October 2013

Anne Boyer | Readings



Sunday, October 20, 2013

Joanne Kyger @ the Poetry Project October 2013

Joanne Kyger | Readings



Friday, October 18, 2013

New Sounds with John Zorn

John Zorn | Music



Thursday, October 17, 2013

Wendell Berry talks with Bill Moyers

Interviews | Wendell Berry



Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Susana Gardner @ The Other Room Manchester, UK

Readings | Susana Gardner



Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tyrone Williams: Toleration, Translation, & Ecstasy Williams on coteries, affiliations & loners Denise Levertov & the poe...

links | Passings



Monday, October 14, 2013

Craig Erick “ CE ” Chaffin 1954 – 2013

passing



Sunday, October 13, 2013

Pattie McCarthy @ The Poetry Project September 2013

Pattie McCarthy | Readings



Saturday, October 12, 2013

bpNichol reads The Martyrology

bpNichol | Readings



Friday, October 11, 2013

Calling Alice Munro A phone call with the news Another tale of how she heard the news The last to know Munro wi...

Alice Munro | Nobel Prize | Prizes



Thursday, October 10, 2013

Carrie Etter @ The Other Room Manchester, UK April 2011

Carrie Etter | Readings



Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Peter Jaeger @ The Other Room Manchester, UK (audio only)

Peter Jaeger | Readings



Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Holly Pester @ The Other Room Manchester, UK February 2010

Holly Pester | Readings



Monday, October 07, 2013

Kevin Varrone @ The Poetry Project September 2013

Kevin Varrone | Readings



Sunday, October 06, 2013

Talking Tender Buttons Al Filreis , Rachel Blau DuPlessis , Bob Perelman , Julia Bloch & I talk Gertrude Stein’s 1914 cl...

Al Filreis | Bob Perelman | Gertrude Stein | Julia Bloch | Personal | Q&A | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Talks



Saturday, October 05, 2013

Tonight in Montréal Ron Silliman & Colin Fulton @ Librairie Drawn & Quarterly 211 Bernard Quest 514-279-2224 ...

Events



Friday, October 04, 2013

Ruth Maleczech 1939 – 2013

passing | Theater



Thursday, October 03, 2013

Tonight in Ottawa AB Series @ the Ottawa Art Gallery 2 Daly Avenue 7:30 pm Free Ron Silliman & Rae ...

Events



Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Tonight in Toronto 850 Dundas Street West PWYC 8:00 pm Ron Silliman, with Natalee   Caple , Keith   Garebian  & Jo...

Events



Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Tonight in Toronto

Events



Monday, September 30, 2013

Remembering bpNichol Gone 25 years

bpNichol



Sunday, September 29, 2013

Günther Ruch 1942 – 2013

passing



Saturday, September 28, 2013

100,000 Poets for Change Today!

100 Thousand Poets for Change



Friday, September 27, 2013

The death of Kofi Awoonor @ Westgate Mall Remembering Kofi Awoonor NPR & Kwame Dawes on the legacy of Kofi Awoonor Awoonor: ...

links | Passings



Thursday, September 26, 2013

Introducing Surge Mickey Mouse is mentioned twice in Louis Zukofsky’s “A,” on pages 63 & 283 in the UC Press edition, a fact we kno...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Moure & Pato Talking with Erín Moure (with a reading by Chus Pato)

Chus Pato | Erín Moure | Interviews | Readings



Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Álvaro Mutis 1923 – 2013

passing



Monday, September 23, 2013

Kofi Awoonor 1935 – 2013

passing



Monday, September 23, 2013

Carolyn Cassady 1923 – 2013

passing



Sunday, September 22, 2013

Slavoj Žižek on Marx & Hegel

Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Saturday, September 21, 2013

Henry Miller on Blaise Cendrars

Henry Miller | Interviews



Friday, September 20, 2013

Marcel Duchamp on artists & spectators

Marcel Duchamp | Talks



Thursday, September 19, 2013

Anaïs Nin reading from her diary 1966

Anaïs Nin | Readings



Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Brenda Hillman reading in Berkeley September 2013

Brenda Hillman | Readings



Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Aaron Shurin reading in Berkeley December 2012

Aaron Shurin | Readings



Monday, September 16, 2013

The Revelator Tour Sunday, September 29 Toronto Post-Everything Poetics: A Workshop This is not a “writing workshop” p...

Events | Personal



Sunday, September 15, 2013

Barbara & Hadley Haden Guest, 1997 Talking about Barbara Guest Hadley Haden Guest & Kathleen Fraser July 17, 2007 ...

Barbara Guest | Hadley Haden Guest | Interviews | Kathleen Fraser



Saturday, September 14, 2013

Larry Fagin Off the cuff

Interviews | Larry Fagin | poetics



Friday, September 13, 2013

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Carrie Olivia Adams, Forty-One Jane Doe’s , Ahsahta Press, Boise, 2013 (includes DVD contain thre...

Recently Received



Thursday, September 12, 2013

Filip Marinovich reading @ Dia Chelsea September 2012

Filip Marniovich | Readings



Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Sushmita Banerjee murdered in Afghanistan Lyrikline: 900+ poets in 60 languages ( Inger Christensen declares in Danish that a...

links | Passings



Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Judith Malina reading @ Dia Chelsea September 2012

Judith Malina | Readings



Monday, September 09, 2013

Photo by Alan Bernheimer Karen Weiser reading @ Dia Chelsea October 2012

Karen Weiser | Readings



Sunday, September 08, 2013

Jim Dine reading @  Dia Chelsea October 2012

Jim Dine | Readings



Saturday, September 07, 2013

Arlo Quint reading @ Dia Chelsea May, 2013

Arlo Quint | Readings



Friday, September 06, 2013

Julian Talamantez Brolaski reading @ Dia Chelsea December 2012

Julian Talamantez Brolaski | Readings



Thursday, September 05, 2013

Norma Cole reading @ Dia Chelsea December 2012

Norma Cole | Readings



Wednesday, September 04, 2013

John Zorn talks with Terry Gross

Interviews | John Zorn | Music



Tuesday, September 03, 2013

The women of visual poetry Holly Pester: Visual Poetics & a Play on Shortness Talking with Stacy Szymaszek Her Kind with Amin...

links



Monday, September 02, 2013

Leonard Breger 1920 – 2013

passing | Visual Arts



Sunday, September 01, 2013

John Yau reading @ Dia Chelsea May, 2013

John Yau | Readings



Saturday, August 31, 2013

Seamus Heaney 1939 – 2013

passing



Friday, August 30, 2013

Laura Moriarty reading @ Dia Chelsea January, 2013

Laura Moriarty | Readings



Thursday, August 29, 2013

Kimberly Lyons reading @ Dia Chelsea January, 2013

Kimberly Lyons | Readings



Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Paul Fry on Roman Jakobson & language & literature

Linguistics | MOOC | Paul Fry | Roman Jakobson | Talks | Theory



Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Talking with Karl Ove Knausgård

Fiction | Interviews | Karl Ove Knausgård



Monday, August 26, 2013

John Ashbery: Gravy for the Prisoners Vsevolod Nekrasov: What poetry has to do with language Amaranth Borsuk: The conceptual ...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 25, 2013

Julia Lin 1928 – 2013

passing



Sunday, August 25, 2013

John Hollander 1929 – 2013

passing



Saturday, August 24, 2013

Michael Taussig on Fictocriticism

Criticism | Michael Taussig | Talks



Friday, August 23, 2013

Jane Bennett: No ideas but in things

Archives | Jane Bennett | materialism | Talks | The New Thing | The wisdom of hoarding



Thursday, August 22, 2013

A National Geographics doc on the Voynich Manuscript Every bit as cheesy as that sounds

vispo | Voynich manuscript



Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Elmore “ Dutch ” Leonard 1925 – 2013 The best ear for dialog, ever

passing



Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Souvankham Thammavongsa interviewed by Stephen McLaughlin on Into the Field 2011

Interviews | Souvankham Thammavongsa



Monday, August 19, 2013

Ben Friedlander interviewed by Stephen McLaughlin on Into the Field 2011

Ben Friedlander | Interviews



Sunday, August 18, 2013

Sina Queyras interviewed by Stephen McLaughlin on Into the Field 2011

Interviews | Sina Queyras



Saturday, August 17, 2013

William Carlos Williams reading @ the SF State Poetry Center 1955

Readings | William Carlos Williams



Friday, August 16, 2013

William Everson ( Brother Antoninus) reading @ the SF State Poetry Center 1955

Brother Antoninus | William Everson



Thursday, August 15, 2013

Alain Badiou explains money

Alain Badiou | Philosophy | Talks



Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Vanessa Place: “Conceptualism is feminism; feminism is conceptualism” A talk @ Smolny College St. Petersburg, Russia January...

Conceptual poetics | feminism | Vanessa Place



Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Shanna Compton reading @ Radio Free Albion

Readings | Shanna Compton



Monday, August 12, 2013

Catherine Wagner interviews Rae Armantrout Jane Austen on the ₤10 note? The woman behind the Austen campaign subjected to Twitter...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 11, 2013

Bernadette Mayer Free Verse @ The Walker Art Center With Jennifer Karmin & Philip Good September 2012

Bernadette Mayer | Jennifer Karmin | Philip Good | Readings



Saturday, August 10, 2013

Erica Hunt Evidence A film by Phill Niblock 1983

Erica Hunt | Film | Phill Niblock | Readings



Friday, August 09, 2013

Erica Hunt discussing The Rorschach of Race in America @ the Bowery Poetry Club, 2009

Erica Hunt | Talks



Thursday, August 08, 2013

Judith Balso To Rely on the Inexistent Impossible Closing talk from Pedagogies of Disaster Conference National Historical ...

Judith Balso | Talks



Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Gabriel Gudding reading @ Boise State University 2012

Gabriel Gudding | Readings



Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Lise Sinclair 1972 – 2013

passing



Monday, August 05, 2013

Kongar-ol Ondar 1962 – 2013

Music | passing



Sunday, August 04, 2013

Yona Harvey reading @ Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Readings | Yona Harvey



Saturday, August 03, 2013

Talking with Chantal Neveu

Chantal Neveu | Interviews



Friday, August 02, 2013

Anne Boyer reading @ The East Bay Poetry Summit May 2013

Anne Boyer | Readings



Thursday, August 01, 2013

Alice Notley reading @ Boise State University 2012

Alice Notley | Readings



Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Joshua Beckman, The Inside of an Apple , Wave Books, Seattle / NYC, 2013 Jen Besemer, T...

Recently Received



Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Kara Walker @ Anderson Ranch 2012

Kara Walker | Talks | Visual Arts



Monday, July 29, 2013

Talking with Rachel Levitsky The haiku killer Amy King: poetry and death Xi Murong: poets & poetry never die Talking with...

links | Passings



Sunday, July 28, 2013

Walter De Maria 1935 – 2013

Installation | passing | Visual Arts



Saturday, July 27, 2013

Book Presence in a Digital Age Excerpts from a conference @ Utrecht University May 2012

Book as Art Object | books | Conferences | post-book poetics



Friday, July 26, 2013

Theodore A Harris , Fred Moten & Jeremy Glick discussing Our Flesh of Flames exhibit @ the Brecht Forum , NYC, 2009 ...

Fred Moten | Jeremy Glick | Panel | Theodore Harris



Thursday, July 25, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Colbert Report July 23, 2013

Conceptual poetics | Interviews | Kenneth Goldsmith



Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Larry Sawyer reading @ Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Larry Sawyer | Readings



Tuesday, July 23, 2013

HR Hegnauer reading @ 17Poets ! in New Orleans May 2012

HR Hegnauer | Readings



Monday, July 22, 2013

Rita Dove’s  Trayvon, Redux Fanny Howe: Yellow Goblins Amy King on  Po-Biz  -- Part 2 takes on  Perloff’s elitism Perloff on  Al...

links | Passings



Sunday, July 21, 2013

Eileen Myles interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Eileen Myles | Interviews



Saturday, July 20, 2013

Neal Stephenson interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Neal Stephenson



Friday, July 19, 2013

Melissa Buzzeo reading @ The East Bay Poetry Summit May 2013

Melissa Buzzeo | Readings



Thursday, July 18, 2013

Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) being force fed under standard Guantanamo Bay operating procures (warning: extremely disturbi...

Gitmo | Politics | torture



Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Andrew Durbin reading @ The East Bay Poetry Summit May 2013

Andrew Durbin | Readings



Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Andrew Maxwell @ the Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles, June 2013

Andrew Maxwell | Readings



Monday, July 15, 2013

Michael Lally interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 2010

Interviews | Michael Lally



Sunday, July 14, 2013

Irving Feldman interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 2008

Interviews | Irving Feldman



Saturday, July 13, 2013

Jack Spicer Kevin Killian interviewed about Jack Spicer by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm

Interviews | Jack Spicer | Kevin Killian



Friday, July 12, 2013

Sara Wingate Gray: The Itinerant Poetry Librarian

Interviews | Libraries | Performance | Sara Wingate Gray



Thursday, July 11, 2013

44 th Poetry International Festival Opening Program with Adonis , Daniel Bănulescu , Elke Erb , Emmanuel Moses , Ester Naomi Per...

Poetry International | Readings



Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Ron Padgett remembering Joe Brainard with   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Joe Brainard | Ron Padgett



Tuesday, July 09, 2013

F . D . Reeve 1928 – 2013

passing



Monday, July 08, 2013

Jim Krusoe interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Jim Krusoe



Sunday, July 07, 2013

Barbara Baracks reading @ Franklin Furnace, 1977

Barbara Baracks | Readings



Saturday, July 06, 2013

Robert Hass interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Robert Hass



Friday, July 05, 2013

Poetry Logos by VanessaPlaceInc Talking with Rodrigo Toscano Some new work by Toscano The Phenomenology of Giving CS Gisco...

links



Thursday, July 04, 2013

Lawrence Ferlinghetti interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Lawrence Ferlinghetti



Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Mary Ruefle interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Interviews | Mary Ruefle



Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Eloise Klein Healy interviewed by   Michael   Silverblatt on   Bookworm

Eloise Klein Healy | Interviews



Monday, July 01, 2013

Jill Richards & Aaron Kunin @ UC Berkeley 2007

Aaron Kunin | Jill Richards | Readings



Sunday, June 30, 2013

Bhanu Kapil reading @ The East Bay Poetry Summit May 2013

Bhanu Kapil | Readings



Saturday, June 29, 2013

Matvei Yankelevich @ the Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles, June 2013

Matvei Yankelevich | Readings



Friday, June 28, 2013

Guy Bennett @ the Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles, June 2013

Guy Bennett | Readings



Thursday, June 27, 2013

Maggie Nelson @ the Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles, June 2013

Maggie Nelson | Readings



Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Larry Ochs & the East-West Collective Paris, April 2012 Larry Ochs - sopranino & tenor saxophone Sylvain Kassap - clarin...

Larry Ochs | Music



Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Roberto Bolaño bike helmet 2666: the film Jordan Davis on Lucille Clifton Kenny Goldsmith’s ‘atrocity exhibition’ Talkin...

links



Monday, June 24, 2013

Sylvia Plath reading 15 poems from Ariel ( part 1) ( part 2) ( part 3) Thanks to Open Culture

Readings | Sylvia Plath



Sunday, June 23, 2013

Lucille Clifton interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 1996

Interviews | Lucille Clifton



Saturday, June 22, 2013

Thom Gunn interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 1995

Interviews | Thom Gunn



Friday, June 21, 2013

Michael Ondaatje talking & reading on KCRW’s Bookworm

Interviews | Michael Ondaatje



Thursday, June 20, 2013

No title

Harry Partch | Music



Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Slavoj Žižek talking on The Event: Politics, Art, Ontology at the University of London Birkbeck May 9 2013 ...

Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Kurt Brown ? – 2013

passing



Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Maurice Nadeau 1911 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Madison Morrison 1938 – 2013

passing



Monday, June 17, 2013

The poetry of Solidarity Park Life in Taksim Square One writer freed, others in jeopardy in Turkey Soluble Personhood: on (...

links | Passings



Sunday, June 16, 2013

Jack Gilbert interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 1996

Interviews | Jack Gilbert



Saturday, June 15, 2013

Harry Mathews interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 1999

Harry Mathews | Interviews | Oulipo



Friday, June 14, 2013

Ariana Reines interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm 2008

Ariana Reines | Interviews



Thursday, June 13, 2013

Does an unvarnished truth exist? And, if so, does it intersect, even slightly, with what one might call good? Those questions are at th...

Film | Hannah Arendt



Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Talking with Joe Harrington on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Joe Harrington



Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Evie Shockley on race & the poetry canon Britain looks at its own gender-balance issues in publishing Sexism & sci-fi Landays ...

links | Passings



Monday, June 10, 2013

The world of poetry is changing. This has consequences. Overwhelmed by the absolute number of poets, the omnibus poetry anthology ...

anthologies



Sunday, June 09, 2013

Photo by Erin Goldberger Susan Howe reading at Dia: Chelsea in February

Readings | Susan Howe



Saturday, June 08, 2013

Rae Armantrout reading & talking with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW’s Bookworm

Interviews | Rae Armantrout



Friday, June 07, 2013

Vollis Simpson 1919 – 2013

passing | Visual Arts



Thursday, June 06, 2013

Laura Elrick performs Stalk

Laura Elrick | Performance



Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Alysia Abbott on Fresh Air discussing Fairyland: a memoir of Steve Abbott

Alysia Abbott | Interviews | Steve Abbott



Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Pura López - Colomé & Forrest Gander talking & reading on KCRW’s Bookworm

Forrest Gander | Interviews | Pura López-Colomé | Readings | translation



Monday, June 03, 2013

Welcome to Taksim Square , Istanbul John Pluecker on Heriberto Yépez Clare Pollard on Salt Publishing & the health of poetry Nei...

links | Passings



Sunday, June 02, 2013

Rae Armantrout , Laura Elrick & Rachel Blau DuPlessis close reading Catherine Wagner

Catherine Wagner | Laura Elrick | PoemTalk | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Rae Armantrout



Saturday, June 01, 2013

Mary Coghill on Roman Jakobson: Poetry of Self, City, Sign & Form (click on red link for YouTube recording) ...

Mary Coghill | Roman Jakobson | Talks



Friday, May 31, 2013

Art is not natural: A speaking portrait of Basil King by George Quasha

Basil King | George Quasha | Interviews



Thursday, May 30, 2013

Don Share is the new editor of Poetry

Don Share | Poetry Foundation



Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Kim Merker 1932 – 2013

passing | Printing



Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Top row, left to right: Raad Ahmad, Mesbah Alam Arghya, Santanu Bandyopadhyay, Subhro Bandopadhyay; bottom row, left to right: Sukanta G...

links | Passings



Monday, May 27, 2013

photo by Erin Goldberger My reading at Dia: Chelsea in March

Personal | Readings



Sunday, May 26, 2013

Photo by Erin Goldberger Kate Colby reading at Dia: Chelsea in February

Kate Colby | Readings



Saturday, May 25, 2013

Photo by Erin Goldberger Robert Fitterman reading at Dia: Chelsea in March

Readings | Robert Fitterman



Friday, May 24, 2013

Davis reading at Wellesley Lydia Davis has received the 2013 Man Booker International Prize

Lydia Davis | Prizes | Readings



Thursday, May 23, 2013

Robert Grenier talking at Southfirst in Brooklyn

Robert Grenier | Talks | vispo



Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Manzarek with Michael McClure , intro by Gary Snyder Ray Manzarek 1939 – 2013

Music | passing



Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Cathy Park Hong’s A Proposition: Stand Up @ the New Museum with responses by Ariana Reines , Catherine Wagner , Ronaldo V...

Ariana Reines | Catherine Wagner | Cathy Park Hong | Mores McWreath | Performance | Ronaldo V Wilson



Monday, May 20, 2013

Talking with Susan M Schultz on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Susan M Schultz



Sunday, May 19, 2013

Talking with Leonard Schwartz on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Leonard Schwartz



Saturday, May 18, 2013

Talking with CM Burroughs on Radio Free Albion

CM Burroughs | Interviews



Friday, May 17, 2013

Talking with Hannah Gamble on Radio Free Albion

Hannah Gamble | Interviews



Thursday, May 16, 2013

Lina ramona Vitkauskas reading & talking on Radio Free Albion

Interviews | Lina ramona Vitkauskas | Readings



Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Don Share discussing Bunting’s Persia

Basil Bunting | Don Share | Interviews | Persia | translation



Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Lisa Jarnot discussing her biography of Robert Duncan, The Ambassador of Venus

Interviews | Lisa Jarnot | New American Poetry | Robert Duncan



Monday, May 13, 2013

Pierre Joris discussing Poems for the Millennium, vol. 4 The University of California Book of North African Literatu...

African literature | Cross-Cultural Poetics | Interviews | Maghreb | Pierre Joris



Sunday, May 12, 2013

Catherine Wagner reading on Cross-Cultural Poetics

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Saturday, May 11, 2013

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Author Not the Point, Poetry is Like Golf We Each Play for Our Own Reasons and Sometimes Tiger ...

Recently Received



Friday, May 10, 2013

Taylor Mead 1924 – 2013

passing



Thursday, May 09, 2013

I’m with language Amiri Baraka doesn’t like Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry A respo...

links | Passings



Wednesday, May 08, 2013

A reading from The Arcadia Project @ Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room with   Timothy Donnelly , CD Wright , Gabriel Guddi...

Brian Teare | C.D. Wright | Dan Beachy-Quick | Dana Levin | G.C. Waldrep | Gabriel Gudding | John Beer | Readings | Timothy Donnelly



Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Ku‘ualoha Ho‘omanawanui reading @ the University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2001

Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui | Readings



Monday, May 06, 2013

If I see another motion picture in 2013 that is as remotely as intelligent or mature as Upstream Color , it will be a very good yea...

Film



Sunday, May 05, 2013

Herbert Blau 1926 – 2013

passing | Theater



Saturday, May 04, 2013

Accessibility & the Avant-Garde A group conversation held at Sea Ranch on New Year’s Day between Chris Nealon , Joshua Clover ...

Chris Nealon | Jasper Bernes | Jill Richards | Joshua Clover | Juliana Spahr | Panel | post-avant | Seeta Chaganti | Tim Kreiner



Friday, May 03, 2013

John Byam 1929 – 2013

passing | Visual Arts



Thursday, May 02, 2013

Adeena Karasick reading @ North of Invention , 2011

Adeena Karasick | Readings



Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Muriel Rukeyser’s lost novel Talking with Nate Mackey Laura Sims on David Markson (in two parts) & on Rae Armantrout John ...

links | Passings



Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Pattie McCarthy & Jena Osman reading @ Kelly Writers House, 2013 Intro by Mic...

Jena Osman | Pattie McCarthy | Readings



Monday, April 29, 2013

Myung Mi Kim reading @ Kelly Writers House, 2010 Intro by Michelle Taransky

Myung Mi Kim | Readings



Sunday, April 28, 2013

A tribute to Adrienne Rich @ the 92 nd Street Y

Adrienne Rich | Readings



Saturday, April 27, 2013

Mel Nichols reading for Segue @ the Bowery Poetry Club, 2007

Mel Nichols | Readings



Friday, April 26, 2013

Sharon Mesmer reading @ The Double Happiness , 2000

Readings | Sharon Mesmer



Thursday, April 25, 2013

P Inman & Tina Darragh Tina Darragh reading @ The Ear Inn , 1987

Readings | Tina Darragh



Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Richie Havens 1941 – 2013

Music | passing



Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Nanao Sakaki reading in Tucson for Chax Press , 2007

Nanao Sakaki | Readings



Monday, April 22, 2013

CA Conrad: I loved Earth years ago Sherman Alexie’s top 10 Native American poets Maria Shriver on the origins of VIDA Boston...

links | Passings



Sunday, April 21, 2013

Kimberly Lyons reading in Tucson for POG , 2010

Kimberly Lyons | Readings



Saturday, April 20, 2013

Jamaica Kincaid reading & talking at the 92 nd St Y for The Paris Review

Jamaica Kincaid



Friday, April 19, 2013

May Sarton reading & talking with Susan Howe

Interviews | May Sarton | Readings



Thursday, April 18, 2013

Jennifer Moxley reading at Boise State University

Jennifer Moxley | Readings



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Susan M Schultz reading at Boise State University

Readings | Susan M Schultz



Tuesday, April 16, 2013

No title

Personal



Monday, April 15, 2013

Sherman Alexie talking with Bill Moyers

Interviews | Sherman Alexie



Sunday, April 14, 2013

A reading by Mary Caroline ( MC) Richards from 1997

MC Richards | Readings



Saturday, April 13, 2013

Gilles Deleuze: What is the creative act? (1987)

Film | Gilles Deleuze | Talks



Friday, April 12, 2013

Nance Van Winckel: Pho-Toems Camille Guthrie: Why I am not a nature poet Paul Hoover on the PBS Newshour 7 by Cedar Sigo...

links | Passings



Thursday, April 11, 2013

Recently Received   Books (Poetry) Rae Armantrout, Recurrencias: Antologia personal, edited & translated by David Ojeda, Ed...

Recently Received



Wednesday, April 10, 2013

A reading by Elizabeth Willis for Belladonna *, 2006

Elizabeth Willis | Readings



Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Les Blank 1935 – 2013

Film | passing



Monday, April 08, 2013

Beverly Dahlen reading in San Francisco, 1983

Beverly Dahlen | Readings



Sunday, April 07, 2013

A Frank Samperi tribute reading with Claudia Warren , Conrad DiDiodato , Harry E Northup , Phoebe MacAdams , SA Griffin ...

Frank Samperi | Readings



Saturday, April 06, 2013

A Belladonna * anthology reading: with Erica Kaufman , Rae Armantrout , Lydia Davis , Rachel Levitsky , Sharon Me...

Belladonna | Erica Kaufman | Jennifer Moxley | Lydia Davis | Rachel Levitsky | Rae Armantrout | Readings | Sharon Mesmer | Tim Trace Peterson



Friday, April 05, 2013

Roger Ebert 1942 – 2013 Roger Ebert 1942 – 2013

Film | passing



Thursday, April 04, 2013

Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Wishes on the Wish Tree   Desiring visual texts: Maria Damon & Rachel Blau DuPlessis in conversation Rae Ar...

links | Passings



Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Eileen Myles & Alice Notley reading for Public Access Poetry , 1977

Alice Notley | Eileen Myles | Readings



Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Thomas McEvilley 1939 – 2013

passing | Visual Arts



Monday, April 01, 2013

Daniel Hoffman 1923 – 2013

passing



Sunday, March 31, 2013

Joanne Kyger reading for Public Access Poetry , 1978

Joanne Kyger | Readings



Saturday, March 30, 2013

Sueyeun Juliette Lee reading @ Kelly Writers House , 2007

Readings | Sueyeun Juliette Lee



Friday, March 29, 2013

Cecilia Vicuña reading & talking on Cross-Cultural Poetics

Cecilia Vicuña | Interviews



Thursday, March 28, 2013

Patti Smith , interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel

Interviews | Patti Smith



Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Lisa Robertson & Aisha Sasha John in conversation

Aisha Sasha John | Lisa Robertson | Talks



Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Talking with Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman | Interviews



Monday, March 25, 2013

Photo by Geof Huth Reading Robert Grenier’s Cambridge, M’ass Some poems by Chinua Achebe NY Times obit for Achebe Marjorie Perloff: ...

links



Sunday, March 24, 2013

Nathaniel Mackey reading at the 2010 One Pause Poetry Conference

Nathaniel Mackey | Readings



Saturday, March 23, 2013

Tracy K Smith reading @ White Lotus Farms

Readings | Tracy K Smith



Friday, March 22, 2013

Chinua Achebe 1930 – 2013

passing



Thursday, March 21, 2013

Nada Gordon bringing Flarf to Myanmar Nada Gordon will read @ Kelly Writers House 38 th & Locust Walk Philadelphia Tuesd...

Flarf | Globalism | Nada Gordon | Talks



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Talking with Clayton Eshleman

Clayton Eshleman | Interviews



Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Jean Day reading @ the Condensary August 2011

Jean Day | Readings



Monday, March 18, 2013

Corina Copp reading @ the Condensary August 2011

Corina Copp | Readings



Sunday, March 17, 2013

Noam Chomsky on Language & the Mind Revisited: Language & the Rest of the World

Linguistics | Noam Chomsky



Saturday, March 16, 2013

Grace Ambrose Launch Party for In Open Letters A Secret Appears: A People's Guide to the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a poetry readi...

CAConrad | conceptual art | Duchamp | Installation | Mail art | Philadelphia | Readings | Rothko | Visual Arts



Friday, March 15, 2013

Simon Morris Rewriting Freud

Conceptual poetics | Ed Ruscha | Freud | Simon Morris | Sol Lewitt | Tzara | William Burroughs



Thursday, March 14, 2013

Wes Cecil on the life & philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein | Philosophy | Talks | Wes Cecil



Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Robert Creeley & Louis Zukofsky having a chat in 1961 ( being a link to the recording on the PennSound Zukofsky page)

Interviews | Robert Creeley | Zukofsky



Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Amanda Sigler on Joyce’s Ulysses & censorship as a marketing strategy The Modernist Versions Project

Amanda Sigler | censorship | James Joyce | Talks



Monday, March 11, 2013

VIDA count 2012: the numbers are not getting better Dmitri Prigov’s Little Coffins Barrett Watten & the Gnostics in Louisville Thomas F...

links | Passings



Sunday, March 10, 2013

Donald Revell reads from & discusses Pennyweight Window: New & Selected Poems with Leonard Schwartz

Donald Revell | Interviews | Readings



Saturday, March 09, 2013

Kamau Brathwaite reading all of Islands (1973) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Kamau Brathwaite | Readings



Friday, March 08, 2013

Stompin’ Tom Connors 1936 – 2013

passing



Thursday, March 07, 2013

My sense that that the free-range anthology has outlived its value as an object, at least in codex form, does not mean that I think that bo...

anthologies



Wednesday, March 06, 2013

William Carlos Williams Talking with Walter Sutton October & November, 1960

Interviews | William Carlos Williams



Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Lisa Jarnot reading at the Bowery Poetry Club 2006

Lisa Jarnot | Readings



Monday, March 04, 2013

Rob Fitterman & Ron Silliman tonight @ Dia: Chelsea in New York City 535 West 22 nd Street,5 th Floor $6 general admission; $3 Di...

Events



Sunday, March 03, 2013

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke on Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke | Readings | Talks



Saturday, March 02, 2013

Al-Ajami’s sentence for poetry reduced to 15 years Take action HERE

100 Thousand Poets for Change | censorship



Friday, March 01, 2013

I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women reading @ Writers House with Laynie Browne , Lee Ann Brown , Rachel Blau DuP...

anthologies | Conceptual poetics | feminism | Readings | Women writers



Thursday, February 28, 2013

Jess’ portrait of Robert Duncan: The Enamored Mage Robin Blaser talking about Robert Duncan Buffalo, 1996

Robert Duncan | Robin Blaser | Talks



Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Lera Boroditsky: How the languages we speak shape the way we think (right click to start video full-screen in new tab or cli...

language | Lera Boroditsky | Talks



Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t the only one who stumbled at this year’s Academy Awards. The Oscars are an increasingly bizarre displa...

Film



Monday, February 25, 2013

Peter O’Leary: Apocalypticism A new poem shows Jupiter Hammon changing his mind Curtis Faville on Joe Ceravolo Faville on Anselm Hollo ...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 24, 2013

Stanley Cavell talking with Charles Bernstein

Interviews | Philosophy | Stanley Cavell



Saturday, February 23, 2013

Christian Bök @ Simon Fraser University The Xenotext (A Progress Report) January 25, 2013

Christian Bök | Conceptual poetics | Performance | Talks



Friday, February 22, 2013

Juliana Spahr reading @ Mills College 2005

Juliana Spahr | Readings



Thursday, February 21, 2013

Ted Greenwald reading on Susan Howe’s WBAI radio program 1977

Readings | Ted Greenwald



Wednesday, February 20, 2013

John Ashbery interviewed by Al Filreis and the Kelly Writers House gang February 12, 2013

Interviews | John Ashbery



Tuesday, February 19, 2013

John Ashbery at Kelly Writers House February 11, 2013

John Ashbery | Readings



Monday, February 18, 2013

Talking with Ken Lum on art & community Vancouver / Philly / the Netherlands

community | Interviews | Ken Lum | Visual Arts



Sunday, February 17, 2013

Mary Jo Bang & Jennifer Scappettone on the intersection between translation & poetics

Jennifer Scappettone | Mary Jo Bang | poetics | Talks | translation



Saturday, February 16, 2013

K David Harrison on Revitalizing Linguistic Diversity

diversity | language | Linguistics



Friday, February 15, 2013

The first omission you notice – a poet dropped from the first edition of Paul Hoover’s Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology ...

anthologies



Thursday, February 14, 2013

Luke Harley: poetry as virtual community Talking with Rachel Blau DuPlessis 2 uncollected poems by Paul Celan Jenn McCreary is talking t...

links | Passings



Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Richard Artschwager 1923 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, February 12, 2013

John Ashbery reading at The Living Theater New York September, 1963

John Ashbery | Readings



Monday, February 11, 2013

John Ashbery reading in Georgetown February, 2010

John Ashbery | Readings



Sunday, February 10, 2013

Fanny Howe discusses “ Doubt ”

Fanny Howe | Interviews



Saturday, February 09, 2013

The Mirror of the Soul a portrait of Forough Farrokhzad in 3 parts

Forough Farrokhzad | Iran



Friday, February 08, 2013

The House is Black by Forough Farrokhzad

Film | Forough Farrokhzad | Iran



Thursday, February 07, 2013

Jerome Rothenberg on Ethnopoetics & Politics: the Politics of Ethnopoetics @ the New School, 1988

Jerome Rothenberg | Readings



Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Linh Dinh in Richmond, VA September 2010

Linh Dinh | Readings



Monday, February 04, 2013

Linh Dinh: art is always political Patti Smith reading Virginia Woolf + Woolf reading Woolf Brian Ang & Joshua Clover on theory, actio...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 03, 2013

Ange Mlinko reading on KCRW-FM

Ange Mlinko | Interviews



Saturday, February 02, 2013

Sean Bonney: Notes on Militant Poetics   Readings from The Commons ( set 1) ( set 2) ( set 3)

Readings | Sean Bonney | Talks



Friday, February 01, 2013

Lucien Stryk 1924 – 2013

passing



Thursday, January 31, 2013

Butch Morris 1947 – 2013

passing



Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Anselm Hollo 1934 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Kenneth Irby reading at Berkeley November 4, 2010

Kenneth Irby | Readings



Monday, January 28, 2013

John Taggart Reading at the Rothko Chapel October, 2012

John Taggart | Readings



Sunday, January 27, 2013

Ron Silliman Canons & Institutions: New Hope for the Disappeared New School, 1988 ( discussion)

Personal | Talks



Saturday, January 26, 2013

My reading @ UC San Diego April 18 2012

Personal | Readings



Friday, January 25, 2013

Robert Polito takes over as director of Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation | Readings | Robert Polito



Thursday, January 24, 2013

Sara Marcus & Michelle Tea reading @ the Poetry Project November 16, 2012

Michelle Tea | Readings | Sara Marcus



Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Erín Moure: translating Tarzan Emily online & in her own hand Maria Damon: Cross-Stitch Poetry Orson Welles interviews Isidore Isou ...

links | Passings



Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem, One Today Travis Nichols on the challenge of the inaugural poem Latino makes history in severa...

inaugural poetics | Readings | Richard Blanco



Monday, January 21, 2013

Richard Blanco reading in Bryant Park, 2012

Readings | Richard Blanco



Sunday, January 20, 2013

Jack McCarthy 1939 – 2013

passing



Saturday, January 19, 2013

Aracelis Girmay & Jenny Zhang reading @ the Poetry Project November 26, 2012

Aracelis Grimay | Jenny Zhang | Readings



Friday, January 18, 2013

Talking with Yoko Ono from the Joe Smith Collection at the Library of Congress ( part one) ( part two)

Interviews | Yoko Ono



Thursday, January 17, 2013

Srikanth Reddy & Sarah Riggs reading @ the Poetry Project November 28, 2012

Readings | Sarah Riggs | Srikanth Reddy



Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Peter Jaeger on the Buddhism in John Cage’s art

Buddhism | John Cage | Music | Peter Jaeger | Talks



Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The next time a poet is selected to perform a poem at a presidential inauguration on strictly literary grounds will be the first. The c...

inaugural poetics | political poetry



Monday, January 14, 2013

Charles Bukowski: Born Into This

Charles Bukowski



Sunday, January 13, 2013

Walt Whitman: American Experience

Walt Whitman



Saturday, January 12, 2013

Evan S Connell 1924 -- 2013

passing



Friday, January 11, 2013

Slavoj Žižek on architecture & aesthetics

Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Thursday, January 10, 2013

Erín Moure reading in Brooklyn February 2012 Thanks to Belladonna & Pennsound

Erín Moure | Readings



Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Harvey Shapiro 1924 – 2013

passing



Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Leung Ping - kwan 1949 – 2013

passing



Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Molly Brodak reading @ Indian Springs School Indian Springs, Alabama

Molly Brodak | Readings



Monday, January 07, 2013

The MelaNated Writers Collective December 2012 Juke Joint

collectives | Readings | Scenes



Sunday, January 06, 2013

Gina Myers reading @ Indian Springs School Indian Springs, Alabama

Gina Myers | Readings



Saturday, January 05, 2013

Adam Vines reading @ Indian Springs School Indian Springs, Alabama

Adam Vines | Readings



Friday, January 04, 2013

Talking with David Trinidad on Radio Free Albion with Tony Trigilio

David Trinidad | Interviews



Thursday, January 03, 2013

Tony Lopez with Daniel Benjamin reading at Berkeley November 13 2012

Daniel Benjamin | Tony Lopez



Wednesday, January 02, 2013

giovanni singleton reading at UC Berkeley February 2, 2012

giovanni singleton | Readings



Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Reading Jackson Mac Low’s 154 Forties Mohammed Rashid al-Ajami is “the Gulf’s Mandela” In Turkey, a journalist is freed 8 charged in 1...

links | Passings



Monday, December 31, 2012

Talking with Sandra Simonds on Radio Free Albion with Tony Trigilio

Interviews | Sandra Simonds



Sunday, December 30, 2012

Jayne Cortez 1936 – 2012

passing



Saturday, December 29, 2012

Fontella Bass 1940 – 2012

Jazz | passing



Friday, December 28, 2012

Amish Trivedi reading @ Indian Springs School Indian Springs, Alabama

Amish Trivedi | Readings



Thursday, December 27, 2012

Dennis O’Driscoll 1954 -- 2012

passing



Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Close-reading aloud Clark Coolidge’s “ Blues for Alice ” interpreted for PoemTalk by Brian Reed , Maria Damon & Craig Dworkin led...

Al Filreis | Brian Reed | Clark Coolidge | Craig Dworkin | Maria Damon | PoemTalk



Tuesday, December 25, 2012

My reading at Penn State October 9, 2012

Personal | Readings



Monday, December 24, 2012

Emily Abendroth & Stefania Heim reading at The Poetry Project November 5, 2012

Emily Abendroth | Readings | Stefania Heim



Sunday, December 23, 2012

Ann Lauterbach reading & talking At the University of Chicago October 2012

Ann Lauterbach | Readings | Talks



Saturday, December 22, 2012

David Bromige Condition, Information & the Paranoia of the New Post-talk discussion The Poetry Project , October 4, 1985

David Bromige | Talks



Friday, December 21, 2012

Bill Berkson by Alphonse Van Woerkom Talking with Bill Berkson Berkson’s Portrait and Dream Evie Shockley: binaries divide in order to...

links | Passings



Thursday, December 20, 2012

Spread the word »     A poet has been sentenced to life in prison for reciting a poem.  Share this action on Facebook  Sha...

100 Thousand Poets for Change | censorship | petition | political action | Qatar | RootsAction



Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Gerrit Lansing reading & talking with the inimitable Chucky B

Gerrit Lansing | Interviews | Readings



Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Jake Adam York 1972 – 2012

passing



Monday, December 17, 2012

Keston Sutherland & John Wilkinson reading at Berkeley November 15 2012

John Wilkinson | Keston Sutherland | Readings



Sunday, December 16, 2012

“ Here’s Your Throat Back , Thanks for the Loan” Steven Ring on Dylan’s Voices

Bob Dylan | Music | Steven Rings | Talks



Saturday, December 15, 2012

giovanni singleton & Brenda Hillman reading at The Poetry Project October 24, 2012

Brenda Hillman | giovanni singleton | Readings



Friday, December 14, 2012

Rachel Blau DuPlessis in Auckland, New Zealand March 2012 Draft 49: Turns ( Turns 1) ( Turns 2) Draft 51: Clay Songs Draft 53: Eclogu...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings



Thursday, December 13, 2012

Ravi Shankar 1920 – 2012

Music | passing



Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Marilyn Hacker on Adrienne Rich Katie Degentesh: Legitimate and illegitimate poems John Ashbery’s new poem Suburban Burma Why typing A...

links | Passings



Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Susan Howe: The Whispered Rush, The Telepathy of Archives ( from the Poets’ Forum of the Academy of American Poets, 2011)

Susan Howe | Talks



Monday, December 10, 2012

When, in 200 years, students are reading the poetry of Lyn Hejinian – as certainly they shall if humans are still about – those readers wi...

Lyn Hejinian | The New Sentence | Tony Lopez



Sunday, December 09, 2012

John Koethe & John Godfrey reading at The Poetry Project October 17, 2012

John Godfrey | John Koethe | Readings



Saturday, December 08, 2012

Conceptual Writing by Women: Vanessa Place & Divya Victor reading at the Poetry Project October 22

Conceptual poetics | Divya Victor | Readings | Vanessa Place



Friday, December 07, 2012

Beauty is a Verb: a reading by Jennifer Bartlett , Ellen McGrath Smith & Norma Cole at the Poetry Project September 26, 2012

anthologies | Ellen McGrath Smith | Jennifer Bartlett | Norma Cole | Readings



Thursday, December 06, 2012

Dave Brubeck 1920 – 2012

Jazz | Music | passing



Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Close-reading Paul Blackburn’s 7 th Game: 1960 Series

Baseball | Panel | Paul Blackburn | PoemTalk



Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Décio Pignatari 1927 – 2012

concrete poetry | passing



Monday, December 03, 2012

When Bruce met Sally Qatari poet gets life in prison for satire Muhammed ibn al-Dheed ...

links | Passings



Sunday, December 02, 2012

Frank O’Hara in Richard Moore’s USA Poetry (1966) (the best TV series on poetry ever)

Frank O'Hara | Readings | TV



Saturday, December 01, 2012

Geof Huth performs wordsigndrawtextsong

Geof Huth



Friday, November 30, 2012

A Fairy Tale: Tax the Rich Written & directed by Fred Glass Animation by Mike Konopacki Narration by Ed Asner Special thanks to the Calif...

CFT | Ed Asner | Fairy Tales | Fred Glass | Mike Konopacki | Occupy



Thursday, November 29, 2012

Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Tony Lopez reading at The Poetry Project November 7, 2012

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings | Tony Lopez



Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Ariel Goldberg on The Estrangement Principle

Ariel Goldberg | Talks



Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Donato Mancini * reading You Must Work Harder

Christian Bök | Donato Mancini | Readings | Talks



Monday, November 26, 2012

Weldon Kees reading in Berkeley, 1952

Readings | Weldon Kees



Sunday, November 25, 2012

Žižek in Vermont

Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Saturday, November 24, 2012

Mark Goldstein on Form of Forms

Interviews | Mark Goldstein



Friday, November 23, 2012

Fin de Siècle 3 plays by Leslie Scalapino Musical composition by Sarah Dougher

Leslie Scalapino | Music | Poets Theater | Sarah Dougher



Thursday, November 22, 2012

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Godmother of Rock & Roll

Music



Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Li Bifeng in 1993 (center, front row) In PRC, Li Bifeng gets 12-year jail term Texting in difficult city Chris Tysh on Alice Notley Seg...

links | Passings



Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Outlawing Shakespeare: The Battle for the Tucson Mind

censorship



Monday, November 19, 2012

Alison Watkins: Videopoetry: Relation of Word to Image

videopoetry



Sunday, November 18, 2012

bill bissett: Rush: What Fuckan Theory

bill bissett | Readings



Saturday, November 17, 2012

John Ashbery talking about Thomas Lovell Beddoes at Harvard 1989 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | Talks | Thomas Lovell Beddoes



Friday, November 16, 2012

Tomorrow, November 17 2 events in Toronto Embracing Transformation in Writing Poetry Master Class Toronto New School of Writing Noon - 4:...

Events



Thursday, November 15, 2012

An evening in memory of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko with Jacki Ochs ,  Lyn Hejinian ,  Charles Bernstein , Eugene Ostashevsky , Genya Tu...

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko | Talks



Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Jack Gilbert 1925 – 2012   Singing in My Difficult Mountains Helot for what time there is In the baptist hegemony of death. For wha...

passing



Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Valerie Eliot 1926 – 2012

passing



Monday, November 12, 2012

Next Saturday, November 17 2 events in Toronto Embracing Transformation in Writing Poetry Master Class Toronto New School of Writing Noon...

Events



Sunday, November 11, 2012

David Harvey The End of Capitalism?

Capital | David Harvey | Talks



Saturday, November 10, 2012

John Ashbery talking about John Wheelwright at Harvard 1990 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | John Wheelwright | Talks



Friday, November 09, 2012

[ Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] The Pleistocene with Jen Hofer Recorded via Skype between Tucson and Oakland on October...

Interviews | Jen Hofer



Thursday, November 08, 2012

Carla Harryman: Notes on Poets Theater Talking with Bruce Andrews A new poem from...

links | Passings



Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Elliott Carter 1908 – 2012 Elliott Carter on YouTube

Music | passing



Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Anne - Marie Albiach 1937 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Jacques Dupin 1927 – 2012

passing



Monday, November 05, 2012

My reading with Rob Fitterman , scheduled for this coming Thursday , has been postponed until sometime in the new year Dia: Chelsea sus...

Flood | Non-events



Sunday, November 04, 2012

No title

Slavoj Žižek



Saturday, November 03, 2012

John Ashbery talking about John Clare at Harvard 1989 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | John Clare | Talks



Friday, November 02, 2012

24 th Street & 10 th Avenue “ All of Chelsea has to rebuild ”

Floods | Visual Arts



Thursday, November 01, 2012

Tisa Bryant reading in the Belladonna Series in NYC, 2009 Thanks to PennSound

Readings | Tisa Bryant



Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Alan Dugan reading in New York, 1962

Alan Dugan | Readings



Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Received (not always recently) Books (Poetry) Rae Armantrout, Just Saying , Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2013 Adrian B...

Recently Received



Monday, October 29, 2012

Math poetry by Scott Helmes A feature on Maria Damon Paul Legault’s Emily Dickinson Peter Riley on Anthony Barnett Remembering Raymond Sous...

links



Sunday, October 28, 2012

John Ashbery talking about Raymond Roussel at Harvard 1990 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | Raymond Roussel | Talks



Saturday, October 27, 2012

Double-click on the image

Multi-media poetics



Friday, October 26, 2012

Evie Shockley reading at Penn State, April 2012 Thanks to Aldon Nielsen & PennSound

Evie Shockley | Readings



Thursday, October 25, 2012

Rebecca Brown interviewed by Stacey Lewis at City Lights about American Romances

Interviews | Rebecca Brown



Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Raymond Souster 1921 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Tony Lopez: Weymouth Sands Beverly Dahlen: 2 poems When Vispo was young: bpNichol’s computer poems of 1984 Arseny Tarkovsky: 3 poem...

links | Passings



Monday, October 22, 2012

Anthony Braxton 12+1Tet Venice, October 13 2012

Anthony Braxton | Jazz | Music



Sunday, October 21, 2012

David S. Ware 1949 – 2012

Jazz | passing



Saturday, October 20, 2012

Robinson Jeffers reading at the Library of Congress, 1941

Readings | Robinson Jeffers



Friday, October 19, 2012

Michael Asher 1943 – 2012

passing | Visual Arts



Thursday, October 18, 2012

I saw the first part of Tony Kushner’s great Angels in America , this part subtitled Millennium Approaches, at Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater...

Theater



Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Tyrone Williams reading in the POG series in Tucson, 2007 Thanks to POG & PennSound

Readings | Tyrone Williams



Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Amaranth Borsuk on The Material Text Between Page and Screen

Amaranth Borsuk | Book as Art Object | Digital Poetics | Talks



Monday, October 15, 2012

Corina Copp on The Electrocution of Ruth Snyder Poetry is dead, I killed it (warning: may cause ennui) Well, no, academics did Vanessa Pl...

links | Passings



Sunday, October 14, 2012

John Ashbery talking about David Schubert at Harvard 1990 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

David Schubert | John Ashbery | Talks



Saturday, October 13, 2012

Mo Yan interviewed by John Freeman of Granta London Book Fair, April 2012

Interviews | Mo Yan



Friday, October 12, 2012

Lorine Niedecker reading at home, 1970

Lorine Niedecker | Readings



Thursday, October 11, 2012

Steve Evans On Monday, Steve Evans’ Attention Span – his annual collection of reading recommendations from a wide range of poets – includ...

Attention Span



Wednesday, October 10, 2012

John Tchicai 1936 – 2012

Jazz | passing



Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Tonight @ 7:30 PM Ron Silliman reading Foster Auditorium 102 Paterno Library Penn State University Park, PA

Events



Monday, October 08, 2012

Lewis Warsh reading at Open Books Seattle, November 2010 Part 2 below

Lewis Warsh | Readings



Sunday, October 07, 2012

John Ashbery talking about Laura Riding at Harvard 1990 Thanks to PennSound & Harvard

John Ashbery | Laura (Riding) Jackson | Talks



Saturday, October 06, 2012

Nguyen Chi Thien 1939 – 2012

passing



Friday, October 05, 2012

Talking with Sylvia Plath

Interviews | Sylvia Plath



Thursday, October 04, 2012

Paul Auster on Brooklyn & Smoke

Film | Interviews | Paul Auster



Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Baghdad bookmart bulldozed by dawn raid Zukofsky’s integral Anselm Berrigan: Sure Shot & other poems Hank Lazer’s intro to the essays...

links | Passings



Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Michael Henry Heim 1943 – 2012



Monday, October 01, 2012

Rae Armantrout reading @ Penn State September 2012 Thanks to Aldon Nielsen & PennSound

Rae Armantrout | Readings



Sunday, September 30, 2012

Chris Toll ? – 2012

passing



Saturday, September 29, 2012

100,000 Poets for Change , now in its second year, is an idea that appears to be catching hold. With at least 20,000 thousand poets publishi...

100 Thousand Poets for Change



Friday, September 28, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Ezra Berkley Nepon & Dan Fishback New Queer Jewish Writing

Readings



Thursday, September 27, 2012

Paul Vangelisti on Antonio Porta [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] on   Cross Cultural Poetics

Antonio Porta | Paul Vangelisti | Talks | translation



Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Faith, Reason & Salman Rushdie from   BillMoyers.com

Interviews | Salman Rushdie



Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Kenneth Patchen reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State December 6, 1957

Kenneth Patchen | Readings



Monday, September 24, 2012

William Duckworth 1943 – 2012 The first composer to use the Fibonacci series

Music | passing



Sunday, September 23, 2012

Jeramy Dodds reading in the Tree Reading Series May 2011

Jeramy Dodds | Readings



Saturday, September 22, 2012

This is just the headquarters event for 100,000 Poets & Musicians for Change

100 Thousand Poets for Change | Events



Friday, September 21, 2012

Malinda Markham 1968 – 2012

passing



Friday, September 21, 2012

James D Quinton 1977 -- 2012

passing



Thursday, September 20, 2012

One month from today

Coming Events | Personal



Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Marianne Moore reading October 10 and October 17 , 1957 at the Poetry Center San Francisco State

Marianne Moore | Readings



Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Louis Simpson 1923 – 2012

passing



Monday, September 17, 2012

John Yau on Robert Kelly Talking with Timothy Yu Joanne Kyger: Letters from the Lost & Found Kyger: the community of The Curriculum of the...

links



Sunday, September 16, 2012

Photo: Richard Avedon Robert Lowell reading at the Poetry Center , San Francisco State University March 27, 1957

Readings | Robert Lowell



Saturday, September 15, 2012

Photo by Jonathan Williams Denise Levertov reading @ the Poetry Center San Francisco State February 10, 1958 Opening remarks by Ro...

Denise Levertov | Readings



Friday, September 14, 2012

Slavoj Žižek on ideology

ideology | Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Thursday, September 13, 2012

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko 1946 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Tan Lin Bibliographic Sound Track, 2012 Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Produced for Artists Space in 2012 A video...

post-book poetics | Tan Lin



Tuesday, September 11, 2012

My younger brother Buddy passed away one year ago today

Personal



Monday, September 10, 2012

Dome Poem NC A film by Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn featuring poems by Brown, Erin O'Neal, Cheryl J Fish, Timothy Dyke & Leah Souf...

collaborations | Lee Ann Brown | Performance | Readings | Tony Torn



Sunday, September 09, 2012

Susan Stewart on poetry as a slow art

Susan Stewart | Talks



Saturday, September 08, 2012

Photo by Imogen Cunningham Josephine Miles on teaching poetry @ the Poetry Center San Francisco State 1954 Remarks by Frank Doll...

Josephine Miles | Talks



Friday, September 07, 2012

Ever been to an open-casket funeral in which the mortician had to do a lot of reconstruction on the deceased and gets it almost right, may...

Barnes Foundation | Capital | Visual Arts



Thursday, September 06, 2012

The Ambassador from Venus An intro to MoPo ! Sueyeun Juliette Lee on Chris Vitiello Jackson Mac Low’s 154 Forties Misrepresentin...

links



Wednesday, September 05, 2012

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Events | Personal



Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Photo by Michael Kelleher Murat Nemet - Nejat reading from The Spiritual Life of Replicants on Cross Cultural Poetics

Murat Nemet-Nejat | Readings



Monday, September 03, 2012

An oral history of Bill & Beverly Corbett

Beverly Corbett | Boston | Panel | Talks | William Corbett



Sunday, September 02, 2012

James Schuyler reading at the San Francisco Art Institute February 10, 1989 (introduction by Bill Berkson) Thanks to CloudHouse, ...

James Schuyler | Readings



Saturday, September 01, 2012

Anthony Braxton giving the keynote address at the 2007 Guelph Jazz Festival

Anthony Braxton | Music | Talks



Friday, August 31, 2012

Theodore Roethke giving the very first reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State February 25 1954

Readings | Theodore Roethke



Thursday, August 30, 2012

Photo by Jonathan Williams Kenneth Rexroth reading @ the Poetry Center San Francisco State July 13, 1955 & October 5, 1959

Kenneth Rexroth | Readings



Wednesday, August 29, 2012

I have never thought of myself as an experimental writer, but this project is clearly a step into un- (or at least under-) charted territo...

blogging | Personal



Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Living with Mandelstam Nadezhda Mandelstam on living with Osip Mandelstam

Interviews | Mandelstam



Monday, August 27, 2012

Boston loses Bill Corbett Furor over shutting down UNO press draws national attention Susan M Schultz edits a feature on writing & de...

links | Passings



Sunday, August 26, 2012

Daryl Hine 1936 – 2012

passing



Saturday, August 25, 2012

Rukeyser by Richard Avedon , 1975 Muriel Rukeyser reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State July 28, 1955 & July 16, 1958 ...

Muriel Rukeyser | Readings



Friday, August 24, 2012

Langston Hughes reading & talking @ the SF State Poetry Center December 5, 1958

Langston Hughes | Readings | Talks



Thursday, August 23, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. John Wieners reading in San Francisco (Thanks to Kush, Cloud House & Penn Sound)

John Wieners | Readings



Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Tao Lin reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club May 5, 2012

Readings | Tao Lin



Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko | Interviews | Readings



Monday, August 20, 2012

Talking with Joseph Lease Reading from Broken World

Interviews | Joseph Lease



Sunday, August 19, 2012

Michael Sevens on the everyday in Ulysses’ Calypso

James Joyce | Michael Stevens | Talks



Saturday, August 18, 2012

Robert Spoo on © & Ulysses

James Joyce | Robert Spoo | Talks



Friday, August 17, 2012

Robert Creeley One of his best readings At the SF State Poetry Center July 16, 1959 Thanks to Maxine Chernoff for pointing this out ...

Readings | Robert Creeley



Thursday, August 16, 2012

Reviewing translations with Arne Bellstorf , Ruth Franklin Julya Rabinowich & Lorin Stein (moderated by Eric Banks & Susan Bernofsky...

Panel | translation



Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Lyn Hejinian reads The Book of A Thousand Eyes at City Lights

Lyn Hejinian | Readings



Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Free Pussy Riot now! Prosecutor demands 3 years for Pussy Riot Yekaterina Samutsevich’s closing statement Pussy Riot compares Putin...

links



Monday, August 13, 2012

( photo by Geof Huth [ nb: not my basement]) On Bloomsday, a day in which I gave not one but four separate readings (albeit one a homop...

Flood | Personal



Sunday, August 12, 2012

Micah Ballard & Julian Talamantez Brolaski (photos by David Highsmith & Alan Bernheimer) Micah Ballard & Julian Talamantez Brolaski...

Julian Talamantez Brolaski | Micah Ballard | Readings



Saturday, August 11, 2012

No title

George RR Martin | Interviews



Friday, August 10, 2012

Mathew Timmons reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club May 5, 2012

Mathew Timmons | Readings



Thursday, August 09, 2012

Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff on Public Access Poetry August 4, 1977

Harris Schiff | Readings | Ted Berrigan



Wednesday, August 08, 2012

“ I’m strictly a formalist ” – Ted Berrigan reading & talking with Kit Robinson & Lyn Hejinian August 11, 1978

Interviews | Readings | Ted Berrigan



Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Syrian sculptor Wael Kaston killed by torture U of New Orleans sacks Bill Lavender , potentially shutting down press & low-rez MFA pro...

links | Passings



Monday, August 06, 2012

My reading in Long Beach April 16 of this year Introduction by Bill Mohr

Personal | Readings



Sunday, August 05, 2012

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Coming Events | Personal



Saturday, August 04, 2012

Jena Osman reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club May 19, 2012

Jena Osman | Readings



Friday, August 03, 2012

No title

Anthony Braxton | Interviews | Jazz



Thursday, August 02, 2012

Gary Snyder, Phil Whalen, Lew Welch Lew Welch reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State November 9, 1959 Ring of Bone is bac...

Lew Welch | Readings



Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Jack Spicer reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco April 11, 1957

Jack Spicer | Readings



Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Chris Marker 1921 – 2012

Film | passing



Monday, July 30, 2012

Laura ( Riding) Jackson reading for WTTB Radio (Vero Beach), 1972 Thanks to the Woodberry Poetry Room @ Harvard

Readings | Talks



Sunday, July 29, 2012

William Bronk reading at Harvard 1956 Talking with William Bronk Two additional readings can be found @ PennSound Thanks to the Wo...

Interviews | Readings | William Bronk



Saturday, July 28, 2012

Sun Ra: Brother from Another Planet

Creatures from Outer Space | Jazz | Sun Ra



Friday, July 27, 2012

Received (not always recently) Books (Poetry) Lidija Dimkovska , pH Neutral History, translated from the Macedonian by...

Recently Received



Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Life of Alden Van Buskirk Jordon Davis on Spring and All The Bowery Poetry Club to close The influence of Buddhism on the Amer...

links | Passings



Wednesday, July 25, 2012

There is something of the awfulness of an Ed Wood film about James Franco’s Hart Crane biopic, The Broken Tower , except that there’s not...

Film | Hart Crane | School of Quietude



Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Mónica de la Torre reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club May 19, 2012 & on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation...

Interviews | Mónica de la Torre | Readings



Monday, July 23, 2012

Alexander Cockburn 1941 -- 2012

Alexander Cockburn | passing | Talks



Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Charlie Parker Story

Charlie Parker | Jazz



Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Miles Davis Story

Jazz | Miles Davis



Friday, July 20, 2012

Nathaniel Mackey on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation

Interviews | Nathaniel Mackey | Readings



Thursday, July 19, 2012

Erín Moure on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation

Erín Moure | Interviews | Readings



Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Greg Brown 1950 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Matvei Yankelevich on Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening Reading & Conversation Yankelevich’s open letter to Marjorie Perloff on...

Interviews | Matvei Yankelevich | Readings



Monday, July 16, 2012

Charles Bernstein reading December 1977 on Public Access Poetry

Charles Bernstein | Readings



Sunday, July 15, 2012

Talking with Kathy Acker , SUNY Buffalo 1995

Interviews | Kathy Acker | Readings



Saturday, July 14, 2012

Kristin Prevallet & Michael Heller reading at the Poetry Project March 28

Kristin Prevallet | Michael Heller | Readings



Friday, July 13, 2012

Brandon Downing & Aaron Kunin reading at the Poetry Project February 15

Aaron Kunin | Brandon Downing | Readings



Thursday, July 12, 2012

A Jimmy Schuyler feature @ Jacket2 Barrett Watten: An Annotated History of Chance Seth Abramson: the poetry wars The battle lines ...

links



Wednesday, July 11, 2012

James Harvey 1966 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Bruce Covey & Amy King reading at the Poetry Project March 14

Amy King | Bruce Covey | Readings



Monday, July 09, 2012

David Henderson & Ammiel Alcalay reading at the Poetry Project March 21

Ammiel Alcalay | David Henderson | Readings



Monday, July 09, 2012

A brief history of John Baldessari My favorite Baldessari:

John Baldessari | Visual Arts



Sunday, July 08, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Bernadette Mayer & Lewis Warsh on Public Access Poetry April 26, 1978 With thank...

Bernadette Mayer | Lewis Warsh | Readings



Saturday, July 07, 2012

Hiren Battacharyya 1932 – 2012

passing



Friday, July 06, 2012

Because I was going to read in Antwerp , I thought maybe I should read Roberto Bolaño’s novel of the same name. I should have known that B...

Roberto Bolaño



Thursday, July 05, 2012

Kevin Killian’s keynote at the NPF’s Poetry & Poetics of the ‘80s conference: “Activism, Gay Poetry, & AIDS in the 1980s”

history | Kevin Killian | San Francisco | social history | Talks



Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Wendell Berry delivers the 2012 NEH Jefferson Lecture: “ It All Turns on Affection ” Berry begins talking @ 11:25

Talks | Wendell Berry



Tuesday, July 03, 2012

I don’t normally go out of my way to make pitches for KickStarter campaigns – a link in a long list is about as fancy as I get – but I ha...

Jazz | John Coltrane | Music | ROVA



Monday, July 02, 2012

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Márcio -André, Cazas , Dulcinéia Catadora , São Paulo, Brazil, 2011 Stacy Doris, Fl...

Recently Received



Sunday, July 01, 2012

An oral history of Charles Olson with Ammiel Alcalay Peter Anastas Charles Stein Michael Rumaker Ingeborg Lauterstein Edward Sande...

Charles Olson | Panel



Saturday, June 30, 2012

Sunni Patterson reading in Dayton, OH , 2009

Readings | Sunni Patterson



Friday, June 29, 2012

Jeff with his wife, Shirley Ancheta Jeff Tagami 1954 – 2012

passing



Thursday, June 28, 2012

Slavoj Žižek: What does Europe Want?

Europe | Slavoj Žižek | Talks



Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Recording Angel Frank Sherlock , Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Bob Perelman join Michelle Taransky in discussing my poem “ You ” ...

Panel | Personal



Tuesday, June 26, 2012

An international poetry festival is a little like one of those lab experiments that science students are forced to perform. Take a creature...

history | language | Other traditions | translation



Monday, June 25, 2012

Book burning: fan fiction Barry Schwabsky on the return of Denise Riley Talking with Sina Queyras Queyras: the ethics of the nega...

links | Passings



Sunday, June 24, 2012

Wandering in to the Submarine Warehouse in Rotterdam, I found this: carillon master Frank Steijns and a colleague on organ performin...

Carillon | John Cage | Personal



Saturday, June 23, 2012

A reading with Najwan Darwish , Karen Solie & Tomaž Šalamun

Karen Solie | Najwan Darwish | Readings | Tomaz Salamun



Friday, June 22, 2012

This note ran as an item in the Poetry International Festival blog on June 7: The Middle Ron Silliman’s lifelong poetics of the incompl...

indeterminacy



Thursday, June 21, 2012

Marije Langelaar , Dolores Dorantes , K. Satchidanandan read in Rotterdam ( Dorantes is virtual due to ass-backward US immigration law...

Dolores Dorantes | K Satchidanandan | Marije Langelaar | Readings



Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Crawling Poet , Composer , Critic , Performer Samuel Vriezen

Music | Samuel Vriezen



Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A reading in many languages The opening event of the 43 rd Poetry International Festival with B. Zwaal , Chus Pato , Hédi Kaddour , ...

Readings



Monday, June 18, 2012

I read with Chus Pato & Inuo Taguchi

Chus Pato | Inuo Taguchi | Personal | Readings



Sunday, June 17, 2012

A reading in Rotterdam of Wharf Hypothesis

Personae | Readings



Saturday, June 16, 2012

Today in Rotterdam 6:45 PM in the Small Auditorium Rotterdam City Theater Reading: Vahe Arsen , Marije Langelaar , Ron Silliman ...

Events | Rotterdam



Friday, June 15, 2012

Today in Antwerp Felix Poetry Festival 8:00 PM at the Felix Warehouse , Antwerp Ron Silliman (USA) Chus Pato (Spain) Jan Lau...

Antwerp | Festival



Thursday, June 14, 2012

Today in Rotterdam 7:00 PM in the Foyer Rotterdam City Theater I’m interviewed (in English) by Samuel Vriezen 8:00 PM Main Audit...

Events | Rotterdam



Wednesday, June 13, 2012

June 14 & 15 in Antwerp, Belgium Felix Poetry Festival at the Felix Warehouse, Antwerp ● Thursday, June 14, 8:00 PM Belgian poe...

Antwerp | Events | Festival



Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Today in Rotterdam 2:30 PM @ Tsjechov & Co (The Chekov Café) A Meeting of Poets Rotterdam & the World B. Zwaal , Chus Pato , Hédi...

Events | Festival | Rotterdam



Monday, June 11, 2012

This week in the Netherlands June 12-17, Rotterdam City Theatre   43rd Poetry International Festival Rotterdam Sascha Aurora Ak...

Festival | Rotterdam | translation



Sunday, June 10, 2012

Debrah Morkun reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2012

Debrah Morkun | Readings



Saturday, June 09, 2012

Catherine Wagner reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2012 Some other readings by Catherine Wagner

Catherine Wagner | Readings



Friday, June 08, 2012

Natasha Trethewey is the new US Poet Laureate

Natasha Trethewey | Poet Laureate



Thursday, June 07, 2012

Thom Donovan reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2011

Readings | Thom Donovan



Wednesday, June 06, 2012

cris cheek reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2011

cris cheek | Readings



Tuesday, June 05, 2012

John Coletti reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2010

John Coletti | Readings



Monday, June 04, 2012

Arlo Quint reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2010

Arlo Quint | Readings



Sunday, June 03, 2012

Brandon Brown reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2009

Brandon Brown | Readings



Saturday, June 02, 2012

Stephanie Young reading in the Cy Press Reading Series Cincinnati, 2009

Readings | Stephanie Young



Friday, June 01, 2012

Ted Berrigan & Anne Waldman: Memorial Day The Paris Review & the CIA Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘The University Poem’ Shakespeare in Indi...

links | Passings



Thursday, May 31, 2012

On numerous occasions, I’ve made the point that the recognition of community – starting implicitly with the Black Mountain poets & the Ne...

CAConrad | community | Philadelphia | post-avant | Schools of poetry



Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Wise Guys Meet in La Jolla Clockwise from RS at rear of table: Rae Armantrout, John Granger, Ted Pearson, Dustin Leavitt (photo by TC Ma...

community | Conceptual poetics | Flarf | history | Language Poetry | Schools of poetry



Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Returning to the Bay Area after a gap of a few years away & just under 17 since I moved to Chester County, PA, is a complex, often bittersw...

community | Los Angeles | New American Poetry | Schools of poetry | William Mohr



Monday, May 28, 2012

No title

Neil Gaiman | Talks



Sunday, May 27, 2012

Adonis reading @ the 92 nd Street Y October 25, 2010 Khaled Mattawa translating

Adonis | Readings



Saturday, May 26, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Bob Perelman: The Trouble with Community From Poetry Communities & Individual Talent ...

Bob Perelman | community | Talks



Friday, May 25, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Communities of Print Culture with Sarah Stone, Josh Schneiderman & Kaplan Harris mode...

community | Panel | Talks



Thursday, May 24, 2012

Paul Fussell 1924 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Complicating Post-War Reputations with Hannah Baker Saltmarsh, Piotr Gwiazda , Stefan...

community | Panel | Talks



Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Othering Self-Construction with Juliana Leslie, John Paetsch & Maude Emerson moderat...

community | Panel | Talks



Monday, May 21, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Resisting Communities with Jessyka Finley, Tom Fisher & Joshua Kotin moderated by Cha...

community | Panel | Talks



Sunday, May 20, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Revising Historical Trajectories with Kathy Lou Schultz, Andrea Actis & Rebecca Gaydo...

community | Panel | Talks



Saturday, May 19, 2012

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ ">Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. The Theory & Practice of Community with Adeena Karas...

community | Panel | Talks



Friday, May 18, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. On Poetry Communities with Maria Damon, Craig Dworkin, Brian Reed & Steven Yao, modera...

community | Panel | Talks



Thursday, May 17, 2012

Lev Rubinstein leads a writers’ march in Moscow Rubinstein: The cosmonauts have landed Ilya Kutik’s Dreams—the--Interlinears A ...

links | Passings



Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Carlos Fuentes 1928 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Michael Tilson Thomas on Music & Emotion Through Time

Michael Tilson Thomas | Music | Talks



Monday, May 14, 2012

Donald “ Duck ” Dunn 1941 – 2012

passing



Sunday, May 13, 2012

Chinua Achebe talking with K . Anthony Appiah @ the 92 nd Street Y

Chinua Achebe | Interviews



Saturday, May 12, 2012

John Ashbery reading @ the 92 nd Street Y in 1952

John Ashbery | Readings



Friday, May 11, 2012

Talking with César Vallejo Setting Stein’s wartime record straight Why Afghan women risk death to write poetry Poetry of the Tal...

links | Passings



Thursday, May 10, 2012

Reading from my poem , Revelator , in Berkeley

Personal | Readings



Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Maurice Sendak 1928 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Andrew Suknaski 1942 – 2012

passing



Monday, May 07, 2012

Correspondence performed: Elizabeth Bishop & Robert Lowell , @ the 92 nd Street Y May 24 2010

correspondence | Elizabeth Bishop | Performance | Robert Lowell



Sunday, May 06, 2012

Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading @ the 92 nd Street Y

Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Readings



Saturday, May 05, 2012

Bei Dao reading @ the 92 nd Street Y translated by Eliot Weinberger

Bei Dao | Readings



Friday, May 04, 2012

Tracy K Smith on Studio 360

Interviews | Tracy K Smith



Thursday, May 03, 2012

This Friday in Chicago Ron Silliman is reading @ 6:00 PM at the Poetry Foundation 61 W. Superior Street Free reservations here or...

Events | Personal



Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Stacy Doris reading @ the Bowery Poetry Club March 13, 2010 Evening Will Come’s special tribute collection to Stacy, edited by Layni...

Readings | Stacy Doris



Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Norman Fischer reading @ Kelly Writers House

Norman Fischer | Readings



Monday, April 30, 2012

Hannah Weiner reading with the assistance of Sharron Mattlin and Peggy De Coursey Public Access Poetry December 29, 1977

Hannah Weiner | Readings



Sunday, April 29, 2012

With Paul Celan into the 21 st Century with Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte

Nicole Peyrafitte | Paul Celan | Pierre Joris | Readings



Saturday, April 28, 2012

No title

Readings | Roberto Tejadas | Susan Howe



Friday, April 27, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Joan Retallack talking at the first Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture @ Small Press ...

Joan Retallack | Talks



Thursday, April 26, 2012

Talking with Geoffrey Gatza about the NEA assault on small presses Ai Weiwei: censorship cannot defeat the internet Ai Weiwei’s s...

links | Passings



Wednesday, April 25, 2012

No title

Lucy Harvest Clarke | Readings



Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Marcus Slease reading in the Open Ealing reading seri es London, February 2012

Marcus Slease | Readings



Monday, April 23, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Jerome Rothenberg @ 80 being the first of four videos from the celebration @ CUNY Dec...

Events | Jerome Rothenberg



Sunday, April 22, 2012

Jamie Kazay @ Bonk! Racine, WI – January 2012

Jamie Kazay | Readings



Saturday, April 21, 2012

Michael Palmer reading at Harvard

Michael Palmer | Readings



Friday, April 20, 2012

Levon Helm 1940 - 2012

passing



Thursday, April 19, 2012

Tom Pickard & Hillary Gravendyk reading at UC Berkeley

Hillary Gravendyk | Readings | Tom Pickard



Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Today in La Jolla at the UC San Diego Visual Arts Facility Performance Space Ron Silliman will read 4:30 – 6:30 PM

Events | Personal | Readings



Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Remembering my mother Patricia Tansley Silliman to whom I’ve thought to talk thousands of times in the year since she died

Personal



Monday, April 16, 2012

Christine Brooke - Rose 1923 – 2012

passing



Sunday, April 15, 2012

Tomorrow in Long Beach at the Cal State University Student Union Auditorium photo by Pearl Pirie Ron Silliman will read at 2:00 P...

Events | Personal | Readings



Saturday, April 14, 2012

Guillermo Fernández 1933 ? – 2012

passing



Friday, April 13, 2012

Lucy Harvest Clarke & Katerina Kashchavtseva reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

collaborations | Katerina Kashchavtseva | Lucy Harvest Clarke | Readings



Thursday, April 12, 2012

Reed Whittemore 1919 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, April 11, 2012

No title

Allen Ginsberg | Interviews



Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Larry Sawyer reads @ Bon k! Racine, WI – December 2011

Larry Sawyer | Readings



Monday, April 09, 2012

Tomorrow in Berkeley at the University of California photo by Arielle Brousse Ron Silliman will read in 315 Wheeler Hall (The Ma...

Events | Personal | Readings



Sunday, April 08, 2012

Timothy Yu @ Bonk! Racine, WI – January 2012

Readings | Timothy Yu



Saturday, April 07, 2012

Tomorrow in San Francisco at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis photo by Arielle Brousse Ron Silliman in conversation with...

Events | Interviews | Personal



Friday, April 06, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Thursday, April 05, 2012

by Anna Korintz Brenda Iijima’s Untimely Death Is Driven Out Beyond the Horizon Negotiating the social bond of poetry A new portr...

links | Passings



Wednesday, April 04, 2012

California , here we come   Photo by Arielle Brousse Ron Silliman is reading or talking at the following locations over the ...

Events | Interviews | Personal | Readings



Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Sean Bonney & Keston Sutherland reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

collaborations | Keston Sutherland | Readings | Sean Bonney



Monday, April 02, 2012

Darrell Gray reading in 1983 Part 2 is here

Darrell Gray | Readings



Sunday, April 01, 2012

No title

National Poetry Month



Saturday, March 31, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. My reading for the Kelly Writers House Fellows program March 19, 2012

Personal | Readings



Friday, March 30, 2012

The Beat Hotel , which begins a weeklong run at Cinema Village in New York tonight, is a charming, if imperfectly intimate, documentary a...

Beat Poetry | Film



Thursday, March 29, 2012

Adrienne Rich 1929 – 2012 Clayton Eshleman

passing



Thursday, March 29, 2012

Earl Scruggs 1924 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Corina Copp & Miguel Gutierrez reading @ the Poetry Project

Corina Copp | Miguel Gutierrez | Readings



Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Jay Macpherson 1931 – 2012

passing



Monday, March 26, 2012

Puzzlement is often a feature of my reaction to new work that is both powerful & mysterious: I want to know why I’m having such a strong r...

Corina Copp



Sunday, March 25, 2012

Install the Flash plugin to watch this video. Al Filreis & I have a chat at Kelly Writers House , March 20, 2012

Interviews | Personal



Saturday, March 24, 2012

Sound poetry by Satu Kaikkonen & Karri Kokko from the 2011 Text Festival , Bury Parish Church Bury, Lancashire April 30, 2011 ( w...

Karri Kokko | Readings | Satu Kaikkonen | Sound poetry



Friday, March 23, 2012

Tonino Guerra 1920 – 2012

passing



Thursday, March 22, 2012

China arrests poet-blogger Tsering Woeser Woeser: Fire on the Mountain Kyung- sook Shin wins the Man Asia prize & uses the occa...

links | Passings



Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Bruce Springsteen speaks @ SXSW

Bruce Springsteen | Talks



Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Today at 10:30 AM at The University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia (Seating is limited – Attendance is by RSVP only *...

Personal



Monday, March 19, 2012

Today at 6:30 PM at The University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia (Seating is limited – Attendance is by RSVP only) ...

Personal



Sunday, March 18, 2012

No title

Film | Jack Kerouac



Saturday, March 17, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Friday, March 16, 2012

The Kelly Writers House Fellowship March 19 & 20 at The University of Pennsylvania 3805 Locust Walk Philadelphia Monday, March ...

Personal



Thursday, March 15, 2012

Leonard J . Cirino 1943 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Why would a poet who writes 1,000-page poems read haiku? Or pay heed to any manner of minimalism, for that matter? That’s a legitimate...

haiku | Jim Kacian | john martone | Minimalism



Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Today in Windsor Ontario At the University of Windsor CAW Centre Boardroom , 2 nd Floor 5:30 PM Language-Centered Poetry & Grammar...

Personal



Monday, March 12, 2012

Irving Layton was born 100 years ago today

Canadian Poetry | Irving Layton



Sunday, March 11, 2012

From: BestHealthDegrees.com

Nuclear meltdown



Saturday, March 10, 2012

Today in Ottawa & at 2:00 PM Workshop on blogging, poetry & new media

Personal



Friday, March 09, 2012

Jim Hazard 1936 – 2012

passing



Thursday, March 08, 2012

Kenley Collins did not win for this outfit last week , tho she should have On January 23 rd I wrote about Project Runway All-Stars: ...

Project Runway



Wednesday, March 07, 2012

On to Ontario Saturday, March 10 At Gallery 101 301½ Bank Street Ottawa 2:00 PM Workshop on blogging, poetry & new media 8:00 ...

Personal



Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Peter Jaeger & Marcus Slease reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

collaborations | Marcus Slease | Peter Jaeger | Readings



Monday, March 05, 2012

No title

Hoa Nguyen | Jesse Seldess | Readings



Sunday, March 04, 2012

No title

Charles Bernstein | Ian Probstein | Interviews | translation



Saturday, March 03, 2012

No title

Clark Coolidge | Filip Marniovich | Readings



Friday, March 02, 2012

This year’s recipient of the Oscar for best animated short-subject

Animation | Film | vispo



Thursday, March 01, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Jeff Hilson & Philip Terry reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

collaborations | Jeff Hilson | Philip Terry | Readings



Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks reading for The Camarade Project II London, February 2012

Chris McCabe | collaborations | Readings | Tom Jenks



Monday, February 27, 2012

Dead Poets Society Hamza Kashgari deported to Saudi Arabia where he faces death for his writings Villanova cancels Tim Miller at...

links | Passings



Sunday, February 26, 2012

A reading for Gil Ott Today 3:00-4:30 PM Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Not quite five years ag...

Gil Ott | Readings



Saturday, February 25, 2012

No title

Beat Poetry



Friday, February 24, 2012

Ai Weiwei: Ordos 100

Ai Weiwei | Architecture | Film



Thursday, February 23, 2012

Obscene - A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove... by microcinema Barney Rosset 1922 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 23, 2012

John Kliphan 1933 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Poetry After the White House Poetry Jam with Steven Zultanski , Sandra Simonds , Rod Smith

Talks



Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Page Ackerson- Kiely , My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer , Ahsahta Press, Boise, 2012 ...

Recently Received



Monday, February 20, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Sunday, February 19, 2012

Susan Howe & David Grubbs: Frolic Architecture

Performance



Saturday, February 18, 2012

No title

Natasha Trethewey | Talks



Friday, February 17, 2012

Fred Moramarco 1938 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 16, 2012

Anna Moschovakis reading

Anna Moschovakis | Readings



Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Samuel Beckett’s Not I with Billie Whitelaw

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Tuesday, February 14, 2012

No title

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Monday, February 13, 2012

Amin Khan What does surrealism tell us now? It’s been nearly 140 years since Rimbaud stopped writing, but I was reading Amin Khan’s Visio...

Amin Khan | surrealism | translation



Sunday, February 12, 2012

No title

Ariana Reines | James Copeland | Readings



Saturday, February 11, 2012

Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape with John Hurt

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Friday, February 10, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Thursday, February 09, 2012

No title

Cole Swensen | Rachel Beck | Readings



Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Recently Received Books (Poetry) William Allegrezza , Densities, Apparitions , Otoliths, Rockhampton, Australia, 2011 K...

Recently Received



Tuesday, February 07, 2012

No title

Jacqueline Waters | John Coletti | Readings



Monday, February 06, 2012

No title

David Larsen | Kathleen Fraser | Readings



Sunday, February 05, 2012

My reading from Bury Parish Church Bury, Lancashire April 30, 2011 ( with thanks to Geof Huth & the Text Festival)

Personal | Readings



Saturday, February 04, 2012

John Ashbery & Ron Padgett discuss Frank O’Hara

Frank O'Hara | Panel



Friday, February 03, 2012

Mike Kelley 1954 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 02, 2012

Morgan Lucas Schuldt 1978 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 02, 2012

Stacy Doris 1962 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 02, 2012

Wisława Szymborska 1923 – 2012

passing



Thursday, February 02, 2012

Dorothea Tanning 1910 – 2012

passing



Wednesday, February 01, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Sir Geoffrey Hill The edited version of Rae Armantrout on PBS Newshour Poet-in-residence in the newsroom: Tracy K. Smith When ...

links | Passings



Monday, January 30, 2012

Sailor, soldier, father, friend , obsessive reader of Pogo: Perspectives on George Oppen with Linda Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Patri...

George Oppen | Panel



Sunday, January 29, 2012

No title

Rae Armantrout | Readings



Saturday, January 28, 2012

Rae Armantrout being interviewed for PBS Newshour

Interviews | Rae Armantrout | TV



Friday, January 27, 2012

Anselm Berrigan & David Trinidad read at The Poetry Project

Anselm Berrigan | David Trinidad | Readings



Thursday, January 26, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Robert Nelson 1930 – 2012

passing



Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Samuel Beckett’s Film with Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton | Film | Samuel Beckett



Monday, January 23, 2012

It’s a man’s world: Austin (in bowler),Mondo, Jerell & Michael in the workroom Project Runway: All Stars is interesting enough on the face ...

Project Runway | TV



Sunday, January 22, 2012

No title

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Saturday, January 21, 2012

Etta James 1938 – 2012

passing



Friday, January 20, 2012

Johnny Otis 1921 – 2012

passing



Thursday, January 19, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Wednesday, January 18, 2012

No title

censorship | Stop SOPA



Tuesday, January 17, 2012

2012 MLA Offsite Reading With Greg Bern, Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover, Julia Bloch, Amaranth Borsuk , Rebecca Brown, Don Mee Choi, ...

MLA | Readings



Monday, January 16, 2012

A celebration of the poetry & criticism of Rachel Blau DuPlessis With Bob Perelman , Libbie Rifkin , Eric Keenaghan , Ron Silliman , ...

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings | Talks



Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ra úl Zurita , talking with Forrest Gander (with thanks to the Poetry Foundation)

Interviews | Raúl Zurita



Saturday, January 14, 2012

No title

Samuel Beckett | Theater



Friday, January 13, 2012

A gathering in New Jersey for the journal Others in 1916. Alfred Kreymborg, front row, second from the left, in front of Marcel Duchamp &...

Alfred Kreymborg | Minimalism | political poetry | Schools of poetry



Thursday, January 12, 2012

Geof Huth (rhymes with truth) reading in St. Catharine’s, Ontario October 1

Geof Huth | Readings



Wednesday, January 11, 2012

NF Huth reading in St. Catharine’s, Ontario October 1

NF Huth | Readings



Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Talking with Allen Ginsberg (with thanks to BBC2, The Allen Ginsberg Project & Issa’s Untidy Hut)

Allen Ginsberg | Interviews



Monday, January 09, 2012

Clayton Eshleman reads Aimé Césaire

Aimé Césaire | Clayton Eshleman | Readings | translation



Sunday, January 08, 2012

Ange Mlinko reading at Vill anova

Ange Mlinko | Readings



Saturday, January 07, 2012

Judith Goldman at Berkeley

Judith Goldman | Readings



Friday, January 06, 2012

It was literally 40 years ago that I & the Selective Service came to an agreement that I should perform my alternative service obligation ...

Personal



Thursday, January 05, 2012

Tracie Morris talking with Steve Cannon

Steve Cannon | Tracie Morris



Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Eleanor Ross Taylor 1920 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Best viewed full-screen

Bill Luoma | Readings



Monday, January 02, 2012

Homage to Charles Bernstein William Allegrezza: Introduction to The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein Occupy Poetics: You can’t ev...

links | Passings



Sunday, January 01, 2012

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Saturday, December 31, 2011

Carol Novack 1948 – 2011

passing



Friday, December 30, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Eric Baus , Scared Text , Center for Literary Publishing, Fort Collins, CO, 2011 Aimé Césaire, S...

Recently Received



Thursday, December 29, 2011

Helen Frankenthaler 1928 – 2011

passing



Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Sam Rivers 1923 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Steve Reich’s Piano Phase performed as a solo by Rob Kovacs , Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, 28 March 2004 A version by Pete...

Music | Steve Reich



Monday, December 26, 2011

Barrett Watten reading Intro by Carine Daly Some context via Jacket2

Barrett Watten | Readings



Sunday, December 25, 2011

Neil deGrasse Tyson interviewed by Stephen Colbert

Interviews | Neil deGrasse Tyson | science fiction



Saturday, December 24, 2011

( photo by Jude Ornstein) Steve Benson: 3 works A long reading in two sets at EyeMediae , Ann Arbor, mid- 80s (Published in Blue Boo...

Readings | Steve Benson



Friday, December 23, 2011

John Chamberlain 1927 – 2011

passing



Thursday, December 22, 2011

These are the books published in 2011 that expanded, deepened, &/or transformed my reading, at least to date. I’m always playing catch-up a...

Best Books



Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Editing articulates value by picking winners: a mass grave at Wounded Knee Aaron Belz asked for my list of the “top 10 books of 2011” for ...

anthologies



Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Doug Lang & I read at The Poetry Project

Doug Lang | Personal | Readings



Monday, December 19, 2011

V á clav Havel 1936 – 2011

passing



Sunday, December 18, 2011

Jean Day at Berkeley

Jean Day | Readings



Saturday, December 17, 2011

Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man

Bookstores | George Whitman | video



Friday, December 16, 2011

George Whitman, right, with Sylvia Beach Whitman & American tourist at Shakespeare & Co. Books, Paris George Whitman 1913 – 2011

passing



Friday, December 16, 2011

Russell Hoban 1925 – 2011

passing



Thursday, December 15, 2011

Talking with Rachel Blau DuPlessis @ Ryerson University, Toronto (Margaret Christakos is the interlocutor) plus 17 pieces for (& by) R...

Interviews | Rachel Blau DuPlessis



Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Happy Birthday , Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Readings



Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Phil Hall's Killdeer wins the Governor General’s Award Alan Davies: I think I understand Emma Bee Bernstein Rita Dove responds to He...

links | Passings



Monday, December 12, 2011

The Grand Piano at Berkeley with (left to right) Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Kit Robinson, Rae Armantrout, Barrett Watten, Tom Mande...

Grand Piano | Readings



Sunday, December 11, 2011

With thanks to El tigre de Cib è ria Happy 80 th birthday , Jerome Rothenberg !

Jerome Rothenberg | Readings



Saturday, December 10, 2011

E.G. Burrows 1917 – 2011

passing



Friday, December 09, 2011

Robert Hass reading Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz | Readings | Robert Hass | translation



Thursday, December 08, 2011

Hubert Sumlin 1931 – 2011

Music | passing



Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Recently Received Books (Poetry) Scot Abels , Rambo Goes to Idaho , BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, NY, 2011 Amanda Ackerman, I Fell in ...

Recently Received



Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Today in Philadelphia Laura Neuman & Ron Silliman Milano’s Pizza 127 South 10 th Street (poetry on the second floor) Pizza @ 6 , ...

Events



Monday, December 05, 2011

Christopher Logue 1926 – 2011

passing



Monday, December 05, 2011

Peter Reading 1946 – 2011

passing



Sunday, December 04, 2011

Tuesday in Philadelphia Laura Neuman & Ron Silliman Milano’s Pizza 127 South 10 th Street (poetry on the second floor) Pizza @ 6 ...

Events



Saturday, December 03, 2011

Christa Wolf 1929 – 2011 The Author’s Dimension: Selected Essays

passing



Friday, December 02, 2011

Lyrae Van Clief - Stefanon & Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali | Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon | Readings | Talks



Thursday, December 01, 2011

Time talks to John Ashbery

Interviews | John Ashbery



Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Carla Harryman reading

Carla Harryman | Readings



Tuesday, November 29, 2011

No title

Drew Gardner | Readings



Monday, November 28, 2011

Maria Damon: meshwords Rae Armantrout addresses doctors on cancer ( part one) ( part two) ( part three) Jordan Davis on Bill Luom...

links | Passings



Sunday, November 27, 2011

David Shapiro

David Shapiro | Readings



Saturday, November 26, 2011

Ruth Stone 1915 – 2011

passing



Saturday, November 26, 2011

Louis McKee   1951 – 2011

passing



Friday, November 25, 2011

You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left

Coming Events



Thursday, November 24, 2011

Simon J. Ortiz

Readings | Simon J Ortiz



Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Theodore Enslin 1925 – 2011

passing



Tuesday, November 22, 2011

No title

Aracelis Girmay | Nikky Finney | Readings



Monday, November 21, 2011

The National Book Award presentations

Jesmyn Ward | Nikky Finney | Prizes | Stephen Greenblatt



Sunday, November 20, 2011

The ammo may differ but it’s the thought that counts (with thanks to Steve Vincent)

Current Events | Politics



Sunday, November 20, 2011

Today in San Francisco! Photo © Lawrence Schwartzwald . All rights reserved . The Grand Piano A performance & discussion, with Rae Ar...

Events | The Grand Piano



Saturday, November 19, 2011

Ruslan Akhtakhanov   1953 – 2011

passing



Friday, November 18, 2011

Double-click on image for larger version

Events | Grand Piano



Thursday, November 17, 2011

(Paul with Lee Byrd, Memphis, 1967 – Photo by Bobby Byrd) Paul Blackburn: 2 readings SUNY Cortland, April 1, 1971 ( part 1) ( part ...

Paul Blackburn | Readings



Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Nathaniel Mackey reading at Berkeley February 7, 2008

Nathaniel Mackey | Readings



Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Four Horsemen bpNichol

bpNichol | Four Horsemen | Sound poetry



Monday, November 14, 2011

Tonight! Ron Silliman @ Cin é Athens, Georgia 7:30 PM

Events | Personal



Sunday, November 13, 2011

No title

Readings | Virginia Woolf



Saturday, November 12, 2011

A big fan of Carsten Nicolai

Carsten Nicolai | Installation | Visual Arts



Friday, November 11, 2011

Ivan Martin Jirous "Magor" 1944 – 2011

passing



Thursday, November 10, 2011

Photo © Lawrence Schwartzwald . All rights reserved . The Grand Piano 2 Bay Area events Friday, November 18 @ UC Berkeley 6:30 pm,...

Events | The Grand Piano



Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Jacket2’s Stephen Ratcliffe feature Frances Jaffer: Why HOW(ever) Frances Jaffer’s obit (1999) First Occupy fatality: Oklahoma stre...

links | Passings



Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Monday, November 14 Ron Silliman @ Cin é Athens, Georgia 7:30 PM

Events | Personal



Monday, November 07, 2011

Ann Lauterbach reading at Berkeley

Ann Lauterbach | Readings



Sunday, November 06, 2011

Occupy Oakland takes to the road , November 2

Current Events | Occupy



Saturday, November 05, 2011

Madeline Gleason reading at the Poetry Center San Francisco State November 14, 1956