VISPO

Rita Dove’s Trayvon, Redux

Fanny Howe: Yellow Goblins

Amy King on Po-Biz --Part 2 takes on Perloff’s elitism

Perloff on Allen Ginsberg

Celebrating Anselm Hollo

Steve Benson As Is

Zeyar Lynn:
innovative poetics in Burma

Lawrence Upton’sCommentaries on Bob Cobbing

Rae Armantrout on Fanny Howe

One of the great mags of the ‘90s
was Big Allis

Remembering Ruth Stone

Ashbery’s Pasternak(part one) (part two)

Jed Rasula on Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein on Charles Reznikoff

Blake’s cottage is for sale

Beckett mss. for Murphy
sells for ₤962,500

The the

5 forms of obsolete paper

Marilyn Nelson on Badger Clark

Aram Saroyan on Robert Duncan’s The HD Book

The NY Times discovers chap books

Ugly Duckling’s free digital proofs program

The Quantum of Kerouac

David Charbonneau:Amiri Baraka’s
‘thinking’s gone rancid’

Emily Warn:
The King and the Seer

Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari

The job of a poetry magazine

A map tracking
100,000 Poets for Change
events in over 100 countries
& the opportunity to add yours

Katie Heim’s
If My Vagina was a Gun
not a big hit with Texas GOP

A reading list of world lit – by country

Borges & Xul Solar

Iquo Eke’s Symphony of Becoming

Apple guilty of e-book price-fixing

B&N CEO resigns

The price of Amazon

Reasons to link to Amazon

Amazon warehousesworse than coal mines

Authors should engage
with indie booksellers

Kay Ryan: Salvations

Eric Wayne Dickey’s
Forgive Me, Tiny Robots

Frank O’Hara’s lessons for being gay

Amanda Byrnes:
Selfie in a Convex Mirror

A palindrome
17,826 words long

Librarian wanted
to look after the Queen’s125,000 books
(Deadline to apply: July 22)

Arthur Sze on Walt Whitman

David Rakoff’s
last project,
a verse novel in
anapestic tetrameter,
is published

Merrill Gilfillan in the Midwest

Marilyn Chin on Bessie Smith

Danny Snelson
on the value of archives

How the great train robber
became a writer

While other bookstores close,Diesel expands

The secret to a successful  bookstore?
The smell of chocolate!

Tope Folarin
wins the Caine Prize
for African Writing

Random Penguin is born!

Kent Johnson’s Into the Heat-Forged Air

David Raikes,
WW2 bomber poet,
finally laid to rest

Charles Harper Webb on Richard Garcia

Neruda’s remains
to be tested in Spain

Who wrote this?
Neruda or Taylor Swift?

Lorca in Bushwick

From Canterbury this poem wends

Remembering Wislawa Szymborska

The Michael Hoffman effect

Angela Merkel
gets shitstorm into the German dictionary

Celebrity poets

Female writers pick their favorite books

A boom in poetry
(1913)

Edward Hirsch on William Carlos Williams

Donald Wellman on Peter O’Leary

5 forgotten classics worth revisiting

Cult films about writers

Fairfield Porter / Jimmy Schuyler territory

PEN 2013 literary awards:
judges & shortlists

Outing Robert Galbraith

JK Rowling is not amused

Not bad, sez the NY Times,know that it knows who’s who

How a linguistcracked Rowling’s code

Other authors with pseudonyms

Nikky Finney on Margaret Walker

Talking with Susan Sontag

Poetry in 140 characters

JD McClatchy on Walt Whitman

Is literature dead,
or just to straight white guys
with Bad New England educations?

The complete short stories
of James Purdy

Ancient writing on Chinese axes

Amy Gerstler on James Tate

Loving Fay Weldon

NSA spying leads to surge in typewriters

Howard Moss to Elizabeth Bishop

Gerald Stern on Samuel Greenberg

Roger Ebert on poetry

Laura Kasischke on Randall Jarrell

The Great American Novel: 9 candidates(Mario Puzo?!?)

Sharon Olds on Lucille Clifton

Flaubert’s ‘Gueuloir’

Valente’s Artaud

Harry E Northup’s
Memory and Fire

10 great books
based on other books

Rhina P Espaillat on César Sánchez Beras

Debunking the origin of ‘upset’

Donald Hall on Richard Wilbur

Top 20 books you pretend to have read

Alicia Ostriker on Emma Lazarus

Daniel Nester’s ex-bosses

Faulkner estate
loses © suit
to Woody Allen

A selfie promo campaign
for Chris Kraus’
I Love Dick

Remembering James Dickey

Dana Gioia on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Maya Lin’s
Disappearing Bodies of Water:
Arctic Ice

Recent work
by
Keiko Sono

Art execs who make over $1M
(not a typo)

The California-Pacific Triennial

Hirshhorn chair resigns over infighting

China closes Kenny Goldsmith Museum

Dealer in abstract expressionist fakes
is busted

With Detroit bankrupt,
is DIA at greater risk?

Some art belonging to WCW
goes to the WTC

Rubber Ducky, you’re the one

When in Manchester, Do it!

You are your brand

When who is more important than what

Celebrity bad art

NY art after Bloomberg

John Hightower has died

Rijksmuseum acquires
the earliest American landscape
(Jan Mostaert, 1535)

Zoe Strauss’ monument
to the values ofHomestead, PA

The Arbustwins

The death of photography
has been greatly exaggerated

John Yau on Phillip Allen

And on John Cronin

Plus Geneviève Asse

Susan Bee: Out the Window

Can Theaster Gates
make Chicago’s 95^thSt Red Line stop
a destination?

10 facts about Artemisia Gentileschi

Horace Pippin:
See that my grave is kept clean

The big Oops:$20K of comics used for papier-mâché

Nick Carone in Jackson Pollock’s house

Rossettimasterpiece for sale

Images from theBrooklyn International Performance Art Festival

The fear of unfinished art

8 online series
that focus on art

Abstraction now

And in the 1980s

When the tax bureaucrats
decide that you are not
a ‘professional’ artist

Amanda Palmer:
Dear Daily Mail

Gone too soon:
Toshi Seeger
dies at 91

Outing Stravinsky

Wagner& the Edda

Russia sacks the Bolshoi’s head

Ballet is like porn

Willy Tsao & dance in China

The impact of Ballets Russes

The financial reality
of being a tenured prof
(now try the same financial costs
on an adjunct’s pay – sans
medical benefits)

Rebecca Solnit:
Letter to Edward Snowden

Obama’s plan
to crack down on whistle blowers

A defiant typeface

Nonsite politics in Detroit

La ville de Détroit en ruine

Underground Las Vegas