Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence (Charles Olson and Robert Creeley)
Al Filreis (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
The Center for the Humanities invites you to celebrate the publication of The Amiri Baraka/Edward Dorn Correspondence; The Kenneth Koch/Frank O’Hara Letters: Selections; Muriel Rukeyser: Darwin & the Writers; Philip Whalen’s Journals: Selections: Robert Creeley: Contexts of Poetry, with selections from Daphne Marlatt’s Journals. These comprise the inaugural chapbook series in...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
She was the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the first one born in the 20 th century. Just 24, it wasn’t even her first book, coming seven years after The House of Silk. He was older and more established, holding the post that is now called Poet Laureate of the United States. Not only were they husband & wife, but she was also the great-great granddaughter of Percy...
Career Limiting Moves (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I was going thru my archives today and came across this old essay of mine, which I wrote about nine years ago in grad school and which won me the Wynne Francis Prize for best essay on Canadian Poetry (there were two applicants and it was declared a tie). Since, you know, I haven't been talking enough about poetry lately, I thought I'd post it here. Not sure how well the formatting will translate, but...
Professor VJ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Now that the comprehensive exhibition in Athens is well underway, it's time for some serious name-dropping in another direction: What do John Ashberry, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Robert Creeley. my old undergrad teacher Harry Crews, Louise Erdich, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Ted Mooney, my old undergrad teacher Alain Robbe-Grillet, Salman Rushdie,...
serif of nottingblog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A recent post on Steven Fama's very excellent blog the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica discusses two 'translations' of Robert Creeley's iconic I KNOW A MAN one by Rachel Loden and the other by Douglas Rothschild. They are both translations or altered versions, using the Creeley original as a meme both in terms of structure as as well as a cultural artefact. The comments stream, with posts by both...
After Long Busyness: A Poetry Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Robert Creeley in the outfield. By Fernando Perez Poetry Media Service I write from Caracas, the murder capital of the world, where I’ve been employed by the Leones to score runs and prevent balls from falling in the outfield. At the ankles of the Ávila Mountain amongst a patch of dusky high-rises, the [...]
Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Fictive Certainties Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Duncan, Robert Fictive Certainties I think I bought this at Talking Leaves after having met with Robert Creeley. We were talking about some aspect of my poetry and he pulled this book out of his blue plastic suitcase and said something like, "Well, as dear old Robert Duncan said..." and began reading from the essay, "The Truth...
Unbecoming Regularity (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Trees FallingOn WordsThe Robert Creeley ConferenceTravelogue of the InteriorBuffalo and EnvironsOctober 13-14, 2006.Account written January 8-9, 2007, during the rains of winter, amidst some small home improvements and repairs.The lamp has been taken apart, I find there's an armature that's burnt out. This won't take much, a dollar or two at the hardware store.Charles Bernstein kicked things off
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
I’ve always suspected that Devin Johnston must be one of those poets whom readers either love or hate. He has a very distinct personality & is quite clear about his goals in writing. Either you buy it or you don’t. Somehow, though, I always find myself in the middle, never fully certain just how much I love his work or feel frustrated by it. This I think might be because you can read...
Squandermania and other foibles (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Suppose you publish a small book of poems with a legendary small press publisher, say, Jonathan Williams 's Jargon Press. Suppose further that W.C. Williams writes the preface, and Alberto Moravia the introduction. Suppose that the cover art is a collage by Pop Art/mail and collage artist Ray Johnson , and the title page has a collage by Jean-Jacques Lebel , whose father was a friend of Duchamp's....
DWx (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Our featured poet Tom Corrado entertained with his stand-up base as the poets gathered, then I envoked the muse, tonight Robert Creeley. Bob Sharkey began with a piece on the late David Foster Wallace, "Doing His Highness." Larry Rapant was a "flash poet" with his very short "My Kind of Wine." Marilyn Day pondered finding her collection of poems at the Barnes & Nobles...
Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
for the update on Penguin Cafe Orchestra and its ongoing new manifestation. Napoleon Dynamite was on the other afternoon (I can never resist) and at the end, there it was again. One of the PCO classic tunes, I mean. Surely a rather naive performance of it, but it suited the beautiful moment in the film when these naively innocent people all triump through flukes of confidence. Apropos of nothing Dept.:...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
U.S. Poets in Mexico Second Annual Event in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico -- January 2-9, 2010 In January 2010, U.S. Poets in Mexico will be returning to Mérida for our second annual event. U.S. Poets in Mexico invites contemporary American and Mexican poets to Mérida every year for one week of poetry workshops, readings, Spanish lessons and day trips. Faculty members will be notable...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Recently Received Books (Poetry) Lynn Behrendt, Luminous Flux, Lines Chapbooks, Red Hook, NY 2009 Lynn Behrendt, This My Vertical Body, Lines Chapbooks, Red Hook, NY 2009 Charles Bernstein, All the Whiskey in Heaven:Selected Poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux , New York 2010 Kate Durbin, The Ravenous Audience , Black Goat, Los Angeles 2009 Ernest Farrés, Edward Hopper, translated by Lawrence...
Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Nova Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Delany, Samuel R. Nova Purchased at Talking Leaves Books about 5 years ago. I think I mentioned before that Jonathan Skinner taught a course on science fiction that had a great reading list, including this book, which gave me a reason to start reading some science fiction, which I had never really done before then. A year or so after "Chip" Delany...
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