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The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Dear Bleaders, Happy Thanksgiving! I'm sorry I've missed a few weeks posts. I'd explain how sometimes even just a once a week blog can be too challenging to manage without some breaks, but I figure most of you have blogs...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Dear Bleaders, Happy Thanksgiving! I'm sorry I've missed a few weeks posts. I'd explain how sometimes even just a once a week blog can be too challenging to manage without some breaks, but I figure most of you have blogs...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
I've just finished reading P. D. James's Talking About Detective Fiction (Knopf). The best sentence in the book is the one in which she defines the England in which she grew up, "an ordered society in which virtue was regarded...
LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Curmudgeons abound, and they do have their charms. "Why aren't we talking about Ondaatje or Milosz..." Maybe we are, Professor, but if you want to simply ignore a whole thread of contemporary poetry, I guess you'll never know that... What am I on about? I am referring to the responses to Flarf in the Toronto Star this week. I don't think the arrival of one discourse displaces another. I don't...
LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Roni Horn--I missed this while in NY, but I found this footage and feel a little less disappointed. Here is part of what I missed... Watch Roni Horn, Louise Bourgeois / Hauser & Wirth Zurich in Entertainment | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com Not quite the same, but...wanted to see the Blake exhibit at the Morgan and that was worth it. Absolutely. If only for the etching he did for
LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Oh lord. A Gary Barwin find.
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
I'm drawn to Mark Bibbins' work because he is not a confessional poet, and also because linear narratives do not seem to be exceedingly important to him. He is, of course, not the first contemporary poet to move away from...
One Poet's Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
“We are not here to be thankful for strange things we can do with our bodies!” “ On this very special occasion, my mind goes back over the years to the people who have influenced me . . . Tielhard de Chardin, George Sand, Caravaggio, oh, Emily Dickinson . . . ”
LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | yesterday
Is now up on Poetry Foundation. You heard it here. You have to get it there. Thanks for the tip, Don.
LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's true, you put stuff out there and you get lovely surprises. Some of them good. This from Kenny Goldsmith: The Malady of Writing: Modernism You Can Dance To (MP3) In collaboration with MACBA in Barcelona, UbuWeb is pleased to present a podcast accompanying their new exhibition entitled The Malady of Writing, a project imagines a pleasurable, humorous and fun version of modernism. This
Pansy Poetics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Blind Date With Cavafy
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | yesterday
He (to nobody in particular): They’re all a bunch of clowns. Did you listen to the news? I can’t believe what they do. Crooks. They’re crooks. We should get rid of all of them, I tell you. We’d be better...
LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | yesterday
Un refuge A total giant, indeed. Missed Tracey Emin's show...but I saw an incrdible piece by Bourgeois in a group show. Took details of it and my entire card corrupted before I could upload. 120 photos vanished. I am my own house...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | yesterday
The holiday insanity is upon us again. But instead of stressing out that I'm not Martha Stewart, I've been trying to remember to breathe, and to think about what the holidays are supposed to be about. This is hard to...
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