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Paris / Poetry / Poets / Travel / Uncategorized

May 15, 2010

The Rimbaldian Pleasures of Paris

An afternoon spent walking the streets of Paris, stopping every so often in a bookshop, then walking on for awhile until the temptation is too much & I have to sit on the terrace...

Poetics / Poetry

May 14, 2010

The Vincent Ferrini-Charles Olson Writer's Center

Please help open this door. Create cultural history today. We are so close to purchasing Vincent Ferrini’s 126 East Main Street studio in Gloucester and transforming it into the Vincent Ferrini-Charles Olson Writers Center....

Palestine / Poetry

May 13, 2010

A Braid of Garlic: Marilyn Hacker's Homage to Mahmood Darwish

In the Guardian newspaper, a review of Hacker’s new book Names (WW Norton, 2010) that also reproduces her excellent and moving poem in honor of Mahmood Darwish as the paper’s “Poem of the Week.”...

Book Launch / Essays / Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Uncategorized

May 3, 2010

Lost & found: CUNY Initiative

Lost & Found: 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...

Literary Magazines & Reviews / Poetics / Poetry / Uncategorized

May 1, 2010

Issue # 1 of BARZAKH Online Now!

Happy to announce BARZAKH, a new online magazine of writing & poetics. The first issue just went online & you can read it here. Issue # 1 includes work by Alice Notley & Ted...

Book Review / Poetry

April 25, 2010

Latta & Hafner on Ken Irby

Two items of note concerning Kenneth Irby, whose book The Intent On: Collected Poems 1962-2006 I made my favorite book of the year (& most necessary one!) on this blog some time ago: A...

Obituaries / Paul Celan / Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

April 20, 2010

40 Years Ago: Paul Celan

In late spring 1970, Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, estranged wife of the poet Paul Celan, wrote to the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, an early love and life-long friend of the poet’s: “In the night from Monday...

Arab Culture / Baseball / Performance / Photography / Poetry

April 18, 2010

Rimbaud Hoax, Poetry & Food, Ur-Baseball Ksar

For today, Sunday, just three little mises au points: 1) Looks like the Rimbaud photos I posted a couple days ago are in fact the work of a crazy Rimbaldian forger who has already...

Poetry

April 16, 2010

New Picture of Arthur Rimbaud

Culled from today’s edition of the French newspaper La Dépêche du Midi (the full article in French, here), the photo above was discovered by two Parisian booksellers. The photo, dated to the 1880ies, shows...

Poetry / Translation / Uncategorized

April 11, 2010

Stephen Kessler Receives the 2010 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Most happy to report that old friend Stephen Kessler, indefatigable translator & poeta, received this major award for his translation of Luis Cernuda’s Desolation of the Chimera (White pine Press). Here is the press...