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Robert Grenier on Carol Watts § The program for Emma Bee Bernstein’s funeral Charles Bernstein’s ”Eulogy for Emma” A note from Felix Bernstein § From the Angels of Light to New Narrative § A terrific anthology of New York City poetry: The Portable Boog Reader 3 (PDF) Last year’s equally stunning collection (PDF) § The poetry of C.D. Wright § How to write language poetry § Poetry & relevance (a good collection of all the links) § Framing Gabe Gudding’...

As Captain Harold Dobey in Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s, Bernie Hamilton was one of the very first African-American authority figures on American television. He passed away last week at the age of 80. I got to know Hamilton a little back then while he was dating one of my roommates in a large collective household on California Street in San Francisco. Hamilton was smart, kind, funny, generous, spontaneous – “Hey, Lizzie, let’s go to Egypt for the weekend!” – a litt...

Charles Olson today Charles Olson, who would have been 99 on Dec. 27, reading ”The Librarian” (YouTube) § Billy Little died of cancer this morning § Jack Spicer & the law rob mclennan’s review Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me § Investigating Ed Sanders § Joe Safdie and Rae Armantrout at Beyond Baroque § Post-avant is here to stay! § George Packer of The New Yorker gets some mail about his reservations about Elizabeth Alexander as the inaugur...

The 1960s didn’t begin with a single moment. One can identify certain days & changes, however, without which what we know now as the Sixties, with all that implies, could not have occurred. The first of these was the inauguration of JFK in January 1961. The second was the arrival of the Beatles, which could be dated from either the marketing blitz that accompanied I Want to Hold Your Hand in 1963 or from the much quieter release of Please Please Me b/w Love Me Do the...

It is now becoming self-evident that right around the inauguration of Barack Obama, somewhere between the 18th & 25th of January 2009, this blog will receive its two millionth visit. Already visitors have clicked on more than three million links. I know this is basically one-tenth of what Matt Drudge had yesterday, but for poetry it’s not so bad. The run rate here for 2008 has been a half million visits and a million link clicks, numbers that suggest that there is an a...

Harvey Milk taking the oath of office, 1978, photo by Bill Carlson I knew in advance that there was no way the film Milk could live up to my own expectations for it. Like a Tolkien fanatic wondering what became of Tom Bombadil in Lord of the Rings, or a Harry Potter fan forever contrasting film to book, I have a hard – maybe impossible – time seeing Milk, the movie, except through my own personal experience of its narrative. Milk is perhaps the only “major” motion pictur...

A lurid NY Times “review” of Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me And another in the LA Times Was Jack Spicer sexy? § A detailed, multi-part look at The Best American Poetry 2008 answers my 20th question § My list of upcoming marathons missed Chicago’s ”When Does It or You Begin (Memory as Innovation): Writing, Performance & Video” from Jan. 9 to Feb. 1 § Wishing it was Will Alexander at Obama’s inaugural Oops, somebody’s read Venus Hottentot An X-ra...

Photo: John Suiter Nanao Sakaki 1923 – 2008

So there will be not one, but two, major offsite readings in conjunction with this year’s MLA in San Francisco . The first, Sunday night, December 28 at 7:00 PM, in the Forum at the Yerba Buena Center, 701 Mission (and thus directly across the street from SF MoMA in one direction & the Moscone Convention Center in another), is sponsored by SPD & the Poetry Foundation, and includes numerous out-of-town celebs, including several (Dale Smith, Carla Harryman, Michael...

Harold Pinter 1930 – 2008