Equanimity

2012-01-26T12:04:00.002-05:00

James Longenbach's poem "Complaint" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-01-12T12:39:00.001-05:00

Maxine Chernoff's poem "The Language" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-01-05T11:57:00.002-05:00

Osip Mandelstam's poem "Black Candle" (translated by Christian Wiman) is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-01-02T20:01:00.004-05:00

SONGS

Whiskey in the Jar
I'm Working on a Building
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain
Footprints in the Snow
Roly Poly
Stay a Little Longer
Walking in Jerusalem
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Molly and Tenbrooks
Roll On, Buddy
I Saw the Light
Time Changes Everything
On and On

2012-01-02T19:55:00.003-05:00

My poem "Look Down" is the poem of the month at Open Letters Monthly. Happy new year!

2012-01-01T10:27:00.003-05:00

2012

1.

Manny Farber, Farber on Film (Library of America) [2009]
Nick Norwood, Gravel and Hawk (Ohio)
The Essential Ray Price (Sony) [2007]
Ernest Tubb, "Thanks a Lot"

2011-12-22T12:54:00.001-05:00

Eugenio Montale's "L'Elan Vital," translated by William Arrowsmith, is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-12-15T08:37:00.001-05:00

Cyprian Norwid's "Their Power," an epigram from 1851 translated by Danuta Borchardt, is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-12-08T11:33:00.002-05:00

Jane Yeh's "Scenes from 'My Life as Sherlock Holmes'" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-11-23T13:09:00.001-05:00

Forrest Gander's translation of Pura Lopez Colome's "Ice Cold Water" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-11-22T04:41:00.000-05:00

2011

10.

Bobin, Segel and Stoller, The Muppets
Walt Kelly, Pogo, Volume 1 (Fantagraphics)
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Del Rey) [1980]
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (New Directions) [2011 reprint]
Shara Lessley's poems in The Missouri Review 34:3, esp. "Advice" and "Wife"
Michael Hofmann on Joseph Roth, NYRB 2011-12-22
Freeman Dyson on Daniel Kahneman, same issue
William Deresiewicz on Ann Beattie, The Nation 2011-12-12
Jennifer Szalai on Dwight Macdonald, same issue
Paul Flannery on Bill Lee in The Classical
Robert Hershon, Into a Punchline (Hanging Loose) [1994]
Robert Hershon, How to Ride the Woodlawn Express (Sun) [1985]
Tan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt (Kenning Editions)
Peter Waterhouse, Language Death Night Outside (Burning Deck) [2009]

2011-11-15T20:04:00.002-05:00

My review of Bill Luoma's Some Math is live at Constant Critic.

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I have two poems in the new issue of New England Review; they've put "From the Twentieth Floor" up on their site.

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My poem "Shell Game" is in the new Fence.

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And finally, Merrill Gilfillan's "Blue Ridge: Streams Are Roaring" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-11-10T14:41:00.001-05:00

Rodney Koeneke's "slow poem" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-11-07T11:11:00.003-05:00

Evie Shockley's poem "improphised" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-10-11T08:32:00.001-04:00

It's here! P.O.D. | Poems on Demand. Buy one now from Greying Ghost.

2011-10-10T15:09:00.003-04:00

2011

9.

Peter Gizzi, Threshold Songs (Wesleyan)
Jim Daniels, Having a Talk with Capital P Poetry (Carnegie Mellon)
Stephen Burt, "Without Evidence" in PN Review 201
Graeme Richardson on John Fuller, TLS Oct 28, 2011
The parts without explicit reference to the Af-Am canon in Rachel Eliza Griffith's Mule & Pear (New Issues)
Travis Brown, In Lieu of Hartshorn (Greying Ghost)
Josh Russell, Pretend You'll Do It Again (Greying Ghost)

2011-09-26T10:23:00.004-04:00

I read three poems (out loud) at The Nation.

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I'll be speaking at Cornell on October 13 at 4:30 pm.

The following week I'll be leading a tour of some of the Abstract Expressionist galleries at the Museum of Modern Art as part of Poets Forum 2011.

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Kit Robinson's "The Planetary Currents" is live at The Nation.

2011-09-25T10:35:00.003-04:00

2011

8.

Chris Glomski, The Nineteenth Century (Factory School)
Joshua Baldwin, The Wilshire Sun (Turtle Point)
Michael Robbins, Alien vs Predator (Penguin) [2012]
Will Hubbard, Cursivism (UDP)
Talat Sait Halman, Popular Turkish Love Lyrics and Folk Legends (Syracuse) [2009]
Trey Sager, Dear Failures (UDP)
Stephen Booth, Shakespeare's Sonnets (Yale) [1977/2000]

2011-09-22T13:35:00.001-04:00

Bernard Nöel's "Tulum" is live at The Nation (translated by Elena Rivera, subscription required).

2011-09-19T16:45:00.001-04:00

Rae Armantrout's "Treatment" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

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In other news, my poems "Almost Named Horace" and "The Names" appear in the new issue of The Laurel Review.

2011-09-08T17:53:00.004-04:00

A Unabomber-like screed extolling the virtues I see in Annette Basalyga's Lifer is live at Constant Critic.

2011-09-06T10:55:00.001-04:00

My poem "Toothpaste Kids Sunburn" is today's offering at poets.org.

2011-08-31T15:47:00.004-04:00

Demand the Finest! Demand Greying Ghost Chapbooks.

[Start clicking refresh here for something new any day now.]

2011-08-25T19:47:00.000-04:00

Peter Gizzi's poem "Undersong" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-07-28T16:27:00.002-04:00

K. Silem Mohammad's sonnagram "Yahoo! (A Lion, a Duke, the Tax-Rate Fungi)" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-07-27T05:49:00.008-04:00

2011

7.

Mark Leidner, Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me (Factory Hollow)
Cancelling my subscription to The Economist
Azkaban (2004)
Tom Scocca, Beijing Welcomes You (Riverhead)
Bill Luoma, Some Math (Kenning)
Lawrence Joseph, The Game Changed (Michigan)
Charles North, What It Is Like (Turtle Point/Hanging Loose)
Ben Somers, Your Sorcerer's Way (Lame House)
Gina Myers, September Requiem (Binge) [2010]
James Longenbach on Eliot's letters in The Nation 
Phillip Lopate on Emerson's Journals in Harper's 
Bernhard on the Julius Campe prize in Harper's ...
... and Zadie Smith debunking the Bernhard mystique a few issues later
(though I'd prefer to believe Adam Kirsch's account in the NYRB
((and doesn't that photo make TB look like The Donald))).

2011-07-14T15:25:00.000-04:00

Gregory Pardlo's "Raisin" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-07-07T10:58:00.001-04:00

Nine years ago yesterday.

2011-06-30T13:29:00.000-04:00

Eduardo C. Corral's "Cayucos" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-06-29T14:33:00.007-04:00

2011

6.

Vivek Naranayan, "Odessa, Texas" from Universal Beach (ingirum...)
Every other poem in Laura Solomon's The Hermit (UDP)
The blues part of Charles Bernstein's essay "Objectivist Blues" in Attack of the Difficult Poems (Chicago)
Satoshi Kitamura, Millie's Marvelous Hat (Andersen) [2009]
New Scientist
Alain Mabanckou, Broken Glass (Serpent's Tail) [2008]

2011-06-21T10:12:00.001-04:00

Ed Sanders's "Oreo" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-06-09T08:34:00.002-04:00

Sidney Wade's "Whimbrel" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

Also, three of my versions of poems by Orhan Veli Kanik are in A Public Space 13.

2011-06-02T14:12:00.000-04:00

Dan(iel) Bouchard's "Onderdunk Road" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-05-27T20:07:00.001-04:00

A transcribed talk-to-myself on Michael Palmer and Dorothy Barresi is up at Constant Critic.

2011-05-26T20:09:00.010-04:00

2011

5.

James Longenbach, The Iron Key (WWNorton) [2010]
And also Longenbach on the Mr & Mrs Yeats correspondence in The Nation
Franklin on protest songs in the same place
Miriam Markowitz on Janet Malcolm (Nation as well)
Tom Raworth, Earn Your Milk (Salt) [2009]
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, tr. Chalmers and Kinsky, A History of Clouds (Seagull) [2010]
Mark J. Brewin, Jr., "Field Lessons" in Copper Nickel 14
Stephen Mulhall on Eleonore Stump's Wandering in Darkness (re Dominic and Francis / reason 
   and narrative) in TLS 5643 2011-05-27
Soros on philanthropy and the closing of US society in NYRB LVIII #11, 2011-0623
Tabu Ley Rochereau, The Voice of Lightness (Stern's) [2010]
David Sylvian, Died in the Wool (Samadhisound)
Mitch Sisskind, "Joe Adamczyk" (BAP Blog)

2011-05-19T15:53:00.002-04:00

Spring Books! Poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (tr. Marilyn Hacker) and Erica Funkhouser are live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-05-13T17:54:00.001-04:00

Karen Solie's "Ode" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-04-28T14:18:00.001-04:00

My conversation with W.S. Merwin is live at The Nation.

2011-04-21T16:31:00.002-04:00

Allan Peterson's "Confession" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-04-19T15:57:00.010-04:00

2011

4.

Martin Gardner, Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions (Chicago/MAA) [1988/2005] 
Proxies
Slush
Annette Basalyga, Lifer (Music of Note)
Ron Carlson, Ron Carlson Writes a Story (Graywolf) [2007]
Ann Cotten's poems in 16 New German Poets (Burning Deck) [2008]
Francisco Aragon, ed., The Wind Shifts (Arizona) [2007]
    esp. Rosa, Eduardo, Gina, Emmy Perez, David Hernandez and Scott Inguito
Baran, Skucinska, Wojcik-Leese, eds., Carnivorous Boy, Carnivorous Bird (Zephyr) [2004]
    esp. Sosnowski, Foks and Suska
Africa: 50 Years of Independence - 50 Years of Music (Sterns) [2010]
jubilat 19
Ben Friedlander, Citizen Cain (Salt)
Allan Peterson, As Much As (Salmon/DuFour)
Saadi Simawe, ed., Iraqi Poetry Today (Zephyr) [2003]
    esp. Fadhil al-Azzawi; "The Monkey's Journey" by Mahmoud al-Braikan; 
    "Crumpled Paper for Future Poems" by Fawzi Karim; Dunya Mikhail; Yousif
    al-Sa'igh; S'adi Yusuf

2011-04-07T08:40:00.001-04:00

Kim Chinquee's "Rattles" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-03-31T16:47:00.000-04:00

Elizabeth Arnold's "Looking at Maps" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-03-24T10:53:00.002-04:00

Ben Friedlander's "Cats Can" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-03-10T15:55:00.001-05:00

Translations by Ron Padgett of Guillaume Apollinaire's poems "4" and "Hotel" are live at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-03-09T14:50:00.002-05:00

2011

3.

Evie Shockley, the new black (Wesleyan)
Grace Zabriskie, Poems (NYQ) [2010]

2011-02-17T14:14:00.002-05:00

Paula Bohince's "Spring" is up at The Nation (subscription required).

2011-02-14T16:44:00.001-05:00

My review of the selected poems of both Ed Sanders and Tadeusz Rozewicz is up at Constant Critic.

2011-02-12T16:50:00.003-05:00

2011

2.

Elizabeth Willis, Address (Wesleyan)
The word hot in Rae Armantrout's Money's Hot (Wesleyan)
W.S. Merwin, From the Spanish Morning (Atheneum) [1985]
Bell's Hopslam + miracle fruit
Michael Palmer, Thread (New Directions)
Bagels in Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day (Ten Speed) [2009]

2011-02-04T15:27:00.001-05:00

Devin Johnston's "Rough Patch" is up at The Nation (subscribers only).

2011-01-27T16:29:00.002-05:00

An editor's note in the Valentine's Day issue of The Nation mentions me.

2010-12-18T10:42:00.001-05:00

My review of Thomas Sayers Ellis's Skin Inc. is live at The Nation.

2010-12-17T14:33:00.003-05:00

My review of Thomas Sayers Ellis's Skin Inc. is live at The Nation.

Also, poems of mine are up at Everyday Genius and The Awl.

2010-12-17T11:09:00.006-05:00

2011

1.

Marnie Stern, S/T [2010]
Lynn Behrendt, Petals, emblems (Lunar Chandelier) [2010]
Ed Sanders, Revs of the Morrow (Libellum) [2008]
Catullus, tr. Joseph Bienvenu, Gaius Valerius Catullus (Verna) [2010]
Amy Newlove Schroeder, The Sleep Hotel (Oberlin) [2010]
Mark Weiss, ed., The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (Cal) [2009]
Judith Kroll, "Happy Families" (Gulf Coast, 23:1)
Tadeusz Rozewicz, tr. Joanna Trzeciak, Sobbing Superpower (Norton)
Kevin Honold, Men As Trees Walking (CSU)
Northern flicker
JaPW, "The Magic"
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, "Stay a Little Longer"
Ali, Wait (UWisc)
Ron Padgett, How Long (Coffee House)
Ed Sanders, Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War (Coffee House) [2010]

2010-11-23T06:42:00.002-05:00

My review of Terrance Hayes's National Book Award-winning Lighthead is live at Constant Critic.

2010-11-22T11:32:00.004-05:00

2010

10.

Jefferson Cowie, Stayin' Alive (New Press)
Nathalie Handal, ed., The Poetry of Arab Women (Interlink) [2001]
James Boyle, Shamans, Software and Spleens (Harvard) [1996]
Peter Carey, Collected Stories (F&F) [1996]
Columbus Dispatch
Ritchie Gazette
Hancock News
Cumberland Times-News
Times West Virginian
Athens News
Kent Johnson, ed., A Nation of Poets (West End) [1985]
Jaime Saenz, tr. Gander and Johnson, The Night (Princeton) [2007]
Tzvetan Todorov, An Introduction to Poetics (Minnesota) [1981]
HSD

2010-10-07T09:46:00.001-04:00

My review of Andrew Hudgins's American Rendering: New and selected poems is live at Constant Critic.

2010-10-06T08:43:00.006-04:00

2010

9.

Yamaguchi Tsutomu, tr. Chad Diehl, And the River Flowed as a Raft of Corpses (EOC)
Britta Ameel's poems in Phoebe 39:2
Robert Walser, tr. Paul North, ill. Friese Undine, Answer to an Inquiry (UDP)
Tony Hoagland, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (Graywolf)
Denise Riley, Mop Mop Georgette (Reality Street) [1993]

2010-10-01T10:50:00.003-04:00

I have a review of Tan Lin's recent book from Wesleyan (the one with the impossible title) in the new issue of the Poetry Project Newsletter.

2010-09-17T15:31:00.002-04:00

Ali's poem "Odd Wild" is live at The Huffington Post (scroll down).

2010-08-27T09:26:00.002-04:00

My review of Michael Gottlieb's Memoir and Essay is live at Constant Critic.

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I'm told that my poems are in a new issue of Agriculture Reader. I hope so. You have to love any magazine with a soft spot for Tony Towle.

2010-08-26T22:51:00.020-04:00

2010

8.

The Exponent Telegram
The Patriot-News
Superchunk, Majesty Shredding, esp. "Learned to Surf"
Denise Riley, Selected Poems (Reality Street) [2000]
The Awl
FJB on Cotner/Fitch at Thought Catalog
Caramanica on Jay/Em in the NYT
Nielsen and Ramey, eds., Every Goodbye Ain't Gone (Alabama) [2006]
Harper and Walton, eds., Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep (Little Brown) [1994]
BHO, Dreams from My Father (Times) [1995]
William J. Harris, Hey Fella, Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (Ithaca House) [1974]
William J. Harris, In My Own Dark Way (Ithaca House) [1977]
The Pennsboro News
Times Herald-Record
Andrew Hudgins, After the Lost War (Houghton Mifflin) [1988]
Andrew Hudgins, The Glass Hammer (Houghton Mifflin) [1994]
Ryoji Ikeda, Dataplex [2005], esp. "data.matrix"
Scatternavias I and II (courtesy RJJ), esp. bob hund
Manfred Kets de Vries, Lessons on Leadership by Terror (Edward Elgar) [2004]
Roland Barthes, tr. Richard Howard, Mourning Diary (FSG)

2010-07-13T18:27:00.002-04:00

I have two poems in the new Sixth Finch.

Also, my review of Christopher Howell's Dreamless and Possible: New and Selected Poems is live at Constant Critic.

2010-07-12T09:21:00.010-04:00

2010

7.

Michael Gottlieb, Memoir and Essay (Faux/Other)
Joshua Baldwin, Poems and Fake Book Reviews (DePress)
Laurie Anderson, Homeland, esp. "Transitory Life" and "My Right Eye"
Robyn, "Dancing on My Own"
Tan Lin, 2010 book from Wesleyan with the impossible title
Lewis Carroll, introduction by Tan Lin, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Barnes & Noble) [2004]
E. Nesbit, Five Children and It (Librivox) [1902/2007]
Richard Rorty, Contingency, irony and solidarity (Cambridge) [1989]
J.H. Prynne, Subsongs (Barque)
Lloyd Cole, Broken Record (Tapete)
Alli Warren, acting out (Editions Louis Wain)
Tan Lin, 2008 book from Zasterle about copyright, the internet, S. Pepys and H. Ledger
Torchwood season two
Show from which Torchwood derives, the Davies/Eccleston reboot season
The Bill Monroe Anthology
Pollini, Blechacz, Argerich playing Chopin
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Skin Inc. (Graywolf)
Gerard Genette, tr. Lewin & Culler, Narrative Discourse (Cornell) [1980/1995]
Debra Granik, Winter's Bone
Herodotus, tr. A.D. Godley, Histories

2010-06-08T08:35:00.001-04:00

My review of Paula Cisewski's Ghost Fargo is live at Constant Critic.

2010-06-07T12:42:00.010-04:00

2010

6.

Walter Arensberg, Idols (Houghton Mifflin) [1916]
Cory Doctorow, Content (Tachyon) [2008]
James Boyle, The Public Domain (Yale) [2008]
Jon Cotner / Andy Fitch, Ten Walks / Two Talks (UDP)
Amanda Nadelberg, Building Castles in Spain, Getting Married (Song Cave) [2009]
Charles North, Ode to Asparagus, Peonies and Manet (Song Cave)
Mary Jo Salter, Dave Lucas in Little Star 1
Suzanne Rivecca, Death Is Not an Option (WWNorton)
Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right
Pretty much everything in Peaches and Bats 6
Geoffrey O'Brien, Early Autumn (Salt)
Enbom, Etheridge, Rudd & Thomas, Party Down Season 1

2010-06-04T10:03:00.003-04:00

Must to read: John Palattella's essay on book reviewing now.

2010-05-12T09:23:00.001-04:00

I have a poem in the new Columbia Poetry Review.

2010-05-11T11:50:00.007-04:00

2010

5.

Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly (Cambridge)
Dale Herd, Dreamland Court (Blue)
Noel Black, In the City of Word People (Blue) [2008]
Duncan McNaughton, Good Manners (Blue) [2005]
Adam DeGraff, Men Who Found Out (Blue) [2005]
Allan Peterson, Omnivore (Bateau)
Blubberbot
DeBlois/Sanders/Cowell/Davies, How to Train Your Dragon
Rod Smith, Protective Immediacy (Roof) [1999]
Jeremy Hawthorn, ed., Narrative: From Malory to Motion Pictures (Edward Arnold) [1985]
Neil Weinstock Netanel, Copyright's Paradox (Oxford) [2008]
Christopher Howell, Light's Ladder (Washington) [2004]
Christopher Howell, Memory and Heaven (Eastern Washington) [1997]
Christopher Howell, Dreamless and Possible: New and Selected (Washington)

2010-05-11T10:47:00.004-04:00

I'm speaking tonight at 6 at the New York Public Library.

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Also, I have a poem in the new Columbia Poetry Review.

2010-05-05T09:33:00.003-04:00

On Tuesday, May 11 at 6 p.m., I'll be speaking on a "Poet as Critic" panel at the DeWitt Wallace Periodicals Room of the main branch of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Maureen McLane and Craig Morgan Teicher are the other panelists, and Eric Lorberer, editor of Rain Taxi, is the moderator.

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My review of A Village Life by Louise Gluck [where's the umlaut on this computer??] is live at Constant Critic.

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Also, the Jordan Davis responsible for this is not me, alas.

2010-04-21T14:37:00.008-04:00

On Tuesday, May 11 at 6 p.m., I'll be speaking on a "Poet as Critic" panel at the DeWitt Wallace Periodicals Room of the main branch of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Maureen McLane and Craig Morgan Teicher are the other panelists, and Eric Lorberer, editor of Rain Taxi, is the moderator.

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In other news, I talk about The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater, Terese Svoboda and Bob Hicok in the Shelf Life column in the May 10, 2010 issue of The Nation.

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I have two poems in 1913 #4.

2010-04-18T09:03:00.003-04:00

Two of my poems appear in Nuova poesia americana - New York.

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I have five poems in the new Passages North.

2010-04-17T06:52:00.023-04:00

2010

4.

Elif Batuman on Turkish heritage cuisine, NYer 4/19
Alan Bernheimer, The Spoonlight Institute (AIP) [2009]
Monica de la Torre, Public Domain (Roof) [2008]
Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Frank Stack, Our Cancer Year (4W8W) [1994]
Laura Moriarty, A Semblance (Omnidawn) [2007]
Mark Leidner, Romantic Comedies (Chuckwagon)
The one that begins "I'm Chiquita banana..." in Aaron Kunin's Cold Genius (Physiocrats) [2009]
"An Example" in Dorothea Lasky's Poetry Is Not a Project (UDP)
John Minczeski, A Letter to Serafin (Akron)
David Lloyd, The Gospel According to Frank (New American) [2009]
CAConrad, The Book of FRANK (Chax) [2009]
Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Penguin)
James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy (Arkansas) [2009]
Andrew Hudgins, American Rendering (HMH)
Nicole Holofcener, Please Give
Nicole Walker, One Noisy Egg (Barrow Street) 
Brian Foley, The Black Eye (Brave Men)
Michael Hofmann, Selected Poems (FSG) [2009]
Gina Myers, A Model Year (Coconut) [2009]
Nicky Beer, The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon)
Mark Statman, Tourist at a Miracle (Hanging Loose) [2009]
Jeni Olin, The Truck Darling Poems (Hanging Loose)
William Hart, Home to Ballygunge: Kolkata Tanka (METP)
Gert Hofmann, tr. Michael Hofmann, Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl (CB Editions) [2008]
Paula Cisewski, Ghost Fargo (Nightboat)
Gary Lenhart, The World in a Minute (Hanging Loose)
Sandra Doller, Chora (Ahsahta)
Robert Polito, Hollywood & God (Chicago) [2009]
Samuel Amadon, Like a Sea (Iowa)
Torchwood, season one
James Wagner, Geisttraum (Privately printed)
George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, Animal Spirits (Princeton) [2009]
Kevin Holden, Identity (Cannibal)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness (Random House) [2001/2005]
Adrian Johns, Piracy (Chicago)
Lloyd Cole and the Small Ensemble, City Winery
Eduardo M. Peñalver and Sonia K. Katyal, Property Outlaws (Yale)

2010-04-09T13:27:00.002-04:00

My essay on the late Mahmoud Darwish appears in the April 26, 2010 issue of The Nation.

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I have three poems in West Wind Review 2010.

2010-04-07T12:05:00.002-04:00

My note on Ron Silliman's What is live in Jacket 39.

2010-03-28T22:33:00.004-04:00

I have three poems in Zoland Poetry 4.

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My review of Vera Pavlova's If There Is Something to Desire is live at Constant Critic.

2010-03-19T14:13:00.000-04:00

My poem "My Twin" is live at The Brooklyn Rail.

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Two of my poems, "Wheat Strewn on a Makeshift Altar" and "Flash Pictures from the Top of the Empire State Building," appear in Court Green 7.

2010-03-18T08:55:00.001-04:00

RIP Alex Chilton.

2010-03-08T10:11:00.009-05:00

2010

3.

Kate Bush, "Pi" and "Mrs. Bartolozzi" (from Aerial) [2005]
Terese Svoboda, Mere Mortals (Georgia) [1995]
Lee David Zlotoff, MacGyver (Universal) [1985]
John Huston, Annie (Columbia) [1982]
Dean Parisot, Galaxyquest (Dreamworks) [1999]
Alex Chilton's cover of "I've Had It" (from Like Flies on Sherbet) [1979]
Bob Hicok, Words for Empty, Words for Full (Pitt)
Terese Svoboda, Weapons Grade (Arkansas) [2009]
Kevin Killian and David Brazil, eds., The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater (Kenning) [2009]
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget (Knopf)
Chris Tonelli, "Nostalgia Tree" and "Wide Tree" in The Trees Around (Birds LLC)
Ange Mlinko, Shoulder Season (Coffee House)
Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson, Macedonia (Villard) [2007]
John Coletti, Mum Halo (Rust Buckle)
Fernando Baez, tr. Alfred Macadam, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books (Atlas&Co) [2008]
Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox (Verso) [2000/2009]
K. Silem Mohammad, Sonnagrams 1-20 (Slack Buddha/La Perruque)
Nava Fader, Stone Soup (Slack Buddha/La Perruque) [2009]
Tom Orange, American Dialectics (Slack Buddha/La Perruque) [200?]
Christopher Mattison, No Bridge to Kentucky (Slack Buddha/La Perruque) [200?]

2010-03-02T10:08:00.005-05:00

My review of Cornelius Eady's Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems is up at Constant Critic.

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You can listen to my February 2010 Bowery Poetry Club reading at PennSound.

2010-02-12T11:10:00.002-05:00

I'm reading Saturday, February 27 at 4 p.m. with Dana Ward at the Bowery Poetry Club. I hope you can make it.

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Copies of Gary Lenhart's Another Look: selected prose are now available from SPD.

2010-02-10T05:23:00.001-05:00

My review of Aase Berg's With Deer is Powell's/National Book Critics Circle Review o' the Day today. Good book.

2010-01-26T23:35:00.018-05:00

2010

2.

Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Delete (Princeton) [2009]
Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide (HMH) [2009]
Christopher Howell, Sea Change (L'Epervier) [1985]
Nicole Hardy, Mud-Flap Girl's XX Guide to Facial Profiling (Main Street Rag) [2006]
Brandon Brown, The Orgy (self-published) 
Christopher Howell, Just Waking (Lost Horse) [2003]
Robert Darnton, The Case for Books (PublicAffairs) [2009]
Ariana Reines, Coeur de Lion (Mal-o-Mar) [2007]
E.L. Doctorow, Homer and Langley (Random House) [2009]
Terese Svoboda, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent (Graywolf) [2008]
Justin Taylor, Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever (Harper), esp. "Weekend Away"
Terese Svoboda, Laughing Africa (Iowa) [1990], esp. "The Ranchhand's Daughter"
Super Mario Bros (Wii - Nintendo)
Ken Auletta, Googled (Penguin) [2009]
David Dodd Lee, The Nervous Filaments (Four Way)
Nick Lantz, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbor's House (Wisconsin)
Nick Lantz, We Don't Know We Don't Know (Graywolf)
Steven Soderbergh, The Informant! [2009]
Louise Gluck, Ararat (Ecco) [1990]
Vera Pavlova, tr. Steven Seymour, If There Is Something to Desire (Knopf) 
Lloyd Cole, Small Ensemble - Slaughterhouse (the between records record) (White label)
Jerry Williams, Admission (Carnegie Mellon)

2010-01-18T22:58:00.003-05:00

My review of Aase Berg's With Deer is live at Constant Critic.

2010-01-08T15:00:00.001-05:00

Save the date: On Saturday, February 27 at 4 pm, I'll be reading with Dana Ward in the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club.

2009-12-22T11:38:00.002-05:00

My brief review of Granta 108: Chicago appears in the December 18/25, 2009 issue of the TLS.

2009-12-20T09:44:00.010-05:00

2010

1.

Terese Svoboda, Weapons Grade (Arkansas) [2009]
Sarah Gambito, Delivered (Persea) [2009]
Rory Stewart, "Afghanistan: What Could Work," NYRB January 14
David Schloss, "Green Bay" in Group Portrait from Hell (Carnegie Mellon) [2009]
Cornelius Eady, Hardheaded Weather (Putnam) [2008]
Kermode on Golding, LRB
Catherine Wagner, My New Job (Fence) [2009]
Michael Wood on Kermode, LRB
Stuart Krimko, The Sweetness of Herbert (Sand Paper) [2009]
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Apocalyptic Swing (Persea) [2009]
Christopher Rizzo, Naturalistless (Greying Ghost)
Laura Carter, At the Pulse (Greying Ghost)
Paula Cisewski, Upon Arrival (Black Ocean) [2006]

2009-12-19T09:36:00.000-05:00

Songs of 2009

David Sylvian, "Snow White in Appalachia / Emily Dickinson"
Metric, "Help, I'm Alive"
Joan As Police Woman, "Whatever You Like / Start of My Heart"
Dirty Projectors, "Useful Chamber / Cannibal Resource"
Brad Paisley, "Welcome to the Future / I Hope It's Me / No"
Sonic Youth, "Sacred Trickster / Anti-Orgasm / Antenna"

2009-12-17T09:25:00.002-05:00

My poems, "October Crushes Your Soft Lip" and "Poems Describing Someone" appear in Ploughshares Winter 2009/10, guest edited by Tony Hoagland.

2009-11-19T08:07:00.002-05:00

My poems "Amuse-Bouche" and "Ira will not be attending the meeting" appear in the December 2009 issue of Poetry.

2009-11-15T16:39:00.006-05:00

2009

10. November 26 - December 31

Robert Rodriguez, Shorts
Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, A New Literary History of America (Harvard)
James Cameron, Avatar
The Sign and Sight round-ups
Janaka Stucky, Your Name Is the Only Freedom (Brave Men)
Nick Lantz, "'Of the Parrat and other birds that can speake,'" Gulf Coast 22:1
Leigh Anne Couch, "If the Eye Were an Animal," Gulf Coast 22:1
Sarah Lindsay, "Sweet Potato God," Gulf Coast 22:1
Mark Jarman, "Sayings," Gulf Coast 22:1
Caroline Knox, "Wildwood Flower," Hanging Loose 95
Jeni Olin, "I Just Burnt My Neck with a Curling Iron, Promise!" Hanging Loose 95
Mark Statman, "Losing Buttons," Hanging Loose 95

2009-11-08T11:09:00.001-05:00

"Evasion of Privacy," one of my two poems in the new Copper Nickel, is up today at Verse Daily.

2009-10-27T10:59:00.000-04:00

The new Lana Turner (#2) includes my poems "And Then, in a Spiteful Moment" and "The Belongings of Madame Ebitda."

2009-10-19T13:43:00.003-04:00

My poem "The Bright Ages" is up at Boxcar Poetry Review.

2009-10-05T11:45:00.004-04:00

I have two poems in Copper Nickel 12.

In other news, Chapbook Corner columnist Noah Eli Gordon reviews From Orange to Pink in the Fall 2009 issue of Rain Taxi.

2009-10-04T09:46:00.027-04:00

2009

9. October 20 - November 25

Jeffrey Skinner, "Event Horizon" (Valparaiso Poetry Review 11:1)
(Also liked: Kirby's "Funny Anything," Biddinger's "Treaty Line," 
Margot Schilpp's and Daisy Fried's poems, and Ali's obviously)
Kent Johnson, "The Fountain Where One's Name Is Changed" (Jacket 35)
The AV Club interview with Bronson Pinchot
James Patterson & Ned Rust, Daniel X: Watch the Skies (Little, Brown)
Adonis, tr. Sawkat Toorawa, "This Is My Name" in A Time Between Ashes and Roses (Syracuse) [2004]
Franklin Bruno, Union Hall
Joan as Police Woman, Knitting Factory
Franklin Bruno, Local Currency (Fayettenam)
Darcie Dennigan, "High and Fine and Wide and Ice" (Absent 4)
Joan as Police Woman, Cover, esp. "Whatever You Like"
Frederick Seidel, "About Motorcycles" (Harpers Nov 2009)
Metric, "Help, I'm Alive"
Dara Wier, Selected Poems (Wave) [2009]
Raekwon, Only Built for Cuban Linx, pt. 2 (Ice H20)
Richard Byrne, "The Last Yugoslav," The Nation, November 16
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen, "Gorbachev on 1989," same issue
Dara Wier, "Identity Theft," that issue too
Sonic Youth, The Eternal (Matador)
Leszek Kolakowski, Modernity on Endless Trial (Chicago) [1990]
David Ferry, tr., Gilgamesh (FSG) [1993]
Rick Snyder, "How Are You Doing?" in Escape from Combray (UDP)
Richard Dorment on Andy Warhol, Charles Simic on Nicholson Baker, Adam Kirsch on 
Friedrich Engels, Lawrence Wechsler on David Hockney, Frank Kermode on Dorothy 
Wordsworth, and Elizabeth Drew on health care and Obama; NYRB Oct 22.
Kate Greenstreet, The last 4 things (Ahsahta)
Beth Bachmann, Temper (Pittsburgh)
Patrick McGuinness on Lynette Roberts, TLS Nov 4
Peter O'Leary, Benedicite
J.C. on Paul Zukofsky's copywrong, TLS Nov 13
Stefan Collini on academic metrics, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on Franklin and
other Arctic desaparecedos, Carlo Bajetta on Elizabeth I's translations,
Paul Seabright on consumerism, Tom Bower on oil, same issue
J.C. on Crumb's Genesis, Frances Wilson on Lynn Barber, Helen Hackett on
manuscript verse collections, TLS Nov 6
Alli Warren, Well Meaning White Girl (Mitzvah Chaps)
Luke Mitchell on regulatory capture, Christian Bok on oulipian bacteria, and
David Gargill on PCBs in the Hudson, Harpers December 2009.

2009-09-24T15:43:00.003-04:00

My poem "Narragansett" appears in the October 12, 2009 issue of The Nation.

2009-08-27T10:30:00.002-04:00

My essay on international poetry anthologies appears in the September/October Boston Review.

UPDATE: The essay is now online.

2009-08-26T10:02:00.018-04:00

2009

8. September 14 - October 19

Peter Coates on Sanderson's hilly Manhattan, TLS Sept. 4
Tony Judt's eulogy for Leszek Kolakowski, NYRB Sept. 24
Holly Goddard Jones's story in Shenandoah 59:2
One of Andrew Hudgins's poems in that issue
And Katy Didden's poem too
Rachel Aviv on Clarice Lispector in The Nation Sept. 28
Paula Bohince, "Mother's Quail," New Yorker Sept. 21 
John Jenkins, The Wild White Sea (Little Esther) [1990]
Jean Grosjean, tr. Keith Waldrop, An Earth of Time (Burning Deck) [2006]
David Sylvian, Manafon (Samadhisound)
Janaka Stucky, "Eat! Eat! Eat!" (Fence 21)
Ben Black, "The Kettle Pond" (Fence 21)
Arda Collins, It Is Paradise (Yale)
Anthony Madrid, The 580 Strophes (Cosa Nostra)
Ilan Pappé, A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge) [2006]
Timothy Garton Ash on 1989, NYRB 56:17
Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare as historical novelist (and precursor of Hilary Mantel!), same issue
Pelham and Rodenback on Hamas, same issue
Horowitz, Weiss, Cobban on Israel and AIPAC, The Nation, Nov. 2, 2009
Starkman on Gretchen Morgenson, The Nation, July 6, 2009
Avishai on Tyler's A World of Trouble, same issue

2009-08-24T14:05:00.003-04:00

My poem, "What Feelings Are For," appears in the 2009 issue of Ping Pong, the art and literary journal of the Henry Miller Library.