Square School Girl Blows Geek Minds July 27, 2009: Over at Comic-Con International 2009, Fantagraphics Books has announced that they will soon re-release the complete run of the Ernie Bushmiller-penned (and Joe Brainard-beloved) comic strip Nancy. (more...) by Travis Nichols

The Voice & Dances of Merce Cunningham July 27, 2009: He will be missed. Merce Cunningham's voice: http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/audio5D.html Merce Cunningham's dances: http://www.ubu.com/film/cunningham.html by Kenneth Goldsmith

In the stacks July 26, 2009: I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the role of the library in your life as a 21st century reader and/or writer. I taught a summer class this past June, and when I needed to mark papers or work on my notes, I often retreated from the summer sun and my always-on computer screen to the basement of Gorgas Library here on the University of [...] by Joel Brouwer

Getting Meta July 23, 2009: [caption id="attachment_4402" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="she has some kind of viral cataracts in her eyes"][/caption] Here let this image of my new gray kitten, Myshka ("little mouse") stand eternally (and here let the internet stand for eternity) in for my realization that I am not suited for blogging. I've realized this before, on [...] by Rebecca Wolff

All Avant-Garde All The Time: The Sounds of The UK July 23, 2009: All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #9: The Sounds of the UK from the 1960s To Yesterday >>> Download Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about [...] by Kenneth Goldsmith

CONTEST July 23, 2009: I am judging a poetry contest. I’m not going to say which one. And I didn’t know I was judging it until after the deadline so it wasn’t like I could say hey I’m judging so you should send your manuscript in. I was a little glad I was judging it. I mean it was flattering. But then of course then the giant box of manuscripts arrived the [...] by Eileen Myles

What Is a Poet? July 21, 2009: [caption id="attachment_4304" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Participants in the "What Is a Poet?" symposium at The University of Alabama, October 1984. L-R: Bernstein, Vendler, Jay, Perloff, Altieri, Stern, Ignatow, Simpson, Lazer, Levertov, Burke. Photo by Gay Chow."][/caption] No, no, don't expect an answer from me; I'm [...] by Joel Brouwer

A Moment with Maxine (and Robert and Henry) July 20, 2009: Alexs Pate, David Mura, Maxine Kumin, Annie Finch Stonecoast 2009, photo by Suzy Colt Bowdoin college campus. Cool perfect Maine summer night. The warm wake of a great reading---a strong and vivid event, Maxine Kumin and David Mura, each introduced with heart and thought by a Stonecoast student, and each reaching a powerful and somehow [...] by Annie Finch

Tortillas Yay or Nay July 19, 2009: I love that somebody didn’t like my exchange with Bobby Byrd about whether the tortillas were good. Is it tortillas they didn’t like, our friendly exchange or whaa? I rarely use a question mark. Gertrude Stein said if the sentence doesn’t contain the question you didn’t write it well enough. Though whaa is a cartoon Americanism up [...] by Eileen Myles

Transparency July 17, 2009: Did you all catch the Colbert Rapport last night? Or the rerun tonight. I do rely on Colbert to voice my inner rantings, and he did beautifully slicing and dicing and ripping-the-mask-off of and otherwise sending up the concept of "neutrality" as it relates to "heritage" in the case of Judge Sotomayor vs whitey, i.e., confirmation hearings. [...] by Rebecca Wolff