Boox September 8, 2009: Quick: What do these books have in common? The Venus Hottentot, Elizabeth Alexander Louise in Love, Mary Jo Bang Controvertibles, Quan Barry Questions of Travel, Elizabeth Bishop Installations, Joe Bonomo I Remember, Joe Brainard Centuries, Joel Brouwer Asphalt Georgics, Hayden Carruth The Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson Blue [...] by Joel Brouwer

anxiety of September 4, 2009: Been reading piles and piles of poetry manuscripts, and noticing an interesting trend in what I assume are books by younger poets--very young poets, like under 25. The piles are anonymous, but after a certain age one can kind of smell youth. The trend is toward a quite direct mode of speech, plainspeech, and within that a lot of expression of [...] by Rebecca Wolff

Lost It September 4, 2009:    Manhattan is one of the great places in the world to ride a bicycle and for instance tonight it was Myra’s birthday so she and Chana, her girlfriend, and I rode to Film Forum and then to the East Village for bubble tea. It was very social and just beautiful out tonight. But sometimes a bicycle is an interruption and you ride it somewhere [...] by Eileen Myles

Inside, Outside & Jimmy September 3, 2009:       I was having an exchange online with a friend about a book of essays I just published and in response to him saying he was enjoying reading it I gave a short essay in reply about my suffering. How utterly hard this book was . . . not so much to write but to put together. It was a monster. Every time I read publicly from this book I [...] by Eileen Myles

Overheard in the hallway September 3, 2009: I only smoke when I have too much to do or not enough. * Music never makes me cry anymore. * All she eats is bananas. * "Silence of Lucky." * Is there anything that's exactly like alcohol but isn't alcohol? * But electricity is the same for everybody. by Joel Brouwer

Raúl R. Salinas, ‘Indio Trails: A Xicano Odyssey Through Indian Country’ (Wings Press, 2006) September 2, 2009: I was not introduced to the work of Raúl R. Salinas until very shortly after his death last year. I'd received an email invitation from San Francisco author Alejandro Murguía, to the Galería de la Raza in the Mission to celebrate Salinas's life. At that Galería de la Raza event, I learned that Salinas ran the Austin, TX multicultural [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes

Out of the Blue September 1, 2009: I’m thinking about Can Xue, this Chinese fiction writer who spoke at the 92nd Street Y in April. I went, I was such a groupie. She grew up during the Cultural Revolution in an intellectual family who were forced to do hard, physical labor. In general it was a pretty harsh time. Those of us who are turning 60 this year are exactly as old as [...] by Eileen Myles