Gender & Poetry (Part 1): ‘Why Don’t More Women Do Blog-Oriented Writing?’ January 25, 2010: Blogging, friends, is boring. We must not blog so. After all, the screen flashes, the great internet yearns, we ourselves type and yearn, and moreover Kent Johnson told me (repeatingly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored means there is no Avant Garde.’ I conclude now there is no Avant Garde, because I am heavy [...] by Craig Santos Perez

This Year’s National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Are . . . January 24, 2010: Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan) Louise Glück, A Village Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) D.A. Powell, Chronic (Graywolf Press) Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008 (Louisiana State University Press) Rachel Zucker, Museum of Accidents (Wave Books) by Poetry Foundation

On not being boring January 23, 2010: I'm not sure what is worse, being boring or being bored. Being boring is perhaps more egregious. Being bored I can cut the borer some slack by reminding myself of my relative impatience around someone recounting, in too great detail, local traffic lights and their illogical timing: an irritation perhaps, but hardly a conspiracy, and hardly fodder [...] by Sina Queyras

Bonjour Albert Camus January 21, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Bonjour-Albert-CamusFINAL.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Commoning With Rob Halpern and Robert Kocik January 20, 2010: This weekend I will be presenting with Rob Halpern and Robert Kocik at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel about the histories and futures of commoning. The title of our presentation is “How Things Hold Together And How The Way In Which We're Currently Going About Things As A Society Is Not How Things Hold Together” and is subtitled “a [...] by Thom Donovan

Red worms January 20, 2010: by Bhanu Kapil

Homage to David January 20, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ResponseFINAL.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

Flarf is Officially Dead & Stop Laughing at ‘Cock’! January 20, 2010: So some claim that flarf died after Dan Hoy's essay "The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet." Others claim flarf suffered a "mob attack" during the controversy surrounding Michael Magee's poem "Their Glittering Asian Guys are Gay." Others [...] by Craig Santos Perez

In Medias Res January 19, 2010: [audio:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/In-Medias-Res.mp3] by Sotère Torregian

One blurb, two blurb, three blurb, thirty blurbs January 19, 2010: Following up on Craig Santos Perez's post on blurbs I offer the following snippet from Vanessa Place's review of Credit, by Matthew Timmons: Timmons collected thirty blurbs for the book, including blurbs from Craig Dworkin, Rodrigo Toscano, and me. I did not read the book, look at a manuscript or pdf, or have any textual interaction beyond [...] by Sina Queyras