Saudade April 28, 2010: António Nobre’s House -- Eugénio de Andrade The house was small, in front of the sea. It would be insignificant if António Nobre Had not finished his days there: (more...) by Martin Earl

Shout Out to J. Michael Martínez April 28, 2010: Some trivia: In 1981, Alberto Ríos won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. This first-book prize was established in 1975 and has launched the careers of many notable writers, though not until 2009 (twenty-eight years after Ríos) has this award been won, for the second time, by a Latino writer. But the release of [...] by Rigoberto González

Virtual Literalism April 27, 2010: Here is Strange Company's 1999 take on Shelley's "Ozymandias." Please be aware that I wrote "1999." That date is mostly why I didn't bother with an explanation of Machinima. It's that old. by Nick Twemlow

If I were to raise my children the way I write my books, I would have been thrown in jail long ago April 27, 2010: [responding to Alan Gilbert, Mark Nowak, Linh Dinh, and Martin Earl] A common accusation hurled at Conceptual Writing is that it is elitist and out of touch, toiling away in its ivory tower, appealing to the few who are in-the-know. And I'd agree that a lot of "difficult" work has been made under the mantle of populism only to be rejected by [...] by Kenneth Goldsmith

NO TIME TO BREATHE April 27, 2010: As a Single Mom of three, struggling to survive in the South Central and Hollywood ghettos of the late 60s-early 80s, I was never able to find quality writing time. I found a manuscript’s worth at Djerassi in the Santa Cruz mountains circa 1990. Otherwise, virtually every minute of my day was spent “dealing with” some vexation such as [...] by Wanda Coleman

Ambiguity of Spring April 27, 2010: TO ALL MY FELLOW BLOGGERS AND BLOGUETTES: SALUT! 14 April, A.D. 2010 My ambiguity about Spring. I have always been ambiguous about that Season, after all, the poet wrote “April is the cruelest month” (from the epic, "The Wasteland," TS Eliot) Beauty of trees in bloom, ⎯the abundance of foliage after the bareness of Winter. [...] by Sotère Torregian

Halomadworldlangstonhughes April 27, 2010: After reviewing the audio I recorded wandering the book fair and bars of AWP, I concluded that nothing turned up worth mixing and posting. The best piece I heard was a desperate conversation between two fiction writers smoking outside a bar, discussing how “badass” Yaddo is/was. One had been there several times; the other was fishing for [...] by Nick Twemlow

You don’t need time to write. You need space. April 27, 2010: As a mother of two, one a baby seven months old, it has suddenly occurred to me that despite my frequent protests to the contrary, I don’t really need “time" to write.  Somehow the writing gets done while you are doing something else—walking to the grocery store (or taking, as Ange describes here, a long short-cut), or riding the tram, or [...] by A.E. Stallings

The Concise Dictionary of Dress April 27, 2010: BRASH Confident; mistakable. CREASED The line designed by use. PRETENTIOUS Something pretending to be something that it is. REVEALING The performance of the unsustainable moment. SHARP Addressed. Years ago, I was given a residency in the kind of place that knows how to throw a party. They gave one for me, and invited, [...] by Lavinia Greenlaw

Shortcut for Daisy April 27, 2010: Every day, whether it is to ferry my son to his crèche, or to go buy fresh greens for the night's dinner, I must mount one of the several sets of steep stairs that are cut into the rocky hill dividing the campus. The closest set of stairs to the faculty residence actually combines two sets that meet at the head and the foot of the slope. One is a [...] by Ange Mlinko