Now on Video! Bill Murray at Poets House Brooklyn Bridge Walk June 21, 2011: As we mentioned the other day, wondrous comedian Bill Murray stopped by Poets House for their 16th Annual Poets House Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge, appearing with Eileen Myles, Terrance Hayes, Galway Kinnell, and Thomas Lux. Once they got to Bubby's for dinner, Murray read poems by Sarah Manguso, Billy Collins, and Cole Porter. As Coldfront [...] by Harriet Staff

Robert Fernandez Talks to THERMOS June 21, 2011: In a new post over at THERMOS, Robert Fernandez is interviewed by editor and poet Zach Savich (or rather, prompted by). Fernandez is the author of We Are Pharoah (Canarium Books 2011), and the forthcoming Pink Reef, due out from Canarium in 2013. The poet responds thoughtfully to questions of lyric, tension, grandeur, the sublime ("who's real"), [...] by Harriet Staff

(Verbal) Fight! (Verbal) Fight! The Top 30 Author Beefs June 21, 2011: The folks over at flavorwire have compiled the top 30 author-on-author insults. They are almost as good as when Axl Rose called out Bob Guccione Jr. at Spin. Here are some highlights: 29. Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman “…like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the [...] by Harriet Staff

Augmented Reality Poetry June 20, 2011: Amaranth Borsuk, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working on a project that brings together augmented reality and poetry. According to this article, Borsuk spoke about her project at the Futurebook conference in London: "I became interested in digital poetics. I wanted to make a [...] by Harriet Staff

Danielle Pafunda Looks at the Troubled Logic of Numbers Trouble June 20, 2011: Danielle Pafunda gets all kinds of real over VIDA's numbers trouble at Johannes Goransson's collective blog, Montevidayo. Noting that us smarties should know better, she also reminds us that teaching and explaining are things many poets do for a living: If you don’t know the numbers are skewed, if you don’t understand what the skew [...] by Harriet Staff

Poet Edwin Morgan Leaves £1m to Scottish Government June 20, 2011: Sometimes, sometimes, the government gives money to poets. Well, how's this for opposite day: The Guardian announces today that Scottish poet Edwin Morgan, who died last August, has left nearly 1 million GPB from his will to a shocked Scottish National Party That converts to approx $1,618,600.00. Morgan was Scotland's first "national" poet, and [...] by Harriet Staff

Jack Kerouac On the iPad Road June 20, 2011: We've all heard by now about the digital iPad version of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Wasteland." The New York Times Arts Beat says the application even knocked Marvel Comics out of the top spot on the list for top-grossing book apps. Arts Beat now reports that Kerouac's On the Road is next in line to blow our minds with extraordinary iPad app bells [...] by Harriet Staff

Confirmed! Ceravolo’s Mad Angels Slated for 2012 June 20, 2011: We were keen last week to find out a little bit more about this possibility of Wesleyan University Press publishing a book collecting all of Joseph Ceravolo's work, so we talked a bit of shop with Joe's widow Rosemary Ceravolo. She has confirmed the speculation! Rosemary says that she's been been working with Wesleyan's acquisitions editor for the [...] by Harriet Staff

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative June 20, 2011: Harriet recently had the pleasure of corresponding with the editors of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, published by CUNY’s Center for the Humanities. The series publishes a wide array of unpublished and forgotten documents ranging from poetry lectures and talks to poetry journals and poets’ journals to correspondence [...] by Harriet Staff

Spiderwasp or the mascara snake June 18, 2011: A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. This you know. But did you know that Terry Van Vliet, cousin of the musician/painter Captain Beefheart, is a poet, who according to one Holly Prado, “merges the personal and the mythic with seamless grace.” Well, now you know. Also, Van Vliet’s book, Black Lines on Terracotta, [...] by Harriet Staff