The Globe and Mail Notes the “Real Domination” of Jay MillAr’s BookThug November 14, 2011: "Not since Coach House Press first published the likes of Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje more than 40 years ago has a single publisher of poetry made such an impression on the national literature," writes Canada's The Globe and Mail about "upstart small press" BookThug, which is "operated on a kitchen table almost single-handedly by Toronto [...] by Harriet Staff

Milkweed Editions Announces a $10K Prize for Poetry November 14, 2011: Publisher's Weekly announces that Milkweed Editions, a publisher and literary nonprofit based in Minneapolis, has created a $10,000 poetry prize (pretty impressive!) for an original manuscript. The Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry is in collaboration with a local law firm, and will only be available to residents of North Dakota, South [...] by Harriet Staff

Two Denis Leary poems November 14, 2011: Emerson alum Denis Leary hosted the Ploughshares 40th anniversary fundraiser a ways back, and The Boston Pheoenix put up unearthed two of Leary's poems, published in said journal in 1977. We just read them, and, you know, they aren't bad! Here's one: He weeds the clouds Dad screwed another cigarette into his lips crossed his [...] by Harriet Staff

Poets Totally Get Cognitive Obstacles November 14, 2011: Wired explores why constraints aid poets: One of the many paradoxes of human creativity is that it seems to benefit from constraints. Although we imagine the imagination as requiring total freedom, the reality of the creative process is that it’s often entangled with strict conventions and formal requirements. Pop songs have choruses and [...] by Harriet Staff

The Week In Review: 11-11-11 Edition November 11, 2011: Did you catch it? Depending on whether or not you’re on a 24-hour clock (or as we yanks call it, “army time”), you may get another chance. Today, November 11, 2011, at approximately eleven seconds past 11:11 AM, certain digital timekeeping devices displayed the same digit twelve times contiguously. It hasn’t happened in years and it [...] by Harriet Staff

Corduroy’s poet laureate November 11, 2011: When Emily Gordon takes the stage tonight in New York at the "Grandest Meeting" of the Corduroy Appreciation Club, she'll be wearing a corduroy hat, pin, skirt, and high heels -- exceeding the club's required three item minimum. Then, in her official function as the Poet Laureate of Corduroy (yes, you read that correctly), she'll read a poem [...] by Harriet Staff

Jimmy Carter and Dylan Thomas Rock the Joint November 11, 2011: According to the BBC, good ol' Jimmy Carter, a major Dylan Thomas fan, will lend his voice, literally, to all who visit Thomas' home. Check it: Former US President Jimmy Carter, a lifelong Dylan Thomas fan, is to lend his voice to welcome visitors to the poet's Swansea birthplace. He will introduce a new audio-visual tour at No 5, [...] by Harriet Staff

Mapping poetic geography November 11, 2011: The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has launched a Twittery project called Poetry 4 U that allows people to upload short poems (140 characters, of course) to a Google map: Pinning community-generated poetry to site-specific spaces on google maps allows a layer of narrative to alter the reader’s perception of their immediate [...] by Harriet Staff

Former poet laureate Robert Hass pushed around by police at Berkeley protests November 11, 2011: This video from KTVU shows, at 1:13, Robert Hass in the human chain of protesters at Berkeley getting pushed around by police with batons. (News comes via Aaron Bady @zunguzungu) NPR has more on the protests, and the San Francisco Chronicle has more on the UC police's use of batons. by Harriet Staff

Deleted Scenes from an Astonishing Interview with Lisa Robertson in The Capilano Review November 10, 2011: The Capilano Review is at it again! They've just printed "Deleted Scenes" from Ted Byrne's interview with Lisa Robertson, which opens TCR 3.15 (Fall 2011) and is called "This Animal, the Pronoun: An Interview." We need to purchase the physical issue to read the entire thing (those contents are drool-worthy, so no problem), but we've got ideas [...] by Harriet Staff