NBCC Campaign to Save Book Reviews April 27, 2007: No, it isn’t a rumor that the book review sections of newspapers in LA, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, and more are being axed or shrunk. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) are beating their keyboards into swords and have launched a campaign to save book reviews. Their efforts are gaining momentum on the Web this week: The New [...] by Emily Warn

Poetry is Dangerous via Kazim Ali April 20, 2007: This story came to our attention via the NYU listserv. Kazim thought it was a good idea to post it here, too. "On April 19, after a day of teaching classes at Shippensburg University, I went out to my car and grabbed a box of old poetry manuscripts from the front seat of my little white beetle and carried it across the street and put it next to [...] by Emily Warn

Responding to Violent Poems in the Classroom April 18, 2007: When I taught creative writing at Lynchburg College in Virginia, I discovered, like many creative writing teachers, that violence pervaded the lives of many undergraduates students. After receiving several poems about assaults, suicide, and abuse, I conducted an unscientific survey. I asked students to anonymously list violence they, their [...] by Emily Warn

Book Notes: D. Revell and C.D. Wright April 18, 2007: Book Notes Is Kenneth Goldsmith the lost triplet of Henry Thoreau and Ronald Johnson? Donald Revell called the latter two “twinned visionaries” in his new book of essays Invisible Green (Omnidawn). They both drank from the same arrowhead he hypothesizes--by which he means their writing depends on “facts found as they are.” Their art is to [...] by Emily Warn

“Books Every Poet should Read (But Probably Hasn’t).” March 1, 2007: Recommended reading from the editors on the AWP panel “Books Every Poet should Read (But Probably Hasn’t).” 1. Michael Wiegers, Editor, Copper Canyon Press So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound Classics Revisited by Kenneth Rexroth Adagia by Wallace Stevens Letter to an Am Imaginary Friend by Thomas McGrath Note from a [...] by Emily Warn

A Book Is Published Every 30 Minutes March 1, 2007: Michael Wiegers, editor at Copper Canyon Press, pulled out this fact to explain why he organized a panel called “Books Every Poet should Read (But Probably Hasn’t).” “With so many books coming out, the publishing industry puts serious marketing pressures on literary titles and can end up silencing them,” he said. The idea was for the [...] by Emily Warn