$20 for $50 Sold Out! May 17, 2013: We'll leave off the week with this final item. It is true that poetry is a kind of money. Vanessa Place drilled this lesson into us this week when we found out that the first poetry-product from VanessaPlace Inc., a book of poetry made literally of money, called $20 (selling for $50), sold out at the May 3rd launch. To the poetics of [...] by Harriet Staff

Let’s Begin to Read Julien Poirier’s WAY TOO WEST May 17, 2013: Over at Filip Marinovich's WOLFMAN LIBRARIAN is a PDF of the first of Julien Poirier's long poem "WAY TOO WEST," scheduled to appear there weekly in serialized form for thirteen episodes. The post includes a music video! Poirier was a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he co-edited 6×6 and edited New York Nights newspaper from [...] by Harriet Staff

The Believer Reveals Something We Did Not Already Know About Ezra Pound And Walt Whitman May 17, 2013: -the story of Sadakichi Hartmann, a bohemian artist who befriended both Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound! Who the heck is Sadakichi Hartmann? Well friends, The Believer's Michelle Legro has done the legwork here and if you thought you knew all the crazy anecdotes there are to know about the great and powerful poets Ezra Pound and Walt Whitman, [...] by Harriet Staff

Rigoberto González on Three Poetry Contests that Seek to Remedy May 17, 2013: [caption id="attachment_67691" align="alignright" width="500"] Rigoberto González[/caption] The Los Angeles Review of Books has Rigoberto González discussing the merits of the poetry contest within the context of a more diverse literary landscape--the winners of three contests in particular serve "as antidotes to the underrepresentation of [...] by Harriet Staff

‘Il Pleut’: ASCII, Apollinaire & Joyce May 17, 2013: The second part of a three-part series on Rhizome explores art with its lineage in American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)—but wait, this is about Apollinaire, first! A few of our favorite calligrammes are presented here. And the emotionally complex, code-based emoticon, second! For instance: Following in the [...] by Harriet Staff

Casagrande Needs Our Help! May 16, 2013: If you think back to last year's Olympics in London, you'll recall the remarkable performance staged by the Chilean arts collective Casagrande. Yes, we're talking about the bombing of poems over London. Our friend David Shook covered the even for us here. Now, Casagrande is hoping to publish a book containing poems from the bombing, along with [...] by Harriet Staff

How to Take Care of a Really Cool Book Jacket May 16, 2013: ...like those ones that are on books published by New Directions... Oh wait! Here's one! Our friends over at BOMBLOG, recently posted a fantastic conversation between Michael Barron (Poet and Associate Editor at New Directions ) and Elaine Lustig Cohen (Artist, Designer, and Partner/Collaborator of the late Alvin Lustig: legendary book jacket [...] by Harriet Staff

Happy Birthday, Adrienne Rich!! May 16, 2013: We're always happy to find the occasion to celebrate the poetry of Adrienne Rich. Our excuse today is that it's her b-day! The good folks over at brain pickings have posted Rich's 1997 letter declining the National Medal of Arts. They write: In 1997, to protest the growing monopoly of power and the government’s proposed plan to end [...] by Harriet Staff

SALT Shifts from Solos to Series May 16, 2013: Salt, a U.K.-based poetry and fiction publisher, announced yesterday that it plans to shift its emphasis in poetry from single-author poetry collections to its popular Best British Poetry anthology series. Salt has been publishing poetry collections from writers across the globe for the past thirteen years: to date, Salt has published over [...] by Harriet Staff

David Wojnarowicz Journals Are Up Online, Thanks to Fales Special Collections May 16, 2013: David Wojnarowicz scholars and fans rejoice: The artist's journals--archived at NYU's Fales Library & Special Collections--have just been digitized! Check out one of the tweeted photos of the many; and the full list of materials is here available to VIEW. We spied this poem, "Poem to Brian Sleeping": GalleristNY writes that "[The [...] by Harriet Staff