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In-flight entertainment gets literary September 21, 2011: Look forward to more than fourteen grams of vacuum-packed "snack mix" on your next cross-country flight--meet Airplane Reading, the new online journal from poet Mark Yakich and United-Airlines-employee-turned-English-scholar Christopher Schaberg: We started this site to treat “airplane reading” seriously. Beyond throwaway entertainment [...]
Lorin Stein and The Paris Review: The personal is professional is literary is a party February 28, 2011: Because it's a Fashion & Style piece, let's get a few things out of the way in The New York Times' profile of Paris Review editor Lorin Stein. Who makes his suits? Kirk Miller. What exclusive bar does he frequent? The Wooly. What literary figure's photobooth portrait keeps watch over his office bathroom? Frederick Seidel. There are also the [...]
Essays for Robert von Hallberg February 1, 2011: Poetry magazine recently received this welcome dispatch from Chicago Review, with links to PDFs of knockouts from their latest number. From CR editor, V. Joshua Adams: Readers of Harriet may be interested in two essays on contemporary poetry from the latest issue of Chicago Review (55:3—4). In "Apocalypticism: A Way Forward for Poetry," [...]
The Poe House of the Poe Homes September 1, 2010: Freelance writer A. N. Devers trekked to Baltimore in search of the home of Edgar Allan Poe. Along the way, she discovered her own need for a sense of place, as chronicled in an excerpt from "On the Outskirts" in literary magazine Tin House. Devers explores the value in preserving the homes of writers, and why "our romantic need to idealize [...]
Frank O’Hara writes to Larry Rivers August 13, 2010: The Best American Poetry blog has a letter from O'Hara to his friend/muse/collaborator Larry Rivers. A taste: . . . but really, I don't see why one shouldn't enjoy something in life if one can stand not enjoying so much else. it's too bad you don't imagine I understand you as well as I imagine you understand me, but we can't have everything [...]
What does Kevin Morrissey’s suicide mean for the Virginia Quarterly Review? August 13, 2010: The Chronicle of Higher Education explores the recent suicide by Kevin Morrissey, managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, and what it might mean for the prestigious literary journal. The Chronicle's account gives an overview of the magazine's rise from relatively staid academic journal to National Magazine Award winner, and follows up [...]
An ode cephalopods August 13, 2010: Over at the Kenyon Review blog, poet and former Typing Explosion star Sierra Nelson explains why Cephalopods (crustaceans belonging to the phylum mollusca such as octopus, squid, and cuttlefish) are sublime beings that test our capacity for wonderment. Turns out, they can mimic, change color and texture, and even glow! As one of the founders of [...]
Surely the last word(s) on the Paris Review’s Unacceptance? July 22, 2010: @We Who Are About to Die, a Part 4 in which another rejected poet explains why he's sad. @Nothing to Say and Saying It, John Gallaher gives us the new theme song for the Paris Review. @Pansy Poetics a forlorn poet left hanging in his finest tuxedo. @Seinfeld, well, this is just a funny episode.
A call for tributes to Leslie Scalapino June 9, 2010: The online journal Delirious Hem is soliciting tributes--both poetic and scholarly--to the poet Leslie Scalapino, who died last month: Leslie Scalapino's writing placed inside/outside events together with/in spacetime. Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever passing. We invite you to [...]
This is what a feminist [poet] looks like May 11, 2010: The online journal Delirious Hem features Asian-American Kundiman fellows exploring feminist poetics: Where do you draw your poetic lineages from the poetries of Asian American female or gender-non-conforming poets? How do you (do you) intersect with feminist poetics? Other communities of women? Transgendered/gender-variant communities? [...]