Micropost: Micronovels, Micromovies, Microscripts February 22, 2012: The Marbridge Daily dishes on Shineshow, a Chinese film and television production company, and their recent partnership with Shanda Literature "under which it will film the online literature platform's top-selling 'micronovels' as 'micromovies,' providing a means for pooling Shanda's literature and film resources." Apparently, all this "micro" [...] by Harriet Staff

Louise Glück Is a Marvelous Yelper February 22, 2012: Former Poet Laureates! They're just like us! Turns out our friend Louise Glück is quite the Yelper. Having recently utilized the services of Heather's Home Cleaning in Berkeley, Glück waxed fondly: I am writing this review on behalf of Louise Gluck, a visiting professor at the University I work for: When I first walked into the [...] by Harriet Staff

A Conversation with the Payphone Librarian February 22, 2012: Well, this is awesome. Columbia architecture grad John Locke has been fashioning pop-up libraries inside of old payphones. John Metcalfe at The Atlantic caught up with Locke. Here's a snippet. Make the jump for more, including photos. Based on your experiments, do you see the public-phone library as a viable concept? The [...] by Harriet Staff

Early Love for Eileen Myles New Collection February 22, 2012: Although it doesn't properly release until April, we're all excited about Eileen Myles new double-book Snowflake / different streets, including Saehee Cho, who wrote an early review of it for HTMLGIANT. Cho begins: Eileen Myles’ poetry actively, consciously pursues the tangential thought. In her new dual collection of poems, Snowflake [...] by Harriet Staff

A Charming Anecdote About Robert Creeley & Stephen Rodefer February 21, 2012: Mike Kelleher's Aimless Reading project at his blog Pearlblossom Highway has never been all that aimless--more on the alphabetical side of things. He's currently on the R's. After reading Rodefer's Passing Duration, Kelleher has posted a charming story about Stephen Rodefer, as told to him by Robert Creeley: Rodefer was one of the bright [...] by Harriet Staff

Help Bring a Larry Levis Documentary to Life February 21, 2012: See this Kickstarter page for a documentary film about poet Larry Levis that "that explores the work and life of Levis from multiple perspectives. The director of the film, Michele Poulos, has been funding the project on her own up until now, but it has grown so much in scope that we need to reach out to our Internet fan base to help us make [...] by Harriet Staff

Tebow Reads February 21, 2012: Here's a video of Tim Tebow reading "Green Eggs and Ham." You're welcome? by Harriet Staff

Former Cellist for The Books on Books February 21, 2012: Paul De Jong, cellist for the now disbanded The Books, offers up his "Readings" over at The Believer. He likes prose poems, as this short list makes clear. Here's his take on Max Jacob: Max Jacob - Selected Poems Not much of Max Jacob’s opus has been published in English or in any other language than its original French. I know of two [...] by Harriet Staff

LA Times Announces 2011 Book Prize Finalists in Poetry February 21, 2012: The 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists have been announced. The Prizes will be presented on Friday, April 20, 2012, in a public ceremony at the LA Times Festival of Books. The poetry nods: Songs of Unreason, Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press) Discipline, Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat Books) The Public Gardens, Linda Norton (Pressed [...] by Harriet Staff

Laura Kasischke Wins First Rilke Poetry Prize February 21, 2012: The University of North Texas Creative Writing Program inaugurated a $10,000 Rilke Poetry Prize last year, to recognize "exceptional artistry and vision written by a mid-career poet." The first winner is Laura Kasischke for her collection Space, In Chains. Here's a snippet from an article on Art & Seek: The UNT judges declare that [...] by Harriet Staff