Paper Can Haz Advantages?! May 21, 2013: Sure can! That may not come as a surprise to many poets out there who haven't yet transitioned from Ticonderoga pencils to MacBook Pro, however, who better to hear about paper's advantages than from Arrigo Berni: the CEO of Moleskine. Berni appeared on this week's edition of the American Public Media program, Marketplace, to speak about [...] by Harriet Staff

Marjorie Perloff’s Recent Talk on Paul Celan at University of Chicago May 21, 2013: At his Samizdat blog, Robert Archambeau reflects on Marjorie Perloff's recent talk on Paul Celan at the University of Chicago's new Logan Center (and he quite admired it): We tend to see Celan almost exclusively in the context of Holocaust writing, with John Felstiner's Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew as the great explanatory text. [...] by Harriet Staff

Help Felix Bernstein & Kevin Killian Make BOYLAND May 21, 2013: Looking for a new art project to fund, one that might provide some spiritual redemption? We have an idear, having just noticed that Kevin Killian and Felix Bernstein, among others, are collaborating on a new film called BOYLAND. "The pomp and bathos of Death in Venice meets the twisted humor of Lolita in BOYLAND." According to composer Kirk [...] by Harriet Staff

The Mimeo Revolution Continues with Granary’s New Archive from ‘A Secret Location’ May 21, 2013: Granary Books announces an important new title--Archive from “A Secret Location”--and oddly enough, we were just talking about its precursor the other day, recalling it as a necessary read for those interested in the history of the small-press movement, mimeograph revolution, and poetry in the mid-twentieth cent. That one would be A Secret [...] by Harriet Staff

Siglio Press’s Lisa Pearson in Conversation with The Believer May 20, 2013: The Believer Logger posted this great conversation between Nicolle Elizabeth, one of its staffers, and Lisa Pearson, the founder and publisher of Siglio Press. (Perhaps you recognize the name "Siglio" from "In Gray There is Multiplicity: Snapshots from It Is Almost That / A Collection of Image+Text work by Women Artists & Writers," Eileen [...] by Harriet Staff

University of Arizona Poetry Center Announces New Executive Director May 20, 2013: On August 5th, the University of Arizona Poetry Center will have a new Executive Director: Tyler Meier. Meier joins the Poetry Center after working for many years as a poet, administrator, and educator. The announcement, posted on the UA Poetry Center's website, is a fantastic introduction to Meier and his work: Meier comes to the [...] by Harriet Staff

John Ashbery & Frank O’Hara on Erje Ayden, the Pulp Writer for the New York School May 20, 2013: A truly great feature and the Friday pick at BODY magazine: John Ashbery introduces us to the Turkish writer Erje Ayden, who some of you might know better as the pulp fiction writer behind the New York School. Ayden started out as a spy in Europe in the 1950s and then moved into the downtown New York arts scene, befriending Frank O'Hara and [...] by Harriet Staff

In Which We Learn That Some Critics Call Any Literary Artifacts Poems May 20, 2013: Neat-o, huh? According to this recent Inside Higher Ed article by Scott McLemee, in which he reviews Mathew L. Jockers's new book, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods & Literary History (University of Illinois Press), "some critics apply the word 'poem' to any literary artifact." The article begins: “A poem,” wrote William Carlos [...] by Harriet Staff

$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