Useless Wooden Toys April 30, 2013: [caption id="attachment_66233" align="alignright" width="500"] Jeff Grosso, still from Speed Freaks, 1989[/caption] I always dug that title from the New Deal video, aptly taken from Jeff Grosso’s part in Speed Freaks where, laying on a sofa after shaving his eyebrows off says, “…the life of a professional skateboarder, lounge around all [...] by Micah Ballard

Looking at The Selected Correspondence of John Wieners and Charles Olson November 14, 2012: Isola di Rifiuti is at it again—we just reposted John Latta's thinking on Denise Riley, George Stanley, and Joanne Kyger—and we'd like to point you today to a post on John Wieners and Charles Olson. Latta is reading the Lost & Found Series III; we're grateful for his historicizing of the books thus far. An excerpt from his look at “the [...] by Harriet Staff

Found: Charles Olson Gave a Legendary (& Pretty Drunk) Reading at the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference June 11, 2012: It's Monday. What better way to start off the week than with a drunken rant/best reading ever. Well, the good folks at PennSound Daily have unearthed just that: Charles Olson's lecture/reading from the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference. Jeff Boruszak writes: [W]e're proud to announce a new recording found in the collection of tapes sent [...] by Harriet Staff

More Olson at the Range March 6, 2012: After reading Norma Cole's "Craft Work" piece today, we know our readers are dying for more Olson. Fear not! The Range has brought us "In Cold Hell, in Thicket." Hope that gives you your daily Olson fix. by Harriet Staff

This and That March 6, 2012: Why are we looking at this—what does this have to do with poetry (writing poetry) now? Said in class with some exasperation by a student. The this doesn’t matter. Its matter could be anything. It’s the exasperation that makes it/this crucial. The exasperation inspires this writing. Feeling it, taking it in, from her into me, mine own [...] by Norma Cole

Help Save Charles Olson’s Neighborhood March 2, 2012: See this from Paul Nelson's website: Forwarding this from Peter Anastas, author of the Olson memoir, From Gloucester Out. He’s asking us to: “Sign this petition and forward it to friends, poets, Olson and Gloucester lovers, who live outside of the city. We are fighting hard to save Olson’s neighborhood from the development of a [...] by Harriet Staff