Jared Nielsen Programs Gertrude Stein’s a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose… (You Get the Picture) January 9, 2013: Thanks to Post Position for sending up this gritty ditty by Jared Nielsen, based on a Gertrude Stein fragment. Jared Nielsen, thanks to his schooling in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, his ability as a programmer, and his recent creation of a puppet, has developed an amazing conflation of Gertrude Stein, the Python programming [...] by Harriet Staff

Editorial Piedra Cuervo in Baja Engages with Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian, Kathy Acker & Juliana Spahr January 4, 2013: [caption id="attachment_59095" align="alignright" width="500"] Gidi Loza’s Desollada: visiones crónicas. Ensayando a Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian, Kathy Acker y Juliana Spahr / Flayed: chronic visions. Rehearsing Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian, Kathy Acker and Juliana Spahr.[/caption] Our Spanish is perpetually rusty, but we've been paying [...] by Harriet Staff

Poetry Postcards and Postcards from Poets! October 18, 2012: Check out what arrived at this humble Harrieter's desk this morning! Five issues of the Hoot Review, a literary magazine in the form of a postcard. According to their website, the Hoot Review is "for people to have a literary magazine that they can both afford to subscribe to and have time to read. Never again will you be able to claim that [...] by Harriet Staff

Exciting and Simple: Lew Welch, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein August 6, 2012: City Lights Books has just reissued Lew Welch's Collected Poems, Ring of Bone, with a cover photo of Lew taken in 1965 by his old friend the photographer "Steamboat" Jim Hatch. City Lights has been distributing Grey Fox Press books, published by Don Allen, since Don Allen's death in 2004 (Grey Fox was the original publisher of Ring of [...] by Joanne Kyger

A Correspondence with Alice Toklas June 27, 2012: Bruce Kellner traded congenial letters with Alice Toklas, Gertrude Stein’s partner, until shortly before her death in 1967. In an essay published in the Turtle Point Press Magazine, Kellner remembers their correspondence, which began while he served in the Korean War and led to their meeting in 1962. Here, Kellner describes meeting the [...] by Harriet Staff

A Gertrude Stein Internet Party June 26, 2012: Seems like Gertrude Stein is all over the interwebs these days, what with the new edition of her Stanzas in Meditation, and concern over her activities during WWII, and with the concern over the concern over those activities. Now, here's a list of everything you will ever need to read about Stein published in 2012, via the Beinecke Library. [...] by Harriet Staff

The Hidden Secrets of Stein’s Stanzas June 21, 2012: Christopher Schmidt at the Boston Review takes on the new, fixed-up edition of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas from Yale University Press. This notoriously difficult poem, Schmidt says, is ripe for closer scrutiny as it played such a large role in Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s relationship: As Alice B. Toklas sleeps, Stein silently works her [...] by Harriet Staff

Renate Stendahl places recent Gertrude Stein controversy in context June 7, 2012: Over at Tikkun, the debate around Gertrude Stein's wartime activities is articulated at length, including Barbara Will's claim that Stein essentially wanted the Nobel Peace Prize for Hitler. "Why the Witch Hunt?" asks Stein scholar and translator Renate Stendhal. For it's not just in the literary world or on Bernstein's blog at Jacket2 where [...] by Harriet Staff

The Met Adds to Stein Wartime Discourse… May 23, 2012: First, wow: "After Gertrude [Stein]'s friend Mabel Weeks heard [Four Saints in Three Acts] performed by Virgil Thomson...she opined, 'It would finish opera just as Picasso had finished oil painting.'" More from the website of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A few months [before the premiere in February 1934], the director of the museum, [...] by Harriet Staff

Charles Bernstein Helps to Set the Gertrude Stein Wartime Record Straight May 9, 2012: We recently pointed to a piece by scholar Barbara Will on Gertrude Stein's potentially iffy wartime politics; and The New Yorker posited the other day, oddly, that "The Anti-Defamation League is right to say that Stein’s 'troubling ideology was inextricably linked to her art collection.'" Now, at Jacket2, Charles Bernstein hopes to set [...] by Harriet Staff