Fascinating Piece on Gertrude Stein’s Pro-Vichy Politics, ‘Innocence’ of Intellectuals May 4, 2012: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities has a great piece up on the strangely pro-Vichy, quasi-Fascist politics of Gertrude Stein, written by Barbara Will, Stein scholar and professor of English at Dartmouth. Apparently, "Stein’s Vichy past has long been known to scholars of her work, if not to the public at large. In 1970, [...] by Harriet Staff

Baroqueness: Gertrude Stein, C.K. Williams, John Donne, Peter Paul Rubens, John Milton, Frank O’Hara April 20, 2012: "Where's SARDINES?" All that's left is just letters, "It was too much," Mike says. --Frank O’Hara, from “Why I am Not a Painter.” O’Hara and Goldberg talk about composition. What to put where in the picture and how much. Poems have compositions too, distinct or semi-distinct from their subjects. What to put in the beginning so as [...] by Daisy Fried

Delighted Obstinacy: Steve Evans on Gertrude Stein June 13, 2011: Always grateful for a Steve Evans essay. In an extended post as part of The Steins Collect show at SFMOMA, the critic and professor writes today for Open Space about Gertrude Stein--expressing the poet's feeling that the nature of existence is not repetition, but insistence; and deftly introducing the reader to her writing studio as salon in [...] by Harriet Staff

Eileen Myles on relationships and refusing to align with Greek statues December 3, 2010: Antonio Gonzalez's Lambda Literary interview with Eileen Myles covers a lot of ground—race, class, gender, sexuality, politeness, sentimentality, professionalization—but the discussions all revolve around poets' relationships to one another and what it means to belong, or not, to certain artistic communities. I don’t really have an [...] by Harriet Staff

Dressing up Gertrude Stein June 25, 2010: Artist Katrina Rodabaugh has created an interdisciplinary exhibit to celebrate poet Gertrude Stein in Project Artaud’s Z Space. The exhibit features handmade dresses, letterpress prints, photographs, poetry, and dance by more than 30 women artists. Via The San Francisco Examiner. Inspired by Gertrude Stein’s groundbreaking, experimental [...] by Harriet Staff