Nomadics

Improvisation / Jazz / Music / Performance / Poetry

March 28, 2010

Peyrafitte, Joris & Bisio @ Local269

Monday March 29th 8PM Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris & Michael Bisio (bass) THE LOCAL 269 269 E Houston Street NYC check out the full line up and details as the NY Times put it:...

Intellectuals / Literature / Poetry

March 27, 2010

Olson Conference in Worcester

Saturday March 27: Dana Commons, Clark University Registration and Morning Reception 9:00 AM Presentation: 9:30 – 10:45 Charles Olson Society of Gloucester presents: Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place w/...

Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming

March 24, 2010

Hackin' Earth?

A big conference coming up with scientists trying to see how to geoengineer the climate of the planet — below links to a few articles on these matters in the current issue of Wired....

Uncategorized

March 21, 2010

Sunday March 21 Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris & Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, & Nick Flynn, Major Jackson, Douglas Unger 6PM Poets for Peace at Erika’s 85-101 N. 3rd St # 508 Brooklyn, NY 11211 (between Wythe...

Interview / Literary Magazines & Reviews / Poetics / Poetry

March 20, 2010

Charles Bernstein Interview

An excellent interview by Jay Sanders with Charles Bernstein in the new issue of BOMB, the occasion being the publication of Bernstein’s new volume of selected poems, All the Whiskey in Heaven; Here’s an...

Anthology / Intellectuals / Interview / Literary Magazines & Reviews / Literature / Poetry

March 16, 2010

Kaurab Magazine: Rothenberg Interview & Millennium Anthology Review

The latest installment of the English edition of the Bengali online literary magazine Kaurab has an lovely interview of Jerome Rothenberg by Mark Weiss as well as an excellent review of volume one of...

Blogs / Censorship / Freedom of Speech / Journalism

March 13, 2010

Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0

Via Reporters Without Borders, here are the opening paras of an article on growing internet censorship in a range of countries. You can read the full piece here. The fight for free access to...

Books / Poetry

March 12, 2010

Most happy to be able to report that last night Rae Armantrout was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for her book Versed from Wesleyan University Press. As Ron Silliman has said about...

Conference / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

March 11, 2010

Calendar Updates for March/April

I have been very remiss keeping up my calendar page on the blog, but will try to update it more regularly, & so to remind readers that it exists I’ll post these updates to...

Climate Change / Global Warming / Man-made Disaster

March 10, 2010

Weakening Sun would hardly slow global warming

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: 03/10/2010 Weakening Sun would hardly slow global warming A new Grand Minimum of solar activity would decrease the rise of global mean temperature caused...