Stephen Burt's Blog, page 6
February 20, 2011
back to ny…
Talking poetry here this Thursday, then reading my own poems here this Friday. See you there?
February 4, 2011
Blacksmith House, and more
I'm reading at Blacksmith House in Cambridge with the amazing Allan Peterson this Monday Feb. 7 at 8pm.
And I'm in The Nation, writing about Yeats!
Also in The New Republic, writing about Carl Dennis. I like his new book.
And finally, on the National Book Critics Circle blog, writing about Terrance Hayes. What a good book. (There I'm part of the 31 Books in 31 Days series, where we review or re-review all the awards finalists for the year.)
January 18, 2011
why, I’ll be…
…introducing the finalists in criticism for the National Book Critics Circle this Saturday night in New York.
I’ll also be reading from my own poems with Allan Peterson, who is terrific, at Blacksmith House in Cambridge on Monday Feb. 7.
Do consider attending either event, if you’ve got no other plans.
why, I'll be…
…introducing the finalists in criticism for the National Book Critics Circle this Saturday night in New York.
I'll also be reading from my own poems with Allan Peterson, who is terrific, at Blacksmith House in Cambridge on Monday Feb. 7.
Do consider attending either event, if you've got no other plans.
January 6, 2011
evening out
The first issue of the new online journal Evening Will Come appears to consist (so far) entirely of a fine lyric essay by C. D. Wright: read to the end to see what she views as the primary, or most powerful, single word.
December 28, 2010
in hyde park (for robert von hallberg)
Just received, and something I'm really going to be very happy to read: the new Chicago Review, whose essays'n'criticism section amounts to a festschrift for Robert von Hallberg. You can't read the essays online– you'll have to buy the issue, or read it in some good library– but you can read new poems by Rae Armantrout, along with a swath of book reviews.
on the south bank
Trying to track down something in a literary magazine you can't find, and one your library doesn't own? If the magazine is British, you're in luck: I had to look up something in the much-lamented Thumbscrew and there's lots of 'screws at the Southbank Centre Poetry Library. Also Angel Exhaust for the avant-gardiste, a few New Welsh Reviews, and many more. That's what the Internet is for. (Well, that, and some other things. Pictures of cats, say.)
December 27, 2010
a mike chasar christmas
One of my new favorite poetry bloggers, Mike Chasar at Poetry and Popular Culture, has been puncturing pretensions for a while now: in his, or their (friends do it too) latest, we see how and why the Hallmark card might surpass even (say) Susan Howe, or Pound, in requiring its projected readers to focus on the materiality of the page on which the verse appears. (Is a sigh in order? Perhaps.)
December 23, 2010
never went away
Merry holidays! Here's a useful interview with Rae Armantrout, whom another blog has now declared our poet of the year.
And here I am writing about Timothy Donnelly, surely one of the best books of the year. Watch this space.
November 26, 2010
from Minneapolis
Both the podcast and the transcript for part of our NBCC event in Minneapolis ("What can a book review do for a book?") are now online.
