Things to do instead of blogging on Blogger:

1. Comb your hair.
2. Lend your comb to a friend to comb her hair.
3. Boil prepared fruit and strain.

I am a bad blogger this week, a bad, bad blogger.

Whatever you read elsewhere, please remember:

I've been busy thinking about Bill Saluga.

Esther Press #1

I'm a fan: Anna Moschovakis at every other day.

Owen, Alberto. Morning balmOwen Wilson suicide Gonzales resigns absent magazine 2

• NEARLY GONE

HAPPY SATURDAY.

New from Wave Books

 JOE WENDEROTH


DOROTHEA LASKY
first-book interview at every other day

Jeff T. Johnson

Dana Ward, Alli Warren & David Larsen

everyone in the room is a representative of the world at large — catherine wagner

Lisa Robertson added to the Tuesday, November 6th reading with Joseph Lease.

fornicating

The post title's just to get the hit count up.

TOMORROW NIGHT: Dana Ward, Alli Warren, and David Larsen. Hosted by me in a plunging V-neck T-shirt in beautiful downtown Berkeley.

Why I Am White
by Mathias Svalina

Now availabe from Kitchen Press.

And at PEGASUS BOOKS DOWNTOWN.

Gloria Frym added to the Saturday, October 13 reading with Chady Sweeney and Ethan Paqun.

get with it, wouldja, huh?

I'm not spending enough time on Facebook.

The 2007 Bay Area Poetry Marathon

Curated by Donna de la Perriere & Joseph Lease



Saturday, August 25, 7-9 PM
Edward Foster, Judith Goldman, Andrew Joron, Dana Teen Lomax, Denise Newman, Lisa Robertson.
$3-$15 sliding scale admission

From its inception during the summer of 2001, the Boston Poetry Marathon developed a national reputation among experimental poets. An annual weekend-long event, it featured approximately 40 readers (poets primarily but also artists from mixed genres). Everyone, from the distinguished poetic elder to the excited emerging poet, read for 20 minutes each. Boston Marathon readers included Charles Bernstein, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Robert Creeley, Forrest Gander, Laura Mullen, David Shapiro, Tom Sleigh, Cole Swensen, and many others. When co-founders / co-curators Donna de la Perriere and Joseph Lease moved to the Bay Area in 2003, they moved the Poetry Marathon to San Francisco. A tremendous success, the 2004, 2005, and 2006 Bay Area Poetry Marathons took place as four day long events at The LAB. This year, poets from across the U.S. and the Bay Area join together again to celebrate innovative poetry in a series of readings throughout the summer at The LAB. Come join us to hear this year's exciting line-up!

NYLUND, THE SARCOGRAPHER

Kate Greenstreet's first-book interview with Alex Lemon (OCT. 15 ⇒).

New Effing Press Titles

MATTHEA HARVEY Nov. 13 @ Poetry Flash

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

I've got mind-blindness!

Joseph Lease @ Pegasus Books Downtown Tuesday, Nov. 6.

COMING IN OCTOBER  New DVD The Other Side of The Mirror: Bob Dylan at The Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965.

STAN APPS' NEW BLOG ADDRESS

Zolf done.

Schedule is filling up for the fall (⇒), and as the readings are all free, I think I can objectively say you're excited.

PEGASUS BOOKS DOWNTOWN

  Three readings in the coming days:

THURSDAY: Poets Tony Trigilio and Andrew Demcak
SATURDAY: Fold Magazine with Mark Wallace, K. Lorraine Graham, William Moor, Franklin Bruno, and Matthew Timmons.
SUNDAY: 33 1/3's Kate Schatz, Douglas Wolk, and Shawn Taylor.

  LINKS RIGHT ⇒

Merv Griffin had all that money in his later life and could have come out and told everybody who didn't like it to fuck off.

Flood News

Dear Friends:

I am writing with summer news from Flood Editions:

ROBERT ADAMSON's The Goldfinches of Baghdad has won The Age Poetry Prize, awarded by Australia's leading newspaper. It has also been short-listed for The Queensland's Premier's Poetry Award, The Victorian Premier's Poetry Prize, and The Age Book of the Year.

TOM PICKARD's Ballad of Jamie Allan is forthcoming in October. Reliable sources describe the book as follows: Tom Pickard's Ballad of Jamie Allan recounts the true adventures of an eighteenth-century gypsy musician who lived on the English-Scottish Borders and died in Durham jail, serving a life sentence for stealing a horse. Though once patronized by dukes and earls, Allan lost their support as his wayward behavior began to exceed their own. Drawing on newspaper accounts and court depositions, Pickard brings the ballad tradition of stark reportage to life with his own genius for the form. Through the words of his cohorts and contemporaries, Allan emerges as a spirit of the Borders, that wild and historically lawless region where rivers and fells set the stage for his captures and escapes.

Pickard will be reading from Ballad of Jamie Allan across the U.S.A. in September of 2008.

LISA JARNOT's Black Dog Songs is now in its third printing. Her new book of poetry will be out at the end of the year.

FOR MORE INFORMATION and updates, check our web site (which will be redesigned and expanded soon): http://www.floodeditions.com/

Best Wishes,
Devin Johnston

Check out Princess of the World in Love by Stan Apps from Cy Press.

Today's balm: "Thank fucking God that's over."

Cecil Giscombe
Robert Hass
Lyn Hejinian
Geoffrey G. O'Brien
John Shoptaw
Rae Armentrout
Ted Pearson
Amiri Baraka
Rachel Levitsky

As near as I can tell (and really, what do I know?), the 50,000th bot or human clicked here from in or around Pleasanton, California, on a Macintosh browsing with Firefox at 15:53 today.

To celebrate, I'm eating curry and tofu and peas without you.

1. If you stretch your legs and point your toes, you can reach the weekend.
2. Four Lectures apparently down.
3. One of you twenty who click here often will soon mark this blog's 50,000th visit.

Somebody called somebody a top-cut bun, which I think is uncalled for.

One of the coolest people I know is looking for shared housing in Brooklyn starting in late August. If you have any leads, drop a comment or backchannel me at claybanes at gmail dat com, and I'll pass along the info. She's about to start grad school at Columbia. I and about a hundred thousand other people can attest to her awesomeness and she's dang pretty too.

Fifty thousand looms. Or is it loams.

This is inside baseball, or whatyecallit. To the readers who care or my colleagues who may become compelled to care, mongering, the Booker longlist:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)
Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)
The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Tindal Street)
Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann)
Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster
Winnie & Wolf by A.N.Wilson (Hutchinson)

i paid.

tao lin announces a new form of poetry to replace flarf.

Lily Allen's Visa revoked; Jack Morgan at 3:AM.

Mr. Tong Bliss is interested.

The Burning Chair Readings Fall 2007

@ The Fall Café, Fridays 7:30 PM
August 17th - Michael Robins & Dara Wier
September 14th - David Goldstein & Genya Turovskaya
October 12th - Joseph Bradshaw & Ken Rumble
Nov. 16th - Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Lily Brown & Elizabeth Robinson

@ Jimmy’s No. 43 Stage, 8 PM
August 31st - Frank Sherlock & David Shapiro
September 28th - Dorothea Lasky & Laura Solomon
October 26th - Cynthia Cruz & Karla Kelsey
November 30th - Maureen Alsop & Jean Valentine

How are you feeling?

TIN FISH NET
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On Translation
by Linh Dinh

What’s in a Translated Name, and What Isn’t (at Least in the Japanese Case)?
by Joel Cohn

"A Little Practical Arithmetic": Natural Language Processing and the Sport of Translation
by John Zuern

Review: Four from Japan: Contemporary Poetry and Essays by Women
by Goro Takano, Sawako Nakayasu, editor

Reading across Fields. An Italian Americanist looks at Hawai‘i
by Donatella Izzo

What's in a Word?
by Reina Whaitiri

Inafa’maolek
Islas de los Ladrones
Preface to the translations of Y Salmo Sija
Salmo 1
by Craig Perez

TIME TO REVISIT THE STORE'S WALLS.

Not me.

Service is waning.

new

Kunkel on Walser.

forthcoming

TODAY I WROTE NOTHING
THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS

translated by Matvei Yankelevich
Overlook Press



Banes is genuinely excited.

Sawbuck 1.7: Dan Boehl with art by Jonathan Marshall, Mike Estabrook, Dean Faulwell, Tim Hurley, Travis Jeppeson, Corey Mesler, Kaya Oakes, Theresa Sotto, Jen Tynes, Jared White