• W. F. Lantry reads – Saturday 05 Feb 2011

    –From their website: In an exciting cultural event celebrating the 36th anniversary of Voices Israel, co-editor Michael Dickel, visiting from Jerusalem, will host poets Matthew Anish, Stanley H. Barkan, Julia Birdsall, Asya Graf, Adeena Karasick, W. F. Lantry, Pearse Murray,…

  • Lunar New Year Mouth to Mouth Open Mic: Kelly Tsai and Ocean Vuong

    –From their website: 2011 is starting off with a bang! We’re ushering in the new year with a Mouth to Mouth Open Mic featuring activist and spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and poet Ocean Vuong. So, come, bring a…

  • Tonight: LANTERN REVIEW & BOXCAR POETRY REVIEW Joint Reading

    LANTERN REVIEW & BOXCAR POETRY REVIEW Joint Reading Lantern Review is hosting a joint reading with Boxcar Poetry Review on Friday night (the 4th) at 7:30 pm, at Go Mama Go! (1809 14th St. NW). Entrance is pay-as-you-wish. About 16 writers…

  • Todd Swift in Poetry Magazine

    – Todd Swift’s poems “Slieve Donard II” and “Sonnet” are now published in the February 2011 issue of Poetry.  – Todd Swift’s poems were published in issue #2 , issue #3 and issue #11 of Cha. –

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  • What was William Empson’s theory about James Joyce’s Ulysses?

    –In this LRB article, Frank Kermode answers: It was in 1948 that he [Empson] first outlined the theory in a letter to his wife: Bloom would like to make love to Molly but hasn’t done so for ten years, since…

  • Robert E. Wood in The Meadowland Review

    – Robert E. Wood’s poem “The Red Room” (p. 10) is now published in the Winter 2011 issue of The Meadowland Review. You can view the issue online here or download the pdf here.  – Read Robert E. Wood’s Cha…

  • Concelebratory Shoehorn Review 49

    Issue #49 of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. Read poetry by “Robert Peake, Sean Hill, Amy King, Allison Joseph, Ira Sadoff, Alicia Hoffman, Scott Owens, and Vicki Thornton”. Also included in this issue is photography of…

  • Asymptote Journal: A New International Literary Journal

    “– Announcing the launch of ASYMPTOTE, a new international literary journal dedicated to the art and practice of translation. Founded out of Singapore, with editors scattered across the globe, ASYMPTOTE offers a well-calibrated window on world literature, in all its…

  • Marc Vincenz and J.A. Tyler in elimae

    – The February 2011 issue of elimae is out now and it features Marc Vincenz’s poem “The She” and J.A. Tyler’s short story “I Started by Building a House” and review of Jacob Wren’s Families are Formed Through Copulation. –…