Congratulations to Keith Waldrop, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry. Here’s their interview with Waldrop.

Mark Scroggins uses the Barrett Watten reading I mentioned last week as a jumping off point for an interesting discussion of, as he puts it, “the relationship of personal formation, as detailed & explored in autobiography, and literary interpellation.”

The Valpariaso Poetry Review’s Poem of the Week is a selection from Rumpus contributor Alison Stine.

An interesting piece on inadvertently burned books starring William Carlos Williams.

There are terrible jokes, and then there are terrible poetry jokes. It might be too much for you.

Quill and Quire takes on Reader Spoils a company which sells reader reviews. But while the post is great, the response from Reader Spoils is precious.

Brian Spears

This weekend in south Florida, all the cultural talk is about the Miami Book Fair, and while it is generally dominated by the same sort of pop culture excrescence one might expect, there are also some really great writers taking part as well, especially this weekend. The Miami New Times has been doing some interviews with attendees, including friends of The Rumpus Gabrielle Calvocoressi (reading Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m.) and Tom Healy (reading today at 3:00 p.m.) And the Miami Poetry Collective will do a free reading at 4:30 on Sunday.

Monday night you can see the Miami Short Film Festival’s “Night of Pulse-Pounding Cinema

Poet Barrett Watten will be reading his poetry and from his contribution to the collective autobiography The Grand Piano on the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19.

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