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

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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