A “catastrophe for Canadian publishing”: Douglas & MacIntyre goes bust Marks the end of a 40-year dream … Read more »
Japanese translation funding cut for no good reason In June of this year, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (inexplicably known as MEXT) in Japan decided to cut off money to the Japanese Literature Publishing… Read more »
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection Last weekend Mark Matassa, a former reporter for the Seattle Times and home delivery subscriber of the newspaper for more than 25 years, cancelled his subscription after a full-page political… Read more »
The early Imagist anthologies of Ezra Pound and other hot-button Oklahoma election topics Unemployment. Nuclear-capable Iran. Whether God insists that you carry the offspring of your rapist to term. Now, courtesy of Oklahoma Republican senator Tom Coburn, the hot new political topic of the season:… Read more »
When poetry and politics converge Two weeks ago, I attended the Dodge Poetry Festival in New Jersey and watched poets abandon any discussion of ‘craft’ and drift into more customary and at times placating readings… Read more »