Donald Hall –new book, Essays After Eightyģ5.

Kenny Goldsmith -wears a two-million-ton crownģ4. Divya Victor –Her book, Things To Do With Your Mouth, wins CA Conrad’s Sexiest Poetry Award.ģ3. Major Jackson –Wins $25,000 NEA grant.ģ2. Christian Nagler –poet in Adjunct Action: “SF Art Institute: faculty are 80% adjunct and have no say in the functioning of the institution”ģ1. Harvey –Rocker to publish book of poems in 2015-Good luck. Carol Ann Duffy –British poet laureate gave riveting reading in Mass Poetry festival (Salem, MA) this springĢ9.

3 of annual document of performance practice, Emergency IndexĢ8. Yelena Gluzman –Ugly Duckling editor publishes vol. Amy Berkowitz –Wrote on VIDA Web page how everyone has been raped and how we can be safe.Ģ7. Marjorie Perloff -Now we get it: the avant-garde is conservativeĢ6. Nathaniel Mackey –Headlined poetry reading at Miami Book Fair International.Ģ5. Ben Mazer –Brings out Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom-as po-biz churns with racial indignationĢ4. Daniel Borzutzky –Guest blogger on Poetry Foundation’s Blog Harriet: “We live in an occupied racist police state”Ģ3. Marilyn Chin –Poet, translator, new book from Norton, currently touring Asia as beloved U.S. Philip Nikolayev –Poet, translator, Fulcrum editor, currently touring India as beloved U.S. Cathy Park Hong –Wrote “Fuck the Avant-garde” before Brown/Garner protests: Hong says poetry avant-garde is racist.Ģ0. Ron Silliman –Elegy & Video-Cut-and-Paste Blogġ9. William Logan –The honest reviewer is the best critic.ġ7.

Clive James –Got into some controversy about racism and sex reviewing Booth’s book on Philip Larkin in the Timesġ6. Frederick Seidel –Stirred outrage with a strange poem about Ferguson.ġ5. Afaa Michael Weaver –this spring won the Kingsley Tufts Award: $100,000 dollarsġ4. James Booth –author of Philip Larkin: Life, Art, and Loveġ3. Glyn Maxwell –British poet and editor of The Poetry Of Derek Walcott 1948-2013ġ2. Helen Vendler –Contributing editor in T NR’s mass exodusġ1. Valerie Macon –appointed laureate of North Carolina, resigned due to firestorm because she lacked credentialsġ0. Henri Cole -Poetry editor part of mass resignation at New Republicĩ. Rita Dove -What was all that fuss about her anthology, again?Ĩ. Patricia Lockwood –Her book, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals made NY Times most notable 2014 book listħ. Terrance Hayes –2014 Best American PoetryEditor for David Lehman’s annual series (since 1988)Ħ. Davis –Praised by #3 for “Do you know how many men would paykilldie/for me to suck their cock? fuck”ĥ. Dan Chiasson –Coveted reviewing perch in the glossy pages of the New YorkerĤ. Louise Gluck –Won the National Book Award. Claudia Rankine –Seems everyone wanted her to win the National Book AwardĢ.

Bombyonder by Reb Livingston