The Reluctant Genius of Rudy Burckhardt hyperallergic.com/990734/the-r...

I’m hosting a celebration of Kenneth Koch at The New School on March 17 at 7 pm. Speakers will include Robert Polito, Ron Padgett, Maxine Groffsky, John Keene, Lucy Sante and Jim Jarmusch.

Manny Farber, who Susan Sontag called “the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country ever produced,” was born on this day, February 20, 1917. In this interview, poet and biographer Robert Polito discusses the “film investigations” of this singular cinematic interpreter.

Mail Call! Hollywood & God by @fantomas2go.bsky.social Found following the Barbara Payton trail; an initial skim reveals many thrills, tangents, clues... #poetrysky #booksky

Book Review Farber on Film: Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber - by Edited by Robert Polito: A c.. http://bit.ly/3hldOg

Some personal news

For @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about the fear of speaking up against Trump and Musk's fascism, especially if you receive any kind of federal funding, and that it is our job as writers and editors to reclaim their banned words and ideas to fight back for those who can't.

Will Frazier & Bill Frazier: Fourteen Memories of David Lynch yalereview.org/article/will...

Esther Zuckerman on TC singing BD on SNL last night www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Tom Healy - “Sonnet for the Chickens” poets.org/poem/sonnet-...

Hervé Guibert’s great-aunts serve as muses and collaborators in a newly translated “photo novel” of disquieting love and beauty. 4columns.org/camhi-leslie...

How Mike Kelley Became Himself yalereview.org/article/jona...

Found this tintype - an early author’s photo?

Isn’t this the most amazing movie? Rewatched it again last night…