On Dennis Cooper’s blog, there’s a really great collection of videos and quotes about “hypnagogic pop.”

1. @ Autotypist, Jeremy James Thompson presents 103 Image Search Results for Poetry Characterized Differently by an Assortment of Commonly Associated Adjectives
2. @ Almost Dorothy, an interview with Heather Christle
3. New issue 10.2 of Diagram

Please consider helping the Center for the Art of Translation raise $15,000 this summer to bring Poetry Inside out to 250 new students this fall. Donate here.

I subscribe to the New Yorker, but I rarely read the poems in it very closely. And I have no intention of submitting my poems to them. But I don’t want them to stop publishing poetry. Why? This article in the NY Review of Magazines talks about that, and more. Who knew the NYer put out 29,000,000 pages of poetry every year?

Do poets spend more time at each other’s throats than fiction writers?

This one’s for Blake: David Lynch wrote and directed a sixteen-minute Dior commercial titled “Lady Blue Shanghai,” that “sets Marion Cotillard (who makes an eerily perfect Lynch heroine) in a Shanghai mystery involving a glowing — and seriously covetable — quilted handbag. There’s strange music, Lynch’s trademark rich colors, poetry and more maguffins than you could stuff in a satchel.” Via Salon, who called it “the director’s best work since ‘Mulholland Dr.'”

The Nepotist is a new magazine with an anonymous editor who simply wants to publish his or her friends, loosely construed. Maybe you will be invited into the inner circle!

Vermin on the Mount host and Jean-Philippe Toussaint interviewer Jim Ruland is going to write for nine straight hours for the benefit of San Diego Writers. A great writer and a good cause. Also, free t-shirt!

Tonight in Brooklyn: Dawn Raffel, David Peak, Ana Božičević, and Edward Mullany—HTMLGIANT crushes one and all—at the Soda Series. Check it out if you’re in NYC: 7PM at the Soda Bar in Prospect Heights.

Thanks, Ken, for posting about Matt Bell’s live writing sessions. The first paragraph of his story, one that never made it off the ground, has been posted at Everyday Genius, where there is also a schedule and a link to the MeetingWords site where it’s all going to happen. Tune in today at noon and again at five to see how Matt Bell writes a story, letter by letter.