Brad Liening: I’ve been reading Gravity’s Rainbow. I’ve been reading this book for a while now. Helen Carey: I’ve recently started to notice a pattern to my reading and music choices based on the seasons. In the summer, I…

Listen: Anna Calvi – “Jezebel” “Jezebel” is a track from Anna Calvi’s self-titled debut coming out through Domino in the US on March 1st (it’s already out in the UK and Europe – and that’s the cover up above). It’s…

Gertrude Stein gets rejected in her own style. via The Stranger (and Zan Emerson, who designed the awesome cover to our WikiLEaks Centos e-chapbook)…

J.A. Tyler is looking for your opinion in picking a cover for his new book. If you missed it, we’ve got an InDialogue between J.A. Tyler and musician/composer Judd Greenstein in the new issue of InDigest. Deb Olin Unferth is…

Listen: Episode #8: Geoff Herbach This episode of the podcast features the short story “Co-op” by Geoff Herbach, taken from issue #19 of InDigest. Geoff Herbach’s novels include The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg and the forthcoming Stupid Fast,…

Listen: 01 Silverlake by Peter24B This unreleased track came about when the two women of Azure Ray reunited in 2009 to record their 2010 release Drawing Down the Moon. For one reason or another this track, featuring the recently…

Al Filreis’ PoemTalk episode #40 discusses a couple of poems from Susan Schultz’s chapbook Dementia Blog. The chapbook reads like a blog running chronologically from start to finish. You might have seen us posting some links to Lily Ladewig and…

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been to AWP before, it’s always overwhelming. Not only are there ten more panels than you can attend at any given moment, it’s tough to find out what’s going on off-site and determine what’s worth…

by Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 My grandmother Moser made wonderful cherry pies from fruit from a tree just across the road from her house, and I have loved fruit trees ever since. A cherry tree is all about…

Ashleigh Lambert: A particularly good book I’ve been reading is Trouble in Mind by Lucie Brock-Broido. The book came out a few years ago and I can’t believe I only just got around to reading it. These poems made me…

a still from Peter Watkins' faux-doc The War Game 01.31 The 2011 Brooklyn Beardfest and Stache Bash is happening Monday night at the Bell House. I’m not 100% sure what this will entail, but it involves beards, mustaches, music, and…

One hundred years after her death, I remain as unconvinced as the facetious speaker of “One Art” that “the art of losing’s not too hard to master.” Elizabeth Bishop’s refulgent poetic career earned her an appointment to the position of…

David Harrington and Kronos Quartet perform twice this week at the Walker Arts Center 01.31 The Trylon’s Hard Boiled Bogart Series continues with screenings of Dead End (William Wyler, 1937) and Angels With Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938). 02.01 Icelandic…

Listen: Zs – “Acres of Skin” Zs’ album New Slaves (voted #1 album of 2010 by Tiny Mix Tapes) is a weird journey through a carnival of avant sound. “Acres of Skin” brings home many of the varied elements that…

photo from Kate Casanova's SPOILS by Adam Seigel Coldfront’s report on the Dean Young benefit last week in NYC [Coldfront] Three InDigest editors plus great poets like Mark Bibbins, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sasha Fletcher, Farrah Field, and others have…

photo by Tamara L. Smith Listen: Group Icky Rats – “Mason Jar” Group Icky Rats is a dangerous band in the sense that they’re always on the verge of falling apart. Not in the tired manner of excess or lazy…

by Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 The great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso said that, in his subjects, he kept the joy of discovery, the pleasure of the unexpected. In this poem celebrating Picasso, Tim Nolan, an attorney in Minneapolis,…

Listen: Movement No. of Jefferson Friedman’s String Quartet No. 3 This short excerpt from Jefferson Friedman’s String Quartet No. 3 is haunting and intense. It brings to mind a little of Philip Glass’ string quartets with its dissonance and quick…

01.24 ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) come to Minneapolis with their unique classical sound at The Southern Theater. 01.25 & 27 Lowbrow Press celebrates the release of their first three collections with readings from Brad Liening, MC Hyland, and Matt Mauch…

01.24 Ben Mirov & Solmaz Sharif read at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church. 01.25 Icelandic ambient/classical musician Olafur Arnalds comes to the Highline Ballroom and is joined by Chris Garneau. 01.26 The omni-present Literary Death Match moves to…

2 Poems by Ben Mirov [Augury Books] Slope Issue 47 is out now featuring work from Kate Greenstreet, Noah Eli Gordon, Nate Slawson, Isaac Sullivan, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and more [Slope] Why you should never, ever use two spaces after…

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Listen: The Mountain Goats – “Damn These Vampires” John Darnielle is releasing a new full length on March 29 called All Eternals Deck. What’s odd with this release, at least compared to his most recent albums as The Mountain…

It’s an unfortunate reality that writers are often targeted by scammers and other creeps. They come at us from all directions, finding us at conferences, slithering through our emails, and sneaking into our social media feed. As a writer you…

It’s an unfortunate reality that writers are often targeted by scammers and other creeps. They come at us from all directions, finding us at conferences, slithering through our emails, and sneaking into our social media feed. As a writer you…

We’ve confirmed the first few months of 2011 for the InDigest 1207 Reading Series in New York. We’re pretty excited about this, so I figured it was time to share. February 13th: Jim Hanas, John Reed, and Darin Strauss March …

Tonight in New York there will be a benefit reading for poet Dean Young who is in need of a heart transplant. The reading will feature Matthea Harvey, Edward Hirsch, Mary Karr, Matthew Rohrer, Gerald Stern, Dara Wier and others.…

Listen: Episode #7: Jackie Clark Ah yes, another episode of the InDefinite Podcast. We’re still posting some of the readings from our 3 year anniversary party. We’ve been hopping around a bit with the audio from that event, but here…

Tonight at The Gallery at LPR InDigest Gallery editor Kate Casanova will open a new solo exhibition called SPOILS. It’s a really beautiful gallery and we think it’s great, and so do other people, like BeaconPass: Kate Casanova has developed …

It’s been a while between posts for me, so let me make up for it with one big one. Tucker Carlson (who Wikipedia tells me no longer wears a bowtie) got onto Sean Hannity’s show recently and declared that Michael…

If you’ve ever asked yourself how you got addicted to Angry Birds. (It’s a popular iphone app, if you’re wondering what I’m talking about.) Well, here’s one theory: Predicting parabolas is something humans just seem to find intriguing. How else …