Meshworks at Miami of Ohio (admirably managed by Keith Tuma, cris cheek, Justin Katko, and Daniel Ereditario) has some video posted of the Oxford (OH) leg of the British poets’ US tour. (Said poets being Andrea Brady, Keston Sutherland, and Peter Manson, all featured in the British Poetry Issue of Chicago Review.)

They’ve also got video of Sean Bonney, Mairéad Byrne, Tom Leonard, Bernadette Mayer, Stephen Rodefer, and Tom Raworth. Plus, footage from the Contemporary Experimental Women’s Poetry Festival at Cambridge last year.

…of the Archive of the Now, here’s one of the most impressive readings of a poem (”Cocaine” by John Weiners) I’ve ever heard.

Tom Raworth will be awarded the Antonio Delfini lifetime achievement award at the San Carlo Foundation in Modena on June 23. It’s as good an excuse as any to track down his Collected, published by Carcanet in the UK and reviewed by Marjorie Perloff [PDF] for the TLS. And/or check out Raworth’s page at Andrea Brady’s Archive of the Now, where you can hear him read from his work.

The Maytrees, Annie Dillard’s new novel, is out. An ever-expanding list of reviews follows. Annie read a passage of the novel for NPR and talked a little about the book (whose original subtitle was “A Romantic Comedy about Light Pollution”) in a Publishers Weekly interview. She did another interview with the Washington Post’s Daniel Asa Rose. A chapter of the book originally showed up as “The Two of Them” in the Nov ‘03 Harper’s.

Here’s the list of reviews:

+Washington Post Book World (by Marilynne Robinson)

+New York Times

+NYT Book Review

+Boston Globe

+LA Times

+SF Chronicle

+Slate

+BookPage

+Publishers Weekly

+New York Observer

+New York Daily News

+Miami Herald

+Seattle Times

+Cape Cod Times

+Cleveland Plain Dealer

+Chicago Tribune

+USA Today

+Hartford Courant

+San Diego Union-Tribune

+Washington Post (where Annie runs neck and neck with Toby Keith)

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Photos from CR’s 60th anniversary party, which happened November 17 at Around the Coyote, are now available. Lisa Robertson, Tom Raworth, John Wilkinson, and Devin Johnston read at the event, and the John Lennox Band supplied music.