July 2007 Archives

Dorothy Parker Anthology Controversy

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Dorothy Parker was celebrated for both caustic wit and brevity. But her work has now become embroiled in a caustic yet far from brief court case that returns to trial in Manhattan today.

Via New York Times

Mary Ellen Solt, Poet of Words and Shapes, Dead at 86:



Mary Ellen Solt was an American poet known for helping disseminate the art of concrete poetry, which marries words and typography to produce works in which the verbal and the visual are inextricably intertwined.