Thursday 9 April, 2009 Jeff Hilson:
A few years ago in the preface to my book stretchers (oh yes) I talked about Iain Sinclair's complaint that the Isle of Dogs contained no graffiti and suggested he look at the smears of dogshit there as a kind of script, one that Bob Cobbing would certainly have been happy to perform.Read (and see) the rest.
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Wednesday 15th April, 7.30pm
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Teachers have attacked politicians' meddling in the national curriculum and the censorship of English literature, warning against the schools secretary, Ed Balls, winning the power to dictate what pupils read and learn. Delegates at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) voted to raise the issue of censorship with Balls following the banning of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure, which refers to knife crime, from an AQA exam board anthology last year after "extreme pressure" from a group of MPs.Pfft.
Thursday 9 April, 2009 Almost four years in the making, the World Digital Library will launch on 21 April, functioning in seven languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish – and including content in additional languages. A prototype of what will be on offer includes a voice recording of the 101-year-old grandson of an American slave, a 17th-century map of the world and 19th-century Brazilian photographs.Read the rest.
Wednesday 8 April, 2009 Tuesday 21st April, 7.30pm
Tuesday 7 April, 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evWPIeA_9W4&feature=player_embedded] See the other parts here. via Ron Silliman
Tuesday 7 April, 2009 Poetry Super Highway:
A crazy project in which your poetry e-books will be freely available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 hour period. Throughout April we will collect e-books from poets and writers interested in participating. Then on May 1st, for a 24 hour period, a special website will go live with links to all of the e-books. For 24 hours anyone will be free to download, for free, as many of these e-books as they like...a poetry e-book free-for-all.Go here to see how to submit.
Tuesday 7 April, 2009 Includes, among others, The Fall and Karl Marx. The rest here.
Monday 6 April, 2009 in Steve Willey 
This poem, Joke (1.) is the beginning of a new sequence provisionally entitled Mercurial Articulations. It is part of a larger sequence entitled Opera of which the sequence Venus & Other Noises is part. The Poem was first published in Klatch Magazine, March 2009. To date the work has been read at Klatch, Paul Sutton's Crossing The Line benefit reading (The Leather Exchange) Openned (March 25th, 2009 reading) and at the Poetry Place (La Langoustine Est Morte, 4th April, 2009). Sophie Robinson wrote a poem/report on my reading of Venus & Other Noises and Joke (1.) entitled Killing Café (for Steve Willey). This particular work has also recently been set to music by the composer Edward Nesbit. The Song is entitled Soundings and is due to be performed at the Wigmore Hall on 6 p.m, 7th May.