31 July 2008 | Finished reading Poetry State Forest by Bernadette Mayer.

30 July 2008 | Read Literature and Cinematography by Viktor Shklovsky.

24 July 2008 | Read Absolutely Eden by Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Began reading Poetry State Forest by Bernadette Mayer.

19 July 2008 | Heard Ron Padgett read from Joe Brainard's writings at the Colby College Museum of Art.

16 July 2008 | Heard Maxime Kumin, introduced by Galway Kinnell, read at St. Johnsbury Academy.

9 July 2008 | Heard Jennifer Moxley read at Bard College as part of the summer MFA program.

8 July 2008 | Heard Brenda Coultas and Ann Lauterbach read at Bard College.

14 June 2008 | Heard Bernadette Mayer, Clark Coolidge, Tom Raworth, and Rae Armantrout give keynote poetry readings at NPF Conference on the Poetry of the 1970s.

13 June 2008 | Heard Ann Lauterbach and Nicole Brossard give keynote poetry readings at NPF Conference on the Poetry of the 1970s. Also group reading by Tina Darragh, Lynne Dreyer, Peter Inman, Doug Lang, John Retallack, Phyllis Rosenzweig, and Diane Ward.

12 June 2008 | Heard Bruce Andrews and Jayne Cortrez give keynote poetry readings at NPF Conference on the Poetry of the 1970s. Also group reading by Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, and Barrett Watten.

11 June 2008 | Heard Fred Wah give keynote poetry reading at NPF Conference on the Poetry of the 1970s. Also group reading by Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, and Eileen Myles.

8 June 2008 | Been busy, of late, organizing this for the NPF.

29 April 2008 | Heard Patricia Sithole and Otrude Moyo read in the UMaine New Writing Series.

10 April 2008 | Heard Julia Elliott read in the UMaine New Writing Series.

3 April 2008 | Heard Rodney Koeneke and Benjamin Friedlander read in the UMaine New Writing Series.

26 March 2008 | Heard Thomas Sayers Ellis read in the UMaine New Writing Series.

20 March 2008 | Heard Eléna Rivera and Jennifer Moxley read in the UMaine New Writing Series.

6 March 2008| Heard Jennifer Moxley read at Pomona College.

5 March 2008| Gave a talk on "Sounding the Seventies: Poetics, the Phonotext, and Period Style" at Pomona College.

28 February 2008 | Heard Stephen Cope and Catherine Taylor read in the UMaine New Writing Series.

14 February 2008 | Heard Mel Nichols and Rod Smith read in the UMaine New Writing Series. Event report here.

12 January 2008 | Lipstick of Noise: Coincidental by Kathleen Fraser.

11 January 2008 | Read the title sequence of In the Pines by Alice Notley. • Lipstick of Noise: The Passenger by Clark Coolidge.

10 January 2008 | Read in Frank O'Hara: Poems from the Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1952-1966. • Lipstick of Noise: Al Green's Broken Heart by Lorenzo Thomas.

9 January 2008 | Lipstick of Noise: 1979 by Bernadette Mayer.

8 January 2008 | Read in A Book of Prophecies by John Wieners. • Lipstick of Noise: L'energie du sommeil by Henri Chopin.

7 January 2008 | Read Conditions de lumière by Emmanuel Hocquard. • Lipstick of Noise: Sometimes I Forget by Stephen Rodefer.

6 January 2008 | Lipstick of Noise: The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs by Charles Olson.

5 January 2008 | Lipstick of Noise: Thoughts of a Young Girl by John Ashbery.

4 January 2008 | Lipstick of Noise: Stripsody, performed by Anne Tardos.

3 January 2008 | Site note: First batch of works received of the new year includes Aufgabe 6 and Factorial 5, The City Visible anthology of Chicago poetry edited by William Allegrezza and Ray Bianchi, new chapbooks by Kevin Killian and Joshua Corey, and the fifth installment of The Grand Piano.

2 January 2008 | Site note: Updated links page, eliminating inactive blogs and adding about a half-dozen new ones.

1 January 2008 | Read Dry Land, a chapbook by William Fuller.