SPD's POETRY BEST-SELLERS JANUARY 2011

1. Up Jump the Boogie by John Murillo (Cypher Books)
2. Clamor by Elyse Fenton (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)
3. Ten Walks/Two Talks by Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch (Ugly Duckling Presse)
4. Mule by Shane McCrae (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)
5. Ventrakl by Christian Hawkey (Ugly Duckling Presse)
6. Humanimal: A Project for Future Children by Bhanu Kapil (Kelsey Street Press)
7. Hank by Abraham Smith (Action Books)
8. Born Palestinian, Born Black & The Gaza Suite by Suheir Hammad (UpSet Press)
9. 100 Notes on Violence by Julie Carr (Ahsahta Press)
10. Poems of the Black Object by Ronaldo V. Wilson (Futurepoem Books)
11. The Book of Frank by CAConrad (Wave Books)
12. Meddle English: New and Selected Texts by Caroline Bergvall (Nightboat Books)
13. Beauport by Kate Colby (Litmus Press)
14. Procedural Elegies/Western Civ Cont'd/ by Joan Retallack (Roof Books)
15. Song for His Disappeared Love/Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido by Raúl Zurita (Action Books)
16. Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems of Hiromi Itō by Hiromi Itō (Action Books)
17. Yes Thing No Thing by Edwin Torres (Roof Books)
18. Eunoia: Second Edition by Christian Bök (Coach House Books)
19. From Milltown to Malltown by Jim Daniels, Jane McCafferty and Charlee Brodsky (Marick Press)
20. Destruction Myth by Mathias Svalina (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)
21. Tourist at a Miracle by Mark Statman (Hanging Loose Press)
22. West Cliff Poems: The Poetry of Weng Chüan by Jonathan Chaves (Ahadada Books)
23. Hi-Density Politics by Urayoán Noel (BlazeVOX Books)
24. Determination by Kit Robinson (Cuneiform Press)
25. Terra Lucida by Joseph Donahue (Talisman House)
26. The Field Is Lethal by Suzanne Doppelt (Counterpath Press)
27. Greensward by Cole Swensen (Ugly Duckling Presse)
28. Quantum Entanglement by Carol Lynne Knight (Apalachee Press)
29. The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearney (Fence Books)
30. Pleasure by Brian Teare (Ahsahta Press)

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VIDEOPOCALYPSE!
A blizzard of new videos (hat tip to Anis Shivani at The Huffington Post) of authors reading from their just-published or forthcoming books!

Scroll below the fold to view:

• Harmony Holiday
• Noelle Kocot
• Sybil Baker
• Joshua Edwards
• Ish Klein
• Zach Savich
• Chris Martin
• Anthony McCann

BONUS! (Thanks to Montevidayo)
Three videos of Raúl Zurita reading at Notre Dame with his translator Daniel Borzutzky.

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IT WAS GREAT TO SEE YOU. REMEMBER.

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Huffington Post on Poets

It's still not every day that poetry shows up on the Huffington Post (although, pleasantly enough, they're paying it increasing attention over there).  Recently HuffPo asked 22 contemporary poets a simple yet ridiculously contentious question: who is the single most important contemporary poet?   While nearly all the respondents expressed some resistance and/or amusement toward the question, nevertheless SPD authors were picked outright in at least five cases, and mentioned often in other responses.  A number of SPD authors were also among the respondents.  

SPD Authors Selected as Most Important Contemporary Poet:

Larry Eigner (chosen by Charles Bernstein)
CA Conrad (chosen by Eileen Myles)
Ron Padgett (chosen by Bill Zavatsky)
Benjamin Alire Saenz (chosen by Rigoberto Gonzales)
Charles Simic (chosen by Jay Parini)


Respondents With SPD Titles:

Bill Zavatsky
Jean Valentine
Clayton Eshleman
Rigoberto Gonzales
H.L. Hix
Charles Bernstein
Juan Felipe Herrera
Forrest Gander
Kevin Prufer
Michael McClure
Eileen Myles