Afternoon roundup …

Courtesy of Rus Bowden.

… John Timpane on  Amiri Baraka, 79, poet, playwright, activist.

… See also: Remembering Amiri Baraka.

… Jazz Musician Herbie Hancock Will Deliver 2014 Norton Lectures.

… Emily online: Infamy or Urn?

…  even if all, or most, of Dickinson’s manuscripts end up online, would we be any closer to the real thing? In a material sense, undoubtedly so: with the tools we already use to zoom in on maps (to find the location of a new restaurant) or shopping websites (to see the detail on a jacket), we can get as close as we want to examine how Dickinson formed her c’s or how little paper she required to write a quatrain in her own hand. 

… Tyranny alert:  New Year's Resolution: China Blocks the Guardian Newspaper's Website.

… Remembering Natalya Gorbanevskaya.

… The first resurrection ---a poem by Laura Kasischke.

… Dylan Thomas centenary: South Wales gets ready to welcome the world.

… Thomas's reputation has not always been as solid in Wales as in other parts of the world. One theory is that as a non-native speaker he was considered not Welsh enough in Wales – but was regarded as too Welsh by the English. Towns also believes that his reputation as a womaniser and drinker upset the puritanical element in Wales.

… Poetry Pairing: 'Ode'.