Robert Kelly
talks to Phong Bui,
David Levi Strauss & John Yau
An even longer interview
from The Modern Review
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Tonya Foster on Adfempo
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This is what a (Pro)Feminist [Man Poet] looks like
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More than half of primary school teachers
are unable to name 3 poets
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Charles Olson:
Language as Physical Fact
(panel, exhibition, reading
with Tenney Nathanson, Cole Swensen,
Steve McCaffery, Charles Alexander,
Anne Waldman & Barbara Henning)
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Régis Bonvicino:
“The Improbable Poetry of the Americas”
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Fernando Pessoa:
From a Notebook That Never Was
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Remembering Will Inman
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Raymond Roussel’s (New) Africa
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Herta Müller
on winning the Nobel prize
Why Müller matters
An excerpt from The Passport
The prize
that likes to surprise
The prize has become
too Eurocentric
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Andrew Levy:
Nothing is in Here
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Daisy Fried on Michael Hoffman
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John Ashbery:
“Lost Sonnet”
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Rethinking Jean Rhys
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Whitman, Levis & $100K
Whitman’s muse: Peter Doyle
Whitman as a guide to song
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The poetry of Kate Durbin
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Kent Johnson on
The New British School
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Andrea Brady, reading
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Jack Spicer
wins a book award
(as does Linda Gregg)
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Kenny Goldsmith & Mel Nichols respond
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Talking with Kevin Killian
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DuPlessis / Gass:
being pink & blue
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Pierre Joris
on Raymond Federman
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Eileen Myles:
“I think of myself as
not not a language poet”
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Lynn Behrendt’s Luminous Flux
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Michael McClure: Abstract Alchemist of Flesh
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Wystan Curnow & Lawrence Weiner
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Jeramy Dodds & George Johnston
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Jonathan Lethem:
Things my novel forgot to be about
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Nick Piombino:
from Contradicta
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Susan Howe:
Souls of the Labadie Tract,
the song
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Singing Louise Glück
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Condensaries &capacitors
in the work of
Louise Zukofsky
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Penelope Bloodworth:
“A Topological Memoir”
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Thus far this October,
Tom Clark’s blog
has been
“all Keats all the time”
His work on the Vanitas blog likewise
& even on the Dante Project
“Paradox:
The Diminishing Increase
of an Author”
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How much of Frankenstein
belongs to Percy?
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American Hybrid:
the war between purity & plurality
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Anselm Berrigan:
Is blogging writing
“in rooms full of strangers”?
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HTLit launched
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Poetic ecologies in Bruxelles
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Redell Olsen, reading
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A celebration of
Gertrude Stein’s Melanctha
(including Melanctha itself)
plus a piece
on Salinger & Kerouac
& much more in
Galleys
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Bill Marsh:
Composition as Exposition
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Wayne Miller, Duane Locke, Logan Ryan Smith
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Suzanne Stein’s Hole in Space
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Remembering Craig Arnold
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Sissy Spacek to play Lorine Niedecker in biopic
(well, not really, but…)
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CA Conradi’s Obituary Show
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Donald Wellman:
Field Poetics
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Seen on the London tube
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Shakespeare’s sonnets
in Morse Code
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October 23-26,
the Oslo Poetry Fest
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Alan Halsey, reading
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Brent Cunningham’s
Bird & Forest
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The continuing evolution of
the book review
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As fair a way to get
your chapbook published
as any
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Double review of Amy King
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John Yau on Michael Leong
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Metaphors are everything
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3 poems by Kimberly Lyons
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Crouching Heroine, Hidden Midriff
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Brian Turner
goes traveling
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Brenda Iijima’s Rabbit Lesson
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Eleksographia: Wave Two:
The Translation Issue
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Talking with Margaret Atwood
Another conversation
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Sergey Brin
defends Google Books
New date for the deal:
November 9
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Hijacking Amazon
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Kindle to cost more
outside of US
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Tao Lin’s Shoplifting from American Apparel
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Peter Jaeger, reading
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A funeral for Eddie Poe
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Maya Angelou:
not dead yet
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Filip Marinovich on Julien Poirer
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Kent Johnson vs. Kenneth Goldsmith:
sticky lit
Why do I feel this
would make a better soundtrack?
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Sophie Robinson, reading
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630 Jane Austen fans
descend on Philadelphia
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Another round for the School of Q
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Joseph Lease’s Broken World
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The Complete Stories of JG Ballard
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LitQuake shakes things up
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Close listening aloud:
Cid Corman
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5 books for Kate Wolf
(best list of 2009!)
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Sean Bonney, reading
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Is Anguish Poetry
truly homophonic?
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Kate Duffy has died
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Raymond Carver,
mislabled minimalist
Talking with Tess Gallagher
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Jean-Paul Sartre
on the Texas Gulf
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Talking with Lorrie Moore
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Alan Soldofsky on Kenneth Rexroth
Rexroth’s Chinese translations
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What makes Johnson’s dictionary different
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Ron Charles,
deputy book editor
for the Washington Post
On the job of reviewing books
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Maggie O’Sullivan, reading
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New work from
Kurt Vonnegut
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Talking with Dana Levin
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Peter Redgrove’s
poetry of waste
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Going to court
to retrieve Kafka
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James Agee’s
use of the colon
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“Delete all adjectives” – Not!
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E.L. Doctorow,
bad-ass MC
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Wot’s your favorite poem?
Eliot is still
Britain’s favorite poet
The rest of the top 10
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Is James Ellroy racist?
An excerpt from
Blood’s a Rover
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William Burroughs at Stellan Holm
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Michael Horovitz:
50 years of jazz poetry
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Where do you put
the home office?
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Hilary Mantel wins the Booker
Mantel’s
“The Heart Fails Without Warning”
Stephen Greenblatt on Mantel’s Cromwell
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Michael Dickman’s The End of the West
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A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book
Fiction from real lives
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The fate of Knut Hamsen
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Here comes the Donne
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Dan Brown pirate copies
flood the net
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2 reviews by Nate Klug
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Harvard gets Updike archive
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Don Paterson wins
Forward Prize
over Olds & Maxwell
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4 poems by Vincent Katz
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Nonsense makes you smarter
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Could an album of poetry
top the charts?
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The sublime object of research
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Illustrating a single sentence
(Martha Colburn imagines Diana Wagman)
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Stagnetti’s Revenge
on free speech
at the U. of Maryland
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Archie, Betty, Veronica
& Robert Frost
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There are toys
& there are writers
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Mira Schor & Jason Andrew
on Jack Tworkov
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Plans for the
“New Barnes”
unveiled
Art commission approves design
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Robert Bergman,
talking with John Yau
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Irving Penn has died
Mary Panzer on Irving Penn
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Dennis Hopper’s
photos of the sixties
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The functional art of
Bruce Nauman
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Tracey Emin
threatens to quite the UK
over taxes
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Museum guards
fight to unionize
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No bail for Polanski
Lawyers meet with the DOJ
The culture of the 1970s
vs. now
Calvin Trillin has a poem
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Would Garcia Márquez film
promote pedophilia?
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Putting David Foster Wallace
on film
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Mark Lamoureux:
Merce Cunningham’s “Nearly Ninety”
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Gary Peters on
The Philosophy of Improvisation
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Talking with Bonnie Raitt
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This year’s
New Song finalists
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Art Lange on Von Freeman
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One of the first great jazz drummers,
Sam Woodyard
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Amiri Baraka:
“Jazz and the White Critic” Thirty Years Later
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Leonard Cohen now
A great documentary on Cohen
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November 1,
The Rockpile Journals
in Bethesda, MD
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Freddy Robinson has died
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Sellouts for the
band without a name
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The most popular composer in America
in the 1940s was
Bohuslav Martinu
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George Gershwin
gettin’ them good vibrations
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Showcase: Southside Blues
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Only known video
of Anne Frank
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A salute to Opened’s
Vimeo channel
from whence
many of the video links
have come!
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This only scratches
the surface
of what’s wonderful in
Eoagh 5
