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about </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Brooklyn</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/orange2007/story/0,,2059652,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Why literary awards can be useful</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But when they don&#8217;t work:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Of the 1,006 words <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Washington Post </i>writer<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i><br>
Bob Thompson <br>
uses to discuss <br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/329qs8"><span style='color:black'>the &#8220;non-journalism&#8221; Pulitzers</span></a> <br>
awarded last week, <br>
exactly 9 <br>
are devoted to poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Scott Timberg<br>
of the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>LA Times<br>
</i><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-na-arts17apr17,1,4106857.story"><span style='color:black'>devotes<br>
even fewer</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> &#8211;<br>
8 out of 692,<br>
the first of which is<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>and</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jeffrey Burke<br>
of Bloomberg News<br>
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&amp;sid=aRPTgORG0wVI&amp;refer=muse"><span style='color:black'>devotes 51 words</span></a><br>
from his allotment of <br>
679<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>And when prizes do work:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/22bvff"><span style='color:black'>More on the Pulitzer<br>
for Ornette Coleman</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Knopf took away<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/books/18puli.html?ref=arts"><span style='color:black'>three Pulitzers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>On the process <br>
&amp; politics<br>
of the <br>
<a href="http://playgoer.blogspot.com/2007/04/pulitzer-puttering.html"><span style='color:black'>Pulitzer for drama</span></a><br>
<br>
</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yrgkeu"><span style='color:black'>30 years<br>
of the Pushcart</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The London Book Fair<br>
&amp;<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/books/18fair.html?_r=1&amp;ref=arts&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>the art of the deal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://new.mynevadacounty.com/library/index.cfm?ccs=1152"><span style='color:black'>Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel</span></a>,<br>
&#8221;the Okie poet,&#8221;<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuba6z"><span style='color:black'>has died</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n16/from_haiku_to_the_blues"><span style='color:black'>Talking with<br>
Sonia Sanchez</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2efx49"><span style='color:black'>Talking with</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.tru.ca/faculty/tfriedman/ondaatje.htm"><span style='color:black'>Michael</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje"><span  style='color:black'>Ondaatje</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Anny Ballardini&#8217;s<br>
extensive<br>
<a href="http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&amp;amp;pa=list_pages_categories&amp;amp;cid=233"><span style='color:black'>Poet&#8217;s Corner</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=1068"><span style='color:black'>A profile of</span></a> <br>
James Weldon Johnson,<br>
Paul Dunbar<br>
&amp;<br>
Langston Hughes<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.franzdouskey.org/"><span style='color:black'>Franz  Douskey</span></a><br>
is sometimes<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/26vowd"><span style='color:black'>the last to  know</span></a><br>
what he&#8217;s writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Another article<br>
on <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2crhzw"><span style='color:black'>the potential demise</span></a><br>
of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp"><span style='color:black'>Women and Children First</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>At the <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Atlanta Journal Constitution,<br>
</i>it&#8217;s the <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6435021.html"><span style='color:black'>book review editor</span></a><br>
that has been found<br>
unnecessary<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://star.txstate.edu/content/view/3182/"><span style='color:black'>A profile of</span></a><br>
Kathleen Peirce, <br>
one of the<br>
Guggenheim Nine<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The writing of<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/us/20english.html"><span style='color:black'>Cho Seung-Hui</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Using Cho&#8217;s videos<br>
as an opportunity<br>
<a href="http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/a-killers-media-wish-fulfilled/"><span style='color:black'>to advertise</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Trying to find<br>
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070421/ap_on_re_us/virginia_tech_odd_name"><span style='color:black'>meaning</span></a><br>
in <br>
&#8221;axismael&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/37p9wx"><span style='color:black'>Test driving</span></a><br>
the <a href="http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/reader/"><span style='color:black'>Sony Reader</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/04/what_are_first_editions_worth.htmlhttp:/blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/04/what_are_first_editions_worth.html"><span style='color:black'>The book as fetish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Some <a href="http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/6900/115/"><span style='color:black'>retro-jazz<br>
and Billy Collins</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ocr65"><span style='color:black'>A literacy program<br>
for<br>
the Prime Minister</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Plus <a href="http://www.arts.gov/news/news07/Bridgeport.html"><span style='color:black'>Dana &amp; Laura</span></a><br>
at a museum<br>
named for Mr. Barnum<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>As good <a href="http://tinyurl.com/38ck5s"><span style='color:black'>a defense<br>
of Geoffrey Hill</span></a><br>
as I&#8217;ve ever read<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>No academic publisher<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2wm28a"><span style='color:black'>left behind</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Anglophilia <br>
<a href="http://www.arts.gov/news/news07/Poets.html"><span style='color:black'>goes North</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Trying to pair up<br>
<a href="http://www.johnlennon.com/"><span style='color:black'>John Lennon</span></a><br>
&amp;<br>
<a href="http://www.katesmith.org/"><span style='color:black'>Kate Smith</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.visnat.com/entertainment/music/folkwax/feature.cfm?"><span style='color:black'>for a duet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Impressionism<br>
&amp; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/health/17eye.html?ref=science"><span style='color:black'>the aging eye</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>How to think<br>
about <a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=612"><span style='color:black'>visual art</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Return of the repressed:<br>
<a href="http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2245&amp;current=True"><span style='color:black'>abstraction is back</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The property line<br>
extends to the <br>
shore line<br>
a dead otter<br>
fish buoys<br>
and driftwood.<br>
<br>
I meant nothing by this remark.<br>
<br>
<span class=GramE>In the interest of easing<br>
erotic life.</span> <span class=GramE>Fur and velvet.</span><br>
<br>
In the attic<br>
a scene of undressing<br>
that describes the patient&#8217;s life<br>
in the language of flowers.<br>
This was the first assertion<br>
of her still uninhibited animosity.<br>
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<span class=GramE>With an illusion to a gift or contagion.</span><br>
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As you know<br>
this is the first time<br>
I have regretted<br>
meeting famous <span class=GramE>personalities</span><br>
miles from home.<br>
<br>
But instead I have chosen<br>
to investigate cadavers<br>
perhaps a hunting scene.<br>
<br>
Because I was reared in a hothouse<br>
a final euphemism<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
The illusion did not last.<br>
<br>
For more than a week<br>
failing the obvious<br>
I was fed up with memories.<br>
<br>
This is much more than scenery.<br>
<br>
In a waiting room<br>
where a picture on a wall<br>
could spell revenge.<br>
<br>
If I may suppose<br>
the scene of the kiss<br>
took place in this way.<br>
But it was not until<br>
the incident by the lake<br>
that we were encouraged<br>
and forced to make confessions.<br>
<br>
The younger of the two was the stranger.<br>
<br>
In a seemingly endless, paranoid view<br>
of events, I watched from a room I<br>
knew too well on a slender<br>
riotous island.<br>
<br>
With his life and mind under daily dissection.<br>
<br>
My libidinal compliment<br>
just as one<br>
might refer to<br>
inner landscape.<br>
<br>
She&#8217;d come east in a fashion<br>
that rather took your breath away.<br>
<span class=GramE>Aspiring to be<br>
the originator of moments.</span><br>
<br>
There is no need for discretion.<br>
<span class=GramE>A tremendous attraction.</span><br>
<span class=GramE>An elegant adversity.</span><br>
<br>
I am a natural runner. <br>
<br>
<span class=GramE>As if a rock hit you<br>
several times<br>
on the head.</span><br>
<br>
Familiar as it may be.<br>
<br>
<span class=GramE>A national betrayal.</span><br>
<span class=GramE>A snap of cold weather.</span><br>
<span class=GramE>A hard-luck story.</span><br>
<span class=GramE>Hailed with a passion.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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visual arts curator<br>
<a href="http://www.chbooks.com/biographies/index.php?ID=1741"><span style='color:black'>Nancy Shaw</span></a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/03/09/082824.php"><span style='color:black'>Talking</span></a> with <a href="http://www.martinespada.net/"><span class=SpellE><span  style='color:black'>Martín</span></span></a> <a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/espada/espada.htm"><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>Espada</span></span></span></a><br> 
<br>
(An <a href="http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/library/espada.mp3"><span style='color:black'>MP3</span></a> of a reading<br>
at <a href="http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/library/espada.html"><span style='color:black'>Fox Lane High School</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mary Ann Caws<br>
on <a href="http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1213/prmID/1403"><span style='color:black'>translation</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_two/AM_1.html"><span style='color:black'>Albert</span></a> <a href="http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_two/AM_2.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Mobilio</span></span></a><br>
on <a href="http://www.bookforum.com/mobilio.html"><span style='color:black'>interviewing as a process</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Gabriel Garcia <span class=SpellE>Márquez</span><br>
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1505968.ece"><span style='color:black'>versus</span></a><br>
Mario Vargas <span class=SpellE>Llosa</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jean Baudrillard&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/books/Baudrillard,%20Jean%20-%20Selected%20Writings_ok.pdf"><span style='color:black'>Selected Writings</span></a></i><br>
in PDF format<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yprm67"><span style='color:black'>Remembering</span></a><br> a </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Baghdad</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> book dealer<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Supreme Court addresses<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/12/AR2007031201699.html"><span style='color:black'>Bong Hits 4 Jesus</span></a>,&#8221;<br> 
a major free speech case<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Poetry Foundation<br>
strikes back<br>
in the form of<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/books/review/Orr.t.html"><span style='color:black'>a David Orr <br>
attack on the poetics of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New Yorker</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br>
</i>in the Sunday<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New York <span class=GramE>Times</span><br>
<br>
</i>(Now, about the poetics of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New York Times&#8230;</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Poetry Foundation<br>
also chooses <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0703080283mar08,1,6220166.story?coll=chi-leisuretempo-hed"><span style='color:black'>a site</span></a><br>
for a permanent home<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.stephanieyoung.org/blog/?p=2281"><span style='color:black'>A review of</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Grand Piano, </i><br>
Part 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://theedge.bostonherald.com/bookNews/view.bg?articleid=187832"><span style='color:black'>Francine Prose</span></a><br> 
to lead <a href="http://www.pen.org/"><span style='color:black'>PEN</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.attlc-ltac.org/McWhirter.htm"><span style='color:black'>George <span class=SpellE>McWhirter</span></span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Vancouver</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s first<br>
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070312.BCHUME12/TPStory/National"><span style='color:black'>poet laureate</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Society for the History<br>
of Authorship<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
Reading &amp; Publishing<br>
is<br>
<a href="http://www.sharpweb.org/"><span style='color:black'>S.H.A.R.P</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A national<br>
Poetry Reading <br>
<a href="http://www.independent.com/artsandentertainment/2007/03/plugging_in_poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>bee</span></a>?</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://mason.gmu.edu/~stichy/PoetryScotland.html#bios"><span style='color:black'>summer poetry workshop</span></a><br>
in Scotland<br>
that counts<br>
<a href="http://www.thomasaclark.co.uk/"><span style='color:black'>Thomas A. Clark</span></a>,<br>
<a href="http://mason.gmu.edu/~stichy/"><span style='color:black'>Susan <span class=SpellE>Tichy</span></span></a>,<br>
&amp; <br>
<a href="http://www.spl.org.uk/poets_a-z/cockburn.html"><span style='color:black'>Ken Cockburn</span></a><br>
among the faculty<br>
&amp; includes trips to <br>
<a href="http://www.littlesparta.co.uk/"><span style='color:black'>Little Sparta</span></a><br>
&amp; the studio of<br>
<a href="http://www.sculpture.org.uk/biography/AndyGoldsworthy"><span style='color:black'>Andy Goldsworthy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.spl.org.uk/index.html"><span style='color:black'>The Scottish Poetry Library</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The flurry of<br>
&#8221;How to Read&#8221; books<br>
get a <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/03/08/reading/"><span style='color:black'>close reading</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.mathematicalpoetry.blogspot.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Kaz</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Maslanka</span></span></a><br>
explores<br>
<a href="http://mathematicalpoetry.blogspot.com/2007/03/torque-in-poetry.html#links"><span style='color:black'>torque &amp; Robert Creeley</span></a><br>
complete with diagrams<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nplusonemag.com/"><span style='color:black'>Do Republicans write fiction</span></a><br>
outside of the White House?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://lit.konundrum.com/poetry/jollit_poems1.htm"><span style='color:black'>Troy <span class=SpellE>Jollimore</span></span></a><br>
is &#8220;<a href="http://theedge.bostonherald.com/bookNews/view.bg?articleid=187447"><span style='color:black'>stunned</span></a>&#8221;<br>
to receive<br>
The National Book Critics Circle<br>
<a href="http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/search/label/The%25202006%2520NBCC%2520Award%2520Winners"><span style='color:black'>Award</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jollimore</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, <br>
who teaches philosophy<br>
<a href="http://www.csuchico.edu/~tj17/"><span style='color:black'>at Chico State</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
may be the first<br> 
occasional <a href="http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/troy_jollimores_posts/index.html"><span style='color:black'>blogger</span></a><br>
to win such an award<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>His collection of<br>
<a href="http://www.margiereview.com/INTUIT%20HOUSE/MARGIEVol4.html"><span style='color:black'>John Berryman imitations</span></a><br>
was originally <br>
selected for publication<br>
by Billy Collins<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/lyons/index.html"><span style='color:black'>future</span></a> of libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.bookforum.com/tosches.html"><span style='color:black'>On <span class=SpellE>Auerbach&#8217;s</span> Dante</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Patti Smith<br>
on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/opinion/12smith.html"><span style='color:black'>being inducted</span></a><br>
into the Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll<br>
Hall of Fame<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/03/19/070319po_poem_gilbert"><span style='color:black'>poem</span></a> only<br>
Jack Gilbert<br>
could have written<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mark Doty<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2qtoqd"><span style='color:black'>gone to the dogs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n10/too_cool_for_schools"><span style='color:black'>profile</span></a><br>
of <a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/smithr/"><span style='color:black'>Rod Smith</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/nyregion/13nyc.html"><span style='color:black'>Wystan on the subway</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Translating Emily<br>
into <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/arts/design/09wave.html?_r=1&amp;ref=arts&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>other media</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Scroll down<br>
<a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=2"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a><br>
to vote for<br>
<a href="http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article2341346.ece"><span style='color:black'>The Oddest Book Title of the Year</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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for Good Children</span></a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Of the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New  Zealand</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> poet<br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2030169,00.html"><span style='color:black'>C.K. Stead</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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as executive director of<br>
<a href="http://www.loft.org/"><span style='color:black'>The Loft</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/arts/music/13pogu.html"><span style='color:black'>Poet of the <span class=SpellE>Pogues</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2vo8wn"><span style='color:black'>School of  Quietude</span></a><br>
goes to<br>
the City University of New York <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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I ever <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dcker"><span style='color:black'>heard</span></a>,<br>
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on<br>
<a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/16722868.htm"><span style='color:black'>Charles Bernstein</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/archives/2007/02/post_11.html"><span style='color:black'>remembrance</span></a><br>
of Emmett Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&amp; <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ywytpg"><span style='color:black'>an interview</span></a><br>
with same<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.kintespace.com/p_telepoetics00.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Merilene</span></span><span style='color:black'> Murphy</span></a><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/26p8fg"><span style='color:black'>dead at 51</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Book <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07049/762483-74.stm"><span style='color:black'>sales</span></a> are steady<br>
but not in bookstores<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoetry.html?id=179325"><span style='color:black'>Can <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry </i>mutter</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2017896,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Who reads Auden</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a long time<br>
since I met<br>
<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/02/poet_of_the_century.html"><span style='color:black'>a young fanatic</span></a><br>
for Pound or Zukofsky&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2lowxp"><span style='color:black'>The PGW Bankruptcy Settlement</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.music.columbia.edu/faculty/lewis.html"><span style='color:black'>George Lewis</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=549&amp;fid=6&amp;sid=17"><span style='color:black'>on the</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.aacmchicago.org/"><span style='color:black'>Association for the Advancement<br>
of Creative Musicians</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A portrait<br>
of <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&amp;link=103238"><span style='color:black'>John Ash</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A portrait<br>
of <a href="http://www.semissourian.com/story/1190039.html"><span style='color:black'>Rodney Jones</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Longfellow <br>
<a href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/070218longfellow.html"><span style='color:black'>bicentennial</span></a><br>
gathers a little steam<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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on<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/review/Hammer.t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bu"><span style='color:black'>Paul Muldoon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Pinsky in <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2rot6g"><span style='color:black'>Qatar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/17/032546.php"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Viggo</span></span><span style='color:black'> the poet<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Viggo</span> the photographer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Spalding Gray&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/48920"><span style='color:black'>last work</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Reading Frost<br>
as a <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/books/20070217-103014-3687r.htm"><span style='color:black'>rugged individualist</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Friedrich Nietzsche<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/18/american_idol/"><span style='color:black'>American idol</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tennessee Williams<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,2015539,00.html"><span style='color:black'>drama queen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>James Michener<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16714280.htm"><span style='color:black'>writer or philanthropist</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A conference on <br>
the late Yemeni poet<br>
<a href="http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1026&amp;p=culture&amp;a=1"><span style='color:black'>Hussein Abu Baker Al-<span class=SpellE>Mehdar</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The center of the art world &#8211;<br>
<a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/cityofculture2008/story/0,,2017940,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Liverpool</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/21/DDG8FO6H6J1.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Art and race</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>When around paintings<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/16/opinion/melik17.php"><span style='color:black'>think $$$</span></a> <br>
<br>
I mean, <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/liveauctions/amr/la_prevmarket_con_0207.html"><span style='color:black'>seriously</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But <a href="http://www.icaboston.org/"><span style='color:black'>ICA Boston</span></a><br>
has its way<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/23wp73"><span style='color:black'>with <span class=SpellE>CultureGrrl</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dia</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> begins to fill<br>
<a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2007/02/the_return_of_dia.html"><span style='color:black'>some holes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n8/war_against_the_albright_knox"><span style='color:black'>War against</span></a><br>
the <a href="http://www.albrightknox.org/"><span style='color:black'>Albright-Knox</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Corporate funding<br>
for the arts<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/28ykzn"><span style='color:black'>declines</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>O <a href="http://tinyurl.com/255txv"><span style='color:black'>Alberta</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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o&#8217;er<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/books/18newb.html"><span style='color:black'>scrotum</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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of contemporary poetry<br>
from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Taiwan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
edited by <a href="http://www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com/spai.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Shin</span></a> <a href="http://www.womenarts.org/network/profile_107.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Yu</span></a> <a href="http://www.shinyupai.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Pai</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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&amp; the poems<br>
include a couple of sound files<br>
and a video<br>
realization <br>
of Chen Li&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/taiwan/warsymphony.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>War Symphony</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The rest of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.fascicle.com/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Fascicle 3</span></a><br>
</i>is no slouch either<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>with an <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/poems/eritrean.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Eritrean portfolio</span></a><br>
including translations from<br>
Tigrinya, Tigre &amp; Arabic<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>poetry from over 50 poets,<br>
new work by <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/poems/parsh1.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Alexei Parshchikov</span></a><br>
(<span class=SpellE>gotta</span> wonder about that <br>
translation strategy<br>
tho),<br>
whole chapbooks<br>
by <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/poems/wolftitle.htm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Allyssa</span></span><span style='color:windowtext'> Wolf</span></a><br>
&amp; <br>
<a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/poems/huidobrotitle.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Vicente <span class=SpellE>Huidobro</span></span></a>,<br>
work by <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/pictures/crosby.jpg"><span style='color:windowtext'>Harry Crosby</span></a><br>
plus an essay on Crosby<br>
by <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/essays/lawrence1.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>D.H. Lawrence</span></a>,<br>
plus<br>
Roberto <span class=SpellE>Tejada</span> on <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/essays/tejeda1.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Clayton Eshleman</span></a>,<br>
Kevin Killian on <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/essays/killian1.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>George Oppen</span></a><br>
Graham Foust on <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/essays/foust1.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Looking</span></a><br>
Mark Wallace on <a href="http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/essays/wallace1.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>P. Inman</span></a><br>
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&amp; oodles more<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Also up online<br>
with a ton of reviews<br>
is the latest<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://galatearesurrection5.blogspot.com/"><span  style='color:windowtext'>Galatea Resurrects</span></a></i><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a magazine<br>
done entirely in Blogger<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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for a new mag<br>
goes to<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue7/index.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>Mad Hatters&#8217; Review</span></a><br>
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Where <a href="http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue7/poetry_amato.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>Joe Amato</span></a><br>
has some new poetry<br>
&amp; <br>
Lynda <span class=SpellE>Schor</span><br>
offers <a href="http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue7/whatnots_schor.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>an interview</span></a><br>
&amp; a &#8220;<a href="http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue7/whatnots_schor.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>whatnot</span></a>&#8221;<br>
with tips on diapering<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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one of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Montreal</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://www.vehiculepoets.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Vehicule</span></span><span style='color:windowtext'> poets</span></a><br>
<br>
&amp; a fine, fine fellow<br>
died Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A <a href="http://www.thevillager.com/villager_198/dianeburnsnative.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>praise day</span></a><br>
in memory of<br>
<a href="http://www.tribes.org/cgi-bin/form.pl?karticle=817"><span style='color:windowtext'>Diane</span></a> <a href="http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A123"><span  style='color:windowtext'>Burns</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The <a href="http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=14020"><span style='color:windowtext'>politics of slams</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What I like best<br>
about <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=517088"><span style='color:windowtext'>this review</span></a><br>
of the history of poets<br>
at Harvard<br>
is that the author<br>
can&#8217;t spell<br>
Charles Olson<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2012008,00.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Looking at the Booker</span></a><br>
from the vantage<br>
of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;color=black;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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in <br>
</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/poetry/jones_r/index.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Rodney Jones</span></a><br>
wins<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/books/14poetry.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>$100K poetry prize</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;color=black;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Trying to forget<br>
the dreariness of Auden<br>
"<a href="http://tinyurl.com/23qvhp"><span style='color:windowtext'>in his cups</span></a>"<br>
in order to celebrate<br>
the centennial<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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Akhmatova!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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