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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">I heard them jamming on Monday<br>
with members of <br>
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra"><span style="color:black">Sun Ra <span class="SpellE">Arkestra</span></span></a><span class="GramE">,</span><br>
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to quote </span><st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Krishna</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">,<br>
&#8221;mind blowing&#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 <a href="http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/bg_memorybank/bg_memory.html"><span style="color:black">Barbara Guest<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://www.barclayagency.com/merwin.html"><span style='color:black'>Merwin</span></a> or <a href="http://www.mckuen.com/"><span style='color:black'>McKuen</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><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'>And <a href="http://jonathanmayhew.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-merwin-or-mckuen-1-it-should-have.html"><span style='color:black'>even more</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'>(I always thought<br>
Rod was better<br>
than that)<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.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/movies/12semb.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Ousmane</span></a> <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200706120108.html"><span style='color:black'>Sembène</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/asia/obits.php"><span style='color:black'>great</span></a> <a href="http://www.screenafrica.com/news/stop_press/956682.htm"><span style='color:black'>African</span></a> <a href="http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=537768"><span style='color:black'>filmmaker</span></a><br>
&amp; <a href="http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN124261.html"><span style='color:black'>novelist</span></a>,<br>
has <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yugztk"><span style='color:black'>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://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/10928"><span style='color:black'>Lee</span></a> <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117966494.html?categoryid=15&amp;cs=1"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Nagrin</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=19055"><span style='color:black'>has</span></a> <a href="http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108651.html"><span style='color:black'>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://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/obituaries/11rorty.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:black'>Richard</span></a> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/11/MNG73QD5D11.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Rorty</span></a><br>
<a href="http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/06/13/mclemee"><span style='color:black'>has</span></a> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/32yf5o"><span style='color:black'>died</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'><a href="http://www.signandsight.com/features/1386.html"><span  style='color:black'>Habermas on Rorty</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/25wu2b"><span style='color:black'>Outsourcing journalism</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
the next fun fad?<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'>Why arts coverage<br>
in daily papers<br>
<a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/mark_bowden/7924302.html"><span style='color:black'>matters</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'>Nicholas <span class=SpellE>Kristof&#8217;s</span><br>
<a href="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/opinion/11kristof.html"><span style='color:black'>Iraq Poetry Contest</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'>Sheila E. Murphy<br>
<a href="http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com/2007/06/sheila-e-murphy-interview-of-peter.html"><span style='color:black'>interviewing<br>
Peter Ganick</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.deepoakland.org/"><span style='color:black'>Deep Oakland</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'>More on <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2u93sa"><span style='color:black'>the laureate&#8217;s revolt</span></a><br>
of </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Long Island</span></st1:place><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 href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2100846,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Children&#8217;s laureate&#8217;s</span></a><br>
radical idea &#8211;<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2100543,00.html"><span style='color:black'>books</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></i></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://remixtheory.net/?p=174"><span style='color:black'>Remix theory</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://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/"><span style='color:black'>Copyright as code</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'>This <a href="http://tinyurl.com/348q54"><span style='color:black'>year&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.pewarts.org/timely.html"><span style='color:black'>Pew Fellows</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://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070610/retail_harrypotter.html?.v=2"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Voldemort&#8217;s</span></span><span style='color:black'> revenge</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'>Greg <span class=SpellE>Djanikian&#8217;s</span> <br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3exbg6"><span style='color:black'>latest book</span></a><br>
<br>
The &#8220;Armenian Reznikoff&#8221;<br>
is that rarest of creatures<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a poet who went to my high school<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/2pzkmr"><span style='color:black'>Things fall apart</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
but the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6745609.stm"><span style='color:black'>Booker Prize</span></a><br>
goes to <br>
<a href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/achebe.htm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Chinua</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Achebe</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'>&#8220;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yqmrmg"><span style='color:black'>The god of poetry</span></a>&#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/277kpl"><span style='color:black'>Do excerpts sell books?</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'>&#8220;Our state's libraries' <br>
<a href="http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/3979036.html"><span style='color:black'>greatest patron</span></a> <br>
since Andrew Carnegie.&#8221;</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 href="http://www.gtweekly.com/05-24-07/along-comes-taneda-sant-ka"><span style='color:black'>ease<br>
awes</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://andrewkeen.typepad.com/"><span style='color:black'>Andrew Keen</span></a><br>
wants to be the next<br>
Hilton Kramer<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2r588x"><span style='color:black'>but it won&#8217;t  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'><a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/56368"><span style='color:black'>Lit bloggers</span></a><br>
are generally pissed-<span class=GramE>off</span><br>
<br>
(What is it Sartre says<br>
about the political value<br>
of resentment?)<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'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10721773"><span style='color:black'>as necessary as toast</span></a>&#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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'><a href="http://www.nj.com/living/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-0/118144958861490.xml&amp;coll=1"><span style='color:black'>Maria <span class=SpellE>Mazziotti</span> <span class=SpellE>Gillan</span></span></a>.<br>
executive director<br>
of the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Poetry</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Center</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman";color:black'><br>
at </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:   12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Passaic</span></st1:PlaceName><spanstyle='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;  mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>County</span></st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Community College</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>,</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Times New Roman";color:black'><br>
</span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Paterson</span></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>NJ</span></st1:State></st1:place><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 href="http://www.seedcake.com/mattbriggs/archives/000548.html"><span style='color:black'>Evicting small presses</span></a><br>
from Richard Hugo 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://www.rimbaud.org.uk/"><span style='color:black'>The AA Independent Press Guide</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'>(AA in this instance<br>
refers to <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Acid Angel</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'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4300"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Farideh</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Hassanzadeh</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'><a href="http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=500402"><span style='color:black'>Poetry &amp;/or patriotism<br>
in Iran</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'>Concerning Martin <span class=SpellE>Amis</span>&#8217;<br>
declaration <br>
that<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2098441,00.html"><span style='color:black'> poetry is in <span class=GramE>decline</span></span></a><br>
<br>
(maybe he means<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>his </i>kind of poetry)<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.theday.com/re.aspx?re=11a7f021-d70f-4241-b725-6e59db781a70"><span style='color:black'>Remembering William Meredith</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.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,21858266-5006012,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Haiku<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>honku</span>,<br>
health</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'>Discovering a new poet<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/39r335"><span style='color:black'>Wallace Stevens</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'>Turkish <br>
<a href="http://zinharpost.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>vispo</span></a><br>
<br>
&amp; <a href="http://www.poetikhars.com/"><span style='color:black'>more</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 bad things<br>
happen to good people<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the Bureau of Prisons<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/375hjv"><span style='color:black'>bans  books</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 Rupert Brooke market<br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2097374,00.html"><span style='color:black'>deflates</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.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/books/review/Donadio-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:black'>Fiction software tools</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.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/books/review/Simpson-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:black'>Reviving Leonard <span class=GramE>Michaels</span></span></a><br>
(one of the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/26dg49"><span style='color:black'>great<br>
writers</span></a> of short fiction)<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'>Billy Collins&#8217;<br>
editor<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/business/media/11random.htmlhttp:/www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/business/media/11random.html"><span style='color:black'>departs</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.artsjournal.com/flyover/2007/06/welcome.html"><span style='color:black'>Art in the outback</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.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=75580"><span style='color:black'>Immigration<br>
as<br>
performance</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'>Truth, advertising<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ytdm3e"><span style='color:black'>art poop</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'>Dishing it out<br>
but <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/07/and-thats-why-youre_n_51175.html"><span style='color:black'>not taking it</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://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=540"><span style='color:black'>Monument</span></a><br>
to <br>
Sol <span class=SpellE>Lewitt</span><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.poets.org/page.php/prmID/382"><span style='color:black'>The National Poetry Map</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'>Kenny Goldsmith&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/TRAFFIC/text.html"><span style='color:black'>Traffic</span></a><br>
</i>now available<br>
as a <a href="http://www.makenow.org/books.htm"><span  style='color:black'>book</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'>Tim Peterson&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://mappemunde.typepad.com/mappemunde/2007/06/i_feel_activate.html"><span style='color:black'>report</span></a><br>
of the Gil Ott<br>
<a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/few-quick-notes-photos-of-last-sundays.html"><span style='color:black'>memorial 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'>For $250, <br>
you can walk across<br>
the <a href="http://poetshouse.org/joinbridge.htm"><span style='color:black'>Brooklyn Bridge</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'>Google&#8217;s &#8220;Book Project<span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(<span class=SpellE>aka</span> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_google_big_ten"><span style='color:black'>Pirates of Silicon Valley</span></a>)<br>
is joined by<br>
the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>University</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/07/google"><span style='color:black'>&amp; the 11 schools<br>
in the <br>
&#8220;Big Ten&#8221;</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'>Emory offers<br>
<a href="http://news.emory.edu/Releases/KirtasPartnership1181162558.html"><span style='color:black'>a different model</span></a><br>
for digitizing its library<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
one that respects copyright<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 then<br>
there is the other extreme<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2hjebj"><span style='color:black'>Mr. Joyce</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'>Direct democracy<br>
comes to </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Long Island</span></st1:place><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>:</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2qpaul"><span style='color:black'>Nassau poets</span></a><br>
take laureateship<br>
into their own hands<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 profile of <br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2f5dhu"><span style='color:black'>Ken <span class=SpellE>Babstock</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'>Poets &amp; the chronicler<br>
of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2atmjx"><span style='color:black'>Avenue A</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 profile of<br>
<a href="http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n23/paper_kites"><span style='color:black'>Dan <span class=SpellE>Waber</span><br>
&amp;<br>
Jennifer Hill-<span class=SpellE>Kaucher</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'><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20338"><span style='color:black'>500 years of Hebrew poetry<br>
from Spain</span></a><br>
translated by Peter Cole<br>
&amp; reviewed by<br>
Harold Bloom<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'>Slamming at<br>
the <a href="http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/artcul/070406bbc1.asp?sector=ARTCUL"><span style='color:black'>House of Hunger</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 </span><st1:place><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>West Chester</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
Poetry Conference<br>
is <a href="http://tinyurl.com/28b3o2"><span style='color:black'>at it again</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 Poet Laureate<br>
of <br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/38byn4"><span style='color:black'>Alexandria, VA</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.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/06/07_nathan.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Leonard Nathan</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a poet who taught rhetoric at </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Berkeley</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>,<br>
has died<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 </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Griffin</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Prize<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2d2y3t"><span style='color:black'>No one under 65<br>
need apply</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'>What&#8217;s <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2094602,00.html"><span style='color:black'>new in the dictionary</span></a><br>
over on the <span class=GramE>islands</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'>Remembering<br>
<a href="http://www.gov.bw/cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20070606&amp;i=Teachers_remember_Mokane"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ponatshego</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Mokane</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'>Book Expo<br>
for a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ythpax"><span style='color:black'>small market</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.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/arts/music/09crit.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Music critics</span></a><br>
are getting the ax also<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 review of<br>
<a href="http://www.zoestrauss.blogspot.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Zoe</span></span><span style='color:black'> Strauss&#8217;</span></a><br>
first <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yw3zm6"><span style='color:black'>New York solo show</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>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:black'><img height="351" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/7Dr57eGyxU30cQJHt_ivuXSit-D2GP-yWQcjChJj--jM-VOFLIB4ag2FYahA1H8ETIF2AdEnmTYVsAI04V3JYEgjNw%3Ds0-d" width="450"><br>
</span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>photo &#169; 2006 by Gordon Ball<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>   </span>(Courtesy of </span></i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jacket)</span><span style='color:black'><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 fabulous<br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/33/ball-photos.shtml"><span style='color:black'>photo essay</span></a><br>
on Allen Ginsberg &amp; Co<span class=GramE>.</span><br>
by Gordon Ball<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'>50 years ago this week<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Howl</i><br>
was <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2093150,00.html"><span style='color:black'>busted<br>
in Britain</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 history &amp; exhibition<br>
of <br>
<a href="http://printedmatter.org/news/news.cfm?article_id=282"><span style='color:black'>The <span class=SpellE>Fugs</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 <a href="http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/App/homepage.cfm?moduleid=42&amp;appname=288http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/App/homepage.cfm?moduleid=42&amp;appname=288"><span style='color:black'>dog &amp; pony show</span></a><br>
is in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New York</span></st1:place></st1:State><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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&amp;<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2nfcrj"><span style='color:black'>on line</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'>What&#8217;s your <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2166947/"><span style='color:black'>font</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 number of titles<br>
<a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6448228.html"><span style='color:black'>published each year</span></a><br>
is nearing<br>
300,000<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 <span class=SpellE>García</span> <span class=SpellE>Márquez</span><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2v3jrg"><span style='color:black'>goes home</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/2007/05/embers_a_goodbye_to_samuel_bec.html"><span style='color:black'>Bye-bye Beckett</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://jacketmagazine.com/33/perez-flarf.shtml"><span   style='color:black'>Magee&#8217;s Emerson</span></a><br>
as the founding father<br>
of flarf<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.nouse.co.uk/2007/05/31/poems-of-a-political-prisoner/"><span style='color:black'>Talking</span></a> with <a href="http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02C22P033712627096"><span style='color:black'>Jack <span class=SpellE>Mapanje</span><span class=GramE>,</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=5495"><span style='color:black'>poet</span></a> &amp; one-time<br>
<a href="http://www.chrisbunting.net/mapanje.htm"><span style='color:black'>political prisoner</span></a><br>
of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Malawi</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><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'>Asked<br>
<a href="http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2007/06/03/books/1154677014776.html?8tpw&amp;emc=tpw"><span style='color:black'>if they&#8217;d read any<br>
good books lately</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
Dave Eggers<br>
lists C.D. Wright<br>
&amp; <br>
<span class=SpellE>Edwidge</span> <span class=SpellE>Danticat</span><br>
lists Nikki Giovanni<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'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/33/loden-bowering-iv.shtml"><span style='color:black'>George Bowering</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'>&amp; <a href="http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n22/george_bowering_canadas_new_poet_laureate"><span  style='color:black'>more talk</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.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/121"><span style='color:black'>William Meredith</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
one of the <a href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/Illiterate.html"><span style='color:black'>quietest</span></a><br>
of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/books/01meredith.html"><span style='color:black'>School of Quietude</span></a>,<br>
has <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dgpgq"><span style='color:black'>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'>Geoffrey G. O&#8217;Brien<br>
on<br>
<a href="http://www.modern-review.com/archives/v_ii/_gobrien07.html"><span style='color:black'>John Ashbery&#8217;s &#8220;Clepsydra&#8221;</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/2xbzs7"><span style='color:black'>Poet under Glass</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 importance <br>
of <a href="http://illiteration.blogspot.com/2007/05/importance-of-destroying-language-of.html"><span style='color:black'>destroying a <span class=GramE>language</span></span></a><br>
(your own)<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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Harris_(author)"><span style='color:black'>Mark Harris</span></a><br>
has <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dc8p6"><span style='color:black'>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'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/33/sikelianos-ivby-morse.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Eleni Sikelianos</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 <span class=GramE>Road</span><br>
(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/may/31/rorymaclean.travelbooks"><span style='color:black'>Swiss version</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.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-9783110188721-1&amp;l=E&amp;ad=nle"><span style='color:black'>Interfaces + Recursion<br>
= Language?</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'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/hay_festival_pamuk_without_the.html"><span  class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Orhan</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Pamuk</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'>Against<br> 
<a href="http://www.leevilehto.net/default.asp?a=1&amp;b=8&amp;c=13&amp;d=3"><span style='color:black'>the idea</span></a><br>
of poetry<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.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=14330"><span style='color:black'>Paul <span class=SpellE>Portuges</span></span></a><br>
on 2Pac<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'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/33/knowles-ivby-burnett.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Allison Knowles</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'>An <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=232426"><span style='color:black'>oral history</span></a><br>
of the <br>
<a href="http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Subtext</span></a><br>
reading series<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'>More on the <a href="http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2007/05/poet-sarah-hannah-has-passed.html"><span style='color:black'>life</span></a><br>
&amp; <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2ru8xv"><span style='color:black'>death</span></a>
of<br>
Sarah Hannah<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'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://www.planetjh.com/news/A_101191.aspx"><span style='color:black'>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'>Howard <span class=SpellE>Zinn</span><br>
on <a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Books/Content?oid=oid:96523"><span style='color:black'>the end<br> 
of newspaper<br>
book reviews</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'><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Atlanta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s daily<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yv846g"><span style='color:black'>drops its critics</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'>The <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/printedition/2007/05/27/edjulialett0527a.html"><span style='color:black'>Atlanta<br>
Journal-Constitution</span></a></i><br>
defends<br>
its arts coverage<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'>while it&#8217;s laid-off<br>
book reviewer<br>
<a href="http://www.atlantamagazine.com/blogs/entry.php?id=1378"><span style='color:black'>gets a job</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'>BEA<br>
considers<br>
<a href="http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/05/30/mclemee"><span style='color:black'>the future (if any</span></a><span class=GramE>)</span><br>
of book reviews<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'>Who controls<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/theater/29ridi.html?adxnnl=1&amp;ref=theater&amp;adxnnlx=1180535964-08C2C/IHZhS975WpeDxElQ"><span style='color:black'>an author&#8217;s<br>
estate</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 close connection<br>
between<br>
<a href="http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1745&amp;source=rss"><span style='color:black'>business &amp; poetry</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="../../../../My%20Documents/Ron/The%20Work/Critical%20Writing/Blog2/poetryfoundation.org"><span style='color:black'>The Poetry Foundation</span></a><br>
wins a <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,113663.shtml"><span style='color:black'>webby</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'>Novelists slum<br>
in <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&amp;sid=aNZFn1olv.R0&amp;refer=muse"><span style='color:black'>the New Gutter</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://jacketmagazine.com/33/knowles-ivby-burnett.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Dialog as critique<span class=GramE>:</span></span></a><br>
</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Vernon</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Fraser &amp; <span class=SpellE>Kirpal</span> Gordon<br>
on<br>
Michael Rothenberg<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'>PENNsound<br>
makes it to <br>
the leader&#8217;s quadrant<br>
of </span><st1:State><st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New York</span></i></st1:place></st1:State><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Mag&#8217;s</span></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
&#8221;<a href="http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/32362/"><span style='color:black'>Approval Matrix</span></a>&#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://nymag.com/arts/books/2007/?ftr-promo"><span style='color:black'>Literary 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'>Dada, Gary Snyder<br>
&amp; <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,,2091476,00.html"><span style='color:black'>environmental action</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 profile of<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2yq5bl"><span style='color:black'>Nancy <span class=SpellE>Botkin</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'>Jim Behrle <br>
on the website of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry:<br>
</i>&#8221;<a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/dispatches/gallery/cartoon31.html"><span style='color:black'>The Ex-Laureates</span></a>&#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'>Getting <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2f4b9p"><span style='color:black'>wild &amp; crazy</span></a><br>
at <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry<o:p></o:p></i></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'>Giving up poetry<br>
<a href="http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070531/asp/opinion/story_7841429.asp"><span style='color:black'>for politics</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.todayinliterature.com/today.asp"><span style='color:black'>Today in literature</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 profile of<br>
<a href="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21819775-5003425,00.html"><span style='color:black'>David <span class=SpellE>Malouf</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'>Where are <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3y2gzq"><span style='color:black'>the children&#8217;s  books</span></a><br>
denouncing gay rights<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
affirmative action<br>
&amp; promoting gun ownership?<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'>Why <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR2007052901641.html"><span style='color:black'>Hal <span class=SpellE>Meyerson</span></span></a><br>
is the best<br>
political columnist<br>
in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>USA</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><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 class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Yoshi&#8217;s</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/02/MNG6QQ69RE31.DTL"><span style='color:black'>pulls</span></a><br>
a commemorative<br>
but not representative<br>
CD<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'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://www.artinfo.com/articles/story/24689/richard_serra?dm_i=120933386"><span style='color:black'>Richard Serra</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'>&amp; a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/arts/design/01serr.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>profile</span></a><br>
of the retrospective<br>
at <span class=SpellE>MoMA</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'>A seriously<br>
pre-digital<br>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6695739.stm?dm_i=120933386"><span style='color:black'>camera</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'>Joe Goode<br>
in<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/02/DDGD4Q5EED1.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Humansville</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></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'>Yoko Ono<br>
<a href="http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2121267,00.html"><span style='color:black'>eats a corgi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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took her life<br>
last Wednesday<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'><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Lydia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Davis</span></st1:place></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yr25jc"><span style='color:black'>in 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.thenation.com/doc/20070611/armantrout"><span style='color:black'>Rae Armantrout</span></a><br>
in<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The <span class=GramE>Nation</span></i><br>
</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(subscription required)<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.hindu.com/mag/2007/05/27/stories/2007052750100400.htm"><span style='color:black'>Omani women</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'><a href="http://iamnasra.blogspot.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Nasra</span></span><span style='color:black'> al <span class=SpellE>Adawi&#8217;s</span>
blog</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'>Bill <span class=SpellE>Moyers</span><br>
talks with<br>
<a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052707A.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Maxine Hong Kingston</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 Inky reviews<br>
the Pulitzer-winning<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2bx5kshttp:/tinyurl.com/2bx5ks"><span style='color:black'>volume of verse</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'>&amp; an interview<br>
with <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2bjah7"><span style='color:black'>Natasha Trethewey</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 profile<br>
of <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/05/24/a_poet_word_renowned/"><span style='color:black'>Erica <span class=SpellE>Funkhouser</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'><a href="http://www.naropa.edu/blogs/index.php?blog=2"><span style='color:black'>Jack&#8217;s</span></a> <a href="http://www.naropa.edu/news/pressreleases/20070521kerouac.cfm"><span style='color:black'>back</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'>Burning books<br>
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/28/book.burning.ap/index.html"><span style='color:black'>without a permit</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'>Time to define<br>
<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200705280353.html"><span style='color:black'>literary criticism</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'>Günter Grass<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/04/070604fa_fact_grass"><span style='color:black'>How I spent the war</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="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqjJCvq9vtE"><span style='color:black'>Dangerous poetry</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.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/06/04/070604crbo_books_menand"><span style='color:black'>Ondaatje&#8217;s fiction</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.readysteadybook.com/Blog.aspx?permalink=20070529154409"><span style='color:black'>Robert Kelly explains</span></a><br>
the <a href="http://www.annandaledreamgazetteonline.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Annandale Dream Gazette</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'>Do databases have a sense of humor?<br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Way-More-West-Poets-Penguin/dp/0143038699"><span style='color:black'>Amazon recommends</span></a> <br>
that if you buy <br>
Ed Dorn&#8217;s<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Way More West<br>
</i>you should also buy<br>
my own<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Age of Huts (compleat)</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'>Trying to document<br>
<a href="http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_sunday_features?id=56521122"><span style='color:black'>the growth of<br>
Guyanese poetry</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.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=262931"><span style='color:black'>Maltese<br>
renaissance</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'>Martín</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Espada</span><br>
gives a <br>
<a href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=105&amp;ItemID=12912"><span style='color:black'>commencement address</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/2q9joz"><span style='color:black'>Celebrating</span></a><br> the new<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language"><span style='color:black'>Konkani</span></a><br>
poets<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.press.uillinois.edu/s98/roberts.html"><span  style='color:black'>Len</span></a> <a href="http://www.vqronline.org/viewauthor.php/prmAID/2232"><span style='color:black'>Roberts</span></a><br>
has <a href="http://heintzelmanfh.com/obituaries/r/LRR/Leonard_R_Roberts.htm"><span style='color:black'>passed away</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 latest<br>
from<br> 
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3det52"><span style='color:black'>Donald  Hall</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'>Yet another article<br>
bemoaning<br>
the loss<br>
of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/339xmt"><span style='color:black'>indie imprints</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'>Was C. Day-Lewis<br>
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/05/17/bosta12.xml"><span style='color:black'>as dashing</span></a><br>
as Daniel?<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'>This week&#8217;s<br>
bookstore obits<br>
come from<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yrya4n"><span style='color:black'>Manitowoc, WI</span></a><br>
&amp; <br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/27xsef"><span style='color:black'>Arvada, CO</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'>Wondering just how quiet<br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2083015,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Quietude should be</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/332cjr"><span style='color:black'>Neo Rauch</span></a><br>at <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2007/06/04/070604craw_artworld_schjeldahl"><span style='color:black'>the Met</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&amp; against<br>
the new<br>
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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;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Linh Dinh&#8217;s <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Wise men <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/powerful_lines_the_poetry_of_f.html"><span style='color:black'>fish</span></a> here<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/nyregion/23gotham.html"><span style='color:black'>Auctioning off</span></a><br>
the remains of<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/26kqft"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Gotham</span></span><span style='color:black'> Book Mark</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The used &amp; rare<br>
book trade<br>
<a href="http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2007/05/23/026.html"><span style='color:black'>in Moscow</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Writing in <br>
<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/kapuscinski_could_not_have_bee.html"><span style='color:black'>totalitarian</span></a><br>
times<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Languages<br>
as <a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/024825.html"><span style='color:black'>design objects</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>EAOGH&#8217;s</span></i></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <br>
3<sup>rd</sup> issue<br>
is on<br>
<a href="http://chax.org/eoagh/issue3/issuethree.html"><span style='color:black'>Queering <span class=SpellE>Languange</span></span></a><br>
<br>
Hear the massive<br>
launch reading<br>
at the Bowery Poetry Club<br>
<a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Queering-Language.html"><span style='color:black'>here</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://www.tehelka.com/story_main30.asp?filename=hub020607Street_fight.asp"><span style='color:black'>protest poet</span></a><br>
in the language of<br>
Marathi<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;The profession <br>
that professionalizes best<br>
<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/#5-24-07"><span style='color:black'>professionalizes least</span></a>&#8221;<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <!--[endif]--><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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Sharon Harris&#8217;<br>
photo archive<br>
of the <a href="http://www.poetography.ca/"><span style='color:black'>Toronto<br>
literary scene</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.jonathanlethem.com/"><span style='color:black'>Jonathan  Lethem</span></a><br>
on <a href="http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/lethem_interview.pdf"><span style='color:black'>Philip K Dick</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://weblogs.csmonitor.com/verbal_energy/2007/05/index.html#entry-33940428"><span style='color:black'>Secret grammar</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Promethean spirit<br>
in the poetry of<br>
<a href="http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=19588"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Siddhicharan</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Shrestha</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Really &#8211; this <br>
is the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>real</i><br>
talking with<br>
<a href="http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/05/14/leonard-gontarek-an-interview/"><span style='color:black'>Leonard <span class=SpellE>Gontarek</span><br>
<span class=GramE>site</span></span></a><br>
<br>
(I had the wrong URL on Wednesday)<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n09/jone01_.html"><span style='color:black'>Gender &amp; typing</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=636&amp;p=education&amp;a=5"><span style='color:black'>feminist poet</span></a><br>
in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Calcutta</span></st1:place></st1:City><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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Garbage in<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/where_are_the_great_novels_of.html"><span style='color:black'>fiction out</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Contemporary Iranian poetry<br>
on the <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10971&amp;sectionid=351020105"><span style='color:black'>trams of Stuttgart</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with<br>
<a href="http://www.madpoetssociety.com/blog/2007/05/23/philadelphia-poet-louis-mckee-an-interview/"><span style='color:black'>Louis McKee</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>More like fantasy baseball<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/business/media/21predict.html?ref=books"><span style='color:black'>for books</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bring back<br>
the <a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/23/johnjay"><span style='color:black'>English major</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/22qudp"><span style='color:black'>From blogs<br>
to books</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Karl Marx<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/29h25v"><span style='color:black'>The Hollywood Years</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/entertainment-news?articleid=2899740"><span style='color:black'>Bad Time Rhymes</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/the_shocking_truth_about_the_s.html"><span style='color:black'>slush</span></a> pile<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Garrison <span class=SpellE>Keillor</span><br>
needs to<br>
<a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/23/keillor/"><span style='color:black'>take a break</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/this_really_is_the_end_of_my_m.html"><span style='color:black'>Ending</span></a> the manuscript<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Because <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/where_did_philip_roths_nobel_p.html"><span style='color:black'>he&#8217;s a purveyor<br>
of stereotypes</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=spring07/reviews/rohrer"><span style='color:black'>Reading Matthew Rohrer</span></a><br>
as the next James Tate<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.playbackstl.com/content/view/1166/162/"><span style='color:black'>poetics</span></a><br>
of <a href="http://www.roddywoomble.co.uk/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Roddy</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Woomble</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/32ojsm"><span style='color:black'>Roy De  Forest</span></a><br>
has <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/23/BAGNEPVQFR1.DTL"><span style='color:black'>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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1624639_1369726,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Richard Serra</span></a><br>
at <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1625196,00.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>MoMA</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Reinventing<br>
the <a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070520/ENT05/705200596/0/NEWS06"><span style='color:black'>Detroit Institute of the Arts</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Invasion<br>
of the<br>
<a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=640"><span style='color:black'>art consultants</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Installation art<br>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/05/23/art_standoff_intensifies/"><span style='color:black'>goes to court</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>What <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2166772/"><span style='color:black'>$72 million</span></a><br>
will buy<br>
in the Rothko <span class=GramE>market</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Oh, but <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2eollg"><span style='color:black'>who gets the  $$$</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The next<br>
<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/05/gormley_is_the_new_henry_moore.html"><span style='color:black'>Henry Moore</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>
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