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<p class=MsoNormal>I stop to ask myself what it is that I&#8217;m doing &amp; why. And this was <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>before </i>yesterday&#8217;s note, memorializing Lhasa de Sela &amp; Kenneth Noland, or even the mentions in Tuesday&#8217;s linkstream that Don Belton, Jaromir Horec &amp; James Kavanaugh had died. What does it mean that I&#8217;ve noted eight deaths in one week?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal>One thing it invariably means is that I&#8217;ve missed some folks. When I read <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poets &amp; Writers, </i>I note their lists of the recently departed &amp; always discover a few writers either that I&#8217;ve never heard of before, or whose passing managed to skip past my own information resources, mostly because they never received an obit in a medium that touched the net.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal>I do hear, maybe two or three times per year, some negative comment about my memorializing the passing of poets and other artists whose lives &amp; work I think relevant to the poetics focus of this blog, such as musicians &amp; painters. But for every negative comment, I receive somewhere between 20 &amp; 30 positive ones, including long heartfelt messages from family members of the deceased thanking me for taking the time to note their loved one and put up a few relevant links. That&#8217;s a ratio I can certainly live with. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal>I did not envision doing this when I began this blog back in 2002. I began rather by accident when I noted the passing of Robert Creeley. All I did when the news came from Marfa that he had died was put up a photo and a couple of links, but I noticed very quickly that my readership that week rose something like 40 percent. I was personally too upset by Bob&#8217;s passing to write any more right away, and yet people kept coming back to that blog note as if I had done something meaningful. My readership <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>never </i>went back down to its earlier numbers. Obviously this was touching people in a way I had not anticipated.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal>This forced me to recognize that the nature of my blog had changed somewhat, and was changing still. It was no longer simply me &amp; my opinions, even if that&#8217;s all I had wanted it to be. It was becoming more of a community institution, an online zócalo, a web plaza to which people might come for news &amp; information, not simply to hear me on my soapbox preach about the evils of Quietude. That was the point where I began to take adding lists of links to news items related to poetry (&amp; more generally the arts) seriously. And I realized that I needed to cover more than just &#8220;my kind&#8221; of verse, nor just American, English language or western poetics. Just as the world of poetry is no longer the white male enclave it proclaimed itself to be 50 years ago (the year that <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New American Poetry </i>was published containing 39 white males, 1 African-American male &amp; 4 white women), the idea that English language poetry can operate ignorant of the poetries in that language of Africa and/or India is going to seem ludicrous soon enough. Why not acknowledge that right now?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal>So my sense of this endeavor evolved, and with it the idea of noting significant passings got added to the mix. When you think of the fact that there are &#8211; to use the low-end figure &#8211; 20,000 publishing poets in the English language, and perhaps that many substantial artists in relevant other media, what you get is a community of some 40,000 adults, about what you might expect of a small city (Wilmington, Delaware or Berkeley, California, for example). When you plot out what 40,000 lives between the ages of 25 &amp; mid-80s might look like on an actuarial table, you would anticipate something close to 800 deaths per year. Fortunately, this community skews quite young. There were only a few hundred such poets in the 1950s, which means that the number now in their 80s is disproportionately small when compared against an &#8220;average&#8221; community of similar size. My response to M. Alt is that it could be a whole lot worse than what you see here. And in 30, 40, 50 years, it most certainly will be. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal>As my sense of this blog evolved, I began to do some things differently. Not only did I do some things you might expect more from a community newspaper, such as include memorial notices &amp; links of resources, I began to get some help. Lynn Behrendt does the remarkable job of keeping over 1200 blog addresses current each month and is the person who thought up the addition of collective blogs to that list (which several readers have told me is the best part of it as well). Don Wentworth contributes at least a quarter of the links you read each week. I&#8217;ve gradually shifted away from using bots &amp; alerts to gather news to the point where maybe 80 percent of the links you see on the link lists have been sent to me by someone. Including personal friends and colleagues of Vic Chesnutt &amp; Lhasa de Sela who felt they deserved to be acknowledged here. <span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'>And, I should note, this blog &amp; the arts community it serves is not the whole of my life any more than it is yours. In the past week, the two most significant deaths in my life were of friends whom I have not mentioned here until now. Mark Helwege was a colleague of mine at IBM who was the VP of worldwide sales at Brainware when he died of a heart attack last weekend. <a href="http://www.sentencingproject.org/detail/news.cfm?news_id=838&amp;id=167"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Irwin</span></a> was a one-time armed robber who made himself into one of the best sociologists of prison life in America. Through his books, his work at San Francisco State &amp; especially his role as the Gandalf of the Prisoners Union in California, John was perhaps <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/06/BA091BE9R2.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the single most influential figure</span></a> in the prison reform movement in California during the last half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-poetry-foundation-31-dec31,0,3503555.story"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>A clash o&#8217;er millions</span></a> at <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2240323/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Venture capital</span></a> for verse<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The NY Times</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'><br> does an obit of its own<br> on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/us/01lilly.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ruth Lilly</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who reads <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://afilreis.blogspot.com/2009/11/schticky-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/12/poetry-published-in-2009.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Steven Fama&#8217;s<br> best of everything lists</span></a><br> for 2009<br> (winner: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>best &#8220;bests&#8221; list</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Best <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/12/a-year-in-book-cover-design-michael-fusco.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>book jackets</span></a> of 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2009/12/mine-for-yours-my-favorite-fiction.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dennis Cooper&#8217;s</span></a> favorites for &#8216;09<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=2486"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pierre Joris&#8217;</span></a> &#8220;Boxing Day Favorites&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why &#8220;best of&#8221; lists<br> <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-091220-lit-life-best,0,2092727.column"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>always fail</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>I saw <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/fullcredits#cast"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the best minds of my generation</span></a><br> portrayed by James Franco, Jeff Daniels, Treat Williams<br> &amp; Mary-Louise Parker<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Or cast as a <a href="http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/yes-its-ginsberg-doll.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>vinyl figurine</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenkim/5431504/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Kerouac</span></a> bobble head doll<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don&#8217;t forget <a href="http://www.burroughsthemovie.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bill Burroughs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/12/satori-in-tangier-issas-sunday-service.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Satori in Tangier</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>More <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-jack-kerouac3-2010jan03,0,1033786.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac tchotchkes</span></a> for the completist<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.visnat.com/entertainment/music/folkwax/backissues/folkwax_456.cfm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dennis McNally</span></a> on the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>One Fast Move </i>package<br> [scroll down]<br> (reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/liu-xiaobo.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Liu Xiaobo&#8217;s 11-year sentence</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/12/longing-to-escape.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Longing to escape</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/04/authors-demonstrate-liu-xiaobo"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Authors protest</span></a> Liu&#8217;s jailing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://irasciblepoet.blogspot.com/2010/01/poetry-foundation-and-poetic-class-my.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Read globally</span></a><br> is the not-so-secret message<br> of Ray Bianchi&#8217;s first rant of the decade<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/node/7947"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Unamuno</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Tragic Sense of Life<br> </i>(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/mohammad-attends-poetry-evening-1.561963"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dubai Shaikh</span></a> attends poetry contest<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://t-lopez.blogspot.com/2010/01/only-more-so-arts-council-england.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chalk one up</span></a> for the lottery in the UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The poetry boom in <a href="http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&amp;id=1398&amp;catID=10"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Argentina</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Finding poetry in <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-chicago-poet30-2009dec30,0,6036322.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chicago</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://exoskeleton-johannes.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-own-private-idaho-synecdoche-ny.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What if community is the problem</span></a>,<br> not the solution?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-eileen-myles.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eileen Myles</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2009/12/gay-indiana-professor-ron-belton-stabbed-to-death-in-own-home.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don Belton</span></a> has been stabbed to death<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Justice for <a href="http://justicefordonbelton.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don Belton</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2009/06/anezka-ceska-by-jaromir-horec.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jaromir Horec</span></a> has <a href="http://www.lidovky.cz/matuska-svandrlik-opustili-nas-v-roce-2009-ffj-/lide.asp?c=A091217_104716_lide_glu"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>died</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/12/james_kavanaugh_former_priest.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Kavanaugh</span></a> is dead<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/jan/02/embarrassments-need-not-apply/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carl Phillips</span></a>:<br> gay poets &#8220;need not apply&#8221;<br> for Missour laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://peachbats.blogspot.com/2010/01/snips-as-heard-from-clark-coolidges.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hearing</span></a> Coolidge&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://peachbats.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-snips-from-crystal-text.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Crystal Text</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/amazon-christmas-day-ebook-sales-beat-print-sales-1851549.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The day e-book sales surpassed print</span></a> at Amazon<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/booksblog/2009/dec/31/e-readers-books-market"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Playlists</span></a> will revolutionize publishing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Can e-books <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14103123#ixzz0bcKx5GWi"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>save publishing</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Friday, Jan. 8 @ 7:30 PM<br> <a href="http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/archives/000382.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Donna Stonecipher &amp; Zachary Shomburg</span></a><br> at Open Books in Seattle<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/12/venerable-are-letters-infinitely-brave.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The technology of letters</span></a><br> &amp; end of a year<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://francesfarmerismysister.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-vomitous-blog-manifesto.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>My vomitous blog manifesto</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/weird/index.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The weird book room</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/news/local/news/general/pye-has-eye-on-the-prize/1717142.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Australia&#8217;s Bush Laureate</span></a> awards<br> are down to the finalists<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/guenter-grasss-stasi-files-to-be-published-1852715.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Grass&#8217; Stasi file</span></a> is coming to print<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-ben-friedlander.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ben Friedlander</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=121781979&amp;m=121748846"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How e-books<br> change reading &amp; writing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/review/Gopnik-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>reading</span></a> does to the mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6913046/Government-book-scheme-appeals-to-lowest-common-denominator.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>UK literacy campaign</span></a> is dumbing it down<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://illinois.edu/db/view/25/19338?count=1&amp;ACTION=DIALOG"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>TSA bans reading</span></a><br> during international flights<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Worst-MLA-Ever-/19464/?sid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Worst MLA Ever</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-reviewing-anselm-barrigan.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anselm Berrigan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/01/04/100104po_poem_hadas"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Hadas</span></a> in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New Yorker<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091227__Invisible__flaws_too_apparent.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Invisible</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>flaws too apparent<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2009/12/31/missouris-first-poet-laureates-term-comes-end/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Walter Bargen</span></a><br> has survived his 2-year term<br> as Missouri&#8217;s laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/25/DD2B1B5CCU.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Willis Barnstone&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New Testament<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/review/Kermode-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Rosenberg&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Bible<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A live chat with <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bookclub/2009/12/lydia-davis-live-chat.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lydia Davis</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-11-19/A_Discontinued_People.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Herta Müller&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;discontinued people&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2010/01/04/100104crbn_brieflynoted4"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mahmoud Darwish&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>If I Were Another<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Learning to accept <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8435191.stm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>rejection slips</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Fry&#8217;s course on <a href="http://academicearth.org/courses/literary-theory"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>literary theory</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://mikejohnduff.blogspot.com/2009/12/typewriter-notes.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Using the typewriter</span></a><br> in the 21<sup>st</sup> century<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-MLAthe-Digital/19468/?sid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The MLA</span></a> &amp; digital humanities<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A free <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/12/whoopee_author_daniel_nester_i.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>whoopie cushion</span></a> with every book<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-emily-warn.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Emily Warn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.courant.com/news/local/statewire/hc-ap-ct-poetlaureatejan01,0,5345652.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Connecticut</span></a> is out looking<br> for a new poet laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1341687"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bob Stanley</span></a><br> is Sacramento&#8217;s laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Ghost-of-MLA-Future/19484/?sid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The MLA is a gerontocracy</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Recent changes in testosterone poisoning<br> in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/review/Roiphe-t.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>American novel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/12/29/methuen_seeks_grant_to_help_preserve_frost_artifact/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Frost</span></a>, taking attendance<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The path of poetry in <a href="http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/247003"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lancaster, PA</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/4819095.Rodborough_Common_featured_in_new_poetry_collection_by_Jenny_Joseph/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jenny Joseph&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Nothing Like Love<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/know-your-neighbor/2009/dec/28/know-your-neighbor-samuel-menashe-poet/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Samuel Menashe</span></a>,<br> concise poet<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/22761/the-joke%E2%80%99s-on-god/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stanley Moss</span></a> vs. God<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CA Conrad&#8217;s<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.themillions.com/2009/12/a-year-in-reading-tim-w-brown.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Advanced Elvis Course</span></a><br> </i>is the &#8220;most interesting&#8221; book<br> Tim Brown<br> read in &#8216;09<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2009/12/everywhere-at-once.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Everything Geof Huth did in 2009</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The 176 books of poetry,<br> 8 anthologies, 8 journals<br> &amp; 16 other poetry-related books<br> <a href="http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com/2010/01/non-coterie-reading.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eileen Tabios</span></a> read in 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>150 books read in 2009<br> by <a href="http://elizabethjcolen.blogspot.com/2010/01/2009-good-year-for-reading.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Elizabeth J Colen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.abebooks.com/books/updike-mccourt-child-masquerade/year-review-2009.shtml?cm_mmc=nl-_-nl-_-g00-reviewJ-_-01cta"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>AbeBook&#8217;s</span></a> 2009 year in review<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tony-trehy.blogspot.com/2009/12/gauging-freedom-and-constraint.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tony Trehy</span></a> on freedom vs. constraint<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://illinois.edu/db/view/25/17976?count=1&amp;ACTION=DIALOG"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Faith-based grammar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc61.pbr4.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Boog Reader 4</span></a><br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>is now online<br> (with 48 NYC poets,<br> &amp; 24 DC poets)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/blog/?p=225"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nurses &amp; writing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Japan&#8217;s best selling book in 2009:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/murakamis-1q84-is-japans-bestselling-book-of-2009-1854038.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>1Q84</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The new <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Fact-Simile<br> </i>has a big interview &amp; feature with<br> <a href="http://fact-simile.com/Fact-Simile_2.2_Autumn_Winter_2009_Web.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Keith &amp; Rosmarie Waldrop</span></a><br> plus other good stuff<br> (including Dale Smith on Rodrigo Toscano)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/books/review/Rabb-t.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Steal these books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/01/11/100111po_poem_mcgrath"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Campbell McGrath</span></a> in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New Yorker<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-michael-robbins.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Robbins</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://watchout4snakes.com/CreativityTools/RandomSentence/RandomSentence.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Random sentence</span></a> generator<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/books/02tolstoy.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tolstoy</span></a> in Chechnya<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Blogging &amp; the arts in <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/03/malawi-bloggers-to-watch-in-the-arts-in-2010/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Malawi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jan/04/medea-athens-augusta-webster"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Augusta Webster</span></a> &amp; the monolog<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://rattle.com/blog/2009/12/the-brother-swimming-beneath-me-by-brent-goodman/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brent Goodman&#8217;s</span></a> <br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Brother Swimming Beneath Me<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>On the &#8220;necessity&#8221; of <a href="http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Fieled%20essay.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>bad reviews</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004055964"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Editor &amp; Publisher</span></a><br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>suspends operations,<br> still hoping for zombiehood<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=11858"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rasskazy:<br> New Fiction from a New Russia</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-reviewing-mitchell-parry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mitchell Parry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ten words</span></a> you need to stop misspelling<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The lasting influence of<br> <a href="http://www.chapter16.org/content/her-own-right"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eleanor Ross Taylor</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-is-year-for-luck-and-joy-new-year.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Carrier&#8217;s Address</span></a><br> as a genre of poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://dl.lib.brown.edu/carriers/about.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brown&#8217;s archive</span></a> of same<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Time to revive <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/29/christmas-chapbooks"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Christmas chaps</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ronslate.com/desolation_chimera_last_poems_luis_cernuda_translated_stephen_kessler_white_pine_press"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Luis Cernuda&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Desolation of the Chimera<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eric McHenry on<br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/McHenry-t.html?_r=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Phil Levine, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Bang &amp; Patty Seyburn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/full-moon-surrounded-by-clouds.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the world / is no different</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Women &amp; jealousy in the poetry of <a href="http://www.chowk.com/articles/16833"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Faiz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://scarriet.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/a-brief-history-of-u-s-poetry-happy-new-year/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Scarriet&#8217;s &#8220;brief history of poetry&#8221;</span></a><br> ignores 95%<br> of the New American poetry,<br> all of the Objectivists<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/node/7989"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Philip K. Dick</span></a>:<br> &#8220;How to Build a Universe<br> That Doesn&#8217;t Fall Apart Two Days Later&#8221;<br> (reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://reblivingston.blogspot.com/2009/12/dream-poet-anthology-2009.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reb Livingston&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Dream Poet Anthology<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235938/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zadie Smith</span></a> on how to read fiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/12/chinese-love-lyrics-moon-bird-river.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chinese Love Lyrics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-reviewing-gregory-betts.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gregory Betts</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://illinois.edu/db/view/25/15866?count=1&amp;ACTION=DIALOG"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bad moods yield better texts</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Writers put <a href="http://www.canada.com/news/City+writers/2398682/story.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edmonton</span></a> on map<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/review/Beyer-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daniel Nester</span></a>:<br> Not inappropriate, just annoying<br> (scroll down)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-years-haikutanka-challenge-winners.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>New Year&#8217;s haiku</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=2765"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Freud</span></a> for thought<br> (hint: that&#8217;s how they pronounce<br> Freud St. in Detroit)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blog.al.com/entertainment-press-register/2009/12/book_review_john_casteens_free.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Casteen&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Free Union<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/7868/handbook-inaesthetics"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alain Badiou:</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Handbook of Inaesthetics<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://bit.ly/6MHSce"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>12 things</span></a> that became obsolete<br> in the last decade<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-MLAAcademic-Labor-/19479/?sid=cr&amp;utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The MLA &amp; academic labor</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/80368147.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aU1ccmiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Minnesota</span></a> literary news<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rehabbing <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/12/21/091221crbo_books_acocella#ixzz0aWUyOgdJ"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chaucer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100103/Magazine/sundaytimesmagazine_01.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wendy Cope</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.norwichbulletin.com/living/x370502184/On-Poetry-Some-poets-continue-writing-well-into-late-years-of-life"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Old bards</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jan/03/edmund-white-city-boy-extracts"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edmund White</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A Queen&#8217;s Medal for <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8436483.stm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don Paterson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/books/30lebowski.html?_r=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lebowski studies</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/metro-policy/the-beck-supremacy"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>right wing hijacks a genre</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The next literary superstar:<br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/jan/03/books-club-richard-judy-millionaires"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Abraham Verghese</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/373/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bruce Sterling</span></a>:<br> State of the World 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Linh Dinh&#8217;s</span></a><br> State of the Union<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Save <a href="http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=2729"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lascaux</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/node/7900"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Arthur Danto</span></a>:<br> &#8220;Concerning Mental Pictures&#8221;<br> (reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2010/jan/04/alan-moore-graphic-sex-art"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alan Moore&#8217;s</span></a> history<br> of 25,000 years<br> of erotic art<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>14 years of mail art<br> &amp; other collabs<br> between <a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/young/RW-KY.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reid Wood &amp; Karl Young</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2009/12/david-levine-rip.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David</span></a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/arts/design/30levine.html?_r=1&amp;ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Levine</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/gallery/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Levine</span></a> database<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/node/7985"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jacques Derrida</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Truth in Painting<br> </i>(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Coming in February:<br> <a href="http://bit.ly/8VIfMq"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>the medium is tedium</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/7876/appearances"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Berger</span></a><br> on reading images<br> (reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/east-of-west-la-a-photo-journey.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>East of West LA</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Last week for <a href="http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/art/81611/wallace-berman-19271976-at-nicole-klagsbrun-art-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wallace Berman</span></a><br> @ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in NYC<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://afilreis.blogspot.com/2009/12/trippy-west-coast-surrealism-in-chelsea.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Trippy West Coast Surrealism</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/_aGWD1bagCJ0/S0D0psYE4XI/AAAAAAAAL7A/zBK-Yk63a6s/s1600-h/Berman+exhibit+postcard.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is This Any Kind of Mother for an Orphan Foal</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/29/boy-paints-like-old-master"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Quietism in painting</span></a><br> finds its perfect expression<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Schjeldahl on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2009/12/21/091221craw_artworld_schjeldahl"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Orozco</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/node/7904"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daniel Buren</span></a>:<br> &#8220;The Function of the Studio&#8221;<br> (reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rome&#8217;s new <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/39a07a04-f4cd-11de-9cba-00144feab49a.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Maxxi Museum</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/the-burj-dubai-and-architectures-vacant-stare.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Architecture&#8217;s empty stare</span></a>:<br> the Dubai Burj<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/7845/victory-new-building-style"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Walter Behrendt</span></a>:<br> &#8220;The Victory of the New Building Style&#8221;<br> (reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lynnbehrendt.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lynn Behrendt</span></a> sound files<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/in-memory-of-maryanne-amacher/"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Alvin Curran remembers Maryanne Amacher</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Frank Wilson on <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091229_Biography_looks_at_Louis_Armstrong_through_his_art.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Teachout&#8217;s Armstrong</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/darryn-king/rocknromanticism"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>From Byron to My Chemical Romance</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/12/27/the-day-a-beatle-came-to-town/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Lennon</span></a> in Ann Arbor<br> for John Sinclair<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/509502/war_is_over_if_you_want_it_john_and_yoko_40_years_later"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John &amp; Yoko&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>30 years of <a href="http://www.theamericanscholar.org/shylock-my-students-and-me/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shylock</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/grimly-grimm-hanekes-white-ribbon.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tom Clark</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The White Ribbon<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/8BsmXz"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Why right-handers sit</span></a><br> to the right of<br> the movie screen<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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