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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/jack-micheline-wall/images/DSCN0302.jpg"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none'><img border="0" height="513" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/d1YxsrvnyXtmg7KptCGIuiRy1ztkavwXOodrSFkPhbRNIEWBz0HEZVaANekFkettzWwZdaNzLPcWdd6zhFCGSlRLdRFs6-yiPr-gM_RTgvzhc0ag73XU3g%3Ds0-d" width="385"></span></a><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Preserve <a href="http://www.thebeatmuseum.org/jack-micheline-wall/"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Micheline&#8217;s Wall</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://sonorareview.com/57-excerpts/barbara-henning-conversation-with-harryette-mullen/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Harryette Mullen</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Sutzkever"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Abraham Sutzkever</span></a>,<br> the <a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1808"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yiddish</span></a> <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=82134"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poet</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/data.show.php?di=record&amp;da=encyclopedia&amp;ke=87"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>resistance fighter</span></a><br> whom some folks think<br> should have received the <a href="http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/vilna/vilna_pages/vilna_stories_sutzkever.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nobel Prize</span></a>,<br> has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/24sutkever.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>died</span></a> at <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1144431.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>96</span></a><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'><a href="http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/node/608"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Di Festung</span></a><br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(in Yiddish)<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://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Reznikoff-Holocaust.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reznikoff</span></a> reads <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Holocaust<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 suite of <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Reznikoff-Holocaust-Photos.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reznikoff photos</span></a><br> by <a href="http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~arPF/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Abraham Ravett</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/2010/jan/23/martin-amis-times-arrow"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Martin Amis</span></a>:<br> writing the holocaust backwards<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'>Vancouver poet <a href="http://www.sgautama.net/index.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor: text1'>Brad Robinson</span></a><br> has died<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://thermosmag.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/an-interview-with-katy-lederer/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Katy Lederer</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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2010/1/21/armantrout-balances-poetic-theory-with-gaga"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rae Armantrout</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'>Free <a href="http://pegahahmadi.blogfa.com/post-106.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Abbas Khalili Dermanaki</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 on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/GraceToy#/notes/payam-fotouhiyehpour/free-abbas-khalili-dermanaki/261343401938"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dermanaki</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'>Canada is set<br> to <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/new-rules-a-big-big-hit-to-canadian-magazines/article1438110/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>wipe out<br> its little magazines</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'>Plus <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-281190/vancouver/independent-bookstore-duthie-books-set-close"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Duthie&#8217;s</span></a>,<br> Vancouver&#8217;s top indie bookshop,<br> goes <a href="http://bryanjack.edublogs.org/2010/01/19/vancouver-loses-its-last-duthie-books/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>belly up</span></a><br> in time for the Olympics<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 <a href="http://maxfawcett.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/the-independent-bookstore-dead-dying-or-something-else-altogether/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>indie bookstore</span></a>:<br> dead, dying or something else?<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.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-authors21-2010jan21,0,5287838.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Amazon offers writers 70%</span></a><br> of Kindle revenue<br> to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/amazon-offers-new-70-roya_n_429651.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>cut publishers out</span></a> of the deal<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.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/books/23kindle.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kindle&#8217;s &#8220;best sellers&#8221; are free</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.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/study-finds-20-of-us-readers-have-switched-to-ebooks-1869469.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>20% of US readers</span></a><br> have already switched to e-books<br> [or at least tried it once or twice]<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'>While Apple courts publishers,<br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/21reader.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kindle</span></a> adds apps<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.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/publisher-app-may-set-ereading-trend-1869229.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Penguin app</span></a> tests the iPhone<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'>Amazon opens the <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/amazon-cracks-open-the-kindle/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kindle</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'>How much does your e-reader <a href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/bogus-tech-measurements/?scp=2&amp;sq=pogue&amp;st=Search"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>weigh</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'>Compare with an <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/what-would-it-feel-like-to-hold-a-10-inch-apple-tablet/?ref=technology"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Apple tablet</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'>Is the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/25/BU8A1BM5NV.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Apple tablet</span></a> viable?<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/technology/2010/jan/20/apple-tablet-launch-experts-view"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fantasies</span></a> of the tablet<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'>Will &#8220;<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/23/BU2U1BLOMU.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>vooks</span></a>&#8221; change your reading experience?<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'>Xerox enters the <a href="http://printceo.com/2010/01/xerox-gives-book-publishers-one-more-thing-to-think-about"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>on-demand book game</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/22/ursula-le-guin-revolt-google-digital"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>LeGuin&#8217;s revolt</span></a><br> against the Google book deal<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://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/steinbeck-and-guthrie-families-now-supports-google-book-plan/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Guthrie &amp; Steinbeck</span></a> families<br> are backing Google<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/2010/01/17/weekinreview/17bell.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Haiti</span></a> in ink &amp; tears<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.mercurynews.com/books/ci_14205425?nclick_check=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Camille Dungy&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Black Nature:<br> Four Centuries of African-American<br> Nature Poetry<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 finalists for this year&#8217;s<br> <a href="http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national_book_critics_circle_announces_finalists_january_23_2010/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nation Book Critics&#8217; Circle Awards</span></a><br> include, for poetry,<br> Rae Armantrout, Louise Glück,<br> D.A. Powell, Rachel Zucker<br> &amp; Eleanor Ross Taylor<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'><a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/news/national-book-critics-circle-award-finalists-announced"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Coldfront</span></a>:<br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>4 out of 5 finalists<br> made our <br> &#8220;best of 09&#8221; lists<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.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14719"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac&#8217;s Detroit</span></a><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'><a href="http://quebec.broadwayworld.com/article/Centaur_Theatre_Company_Presents_MICHEL_TIJEAN_2237_20100119"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michel &amp; ti-Jean</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'><a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2010/01/watch-james-franco-plays-allen-ginsberg-in-howl-4-clips.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Franco as Allen Ginsberg</span></a><br> (first clips,<br> including the Six Gallery reading)<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'>Next up for cinema treatment:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jan/14/david-foster-wallace-fiction"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Infinite Jest</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'>Rereading <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jan/13/death-of-the-author"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roland Barthes&#8217;</span></a><br> &#8220;The Death of the Author&#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'>&#8220;<a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/1061/death-author"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Death of the Autho</span></a>r&#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.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/technology/personaltech/22sfbriefs.html?sq=beat%20poet&amp;st=cse&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;scp=1&amp;adxnnlx=1264356183-eUIcXKdFJu8IAb5OFwtNfA"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gary Snyder&#8217;s</span></a> digital muse<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'>One book that <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/01/neil-gaiman-the-graveyard-book-will-stay-a-book.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>won&#8217;t be a movie</span></a><br> is Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/01/neil-gaiman-graveyard-book-movie.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Graveyard Book</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://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-am-i-but-my-own-critic-bringing.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Susan M. Schultz</span></a>:<br> The why of a reading list<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://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/slaves-to-do-these-things"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Amy King&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Slaves To Do These Things<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.nybooks.com/articles/23572"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charlie Simic</span></a><br> on witnessing horror<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/2010/jan/23/chinua-achebe-nigeria-childhood"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chinua Achebe</span></a>:<br> What Nigeria means to me<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 feature on <a href="http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2010/01/david-wolach.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Wolach</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/jacketcopy/2010/01/bloomsbury-cover-whitewash-again.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Racism &amp; romance</span></a><br> on book covers<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 registration deadline for <br> <a href="http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=925"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In(ter)ventions:<br> Literary Practice at the Edge</span></a><br> in Banff next month<br> is January 29!<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 second evening of<br> <a href="http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/01/second-evening-of-poets-theater-at.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poets Theater<br> @ Small Press Traffic</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 feature on <a href="http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2010/01/frank-sherlock.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Frank Sherlock</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://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/01/eponymity-manifesto.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eponymity Manifesto</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><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></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Looking at Harriet&#8217;s<br> &#8220;decade of poetry&#8221; feature<br> <a href="http://aninditasengupta.com/2010/01/critique-cruelty/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>globally</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'>Poetry vs. poetry journalism:<br> looking at <a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-in-and-by-sand-kaia-sands.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kaia Sand &amp; Lawson Fusao Inada</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://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-reviewing-marjorie-perloff.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marjorie Perloff</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/14/writers-risk-repeating-themselves"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What writers risk</span></a><br> by refusing to repeat themselves<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 feature on <a href="http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2010/01/hailey-higdon.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hailey Higdon</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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012201971_pf.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Solzhenitsyn&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>First Circle</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br> </i>de-bowdlerized<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://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-defense-of-using-proper-proper-names.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reporting vs. privacy</span></a> in blogging<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://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/search/label/Dementia%2520Blog"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Susan M. Schultz&#8217;s</span></a><br> dementia blogging<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'>18 films of poetry,<br> including<br> </span><span class=sub><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/amadon.html"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>Samuel Amadon</span></a></span></span><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/doxsee2.html"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>Julie Doxsee</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/gander.html"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>Forrest Gander</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/glenum.html"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>Lara Glenum</span></a></span>, <br> <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/greenstreet2.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Kate Greenstreet</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/hillman.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Brenda Hillman</span></a></span>,<br> <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/hofer.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Jen Hofer</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/kapil.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Bhanu Kapil</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/kelsey.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Karla Kelsey</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/lee.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Sueyeun Juliette Lee</span></a></span>, <br><span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/moten.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Fred Moten</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/mullen.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Laura Mullen</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/nichols.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Travis Nichols</span></a></span>, <br><span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/rossell.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Broc Rossell</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/toscano.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Rodrigo Toscano</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/tost.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Tony Tost</span></a></span>, <br><span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/veglahn.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Sara Veglahn</span></a></span>, <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/zawacki.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Andrew Zawacki</span></a></span> <br>&amp; <span class=sub><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/zucker.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Rachel Zucker</span></a></span></span><span class=sub><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span class=sub><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/totalvisualarchive.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Total visual archive</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></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 class=sub><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A feature on <a href="http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/marion-bell.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marion Bell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></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 class=sub><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.rk-ology.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Robert Kelly&#8217;s</span></a><br> Statement for <br> The Modern Poetry Conference<br> @ CUNY<br> (also his revamped website&#8217;s<br> new home page)</span></span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'><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'>Appreciating Lucas Bernhardt&#8217;s<br> &#8220;<a href="http://thermosmag.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/an-appreciation-on-lucas-bernhardt%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cinfidelities-of-coal%E2%80%9D-in-thermos-3/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Infidelities of Coal</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 feature on <a href="http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/laura-sims.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Laura Sims</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'>An <a href="http://claudiacarlson.blogspot.com/2010/01/imaginings-poetryprose-contest.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>eidetic</span></a> 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'>The <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/01/flarf-is-officially-dead-stop-laughing-at-cock/#comment-27914"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>death of flarf</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'>You kept the <a href="http://bit.ly/5JevXI"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Kafka archives</span></a> where?<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.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=franz+kafka&amp;itemNo=1144293"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kafka</span></a> was &#8220;slightly strange&#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 feature on <a href="http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/thom-donovan.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thom Donovan</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 test of transliteration:<br> <a href="http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/transliteration-of-catullus/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Catullus 1</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://penumbrae.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/recording-npp-at-the-bowery-poetry-club/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>New Philadelphia Poets</span></a><br> @ the Bowery Poetry Club<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 95&#162; &#8220;Skool&#8221;<br> <a href="http://swoonrocket.blogspot.com/2010/01/95-cent-skool-summer-seminar-in-social.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Summer Seminar in Social Poetics</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://opennedpoetry.squarespace.com/podcast/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Harry Godwin</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://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-is-careerism-for-poets-these-days.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ed Sanders &amp; John Gallaher</span></a> on<br> careerism for 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://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2010/jan/21/andrew-motion-romantics-philip-gross-poetry-cycling"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andrew Motion</span></a><br> on Philip Gross &amp; the romantics:<br> it&#8217;s not quietism, it&#8217;s recycling!<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'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/23/philip-gross-poetry-eliot-prize"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Water Table</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'>The paranoia around<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/natalia-leshchenko/belarus-love-and-paranoia"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paranoia</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://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/making_out_is_its_own_reward.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Censorship</span></a> in 1960<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'>Calling <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18417-earth-calling-a-short-history-of-radio-messages-to-et.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Spicer&#8217;s Martians back</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'>One month to respond<br> to the call for work<br> for the <a href="http://www.poetrypaths.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lancaster County<br> Poetry Path</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 feature on <a href="http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/julia-bloch.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Julia Bloch</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.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-philip-k-dick24-2010jan24,0,3831068.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Philip K. Dick:</span></a><br> paradox found<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.raintaxi.com/online/2009winter/naropa.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Beats at Naropa</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'>The <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/mollys-cafe-and-bookstore-philadelphia"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Molly&#8217;s Books</span></a><br> grand re-opening <a href="http://penumbrae.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/mollys-grand-re-opening-open-reading/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>reading</span></a><br> (with links to the MP3s)<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 feature on <a href="http://electiveaffinitiesusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/caconrad-is-recipient-of-gil-ott-book.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CAConrad</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;<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://ericselland.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/the-modernist-tradition-in-japan-some-introductory-comments/"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Eric Selland</span></a>:<br> &#8220;The Modernist Tradition in Japan&#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://kenyonreview.org/blog/?p=7387"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jay Thompson</span></a> on torque<br> with a great video demo<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://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/01/impossible-community-poetry-and-private.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Impossible communities:</span></a><br> Poetry &amp; the private sphere<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://catastrophist.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/00s-retrospective-slang-linguistic-trends/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Slang</span></a> &amp; linguistic trends<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://www.tnr.com/blog/john-mcwhorter/reids-three-little-words-the-log-our-own-eye"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>No Negro dialect</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://thermosmag.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/thermos-interview-maggie-ginestra/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Maggie Ginestra</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.raintaxi.com/online/2009winter/pines.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Pines&#8217;</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Last Call at the Tin Palace<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'>Censoring the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/01/school-district-pulls-dictionaries-for-oral-sex-definition.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>high school dictionary</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'>What is <a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-did-you-find-today.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>found poetry</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://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/Filreis-Al_Review_Stevens-across-Atlantic_Modernism-Modernity_2010.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stevens</span></a> across the pond<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'>Call it the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/post-apocalypse"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Washington Past</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://academicpoetry.com/blog/2010/01/diana-hamilton-on-appropriated-sciences-in-contemporary-poetries.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Diana Hamilton</span></a> on<br> Dan Farrell&#8217;s<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Ink Blot Record<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'>Method is public,<br> <a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2009/12/method-is-public-poetry-not-so-much-so.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry not so much so</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'>Where is the <a href="http://acompulsivereader.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/two-thoughts-on-criticism/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rotten Tomatoes</span></a> for poetry?<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.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/01/20/spenser_novelist_parker_dead_at_77/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Boston Globe</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>articles on <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/01/21/robert_b_parker_a_man_of_virtue_and_wit/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert B. Parker</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.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/22/RV5G1BM1K8.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dennis Lehane</span></a> on Robert Parker<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/story/story.php?storyId=122747886"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>P.D. James</span></a><br> &amp; the dark corners<br> of detective 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'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The poems of <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009winter/engonopoulos.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nicos Engonopoulos</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://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/01/mla-2009-scenes-in-philadelphia-part-2.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kaplan Harris</span></a>:<br> celebrating 20 years of<br> MLA Offsite readings<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://tsky-news.blogspot.com/2010/01/tsky-investigates-foursquare-editions.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jessica Smith</span></a><br> about Foursquare Editions<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://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/01/chelsey-minnis-poemland.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chelsey Minnis</span></a> in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poemland<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'>Self-styled <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=roberto+valenza&amp;sortby=7&amp;x=0&amp;y=0"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>American Tibetan</span></a>,<br> <a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/issue6/robertoportraitbyiracohen.JPG"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roberto</span></a> <a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/issue6/robertov.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Valenza</span></a> has died<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'>Jim Benz on <a href="http://american-poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/luis_zukofskys_a9_strophe_9"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zukofsky&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>&#8220;A&#8221; - 9<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://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1520270"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How metaphors work</span></a><br> in legal argumentation<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://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1515423"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shakespeare &amp; Judgment</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://academicpoetry.com/blog/2010/01/rachel-blau-duplessis-pattie-mccarthy.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Blau DuPlessis &amp; Pattie McCarthy</span></a><br> at the Chapterhouse Café<br> 620 S. 9<sup>th</sup> St<br> Philly<br> Saturday, January 30<br> 8:00 PM<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'>February 2 in Toronto:<br> <a href="http://thisaintblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/some-kind-of-cheese-orgy-a-poetry-reading-with-linh-dinh-a-rawlings-and-angela-szczepaniak/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Linh Dinh with a. rawlings &amp; Angela Szczepaniak</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;Sleeping with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/23/julian-barnes-new-short-story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Updike</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://a.aaaarg.org/text/8790/experience-poetry"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kevin Hart&#8217;s</span></a><br> &#8220;The Experience of Poetry&#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 bio of <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009winter/barthelme.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Donald Barthelme</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://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/01/sandra-simonds-warsaw-bikini.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sandra Simonds&#8217;</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Warsaw Bikini<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'>Coming to Penn:<br> <a href="http://jcmurphy.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/word-image-culture-25th-annual-interdisciplinary-conference-in-the-humanities-november-11-13-2010-cfp-english-upenn-edu/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Word / Image / Culture</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.3ammagazine.com/3am/restless-hauntings-richard-marshall-interviews-marina-warner/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marina Warner</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/2010/jan/23/el-doctorow-homer-and-lamgley"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>E.L. Doctorow</span></a> on style<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://bit.ly/6wC7xp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Dana Gioia</span></a> joins <br> Postmasters Stamp Selection Committee<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://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/william_burroughss_stuff/05wbs.php"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>William Burroughs&#8217;</span></a> stuff<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://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/01/wars-principium-est-poetry-version.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Robert Mezey</span></a>, war 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: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'>NEA Chair <a href="http://wamu.org/programs/dr/10/01/25.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rocco Landesman</span></a><br> on the Diane Rehm Show<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.truthout.org/freedom-vs-public-option56352"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Lakoff</span></a> <br> on &#8220;freedom&#8221; vs. the public option<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://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/marginal-road"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Simon&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Marginal Road<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.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/books/19sherlock.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sherlock Holmes</span></a>, the property<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'>Will the real <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/jane_austen/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2010/01/20/jane_austen"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jane Austen</span></a><br> please stand up<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://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-do-not-want-to-know-elizabeth-sotos.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Elizabeth Soto&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Eulogies<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'>Giving <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Giving-Emerson-the-Boot/63512/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Emerson</span></a> the boot<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.postnoills.com/main/?p=118"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Crystal William&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Troubled Tongues<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://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/stone-buddha-by-karma-tenzing-wangchuk.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Karma Tenzing Wangchuk&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Stone Buddha<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.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.html?hpw=&amp;pagewanted=all"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The man who outsells</span></a><br> Stephen King, John Grisham &amp; Dan Brown<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>combined<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'>But is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2010/jan/06/leo-tolstoy-greatest-writer"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tolstoy</span></a> the greatest<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://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/01/bin-ramke-theory-of-mind.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bin Ramke&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Theory of Mind<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 literature festival in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/books/25festival.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jaipur</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.canlit-symposium.ca/past/2008/interviews/Wilson-betts-Interviewfinal.pdf"><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'>Christopher Hitchens<br> on <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/ballard"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>J.G. Ballard</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 call for papers for<br> <a href="http://www.oldunito.unito.it/esse2010/home/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>ESSE 10</span></a><br> (the European Society for the Study of English<br> conference in Turn in August)<br> has a robust set of panels planned<br> including one on Mina Loy<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.mediatecadisanlazzaro.it/ricercabo09/giovenale.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marco Giovenale</span></a>, reading &amp; talking<br> (in Italian)<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://www.ronslate.com/apparition_late_fictions_novella_and_stories_thomas_lynch_w_w_norton"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Thomas Lynch</span></a> undertakes 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'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/8867/approaches-what"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Georges Perec</span></a>:<br> &#8220;Approaches to What?&#8221;<br> (reg. req.)<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;Notes Concerning <a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/8864/notes-concerning-objects-are-my-work-table"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Objects<br> That Are on My Work-table</span></a>&#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'>Was <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/was-shakespeare-a-woman/article1433158/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shakespeare</span></a> a woman &amp; a Jew?<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'>Michael Hoffman on <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n02/michael-hofmann/vermicular-dither"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stefan Zweig</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://poemshape.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/let-poetry-die/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Let poetry die</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/2010/01/13/arts/13burger.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Knox Burger</span></a> has died<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/8791/tragic-comedy-samuel-beckett"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beckett</span></a> in Rome<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'>American poets <br> &amp; the popular perception of<br> <a href="http://ericselland.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/american-poets-and-the-popular-perception-of-japanese-poetry/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Japanese poetry</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'>Did <a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2010/01/did-dashiell-hammett-hate-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dashiell Hammet</span></a> love poetry?<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'>Happy birthday, <a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2010/01/william-staffords-birthday.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Stafford</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.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Elliott-t.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>do-it-yourself</span></a> book tour<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/online/blogs/books/2010/01/book-club-pat-and-flannery.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Patricia Highsmith &amp; Flannery O&#8217;Connor</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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_poe_mystery_visitor"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poe&#8217;s mystery visitor</span></a> fails to show<br> (Was it David Franks?)<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.salon.com/books/2010/01/18/us_poe_portrait/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poe as cheery</span></a> as David Franks<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'>Close-reading <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jan/22/romantic-poets-lord-byron-childe-harold"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Byron</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jan/22/chapman-s-homer-john-keats"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Keats</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.fact-simile.com/tradingcard.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fact-Simile poetry trading cards</span></a> for 2010 &#8211;<br> a new one every month<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 <a href="http://www.fact-simile.com/calendar.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>vispo calendar</span></a><br> is pretty nifty too<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.huffingtonpost.com/william-boyd/the-lethal-river_b_428350.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lethal river</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'>Ode to the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.i-italy.org/12536/ode-italian-cuisine"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poets&#8217; Cookbook</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.fictionaut.com/stories/finnegan-flawnt/the-serious-writer-and-his-penis"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Serious Writer &amp; His Penis</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.raintaxi.com/online/2009winter/hooks.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>bell hooks</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Teaching Critical Thinking<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://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100118/ENT07/1180303/1032/ENT/At+90++digest+s+writerly+as+ever"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Writers Digest</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>turns 90<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.loa.org/storyoftheweek/2010/01/wind-storm-in-forests.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Muir</span></a>:<br> &#8220;A Wind-Storm in the Forests&#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.cprw.com/Houlihan/bond.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joan Houlihan</span></a> reviews<br> Charlie Smith, Lawrence Raab, Bruce Bond<br> &amp; Liz Waldner<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'>What do <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/01/25/100125crbo_books_mendelsohn"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>memoirs</span></a><br> tell us about ourselves?<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.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/01/one-year-storyteller-in-chief.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>master narrator</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'>Toward a <a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/201001/?read=article_bachelder"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>theory of surprise</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.insidehighered.com/blogs/mama_phd/the_privilege_of_not_recognizing_privilege"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Privilege of Not Recognizing Privilege</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/8836/reservations-marvellous-arcades-project"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>T.J. Clark</span></a> on<br> Walter Benjamin&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Arcades Project<br> </i>(reg. req.)<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 Arcades Project<br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(<a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3239/arcades-project-pt1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>1</span></a>) (<a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3240/arcades-project-pt2"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2</span></a>) (<a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3241/arcades-project-pt3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>3</span></a>) (<a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3242/arcades-project-pt4"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>4</span></a>)<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://barrettwatten.net/texts/entry-07-is-this-anything/2010/01/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is this anything?</span></a><br> (David Letterman on critical thought)<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://a.aaaarg.org/text/8824/michel-de-certeau-analysing-culture"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michel de Certeau:<br> Analysing Culture</span></a><br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(reg. req.)<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'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/8821/michel-de-certeau-cultural-theorist"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michel de Certeau:<br> Cultural Theorist</span></a><br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(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'>NT Times </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'>obit for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/books/18hruska.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Laura Hruska</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/15/theodor-fontane"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Theodor Fontane</span></a><br> feels your pain<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'>Don&#8217;t be a <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=text-hole&amp;defid=2552452"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>text-hole</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'>Serious <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358338,00.asp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>wifi</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'>What was eating <a href="http://www.signandsight.com/features/1856.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wagner</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'>You don&#8217;t want to be Patti Smith,<br> you want to be <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-01-19/music/lady-gaga-approximately"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lady Gaga</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://privatecirculation.com/?page_id=1300"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Utopia-Nihilism wall clock</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 legacy of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/theater/24vanpeebles.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Melvin Van Peebles</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'>Getting the news from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-news-from-citizen-kane.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Citizen Kane</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'>Life with <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2010/01/life_with_rohmer.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eric Rohmer</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.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/20/BAI21BK9F4.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering</span></a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jan/20/kate-mcgarrigle"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kate McGarrigle</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.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=3&amp;islist=true&amp;id=13&amp;d=01-22-2010"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kate &amp; Anna</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Fresh Air<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'>Portraits of authors<br> in <a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&amp;int_new=35725"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Princeton</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 photography of <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/sha_fei.html?ft=1&amp;f=97635953"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sha Fei</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.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/20/DDRV1BJRHC.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>SF MoMA</span></a> turns 75<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'>Jed Perl<br> on <a href="http://www.tnr.com/book/review/sketchbooks"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Tworkov &amp; Mira Schor</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://accidentalmysteries.blogspot.com/2010/01/archive-of-childrens-scribbles.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>archive of scribbles</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'>Scenes from a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/24/opinion/20100124opartSS_index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>catastrophe</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://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703699204575017050699693576-lMyQjAxMTAwMDIwMzEyNDMyWj.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Art &amp; the brain</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.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100120/ART/701199970/1224"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Genius &amp; schizophrenia</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://privatecirculation.com/#subscription_form"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Private Circulation&#8217;s</span></a><br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>monthly PDF bulletin<br> well worth the free subscription<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.insidehighered.com/blogs/the_education_of_oronte_churm/literary_cartography"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literary cartography</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.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122854276"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>paralysis of analysis</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://twitter.com/LRBpersonals"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>LRB </span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242;font-style:normal'>personals</span></a></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'> are now on Twitter<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'><a href="http://bit.ly/8gcWzI"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Sexually, I&#8217;m More of a Switzerland</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What are you <a href="http://bit.ly/60Sa2F"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>smiling at</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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