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is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supposed to be<br>
</i>a &#8220;</span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathleen-parker-fair-warning-provoking-a-thought-is-literatures-job/2014/05/20/9cc6635e-e056-11e3-9743-bb9b59cde7b9_story.html"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">trigger</span></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">&#8221;</span></div>
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we won&#8217;t use </span><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/05/29/essay-faculty-members-about-why-they-will-not-use-trigger-warnings#sthash.CvtFu8M8.DpA7uVIn.dpbs"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">trigger warnings</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></span></div>
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&amp; the novelist&#8217;s mind</span></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div>
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bullying:<br>
Isla Vista, </span><a href="http://htmlgiant.com/web-hype/on-bullying-isla-vista-seth-abramson-and-social-media/"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Seth Abramson</span></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br>
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in contemporary American poetry</span></div>
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Rankine</span></a></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">:<br>
What We Write About when We Write About</span></div>
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as if it weren&#8217;t reserved<br>
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Johnson</span></a></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"> &amp; snakes</span></div>
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Modernism</span></a></span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">:<br>
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comfortable</span></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br>
in their literary communities</span></div>
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funded the </span><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/How-Iowa-Flattened-Literature/144531/"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Iowa Writers Workshop</span></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">?<br>
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-the-cia-turned-american-literature-into-a-content-farm"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">The CIA</span></a></b><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></div>
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profile of </span><a href="http://equuspress.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/you-do-not-know-my-history-will-not-write-it/"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Lukáš Tomin</span></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br>
&#8220;the René Crevel of post-communist Prague&#8221;</span></div>
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&amp; Julia Bloch<br>
close read Basil Bunting&#8217;s<br>
reading of Walt Whitman&#8217;s<br>
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the Cradle Endlessly Rocking</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/110544/war-elephants-and-pious-cats-basil-buntings-persian-poems/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Bunting&#8217;s</span></a><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Persian Poems</i></span></span></div>
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Sigo on </span><a href="http://www.blogcitylights.com/2012/02/28/all-those-ships-that-never-sailed/"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Bob Kaufman</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.stevebensonasis.com/?p=214"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Steve Benson</span></span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">:<br>
Notes on Revision &amp; Evasion</span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Tyrone Williams,<br>
Thom Donovan &amp; Patrick Durgin<br>
discuss <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/4584"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Steve
Benson&#8217;s</span></a><br>
Did the Lights Just Go Out?</span></span></span></div>
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wide-ranging selection of reviews<br>
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disclosure: I&#8217;m included)</span></span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></i></div>
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Plunkett on </span><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/177928/casual-opulence"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Denise Levertov</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"></span></span></div>
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</span></span><a href="https://jacket2.org/commentary/entry-5"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Boycott Language</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> &amp; </span></span><a href="https://jacket2.org/commentary/entry-6"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Poetics</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><a href="https://jacket2.org/commentary/entry-7"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Diplomacy</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br>
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