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I quit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Talking with </span></span><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/248834"><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;">Erin Belieu</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/books/review/gender-genre.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;">Gender</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> genre<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://omniverse.us/hazel-white-sonnet-to-dead-reckoning/"><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;">Hazel White</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
on sonnets &amp; rage<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogcitylights.com/2014/09/08/review-thing-music-by-anthony-mccann/"><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;">Anthony McCann&#8217;s</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i>Thing
Music<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Tao Lin
interviews </span></span><a href="http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=interview_lerner_2"><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;">Ben Lerner</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Fresh Air:<br />
</span></i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">a rave review
for </span></span><a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/09/03/345107284/10-04-a-strange-spectacular-novel-connecting-several-plotlines"><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;">Lerner&#8217;s new novel</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://highmuckamuck.ca/"><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;">High Muck a Muck</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
A collective interactive text<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.pen.org/poetry/remainer"><span style="color: windowtext;">Graham Foust</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
Remainer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Jane Joritz-Nakagawa<br />
talking with </span></span><a href="http://jacket2.org/commentary/jennifer-bartlett-conversation-jane-joritz-nakagawa"><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;">Jennifer Bartlett</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.vidaweb.org/reports-from-the-field-compassion-in-po-biz/"><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;">Bartlett</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
Compassion in Po-Biz<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.ottawapoetry.blogspot.ca/2014/10/on-writing-41-gary-barwin.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Gary Barwin</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
the hotel of language<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Talking with <a href="http://mfadayjob.com/2014/10/02/what-matters-is-a-job-you-can-leave-at-work-an-interview-with-gina-myers/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Gina Myers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.pen.org/poetry/walking"><span style="color: windowtext;">Cole Swensen</span></a>:<br />
from <i>On Walking On<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">A </span></span><a href="http://ukpoetgal.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/notes-from-a-don-share-masterclass/"><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;">Don Share</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> master class<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Talking with </span></span><a href="http://www.32poems.com/blog/7955/prose-feature"><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;">Don Share</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29538180"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sir Andrew Motion&#8217;s</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
How to be a poet<br />
in ten easy steps<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/04/creative-writing-courses-waste-of-time-hanif-kureishi"><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;">Hanif Kureishi</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
creative writing courses<br />
are &#8220;a waste of time&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Nobel judge:<br />
</span></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/07/creative-writing-killing-western-literature-nobel-judge-horace-engdahl"><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;">creative writing courses</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
are killing literature<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/?p=2449"><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;">Creative writing courses</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
aren&#8217;t killing literature --<br />
sanctimonious rich white tossers are<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">&#8220;Get a </span></span><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-real-degree"><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;">real degree</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">How to win
the </span></span><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/10/09/how-to-win-the-nobel-prize/"><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;">Nobel Prize</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/books/patrick-modiano-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.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;">Modiano</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">: a modern Proust<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/14/richard-flanagan-wins-man-booker-prize-2014"><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;">Flanagan</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> wins the Mann<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/30/kei-miller-wins-forward-poetry-prize"><span style="color: windowtext;">Kei Miller</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> wins the Forward<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">2 poems by <a href="http://www.pen.org/poetry/two-poems-wendy-xu"><span style="color: windowtext;">Wendy
Xu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Yale acquires
the papers of<br />
</span></span><a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library/2014/09/18/charles-bernstein-papers"><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;">Charles Bernstein</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Visiting </span></span><a href="http://longhousepoetryandpublishers.blogspot.com/search/label/deCordova%2520Sculpture%2520Park%2520and%2520Museum"><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;">Thoreau &amp; Finlay</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.ottawapoetry.blogspot.ca/2014/10/on-writing-42-jason-christie.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Jason Christie</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
poetry and horses and shit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://htmlgiant.com/reviews/formerly-anonymous-review-zone/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Mathias Énard&#8217;s</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> <i>Zone<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The world&#8217;s <a href="http://bookriot.com/2014/03/17/most-awesome-library/"><span style="color: windowtext;">most awesome library</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The poetry of
</span></span><a href="http://www.poetsquarterly.com/2014/10/the-poetry-of-non-poetry-on-alan.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;">non-poetry</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.powells.com/blog/original-essays/the-world-of-publishing-1991-vs-2014-by-karen-karbo/"><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;">Publishing</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> in 1991 &amp; 2014<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The </span></span><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/12/the-seizure-medication-that-turns-you-into-a-poet.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;">seizure meds</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
that will make you a poet<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.pen.org/poetry/what-not-missing-light"><span style="color: windowtext;">Bridgette Bates</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
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200 synonyms for &#8220;drunk&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://phillybooksblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/thom-nickels-celebrates-underappreciated-locals/"><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;">Neglected</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></span><a href="http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=2112"><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;">books</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">How bookstores
survive<br />
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unite to fight Amazon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/9/8/the-dead-poets-societygetsarevivalonline.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;">ModPo</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> reaches<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.pen.org/poetry/prologue"><span style="color: windowtext;">Joyelle McSweeney</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
Prologue<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Burroughs, Bowles &amp; boys<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Talking little magazines<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">University of
Alaska<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The </span></span><a href="http://io9.com/the-history-of-the-english-language-in-one-chart-1641158929"><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;">history of English</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> in one chart<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-new-los-angeles-poet-laureate-luis-rodriguez-20141009-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;">Luis Rodriguez</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
is LA&#8217;s new poet laureate<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The real is that<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">One giant
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<a href="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2014/10/picturing-language/"><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;">Wittgenstein</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
picturing language<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">2 poems by </span></span><a href="http://time.com/3274135/james-franco-poetry-spring-breakers/"><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;">James Franco</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">A poem for </span></span><a href="http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/09/18/james-franco-poetry/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">James Franco</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/oct/23/find-your-beach/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Zadie Smith</span></a>:<br />
Find your beach<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/03/seamus-heaney-last-poem-national-gallery-ireland-anthology"><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;">Seamus Heaney&#8217;s</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">
last poem<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/2014/05/indian-pipe/"><span style="color: windowtext;">GC Waldrep</span></a>:<br />
Indian Pipe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-is-ebola"><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;">Ebola</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">
is<br />
the Scarriet of Scarriets<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/books/2014/09/bill-murrays-addiction-to-poetry.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;">Bill Murray&#8217;s</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> addiction to poetry<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-bob-dylan-lyrics-book-200-5000-20141008-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;">New book&nbsp; by Dylan</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
sells for $200<br />
<i>AND<br />
</i>$5,000<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Green Integer<br />
is making PDFs<br />
of </span></span><a href="http://www.greeninteger.com/"><i><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;">La Bas</span></i></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
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free<br />
</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%;">(scroll to bottom
of page)</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<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;">Should
literature be </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/books/review/should-literature-be-considered-useful.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;">considered useful</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-peake/the-paradox-of-contempora_b_5902328.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">paradox of poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<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;">What
to </span><a href="http://www.themillions.com/2014/08/on-the-nightstand-on-deciding-what-to-read-next.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;">read next</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.dusie.blogspot.ca/2014/10/tuesday-poem-80-joshua-marie-wilkinson.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;">Joshua Marie Wilkinson</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
Poem for Laynie Browne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Talking with <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/poetry/timothy-donnelly-interview-daniel-nadler-lacunae/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Daniel Nadler</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<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;">John
Bennett <br />
publishes a rave review<br />
of </span><a href="http://johnmbennettpoetry.blogspot.com/2014/10/normal-0-false-false-false.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;">John Bennett</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/author-zane-filed-for-bankruptcy-as-her-new-movie-addicted-was-in-production/2014/10/03/aa2d5150-4a60-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Zane</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;"> files for bankruptcy<br />
as her book<br />
becomes a movie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.webbish6.com/2014/09/the-poet-does-an-art-walk-some-poetry-and-visual-art-collaboration-news/"><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;">Jeannine Hall Gailey</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
does an art walk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/181725/under-pressure"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">When does art<br />
become non-art</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/artsbeat/2014/10/07/maya-lin-wins-300000-gish-prize/"><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;">Maya Lin</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
wins the Gish Prize<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/181389/hope-against-hope?page=full"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jeff Koons &amp; Kara Walker</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/books/art-in-america-1945-1970-edited-by-jed-perl.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;">Jed Perl&#8217;s</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
<i>Art in America 1945 &#8211; 70<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/dec/08/anselm-kiefer-art-white-cube"><span style="color: windowtext;">Anselm Kiefer</span></a>:<br />
art is not entertainment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/152614/a-survey-of-art-from-across-brooklyn/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Crossing Brooklyn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<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;">How </span><a href="http://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/close_look_arman"><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;">Arman</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
opened the door<br />
for assemblage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/arts/artsspecial/-ray-k-metzker-art-photographer-dies-at-83.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;">Ray K Metzker</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> has
died<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.artspace.com/collecting/thematic/san-francisco-galleries?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Master&amp;utm_campaign=100914_SanFranGalleries"><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;">SF galleries</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<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;">Why </span><a href="http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/camille-henrot-interview"><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;">Camille Henrot</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
envies painters<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/152075/contemporary-arts-body-language/"><span style="color: windowtext;">The Figure</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<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;">The
history of cave painting<br />
goes </span><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/154475/these-indonesian-cave-paintings-may-overturn-eurocentric-art-history/"><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;">way beyond Europe</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">The paintings of <br />
</span><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/154145/shrapnel-from-the-skies-the-paintings-of-david-lynch/"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">David Lynch</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/152609/gehry-gets-frank-on-labor-at-the-guggenheim-abu-dhabi/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Frank Gehry</span></a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
on labor at<br />
the Guggie Abu Dhabi<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/153154/five-rules-for-kinda-viewing-art/"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">5 rules</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> for
kinda viewing art<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/close_look_john_baldessari"><span style="color: black; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-themecolor: text1;">John Baldesarri</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">:<br />
unforgivingly humorous</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<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;">Photo
show in Chelsea<br />
</span><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/153278/nyc-photo-exhibition-vandalized-curator-attacked/"><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;">attacked by neo-Nazis</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;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Valerie Macon was briefly the laureate of North Carolina</i></span></span></td></tr>
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resigns</span></a><br>
in latest <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/07/14/4006164/mccrory-picks-his-poet-laureate.html"><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;">round</span></a>
of<br>
the <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/08/those-who-hope-not-to-be-erased-an-interview-with-carol-muske-dukes/"><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;">North
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&amp; I am appalled<br>
how little is available<br>
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Joe Newlin&#8217;s<br>
twitterization of<br>
my poem </span><a href="http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=1876857196"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><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;">Tjanting</span></i></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><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></i></span></div>
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apocalypse:<br>
</span></span><a href="https://jacket2.org/reviews/against-apocalypse"><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;">Jessica Smith</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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reviews<br>
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_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_TextView', new _WidgetInfo('Text4', 'sidebar', document.getElementById('Text4'), {}, 'displayModeFull'));
_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_TextListView', new _WidgetInfo('TextList1', 'sidebar', document.getElementById('TextList1'), {}, 'displayModeFull'));
_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_LinkListView', new _WidgetInfo('LinkList1', 'sidebar', document.getElementById('LinkList1'), {}, 'displayModeFull'));
_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_TextView', new _WidgetInfo('Text1', 'sidebar', document.getElementById('Text1'), {}, 'displayModeFull'));
_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_TextView', new _WidgetInfo('Text3', 'sidebar', document.getElementById('Text3'), {}, 'displayModeFull'));
_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_ImageView', new _WidgetInfo('Image1', 'sidebar', document.getElementById('Image1'), {'resize': false}, 'displayModeFull'));
_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_TextView', new _WidgetInfo('Text2', 'sidebar', document.getElementById('Text2'), {}, 'displayModeFull'));
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