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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>One museum <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/arts/design/08ica.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>opens</span></a><br>
in a new location<br>
while another <br>
is perilously close<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ydrmts"><span style='color:windowtext'>to flickering out</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A review<br>
of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Boston</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8217;s <a href="http://www.icaboston.org/"><span style='color:windowtext'>ICA</span></a><br> 
suggesting<br>
that the architecture<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/y62n4k"><span style='color:windowtext'>outshines</span></a><br>
the <span class=GramE>art</span><br>
<br>
(You&#8217;re not alone,<br>
SF <span class=SpellE>MoMA</span>!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Langhorne"><span  style='color:windowtext'>Bruce Langhorne</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
one of the great musicians<br>
of the last half century<br>
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/demme12082006.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>needs your help</span></a><br>
(a note from Jonathan <span class=SpellE>Demme</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What <a href="http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/004716.php"><span style='color:windowtext'>Gerard Van <span class=SpellE>der</span> <span class=SpellE>Luen</span></span></a><br>
was doing<br>
in December<br>
26 years <span class=GramE>ago</span><br>
<br>
(with an odd sighting<br>
of old NY School poet<br>
Jonathon <span class=SpellE>Cott</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Look who wants<br>
to extend<br>
<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/4386371.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>&#169;</span></a><br>
now<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>George W. Bush<br>
announced on Friday<br>
that William Safire<br>
will be honored<br>
with the <br>
National Medal of Freedom<br>
for<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/us/08medal.html?ref=us"><span style='color:windowtext'>polishing the language</span></a>&#8221;<br>
which raises the question:<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>how would Bush know?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>No fan of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Project Runway</i><br>
can fail<br>
to note the passing<br>
of fashion genius<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/arts/09smith.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:windowtext'>Van Smith</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jack Krick<br>
has been adding<br>
new pages<br>
to the<br>
</span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electronic</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Poetry</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Center</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8217;s<br>
roster of contemporary <span class=GramE>poets</span><br>
(322 to date)<br>
<br>
Some recent additions:<br>
<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/north/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Charles North</span></a><br>
<a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/schuyler/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Jimmy Schuyler</span></a><br>
<a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/thomas/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Lorenzo Thomas</span></a><br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/oppen/"><span style='color:windowtext'>George Oppen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A new collective blog<br>
worth noting is the<br>
<a href="http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:windowtext'>International Exchange for Poetic <span class=GramE>Invention</span></span></a><br>
(Charles Bernstein &amp; Ton van 't </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hof</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, proprietors)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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of plagiarism<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Norman Mailer<br>
tries to head<br>
such charges off<br>
at the pass<br>
with a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y4skx3"><span style='color:windowtext'>bibliography</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/opinion/07thu3.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>editorial</span></a><br>
on this very subject<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Getty has an idea<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
why not try an <br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yby5jj"><span style='color:windowtext'>arts professional</span></a><br>
to run the place<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Do Brits<br>
suffer for their art<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/v6d8u"><span style='color:windowtext'>needlessly</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Wind-powered<br>
sculptures<br>
that <a href="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/12/wind-powered-vehicle.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>walk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Keeping jazz <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yxtp2v"><span style='color:windowtext'>alive</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.behearer.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page"><span style='color:windowtext'>500 jazz albums</span></a><br>
you need to own<br>
listed by <br>
year of release<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The future of writing<br>
<a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/umwlf"><span style='color:windowtext'>beyond books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/orange-buttons/we-think.aspx"><span style='color:windowtext'>We-think</span></a><br>
&amp; just maybe<br>
we do<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;Seeing as the rise <br>
of the book <br>
coincided with the rise of <br>
humanism itself, <br>
it is not idle <br>
to worry <br>
that abolishing the first <br>
will mean <br>
abandoning the second.&#8221;<br>
<br>
A review of the Sony<br>
<a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/44660"><span style='color:windowtext'>ebook Reader</span></a><br>
and the book as technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A book contest<br>
with <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_on_en_ot/books_sobol_prize"><span style='color:windowtext'>serious money</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>First </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public/Home/index.cfm"><span style='color:windowtext'>USA artist grants</span></a>&#8221;<br>
are announced<br>
(Meredith Monk,<br>
the <span class=SpellE>Kuchar</span> brothers<br>
&amp; Ali <span class=SpellE>Akbar</span> Khan<br>
among them)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Aeneid</i> <br>
should have been burned<span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(Why Harvard grads<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ycksut"><span style='color:windowtext'>can&#8217;t read</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/y2f5lc"><span style='color:windowtext'>Grading</span></a> the critics<br>
in NYC<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Claudia Rankine<br>
<a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19303"><span style='color:windowtext'>on Lyn Hejinian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpNMXRbkZXc"><span style='color:windowtext'>Out of Character</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
a video<br>
vispo<br>
from Geof Huth<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Pc6S1NK9Q&amp;mode=related&amp;search"><span style='color:windowtext'>Bernard <span class=SpellE>Heidsieck</span></span></a><br>
reading<br>
in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Paris</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
(in French)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An article on<br>
<a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/44657"><span style='color:windowtext'>Rose <span class=SpellE>Auslander</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bjork&#8217;s</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQuPqopDvX4"><span style='color:windowtext'>Pagan Poetry</span></a></i><br>
will leave you<br>
in stitches<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A unique <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yxomva"><span style='color:windowtext'>poetry  contest</span></a><br>
aimed at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language"><span style='color:windowtext'>Konkani</span></a><br>
<span class=GramE>people</span><br>
(advertised here<br>
in English<br>
in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kuwait</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Russell Jacoby<br>
on <br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/sg5ep"><span style='color:windowtext'>Hannah <span class=SpellE>Arendt</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The limits of<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ydw87r"><span style='color:windowtext'>cultural imperialism</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The difficulty<br>
of writing well<br>
whilst being<br>
<a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/44784"><span style='color:windowtext'>super rich</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hal <span class=SpellE>Meyerson</span><br> 
is the best political columnist<br>
in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
&amp; <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yz85ae"><span style='color:windowtext'>this</span></a>
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on the implications<br>
of the November elections<br>
I&#8217;ve read yet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.terryriley.com/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Terry Riley</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7305878&amp;cart=438203248&amp;BAB=M"><span style='color:windowtext'>Robert Creeley</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://www.wattxtrawatt.com/biosteve.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Steve Swallow</span></a><br>
and Kiss<br>
all in <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yjetwp"><span style='color:windowtext'>one <br>
(admittedly disjunct)<br>
discussion</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>kari <span class=SpellE>edward&#8217;s</span><br>
first <br>
posthumous<br>
<a href="http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ke.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>ebook</span></a><br>
is a beauty<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yeogt4"><span style='color:windowtext'>Broken Angel&#8217;s</span></a><br>
days<br>
are numbered<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Lopez%20interview.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Interviewing</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/dynamic.asp?page=staffdetails&amp;id=tlopez"><span style='color:windowtext'>Tony</span></a> <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/11/lopez-2-poems.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Lopez</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Adrienne Rich<br>
on <br>
<a href="http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2006/12/critical-outakes-adrienne-rich-on-form.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>film and form</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Iranian poetry<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_19205.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>the early years</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.sashafrerejones.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Sasha</span></span><span style='color:windowtext'> <span class=SpellE>Frere</span>-Jones</span></a><br>
on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/music/articles/061204crmu_music"><span style='color:windowtext'>Joanna Newsom</span></a><br>
in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New Yorker<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;the selection was bewildering at best&#8221; &#8211;<br>
a quietist&#8217;s view of the <br>
National Book Award<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/y9ol7q"><span style='color:windowtext'>poetry shortlist</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In search of<br>
the &#8220;<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/12/post_8.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>goodish</span></a><span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(on judging lit prizes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/y784qa"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Tomma</span></span></a> <a href="http://www.greengrassi.com/abts.php"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Abts</span></span></a><br>
wins<br>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6205970.stm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Turner Prize</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Quietist<br>
on his custom<br>
&#8221;six-figure <br>
999FO5 factory <span class=SpellE>Superbike</span> racer, <br>
one of only eight made every <span class=GramE>year, <br>
&#8230;</span> built for him in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bologna</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> by hand&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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on wealth<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>LitCrit</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/v3tqv"><span style='color:windowtext'>online</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Joan of Arc:<br>
<a href="http://www.fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=FutureGlobal:Museum:SpecialExhibitions"><span style='color:windowtext'>fashion icon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Music as<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03wwln_q4.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:windowtext'>spiritual mathematics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/books/04map.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:windowtext'>Ghost maps</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/books/02novel.html?ref=arts"><span style='color:windowtext'>13,000 novels</span></a><br>
written<br>
just in the last month<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As Kathy Acker once put it,<br>
&#8221;great artists don&#8217;t<br>
appropriate<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1962604,00.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>they cop</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;Andrew Lloyd Webber<br>
is to<br>
Shakespeare<br>
as . . .<span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2154888/"><span style='color:windowtext'>finish this sentence</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03novelists.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Fiction</span></a> <br>
from the new<br>
</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>South Africa</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/books/02frac.html?ref=arts"><span style='color:windowtext'>Fractals</span></a><br>
in the work of<br>
Jackson Pollock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Is <a href="http://www.diachelsea.org/exhibs/index.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Dia</span></span></a> <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0648,saltz,75138,13.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>MIA</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A new <a href="http://www.mocadetroit.org/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Museum<br>
of Contemporary Art</span></a><br>
opens <br>
in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/arts/design/30urba.html?ref=design"><span style='color:windowtext'>Detroit</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Of <a href="http://www.levins.com/esherick.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Wharton <span class=SpellE>Esherick</span></span></a>.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
the great<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ylj6w9"><span style='color:windowtext'>modernist wood-carver</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
also a resident<br>
of my home town<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In praise of<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yf7y7p"><span style='color:windowtext'>Sylvester <span class=SpellE>Pollet</span></span></a><br>
&amp; his<br>
Backwoods Broadsides<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.citypaper.net/articles/032698/cover.shtml"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Nate</span></span><span style='color:windowtext'> Wiley</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a <span class=SpellE>saxman</span><br>
who used to play<br>
with Gil <span class=SpellE>Ott</span><br>
&amp; who had his first CD<br>
at the age of<br>
75,<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/y7w4ln"><span style='color:windowtext'>has died</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Self-published<br>
Canadians<br> 
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ycoa4l"><span style='color:windowtext'>break into</span></a><br>
the nation&#8217;s largest<br>
retail chain<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
but only on its <br>
(not inexpensive)<br>
terms<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The path<br>
from Robert Creeley<br>
to the Flaming Lips<br>
<a href="http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n48/empire_statement"><span style='color:windowtext'>leads thru</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.mercuryrev.net/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Mercury</span></a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Rev"><span style='color:windowtext'>Rev</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>More Creeley<br>
<a href="http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2006/12/01/dcchoral016.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>set to music</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%25C3%25A1rio_Cesariny_de_Vasconcelos"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Mário</span></span><span style='color:windowtext'> <span class=SpellE>Cesariny</span></span></a><br>
has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/obituaries/30cesariny.html?_r=1&amp;ref=obituaries&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:windowtext'>died</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ferlinghetti&#8217;s</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/30/DDGSQMLIUQ1.DTL"><span style='color:windowtext'>beret</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> 

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The &#8220;<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6156929.stm"><span style='color:windowtext'>incomparable</span></a><span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(primarily in the gap<br>
between hype &amp; substance)<br>
<a href="http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do"><span style='color:windowtext'>Poetry Archive</span></a><br>
begins to add<br>
Dead White Guys<br>
to the collection<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Williams"><span  style='color:windowtext'>Miller Williams</span></a><br>
&amp; his daughter<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/urj5n"><span style='color:windowtext'>Lucinda</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=110888"><span style='color:windowtext'>If you like bad poetry<span class=GramE>,</span><br> 
welcome to heaven</span></a>&#8221;<br>
(on Ginsberg&#8217;s early work)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
Dancing with <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110009307"><span style='color:windowtext'>anyone</span></a><br>
other than<br>
<span class=SpellE>Emmitt</span> Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/costa2006/story/0,,1959483,00.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>tough-guy poet-criminal</span></a><span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(that&#8217;s fiction)<br>
amidst the <br>
Whitbread<br>
shortlist<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/y3ve3k"><span style='color:windowtext'>Interviewing</span></a> a writer<br>
who makes<br>
$50 million per year<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1960207,00.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Defacing</span></a><br>
a work of art<br>
that is also<br>
a train station<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An <a href="http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/52666.html"><span  style='color:windowtext'>excellent piece</span></a><br>
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<a href="http://www.tetramatrix.com/websites/johnbrandi/biographical_information.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>John Brandi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.chax.org/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Chax Press</span></a> <br>
receives<br>
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reprieve</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alice Notley<br>
in <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.poems.com/twoponot.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>Poetry Daily</span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Having won<br>
the Governor General&#8217;s<br>
poetry prize<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://www.oolichan.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Oolichan</span></span><span style='color:windowtext'> Press</span></a><br>
rushes <a href="http://www.oolichan.com/poetry.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>John Pass&#8217; book</span></a><br>
into <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ymfgms"><span style='color:windowtext'>a new print run</span></a><br>
of 300 copies<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A review of a new<br>
<a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=23904"><span style='color:windowtext'>Steve Swallow-Robert Creeley</span></a><br>
CD by someone <br>
who likes the idea of poetry<br>
but doesn&#8217;t actually<br>
read much<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Four hours<br>
of <a href="http://whitney.org/www/exhibition/stevereich.jsp"><span style='color:windowtext'>Steve Reich</span></a><br>
MP3s<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/y9lbjb"><span style='color:windowtext'>Boston&#8217;s take</span></a><br>
on Reich<br>
is <span class=GramE>muted</span><br>
<br>
(But the bit about<br>
his shock<br>
at the response<br>
to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Four Organs<br>
</i>is nonsense &#8211;<br>
I saw people stomping<br>
out of the West Coast <br>
debut of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Violin Phase<br>
</i>at UC Berkeley<br>
in 1967 &#8211;<br>
the first to go<br>
was <a href="http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/savio-obit.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Mario Savio</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ycm6eh"><span style='color:windowtext'>Anger</span></a> in art criticism<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cecil <span class=SpellE>Balmond</span><br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/arts/design/26ouro.html?ref=arts"><span style='color:windowtext'>architect</span></a>?</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/chi-0611250235nov26,1,7116839.story?coll=chi-leisurearts-hed"><span style='color:windowtext'>Rethinking <span class=SpellE>Rem</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/"><span  style='color:windowtext'>Stuart</span></a><br>
is an online gallery<br>
and an instant<br>
<a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1957306,00.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>hit</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Curating <a href="http://tinyurl.com/u4rml"><span class=SpellE><span  style='color:windowtext'>globalism</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061126/arts/arts2.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Remembering</span></a><br>
Jamaican poet<br>
<a href="http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=137"><span style='color:windowtext'>Gwyneth Barber-Wood</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> 
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>P.K. Page<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yx2gmv"><span style='color:windowtext'>the poet at 90</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Poetry in the schools:<br>
(1) In <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1756952006"><span style='color:windowtext'>Edinburgh</span></a>, Scotland<br>
(2) In <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y6xwkd"><span style='color:windowtext'>Lincoln</span></a>, Nebraska<br>
(3) In <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yy5gpo"><span  style='color:windowtext'>Lincoln</span></a>, Nebraska<br>
from another point of view<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6169222.stm"><span style='color:windowtext'>favorite artist</span></a><br>
of British artists<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font- family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<a href="http://www.adamgallery.com/B.Rae2005/raeth.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>woman artist</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Brice <span class=SpellE>Marden</span><br>
<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19691"><span style='color:windowtext'>at length</span></a><br>
in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New York Review of Books</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Peter Schjeldahl<br>
on<br>
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/articles/061127craw_artworld"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>Kiki</span></span><span style='color:windowtext'> Smith</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Designating a painting<br>
<a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16062859.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>historic</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mel <span class=SpellE>Bochner</span><br>
on<br> 
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.artforum.com/picks/section=us#picks12062"><span style='color:windowtext'>The Joys of Yiddish</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An &#8220;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yzbpb6"><span style='color:windowtext'>auto-bug-<span class=SpellE>offery</span></span></a>&#8221;<br>
by James Laughlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Plagiarists <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/"><span style='color:windowtext'>of the past</span></a><br>
alas<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Yet another poem<br>
<a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>entirely in questions</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
this time<br>
by <a href="http://tinyurl.com/tfchv"><span style='color:windowtext'>Galway Kinnell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;Whitman&#8217;s exactly the right patron<br>
for <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y76kgm"><span style='color:windowtext'>a poet like Kinnell</span></a><span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(one more attempt<br>
to make an SoQ<br>
interesting<br>
by placing him<br>
into an avant lineage)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hooking up<br>
thru the<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/world/europe/21personals.html?ref=books"><span style='color:windowtext'>London Review of Books</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Why Melville <a href="http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/11/22/mclemee"><span style='color:windowtext'>matters</span></a><br>
even if he&#8217;s still not popular <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A second<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New York Times<br>
</i><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2006/11/26/books/1154654175220.html?8tpw&amp;emc=tpw"><span style='color:windowtext'>review</span></a> of <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Against the Day<span class=GramE>,</span></i><br>
this one positive<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;The biggest surprise, <br>
not counting the space devoted to </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lake</span></st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Baikal</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <br>
white slavery, <span class=SpellE>Tamerlane's</span> tomb<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>and Jonah and the whale<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
is an astonishing excess of <br>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061211/leonard"><span style='color:windowtext'>ukuleles</span></a>.&#8221;<br>
John Leonard on <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Against the Day</i><br>
in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Nation</i></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Georgia'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There are exactly<br>
four books of poetry<br>
among this year&#8217;s <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New York Times<br>
</i>&#8221;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/y63pne"><span style='color:windowtext'>100 Notable Books</span></a>&#8221;<br>
list, by<br>
Louise Glück,<br>
Allen Ginsberg,<br>
Galway Kinnell<br>
&amp;<br>
Ishmael Reed<br>
<br>
(Glück<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
who is 63,<br>
is the &#8220;baby&#8221; <br>
in this quartet)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;The pen is edgier than the blade&#8221;<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
a <a href="http://ashespoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:windowtext'>poet-in-residence</span></a><br>
for a <a href="http://www.matlocktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=749&amp;ArticleID=1891371"><span style='color:windowtext'>cricket tour</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.ubu.com/film/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:windowtext'>UbuWeb</span></span></a><br>
has converted all <br>
of its rare and out-of-print <br>
film &amp; video holdings<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>to on-demand streaming formats<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>a la <span class=SpellE>YouTube</span>, <br> which means that you <br>
can view everything <br>
right in your browser <br>
without platform-specific software <br>
or insanely <br>
huge <br>
downloads<br>
<br>
(There are still some exceptions,<br>
such as Frank Mouris&#8217;<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.ubu.com/film/mouris.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Frank Film</span></a>,</i><br>
still my favorite instance<br>
of film as poetry)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The subtitle of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yya5qt"><span style='color:windowtext'>this  review</span></a><br>
of Ginsberg&#8217;s biography<br>
describes him only<br>
as the<br>
&#8221;Poet who wrote &#8216;Howl&#8217;&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The trouble with <a href="http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25338-2466210,00.html"><span style='color:windowtext'>Ted</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Andrew Motion<br>
on being <a href="http://tinyurl.com/vxnd5"><span style='color:windowtext'>laureate</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The poet laureate<br>
of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yjtrcg"><span style='color:windowtext'>Brownsburg</span></a>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Indiana</span></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y6rbj8"><span style='color:windowtext'>new story</span></a><br>
by <br>
Eugene O&#8217;Neill<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>That low-<span class=SpellE>fi</span> sci-fi<br>
trading as &#8220;<a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/books/16037305.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>speculative poetry</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A <a  href="http://tinyurl.com/y6v94l"><span style='color:windowtext'>test of translation</span></a><br>
concerning<br>
<span class=SpellE>Fagle&#8217;s</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Aeneid<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A <a href="http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/November/26/style/stories/04style.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>little piece</span></a><br>
on <br>
Creeley&#8217;s <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Collected</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br>
</i>(with Zukofsky<br>
spelled with an &#8216;S')<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/16096907.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>John <span class=SpellE>Timpane</span></span></a><br>
on all the new books<br>
concerning<br>
Allen Ginsberg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>Alice&#8217;s Restaurant</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Here&#8217;s <a href="http://www.alicebrock.com/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Alice</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&amp; the late <a href="http://www.arlo.net/obie.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>Officer <span class=SpellE>Obie</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Obie</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a href="http://www.arlo.net/pictures/runaway.jpg"><span style='color:windowtext'>portrait</span></a> by Stockbridge resident<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064002/trailers-screenplay-E17868-10-2"><span style='color:windowtext'>A trailer for the movie</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Wikipedia&#8217;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Restaurant"><span  style='color:windowtext'>history</span></a> of the <span class=SpellE>Massacree</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5028273"><span style='color:windowtext'>The story behind the song</span></a><span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061120.wxpoets20/BNStory/Entertainment/home"><span style='color:black'>Poetry, prizes &amp; markets</span></a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Happy 80<sup>th</sup> birthday<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://caconradevents.blogspot.com/2006/11/frank-oharas-80th-birthday-celebration.html"><span style='color:black'>Frank</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://villagevoice.com/art/0647,saltz,75063,13.html"><span style='color:black'>Art &amp; inner space</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-sorrentino19nov19,0,3649673.htmlstory?coll=cl-bookreview"><span style='color:black'>Christopher Sorrentino</span></a><br>
on Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Against the Day<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/books/16037282.htm"><span style='color:black'>Carlin Romano</span></a><br>
also on <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8221;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/061127crbo_books"><span style='color:black'>What was he thinking</span></a>?&#8221;<br>
Louis <span class=SpellE>Menand</span><br>
on <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/20/books/20kaku.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>the sort of imitation of</span></a> <br> 
a Thomas Pynchon novel<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160;</span>that a dogged but ungainly <br>
fan of this author&#8217;s might have written <br>
on quaaludes<span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(Michiko Kakutani)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-barton19nov19,0,472738.htmlstory?coll=cl-bookreview"><span style='color:black'>Illustrating</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Selling </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s<br>
most famous painting<br>
to <a href="http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2006/11/19/ap3188957.html"><span style='color:black'>Wal-Mart</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1950812,00.html"><span style='color:black'>When poetry<br>
lays its hand on our shoulder</span></a>&#8221;<br>
&amp; other platitudes<br>
to make you cringe<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A completely different<br>
set of poetry<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/books/review/Powers.t.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>clichés</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111901048.html"><span style='color:black'>piece</span></a><br>
on Alice Walker<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Modernism<br>
in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Australia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
looks suspiciously<br>
<a href="http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=164135"><span style='color:black'>American</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/11/18/leibovitz/"><span style='color:black'>life of Susan <span class=SpellE>Sontag</span></span></a><br> 
in the age of<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Two views<br>
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(1) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/books/review/DErasmo.t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bu"><span style='color:black'>Alice Denham</span></a><br>
(2) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/books/review/Heller.html?8bu&amp;emc=bu"><span style='color:black'>Al Goldstein</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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were writing a parody<br>
of <span class=SpellE>neocon</span> poetry perspectives<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116370627110725394-search.html?KEYWORDS=trachtenberg&amp;COLLECTION=wsjie/6month"><span style='color:black'>this interview</span></a><br>
is what they&#8217;d write<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(My favorite part<br> 
is the description of FSG<br>
<span class=GramE>as &#8221;</span> an imprint of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>'s <br>
<span class=SpellE>Verlagsgruppe</span><br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160;</span><span class=SpellE>Georg</span> von Holtzbrinck <br>
GmbH,&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>a phrase more poetic<br>
finally<br>
than the cliché-ridden<br>
poem &#8220;The Hearth&#8221;<br>
with its &#8220;plastic coffee cup&#8230;<br>
uncertain what to do&#8221;)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Further question<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
why do <span class=SpellE>neocon</span> poets<br>
always compare themselves<br>
to the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>avant </i><br>
poets of the past,<br>
<br>
why not compare<br>
C.K. Williams<br>
to Edward Arlington Robinson,<br>
instead of to a poet<br>
like Whitman<br>
antithetical to his project?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Art Book<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/18/books/18fair.html?ref=books"><span style='color:black'>Fair</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Charles Olson<br>
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<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/18/MNG42MFM4E1.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Ruth Brown</span></a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The only<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i8NR31Edx8&amp;mode=related&amp;search"><span style='color:black'>CNN&#8217;s film</span></a><br>
of Pynchon<br>
walking down the street<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>i</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> n <br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160; </span>s l o w m <span class=GramE>o</span><br>
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(Winner:<br>
Creepiest Analysis Award)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>On <a href="http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/11/15/mclemee"><span style='color:black'>finding a letter</span></a><br>
by Pynchon<br>
in the Library of Congress<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(What is Elmer Fudd <br>
doing in<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Day"><span style='color:black'>Against the Day</span></a>?</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The New York Times<br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2006/11/19/books/1154653292449.html? 8tpw&amp;emc=tpw"><span style='color:black'>weighs in</span></a><br>
on the anniversary<br>
of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Howl<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Nation<br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>arguing for<br>
&#8221;the last antiwar poem&#8221;<br>
prefers<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/potts"><span style='color:black'>Wichita Vortex Sutra</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(it is a better poem<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
but that&#8217;s not the point)<br>
<br>
(the online version here<br>
totally screws with <br>
spacing &amp; linebreaks)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philip Glass&#8217; <a href="http://rgable.typepad.com/aworks/2006/11/wichita_vortex_.html"><span style='color:black'>setting</span></a><br>
<span class=GramE>for </span><br>
&#8221;Wichita Vortex Sutra&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>On the <br>
&#8220;<a href="http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2006/11/19/books/1154653292459.html?8tpw&amp;emc=tpw"><span style='color:black'>Downtown</span></a>&#8221;<br>
literary scene<br>
1972-92<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(Note the use of Ginsberg<br>
as a <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Times </i>photographer) <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/ansen.html"><span style='color:black'>Alan <span class=SpellE>Ansen</span></span></a> has died<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a curious link<br>
between <a href="http://equanimity.blogspot.com/2006/11/just-had-news-that-alan-ansen-died.html"><span style='color:black'>Auden</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://poskantoor.blogspot.com/2006/11/just-practicing.html"><span style='color:black'>the Beats</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tehran</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dos <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2445952,00.html"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>amigos</span></span></a><br>
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after a sci-fi career<br>
of 80 years<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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from Richard Kostelanetz)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>What is the name<br>
of this (</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;)</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> mark?</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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if a poem <br>
is iconic?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>They throw one <br>
freaking<br>
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?  file=/chronicle/archive/2006/11/13/EDG9ALI9TS1.DTL"><span style='color:black'>birthday party</span></a><br>
after another<br>
for it<br>
on its 50<sup>th</sup><br>
birthday!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(Name one other<br>
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