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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3cyll2"><span style='color:black'>newspaper readers<br>
on the web</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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on<br>
Juan Morales</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 <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2d974p"><span style='color:black'>Selected Poems</span></a></i><br>
of Derek Walcott<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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulzar"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Gulzar</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2nojcc"><span style='color:black'>celebrates</span></a> <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Pritam"><span style='color:black'>Amrita <span class=SpellE>Pritam</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;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.readysteadybook.com/Article.aspx?page=jakovlind"><span style='color:black'>A eulogy<br>
for <span class=SpellE>Jakov</span> Lind</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://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25336-2641484,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Brodsky<br>
vs<span class=GramE>.</span><br>
Brodsky</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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is ba-ack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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neglectorinos</span></span></a><span class=GramE>?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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elegy<br>
to her husband</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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thought of<br>
as an avant Brit</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Ted Kooser</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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the workers<br>
want</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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on <br>
<span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.theliberal.co.uk/kristeva-segolene/"><span style='color:black'>Ségolène Royal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></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.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_collins"><span style='color:black'>All about Banksy</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.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/arts/design/07mura.html"><span style='color:black'>Takashi Murakami<br>
at<br>
Gagosian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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poems of his<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.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/books/04Book.html"><span style='color:black'>The third</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New York Times </i>piece<br>
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in ten days<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://blog.historians.org/articles/204/google-books-whats-not-to-like"><span style='color:black'>Google Books<span class=GramE>:</span><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>

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arrives<br>
in Santa Fe</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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hanging on</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'><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 class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mitt Romney&#8217;s favorite author?</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/quickstudy/2007/05/psychlo_babble.html"><span style='color:black'>L. Ron Hubbard</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;color:black'>&#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;color:black'>Stephen Harper&#8217;s favorite book?</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2z723c"><span style='color:black'>The Guinness Book of Records</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></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'>Quick, Americans<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Harper"><span style='color:black'>who</span></a> is <a href="http://www.pm.gc.ca/"><span style='color:black'>Stephen</span></a> <a href="http://www.whatisstephenharperreading.ca/"><span style='color:black'>Harper</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;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.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20579"><span style='color:black'>Reading</span></a> Danish poet<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3758pc"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Niels</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Hav</span></span></a><br>
in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Morocco</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><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://tinyurl.com/yuxlx8"><span style='color:black'>The beat<br>
of the Nuyorican Poets</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;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.projo.com/books/content/sc_poet03_05-03-07_CO5CSOA.3159e36.html"><span style='color:black'>Laureate at work</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;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.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-05032007-1340551.html"><span style='color:black'>The Poet Laureate<br>
of Montgomery County, PA</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;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 poetry reading<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2e5qtg"><span style='color:black'>in 30 languages</span></a><br>
in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Eau Claire</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><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.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/02/BAGHPPJ8IE1.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Ban the book<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
invite the author</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;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'>Once on the Whitbread short list<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2071485,00.html"><span style='color:black'>he&#8217;s turned self-publisher</span></a><br>
of his poems<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://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/05/are_you_bookclubbable.html"><span style='color:black'>Book club<br>
bitchiness</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;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'>First prize<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_5813821"><span style='color:black'>concentration of clichés</span></a><br>
in the service of<br>
National Poetry 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;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.startribune.com/384/story/1161923.html"><span style='color:black'>Poetry news<br>
from the Twin Cities</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;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'>Bob Dylan<br>
<a href="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007232453"><span style='color:black'>scares children</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;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'>SAM I am<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
The new<br> <a href="http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/"><span style='color:black'>Seattle Art Museum</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=213754"><span style='color:black'>is a 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;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://persianmirror.com/Article_det.cfm?id=1397&amp;getArticleCategory=52&amp;getArticleSubCategory=232"><span style='color:black'>An anthology<br>
of Iranian<br>
women&#8217;s poetry</span></a><br>
from the Middle Ages<br>
to the present<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b tyle='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'>&#8220;<a href="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,2072608,00.html"><span style='color:black'>They write you up<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
your mum &amp; dad</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;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://select.nytimes.com/preview/2007/05/06/arts/1154674194111.html?8tpf&amp;emc=tpf"><span style='color:black'>The eye</span></a><br>
of <a href="http://www.ryanmcginley.com/"><span style='color:black'>Ryan McGinley</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;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.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/fashion/06gay.html"><span style='color:black'>The Male Gaze</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;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://tinyurl.com/2uscnt"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Blatherum</span></span><span style='color:black'> Infinitum</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;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'>Recent responses<br>
to poems from<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10742.html"><span style='color:black'>The Age of Huts</span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>:</span></a></i><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 href="http://www.pagehalffull.com/humanyms/"><span style='color:black'>Pearl Pirie</span></a><br>
on <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://pearlformance.livejournal.com/48388.html"><span style='color:black'>The Chinese Notebook</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></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 href="http://www.luminitasuse.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Luminita</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Suse</span></span></a><br>
on<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.luminitasuse.com/?page=text&amp;lang=en&amp;authorId=1&amp;collectionId=2en&amp;textId=2"><span style='color:black'>Sunset Debris</span></a></i><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'>&amp; Jack Kimball<br>
is <a href="http://pantaloons.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_pantaloons_archive.html#572999391584442941"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>reading</span></span></a><br>
(more likely rereading)<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/LANGUAGE/"><span style='color:black'>L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E</span></a> <o:p></o:p></i></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'>Plus<br>
I&#8217;ve turned up <br>
in at least two dreams<br>
at the<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.annandaledreamgazetteonline.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Annandale Dream Journal</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.musecrafters.com/bloggingpoet"><span style='color:black'>Poet Laureate<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'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Washington Post&#8217;s </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
big<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/26b23k"><span style='color:black'>&#8221;Celebrating Poetry&#8221;<br>
Book World feature,</span></a><br>
with everything from<br>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042700074.html"><span style='color:black'>John Donne</span></a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042700081.html"><span style='color:black'>Mandelstam</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042700069.html"><span style='color:black'>Herbert</span></a><br>
to<br>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042700091.html"><span style='color:black'>David Shapiro<br>
&amp; <br>
Ken Rumble</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;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.bostonreview.net/BR32.2/fischer.html"><span style='color:black'>How<br>
to<br>
read<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>now</i></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;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.simons-rock.edu/~msokol/poetry/chi_rev_brit_chart.gif"><span style='color:black'>Charting</span></a> British poetry<br>
since WW2<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.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=article_potts"><span style='color:black'>Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s <br>
finest poem</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;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 poetry festival<br>
in <a href="http://theolivepress.es/content/view/475/42/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Lorca&#8217;s</span></span><span style='color:black'> home town</span></a><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 href="http://www.festivaldepoesiadegranada.com/inicio.html"><span style='color:black'>Festival Program</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;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.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/29/qa_with_lydia_davis/"><span style='color:black'>Talking with<br>
Lydia Davis</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;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://rchaplin.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html#1666374332787483351"><span style='color:black'>A new record<br>
for the world&#8217;s smallest book</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;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://novacookie.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Six word short <span class=GramE>stories</span></span></a><br>
(Hemingway was right!)<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.edrants.com/?p=5856"><span style='color:black'>Talking with<br>
Tao Lin</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;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.thenation.com/doc/20070514/yaffe"><span style='color:black'>The Pulitzer for music<br>
continues to bear fruit</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;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.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/trethewey_04-25.html"><span style='color:black'>Talking with<br>
Natasha Trethewey</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;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'>Of <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704u/isabella-whitney"><span style='color:black'>Isabella Whitney</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the first woman<br>
to publish<br>
a book of poems<br>
in English<br>
(1573)<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://tinyurl.com/yqfzb5"><span style='color:black'>Judith Malina,<br>
&#8221;femme fatale</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;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'>Newspapers <br>
&#8220;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2pcrgq"><span style='color:black'>are cutting their own throats</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'>The <span class=GramE>newspaper </span><br>
&#8221;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yvoh2y"><span style='color:black'>suicide  pact</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;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'>&#8220;<a href="http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1046&amp;p=culture&amp;a=1"><span style='color:black'>One Million Poet</span></a>,&#8221;<br>
the game show<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.artsjournal.com/bookdaddy/2007/04/several_weeks_ago_british_comi.html"><span style='color:black'>The Shakespeare riots</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;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.bostonreview.net/BR32.2/bedient.html"><span  style='color:black'>Calvin <span class=SpellE>Bedient</span><br>
on Hart Crane</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;color:black'>&#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;color:black'>Ashraf</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Osman<br>
has tagged me<br>
as a <br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=2320154384"><span style='color:black'>Thinking Blogger</span></a><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'>Now I must tag 5 others<br>
who likewise<br>
inspire me <br>
with what they write<br>
&amp; how they focus<br>
their blogwork<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<br>
<a href="http://angelicpoker.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Eileen Tabios</span></a>,<br>
who is creating a new literary audience<br>
in part through her blog,<br>
&amp; for translating kari edwards<br>
into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilocano_language"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ilokano</span></span></a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.zoestrauss.blogspot.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Zoe</span></span><span style='color:black'> Strauss</span></a><br>
for never blinking<br>
at what she sees<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 href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Mark Scroggins</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a scrupulous literary scholar<br>
who doesn&#8217;t take short cuts<br>
even in his blog<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.accommodatingly.com/"><span style='color:black'>Stephen Burt<br>
&amp; Jessica Bennett</span></a>,<br>
for their integration<br>
of literature &amp; life<br>
(tho basketball is neither)<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'>&amp;<br>
<a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Geof Huth</span></a><br>
for using the form<br>
to create<br>
a critical language<br>
for vispo<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'>&#8220;&#8217;to be a writer of contemporary verse, <br>
<a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/node/4359"><span style='color:black'>there&#8217;s really no place better <br>
than Minnesota</span></a>,&#8217; says Stephen Burt.&#8221;<br>
<br>
You need to get to the sidebar<br>
to find out about <br>
<a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/ctg/2007/03/now_who_will_wr.asp"><span style='color:black'>the job<br>
at Harvard</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;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.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/realestate/29scap.html"><span style='color:black'>The <span class=SpellE>Lettrist</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;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://tinyurl.com/2rqc54"><span style='color:black'>Art of the  blurb</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;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://tinyurl.com/22gg8x"><span style='color:black'>Once<br>
they took E.A. Robinson<br>
seriously</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;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.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21003"><span style='color:black'>Poetry and bread</span></a><br>
in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New Haven</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><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://tinyurl.com/ysxrtn"><span style='color:black'>Another Irish poet<br>
beloved<br>
by the School of Quietude</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;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.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9276"><span style='color:black'>Who needs more<br>
of the novel?</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;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.poets.org/sponsor-book-profile.php/prmBookID/343/prmSponsorID/152"><span style='color:black'>Another poet<br>
at Virginia Tech</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;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'>Palestinian poet<br>
<a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR32.2/chang.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Taha</span></span><span style='color:black'> Muhammad Ali</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;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.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/208460"><span style='color:black'>A biography of<br>
<span class=SpellE>e.e</span>. <span class=SpellE>cummings</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;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://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2066923,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Audios from 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;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://tinyurl.com/34jygy"><span style='color:black'>One more review<br>
of Bill &amp; Sam</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;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'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/34uu45"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ooga-Booga</span></span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>finally<br>
<a href="http://www.calendarlive.com/books/la-me-bookawards28apr28,0,2252369.story"><span style='color:black'>wins a 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;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'>At 31<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
Meghan O&#8217;Rourke<br>
has graduated from Yale,<br>
worked for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New Yorker,</i><br>
become culture editor of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Slate </i><br>
&amp; poetry editor of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Paris Review<o:p></o:p></i></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'>O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s first <span class=GramE>book</span><br>
(from FSG)<br>
is reviewed in the<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/books/review/Brouwer.t.html"><span style='color:black'>New York Times</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;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'>Donald Hall<br>
on<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/04/26/laureate/"><span style='color:black'>All Things Considered</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;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://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25338-2640432,00.html"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>Writers</span></span><span style='color:black'> workshop<br>
sounds alarm</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;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.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/books/review/garner.html"><span style='color:black'>Cruising for culture<br>
with Lincoln Kirstein</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;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'><a href="http://www.thepervertsguide.com/about.html?PHPSESSID=1da1d003e355e9cefb0725c5245ef24f"><span style='color:black'>The Pervert&#8217;s Guide to <span class=GramE>Cinema</span></span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(<span class=SpellE>Slavoj</span> <span class=SpellE>Zizek</span> of course)<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'>Check out<br>
<a href="http://www.thepervertsguide.com/extras.html"><span style='color:black'>the reading list</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;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://tinyurl.com/3ex4bc"><span style='color:black'>About to become<br>
the top-grossing<br>
visual artist<br>
of all time</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;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.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/29/hearts__minds/"><span style='color:black'>Emotion&#8217;s role<br>
in thought</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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&#8221;BAGHDAD, May 2 &#8211; The Bush administration <br>
is planning to withdraw <br>
most United States combat forces <br>
from Iraq over the next several months<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>and wants to shrink the American military presence<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>to less than two divisions by the fall, <br>
senior allied officials said today.&#8221;<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New York Times </i>article<br>
by Michael R. Gordon &amp; Eric Schmitt<br>
<a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003578624"><span style='color:black'>May 2, 2003</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.poynterextra.org/EYETRACK2004/main.htm"><span style='color:black'>How your eyes<br>
move about<br>
the <span class=GramE>screen</span></span></a><br>
(implications for page layout)<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'>Robert Pinsky<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
&#8220;<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2164823/"><span style='color:black'>In Praise of Difficult Poetry</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'>(an example of<br>
&#8221;the difficult&#8221;<br>
being Kenneth Koch)<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'>Number 40<br>
on the list of<br>
50 <span class=SpellE>Bullsh</span>**t Jobs<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/bing/0704/gallery.bing_50jobs.fortune/40.html"><span style='color:black'>Poet</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;color:black'>&#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;color:black'>Nate</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Mackey<br>
has won <br>
<a href="http://www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.07.html"><span style='color:black'>the Northern California Book Award</span></a><br>
for poetry<br>
for 2007<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
an award notable<br>
for the strength of the competition<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'>Other recipients included<br>
two books by <span class=SpellE>Ko</span> Un<br>
receiving the translation award<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a special citation to Maxine Hong Kingston<br>
&amp; the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award<br>
going to <a href="http://www.arionpress.com/hoyem.htm"><span style='color:black'>Andrew Hoyem</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;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.thenation.com/doc/20070507/von_hoffman"><span style='color:black'>Who sits<br>
on the Pulitzer board</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;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.huffingtonpost.com/art-winslow/the-new-book-burning_b_46820.html"><span style='color:black'>The winnowing of <br>
book review supplements</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;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://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/04/last_week_the_london_book.html"><span style='color:black'>An argument for saving <br>
the book supplement sections</span></a><br>
of American newspapers&#8230;<br>
coming from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Britain</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><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'>Three articles<br>
on the poetry of<br>
<a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/28/d704282101127.htm"><span style='color:black'>Kaiser <span class=SpellE>Haq</span></span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/28/d704282102128.htm"><span style='color:black'>English-language poet</span></a><br>
from <a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/28/d704282103129.htm"><span style='color:black'>Bangladesh</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;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.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=582&amp;fid=6&amp;sid=17"><span style='color:black'>The likes &amp; dislikes<br>
of Brendan <span class=SpellE>Lorber</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;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.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/LIFE/704250372/1004"><span style='color:black'>The role of poetry</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
the view from Morris County, NJ<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.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/04/guerrilla_poets.php"><span style='color:black'>Poetry<br>
on the streets<br>
of New Haven</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;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://bloggasm.com/culture-of-fear"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Kazim</span></span><span style='color:black'> Ali&#8217;s<br>
experience of racism</span></a><br>
at </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Shippensburg</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>State</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
as seen by <span class=GramE>an alum</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;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'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/books/25wals.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Call me Zits</span></a>&#8221;<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
the latest novel<br>
from Sherman <span class=SpellE>Alexie</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;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'>&#8220;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2s9mpm"><span style='color:black'>I&#8217;m with you in Rockland</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;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.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/books/27shak.html"><span style='color:black'>This season&#8217;s<br>
Shakespeare 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;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'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041902308.html"><span style='color:black'>the mythic resonance <br>
and grim sense of inexorable fate <br>
found in Greek tragedy</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;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://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/04/off_the_shelf_psychology.html"><span  style='color:black'>What books won&#8217;t tell you<br>
about a person</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;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.juneauempire.com/stories/042707/boo_20070427001.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Exploring 811.08</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;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 <a href="http://www.galwayindependent.com/entertainment/11461.html"><span style='color:black'>profile</span></a> of<br>
<a href="http://www.johncooperclarke.com/"><span style='color:black'>John Cooper Clarke</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;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://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ian_williams/2007/04/time_for_a_rhyme.html"><span style='color:black'>Bemoaning<br>
the decline of rhyme<br>
in American poetry</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;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.moderntimesbookstore.com/"><span style='color:black'>Modern Times Bookstore</span></a><br>
has won<br>
the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Bay Guardian<br>
</i><a href="http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=3453"><span style='color:black'>2007 Community Institution</span></a><br>
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'><a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/books/article/0,2792,DRMN_63_5390926,00.html"><span style='color:black'>The success<br>
of Philip K. Dick</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;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'>The <a href="http://tinyurl.com/24dzep"><span style='color:black'>most important development</span></a><br>
in globalization<br>
in a couple of years<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://markbernstein.org/Apr0701/Thugs.html"><span style='color:black'>Thugs<br>
at the theater</span></a><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'>See <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html"><span style='color:black'>step 3</span></a> of<br>
&#8221;Fascist </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
in 10 Easy Steps&#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'><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/mc-bush/"><span style='color:black'>The Afro-rhythms<br>
of George W. Bush</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;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=nj46r_Q7T8s"><span style='color:black'>William Burroughs<br>
has dinner at Chez Warhol</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;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'>Is <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/10592/donald-lipski.html"><span style='color:black'>Donald</span></a> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ynltgz"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Lipski</span></span></a><br>
the <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/aestheticgrounds/2007/04/indianapolis_does_care_about_m.html"><span style='color:black'>most popular artist</span></a><br>
in <a href="http://www.scottsdalepublicart.org/LipskiTheDoors.php"><span style='color:black'>America</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;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 review of the recent<br>
<a href="http://whitehotmagazine.com/whitehot_articles.cfm?id=393"><span style='color:black'>Wallace Berman &amp; His Circle</span></a><br>
show in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New York</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><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.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/nyregion/25wall.html?ref=nyregion"><span style='color:black'>Rebuilding <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Wall</i><br> in <span class=SpellE>SoHo</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;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.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=207213"><span style='color:black'>The rise of<br>
the atelier<br>
in Seattle</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;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://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2007/04/ron-sillimans-age-of-huts-compleat-it.html"><span style='color:black'>Some kind words</span></a><br>
about yours truly<br>
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rob <span class=SpellE>mclennan</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;color:black'><a href="http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs_b/chamberlain/essay.html"><span style='color:black'>John</span></a> <a href="http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_29_1.html"><span style='color:black'>Chamberlain</span></a><br>
at <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/21/DDGPQPC8N31.DTL"><span style='color:black'>80</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;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'>Pianist<br>
<a href="http://www.andrewhilljazz.com/"><span style='color:black'>Andrew Hill</span></a><br>
has <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/sns-ap-obit-hill,0,2113463.story?coll=la-home-obituaries"><span style='color:black'>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;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'>All <br>
of Ezra Pound&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Pound.html"><span style='color:black'>recorded poetry</span></a><br>
downloadable<br>
on 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;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://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2053444,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Avant-gardener</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;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'>Can <a href="http://www.nyupress.org/books/Broken_Land-products_id-5011.html"><span style='color:black'>this</span></a> really be <br>
the <a href="http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&amp;id=12387"><span style='color:black'>first anthology</span></a><br>
devoted entirely<br>
to poems<br>
about </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Brooklyn</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>?<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://books.guardian.co.uk/orange2007/story/0,,2059652,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Why literary awards can be useful</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;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'>But when they don&#8217;t work:<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'>Of the 1,006 words <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Washington Post </i>writer<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i><br>
Bob Thompson <br>
uses to discuss <br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/329qs8"><span style='color:black'>the &#8220;non-journalism&#8221; Pulitzers</span></a> <br>
awarded last week, <br>
exactly 9 <br>
are devoted to poetry<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'>Scott Timberg<br>
of the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>LA Times<br>
</i><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-na-arts17apr17,1,4106857.story"><span style='color:black'>devotes<br>
even fewer</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> &#8211;<br>
8 out of 692,<br>
the first of which is<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>and</i><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'>Jeffrey Burke<br>
of Bloomberg News<br>
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&amp;sid=aRPTgORG0wVI&amp;refer=muse"><span style='color:black'>devotes 51 words</span></a><br>
from his allotment of <br>
679<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'>And when prizes do work:<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 href="http://tinyurl.com/22bvff"><span style='color:black'>More on the Pulitzer<br>
for Ornette Coleman</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;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'>Knopf took away<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/books/18puli.html?ref=arts"><span style='color:black'>three Pulitzers</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;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 process <br>
&amp; politics<br>
of the <br>
<a href="http://playgoer.blogspot.com/2007/04/pulitzer-puttering.html"><span style='color:black'>Pulitzer for drama</span></a><br>
<br>
</span><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://tinyurl.com/yrgkeu"><span style='color:black'>30 years<br>
of the Pushcart</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;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'>The London Book Fair<br>
&amp;<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/books/18fair.html?_r=1&amp;ref=arts&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>the art of the deal</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;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://new.mynevadacounty.com/library/index.cfm?ccs=1152"><span style='color:black'>Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel</span></a>,<br>
&#8221;the Okie poet,&#8221;<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuba6z"><span style='color:black'>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;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://artvoice.com/issues/v6n16/from_haiku_to_the_blues"><span style='color:black'>Talking with<br>
Sonia Sanchez</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;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://tinyurl.com/2efx49"><span style='color:black'>Talking with</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.tru.ca/faculty/tfriedman/ondaatje.htm"><span style='color:black'>Michael</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje"><span  style='color:black'>Ondaatje</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;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'>Anny Ballardini&#8217;s<br>
extensive<br>
<a href="http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&amp;amp;pa=list_pages_categories&amp;amp;cid=233"><span style='color:black'>Poet&#8217;s Corner</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;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.frostillustrated.com/full.php?sid=1068"><span style='color:black'>A profile of</span></a> <br>
James Weldon Johnson,<br>
Paul Dunbar<br>
&amp;<br>
Langston Hughes<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.franzdouskey.org/"><span style='color:black'>Franz  Douskey</span></a><br>
is sometimes<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/26vowd"><span style='color:black'>the last to  know</span></a><br>
what he&#8217;s writing<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'>Another article<br>
on <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2crhzw"><span style='color:black'>the potential demise</span></a><br>
of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp"><span style='color:black'>Women and Children First</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;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'>At the <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Atlanta Journal Constitution,<br>
</i>it&#8217;s the <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6435021.html"><span style='color:black'>book review editor</span></a><br>
that has been found<br>
unnecessary<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://star.txstate.edu/content/view/3182/"><span style='color:black'>A profile of</span></a><br>
Kathleen Peirce, <br>
one of the<br>
Guggenheim Nine<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'>The writing of<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/us/20english.html"><span style='color:black'>Cho Seung-Hui</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;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'>Using Cho&#8217;s videos<br>
as an opportunity<br>
<a href="http://thegraduates.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/a-killers-media-wish-fulfilled/"><span style='color:black'>to advertise</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'>Trying to find<br>
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070421/ap_on_re_us/virginia_tech_odd_name"><span style='color:black'>meaning</span></a><br>
in <br>
&#8221;axismael&#8221;<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://tinyurl.com/37p9wx"><span style='color:black'>Test driving</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'><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/04/what_are_first_editions_worth.htmlhttp:/blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/04/what_are_first_editions_worth.html"><span style='color:black'>The book as fetish</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'>Some <a href="http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/6900/115/"><span style='color:black'>retro-jazz<br>
and Billy Collins</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;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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for<br>
the Prime Minister</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'>Plus <a href="http://www.arts.gov/news/news07/Bridgeport.html"><span style='color:black'>Dana &amp; Laura</span></a><br>
at a museum<br>
named for Mr. Barnum<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'>As good <a href="http://tinyurl.com/38ck5s"><span style='color:black'>a defense<br>
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as I&#8217;ve ever read<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2wm28a"><span style='color:black'>left behind</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'>Trying to pair up<br>
<a href="http://www.johnlennon.com/"><span style='color:black'>John Lennon</span></a><br>
&amp;<br>
<a href="http://www.katesmith.org/"><span style='color:black'>Kate Smith</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.visnat.com/entertainment/music/folkwax/feature.cfm?"><span style='color:black'>for a duet</span></a><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'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span></span><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'>Impressionism<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'>How to think<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'>Return of the repressed:<br>
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