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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Context, <a href="http://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2008/06/spts-aggression-conference-prologue-in.html"><span style='color:black'>misreading</span></a> &amp; aggression<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://swoonrocket.blogspot.com/2008/06/talk-for-ethnic-avant-garde-at-small.html"><span style='color:black'>Juliana Spahr</span></a> on the distinction <br>
between a poetics of difference<br>
&amp; one of indeterminacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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(with the Bill O&#8217;Reilly video)<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://jasperbernes.blogspot.com/2008/06/debriefing.html"><span style='color:black'>Jasper Bernes</span></a> on the 1970s conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06 /from_peter_oleary_poetry_of_th_1.html"><span style='color:black'>Peter O&#8217;Leary</span></a> on same (&amp; <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/from_peter_oleary_poetry_of_th_2.html"><span style='color:black'>day 2</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://modampo.blogspot.com/2008/06/alphabet-for-orono-part-1.html"><span style='color:black'>Rodney Koeneke&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>An Alphabet for Orono </i>(&amp; <a href="http://modampo.blogspot.com/2008/06/alphabet-for-orono-part-2.html"><span style='color:black'>part 2</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2008/06/report-from-orono-part-iiithe-clark.html"><span style='color:black'>Clark Coolidge experience</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Thinking about (<a href="http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2008/06/thinking-about-experimental-poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>the Experimental Poetry) Community</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ben Friedlander&#8217;s photos now number 187<br>
including <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mongibeddu/2590120064/"><span style='color:black'>this group shot</span></a> <br>
(click on the big version)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27745585@N02/"><span style='color:black'>Patrick Pritchett&#8217;s</span></a> photos<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>For an <a href="http://canopycanopycanopy.com/2/for_an_unoriginal_literature"><span style='color:black'>Unoriginal Literature</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://buggeryville.blogspot.com/2008/06/paper-air-jackson-mac-low.html"><span style='color:black'>Reading Mac Low</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
reading me reading Mac Low<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://terminalhumming.blogspot.com/2008/06/ron-sillman-has-post-which-im-sure.html"><span style='color:black'>Langpo &amp; New Narrative</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://situationsducommerce.blogspot.com/2008/06/will-to-wtf.html"><span style='color:black'>The <span class=SpellE>Kabbalistic</span> Flarfist</span> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://headylit.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/flarf-v-conceptual-poetry-or-sorrow-abundant/"><span style='color:black'>A planh</span></a> one could have made<br>
about the troubadours<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flarf_poetry"><span style='color:black'>Flarf</span></a> is people&#8230;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://vrzhu.typepad.com/vrzhu/2008/06/no-animal-can-b.html"><span style='color:black'>Animal, human, flarf, conceptual</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5eazp4"><span style='color:black'>Upper Limit Los Angeles</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Long live the <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080618/PAGETHREE/662414909/1119"><span style='color:black'>Prince of 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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20215"><span style='color:black'>Eshleman</span></a> reads </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Vallejo</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/backtalk"><span style='color:black'>Honor Moore</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The blood of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/books/review/Mitchell-t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bua2"><span style='color:black'>Sarah <span class=SpellE>Manguso</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Leila Wilson on Eileen Myles (<a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review /534_wilson_myles.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</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:6.0pt;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/65daxa"><span style='color:black'>Howl </span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>&amp; the paperback revolution</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308"><span style='color:black'>Allen Ginsberg reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Howl</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Four <a href="http://ricardo-domeneck.blogspot.com/2008/06/four-poems-quatro-poemas-jack-spicer.html"><span style='color:black'>Jack Spicer</span></a> poems in <span class=GramE>Portuguese</span><br>
(plus &#8220;<a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/kWn_MCX/music/SyWUZflY/jack_spicer_thing_language/?d=1http://www.imeem.com/people/kWn_MCX/music/SyWUZflY /jack_spicer_thing_language/?d=1"><span style='color:black'>Thing Language</span></a>&#8221; read by Jack)<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;a <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06 /office_of_insular_affairs_poet.html"><span style='color:black'>Human Rights Watch</span></a><br>
labor report<br>
refashioned in free verse&#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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20236"><span style='color:black'>Susan Howe</span></a> reading &#8220;The Nonconformist&#8217;s Memorial&#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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/4cvytv"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Didi</span></span><span style='color:black'> Menendez</span></a> on the Joe Milford Poetry 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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mark <span class=SpellE>Nowack</span> on <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/latelatefordist_poetics.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Fordism</span></span><span style='color:black'> &amp; poetics</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In which <span class=SpellE>Scribbleskiff</span><br>
discovers <a href="http://scribbleskiff.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/the-other-poet-williams/"><span style='color:black'>Jonathan Williams</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://professorvj.blogspot.com/2008/06/creative-apparatus.html"><span style='color:black'>performing a Robert Creeley</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20259"><span style='color:black'>Jena Osman</span></a> reading &#8220;Mercury: A Visualization&#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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>2 versions of a poem by <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/O/artsandbooks/index.ssf?/base/entertainment /1213818905297990.xml&amp;coll=7"><span style='color:black'>Phil Whalen</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Fond of <a href="http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/06/fond-of-fonts-typeface-of-poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>fonts</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Rise of the <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i41/41a00901.htm"><span style='color:black'>mini-lecture</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15566"><span style='color:black'>Jackson Mac Low</span></a> reads &#8220;Stein 100: A Feather Likeness<br>
of the Justice Chair&#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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Who killed the <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2194087/pagenum/2/"><span style='color:black'>semi-colon</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=fbba191e-ee2e-4b92-b5a6-28ba8ab026a3"><span style='color:black'>&#8220;<span class=SpellE>Crazzy</span>&#8221; Dave <span class=SpellE>Dessler</span><span class=GramE>,</span></span></a><br>
</span><st1:Street><st1:address><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ottawa street</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> poet<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Story-of-a-Dalit-poet-in-India/324482/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Kanwal</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Bharti</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story /0,,2286817,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=10"><span style='color:black'>A.S. <span class=SpellE>Byatt</span></span></a>: from text to textile<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.pw.org/content/anthologies_offer_poetic_diplomacy"><span style='color:black'>Travis Nichols</span></a>: anthologies offer poetic diplomacy<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/think_of_the_stamps.html"><span style='color:black'>Travis Nichols</span></a> on the problems of laureates<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/we_dont_need_a_poet_laureate.html"><span style='color:black'>we don&#8217;t need a poet laureate</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_163221823.html"><span style='color:black'>John Ronan</span></a> succeeds Ferrini <br>
as </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Gloucester</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> laureate<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Gloucester</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> book dealer<br>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/06/21/a_master_of_oddball_characters/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:black'>Gregory Gibson</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Berkeley</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/06/23/MNH711DDT0.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Cody&#8217;s closes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.olssons.com/"><span style='color:black'>Olsson&#8217;s</span></a> is closing<br>
one of its DC stores<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Minneapolis</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, <a href="http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/20164044.html?location_refer=Local%20+%20Metro"><span style='color:black'>Amazon</span></a> has been saved<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5238tt"><span style='color:black'>Indies</span></a> fight to stay afloat<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Blackwell&#8217;s to launch<br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2286818,00.html"><span style='color:black'>print-on-demand</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In <a href="vhttp://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/ENTERTAIN /806190304"><span style='color:black'>Portsmouth, NH</span></a>, a move<br>
to hold readings year round<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.pplp.org/"><span style='color:black'>Portsmouth Laureate</span></a> home page<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20252"><span style='color:black'>Anne Waldman</span></a> reads &#8220;Stereo&#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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/06/obvi-us.html"><span style='color:black'>Self evident</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com/2008/06/lutheran-surrealism-assessment.html"><span style='color:black'>Lutheran Surrealism</span></a>: summing up<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2285427,00.html"><span style='color:black'>J.G. Ballard&#8217;s</span></a> surrealism of the suburbs<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-pattismith22-2008jun22,0,847557.story"><span style='color:black'>Patti Smith&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Auguries of Innocence<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
</i>expanded &amp; reissued<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15532"><span style='color:black'>Wanda Coleman</span></a> reads &#8220;American Sonnet (35)&#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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A correspondence with <a href="http://www.simondinnerstein.com/blog/?p=5"><span style='color:black'>Guy Davenport</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-bsjohnson22-2008jun22,0,389925.story"><span style='color:black'>B.S. Johnson&#8217;s</span></a> novel in a <span class=GramE>box</span><br>
(some assembly required)<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-06/20/content_15862830.htm"><span style='color:black'>Poetry &amp; society</span></a><br>
in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>China</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/pride_of_the_state_1.html"><span style='color:black'>Linh Dinh</span></a> on sports nationalism in 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;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>How <a href="http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=68841&amp;section=homepage&amp;freebie_check&amp;CFID=49096129&amp;CFTOKEN=34146415&amp;jsessionid=8830f84a2e737f3339f6"><span style='color:black'>Louis Jenkins&#8217; &#8220;Back Country&#8221;</span></a><br>
got recited at the Tony Awards<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2008/06/watch-by-eamon-grennan-only-impatience.html"><span style='color:black'>a poet trying to have an experience</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/new_bat_city.html#more"><span style='color:black'>D.A. Powell</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New </i></span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bat</span> </i></st1:PlaceName><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></i><st1:PlaceType><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>City</span></i></st1:PlaceType> </st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>21<sup>st</sup> century <a href="http://www.lakelandecho.co.uk/whats-on/Poets-offer-a-taste-of.4191648.jp"><span style='color:black'>medievalists</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/display.var.2346738.0.blackburn_poet_back_to_his_roots.php"><span style='color:black'>Blackburn-born poet</span></a> returns to roots<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002679.html"><span style='color:black'>Jay <span class=SpellE>Parini</span></span></a> on the punishing poetry<br>
of Robert Frost<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;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/2008/06/20/AR2008062002094.html"><span style='color:black'>Out, Out</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/are-you-a-member-of-the-school-of-quietude /06/22/2008/#comment-2460"><span style='color:black'>Are you a member of the School of Quietude?</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/books/19smith.html"><span style='color:black'>Naguib Mahfouz&#8217;</span></a> </span><st1:City><st1:place><i   style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Cairo</span></i></st1:place></st1:City><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Modern<o:p></o:p></span></i></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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>52 countries will be represented<br>
at this <a href="http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/1938/2/"><span style='color:black'>Macedonian poetry conference</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;an <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/banal_probe_1.html"><span style='color:black'>exaggerated sense</span></a> of importance&#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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/arts/2008/jun/17/arts-17-06-2008-002.htm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ladi</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Soyode</span>,</span></a> lawyer, poet &amp; politician<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A transcript of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/12/DI2008061202499.html"><span style='color:black'>Mary Karr</span></a><br>
doing Q&amp;A online<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Karr on <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903289.html"><span style='color:black'>Keats</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08169/890355-42.stm"><span style='color:black'>Mark Doty</span></a> bemoans<br>
&#8221;<span class=SpellE>conservativism</span> that holds on in the literary world&#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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New book from &#8220;<a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/books/news/article_1411091.php/New_book_from_very_old_dead_dull_poet"><span style='color:black'>old, dead, dull poet</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Adam Kirsch, rereading <a href="http://www.nysun.com/arts/reconsiderations-life-studies-by-robert-lowell/80182/"><span style='color:black'>Robert Lowell</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6q4uax"><span style='color:black'>What about Charles Williams</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
asks the Archbishop of Canterbury<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A novelist&#8217;s take on <br>
the <a href="http://metaxucafe.com/cafe/article/the_iowa_writers_workshop/"><span style='color:black'>Iowa Writers Workshop</span></a><br>
of the 1980s<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>More people who lost &#8220;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5rh6un"><span style='color:black'>their voice</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june08/prisonpoetry_06-16.html"><span style='color:black'>Richard Shelton</span></a><br>
&amp; poetry in prison<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The question of politics<br>
in <a href="http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/ENTERTAIN/806190304"><span style='color:black'>Anglophone Cameroon 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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/poster_poems_the_rhymes_of_war.html"><span style='color:black'>The rhymes of war</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Carlin Romano on <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books /20080622_The_trip_is_as_lively_as_the_destination.html"><span style='color:black'>Salman Rushdie</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080617TDY13003.htm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Pamuk</span></span><span style='color:black'> &amp; <span class=SpellE>Oe</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/popper"><span style='color:black'>The novelist</span></a> and the murderers<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2286721,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Dylan Thomas</span></a>: propagandist<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;The Art of Conversation&#8221; (<a href="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2008/06/20/MicrosoftWorddylanthoma.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/06/nice_hair_shame_about_the_poem.html"><span style='color:black'>A poet for people who really don&#8217;t like 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;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/06/2008061801c.htm"><span style='color:black'>Getting paid</span></a> for writing well<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Covering the poems of <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91757715&amp;sc=emaf"><span style='color:black'>James Joyce</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>An &#8220;antidote to the image<br>
of <a href="http://www.madison.com/tct/entertainment/292195"><span style='color:black'>poet as princess</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Edwin-Morgan-A-very-modest.4209009.jp"><span style='color:black'>Edwin Morgan</span></a>: modest magus<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/444383"><span style='color:black'>Changing &#169; in Canada</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=31&amp;a=348543"><span style='color:black'>Alex Lemon</span></a>, a poet of white space<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080621/LIFE03/806210306/1005/LIFE"><span style='color:black'>Poughkeepsie teen</span></a><br>
wins a top 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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=763961"><span style='color:black'>Susan Firer &amp; Kevin <span class=SpellE>Prufer</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2008/06/19/poetry-winner-s-grief-gave-her-emotion-to-become-winner-116451-21106052/"><span style='color:black'>grief-driven poetics</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Rereading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://metaxucafe.com/cafe/article/metaxucafe_looking_back_on_lolita/"><span style='color:black'>Lolita</span></a></i><br>
from the girl&#8217;s point of view<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902991.html"><span style='color:black'>The Lolita Effect</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Imagining <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4ygjr9"><span style='color:black'>Sylvia Plath</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/200815.htm"><span style='color:black'>MLA</span></a> added to <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>WorldCat</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'> <st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Canada</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> terrorizes <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080616.wsingh16/BNStory/Entertainment/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20080616.wsingh16"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Jaspreet</span></span><span style='color:black'> Singh</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Think of it as a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3n6zm4"><span style='color:black'>sales opportunity</span> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Or a good <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/arts/design/22spea.html?_r=1& mp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>career move</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>There&#8217;s more to <a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/17/institute"><span style='color:black'>research</span></a> than Google<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>AUTO / PALSY / PLAZA<br>
&amp; other &#8220;<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUySWCALYUw"><span style='color:black'>rubber haiku</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Reading <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/avantgarde_and_modern_part_thr.html"><span style='color:black'>Peter Bürger</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Barry Schwabsky on <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/schwabsky"><span style='color:black'>Peter Schjeldahl</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Monday at <span class=SpellE>MoMA</span><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=8933&amp;ocam=nyb_061708"><span style='color:black'>Writing Dalí</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/613/turf/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Campaign+Monitor&amp;utm_content=337676391&amp;utm_campaign=Guernica's+June+Newsletter&amp;utm_term=Turf"><span style='color:black'>Luc <span class=SpellE>Sante</span></span></a> on graffiti vs. advertising<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Would </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'> ban <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/06/would_australias_pm_ban_bottic.html"><span style='color:black'>Botticelli</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23861133-16947,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Censorship</span></a> isn&#8217;t the answer<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987610.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2562"><span style='color:black'>Why critics suck</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>When <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jun/17/1"><span style='color:black'>art &amp; sports critics</span></a><br>
trade jobs<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4suw77"><span style='color:black'>Jeff Koons</span></a> retrospective<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8022"><span style='color:black'>Frank Stella,</span></a> campaigning<br>
against the &#8220;orphan &#169;&#8221; law<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The joy of dumbed-down <a href="http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=b24ee3a8-6d78-478f-9b95-a5b031d003c5"><span style='color:black'>trophy art</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Hirst</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2008/06/hirst_first_directtosothebys_s.html"><span style='color:black'>bypassing galleries</span></a> altogether<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The ultimate <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6lf4pd"><span style='color:black'>elitist</span></a> object<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/philip_guston_and_the_poets.html"><span style='color:black'>Philip Guston</span></a> &amp; the poets<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Brother from <a href="http://www.broadstreetreview.com/article.php?idc=2&amp;ida=968"><span style='color:black'>another planet</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2008/spring/weschler-robert-irwin/"><span style='color:black'>Robert Irwin</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Suing the <a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8055"><span style='color:black'>Basquiat authentication committee</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:6.0pt;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,,2285994,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Twombly</span></a> at the Tate<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The most expensive painting<br>
ever sold in <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5wcjx8"><span style='color:black'>Australia</span></a><br>
is still a Picasso<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.barnesfoundation.org/"><span style='color:black'>Barnes</span></a> is <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20250209.html"><span style='color:black'>kaput</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9609799?nclick_check=1"><span style='color:black'>Big Bird</span></a> turns 74<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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/his-little-loves-20080612"><span style='color:black'>Jean Eustache</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.movingimagesource.us/events/bad-company-the-films-of-jean-20080711"><span style='color:black'>A retrospective of his films</span></a> <br>
next month in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Toronto</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Godard<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/06/22/bobro122.xml"><span style='color:black'>Everything</span></a> is <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/06/21/bobro121.xml"><span style='color:black'>Cinema</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Transgender Turkish pop star<br>
faces <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-18-Turkeysinger_N.htm?csp=34"><span style='color:black'>jail for anti-war message</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Deconstructing &#8220;<a href="http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/surviving-the-hits/index.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Luka</span></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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ho, ho, hey, hey<br>
<a href="http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/1968-why-im-so-damned-angry/06/17/2008/"><span style='color:black'>the old New Left is in the way</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20007004.html"><span style='color:black'>Lakoff&#8217;s</span></a> Obama<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/books/review/Saletan-t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bua2"><span style='color:black'>Lakoff&#8217;s</span></a> brain<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21575"><span style='color:black'>The neurobiology of meaning</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6xmt9a"><span style='color:black'>Which type are you</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:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bye-bye <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24carlin.html?hp"><span style='color:black'>George Carlin</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://slimwindows.blogspot.com/2008/06/its-interesting-to-me-that-uberreader.html"><span style='color:black'>Tom Beckett</span></a><br>
on three books<br>
using the same cover photo<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'>Saving books from the flood<br>
in <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3zxjeu"><span style='color:black'>Iowa City</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'>Blogging <br>
the &#8220;<a href="http://allpurposemagicaltent.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Poetry of the 1970s</span></a>&#8221; conference<br>
from </span><st1:place><st1:City><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Orono</span></span></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Maine</span></st1:State></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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmorange/sets/72157605643590948/"><span style='color:black'>Tom Orange&#8217;s</span></a> photos (195 of them)<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.flickr.com/photos/mongibeddu/sets/72157605574002837/"><span style='color:black'>Ben Friedlander&#8217;s</span></a> photos (75)<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.flickr.com/photos/kpharris/sets/72157605640463750/"><span style='color:black'>Kaplan Harris&#8217;s</span></a> photos (37)<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 2-minute video of <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3qhaXZOxro"><span style='color:black'>Clark Coolidge</span></a> reading<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="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cacCpad801g"><span style='color:black'>Kit Robinson</span></a> reading from Ted Greenwald&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>You Bet<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'><a href="http://lime-tree.blogspot.com/2008/06/nonconceptualist-manifesto-part-i.html"><span style='color:black'>The <span class=SpellE>Nonconceptualist</span> Manifesto</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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 note on <a href="http://autotypist.blogspot.com/2008/06/flarf-is-nonceptualism-vs-conceptuals.html"><span style='color:black'>boundaries</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'>Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
A.R. Ammons &amp; Charlie Simic<br>
in the new issue of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0608/"><span style='color:black'>Poetry</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://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Jerry Rothenberg&#8217;s</span></a> blog<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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7456357.stm"><span style='color:black'>Where bloggers face arrest</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'>Talking with <a href="http://tinyurl.com/58dqhf"><span style='color:black'>Patricia 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;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.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7979"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Iman</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Bakry</span><span class=GramE>,</span></span></a><br>
an Egyptian poet<br>
with a sense of politics &amp; puns<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/53rvsm"><span style='color:black'>The end of the 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;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'>If there are <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5yrhr7"><span style='color:black'>2 million professional artists</span></a><br>
in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>USA</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>,</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
how many are poets?<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://pursuedbear.blogspot.com/2008/06/we-have-touched-on-lot-under-sun-in-way.html"><span style='color:black'>Craig Dworkin&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Consequence of Innovation<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://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_9588402"><span style='color:black'>Robert Vasquez&#8217;</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Braille for the Heart<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'>Talking with <a href="http://tinyurl.com/666awo"><span style='color:black'>Li-Young Lee</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'>Patrick Lovelace<br>
on the archaeology of<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5jwanr"><span style='color:black'>Bill Pearlman&#8217;s <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Inzorbital</i></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'>Stephen Vincent<br>
tracing <a href="http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=659"><span style='color:black'>Charles Olson&#8217;s</span></a><br>
Mayan footsteps<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'>Nearly 3 years after being destroyed<br>
by Hurricane Katrina<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the <a href="http://news.bookweb.org/6113.html"><span style='color:black'>Afro-American Book Stop</span></a> is back<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://outandaboutnewspaper.com/article.php?id=2687"><span style='color:black'>Nashville&#8217;s</span></a> one gay bookstore<br>
is for sale<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/3ufzyh"><span style='color:black'>Montpelier</span></a> <br>
looks past the closure of<br>
Yankee <span class=GramE>Paperback</span><br>
(just 3 dozen <span class=SpellE>indies</span> left<br>
in the state of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Vermont</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 profile of </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>North Oakland</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/4quhw7"><span style='color:black'>Book Zoo</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://kingdombks.blogspot.com/2008/06/if-poetry-why-not-prose-poetry-in.html"><span style='color:black'>Beth <span class=SpellE>Kanell</span></span></a><br>
against prose on the MTA<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 Duncan in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/14/22383/8801/877/536117"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>DailyKos</span></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'>Befriending stingrays<br>
where <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-149302/polis-is-this-charles-olson-and-persistence-place"><span style='color:black'>poetry is a virus</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.kerouac.com/images/lck1/10%20Jack's_typewriter_is_on_display_at_the_Cultural_Center.JPG"><span style='color:black'>Kerouac&#8217;s typewriter</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://allafrica.com/stories/200806120264.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ihechukwu</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Madubuike</span><span class=GramE>,</span></span></a><br>
a major African literary critic<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/2008/06/poem_of_the_week_43.html"><span style='color:black'>Ben <span class=SpellE>Jonson&#8217;s</span></span></a> elegies for his children<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/5urvqt"><span style='color:black'>Lucinda Williams</span></a> &amp; her dad<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/5hzvjq"><span style='color:black'>The Jerry Seinfeld of American 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;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.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=18626"><span style='color:black'>David Trinidad&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Late Show<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'>Verbal art &amp; linguistic science<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
building on an idea of Kent Johnson&#8217;s (<a href="http://hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln/Sp%2008%20pdf/Francis-Art&amp;Science.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</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/20080623/godfrey"><span style='color:black'>John Godfrey</span></a> in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The <span class=GramE>Nation</span></i><br>
(subscription required)<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.mercurynews.com/alamedacounty/ci_9568789"><span style='color:black'>Mary <span class=SpellE>Rudge</span><span class=GramE>,</span></span></a><br>
Poet Laureate of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Alameda</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'>Talking with <a href="http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2008/06/poet-eva-salzma.html"><span style='color:black'>Eva <span class=SpellE>Salzman</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://thechronicleherald.ca/Books/1062219.html"><span  style='color:black'>Johanna <span class=SpellE>Skibsrud&#8217;s</span></span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Late Nights with Wild Cowboys<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://tinyurl.com/5j44d7"><span style='color:black'>Karen <span class=SpellE>Houle</span>, <span class=SpellE>Allesandro</span> <span class=SpellE>Porco</span><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
Jordan Scott &amp; R.M. Vaughan</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'>What the  </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>UK</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>) <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/12/do1202.xml"><span style='color:black'>poet laureate</span></a> needs<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'>But <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/15/poetry"><span style='color:black'>women are baling</span></a> right &amp; left<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/69bozg"><span style='color:black'>Joyce Brinkman&#8217;s</span></a> tenure<br>
as </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Indiana</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s poet laureate<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://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/jun/15/culturaltrips.wales"><span style='color:black'>Dylan Thomas</span></a> trail<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; <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20080615_Rejecting_Joyce_.html"><span style='color:black'>Homer&#8217;s</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://danieldrezner.com/blog/?p=3777"><span style='color:black'>Blogging</span></a>, public intellectuals<br>
&amp; the academy<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'>Public intellectuals, 2.0 (<a href="http://danieldrezner.com/research/publicintellectuals.doc"><span style='color:black'>DOC</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.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Valentine-s-Day-massacre-3865"><span style='color:black'>William Logan&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre&#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://tinyurl.com/69mu5c"><span style='color:black'>Poets as crime novelists</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.nplusonemag.com/?q=money"><span style='color:black'>How much money does a writer need</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,,2285433,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Language is physical</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'>Omissions <br>
in the &#8220;Complete Works&#8221;<br>
of <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2193477/"><span style='color:black'>Shakespeare</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/6f6jdp"><span style='color:black'>C.K. Williams</span></a> on his father<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://newsblaze.com/story/20080613130859tsop.nb/topstory.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Djelloul</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Marbrook&#8217;s</span></span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Far from </i></span><st1:City><st1:place><i   style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Algiers</span></i></st1:place></st1:City><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></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.thevillager.com/villager_267/villageraward.html"><span style='color:black'>Village Award</span></a> for the Poetry Project<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 discussion with <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/blog/2008/06/montreal_poet_asa_boxer_wins_t_1.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Asa</span></span><span style='color:black'> Boxer</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/news/articles/0,,2285217,00.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Rawi</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Hage</span></span></a> beats the big names<br>
for the <span class=SpellE>Impac</span> 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 profile of Punjabi poet, <a href="http://www.quamiekta.com/englishnews/p.php?q=1429"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Surjit</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Patar</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'>Remembering <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4go6m4"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Faiz</span></span><span style='color:black'> Ahmed <span class=SpellE>Faiz</span></span></a><br>
in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Milpitas</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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jun142008/she2008061373280.asp"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Bharathi</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Devi</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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1074978&amp;auth=BY+LIZ+ZETLIN"><span style='color:black'>Lauren Best</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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/magazine/15wwln-Q4-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:black'>Gore Vidal</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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<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'>Talking with <a href="http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/06/who_is_raymond_mcdaniel.html"><span style='color:black'>Raymond McDaniel</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/3v3bk8"><span style='color:black'>James <span class=SpellE>Reaney</span></span></a> has died<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'>Who cares about <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/should_we_care_about_book_reviews.html"><span style='color:black'>book reviews</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://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/book-ads-the-golden-age-1962-1973/"><span style='color:black'>The &#8220;golden age&#8221; of book ads</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://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iaufhNUsCAThF9d_U0nbPsvXDqhQD91980GG0"><span style='color:black'>Some books</span></a> you could buy today<br>
but only at Christie&#8217;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;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.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1069935"><span style='color:black'>Mike Barnes, Mark Clement &amp; Jenny Bryan</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/2008/06/the_poetry_of_departure.html"><span style='color:black'>Poetry &amp; travel</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 profile of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6khuy2"><span style='color:black'>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>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>More on &#8220;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5q56ax"><span style='color:black'>the world&#8217;s worst poet</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://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/poetry/0,,2285467,00.html"><span style='color:black'>The enduring influence of Edward Thomas</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://tinyurl.com/55oxuk"><span style='color:black'>Mary Karr</span></a> on poems about fathers<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/5c65yn"><span style='color:black'>The bridge is  down</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 profile of <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/09/080609fa_fact_kolbert"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Bucky</span></span><span style='color:black'> Fuller</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.slate.com/id/2192535/"><span style='color:black'>DIY fonts</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'>Variety </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>teaches the </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Hollywood</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> set<br>
<a href="http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/06/how-to-read-a-b.html"><span style='color:black'>how to read a 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>

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&#8221;<a href="http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080613/LIVING/806130317"><span style='color:black'>Beautify with books</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://tinyurl.com/4tssvs"><span style='color:black'>Electronic records preservation</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'>Hell for <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i41/41b01301.htm?utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>Adorno</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://chronicle.com/free/v54/i41/41b00601.htm?utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>Will the left ever learn</span></a><br>
how to communicate<br>
across generations?<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'>How the &#8216;60s<br> 
<a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i41/41b01001.htm?utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>energized the right</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://insidehighered.com/views/2008/06/13/shapiro"><span style='color:black'>Staying smart</span></a> in the new dark ages<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/sandow/2008/06/singing_the_real_baudelaire.html"><span style='color:black'>Singing Baudelaire</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'>Gerard <span class=SpellE>Souzay</span><br>
singing <span class=SpellE>Duparc&#8217;s</span><br>
&#8221;La invitation au voyage<span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(<a href="http://www.gregsandow.com/BookBlog/Souzay-Duparc.mp3"><span style='color:black'>MP3</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 latest in<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3uga63"><span style='color:black'>sub-<span class=SpellE>vertising</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/4coz9h"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Blek</span></span><span style='color:black'> le Rat</span></a><br>
&amp; the roots of Banksy<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 street art of <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/16/BA43117I94.DTL"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Seyed</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Alavi</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'>How to <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5z86ye"><span style='color:black'>control</span></a> the art world<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'>Kenneth Baker on <br>
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/14/DD4N118BFQ.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Frida Kahlo</span></a> at 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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/blockbuster-art-exhibits-are-most.html"><span style='color:black'>My review</span></a> of the same show<br>
in </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'><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'>Jess at <a href="http://www.tibordenagy.com/#/exhibitions/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Tibor</span></span><span style='color:black'> de Nagy</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 collection of essays<br>
that shows<br>
why it&#8217;s been a disaster<br>
for <a href="http://www.nysun.com/arts/rescuing-the-critical-mass-with-exile-cinema/80024/"><span style='color:black'>30 film critics<br>
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