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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.bookslut.com/flame_in_the_mouth/2008_11_013685.php"><span style='color:black'>Charles Olson, <span class=SpellE>Greil</span> Marcus, <span class=SpellE>Aleksandar</span> <span class=SpellE>Hemon</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/11/10/081110po_poem_gilbert"><span style='color:black'>Jack Gilbert</span></a> in <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> New Yorker<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;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://haibuntoday.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-makes-eve-different.html"><span style='color:black'>Miriam <span class=SpellE>Sagan</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://awalkerwalking.blogspot.com/2008/11/perspective.html"><span style='color:black'>Hilton <span class=SpellE>Obenzinger</span> on Kenneth  Koch</span></a><br>
&amp; the &#8217;68 </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Columbia</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> student rebellion<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/11/04/a_poem_for_election_day/?s_campaign=8315"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Pinsky</span></span><span style='color:black'> on Whitman</span></a> on voting<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Is <a href="http://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2008/11/historic-election-may-signal-death-of.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>flarf</span></span></a> dead?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/books/06crichton.html?pagewanted=2&amp;hp"><span style='color:black'>Michael Crichton</span></a> is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/books/06appr.html"><span style='color:black'>dead</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'>Reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>In Watermelon Sugar </i>aloud<br>
(Chapters <a href="http://theultra-mundane.blogspot.com/2008/10/ralan-reads-in-watermelon-sugar-by.html"><span style='color:black'>1</span></a>, <a href="http://theultra-mundane.blogspot.com/2008/10/ralan-reads-in-watermelon-sugar-by_29.html"><span style='color:black'>2</span></a>, <a href="http://theultra-mundane.blogspot.com/2008/10/r-alan-reads-in-watermelon-sugar-by.html"><span style='color:black'>3</span></a>, <a href="http://theultra-mundane.blogspot.com/2008/11/r-alan-reads-in-watermelon-sugar-by.html"><span style='color:black'>4</span></a>, <a href="http://theultra-mundane.blogspot.com/2008/11/r-alan-reads-in-watermelon-sugar-by_05.html"><span style='color:black'>5</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://pop.coldfrontmag.com/2008/11/poets-off-poetry-sandra-simonds.html"><span style='color:black'>Sandra Simonds</span></a> on music<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/arts/music/05halv.html?scp=1&amp;sq=halvorson&amp;st=cse"><span style='color:black'>Mary Halvorson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/arts/music/04wuor.html"><span style='color:black'>Charles Wuorinen</span></a> at 70<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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 bleak night at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/design/06auction.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Christie&#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://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2008/11/10/081110craw_artworld_schjeldahl"><span style='color:black'>Joan <span class=SpellE>Miró</span></span></a>, angry young man<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>Graffiti, tattoos &amp; <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/11/advertising-graffiti-tattoos-and-other.html"><span style='color:black'>visual poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Experimental <a href="http://moremilkyvette.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-magazines-happy-hypocrite.html"><span style='color:black'>art writing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/081110fa_fact_gladwell"><span style='color:black'>outsider&#8217;s advantage</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://backreaction.blogspot.com/2008/11/infinity-really-is-different.html"><span style='color:black'>Is more different</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.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/11/mr-ayerss-neighborhood.html"><span style='color:black'>Bill Ayers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:red'>Remember to Vote<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:black'><img height="300" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RNZk2UO6PiOe7kDNtw8Pr49T1Kf7eHHjhBghXTOvMz9IHX0aQ7YN7ZFASmoMy3suxZq47uHZTgtarnt-snToO61VHg_CCd5FAcotPC5JY1WzALw%3Ds0-d" width="400"><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://joebrainardspyjamas.blogspot.com/2008/10/some-cursory-probably-palimpsestic.html"><span style='color:black'>Rachel Blau DuPlessis&#8217;</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Draft 69<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'>Geof Huth&#8217;s<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=182397"><span style='color:black'>Visual Poetry Today</span></a>&#8221; <br>
feature in <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry<br>
</i>(with links to all the work)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Huth&#8217;s reading of <br>
&#8221;<a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/watt.html"><span style='color:black'>What</span></a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/xways.html"><span style='color:black'>Xing</span></a>&#8221; &amp; &#8220;<a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/11/yore-second-half-of-year.html"><span style='color:black'>You</span></a>&#8221;<br>
from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Alphabet<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'>Jessica Smith<br>
on the question of<br>
<a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/female-visual-poets/"><span style='color:black'>female visual poets</span></a><br>
with a linked list<br>
of 50 examples<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/theater/25women.html?_r=1&amp;ref=theater&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Women playwrights</span></a><br>
on &amp; off Broadway<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.thegoldennotebook.org/"><span style='color:black'>The Golden Notebook:</span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>a collaborative reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/17/BA5M13JKBJ.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Tony Vaughan</span></a> has died<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'>Talking with <a href="http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/10/doing-civic-part-2-interview-with.html"><span style='color:black'>Roberto Bedoya</span></a><br>
esp. about the NEA&#8217;s program<br>
of branding sentimentality!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Race-and-Poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>Race &amp; Poetry: a panel</span></a><br>
with Tisa Bryant, Jennifer Firestone, Timothy Liu,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'></span><br>
Mendi Obadike, Meghan Punschke, <br>
Christopher Stackhouse &amp; Mathias Svalina, <br>
moderated &amp; curated<br>
by Amy King<br>
(<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/Race-And-Poetry/Race-and-Poetry_Complete-Reading_Unnameable-Books_Brooklyn_9-21-08.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'>Ange Mlinko<br>
finds Jack Spicer behind both<br>
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=182412"><span style='color:black'>Devin Johnston &amp; Linda Gregg</span></a></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'>Elaine <span class=SpellE>Equi</span> in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry</i>:<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182392"><span style='color:black'>A Start</span></a>&#8221; &amp; &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=182393"><span style='color:black'>Antiquity Calling</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2008/11/grand-piano-pt-2.html"><span style='color:black'>Mark Scroggins</span></a><br>
on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Grand Piano</i>, no.2<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 Robert <span class=SpellE>Creeley</span>-Charles Bernstein<br>
radio show that never <span class=GramE>aired</span><br>
(<a href="http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bernstein/radio/Bernstein-Charles-&amp;-Creeley_Books-Books-Books.mp3"><span style='color:black'>MP3</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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.buffalonews.com/185/story/478592.html"><span style='color:black'>Michael Ondaatje</span></a><br>
on Williams vs. Eliot<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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'>The mathematics of<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.nysun.com/arts/a-universe-of-books-borgess-library-of-babel/86435/"><span style='color:black'>The Library of Babel</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article4990340.ece"><span style='color:black'>Fiction</span></a> is a capitalist plot!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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'>An <a href="http://issuu.com/"><span style='color:black'>e-publishing platform</span></a><br> that is an eye opener<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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://spdtoday.blogspot.com/2008/10/spds-make-us-famous-contest.html"><span style='color:black'>Product placement poetry contest</span></a><br>
sponsored by SPD<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/poetas_en_nueva_yol.html#1"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Poetas</span></span><span style='color:black'> en <span class=SpellE>Nueva</span> <span class=SpellE>Yol</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The library of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/18/orhan-pamuk"><span style='color:black'>Orhan Pamuk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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'><i><a href="http://textsound.org/"><span style='color:black'>textsound</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>2,<br>
an online poetry zine with<br>
Alice Notley, Kenny Goldsmith,<br>
Carla Harryman, <span class=SpellE>austin</span> <span class=SpellE>publicover</span>,<br>
Chris Martin, Rick Moody, Laura Elrick &amp; more<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;The <a href="http://pw.org/content/settlement_reached_between_google_and_authors_guild_aap"><span style='color:black'>biggest book deal</span></a> in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> publishing history&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122520482616076055.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_marketplace"><span style='color:black'>Google</span></a> settles publisher suits for $<a href="http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3423/google-publishers-and-authors-settle-huge-lawsuit-over-book-scanning-project?utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>125 million</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/technology/internet/29google.html?_r=2&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=google&amp;st=cse&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>4 to 5 million</span></a><br>
of the 7 million books scanned<br>
are out of print but still in &#169;<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://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7697000/7697762.stm"><span style='color:black'>This  review</span></a> of Christian <span class=SpellE>Bök&#8217;s</span> <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Eunoia</i></span><br>
has a most creative comment stream<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/ebook.htm"><span style='color:black'>20 new e-books</span></a><br>
from BlazeVox<br>
plus 34 others<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'>At Mills on Nov. 23, <a href="http://bothbothseries.blogspot.com/2008/10/spread-word.html"><span style='color:black'>Professional Survival Day</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'>Watching newspapers <a href="http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/article/?id=926&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>die</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://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/visual-poetry-in-poetry-or-vice-versa.html"><span style='color:black'>Vispo in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry</i></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://jacobrussellsbarkingdog.blogspot.com/2008/10/zurawskis-bruise-reading-notes.html"><span style='color:black'>Magdalena <span class=GramE>Zurawski&#8217;s</span></span></a><span class=GramE> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Bruise<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<span class=SpellE>sez</span> Ray&#8217;s outfielder<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The first Library of America volume<br>
of a living poet<br>
is<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=291"><span style='color:black'>Collected Poems 1956 &#8211; 1987</span></a><br>
</i>by John Ashbery<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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on the Ashbery LOA volume<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'>Talking with John Ashbery (<a href="http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/LOA_Ashbery_interview_on_Collected_Poems.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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</i><span class=GramE>trans</span>. By John Ashbery<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<a href="http://fascicle.com/issue02/collaborations/tardoshejinian1.htm"><span style='color:black'>Anne <span class=SpellE>Tardos</span> &amp; Lyn Hejinian</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://woodlandpattern.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-books.html"><span style='color:black'>2 books<br>
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<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2008/10/trailer-corso-last-beat.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Corso</span></span><span style='color:black'> &#8211; <span class=GramE>The</span> Last Beat</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://fascicle.com/issue02/essays/bellamy1.htm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Dodie</span></span><span style='color:black'> Bellamy&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Body Language&#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.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-on-the-road-03-oct03,0,4125356.story"><span style='color:black'>Kerouac&#8217;s scroll</span></a><br>
is in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://billknott.typepad.com/notpoetryblog/2008/10/which-is-too-much.html"><span style='color:black'>Bill Knott</span></a> on Mallarmé<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://josephharrington.blogspot.com/2008/10/extant.html"><span style='color:black'>Frank O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s</span></a> blog<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'>Frank O&#8217;Hara &amp; <a href="http://alexwaterhousehayward.com/blog/2008/10/frank-ohara-by-harry-redl.html"><span style='color:black'>Harry <span class=SpellE>Redl</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'>Mary Karr on <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102302660.html"><span style='color:black'>Paul Guest</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://fascicle.com/issue02/imagininglanguage/rasula1.htm"><span style='color:black'>Jed <span class=SpellE>Rasula</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'>The Booker prize <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/oct/23/booker-judging-portillo"><span style='color:black'>runner up</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.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/26/the-poet-laureate-looks-back/"><span style='color:black'>Donald Hall&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Memoir of a Life in Poetry<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://graveneymarsh.blogspot.com/2008/10/author-author.html"><span style='color:black'>A cook&#8217;s tour of collaboration</span></a><br>
with an Aussie accent<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>Recording of a <a href="http://nwsnews.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/the-whole-sweep-of-the-day-by-tom-pickard/"><span style='color:black'>Tom Pickard</span></a> poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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;Upholsterers&#8217; Moon (Part 1)&#8221;<br>
by <a href="http://frontporchjournal.com/issue80_poetry_wilkinson.asp"><span style='color:black'>Joshua Marie Wilkinson</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 new (unedited) poem by<br>
<a href="http://undermidnightsun.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/lisa-fishman/"><span style='color:black'>Lisa Fishman</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://fascicle.com/issue02/imagininglanguage/johnson1.htm"><span style='color:black'>Ronald Johnson&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Arc 55<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
The ABC Spiral<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 profile of <a href="http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081026/ENTERTAINMENT05/310269969"><span style='color:black'>Ron <span class=SpellE>Androla</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="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGLHNlR4YTg"><span style='color:black'>Bitter Haiku: Soap</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'>David Kirby on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Kirby-t.html?ref=review"><span style='color:black'>Brenda <span class=SpellE>Shaughnessy</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'>Fondness for the typewriter<br>
as <a href="http://graveneymarsh.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-red-lion-square.html"><span style='color:black'>punk nostalgia</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/nyregion/long-island/26Rburied.html"><span style='color:black'>graveyards of Long Island</span></a><br>
&amp; the poets, painters<br>
&amp; hoi polloi therein<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://books.google.com/books?id=j6tyHt_iVZIC&amp;pg=PA3&amp;lpg=PA3&amp;dq=jim+brodey&amp;source=web&amp;ots=UZUqyBY9h2&amp;sig=oL1vNhMXFDILCcLg5T6mv_Jv1LI&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=2&amp;ct=result#PPR21,M1"><span style='color:black'>The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry</span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>mostly online<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/PermaLink,guid,47671257-34ee-4162-ba57-1d25f7455942.aspx"><span style='color:black'>Views on self-publishing</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.nybooks.com/articles/22032"><span style='color:black'>Eliot Weinberger&#8217;s</span></a> </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:12.0pt;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'>Amherst</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, <a href="http://amherstbulletin.com/story/id/114528/"><span style='color:black'>the Jeff</span></a><br>
is set to close<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/10/elegant-epigraph-sylvia-plath-on-act-of.html"><span style='color:black'>Sylvia <span class=SpellE>Plath</span></span></a> on her competitors<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://frontporchjournal.com/issue80_interview_laux.asp"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Dorianne</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Laux</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://ryaneckes.blogspot.com/2008/10/collaboration-with-dan-yorty.html"><span style='color:black'>Ryan <span class=SpellE>Eckes</span></span></a><br>
set to <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/RyanEckesReadingFromoldNews"><span style='color:black'>music</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&amp;pa=list_pages_categories&amp;cid=318"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>FieraLingue</span></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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.nelsonpoetry.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Boyer <span class=SpellE>Rickel</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 reading by Charlie <span class=SpellE>Simic</span> (<a href="http://media.nybooks.com/102008-simic.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'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-colette-atkinson19-2008oct19,0,7992115.story"><span style='color:black'>Colette <span class=SpellE>Labouff</span> Atkinson&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Mean<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.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/26/mercy-toni-morrison"><span style='color:black'>Toni Morrison&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A Mercy<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://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/26/john-updike"><span style='color:black'>John Updike</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://murdermystery.livejournal.com/386446.html"><span style='color:black'>Michael Robinson</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.iht.com/articles/2008/10/23/arts/finkel.php"><span style='color:black'>Jim Dine</span></a> in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Walla <span class=SpellE>Walla</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/?inc=article&amp;id=681&amp;x=not-a-jazz-musician&amp;_c=music"><span style='color:black'>Anthony Braxton</span></a>:<br>
&#8221;I am not a jazz musician&#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'>What&#8217;s the <a href="http://www.apexart.org/events/carter.htm"><span style='color:black'>frequency</span></a>, Kenneth?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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 tip of the cap<br>
to <a href="http://fascicle.com/issue02/imagininglanguage/supplementtitle.htm"><span style='color:black'>Tony <span class=SpellE>Tost&#8217;s</span></span></a><br>
Supplement to <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Imagining Language<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><img height="306" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/DjC8T4xTZqOudazL5p01iKC--hrXsVWWsMxVsaUvtWGhgsWDB0QcnI15y6ZtZ-nvjz4ZyiBgg8o2G7nqpUiE4-c1j9pB5UUDIf4RnfQjwdCixis%3Ds0-d" width="440"></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.oxfordamericanmag.com/content.cfm?ArticleID=396&amp;Entry=Extras"><span style='color:black'>Brett Evans &amp; Frank Sherlock&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ready-to-Eat Individual<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;</span></b><span style='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'>Contemporary politics<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
&#8220;<a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/before_the_elections_the_darkn_1.html"><span style='color:black'>the darkness surrounds us</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;</span></b><span style='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://jonathanmayhew.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-read-some-books-in-public-library.html"><span style='color:black'>Jonathan Mayhew</span></a> <br>
with capsule reviews<br>
of seven good books<br>
&amp; two others<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://billknott.typepad.com/notpoetryblog/2008/10/talking-usa.html"><span style='color:black'>Bill Knott</span></a> on<br>
Hart Crane &amp; Thomas Hardy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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://columbiacollegepoetrymfa.blogspot.com/2008/10/open-book-john-ashbery.html"><span style='color:black'>John <span class=SpellE>Ashbery&#8217;s</span></span></a> advice for young writers<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Freakonomics</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> &amp; <a href="http://praxislogos.com/admedia/frank-ohara-as-narrator"><span style='color:black'>Frank O&#8217;Hara</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'>Edward <span class=SpellE>Mendelson</span> on O&#8217;Hara (<a href="http://media.nybooks.com/091508-mendelson.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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&amp; reading FOH (<a href="http://media.nybooks.com/091508-mendelsonreadings.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'>Who is <a href="http://jstheater.blogspot.com/2008/10/le-clzio-le-nobeliste.html"><span style='color:black'>J.M.G. Le Clézio</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.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghanistan22-2008oct22,0,7466691.story"><span style='color:black'>Afghan student<br>
&#8221;spared&#8221; death penalty</span></a><br>
for distributing article<br>
on rights of women<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://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/10/jordan.html"><span style='color:black'>Jordanian poet</span></a><br>
arrested for<br>
&#8220;insulting Islam&#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;</span></b><span style='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'>Writing an opera with <a href="http://netnewmusic.net/reblog/archives/2008/10/composing_shini.html"><span style='color:black'>Paul Muldoon</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;</span></b><span style='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'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.latamrob.com/?p=397"><span style='color:black'>The Latino Cultural Revolution</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://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/10/21-grand-gallery-ara-shirinyan-jocelyn.html"><span style='color:black'>Reading report on 21 <span class=GramE>Grand</span></span></a><br>
(<span class=SpellE>Ara</span> <span class=SpellE>Shirinyan</span> &amp;<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wild Analysis,</i><br>
a play by Cynthia <span class=SpellE>Sailers</span><br>
&amp; Jocelyn <span class=SpellE>Saidenberg</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><st1:City w:st="on"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Reading</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> report<br>
on <a href="http://jacobrussellsbarkingdog.blogspot.com/2008/10/reading-at-robins-pam-brown-ron.html"><span style='color:black'>Pam Brown<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
Magdalena Zurawski <br>
&amp; myself</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'>And <a href="http://phillywords.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/wind-up-in-one-place-three-times/"><span style='color:black'>another</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'>Plus some photos<br>
by <a href="http://thedeletions.blogspot.com/2008/10/ca-conrad-mastering-ceremonies-of.html"><span style='color:black'>Pam Brown</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 first review of<br>
the <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6606052.html?industryid=47159"><span style='color:black'>new collected Spicer</span></a><br>
is at the very bottom<br>
of this <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Publishers&#8217; Weekly <br>
</i>roundup<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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://ronslate.com.s6980.gridserver.com/cosmopolitan_poems_donna_stonecipher_coffee_house_press"><span style='color:black'>Donna <span class=SpellE>Stonecipher&#8217;s</span></span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Cosmopolitan<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;</span></b><span style='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'>Carla <span class=SpellE>Harryman&#8217;s</span><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?BookID=9780979118944"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Adorno&#8217;s</span></span><span style='color:black'> Noise</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 class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Geof</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Huth&#8217;s</span>
<br>
reading of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Alphabet</i><br>
continues with<br>
&#8221;VOG&#8221; part <a href="http://phillywords.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/wind-up-in-one-place-three-times/"><span style='color:black'>VI</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://hildamagazine.net/waldrop_stolterfoht/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Rosmarie</span></span><span style='color:black'> Waldrop &amp; Ulf <span class=SpellE>Stolterfoht</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;</span></b><span style='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'>Remembering <a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2008/10/viva-lamantia.html"><span style='color:black'>Philip <span class=SpellE>Lamantia</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;</span></b><span style='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://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/bite_on_my_belly.html"><span style='color:black'>Javier Huerta</span></a><br>
on hunger artists<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://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/impossible_life_1.html#5"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Linh</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Dinh&#8217;s</span></span></a><br>
original article<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2008/10/steve-benson-blue-book-101-part-10-i.html"><span style='color:black'>Steve Benson&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Blue Book<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;</span></b><span style='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 class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Quoth</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> the Raven<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
&#8220;<a href="http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16049"><span style='color:black'>Translate me more</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://geoffklock.blogspot.com/2008/10/ruskin-quote-i-was-looking-for-in-first.html"><span style='color:black'>Imaginary quotations</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;</span></b><span style='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.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/22/british-library-recordings-writers"><span style='color:black'>The British Library&#8217;s CD</span></a><br>
of rare reading recordings<br>
including Arthur Conan Doyle<br>
&amp; the only recording of<br>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7684201.stm"><span style='color:black'>Virginia Woolf</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;</span></b><span style='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'>Talking with Claire Askew<br>
parts <a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2008/10/and-interview-with-claire-askew-part.html"><span style='color:black'>1</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-with-claire-askew-part-two.html"><span style='color:black'>2</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;</span></b><span style='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 memorial reading for <br>
David Foster Wallace<br>
@ Kelly Writers <span class=GramE>House</span><br>
(<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/writershouse/Wallace-David-Foster_Reading-and-Celebration_KWH-UPenn_10-07-08.mp3"><span style='color:black'>MP3</span></a>)<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/RVSS13H52L.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Jim Harrison&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The English Major<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;</span></b><span style='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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.kellyspitzer.com/2008/10/22/in-profile-writer-rachel-b-glaser/"><span style='color:black'>Rachel B. Glaser</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;</span></b><span style='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.fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/1928487.aspx"><span style='color:black'>Robert <span class=SpellE>Pinsky&#8217;s</span></span></a> comments stream<br>
on anonymity &amp; the poetry in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Slate<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;</span></b><span style='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.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?Ive_been_meaning_to_ask..._well,_did_Felix_Dennis_do_it?&amp;in_article_id=353150&amp;in_page_id=254&amp;in_a_source="><span style='color:black'>A poet with a problem</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'>Peter <span class=SpellE>Ceccariello&#8217;s</span><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://ciccariello.viewbook.com/faux_poem_issue_one#/1/"><span style='color:black'>faux poem issue one</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;</span></b><span style='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://ad64.blogspot.com/2008/10/elbot-vs-erica-t-carter.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Elbot</span></span><span style='color:black'> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Issue 1</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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20081013/COL27/810130342"><span style='color:black'>Lawrence Joseph&#8217;s</span></a> <br>
family store<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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'>Hot for Words: <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya9yl0K_G1Q"><span style='color:black'>Maverick</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'>Censoring <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/obama-ayers-1.html"><span style='color:black'>Bill Ayers</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'>Good &amp; bad public <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDP713KG01.DTL"><span style='color:black'>sculpture</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;</span></b><span style='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.folo.us/2008/10/02/ralph-stanley-cuts-the-best-radio-ad-of-the-cycle/"><span style='color:black'>Ralph Stanley</span></a> gets political<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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'>Friday, Oct. 24<br>
<a href="http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/7957/55/"><span style='color:black'>Cecil Taylor</span></a> in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place  w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;</span></b><span style='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.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/opinion/22atwood.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Margaret Atwood</span></a> on the Dow<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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/books/marie-ponsot-with-sally-dawidoff-and-jean-gallagher"><span style='color:black'>Marie <span class=SpellE>Ponsot</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://dodie-bellamy.blogspot.com/2008/10/jack-spicers-bedside-reading.html"><span style='color:black'>Jack Spicer&#8217;s</span></a> bedside reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://naturespoetry.blogspot.com/2008/10/wordplay-this-week-lee-ann-brown.html"><span style='color:black'>Lee Ann Brown</span></a><br>
on <span class=SpellE>WVPM&#8217;s</span> <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wordplay</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br>
</i>(first link is to the <a href="http://archive.wpvm.org/WordPlay-10122008.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'><a href="http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php"><span style='color:black'>Coming up at St. Mark&#8217;s</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
Bob Grenier on Larry Eigner<br>
&amp;<br>
a Helen Adam Halloween<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://graveneymarsh.blogspot.com/2008/10/another-side-of-black-mountain.html"><span style='color:black'>Hilda Morley</span></a> at </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Black</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mountain</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2201944/pagenum/all"><span style='color:black'>Emily Dickinson&#8217;s</span></a> secret lover<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>Bush signs law<br>
creating <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/bush-signs-law.html"><span style='color:black'>&#169; czar</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://georgezamka.blogspot.com/2008/10/anselm-berrigan.html"><span style='color:black'>Anselm Berrigan</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.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&amp;link=156014&amp;bolum=101"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Fazil</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Hüsnü</span> <span class=SpellE>Da&#287;larca</span></span></a><br>
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'>The life &amp; afterlife of<br>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081103/isenberg"><span style='color:black'>Walter <span class=GramE>Benjamin</span></span></a><br>
(sub <span class=SpellE>req&#8217;d</span> for full article)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://channel.walkerart.org/index.wac"><span style='color:black'>Free Verse</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
The Flarf Collective<br>
at the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Walker</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Art Museum</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
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'><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://joebrainardspyjamas.blogspot.com/2008/10/lets-flarf-cat.html"><span style='color:black'>Flarf</span></a><br>
as a verb<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>In L.A. at the REDCAT:<br>
<a href="http://redcat.org/season/0809/cnv/untitled.php"><span style='color:black'>Untitled:<br>
Speculations on the Expanded<br>
Field of Writing</span></a>,<br>
with Johanna Drucker, Kenny Goldsmith,<br>
Robert Grenier, Jessica Smith, Steve McCaffery,<br>
Brian Kim Stefans, <span class=SpellE>Shanxing</span> Wang, Heriberto Yepez<br>
&amp; more<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/10/outside-is-side-i-take-interview-with.html"><span style='color:black'>Roberto <span class=SpellE>Bedoya</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/AJHS.html"><span style='color:black'>Secular Jewish Culture /<br>
Radical Poetic Practice</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.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2008/oct/13/tajik-poem-persian-khojandi-shapcott"><span style='color:black'>Persian poetry from Tajikistan</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'>Salvaging <a href="http://philcsc.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/jose-garcia-villa-filipino-poet-in-the-united-states/"><span style='color:black'>Jose Garcia Villa</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/4dwwlf"><span style='color:black'>Screaming Monkeys</span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>is mostly online<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>Pushing back<br>
<a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-looked-out-door-so-doors-window.html"><span style='color:black'>against representation</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Of <a href="http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2008/10/state-of-union-and-poetry-politic-blog.html"><span style='color:black'>poetry &amp; politics</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 fun online book<br>
of short poems by<br>
<a href="http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/ChupacabraPress/33/33title.htm"><span style='color:black'>Jason Sanford Brown</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'>I meant to link to <br>
Geof Huth&#8217;s reading of<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/bitterly-cerulean-rain.html"><span style='color:black'>Skies</span></a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/dry-ink-that-fuses-to-page.html"><span style='color:black'>Toner</span></a>&#8221;<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>last </i>Thursday<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'>Plus &#8220;VOG&#8221; <br>
(parts <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/voice-of-god-part-ii.html"><span style='color:black'>II</span></a>, <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/voice-of-god-part-iii.html"><span style='color:black'>part III</span></a>, <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/voice-of-god-part-iv.html"><span style='color:black'>IV</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/10/voice-of-god-part-v.html"><span style='color:black'>V</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'>Some answers for <a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/#10-17-08"><span style='color:black'>Raymond Federman</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.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/books/poetry-roundup-oct-08"><span style='color:black'>Anne Waldman, Patricia Smith<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
Carter Ratcliff, <span class=SpellE>Valentina</span> <span class=SpellE>Saracini</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'>Kevin Killian&#8217;s <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Oroniad</i></span><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>,</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br>
</i>parts <a href="http://dodie-bellamy.blogspot.com/2008/10/kevin-killian-what-i-saw-at-orono_12.html"><span style='color:black'>22</span></a>, <a href="http://dodie-bellamy.blogspot.com/2008/10/kevin-killian-what-i-saw-at-orono_13.html"><span style='color:black'>23</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://dodie-bellamy.blogspot.com/2008/10/kevin-killian-what-i-saw-at-orono_15.html"><span style='color:black'>24</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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7646108.stm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Maulidi</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>ya</span> <span class=SpellE>Homu</span></span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
Islamic praise poetry of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Zanzibar</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'>Remembering <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\10\17\story_17-10-2008_pg7_38"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Hima</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Raza</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/10/20/081020po_poem_snyder"><span style='color:black'>Gary Snyder</span></a><br>
in <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> New Yorker<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Gary Snyder&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_goodyear"><span style='color:black'>last book</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'>The <a href="http://tinyurl.com/59pkce"><span style='color:black'>other poet</span></a> on<br>
<span class=SpellE>Lew</span> Welch&#8217;s football team<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/books/review/Messud-t.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>maid</span></a> of one&#8217;s own<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://media.www.nwmissourinews.com/media/storage/paper1032/news/2008/10/16/UniversityNews/Teacher.Poet.Prepares.For.last.Lecture-3489033.shtml"><span style='color:black'>John <span class=SpellE>Gallaher&#8217;s</span></span></a> &#8220;last lecture&#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.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/10/20/081020crbo_books_menand"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Thumbspeak</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'>Steve <span class=SpellE>Fama</span> on<br>
<a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2008/10/fire-on-page-yeeee-haw.html"><span style='color:black'>Jordan Scott &amp; John Olson</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://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/books/story/834141.html"><span style='color:black'>Jim Harrison</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i08/08b01801.htm"><span style='color:black'>Lolita</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>at 50<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95867915"><span style='color:black'>Sharon <span class=SpellE>Dolin</span></span></a><br>
adds a new sin<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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 impact of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/world/europe/18kundera.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Kundera&#8217;s</span></span></a> past<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://imforthebirds.blogspot.com/2008/10/ballad-of-beta-2.html"><span style='color:black'>Samuel R. <span class=SpellE>Delany&#8217;s</span></span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Ballad of Beta-2<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.newyorker.com/online/blogs/festival/2008/10/young-shakespea.html"><span style='color:black'>Young Shakespeareans</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 unbearable lightness of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/world/europe/14czech.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>informing</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.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentDisplayView?cmsId=content/reader/index_reader&amp;hideHeaderFooter=false&amp;storeId=10151&amp;catalogId=10551&amp;XID=F:reader:sony#/oneman/"><span style='color:black'>Dave Farrow</span></a> reads a book<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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 preface <br>
&amp; table of contents<br>
to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/us/17arapaho.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Jerry Rothenberg&#8217;s<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetics &amp; Polemics</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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://bctstudioindex.blogspot.com/2008/10/positing-note-ing.html"><span style='color:black'>If these images were not images<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
but words</span></a>,<br>
what words would they BE,<br>
and in what order?&#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'>Language-driven digital art at <a href="http://www.brown.edu/Project/Interrupt_2008/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Brown</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://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367645363324303.html"><span style='color:black'>Larry <span class=SpellE>Lessig</span></span></a> in defense of piracy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>British authors<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the emerging police state<br>
&amp; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/oct/12/uksecurity-terrorism"><span style='color:black'>the number 42</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://danpritch.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-ashberry-language-and-meaning.html"><span style='color:black'>Quietist attack on John Ashbery</span></a><br>
that is as ignorant of linguistics<br>
as it is of society<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/weekinreview/12orr.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Where</span></a> is <a href="http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2008/10/the-great-nobel.html"><span style='color:black'>our Nobel poet</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/12/tonimorrison-fiction"><span style='color:black'>Toni Morrison</span></a>, Nobel icon<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-EU-Britain-Booker-Prize.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;oref=slogin"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Aravind</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Adiga</span></span></a> wins the Man <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/30995974.html"><span style='color:black'>Booker</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'>What&#8217;s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/oct/15/booker-prize-aravind-adiga"><span style='color:black'>wrong</span></a> with the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/11/babooker.xml"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>Booker</span></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'>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/oct/14/booker-prize-adiga-tiger"><span style='color:black'>ten types</span></a> of Booker<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/13/germany-television"><span style='color:black'>German critic</span></a> spurns prize<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.nationalbook.org/nba2008.html"><span style='color:black'>National Book Award</span></a> finalists<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/books/16finalists.html"><span style='color:black'>Patricia Smith &amp; 4 members<br>
of the School of Quietude</span></a><br>
(Judges: 5 members of the <span class=SpellE>SoQ</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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=24016"><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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>One <a href="http://acompulsivereader.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>bookseller&#8217;s reaction</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'>On the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081015/ap_en_ot/national_book_awards"><span style='color:black'>fiction side</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
a novel released in the 1990s<br>
is on the shortlist<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;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 oft-rejected <a href="http://sherrychandler.com/2008/10/13/running-across-the-log-pond/"><span style='color:black'>William Stafford</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'>&amp; a <a href="http://news.opb.org/article/3279-poet-stafford-honored-20000-award/"><span style='color:black'>prize for his son</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'>Best books that <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6gpque"><span style='color:black'>never existed</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/books/review/Siegel-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:black'>con</span></a> of literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>Prodigies vs. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all"><span style='color:black'>late bloomers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/world/europe/16frankfurt.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Orhan</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Pamuk</span></span></a><br>
denounces </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Turkey</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s recent history<br>
of banning, jailing, killing &amp; exiling writers<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.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/from-public-enemy-to-turkeys-national-hero-962731.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Pamuk&#8217;s</span></span></a> new role<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>Seeking <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/16/middleeast-germany"><span style='color:black'>literary talent</span></a><br>
in the Arab 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'>Reading <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4eusho"><span style='color:black'>Sherry Jones&#8217;</span></a><br>
ostensibly incendiary<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20081015_appraising_jewel_medina"><span style='color:black'>Jewel of Medina</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 celebration of <a href="http://www.mediaforfreedom.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=11848"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Tagore</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'>Attempting to preserve<br>
<a href="http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_288220836.html"><span style='color:black'>Gloucester, MA</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'>On first seeing <br>
through the eyes of <br>
<a href="http://catskillcottageseed.com/?p=675"><span style='color:black'>Charles Olson</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'>In </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>San Francisco</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> on Tuesday<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://booksandbookshelves.blogspot.com/2008/10/brian-teare-frances-richard-reading.html"><span style='color:black'>Stephanie Young &amp; Bill <span class=SpellE>Luoma</span></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'>At <a href="http://openned.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/openned-triptych-12.jpg"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Openned</span></span></a> in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>London</span></st1:place></st1:City><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>
also on Tuesday,<br>
a breath-taking lineup<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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'>Booksellers look at <a href="http://news.bookweb.org/6353.html"><span style='color:black'>staffing</span></a><br>
to get through <span class=SpellE>rececession</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6goq2b"><span style='color:black'>Leonard Cohen&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Book of Longing<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://korepress.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-i-write.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Kimi</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Eisele</span><span class=GramE>:</span></span></a><br>
Why I write<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://timothybuckwalter.typepad.com/painting_drawings/2008/10/bomb.html"><span style='color:black'>Gregory <span class=SpellE>Corso</span></span></a><br>
reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Bomb<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.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/books/review/Egan-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:black'>Jim Harrison&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The English Major<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.harpers.org/archive/2008/10/0082197"><span style='color:black'>Words into hype</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.getsurrey.co.uk/entertainment/s/2037382_book_festival_time_for_tea_with_wendy_cope"><span style='color:black'>Wendy Cope</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'>In the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/oct/13/poem-of-the-week"><span style='color:black'>vernacular</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://rauanklassnik.blogspot.com/2008/10/ron-silliman-dreams-and-one-vision.html"><span style='color:black'>My life in the bush of ghosts</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'>Poetry, shame &amp; <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6xyc4u"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Toi</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Derricotte</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 <a href="http://tinyurl.com/64v9x3"><span style='color:black'>roundup</span></a> of fall books<br>
including 11 volumes of 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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Resuscitating <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/us/17arapaho.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Arapahoe</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'>Theological <a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article4905068.ece"><span style='color:black'>Dostoevsky</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.lrb.co.uk/v30/n20/hard01_.html"><span style='color:black'>Ezra Pound &amp; Emmett Till</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.northfloridanewsdaily.com/News/2008/1013/movies/175.html"><span style='color:black'>Coleman Barks&#8217;</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Winter Sky<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.valpo.edu/vpr/yarosessaynature.html"><span style='color:black'>Nature &amp; the Self</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
Emily Dickinson &amp; the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>School</span></st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Quietude</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/15/ted-hughes-british-library"><span style='color:black'>British Library</span></a><br>
<a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4947626.ece"><span style='color:black'>acquires</span></a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7669834.stm"><span style='color:black'>Ted Hughes&#8217;</span></a> <a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article4958837.ece"><span style='color:black'>archive</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'>Renting the home of<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5r9xsg"><span style='color:black'>Dylan Thomas</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-proulx18-2008oct18,0,2744670.story"><span style='color:black'>Annie <span class=SpellE>Proulx</span></span></a><br>
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with </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Wyoming</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'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6605674.html?rssid=192"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Granta</span></span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>An <a href="http://www.poetryvlog.com/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Arthur <span class=SpellE>Vogelsang</span></span></a> video<br>
&amp; a treasure trove<br>
of <span class=SpellE>SoQ</span> videos<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.guardian.co.uk/books/series/writersrooms"><span style='color:black'>Writer&#8217;s rooms</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.mercurynews.com/books/ci_10679363?nclick_check=1"><span style='color:black'>Cody&#8217;s events</span></a><br>
outlive demise of the book store<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2101/2037"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Google</span></span><span style='color:black'> Books vs. the Open Content Alliance</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'>Best account of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.seeqpod.com/blog/2008/10/07/how-to-make-a-poet-cry-on-the-interweb-using-search-technologies/"><span style='color:black'>Issue 1</span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>&#8217;s debacle</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://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2008/06/30/080630crsk_skyline_goldberger"><span style='color:black'>New architecture</span></a> in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Beijing</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/2008/10/viktor-shklovsky-literature"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Shklovsky</span></span></a> on film<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.villagevoice.com/2008-10-15/art/the-met-shares-a-sublime-new-york-photo-album-by-rudy-burckhardt/"><span style='color:black'>Rudy <span class=SpellE>Burckhardt</span></span></a> at the Met<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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 paintings of <a href="http://blog.johnzinsser.com/2008/10/17/13/"><span style='color:black'>Jane <span class=SpellE>Freilicher</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'>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/12/art1"><span style='color:black'>economy of the art world</span></a><br>
is <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/10/19/do_i_hear_12_million_i_do/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:black'>changing</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'>&#8220;If the work is free<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<a href="http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9781846140471"><span style='color:black'>is it art?</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.belmarlab.org/plainsight.php"><span style='color:black'>In Plain Sight<span class=GramE>:</span></span></a><br>
</span><st1:Street><st1:address><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>NY street</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> &amp; performance art,<br>
1968 &#8211; 1971<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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 success of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5ttdoh"><span style='color:black'>Dr. Atomic</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>On <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-john-adams19-2008oct19,0,7675877.story"><span style='color:black'>John Adams</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/4z4hkm"><span style='color:black'>Charles Bernstein&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Blind Witness News<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'>Poetry in the music of <a href="http://www.playbillarts.com/features/article/7782.html"><span style='color:black'>Elliott Carter</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://suburbanmomnotes.blogspot.com/2008/10/enough-titles-for-mad-men-book-club.html"><span style='color:black'>Mad Men</span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>&#8217;s</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> reading list<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/10/bukowski-writin.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Bukowski</span></span></a> the icon<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2147/2032"><span style='color:black'>&#8220;High&#8221; theory</span></a><br>
&amp; cultural new media activism<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: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.guardian.co.uk/world/oliverburkemanblog/2008/oct/14/uselections2008-sarahpalin"><span style='color:black'>John <span class=SpellE>Cleese</span></span></a> on<br>
&#8221;the funniest <span class=SpellE>Palin</span>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.cleeseblog.com/2008/10/09/hannity-calamity/"><span style='color:black'>Ode to Sean <span class=SpellE>Hannity</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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>How <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_mayer"><span style='color:black'>Sarah <span class=SpellE>Palin</span></span></a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;Every <a href="http://www.reason.com/news/show/129283.html"><span style='color:black'>Man</span></a> a Derrida&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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