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with a <a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/12/17/graywolf-poet-elizabeth-alexander-read-obamas-inauguration.html"><span style='color:black'>small press</span></a> background<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/12-2008/poetplaywright-alexander-to-join-franklin-ma-perlm_16702.html"><span style='color:black'>Who</span></a> is <a href="http://www.elizabethalexander.net/poems.html#VH"><span style='color:black'>Elizabeth</span></a> <a href="http://www.elizabethalexander.net/home.html"><span style='color:black'>Alexander</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></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'>All Things Considered </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>interviews <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98467631"><span style='color:black'>Alexander</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 <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/12/presidential-po.html"><span style='color:black'>dissent</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 href="http://www.wetasphalt.com/?q=content/elizabeth-alexander"><span style='color:black'>another</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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on the shadow side of wealth<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Library of <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/booksmags/chi-1213-underground-library-libdec13,0,3655332.story"><span style='color:black'>obscure Chicago literature</span></a> opens<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008513831_polarpoetry14m.html"><span style='color:black'>The Polar Bear Poetry Club</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://blindelephant.blogspot.com/2008/12/heres-what-happened-on-friday-and.html"><span style='color:black'>CS Perez</span></a> takes wing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://notellpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-poetry-books-2008-bruce-covey.html"><span style='color:black'>Bruce Covey&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Best Poetry Books 2008&#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://notellpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-poetry-books-of-2008-dora-malech.html"><span style='color:black'>Dora <span class=SpellE>Malech&#8217;s</span></span></a> list<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://notellpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-poetry-books-2008-michael-farrell.html"><span style='color:black'>Michael Farrell&#8217;s</span></a> list is very short<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://notellpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-poetry-books-2008-kathleen-jesme.html"><span style='color:black'>Kathleen <span class=SpellE>Jesme&#8217;s</span></span></a> 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://nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/2008/12/thomas-pynchons-inherent-vice.html"><span style='color:black'>Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s</span></a> next 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'>A profile of <a href="http://www.leadertelegram.com/story-news_local.asp?id=BIJLF9UMH6N"><span style='color:black'>Todd Boss</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://linguaschematic.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-i-write-poem-i-want-words-in.html"><span style='color:black'>When I write a poem &#8230;</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'>Talking with &#8220;<a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost</span></a>&#8221;<br>
host Rustin Larson<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2008/12/history-of-speech.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Kostas</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Anagnopoulos</span> &amp; Allison Powers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>3 stars for <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20081214/FEATURES05/812140307/1030"><span style='color:black'>Mariani&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Hopkins</i></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/pages84/haiku84.htm"><span style='color:black'>Semi-anonymous haiku</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.amacad.org/news/poetry.aspx"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Sarton</span></span><span style='color:black'> Prize</span></a> recipients announced<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://jlcds.lupjournals.org/default.aspx?content=0101ferris"><span style='color:black'>The beat goes on</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A short note against <a href="http://georgiasam.blogspot.com/2008/12/cretinism-arraigned.html"><span style='color:black'>cretinism</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 return of some <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/arts/15poem.html"><span style='color:black'>really bad </span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>poetry</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'>It gets <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/12/22/081222po_poem_angell"><span style='color:black'>verse</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://sethabramson.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-make-poetry-relevant-i.html"><span style='color:black'>Seth Abramson</span></a> dreams<br>
of numbers &amp; &#8220;relevance&#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://sethabramson.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-make-poetry-relevant-ii.html"><span style='color:black'>Seth Abramson</span></a> thinks<br>
Quietists<br>
&#8221;make up 80% or more <br>
of the national poetry community&#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.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/dec/12/poster-poems-billy-mills-limericks"><span style='color:black'>Limericks</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/4q8pt3"><span style='color:black'>The writers</span></a> of history<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/2008/12/15/business/media/15carr.html?_r=1"><span style='color:black'>Rod Blagojevich &amp; the death of journalism</span></a> &#8211;<br>
not an accidental relationship<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://apnews.myway.com/article/20081216/D953KIT80.html"><span style='color:black'>The end of the daily newspaper</span></a> &#8211;<br>
</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Detroit</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> is the first (but not last<span class=GramE>)</span><br>
city to go<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6yqa9b"><span style='color:black'>How long will it take</span></a><br>
before every city follows suit?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081215/ap_on_re_eu/eu_turkey_armenians_3"><span style='color:black'>Turkish intellectuals</span></a><br>
apologize to the Armenians<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4665"><span style='color:black'>Books by artists</span></a><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</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'>Center</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.sfartscommission.org/pubartcollection/pubart-press-releases/2008/11/25/posters-briana-miller-thien-pham/"><span style='color:black'>Taking comics to the streets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A memoir of <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081229/stillman?rel=hp_currently"><span style='color:black'>street art</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://thedeletions.blogspot.com/2008/12/lean-sister-becomes-high-court-judge.html"><span style='color:black'>Avant-garde performer<span class=GramE>, </span><br>
appellate judge</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/2008/12/15/DDC614NB5A.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Wayne Thiebaud</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
</span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New York</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> in the 1950s<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/6fakqz"><span style='color:black'>Picasso</span></a> the historian<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/dec/16/france-art-life-models-protest"><span style='color:black'>Life models</span></a> on strike<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/2008/12/15/arts/design/15ferr.html?_r=1"><span style='color:black'>Site-specific installation</span></a><br>
or just institutional bric-a-brac<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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>Schjeldahl</span> on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2008/12/22/081222craw_artworld_schjeldahl"><span style='color:black'>Marlene Dumas</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.sothebys.com/video/privateview/N08489/index_postsale.html"><span style='color:black'>Sotheby</span></a> looks at the contemporary art market<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Elliott Carter&#8217;s birthday <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/arts/music/16elli.html?ref=music"><span style='color:black'>weekend</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://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/12/bernstein-at-90.html"><span style='color:black'>Carter &amp; Bernstein</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 evening of opera &amp; dance<br>
that includes an advance peek<br>
<span class=GramE>at</span> <a href="http://www.operaprojects.org/events.htm"><span style='color:black'>Anna Rabinowitz&#8217;</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Wanton Sublime<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/lev-hollenberg.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Donna <span class=SpellE>Krokik</span> <span class=SpellE>Hollenberg</span></span></a><br>
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<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/lev-rodriguez.shtml"><span style='color:black'>José <span class=SpellE>Rodríguez</span> Herrera</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'>Robin Tremblay-<span class=SpellE>McGaw</span> on<br>
the <a href="http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/12/beverly-dahlen-tribute-at-small-press.html"><span style='color:black'>Beverly Dahlen</span></a> Fest<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Introducing <a href="http://bajsalchert.blogspot.com/2008/12/ever.html"><span style='color:black'>Blake Butler</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/video/2008/dec/05/linton-kwesi-johnson-poetry"><span style='color:black'>Linton <span class=SpellE>Kwesi</span> Johnson: </span></a><br>
&#8221;If I <span class=SpellE>Woz</span> a Tap <span class=SpellE>Natch</span> Poet&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Lytle Shaw:<br>
&#8221;Olson&#8217;s Archives: Fieldwork in New American Poetry<span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Shaw/Shaw-Lytle_Theorizing_KWH-UPenn_10-22-08.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'><a href="http://www.rotub.com/the-90s/"><span style='color:black'>Juliana <span class=SpellE>Spahr&#8217;</span></span></a><span class=SpellE>s</span> &#8220;The 90s&#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://acompulsivereader.blogspot.com/2008/12/lyn-hejinian-review.html"><span style='color:black'>Lyn Hejinian&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Saga / Circus<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.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/13/mourid-barghouti"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Mourid</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Barghouti</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 class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Living at <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/12/13/paris.bookshop.cnn"><span style='color:black'>Shakespeare &amp; Co</span></a>.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5c6vg9"><span style='color:black'>Quietists</span></a> plan for inaugural<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.eurweb.com/story/eur48503.cfm"><span style='color:black'>Maya&#8217;s</span></a> got laureate-<span class=SpellE>itus</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'>What about the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9342"><span style='color:black'>real </span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>laureate</span></a></i>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Could it be <a href="http://boards.history.com/topic/Most-Influential-Events/Obamas-Inauguration-Poem/520022942"><span style='color:black'>worse</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 vote for <a href="http://poefrika.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-about-obamas-inauguration-poet.html"><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'>David Lehman on the BBC (<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/files/poetry-lehman-interview.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'>A <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/prespoetry/bo.html"><span style='color:black'>do-it-yourself</span></a> strategy<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'>Or maybe <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article3330182.ece"><span style='color:black'>not</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.deepoakland.org/project?id=121"><span style='color:black'>The Oakland Small Press &amp; Zine Archive</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
a part of Deep Oakland,<br>
has <span class=SpellE>PDFs</span> of many works associated<br>
with that city, <br>
including books by Pat Parker &amp; Bob Grenier,<br>
the journal <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Work &amp; </i>my own zine <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Tottel&#8217;s</i></span><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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/pixel_vision/2008/12/wow_kevin_killian_on_tab_arthu.html"><span style='color:black'>Kevin Killian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>John <span class=SpellE>Ashbery&#8217;s</span> account<br>
of the making of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/article/show/287"><span style='color:black'>A Nest of Ninnies</span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/ashbery-and-prizes/"><span style='color:black'>Ashbery vs. Kessler</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>NY Times </i>blog is keeping score<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Svetlana <span class=SpellE>Boym</span>:<br>
&#8221;Victor <span class=SpellE>Shklovsky</span> &amp; Hannah <span class=SpellE>Arendt</span><span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu:8080/ramgen/writershouse/theorizing/boym/Svetlana_Boym_1-10-06#.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://reneemarie.vox.com/library/post/two-true-accounts-two-poems-by-frank-ohara-alice-notley.html?_c=feed-atom"><span style='color:black'>Two &#8220;True Accounts&#8221;</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://renewablemusic.blogspot.com/2008/12/five-from-good-book-year.html"><span style='color:black'>Five books</span></a> from a &#8220;good book year&#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://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2008/12/years-reads-selected-notable.html"><span style='color:black'>Mark Scroggins&#8217;</span></a> &#8220;Notable Books&#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;Best reads of <a href="http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2008/11/best-reads-of-2008.html"><span style='color:black'>2008</span></a>&#8221; <br>
(from </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Kuala Lumpur</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, mostly US &amp; </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>UK</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> authors)<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://samizdatblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/reading-2008.html"><span style='color:black'>Robert <span class=SpellE>Archambeau&#8217;s</span></span></a> list of everything he read<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'>Anthologies make &#8220;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/13/best-poetry-books"><span style='color:black'>the perfect present</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Seven of the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>NY Times&#8217; </i><br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/10Best-t.html?_r=1"><span style='color:black'>Ten Best Books of 2008</span></a>&#8221;<br>
were published by <span class=GramE>Knopf</span><br>
(<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>hint: less subtle than Blagojevich</i>!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>No poetry, but several books<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/best-books-of-2008/index.html"><span style='color:black'>about authors</span></a></i><br>
in the </span><st1:State><st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Washington</span></i></st1:place></st1:State><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Post&#8217;s<br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8221;Best Books of 2008&#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'>No poetry in <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5vct2x"><span style='color:black'>the <span class=SpellE>Inky&#8217;s</span></span></a> list<br>
of what <span class=GramE>staff have</span> been reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://notellpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/poetry-holiday-guide-scott-abels.html"><span style='color:black'>Scott <span class=SpellE>Abels</span>&#8217;</span></a> gift guide<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'>Best books for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/11/nelson-mandela-jane-austen-reading"><span style='color:black'>luring women</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'> <st1:City><st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Valparaiso</span></i></st1:place></st1:City><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Poetry Review&#8217;s <br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Poet of the Year is<br>
<a href="http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/12/poet-of-year-mark-doty.html"><span style='color:black'>Mark Doty</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://tinyurl.com/6n2a24"><span style='color:black'>Jack Powers</span></a> <span class=GramE>is</span><br>
New England Poet of the Year<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;What we need is <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n24/soar01_.html"><span style='color:black'>a list of lists</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://donshare.blogspot.com/2008/12/hybrid-poetry-redux.html"><span style='color:black'>High-<span class=SpellE>brids</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'>&#8220;<a href="http://eyeshot.net/bolanobeach.html"><span style='color:black'>Beach</span></a>&#8221;<br>
<span class=GramE>by</span> Roberto Bolaño <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.powells.com/interviews/natashawimmer.html?utm_source=powellsbooks.news&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pbnews_20081210&amp;utm_content=NATASHA%20WIMMER"><span style='color:black'>Natasha <span class=SpellE>Wimmer</span></span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
translator of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>2666 </i>&amp; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Savage <span class=SpellE>Dectectives</span><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'>Ron Slate on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://ronslate.com.s6980.gridserver.com/romantic_dogs_poems_roberto_bola_o_translated_laura_healy_new_directions"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>The</span></span><span style='color:black'> Romantic Dogs</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.brooklynrail.org/2008/12/books/poetry-roundup_dec_jan_09"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Martory</span></span><span style='color:black'>, Bolaño, <span class=SpellE>Lux</span><span class=GramE>, </span><br>
<span class=SpellE>Voisine</span> &amp; Holman</span></a><br>
in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Brooklyn Rail </i>poetry 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;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103456.html"><span style='color:black'>Carol Houck Smith<span class=GramE>,</span></span></a><br>
Norton&#8217;s editor of poets,<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'>After reading <a href="http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/73434-Review-My-Vocabulary-Did-This-to-Me-The-Collecte/"><span style='color:black'>Jack Spicer</span></a><br>
&#8221;you may feel that much American poetry is <span class=GramE>fake</span>&#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'>40 years of correspondence<br>
betwixt <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/12/RV9814CUBS.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Allen Ginsberg &amp; Gary Snyder</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20081211_A_man_of_morals.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Breyten</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Breytenbach</span></span></a> at Kelly Writers House<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3690879/John-Milton-was-a-poet-and-a-freedom-fighter.html"><span style='color:black'>John Milton</span></a>, freedom fighter<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Four readings by <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Dreyer.html"><span style='color:black'>Lynne Dreyer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Among the events coming up at the <a href="http://www.poetryproject.com/calendar.php"><span style='color:black'>Poetry Project</span></a><br>
is a 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary reading of<br>
Bernadette Mayer&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Midwinter Day</i><br>
plus, of course<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the New Year&#8217;s marathon<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://lime-tree.blogspot.com/2008/12/poetic-relevance.html"><span style='color:black'>K. <span class=SpellE>Silem</span> Mohammad</span></a> gets relevant <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 short history of <a href="http://leaveyouwantingless.typepad.com/sotd/2008/12/sotd-129.html"><span style='color:black'>flarf</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://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/flarf_vs_conceptual_writing_2.html"><span style='color:black'>Flarf vs. conceptualism</span></a>, round 2<br>
(in which we notice <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>why </i><br>
all the Conceptualists are male)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 Commitment<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com/2008/12/mark-wallace-never-commits-himself-you.html"><span style='color:black'>Joe <span class=SpellE>Safdie</span></span></a> &amp; <a href="http://wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com/2008/12/mark-wallace-never-commits-himself-part.html"><span style='color:black'>Mark Wallace</span></a> correspond<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://donshare.blogspot.com/2008/12/nevermind-its-interview.html"><span style='color:black'>Don Share</span></a> on the interview process<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'>More answers to <a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/twenty-questions.html"><span style='color:black'>H.L. <span class=SpellE>Hix</span>&#8217; 20 questions</span></a>:<br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/cecilia-wolochs-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>Cecilia <span class=SpellE>Woloch</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/christine-gelineaus-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>Christine <span class=SpellE>Gelineau</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/dan-beachyquicks-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>Dan <span class=SpellE>Beachy</span>-Quick</span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/george-witts-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>George Witte</span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/philip-metres-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>Philip <span class=SpellE>Metres</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/sarah-maclays-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>Sara <span class=SpellE>Maclay</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/ann-fisherwirths-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>Ann Fisher-Wirth</span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/gregory-dowlings-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>Gregory Dowling</span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/stacey-harwoods-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>Stacey Harwood</span></a><br>
<a href="http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/12/ron-sillimans-answers.html"><span style='color:black'>me</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Miles Champion reading at Jean Day&#8217;s house (<a href="http://andrewkenower.typepad.com/a_voice_box/files/house-readings/miles-champion/miles-champion.mp3"><span style='color:black'>MP3</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The problem of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/12/russia"><span style='color:black'>Solzhenitsyn Street</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://richardhowe.com/2008/12/11/jim-morrison-in-lowell/"><span style='color:black'>When Jim Morrison showed up<br>
at Jack Kerouac&#8217;s door</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Protesters sing<br>
to counter <a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2008/12/12/protest-as-poet-carries-out-his-senedd-reading-91466-22463248/"><span style='color:black'>&#8220;blasphemous&#8221; poetry reading</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.examiner.com/x-907-NY-City-Life-Examiner~y2008m12d11-Bob-Dylan-and-Thomas-Hardy"><span style='color:black'>Bob Dylan &amp; Thomas Hardy</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
A simple twist of fate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/2008/12/poetry/from-de-la-bronx"><span style='color:black'>Greg Fuchs&#8217;</span></a><br>
&#8221;from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>De la Bronx</i>&#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 art of the <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/publishing/the_tricky_art_of_the_selfdestructing_poem_102940.asp"><span style='color:black'>self-destructing poem</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com/2008/12/mark-wallace-never-commits-himself-part_13.html"><span style='color:black'>Joe <span class=SpellE>Safdie</span></span></a> replies to Mark Wallace<br>
on <span class=GramE>commitment</span><br>
(Note <a href="http://wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com/2008/12/mark-wallace-never-commits-himself-part_13.html?showComment=1229213160000#c5250804427436188605"><span style='color:black'>K. Lorraine Graham&#8217;s</span></a> comment)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.pbs.org/soulsearching/"><span style='color:black'>Thomas Merton</span></a> on PBS<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://thescotsman.scotsman.com/entertainment/Lost-and-found--.4790359.jp"><span style='color:black'>Robbie Burns&#8217;</span></a> hidden poems<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A first book prize for <a href="http://ncpoetlaureate.blogspot.com/2008/12/souvenirs-of-shrunken-world-by-holly_10.html"><span style='color:black'>Holly <span class=SpellE>Iglesias</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'>Using its <a href="http://gloucesterpoetlaureate.org/"><span style='color:black'>laureate site</span></a><br>
to promote<br>
the <a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/rockport/fun/entertainment/arts/x776484278/John-Ronan-Gloucester-Poetry-on-the-World-WW-Stage"><span style='color:black'>literary history of Gloucester</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>When <a href="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/when-languages-die/"><span style='color:black'>languages die</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New trends in <a href="http://tinyurl.com/58k2kw"><span style='color:black'>classic Chinese poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/10/leaders-indian-poetry-review?showallcomments=true"><span style='color:black'>Reviewing a review</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://toddswift.blogspot.com/2008/12/ghosts-in-some-machines.html"><span style='color:black'>Todd Swift&#8217;s</span></a> <span class=SpellE>minireviews</span> of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry Review, <span class=SpellE>Paxamericana</span>, <span class=GramE>The</span> Wolf<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=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>An act of prescience on the part of <br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/opinion/15trillin.html"><span style='color:black'>Calvin <span class=SpellE>Trillin</span></span></a>?</span></span><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.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/danville_news/article/virginias_poet_laureate_returns_to_chatham_roots/7937/"><span style='color:black'>Claudia Emerson</span></a> returns to </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chatham</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'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Guardian </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>review of the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/13/bishop-lowell-poetry-review"><span style='color:black'>Lowell-Bishop</span></a> letters<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.thenation.com/doc/20081229/massey"><span style='color:black'>Poem Including History</span></a><span class=GramE>&#8221;</span><br>
(sub required)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>And <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6amyeq"><span style='color:black'>then</span></a> I <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6mk9f7"><span style='color:black'>read</span></a> . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://pshares.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-voices-reginald-dwayne-betts.html"><span style='color:black'>Reginald Dwayne Betts</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://cronacasouversivafeneon.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>David <span class=SpellE>Baptiste</span> <span class=SpellE>Chirot</span> on <span class=SpellE>Félix</span> <span class=SpellE>Fénéon</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 new work by<br>
<a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/12/poetry/from-clock-deck-and-movement"><span style='color:black'>Rodrigo <span class=SpellE>Toscano</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1641"><span style='color:black'>Carole <span class=SpellE>Maso</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://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/12/ztree-benefit.html"><span style='color:black'>Cutting down trees</span></a><br>
just to publish a magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/2008/12/14/books/review/Coates-t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bua2"><span style='color:black'>Martial</span></a> was no saint<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/ae/books/articles/2008/12/14/natural_wonder/"><span style='color:black'>Linda <span class=SpellE>Bierds</span>, Susan Steward, Brendan Galvin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://buffalonews.typepad.com/artsbeat/2008/12/on-paul-t-hogan.html"><span style='color:black'>Paul T. Hogan&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Points of Departure<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'>Just like <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/books/11masl.html"><span style='color:black'>Romeo &amp; Juliet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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-et-muske-dukes12-2008dec12,0,560067.story"><span style='color:black'>Carol <span class=SpellE>Muske</span>-Dukes</span></a> on being<br>
the </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>California</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2008/12/dmitry-golynkos-as-it-turns-out.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Dmitry</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Golynko&#8217;s</span></span></span></a><span class=GramE> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>As</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> It Turns Out<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=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The &#8220;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14wwln-Wallace-t.html"><span style='color:black'>most intellectually ambitious writer</span></a>&#8221;?</span></span><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'>When does the <a href="http://elsa.photo.net/alan_peter.jpg"><span style='color:black'>writer&#8217;s nakedness</span></a> just become <a href="http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/strictly-personal/"><span style='color:black'>TMI</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://the-exa.livejournal.com/34774.html"><span style='color:black'>Who is [the Po&#8217;] It?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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 collection of <a href="http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7848/"><span style='color:black'>political poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/entertainment/1211poet.html"><span style='color:black'>Moira Egan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Stumping for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/dec/08/poem-week-trivia-gay"><span style='color:black'>John Gay</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/2008/12/14/books/review/Bailey-t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bua2"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>Hopkins</span></span></a><span class=GramE> &amp; the modern?</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'>Trying to save <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20081211_Carnegie_four_could_be_labeled__quot_historic__quot_.html"><span style='color:black'>Philly&#8217;s libraries</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.philly.com/inquirer/currents/36121384.html"><span style='color:black'>Alternatives</span></a> to <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/36121339.html"><span style='color:black'>closing</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'>But in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New Jersey</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20081214_Library_outlook__S_Jersey_edition__Growth_industry.html"><span style='color:black'>libraries are growing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24781817-5001986,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Dorothy Porter</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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.cordite.org.au/features/vale-dorothy-porter"><span style='color:black'>Porter</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/68z4pz"><span style='color:black'>Working out issues</span></a> through 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'>Reviewing <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.theweekender.com/stage/Four_stars_for_N_J__12-09-2008.html"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>The</span></span><span style='color:black'> Paterson Literary Review</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'>Dennis <span class=SpellE>O&#8217;Driscoll&#8217;s</span> interviews with <a href="http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12758352"><span style='color:black'>Seamus Heaney</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/booksblog/2008/dec/10/snow-poetry"><span style='color:black'>Perfect weather for 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'>Mama, don&#8217;t let your kids go into <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20081211_Beyond_the_Spin__Rethinking_journalism_spiel.html"><span style='color:black'>journalism</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.ft.com/cms/s/0/f9d8af36-c6ec-11dd-97a5-000077b07658.html"><span style='color:black'>Who cares</span></a> if newspapers die?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>My favorite <a href="http://www.news-daily.com/main.asp?SectionID=53&amp;SubSectionID=&amp;ArticleID=25938"><span style='color:black'>crime reporter</span></a> signs <a href="http://danielsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/press-got-all-facts-more-or-less-it-got.html"><span style='color:black'>off</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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