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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/02/13/poet_editor_rafael_milln_fought_in_spanish_civil_war/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rafael Millán</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238634"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why live without writing</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/01/not-why-poetry-but-why-language-dinner.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Not <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Why poetry?<br> </i>but <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Why language?</i></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bigother.com/2010/02/13/innovation-in-art/#comment-5240"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What is innovation in art</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jean Daive,<br> walking with <a href="http://splashbanggiantsquid.com/gh12content/9.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Celan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.constantcritic.com/ray_mcdaniel/a-mouth-in-california/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Graham Foust&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A Mouth in California<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Steve Fama on Mairéad Byrne&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2010/02/color-of-stone.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>State House Calendar</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://dusie.org/issuenine.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>All 49 Dusie 9 PDF chapbooks</span></a>!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://sustainableaircraft.com/?p=446"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Nicoloff</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://peepshowpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kimberly Lyons</span></a> extravaganza<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In which <a href="http://www.essayprize.org/nominees.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Grand Piano Collective</span></a><br> competes with <br> Werner Herzog, Marilynne Robinson &amp; the Yes Men<br> (among others),<br> &amp; the prize goes to <a href="http://www.essayprize.org/winners_ruefle_snow.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mary Ruefle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.essayprize.org/greatest.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The 10 Greatest Essays, Ever</span></a><br> (23 lists thereof)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=238586"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Hass</span></a>:<br> &#8220;September Notebook&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dana Ward on<br> <a href="http://sustainableaircraft.com/?p=424"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bruce Boone&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Century of Clouds<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The &#8220;<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/02/07/perhaps_the_greatest_generation/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>greatest generation</span></a>&#8221; of poets??<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/tardos10.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anne Tardos</span></a>: &#8220;Nine&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://peachbats.blogspot.com/2010/01/annotated-torso-of-interview.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Shapiro</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.openned.com/blog/2010/2/14/university-of-greenwich-womens-innovative-poetry-cross-genre.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Women&#8217;s Innovative Poetry:</span></a><br> a huge London conference<br> coming up in July<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Billy Collins on<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.wbur.org/npr/123439516"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Trout Fishing in America</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Does a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/09/homeless-literature"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>literature of the homeless</span></a> exist?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-education-of-a-britishprotected-child-by-chinua-achebe-1888512.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Achebe</span></a>: &#8220;Africa is people&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Not scholarly,<br> but filled with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/13/chinua-achebe-british-protected-child"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>wisdom &amp; passion</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Flying from Australia to SF<br> <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/where-the-beat-goes-on-20100204-nfob.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>just to visit Specs</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/02/08/jd_salinger_and_the_women/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Salinger &amp; women</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://splashbanggiantsquid.com/gh12content/10.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Kelly</span></a>:<br> &#8220;A Simple Room&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-thomas-lynch14-2010feb14,0,5633916.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thomas Lynch&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Apparitions<br> &amp; Late Fictions<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/15/charlie-brooker-ebook-convert"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why I&#8217;m an e-book convert</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Update on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/08/amazon-macmillan-buy-butt_n_453698.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the e-book war</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/us-book-publishers-smiling-again-as-kindle-rivals-emerge-1893213.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kindle rivals</span></a> please publishers<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/anne-rice-vook-partnershi_n_456628.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anne Rice</span></a> partners with Vook<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/newmediaproject.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Poetry in New Media</span></a>:<br> A User&#8217;s Guide<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.constantcritic.com/vanessa_place/lorazepam-and-the-valley-of-skin-extrapolations-on-los-angeles/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vanessa Place &amp; 750910-2155</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Lorazepam and the Valley of Skin:<br> Extrapolations on Los Angeles<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Diabetes (&amp; US healthcare)<br> renders <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/nyregion/13poet.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>a poet homeless</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>SF gentrification<br> could kill <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704041504575046230742420738.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marcus Books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2 conferences to celebrate<br> <a href="http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=96333&amp;Itemid=2"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Faiz Ahmed Faiz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/02/a-universal-google-translator-will-have-many-linguistic-rivers-to-cross.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A universal translator</span></a><br> still has many <br> linguistic rivers to cross<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=3094"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Translation problems</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In praise of <a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-praise-of-blurbs.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>blurbs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/379987448/the-dull-new-global-novel"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The dull new global novel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sunday, February 21<br> in Portland, OR, <br> <a href="http://peachbats.blogspot.com/2010/02/bill-berkson-22110.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bill Berkson</span></a> is reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Erik Anderson on<br> <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/25279761/Anderson"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beverly Dahlen&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A Reading 18 &#8211; 20<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.theweekender.com/books/_lsquo_Illuminating_rsquo__poetry_12-29-2009.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Revell&#8217;s Rimbaud</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://sustainableaircraft.com/?p=561"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Scharf</span></a>:<br> &#8220;The Res Poetica&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Not </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Olympics:<br> <a href="http://www.galianoislandbooks.com/about-galiano-island-books/calendar-of-events.cfm#Galiano-Island-Literary-Festival"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Galiano Island Literary Festival</span></a>,<br> British Columbia, starting Feb. 19<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Versions of <a href="http://canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=15016"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vancouver</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering <a href="http://vispo.com/millie/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Millie Niss</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Meet <a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/7/33_07_gk_new_poet_laureate_profile.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tina Chang</span></a> &#8211; Brooklyn&#8217;s new laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2010/02/08/brooklyn/courier-yn_brooklyn_front_page-bkpoethsk.txt"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Weaving poetry</span></a> into the life of Brooklyn<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2010/0209/Imagination-in-Place"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wendell Berry&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Imagination in Place<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.fairiesinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/instructions4sexwtrees.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CA Conrad&#8217;s</span></a><br> &#8220;Instructions for Sex with Trees&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://foxchasereview.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/the-city-real-imagined-by-caconrad-frank-sherlock/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CA Conrad &amp; Frank Sherlock</span></a><br> real &amp; imagined<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://caconradevents.blogspot.com/2010/02/temple-event-rescheduled-for-218.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The CA Conrad / Vladimir Zykov reading</span></a><br> (which got snowed out)<br> has been rescheduled for<br> Thursday, Feb. 18<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Take the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.a2pwebdesign.com/poetrynoir/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry Noir</span></a> </i>challenge!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reviving <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/02/a-book-find-from-roger-ebert.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Harry Stephen Keeler</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/feb/13/valentines-love-poetry-hot-blood"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Love poems</span></a><br> register in the blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>On <a href="http://poemsoutloud.net/columns/archive/on_love_poems_and_other_one-horned_beasts/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>love poems</span></a><br> &amp; other one-horned beasts<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/12/referenceandlanguages"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>linguistic<br> peacock-tail</span></a> of love<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/08/theory-mimetic-desire"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mimetic desire</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://friendswritebooks.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/iowa-by-travis-nichols/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Travis Nichols&#8217;</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Iowa<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://splashbanggiantsquid.com/gh12content/7.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Pines</span></a> on<br> the death of posterity<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.themontserratreview.com/bookreviews/theCall.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Call</span></a>:<br> An Anthology of Women&#8217;s Writing<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/02/art-fight.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Art is competition</span></a> for the real<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The inadvertent poetics of<br> <a href="http://bit.ly/9zRdoe"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Google Voice</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://htmlgiant.com/uncategorized/david-foster-wallace-and-imagining-moral-fiction/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Foster Wallace</span></a><br> imagining moral fiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/100210/inside-somalia-where-poetry-revered"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Somalia</span></a>:<br> where poetry is revered<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/books/11faulkner.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yoknapatawpha diary</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Insight into <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/12/plantation-diary-inspiration-faulkner-novels"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Faulkner&#8217;s</span></a> ground<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=3062"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Baldwin on J.D. Salinger</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/books/12salinger.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>11 Salinger letters</span></a> surface<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2010/02/noted-indian-english-poet.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A noted Indian English poet</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.constantcritic.com/jordan_davis/with-deer/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Aase Berg&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>With Deer<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.1/teicher.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bin Ramke&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Theory of Mind<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/books/09google.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Publishing giants</span></a><br> win a round<br> re pricing via Google<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A new message from<br> <a href="http://torforge.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/new-message-from-macmillan-ceo-john-sargent/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Sargent</span></a> of Macmillan<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/10/BUNS1BUU46.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Nook</span></a> finally ships<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.constantcritic.com/karla_kelsey/aim-straight-at-the-fountain-and-press-vaporize/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Elizabeth Marie Young&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Aim Straight at the Fountain<br> and Press Vaporize<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.granarybooks.com/pages.php?which_page=creeley_library_d-l"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Creeley&#8217;s</span></a> <br> library for sale<br> (D-L)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://agnesevasavich.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/beat-poet-gary-snyder-writes-a-mac-poem/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gary Snyder</span></a><br> writes a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/technology/personaltech/22sfbriefs.html?scp=1&amp;sq=beat%20poet&amp;st=cse"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>MacPoem</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/14/RVOT1BTA0O.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don DeLillo</span></a><br> &amp; the curse of self-parody<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lots of recordings available<br> from this year&#8217;s <br> <a href="http://www.kwls.org/lit/kwls_blog/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Key West Literary Seminar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.constantcritic.com/christina_mengert/missing-her/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Claudia Keelan&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Missing Her<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/love-poems-by-carol-ann-duffy-1892137.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carol Ann Duffy&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Love Poems<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/kirkus-gets-a-new-owner-from-the-nba/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Indiana Pacers&#8217;</span></a> owner<br> rescues <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/02/kirkus-reviews-has-a-new-owner.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kirkus</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/08/great-station-bookswap"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Station Bookswap</span></a><br> (we have one<br> at the Paoli SEPTA/Amtrak stop)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2010/02/dennis-maloney-just-enough.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dennis Maloney&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Just Enough<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Guardian </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'>celebrates<br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/08/poem-of-the-week-john-dofflemyer"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>cowboy poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=238622"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eleanor Wilner</span></a>:<br> &#8220;Encounter in the Local Pub&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering <a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2010/02/dave-christy-small-press-giant.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dave Christy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0210.php#16"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Antin</span></a> talks in Philly,<br> Tuesday, February 16:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Rethinking Freud &#8211; Taking Freud<br> Out of Psychoanalysis<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238636"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Zucker, Joan Houlihan &amp; Brenda Hillman</span></a><br> viewed from afar<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.constantcritic.com/vanessa_place/credit/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mathew Timmons&#8217;</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Credit<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How many &#8220;<a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/2/9/leaving-great-books-unfinished/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>great books&#8221;<br> go unfinished</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fuck yeah <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://fuckyeahnyrb.tumblr.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>NYRB </span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;font-style:normal'>Classics</span></a></i>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://beyondthewordsconference.wordpress.com/aboutconf/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beyond the Words</span></a>:<br> a linguistics conference in Leipzig<br> in May<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://detnews.com/article/20100211/LIFESTYLE/2110324/Detroit-poet-M-L--Liebler-wins-national-award-for-helping-other-writers"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>M.L. Liebler,</span></a><br> promoting Detroit&#8217;s literary scene<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=15030"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kevin Sampsell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Applying a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/books/10mason.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>calculus of writing</span></a><br> to a classic<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://barrettwatten.net/texts/link-06-displaced-agency-in-social-space/2010/01/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Displaced agency in social space</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-in-and-by-sand-kaia-sands.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The poetry of place</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/563"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poem on the Range</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alfred Corn on<br> <a href="http://topicsevent.blogspot.com/2010/02/borges-citizen-of-buenos-aires.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Borges&#8217; Buenos Aires</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.themontserratreview.com/bookreviews/juda%27sLion.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anne Caston&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Judah&#8217;s Lion<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://thewip.net/contributors/2010/02/if_there_is_something_to_desir.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vera Pavlova</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remixing the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Mansbach-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Odyssey</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/medicine-in-translation/201002/poetry-in-medicine"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry in medicine</span></a><br> (&amp; vice versa)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/outloud/100222_outloud_packer.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How Twitter changes writing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; how &#8220;<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/02/08/jenny-diski/a-moment-of-uplift/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>creative writing</span></a>&#8221; does likewise<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The problem of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/10/some-conclusions-about-endings"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>endings</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/indias-book-restorers-saving-the-past-for-the-future-1892083.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Restoring books</span></a> in Mumbai<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.constantcritic.com/karla_kelsey/lost-alphabet/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lisa Olstein&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Lost Alphabet<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://eleventhstack.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/hermann-hesse-the-fairytales/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.theoffendingadam.com/2010/02/15/i-am-the-ventriloquist-dummy-sound-scape-north-on-rue-bernardins/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bob Hicock</span></a>:<br> &#8220;i am the ventriloquist, dummy&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>9 poems by <a href="http://www.fairiesinamerica.com/bardic-sepulchral/9-poems-by-steven-manuel/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Steven Manuel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20100209_Selling_books_with_fake_author_signatures_nets_him_33_months.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Phony author signatures</span></a> =<br> $120K in fines &amp;<br> 33 months in jail<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sampling &amp; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/europe/12germany.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Axolotl Roadkill</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Agee-t.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Peter Handke&#8217;s</span></a><br> cerebral <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Don Juan<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thepoetspeak.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>PoetSpeak</span></a>,<br> a DIY audio poetry site<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/deresiewicz"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tolstoy</span></a>: the renunciation artist<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.loa.org/storyoftheweek/2010/02/tolstoi-holds-lincoln-worlds-greatest.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tolstoy</span></a> on Lincoln<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/books/12book.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>TC Boyle&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;rollicking&#8221; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wild Child<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020903195.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Boyle, Jim Harrison &amp; Amy Bloom</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://imaginedaudience.blogspot.com/2010/02/very-special-episode-best-poetry-books_13.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Best books of the 21<sup>st</sup> century</span></a><br> (mostly Quietist perspectives)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;</span></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/features/snapshot-wayne-miller"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wayne Miller</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/business/media/11thomas.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brooks Thomas</span></a>,<br> who fought against &#8220;fair use&#8221; &amp; won,<br> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.splitthisrock.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Split This Rock</span></a><br> poetry festival,<br> Washington, DC<br> March 10-13<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://phatitude.org/online/phatitude-online/phatprofile/finding-the-real-papo/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Papo</span></a><br> (Jesús Papoleto Meléndez)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A capsule version of<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/11/anthonyburgess-fiction"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A Clockwork Orange</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literature&#8217;s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/10/literature-mind-blowing-drugs"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>best drugs</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2010/02/undercover-of-night-issas-sunday.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Burroughs</span></a> &amp; the Rolling Stones<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-krotz/emthe-dick-gibson-showem_b_454425.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stanley Elkin</span></a><br> predicted Rush Limbaugh<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In New<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>York, February 24,<br> a tribute to <a href="http://www.salmagundi.org/events/2010/2010-0224-Blecher.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Max Blecher</span></a> (1909-1938)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Listening to <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/image/20100210_The_sensual_literary_salon.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>erotica</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://theeroticsalon.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>The erotic salon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-pregnant-widow-by-martin-amis-1888531.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Martin Amis&#8217;</span></a><br> boring sexual revolution<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/02/manhood.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Book jacket</span></a> of the year, already?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9781861895424"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>uncensored version</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/banned-in-texas-prisons-books-and-magazines-that-203986.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Books banned</span></a> by the Texas prisons<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Iran blocks <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/15/goodreads-block-iran-censorship"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>GoodReads</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Watching <a href="http://http/jonathan-morse.blogspot.com/2010/02/sous-rature-illustration-becomes.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>anti-censorship</span></a><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124886/"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>chase</span></a> its own <br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/124896/"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>tail</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arabic12-2010feb12,0,3442233.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Use a flash card</span></a>,<br> go to jail<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Censorship &amp;<br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-shaw/famous-merton-book-must-b_b_424440.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thomas Merton&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Seven Storey Mountain<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What to do with the N-word<br> in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-courtney/museum-struggles-with-tha_b_456734.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Huck Finn</span></a></i>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/forgotten-authors-no-47-nevil-shute--eric-ambler-1888514.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nevile Shute &amp; Eric Amber</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The deadline for submissions to<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/02/steampunk-submissions.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Steampunk Reloaded</span></a></i><br> has passed<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://gazette.jhu.edu/2010/02/08/renowned-poet-paul-muldoon-to-give-turnbull-memorial-lecture/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Muldoon</span></a> to give Turnbull lecture<br> at Johns Hopkins<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dwayne-raymond/food-friendship-and-writi_b_454089.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Norman Mailer</span></a> &amp; food<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Six digit print runs<br> for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/books/09twilight.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>new graphic novels</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A photograph of <a href="http://theoffendingadam.com/2010/02/10/photograph-poet-on-dust-jacket-richmond-virginia-1996/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Larry Leavis</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://vimeo.com/8712306"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Nico Vassilakis</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>towardS<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The New York Times&#8217;<br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-nifty-50/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nifty 50</span></a>&#8221;<br> up-&amp;-comers<br> mostly in the arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.uscannenberg.org/neontommy/2010/02/yosi-sergant-and-the-art-of-ri.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yosi Sergant</span></a><br> &amp; the art of<br> right-wing hysteria<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blog.fonts.com/archives/441"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Avatar&#8217;s</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/a-better-future-or-typeface-for-the-navi/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>font</span></a><br> has its <a href="http://prttyshttydesign.blogspot.com/2010/01/open-letter-to-james-cameron-from.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>critics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/01/being-critic-is-little-like-cleaning.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Donna Haraway</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Avatar<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Interview-Natalie-Merchant"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Natalie Merchant</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.msstate.edu/web/media/detail.php?id=4802"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eliot &amp; music</span></a><br> in Starkville, Mississippi<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The return of <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123416343"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gil Scott-Heron</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16924993"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Forefather of rap</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/theater/13shepard.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sam Shepard</span></a>:<br> aiming to be less &#8220;clunky&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942112.html?categoryid=33&amp;cs=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vonnegut</span></a> as theater in Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5KfHEoZDKI&amp;feature=player_embedded"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wes Anderson&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Spiderman </i>reboot<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://2010.ifistanbul.com/en/Pages/KendinGor"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Istanbul Film Festival</span></a><br> offers several films free on-line<br> with English subtitle<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014592.html?categoryid=15&amp;cs=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>American Psycho</span></a>,<br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the musical<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lglttUQGE4&amp;feature=related"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ruslan &amp; Ludmilla</span></a>,<br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>based on the poem by Pushkin,<br> with English subtitles<br> (in multiple parts on YouTube)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://listart.mit.edu/node/550"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cross-dressing</span></a><br> &amp; the new media avant-garde<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100209/en_ynews/ynews_en1121"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chuck Close</span></a><br> joins Obama arts&#8217; advisors<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A gallery of photographs by<br> <a href="http://sustainableaircraft.com/?p=460"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Linh Dinh</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In Rome,<br> contemporary art in <a href="http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/in-rome-contemporary-art-times-five/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>an old brewery</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://en.macro.roma.museum/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>MACRO</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/at-tate-modern-gorkys-power-and-poetry/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gorky</span></a> comes to the Tate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A painting by <a href="http://thebeatmuseum.org/gregory-corso-watercolor/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gregory Corso</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/9656/robert-smithson-learning-new-jersey-and-elsewhere"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Smithson</span></a>:<br> Learning from New Jersey<br> &amp; Elsewhere<br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Homage to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/13/jg-ballard-exhibition-iain-sinclair"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>JG Ballard</span></a><br> at the <a href="http://i1.exhibit-e.com/gagosian/0b2b9271.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>London Gagosian</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=123416343&amp;m=123414057"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Using math</span></a><br> to detect art fakes<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The fate of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/15/haiti-earthquake-art-destroyed"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the art work<br> of Haiti</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A symposium on<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://bit.ly/d9N8Ql"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Art of the Steal</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Up for auction:<br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/arts/design/11polaroid.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Polaroid collection</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/archive-12/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Instant, but timeless</span></a>&#8221; &#8211;<br> a slide show<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://icehousedetroit.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ice House</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.detroitfunk.com/?p=4159"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; critique</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/fashion/12mcqueen.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alexander McQueen</span></a> is dead<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/fashion/12iht-mcqueen.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The dark star</span></a> of internation fashion<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thenines.latimesmagazine.com/2010/02/rip-alexander-mcqueen.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering</span></a> <a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/remembering-alexander-mcqueen/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alexander McQueen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/02/11/style/1247466988461/remembering-alexander-mcqueen.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>NY Times</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>video<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20100213_ALEXANDER_McQUEEN_1969-2010.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>McQueen</span></a> meant<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/arts/music/14beck.html?pagewanted=all"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jeff Beck</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edmund White on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/13/just-kids-patti-smith-biography"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Patti Smith</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Islamic women<br> who love <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/14/why-muslim-women-like-hard-rock"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>rock &amp; roll</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Finding god in a <a href="http://www.catholic-sf.org/news_select.php?newsid=&amp;id=56854"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>rock guitar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/alterman"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zinn-ophobia</span></a> at NPR<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/02/13/french_intellectuals_a_bad_case_of_botulism/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bernard Henri-Lévy&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;botulism&#8221; problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/14/arthur-kostler-biography-scammell-extract"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Arthur Koestler</span></a><br> (with a revealing aside<br> re Walter Benjamin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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