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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-themecolor: text1'>Tom Mandel, Carla Harryman, Rae Armantrout<br> </span></i><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4534708400_79f7103bc9_o.jpg"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none'><img border="0" height="386" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/3o7izDJMc2QrgiPU7CE7TR61jrr_Cm23WARUXzYqK4ozY9L5bi50iWW2mo5m_nib9V2L5O0luaca--eRZrVAkPX4fxcE2_53WC25j06HlsUaWtM%3Ds0-d" width="624"></span></a><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.chantdelasirene.com/2010/04/no-sale-night-of-hybrid-music-art-image.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Carla Harryman, Steve Benson</span></a><br> &amp; the Jon Raskin Quartet<br> @ the Poetry Project<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://douglaslowell.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/powells-poetry-pain-index/"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Powell&#8217;s Poetry Pain Index</span></a></span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/04/conversation-pultizer-prize-winner-in-poetry-rae-armantrout.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rae Armantrout</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'>Close reading <a href="http://stacieleatherman.com/Stacie_Leatherman/Blog/Entries/2010/4/18_Close_Reading_Armantrout.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Armantrout</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://amyking.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/with-no-slither/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rae Armantrout</span></a> sans slither<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://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2010/04/19_pulitzerprize.asp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Finally, they get it</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'><a href="http://www.backlistbookoftheday.com/backlist_book_of_the_day/2010/04/rae-armantrout-2010-pulitzer-prize-winner-for-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Armantrout&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;backlist&#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'>In Oakland, May 7,<br> <a href="http://studioonereadingseries.blogspot.com/2010/04/first-friday-at-studio-one-with-lynn-xu.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lynn Xu, Rae Armantrout</span></a><br> &amp; music from Wee Giant<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://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2010/04/pulitzer-surprises-small-presses-and-language-writing.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Armantrout&#8217;s Pulitzer, Bernstein with FSG</span></a> &#8211;<br> what&#8217;s going on?<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.fsgpoetry.com/fsg/2010/04/in-the-company-of-charles-bernstein.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Bernstein</span></a> on the company of poetry<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'>Bernstein&#8217;s &#8220;Dodgems&#8221;<br> <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwJAMH8-obQ"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>read by his mother &amp; his son</span></a><br> </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(RS, Pierre Joris, Frank Sherlock standing around)</span></i><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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'>More photos from <a href="http://nicolepeyrafitte.com/blog/2010/04/17/cbpbb/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bernstein&#8217;s 60th</span></a><br> by Nicole Peyrafitte<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'>Was the vote rigged in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018440140"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Millions Poet</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://influencysalon.ca/titles/jacqueline-larson-sina-queyras%E2%80%99s-expressway"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jacquiline Larson on Sina Queyras&#8217;</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Expressway<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://influencysalon.ca/titles/sina-queyras-m-nourbese-philip%E2%80%99s-zong"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sina Queyras on M. NourbeSe Philip&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Zong!<br> </i>(reg. req.)<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://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stevens-Wallace.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wallace Stevens</span></a> reading<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://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/books/19book.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Letters of Sylvia Beach</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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'>NY Times </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'>obit for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/books/19rodgers.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carolyn Rodgers</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://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-carolyn-rodgers0420-2-20100420,0,5638290.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>LA Times / Chicago Tribune </span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242;font-style:normal'>obit</span></a></span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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://www.essence.com/entertainment/hot_topics/40_favorite_poets.php#our_40_favorite_poets"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Essence:</span></a><br> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;Our 40 favorite poets&#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://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2010/03/lucille-clifton-to-receive-frost-centennial-medal-posthumously.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Clifton</span></a> to receive Frost Medal posthumously<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://thefastertimes.com/books/2010/04/20/tft-book-review-other-flowers-by-james-schuyler/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jimmy Schuyler&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Other Flowers<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'>&#8220;<a href="http://htmlgiant.com/random/famous-authors-nude/"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Famous Authors</span></a>&#8221; nude<br> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>(great image of me there)<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'>Jed Birmingham on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/black-mountain-review/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Black Mountain Review</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://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/04/present-past-tense/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Linh Dinh</span></a>:<br> Dissidence as entertainment<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://donshare.blogspot.com/2010/04/burito-burps-dialogue-between-seth.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Seth Abramson &amp; Gene Tanta</span></a><br> on Linh Dinh<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://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/04/self-poem-lee-hickman-to-todd-baron.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Leland Hickman to Todd Baron</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://jmichaelmartinez.blogspot.com/2010/04/strickland-and-digital-ecriture.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stephanie Strickland</span></a><br> &amp; digital ecriture féminine<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://lallysalley.blogspot.com/2010/04/tom-clarks-new-world-transversions.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Lally on Tom Clark</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://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2010/04/tom-clark-notes-i.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Latta</span></a> on Clark<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'>Talking with <a href="http://kalwnews.org/audio/2010/04/13/little-piece-baghdad-bay_298524.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beau Beausoleil</span></a><br> about the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coaltion<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://influencysalon.ca/titles/sue-sinclair-phil-hall%E2%80%99s-white-porcupine"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sue Sinclair on Phil Hall&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>White Porcupine<br> </i>(reg. req.)<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/2010/apr/19/oxford-poetry-professor-election"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Oxford Poetry Chair</span></a><br> has 3 prime candidates so far:<br> Paula Claire, Seán Haldane &amp; Geoffrey Hill<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'>More significantly, the April trading card<br> from Fact-Simile is of <a href="http://fact-simile.com/Eileen_Myles_card.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eileen Myles</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://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/04/flarf-is-one-trick-pony-that-thinks.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Flarf</span></a> is a one-trick pony<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'>Just one more week<br> for the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.lesfigues.com/lfp/228/not-blessed-a-little-story-contest"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Not Blessed</span></a> </i>story contest<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/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21358"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dorothea Lasky&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Me and the Otters&#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://www.thereader.ca/2008/04/april-birthdays-poets-edition.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Some poets born in April</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://bit.ly/aGSEkd"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Peter Handke&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Don Juan, His Own Version<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://tillalala.blogspot.com/2010/04/entranced.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andrew Joron&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Trance Archives<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://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2010/04/poetics-of-activism-in-nowaks-coal-mountain-elementary.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mark Nowak&#8217;s</span></a> poetics of activism<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://rogueembryo.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/sonnet-song-setting-katrina-tundra/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Camille Martin</span></a>, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Songs from Sonnets<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'>Cultures of <a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2010/04/cultures-of-folk-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>folk poetry</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.delconewsnetwork.com/articles/2010/04/21/life/doc4bcf1d10e13f4863463111.txt"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Mad Poets Society</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'>Garrison Keillor reads <a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/04/20"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Burt Kimmelman</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.ronslate.com/bradshaw_variations_novel_rachel_cusk_farrar_straus_and_giroux"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Cusk&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Bradshaw Variations<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://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/04/oh-neoliberalism.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry&#8217;s place</span></a> within capitalism&#8217;s institutions<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'>Tho the only note I can find of this on the web<br> is the sentence I added to his Wikipedia page,<br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Phillips"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carl Phillips</span></a> has been named<br> the new judge of Yale Series of Younger Poets<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://jackkerouacispunjabi.blogspot.com/2010/04/urban-dictionary.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bhanu Kapil&#8217;s</span></a> urban <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/04/bhanu-kapil-vs-dictionary-by-alex.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>dictionary</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/entertainment/news/la-ca-kay-ryan-20100425,0,1514293.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kay Ryan&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Best of It<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 week in July devoted to the work of<br> <a href="http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/TSE/index.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>T.S. Eliot</span></a> @ the University of London<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://blogs.buffalonews.com/artsbeat/2010/04/daniel-nester-on-how-to-be-inappropriate.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daniel Nester</span></a>, ever inappropriate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>What if the &#8220;<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8622367.stm"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>mad women</span></a>&#8221; of fiction<br> were sane?</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'><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;just another graduate<br> of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/books/19harding.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Iowa Writer&#8217;s Workshop</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'><a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Spicer, Michael Snediker</span></a>,<br> &amp; the eternal optimism of the NY Mets<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 2 Chanas<br> on <a href="http://catranslation.org/blog/2010/04/15/litlunch-israel%E2%80%99s-national-poet-chana-bloch-and-chana-kronfeld-on-dahlia-ravikovitch/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dahlia Ravikovitch</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://twitter.com/ImaginaryCormac"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Imaginary Cormac</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.ronslate.com/algebra_poems_don_bogen_university_chicago_press"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don Bogen&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>An Algebra<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://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2010/04/an-irish-poet-on-american-literature.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An Irish poet</span></a> on American literature<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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/21/AR2010042104576.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Dirda</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry in Person<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 profile of <a href="http://www.themontclarion.org/archives/3732837"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett</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://theoffendingadam.com/2010/04/21/composed-of-bones-bells/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daniel Simko&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Arrival<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.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/20/rosie-alison-waterstone-link-orange-shortlist"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rosie Alison</span></a> &amp; the Orange shortlist<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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21390"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Albert Goldbarth</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://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/toc/2010/08/"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Atlantic Monthly&#8217;s</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>fiction issue<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://revistamododeusar.blogspot.com/2010/04/gertrude-stein-ciclo-critico-primeira.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Augusto de Campos translating Gertrude Stein</span></a><br> into Portuguese<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.wirenh.com/Features/Cover_Stories/Jazzmouth_2010:_Two_sides_of_consciousness_201004214070.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael McClure &amp; Ray Manzarek</span></a><br> between poetry &amp; music<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.dailyevergreen.com/story/31680"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anne Waldman</span></a>:<br> &#8220;an intense and dangerous world&#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://www.timesleader.com/scrantonedition/schools/Poet__teacher__activist_will_address_U_of_S_grads_04-18-2010.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carolyn Forché</span></a><br> to be commencement speaker at <br> the University of Scranton<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://twitter.com/nypl_lpa/status/11659767434"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tweeting the NYPL</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.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2010/04/dodge_poetry_festival_relocate.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dodge Fest</span></a> relocates to Newark, NJ<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.geraldinerdodge.org/poetry/PR_DPF_April_19_2010_Dodge_FINAL.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dodge Fest</span></a> poets announced<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'>Talking with <a href="http://thepoetrylabvienna.blogspot.com/2010/04/interview-with-paul-siegell-one-of-may.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Siegell</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.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/18/george-washington-library-new-york"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The father of the late fee</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://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/from_the_poetry_center_archive_truman_capote/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Truman Capote</span></a>, reading<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s<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'>The &#8220;<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e468e614-48d9-11df-8af4-00144feab49a.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>true father</span></a>&#8221; of all American literature?<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'>Rudyard Kipling,<br> talking with <a href="http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Kipling_Interview_Twain.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mark Twain</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/2010/04/19/nyregion/19twain.html?hp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Twain as a critic</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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/20/AR2010042002866.html?hpid=opinionsbox1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google</span></a>:<br> the first step to fighting censorship<br> is to <a href="//www.google.com/governmentrequests/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>document it</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'>Consumer Watchdog:<br> a better idea would be to<br> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/21/BU2V1D1KC8.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>break up Google</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.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>PEN World Voices Festival</span></a>,<br> April 26 &#8211; May 2<br> 150 writers in 40 countries,<br> 50 events<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://jildysauce.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/musics-spell-by-emily-fragos/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Music&#8217;s Spell:<br> Poems About Music &amp; Musicians</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/theater/reviews/21langston.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Langston Hughes</span></a>:<br> the musical<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://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/04/morocco-draft-rock-music-fans-rejoice-in-newfound-freedom-.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rockin&#8217; Morocco</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.laramieboomerang.com/articles/2010/04/18/news/doc4bc69a592f7ad384138702.txt"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mongolia</span></a> comes to Wyoming<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://cshere.blogspot.com/2010/04/aaron-copland-tender-land.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Aaron Copland</span></a><br> &amp; the &#8220;<a href="http://renewablemusic.blogspot.com/2010/04/blind-spots.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Musical School of Quietude</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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=18069"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Greil Marcus</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'>Miles Archer talking with <a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/1683/byrne/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Byrne</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="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xkmNHRc0yw&amp;feature=player_embedded#!"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Dead Sea Scrolls</span></a> are coming to Toronto<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://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/#04-19-10-x"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Bernstein&#8217;s</span></a> gallery walk<br> </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(NB: Amy Sillman doesn&#8217;t have a second &#8220;i&#8221; in her surname)<o:p></o:p></span></i></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://blackdogcollective.net/?p=430"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gus Powell</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.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/04/16/please-dont-touch-the-artists"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Crossing</span></a> the <a href="http://news.oneindia.in/2010/04/19/visiblyaroused-nude-model-removed-from-exhibition.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>line</span></a> between<br> <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-34929-Manhattan-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m4d17-Models-in-naked-art-exhibit-at-MOMA-complain-of-getting-groped"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>art</span></a>, <a href="http://trueslant.com/nickobourn/2010/04/17/walking-talking-reacting-performance-art-in-the-age-of-oversharing/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>life</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/movies/artful-nudity-provokes-art-less-viewer-responses-in-nyc"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>assault</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/2010/04/21/nyregion/21theater.html?hp"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A theater group</span></a><br> turns up in the legal cross-hairs<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://cultureid.com/content/night-scales-fable-for-klara-k-0"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chris Tysh</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Night Scales:<br> A Fable for Klara K.<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'>&#8220;The <a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/1687/700_club/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>greatest disinformation campaign</span></a><br> in history&#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://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/science/20scibks.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The sounds of silence</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.lexpress.fr/medias/911/466566_sans-titre.jpg"><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><img border="0" height="367" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/4nE7Zflof8yQM8UnbHTf4b0fcEASLNFk__j5RY4YLWbXgroohqa9M_JONiFf-JJcYzuFGoa16k_1sxRAVr2Vm80MiTpFLhGDL0HN%3Ds0-d" width="463"></span></a><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"><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 gun runner?<br>Allegedly <a href="http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/rimbaud-la-photo-retrouvee_884223.html"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Rimbaud in Aden</span></a><br> (a machine translation into <a href="http://bit.ly/aDyWUR"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">English</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><a href="http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=3511"><span style="color:black;mso-themecolor: text1">Pierre Joris</span></a> says this is a hoax<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">Jimmy Schuyler&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2010spring/schuyler.shtml"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Other Flowers</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">On the poems of <a href="http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/glossator/issue/current/showToc"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">J.H. Prynne</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.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/18/pulitzer-in-hand-a-poet-revels-in-words-and-life/"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Rae Armantrout</span></a>, &#8220;as strong as a sonnet&#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">Watching <a href="http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/rae-armantrouts-versed/"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Armantrout</span></a> scumble<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://supercollider.noslander.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout.html"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">The two factions of langpo</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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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://americanbookreview.org/sampleReview.asp?Issue=16&amp;id=33"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Vanessa Place&#8217;s</span></a> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">La Medusa<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Remembering <a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/04/on-reginald-shepherd.html"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Reginald Shepherd</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Not everyone is impressed with <a href="http://www.abigmessage.com/hissa-hilal-critic-hits-back-with-poem.html"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Hissa Hilal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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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://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/books/all-the-whiskey/Hung-Yunte_Whiskey-review.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bernstein&#8217;s writing</span></a> is intoxicating<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Rae Armantrout: &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239096"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Paragraph</span></a>,&#8221;<br> &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239098"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Soft Money</span></a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239100"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Outage</span></a>&#8221;</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Andrews%20interview.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bruce Andrews</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 video of <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzWl64QmHX4"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hissa Hilal</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 profile of <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100403/WEEKENDER/704029838/1041/BUSINESS"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hilal</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 bright light for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/saudi-poet-is-a-bright-st_b_514929.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>women&#8217;s rights</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://sites.google.com/site/withstand4/home/with--stand-4-pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>With + Stand 4: The Lisa Robertson Issue</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ululate.blogspot.com/2010/04/place-behrendt-intros.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gary Sullivan on Lynn Behrendt,<br> Nada Gordon on Vanessa 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 recording of <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2010/03/sounds-of-disquiet-of-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lynn Behrendt &amp; Vanessa Place</span></a><br> at the Bowery Poetry Club<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'>Geof Huth on <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2010/03/disquiet-of-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Behrendt &amp; 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="//www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iYBOADjRiUylI5z5HgLOCx4iba9QD9ER2OC80"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Harryette Mullen</span></a> wins the <a href="http://www.pw.org/about-us/harryette_mullen_receives_jackson_poetry_prize"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jackson Prize</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://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Howe-Fanny/Howe-Fanny_Segue-Series_BPC_4-3-10.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fanny Howe</span></a> reading at the Bowery Poetry Club,<br> April 3<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://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Friedlander/Friedlander-Ben_Segue-Series_BPC_4-3-10.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ben Friedlander</span></a>, also reading at the BPC on April 3<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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/editor_Alan_Halsey.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alan Halsey</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://speakingofpoems.blogspot.com/2010/04/thinginess.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thingness</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'>The magical awkwardness of <a href="http://ndgwriting.blogspot.com/2010/04/since-ill-probably-get-little-behind.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joe Ceravolo</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://willaweb.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>WILLA</span></a>:<br> Women in Letters &amp; Literary Arts<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'>Talking with <a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/features/spotlight-erin-belieu-cate-marvin"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Erin Belieu &amp; Cate Marvin</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://willaweb.org/thecount.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A gender breakdown</span></a> of<br> literary editors&#8217;<br> 2009 &#8220;bests&#8221; lists<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://willaweb.org/stateoftheart.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</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://willaweb.org/dealwithit.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Due dates vs. deadlines</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.bostonreview.net/BR35.1/burt.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stephen Burt</span></a> on the poetics of motherhood<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'>Swede Dreams:<br> <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_3_46/ai_n30953976/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daniel Burnbaum on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>OEI</i></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'>Alice Jones&#8217; &#8220;<a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.1/jones1.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vault</span></a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.1/jones2.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Idyll</span></a>&#8221;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><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'>On Lucille Clifton:<br> <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/words-in-honor-and-in-memory-of-lucille.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Evie Shockley</span></a>, <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-am-in-becoming-by-sharon-mesmer.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sharon Mesmer</span></a>,<br> <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-usually-dont-do-anything-in-february.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mairéad Byrne</span></a>, <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/untitled-mendi-lewis-obadike.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mendi Lewis Obadike</span></a>,<br> <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/lucille-cliftons-sounds-of-faith-still.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Theresa Senato Edwards</span></a>, <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/for-mama-lucille-julie-phillips-brown.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Julie Phillips Brown</span></a>,<br> <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/homage-to-lucille-cara-benson.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cara Benson</span></a>, <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/untitled-tara-betts.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tara Betts</span></a>, <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/adam-and-his-mother-lucille-cliftons.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kazim Ali</span></a>,<br> <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/into-vixen-country-shanna-compton.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shanna Compton</span></a>, <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/after-book-of-light-deborah-poe.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Deborah Poe</span></a>, <br> <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/listening-to-lucille-clifton-last-time.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Naomi Shihab Nye</span></a>, <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/by-aimee-nezhukumatathil.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Aimee Nezhukumatathil</span></a>,<br> <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/spring-poem-ge-patterson.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>GE Patterson</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-kin-and-kin-poetry-of-lucille.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alicia Ostriker</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://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_clifton.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Clifton&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Voices<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.theartnewspaper.com/attfig/attfig09.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Luce Irigaray</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This Sex Which is Not One<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.kenningeditions.com/?p=209"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Peter O&#8217;Leary</span></a> on Robert Duncan&#8217;s<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Origin of Old Son<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'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>&#8220;<a href="http://zappedpoetry.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/this-that-and-the-other-unfinished-thought/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Flarf is snooty</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'>Thom Donovan on <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/04/fuck-death-revisited/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>CA Conrad</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Philly&#8217;s next &#8220;flash reading&#8221;<br> is of the work of <a href="http://urchinpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/george-oppen.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>George Oppen</span></a>,<br> April 11</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'><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'>Nominate the 2010<br> <a href="http://bloggingpoet.squarespace.com/bloggingpoetcom/nominate-the-2010-poet-laureate-of-the-blogosphere.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere</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'>Inspiration is key for <a href="http://mainecampus.com/2010/03/22/inspiration-key-for-boston-based-poet-bill-corbett/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bill Corbett</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.bostonreview.net/BR35.1/teicher.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Craig Morgan Teicher on Bin Ramke&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Theory of Mind: New &amp; Selected Poems<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.suntimes.com/entertainment/2136170,obama-poetry-040410.article"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>First 100 days, best 100 days</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'>Downloadable walking tours<br> focused on poetry<br> for <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/gallery/walking-tours/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chicago &amp; DC</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'>Cathy Park Hong:<br> &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239122"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ballad in A</span></a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239124"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Our Jim</span></a>&#8221;<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://www.housepress.org/SourceMaterial04.zip"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Source Material: A Journal of Appropriated Text</span></a><br> </span></i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(a big zip file of a PDF that is not made much smaller<br> for having been compressed)<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://blogs.nybooks.com/post/482335188/atwood-in-the-twittersphere"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Margaret Atwood</span></a> on Twitter<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://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/04/02/ed-sanders-and-other-poets-kick-off-national-poetry-month/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ed Sanders</span></a> in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wall Street Journal<br> </i></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(neither a typo nor an hallucination)</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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'>James Wagner&#8217;s one-paragraph reviews:<br> <a href="http://estherpress.blogspot.com/2010/04/ange-mlinko-shoulder-season-coffee.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ange Mlinko&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Shoulder Season<br> </i><a href="http://estherpress.blogspot.com/2010/04/sarah-obrien-catch-light-coffee-house.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sarah O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Catch Light<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.bostonreview.net/BR35.1/mlinko.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ange Mlinko&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Squill&#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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-8-eirikur-orn-norddahl/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eiríkur Örn Nor&#273;dahl</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://tillalala.blogspot.com/2010/04/poetry-as-protein.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael McClure&#8217;s</span></a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Mysteriosos, and Other Poems<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'>2 books by <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR34.6/fischer.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dan Beachy-Quick</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'>The &#8220;most representative poets&#8221;<br> of the 20<sup>th</sup> &amp; 21<sup>st</sup> centuries:<br> <a href="http://wwwresistingpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/03/re-new-york-school.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gregory Corso &amp; Barbara Guest</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.philly.com/philly/entertainment/89766117.html?viewAll=y"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>7 Philadelphia-area poets to savor</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.philly.com/philly/entertainment/89153177.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>14 poems</span></a> read by these 7 poets<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.brandywine.psu.edu/30966.htm#NEWS30966"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Daisy Fried</span></a><br> heads up Litapalooza<br> at Penn State Brandywine,<br> April 6<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'>Another <a href="http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs422.snc3/24414_411065144879_631794879_5133578_1219801_n.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>big AWP reading</span></a> this Friday<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://bit.ly/ct1Btn"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Eileen Myles</span></a><br> Friday night @ CUNY<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'>Talking with <a href="http://ithoughtiwasnewhere.blogspot.com/2010/04/whos-got-my-ticket-interview-with-paul.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Siegell</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'>The most widely spoken language in the world:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/mar/29/globish-international-language"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Globish</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'>You could vote for<br> <a href="http://bit.ly/bpL6yl"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Neil Gaiman</span></a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/bXJdcV"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Patti Smith</span></a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/bvvGjq"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Banksy</span></a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/aybgYa"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mary Karr</span></a> or <a href="http://bit.ly/aIEtcu"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dave Eggers</span></a><br> for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Time </i>magazine&#8217;s list of the &#8220;100 most influential people of 2010&#8221;<br> or you could just be flat out appalled<br> at the <a href="http://bit.ly/9EUXtr"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>200 &#8220;finalists</span></a>&#8221; you are given to chose from&#8230;<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://lesfigues.blogspot.com/2010/04/april-7-dusie-pussipo-stonecoast.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dusie Pussipo Stonecoast Femiganza</span></a><br> in Denver, April 7<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'>This year&#8217;s <a href="http://www.wnybookarts.org/ediblebooksgallery10.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>edible books</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://wwwresistingpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/you-tube-vids-id-like-to-see.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>One more reason I do not drink</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'>How <a href="http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100404-NEWS-4040326"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Portsmouth</span></a> became a literary haven<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.thesmartset.com/article/article03171001.aspx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Against the memoir</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'>May 3 &amp; 4 @ CUNY,<br> <a href="http://www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=19"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Annual Chapbook Festival</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'>Devin Johnston:<br> &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239128"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Static</span></a>,&#8221; &#8216;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239126"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Thin Place</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'><a href="http://doddcenter.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/poetry-broadsides-featured-in-exhibition/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joel Oppenheimer&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;The Dancer,&#8221;<br> illustrated by Robert Rauschenberg,<br> published by Jonathan Williams<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.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/day.asp?categoryid=62&amp;calendarid=5234&amp;day=2%2F2%2F2010"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andrew Joron, Rachel Loden, C.S. Giscombe</span></a><br> at the de<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Young in SF, April 23<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://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/04/george-quasha-one-from-preverbs-with.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>George Quasha</span></a>:<br> Preverbs &amp; axial poetics<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.bostonreview.net/BR34.6/taylor.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mendelsohn&#8217;s</span></a> Cafavy<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://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/04/literary-t-shirts.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literary Tees</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'>The poetry of <a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2010/04/poetry-outlaws-case-of-black-bart-p-o-8.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Black Bart</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://jailnotyale.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jail not Yale</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.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/apr/02/bedside-reading-table-books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What&#8217;s on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>your </i>bedside table</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://washingtonart.com/beltway/contents.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beltway Poetry Quarterly&#8217;s</span></a> new issue<br> celebrates DC&#8217;s many literary organizations<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.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/04/05/100405po_poem_dickman"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Matthew Dickman&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Fire&#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://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239110"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Donald Revell</span></a>:<br> &#8220;Homage to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Peto"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Frederick Peto</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'><a href="http://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_green.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Timothy Green&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>American Fractal<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center;line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:4'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-no-proof:no'><a href="http://www.tschann.fr/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'>Amérique, une révolution poétique</span></a>,<br> with Olivier Brossard, Yves Di Manno,<br> Auxeméry &amp; Christophe Lamiot Enos,<br> Saturday, April 10, Paris<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 poetry &amp; poetics of <a href="http://ericselland.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/book-review-shredding-the-tapestry-of-meaning-the-poetry-and-poetics-of-kitasono-katue-1901-1978-by-john-solt/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kitasono Katue</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://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/04/simone-whites-house-envy-of-all-world.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Simone White&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>House Envy of All the World<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'>Talking with <a href="http://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_januaryoneil.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>January Gill O&#8217;Neill</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://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_oneil.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Underlife<o:p></o:p></i></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://www.kswnet.org/editables/pdfsANDscans-WMAG/W2010_ksw.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>W2010</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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/books/2010/apr/04/hay-festival-diverse-international-theme"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A Woodstock</span></a> of the mind&#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://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239112"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Emily Warn</span></a>: &#8220;The Word&#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'>Talking with <a href="http://blacklawrence.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/national-poetry-month-spotlight-marcela-sulak/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marcela Sulak</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://chicagopoetry.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=1389"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>C.J. Laity</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Gurlesque<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'>On the <a href="http://ululate.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-squirrelesque.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Squirrelesque</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://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_24poets.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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/2010/04/04/magazine/04church-t.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Norris Church Mailer</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A Ticket to the Circus<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.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Morrice-t.html?nl=books&amp;emc=booksupdateema3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Siri Hustvedt</span></a> is <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Shaking Woman<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'>4 books by <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/02/RV891CN4GG.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bay Area poets</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.macon.com/2010/03/31/1078406/for-national-poetry-month-five.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>5 collections</span></a> by major Quietists<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.ronslate.com/twenty_one_poets_recommend_new_and_recent_books_poetry"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>21 poets</span></a> recommend recent favorites<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.royalsreview.com/2010/4/3/1404142/espn-mlb-make-huge-mistake-not"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Strangest Robert Creeley reference</span></a><br> that I&#8217;ve seen in some time<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.jocaseria.fr/Livres/grandquelquechose.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ron Padgett</span></a> into French<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://theoffendingadam.com/2010/03/31/the-word-of-boris/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Matvei Yankelevich&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Boris by the Sea</i><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'>Mark Haddon talking with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/03/mark-haddon-paul-farley-conversation"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Farley</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 profile of <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-curious-incident-of-the-novelist-turned-playwright-1931469.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mark Haddon</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://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2010/04/lonely-city.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jim Murdoch&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Lonely City&#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'>Talking with <a href="http://blacklawrence.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/national-poetry-month-spotlight-shelley-puhak/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shelley Puhak</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 longer <a href="http://switchbackbooks.blogspot.com/2010/03/interview-with-shelly-puhak.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Puhak interview</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://caconradevents.blogspot.com/2010/03/41010-heretical-text.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Heretical Texts fest</span></a> in Philly, April 10<br> with Allison Cobb, Kate Schapira, <br> Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Simone White,<br> CA Conrad &amp; Franks<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'>Talking with <a href="http://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_nedbalbo.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ned Balbo</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://literarytraveler.net/2010/04/01/poet-gary-snyder-honored-in-acton/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gary Snyder</span></a> in action in Acton<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 profile of <a href="http://fitzroydreaming.blogspot.com/2010/04/charles-plymell.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Plymell</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/2010/04/01/arts/design/01archives.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The man who hoards</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://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_canadian.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Best Canadian Poetry</span></a><br> </span></i><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt; line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>(in English)</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>11 ways to celebrate <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/11-ways-to-celebrate-national-poetry-month-with-the-new-york-times/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>National Poultry Month</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 12<sup>th</sup> way would be to peruse a month&#8217;s worth<br> of tattoed poets on <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tatoosday</span></a><br> with accompanying poems on <br> Bill Cohen&#8217;s <a href="http://oxypoet.blogspot.com/2010/04/tattooed-poets-project-mark-nickels.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>BillyBlog</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'>Your quintessential &#8220;<a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20100404/LIFE01/4040302/1005/life/Spring-is-a-perfect-time-to-explore-poetry"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>national poetry month</span></a>&#8221; article<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'>Another that focuses on <a href="http://www1.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/american-life/Celebrating-National-Poetry-Month-89877517.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the poet laureate program</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 <a href="http://brokenturtleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-that-poetry-mattered.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>day that poetry mattered</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://pennbook.indiebound.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Penn&#8217;s book store</span></a> is also doing<br> a poem a day online this month<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://dbqp.blogspot.com/2010/04/reminder-internapwowrimo-continues.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>April</span></a> is also<br> International <a href="http://napwowrimo.blogspot.com/"><span style='color: #0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pwoermd</span></a> Writing Month,<br> devoted of course to writing<br> &#8220;words&#8221; that are themselves poems, <br> e.g. Mark Young&#8217;s fruitful<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://wondeslaits.blogspot.com/2010/04/netarne.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>ne(tar)ine</span></a></i><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.artsjournal.com/criticaldifference/2010/04/the-tyger-and-the-tangerines.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William Blake</span></a><br> hiding in the tangerines<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'>Taking with <a href="http://blacklawrence.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/national-poetry-month-spotlight-t-j-beitelman/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>T.J. Beitelman</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.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/mar/29/al-kennedy-work-in-progress"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Writing novels</span></a> &#8211; it&#8217;s all in the planning<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'>Talking with <a href="http://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_katedurbin.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kate Durbin</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://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_durbin.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Durbin&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Ravenous Audience<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'>Talking with <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/04/04/national-poetry-month-marie-ponsot-and-edward-hirsch-mark-the-occasion/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marie Ponsot &amp; Ed Hirsch</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.jewishjournal.com/twelve_twelve/article/edward_hirschs_living_poetry_ripe_for_passover_readings_20100323/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Edward Hirsch</span></a> is ripe<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.fsgpoetry.com/fsg/2010/04/jonathan-galassi-on-jenny-holzer.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jonathan Galassi on Jenny Holzer</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.fsgpoetry.com/fsg/2010/04/elizabeth-bishop-and-the-new-yorker.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Elizabeth Bishop</span></a> &amp; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New Yorker<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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.fsgpoetry.com/fsg/2010/04/louise-gl%C3%BCck-in-conversation.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Louise Glück</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'>Talking with <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/04/03/national-poetry-month-kimiko-hahn-on-inspiration-cultural-identity-and-the-language-of-science/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kimiko Hahn</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://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/04/05/reading-the-new-david-foster-wallace-bio-for-literary-gossip/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Foster Wallace</span></a>:<br> &#8220;Updike&#8230;has <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>never </i>had an unpublished thought&#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://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/04/05/100405ta_talk_thurman"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roth&#8217;s</span></a> fake interviews<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'>Arguments for the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/01/lost-man-booker-prize"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lost Man Booker Prize</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'>Literary ladies of the <a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/www/english/metro-beijing/lifestyle/education&amp;careers/2010-03/517941.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Beijing subway</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.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=239130"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Spencer Reece</span></a>, &#8220;Gilgamesh&#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'>Talking with <a href="http://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_robertfanning.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Fanning</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://poetsquarterly.yolasite.com/spring10_fanning.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fanning&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>American Prophet<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'>Talking with <a href="http://blacklawrence.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/national-poetry-month-spotlight-david-rigsbee/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Rigsbee</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/2010/03/21/nyregion/21poet.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tina Chang</span></a> doesn&#8217;t do lofty<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.broomfieldenterprise.com/ci_14804353"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry as a science</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/2010/04/04/movies/04scott.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Criticism</span></a> is always dying<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.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/herb-vandecker-poet-write_b_521580.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Herb Vandecker</span></a> story<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://a.aaaarg.org/text/12159/paper-print-history-and-impact-paper-islamic-world"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paper Before Print</span></a>:<br> The History and Impact of Paper<br> in the Islamic World<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Some <a href="http://gaspereaupress.blogspot.com/2010/03/few-more-design-awards.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>prize-winning book designs</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://trueslant.com/michaelhumphrey/2010/04/03/ipad-and-memoir-an-interview-with-dan-visel/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Multiple futures of the book</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://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303395904575158361144575070.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>E-book pricing model</span></a> is changing<br> in fits &amp; starts<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.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-01/amazon-barnes-noble-said-to-cede-control-of-prices-update1-.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Amazon, B&amp;N</span></a> surrender control of pricing<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.thebookseller.com/news/115092-ba-encourages-oft-to-look-into-amazon-concerns.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brit publishers howl over Amazon demand</span></a><br> that no website be allowed to undersell them<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.newrules.org/retail/article/why-does-congress-want-me-shun-my-local-bookstore-and-shop-online-instead"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why does Congress</span></a><br> want me to shun my local bookstore<br> &amp; shop online instead?<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.inhabitat.com/2010/04/01/beautiful-bookstore-decor-made-from-old-books/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bookstore décor</span></a> made from old books<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.jsonline.com/business/88705292.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The death of a bookstore</span></a><br> that opened with great backing<br> less than one year ago<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://blacklawrence.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/big-jar-books-a-requiem/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>R.I.P. Big Jar Books</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.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/01/library_releases_data_on_traffic_at_branches/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Boston Library</span></a> opens the kimono on branch use<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.insidehighered.com/advice/instant_mentor/weir22"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Does Wikipedia suck</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/interactive/2010/04/04/opinion/04opchart.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How green is an iPad? Or a book?</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://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303338304575155891445033542.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>E-readers &amp; eye strain</span></a> (duh)<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.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100319/FREE/100319861"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>E-book royalties</span></a> are the next battle line<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.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7544989/From-free-books-to-e-books-how-publishers-are-dealing-with-digital.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>From free books to e-books</span></a>:<br> publishers struggle with going digital<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.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/clipping_our_own_wings_copyright_and_creativity_in_communication_research/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Self-censorship</span></a> hurts communications <a href="http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/ICA_-_Clipping.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>research</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://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/04/that-was-fast-say-goodbye-to-harper-studio.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Harpers Studio</span></a> closes up shop<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.thestranger.com/seattle/the-great-left-coast-newspaper-war/Content?oid=3626956"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Great West Coast Newspaper 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'>Talking with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/arts/dance/04halprin.html?ref=arts"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anna Halprin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.metamute.org/en/content/the_politics_of_the_soundtrack"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Politics of the soundtrack</span></a></span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/04/02/decades_after_his_death_django_reinhardt_still_sets_the_mark_for_guitar_inventiveness/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the first guitar hero</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'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/04/china-blocks-bob-dylan-gigs"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chinese nix Dylan tour</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://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1035530"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chris Smither</span></a><br> has the Global Financial Crisis blues<br> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>(but it don&#8217;t say if he&#8217;s playing the blue guitar)<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://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/events-in-landscape-and-their-acoustic.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Acoustic shadows</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'>Farrah Field on <a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/poets-off-poetry/we-will-learn-to-feel-quite-clean-in-this-new-skin-by-farrah-field"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Laura Marling</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://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/theater/reviews/02love.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Peter Brook</span></a> puts Shakespeare&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sonnets </i>on stage<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 sculpture of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/21/charlie-parker-julie-macdonald-sculpture"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charlie Parker</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.huffingtonpost.com/david-finkle/first-nighter-important-r_b_522676.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alfred Molina</span></a> as <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&amp;sid=ada7svu_Q1nc"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mark Rothko</span></a> in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/theater/reviews/02red.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Red</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://www.obit-mag.com/articles/starring-mark-rothko"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rothko</span></a> is back<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; <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100402/stage_nm/us_stage_red"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>superb</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://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2010/04/alfred-molina-in-red-play-about-mark.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Gallaher</span></a> on liking vs. discerning in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Red<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.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/mar/29/stephen-sondheim-musical-theatre"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sondheim = Shakespeare</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'>Thriving on the &#8220;<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/A-Shakespeare-Scholar-Takes-on/64811/?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who wrote Shakespeare</span></a>&#8221; scam<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.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/03/28/people_versus_george_lucas/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>most hated film-maker</span></a> in America<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/uk/2010/mar/31/anish-kapoor-artwork-tower-london"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anish Kapoor&#8217;s</span></a> new tower of London<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.sigliopress.com/ltdEd/default.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nancy Spero</span></a>:<br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Torture of Women<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.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Rafael-rejected-by-the-Welsh/20421"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Turbulence Project</span></a> capsizes<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.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Saatchi-vs-Banksy-for-most-visited-UK-show-in-our-annual-attendance-survey/20425"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Saatchi vs. Banksy</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://a.aaaarg.org/text/12167/jack-goldstein-and-calarts-mafia"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jack Goldstein</span></a><br> &amp; the CalArts Mafia<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A bronze statue, taller than Liberty,<br> in the nation of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/04/senegal-african-renaissance-statue"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Senegal</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.brickartist.com/museum.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D; mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The art of the brick</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.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/editors/lego-brick-too-far?"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lego</span></a>, 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'>Welcome to <a href="http://www.marwencol.com/about/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>Marwencol</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/nationworld/nation/la-na-hometown-new-york4-2010apr04,0,2604315.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Recession forces art world to get creative</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/2010/04/02/arts/design/02vogel.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>PaceWildenstein</span></a> breaks apart<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://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-world-order.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Art maps</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 new <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2010/03/pompidou-metz.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pompidou</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://a.aaaarg.org/text/12149/art-history-global"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is Art History Global</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2010/03/mural-in-america.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>online</span></a> art book: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://muralinamerica.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Mural in America</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 second look at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04shtetl-t.html?hpw=&amp;pagewanted=all"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roman Vishniac</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'>Displaced <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/criticaldifference/2010/04/displaced-arts-journalists-str.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>arts journalists</span></a> strike back<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://www.theartsdesk.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Arts Desk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://apexart.org/images/badatsports/badatsports.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Don&#8217;t Piss on Me &amp; Tell Me It&#8217;s Raining</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'>The meaning of a &#8220;<a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2010/03/hard_targets_at_the_wexner_par_1.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>bad Koons</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'><a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/attfig/attfig09.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Top 30 exhibitions</span></a> of 2009<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/2010/04/04/arts/design/04slivka.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Slivka</span></a> has died<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.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/march/folkways"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ronald Clyne&#8217;s</span></a> covers for Folkways Records<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 AP obit on <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=henry-edward-roberts&amp;pid=141367397"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ed Roberts</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.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2010/03/tt_ten_books_which_influenced.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Terry Teachout</span></a> tackles<br> &#8220;10 books that influenced my thinking&#8221; meme<br> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor: text1;mso-themetint:242'>(Edwin Denby, Fairfield Porter &amp; novels<br> by New Critics&#8230;)</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'><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://mammothandmastodon.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/defending-the-humanities/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Defending the humanities</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.insidehighered.com/views/2010/04/05/stanley"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The crisis of philosophy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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