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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>And <a href="http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/2008/07/2008-state-of-small-presses-part-2.html"><span style='color:black'>part 2</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Eleven poems read by <a href="http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/leeharwood/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Lee Harwood</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>David <span class=SpellE>Vincenti</span> <br>
on <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6zj9jb"><span style='color:black'>classification in poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/happy-birthday-milton/index.html?ref=opinion"><span style='color:black'>Stanley Fish on John Milton</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/hoover.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Paul Hoover</span></a> on <span class=SpellE>Newlipo</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/andreabrady/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Andrea Brady&#8217;s</span></a> page<br>
at Archive of the Now<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/images/every-true_bernstein_broadside.jpg"><span style='color:black'>Charles Bernstein<span class=GramE>:</span></span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Every True Religion is Bound to Fail<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92406717"><span style='color:black'>Geoff <span class=SpellE>Nunberg</span></span></a> on language &amp; technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/arts/design/15abroad.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>Pessoa-Crowley</span></a> correspondence<br>
is for sale<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Some poems by <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/15/news/15PORTUGAL-poems.php"><span style='color:black'>Pessoa</span></a><br>
in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>International Herald Tribune</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Howard Junker on &#8220;<a href="http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/07/aunt-lutes-women.html"><span style='color:black'>Aunt Lute&#8217;s Women</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/15/blackelk"><span style='color:black'>When an editor take a best-seller with him</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Rigoberto Gonzáles on <a href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/entertainment/ci_9863219"><span style='color:black'>Gabriela <span class=SpellE>Juaregui</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Outrage &amp; a resignation<br>
over <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6yh83f"><span style='color:black'>Gloucester&#8217;s new laureate</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tracking <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7507011.stm"><span style='color:black'>George Colburn</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0712/1215787832529.html"><span style='color:black'>Theo Dorgan &amp; Gerald Dawes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A dozen MP3s of poems by <a href="http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/patriciafarrell/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Patricia Farrell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue1/piette.html"><span style='color:black'>Jen <span class=SpellE>Hadfield</span>, Peter Manson &amp; <span class=SpellE>Mervyn</span> <span class=SpellE>Peake</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2290422,00.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Selima</span></span><span style='color:black'> Hill&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Gloria: Selected Poems<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/baseboll-decision.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Nabokov&#8217;s <span class=SpellE>Crystograms</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Performing <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5utb8v"><span style='color:black'>Shakespeare&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sonnets</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Recordings &amp; resources<br>
for <a href="http://www.archiveofthenow.org/authors/kaiasand/home.html"><span style='color:black'>Kaia Sand</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The logic of fighting<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=338"><span style='color:black'>cultural decay</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6rg3o6"><span style='color:black'>Alan Shapiro&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Old War<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2008/07/new_kids_on_the_blog.html"><span style='color:black'>Giving journalism a bad name</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2290623,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Is it curtains for critics</span></a>?&#8221;<br>
(sans photos)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2290627,00.html"><span style='color:black'>critics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The return of British <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/07/post_27.html"><span style='color:black'>avant-garde fiction</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=18&amp;objectid=10521463"><span style='color:black'>Tom Weston &amp; Sue <span class=SpellE>Wootton</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://kuow.org/program.php?id=15291"><span style='color:black'>Edward Hirsch</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Are <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/12/bokindle112.xml"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>ereaders</span></span></a> the <span class=SpellE>iPod</span> of books?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>An <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/11/ukcrime.internationalcrime"><span style='color:black'>arrest at last</span></a> in the theft <span class=GramE>of </span><br>
&#8221;the most important printed book<br>
in the English language&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A reading in <a href="http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&amp;newsid=84824"><span style='color:black'>Mangalore</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/200805/?read=article_levy"><span style='color:black'>Elizabeth Hardwick</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
with &amp; without Robert Lowell<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/lies/2008/07/meaning-schmeaning.html"><span style='color:black'>Meaning <span class=SpellE>Schmeaning</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/arts/design/13fine.html"><span style='color:black'>Appropriation, quotation, &#169;, theft</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5rec8g"><span style='color:black'>Wordsworth &#8220;Daffodil&#8221; estate</span></a> for sale<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://michiganpoetry.wordpress.com/"><span style='color:black'>Michigan poetry site</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://www.sff.net/people/schlegell/DVS/dvs.html"><span style='color:black'>David von <span class=SpellE>Schlegell</span></span></a> timeline<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6eqv5w"><span style='color:black'>Robin <span class=SpellE>Gunningham</span></span></a> is <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/07/so_what_if_banksys_cover_has_b.html"><span style='color:black'>Banksy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=338"><span style='color:black'>What you paint<br>
says about you</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Writing as event<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://allpurposemagicaltent.blogspot.com/2008/06/grand-piano-elephant-in-room.html"><span style='color:black'>The Grand Piano</span></a></i><br>
at Orono<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/from_peter_oleary_poetry_of_th.html"><span style='color:black'>Language in the 1970s</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://sibila.com.br/sIbyl81unamericantree.html"><span style='color:black'>In the Un-American Tree</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
why langpo is a </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> phenomenon<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://thefanzine.com/articles/poetry/254/phillysound_poets/1"><span style='color:black'>PhillySound</span></a> comes to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Fanzine<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The editor strikes back!<br>
<a href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2008/06/editor-strikes-back.html"><span style='color:black'>Mark Scroggins on Charles Bernstein on Auggie Kleinzahler</span> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/62.php"><span style='color:black'>Bruce Andrews<span class=GramE>:</span></span></a><br>
Meaning, Method, Motive<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Analyzing this blog&#8217;s <a href="http://irasciblepoet.blogspot.com/2008/06/sillimans-blog-and-poetic.html"><span style='color:black'>secret sauce</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The uncollected <a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/64.php"><span style='color:black'>Clark Coolidge</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Language, memory &amp; masculinity<br>
in <a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/128.php"><span style='color:black'>Coolidge&#8217;s</span></a> work<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.kickingwind.com/050507.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Lytton</span></span><span style='color:black'> Smith</span> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://lauraderives.blogspot.com/2008/06/pound-to-whitman-let-there-be-commerce.html"><span style='color:black'>Non-imperial art is necessarily abstract art</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The dark labyrinth of <a href="http://barbarahenning.blogspot.com/2008/06/dark-labyrinth-of-conceptual-poetries.html"><span style='color:black'>conceptual poetries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A Euro-conceptualist conception<br>
of the <a href="http://www.loewak.nl/2008/06/25/what-a-day/"><span style='color:black'>perfect day</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Beyond conceptualism &amp; flarf<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
toward <a href="http://possumego.blogspot.com/2008/06/slow-poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>a slow poetry</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Anne Tardos, Kenny Goldsmith &amp; Charles Bernstein<br>
on Swedish radio (<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bernstein/radio/Tardos-Goldsmith_Bernstein_Swedish-Radio_June-2008.mp3"><span style='color:black'>MP3</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/117.php"><span style='color:black'>Hannah Weiner</span></a> &amp; Basic English<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=181672"><span style='color:black'>Objectivist</span></a>&#8221; issue of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/130.php"><span style='color:black'>Bernadette Mayer</span></a> &amp; the Capitalization of everyday life<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/may08-failure/"><span style='color:black'>Jay Wright&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Polynomials and Pollen<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/june08-erasing-ambition/"><span style='color:black'>Wright&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Presentable Art of Reading Absence<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://pshares.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-voices-2-and-3-farrah-field-and.html"><span style='color:black'>Jared White &amp; <span class=SpellE>Farrah</span> Field</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Clarity in <a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/129.php"><span style='color:black'>Oppen</span></a> &amp; Pound<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/351-06252008-1554467.html"><span style='color:black'>Vincent <span class=SpellE>Quatroche</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Patrick Durgin<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2008/06/patrick-durgins-hannah-weiners-open_23.html"><span style='color:black'>bringing Hannah Weiner to the fore</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Poem predicated on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://pursuedbear.blogspot.com/2008/06/barrett-watten-please-read-this-i-beg.html"><span style='color:black'>Progress</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/172.php"><span style='color:black'>John Ashbery&#8217;s</span></a> optional apocalypse<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://pjoris.blogspot.com/2008/06/paris-march-de-la-posie.html"><span style='color:black'>Marché de la <span class=SpellE>Poésie</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poesie.evous.fr/-Programme-.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Programme</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=111105"><span style='color:black'>Renee Angle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/60.php"><span style='color:black'>Jackson Mac Low</span></a> <br>
&amp; the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>L=A=N=G=U=A=G=<span class=GramE>E <span style='font-style:normal'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160;</span>of</span></span></i> intermedia<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080621/OPINION02/806210429"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Aleda</span></span><span style='color:black'> Shirley</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bricolage in <a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/170.php"><span style='color:black'>Ronald Johnson&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>ARK<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Video of <a href="http://pjoris.blogspot.com/2008/06/paris-i-eshleman-reads-vallejo.html"><span style='color:black'>Clayton Eshleman</span></a> reading César Vallejo<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I think of this as the <a href="//youtube.com/watch?v=S8C2lGaW-Yg"><span style='color:black'>dancing alphabet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://liswire.com/node/99/"><span style='color:black'>Spending actually declined</span></a>&#8221; last year<br>
in public college libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>What <a href="http://modampo.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-orono-70s-part-1.html"><span style='color:black'>didn&#8217;t happen</span></a> in the <span class=GramE>1970s</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://withplusstand.blogspot.com/2008/06/we-on-we.html"><span style='color:black'>On we</span></a>&#8221; ennui<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Breaking it down<br>
to <a href="http://jasperbernes.blogspot.com/2008/06/text-in-question.html"><span style='color:black'>us</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://insertpress.net/index.php?s=fold"><span style='color:black'>them</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.chbooks.com/content /?q=rachel_zolf_wins_trillium_book_award_for_poetry"><span style='color:black'>Rachel <span class=SpellE>Zolf</span></span></a> wins Trillium<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&amp; <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5tfa4t"><span style='color:black'>Coach House</span></a> wins the Premier&#8217;s Award<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://tinyurl.com/569t56"><span style='color:black'>power of poetry</span> </a><br>
over baseball<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Doubt &amp; humor in <a href="http://www.news-daily.com/main.asp?SectionID=53&amp;SubSectionID=& amp;ArticleID=24389"><span style='color:black'>Robert Creeley</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/"><span style='color:black'>Mayakovsky</span></a> &amp; galoshes<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://irasciblepoet.blogspot.com/2008/06/magisterium-of-poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>The Magisterium of Poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A piece on <a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/96.php"><span style='color:black'>poets with disabilities</span></a><br>
that makes no mention of<br>
Larry Eigner, John Wieners,<br>
Jimmy Schuyler, Hannah Weiner,<br>
Lynn <span class=SpellE>Strongin</span>, Michael <span class=SpellE>Cuddihy</span> or Scott Bentley<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5ylxfz"><span style='color:black'>One place</span></a> you could begin<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;All models are wrong<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
but <a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_theory"><span style='color:black'>some are useful</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>What would <a href="http://www.bibliobuffet.com/content/view/801/193/"><span style='color:black'>the perfect<br>
online bookstore</span></a> look like?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_nbook22.4b13f2e.html"><span style='color:black'>Tombstones</span></a> for bookstores<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Is Amazon publishing&#8217;s<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/06/20/making-books-interesting-again.aspx"><span style='color:black'>hope for the future</span></a>&#8221;?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://jjbelgianwaffle.blogspot.com/2008/06/difficult-to-work-more-today-with-girls.html"><span style='color:black'>Patterns</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'> <st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Rotterdam</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/poetry_with_je_ne_sais_quoi.html"><span style='color:black'>Poetry International Festival</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module /index.php?obj_id=12236&amp;x=1"><span style='color:black'>Videos</span></a> (and some sound clips) of events<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/books/25eder.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Camus</span></span><span style='color:black'>&#8217;</span></a> notebooks<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.bu.edu/today/arts-entertainment/2008/06/20/terrible-beauty-poetry-war"><span style='color:black'>James Winn</span></a><br>
about <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Poetry of War<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/24/kindle"><span style='color:black'>University presses</span></a><br>
start to sell via Kindle<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/54.php"><span style='color:black'>Bronk</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/06 /22/2008-06-22_times_square_poem_proves_to_be_winner.html"><span style='color:black'>Everything</span></a> is poetic<br>
about <a href="http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=8&amp;aid=82985"><span style='color:black'>Times Square</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/the-other-voices-international-project/"><span style='color:black'>The Other Voices International Project</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://fictiondb.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>FictionDB</span></span></a> goes <a href="http://liswire.com/node/91/"><span style='color:black'>free</span></a>!! <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books /2008006552_bookpressure22.html?syndication=rss"><span style='color:black'>Crank those books out</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6qtx3s"><span style='color:black'>Archiving</span></a> the submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/2454001.php"><span style='color:black'>Ancient Greek novels</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The world&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/23/turkey.islam"><span style='color:black'>top thinker</span></a>&#8221;?</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=062320"><span style='color:black'>Contemporary poetry</span></a> of </span><st1:place><span  class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Goa</span> </span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Does <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/22/stopping_google /"><span style='color:black'>Google</span></a> rule the world?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bye &#8211;bye <a href="http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/24/indie_death /index.html"><span style='color:black'>indie cinema</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://wlal.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/the-most-unwanted-song-flarfs-sonic-cousin /"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Flarf&#8217;s</span></span></a> sonic cousin<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3109/the-sound-of-colors?utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>The sound of colors</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/84"><span style='color:black'>Digitizing sheet music</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Alan Gilbert on <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06 /the_art_of_collaboration_1.html#more"><span style='color:black'>Theodore A. Harris</span></a><br>
&amp; the art of collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>On <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6hntuj"><span style='color:black'>Jed <span class=SpellE>Perl&#8217;s</span></span></a> attack on the present<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/design/24muse.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Dia</span></span></a> gets a new director<o:p> </o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.broadstreetreview.com/article.php?idc=2&amp;ida=472"><span style='color:black'>Blaming Barnes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/4go4sg"><span style='color:black'>Twyla Tharp</span></a> &amp; the imitation of self<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i42/42b01401.htm?utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>Empowerment and/or isolation</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><img height="341" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/i45QZJtT1S1c6NpVEkPnEQ5_rm1N1IsW9f9Ym9hdbYFDaAGtHVzI_2jbpkBH6YXW26hYrtfCHk02uVu28qgvPUCjPPROb72siv25r5V97lSI%3Ds0-d" width="255"></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://whitepantiesanddeadfriends.blogspot.com/2008/06/tribute-to-keith-wilson.html"><span style='color:black'>tribute</span></a> to <a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/wilson.htm"><span style='color:black'>Keith Wilson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nacs.org/news/062008-flooding.asp?id=cm"><span style='color:black'>Flood pictures</span></a><br>
of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/uinews/sets/72157605637240227/"><span style='color:black'>University of Iowa</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Context, <a href="http://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2008/06/spts-aggression-conference-prologue-in.html"><span style='color:black'>misreading</span></a> &amp; aggression<br>
at the Aggression Conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A response to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/alerts/mcgaw.html"><span style='color:black'>The Grand Piano</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Kristin Prevallet on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Age of Huts (compleat) </i>(<a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/534_prevallet_silliman.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Joel <span class=SpellE>Brouwer</span>
on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/books/review/Brouwer-t.html?8bu& amp;emc=bua2"><span style='color:black'>C.D. Wright</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Angela <span class=SpellE>Garbes</span> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=586503&amp;bk"><span style='color:black'>Rising, Falling, Hovering</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://experimentalfictionpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/06/interview-with-mark-wallace.html"><span style='color:black'>Mark Wallace</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Morris.html"><span style='color:black'>Tracie Morris</span></a> on PENNsound<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/blog/2008/06/listen_to_the_prize-giving_at.html"><span style='color:black'>John Ashbery</span></a> live <br>
at the Griffin Prize<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A field guide to poetry in <a href="http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/59/field-guide-to-poets"><span style='color:black'>Cleveland</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/the_beats_in_india.html"><span style='color:black'>Alan Gilbert</span></a> on the Beats in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philip <span class=SpellE>Metres</span> on <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3wphfg"><span style='color:black'>Bruce <span class=GramE>Andrews</span></span></a><br>
(with the Bill O&#8217;Reilly video)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://jasperbernes.blogspot.com/2008/06/debriefing.html"><span style='color:black'>Jasper Bernes</span></a> on the 1970s conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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

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

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

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/27745585@N02/"><span style='color:black'>Patrick Pritchett&#8217;s</span></a> photos<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>For an <a href="http://canopycanopycanopy.com/2/for_an_unoriginal_literature"><span style='color:black'>Unoriginal Literature</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://buggeryville.blogspot.com/2008/06/paper-air-jackson-mac-low.html"><span style='color:black'>Reading Mac Low</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
reading me reading Mac Low<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://terminalhumming.blogspot.com/2008/06/ron-sillman-has-post-which-im-sure.html"><span style='color:black'>Langpo &amp; New Narrative</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://situationsducommerce.blogspot.com/2008/06/will-to-wtf.html"><span style='color:black'>The <span class=SpellE>Kabbalistic</span> Flarfist</span> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://vrzhu.typepad.com/vrzhu/2008/06/no-animal-can-b.html"><span style='color:black'>Animal, human, flarf, conceptual</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5eazp4"><span style='color:black'>Upper Limit Los Angeles</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Long live the <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080618/PAGETHREE/662414909/1119"><span style='color:black'>Prince of Poets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20215"><span style='color:black'>Eshleman</span></a> reads </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Vallejo</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/backtalk"><span style='color:black'>Honor Moore</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The blood of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/books/review/Mitchell-t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bua2"><span style='color:black'>Sarah <span class=SpellE>Manguso</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Leila Wilson on Eileen Myles (<a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review /534_wilson_myles.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/65daxa"><span style='color:black'>Howl </span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>&amp; the paperback revolution</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15308"><span style='color:black'>Allen Ginsberg reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Howl</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Four <a href="http://ricardo-domeneck.blogspot.com/2008/06/four-poems-quatro-poemas-jack-spicer.html"><span style='color:black'>Jack Spicer</span></a> poems in <span class=GramE>Portuguese</span><br>
(plus &#8220;<a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/kWn_MCX/music/SyWUZflY/jack_spicer_thing_language/?d=1http://www.imeem.com/people/kWn_MCX/music/SyWUZflY /jack_spicer_thing_language/?d=1"><span style='color:black'>Thing Language</span></a>&#8221; read by Jack)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;a <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06 /office_of_insular_affairs_poet.html"><span style='color:black'>Human Rights Watch</span></a><br>
labor report<br>
refashioned in free verse&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20236"><span style='color:black'>Susan Howe</span></a> reading &#8220;The Nonconformist&#8217;s Memorial&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/4cvytv"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Didi</span></span><span style='color:black'> Menendez</span></a> on the Joe Milford Poetry Show<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mark <span class=SpellE>Nowack</span> on <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/latelatefordist_poetics.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Fordism</span></span><span style='color:black'> &amp; poetics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In which <span class=SpellE>Scribbleskiff</span><br>
discovers <a href="http://scribbleskiff.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/the-other-poet-williams/"><span style='color:black'>Jonathan Williams</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://professorvj.blogspot.com/2008/06/creative-apparatus.html"><span style='color:black'>performing a Robert Creeley</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20259"><span style='color:black'>Jena Osman</span></a> reading &#8220;Mercury: A Visualization&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>2 versions of a poem by <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/O/artsandbooks/index.ssf?/base/entertainment /1213818905297990.xml&amp;coll=7"><span style='color:black'>Phil Whalen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Fond of <a href="http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/06/fond-of-fonts-typeface-of-poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>fonts</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Rise of the <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i41/41a00901.htm"><span style='color:black'>mini-lecture</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15566"><span style='color:black'>Jackson Mac Low</span></a> reads &#8220;Stein 100: A Feather Likeness<br>
of the Justice Chair&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Who killed the <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2194087/pagenum/2/"><span style='color:black'>semi-colon</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=fbba191e-ee2e-4b92-b5a6-28ba8ab026a3"><span style='color:black'>&#8220;<span class=SpellE>Crazzy</span>&#8221; Dave <span class=SpellE>Dessler</span><span class=GramE>,</span></span></a><br>
</span><st1:Street><st1:address><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ottawa street</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> poet<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Story-of-a-Dalit-poet-in-India/324482/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Kanwal</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Bharti</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story /0,,2286817,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=10"><span style='color:black'>A.S. <span class=SpellE>Byatt</span></span></a>: from text to textile<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.pw.org/content/anthologies_offer_poetic_diplomacy"><span style='color:black'>Travis Nichols</span></a>: anthologies offer poetic diplomacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/think_of_the_stamps.html"><span style='color:black'>Travis Nichols</span></a> on the problems of laureates<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/we_dont_need_a_poet_laureate.html"><span style='color:black'>we don&#8217;t need a poet laureate</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_163221823.html"><span style='color:black'>John Ronan</span></a> succeeds Ferrini <br>
as </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Gloucester</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Gloucester</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> book dealer<br>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/06/21/a_master_of_oddball_characters/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:black'>Gregory Gibson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Berkeley</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/06/23/MNH711DDT0.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Cody&#8217;s closes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.olssons.com/"><span style='color:black'>Olsson&#8217;s</span></a> is closing<br>
one of its DC stores<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Minneapolis</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, <a href="http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/20164044.html?location_refer=Local%20+%20Metro"><span style='color:black'>Amazon</span></a> has been saved<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5238tt"><span style='color:black'>Indies</span></a> fight to stay afloat<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Blackwell&#8217;s to launch<br>
<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2286818,00.html"><span style='color:black'>print-on-demand</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In <a href="vhttp://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/ENTERTAIN /806190304"><span style='color:black'>Portsmouth, NH</span></a>, a move<br>
to hold readings year round<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.pplp.org/"><span style='color:black'>Portsmouth Laureate</span></a> home page<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20252"><span style='color:black'>Anne Waldman</span></a> reads &#8220;Stereo&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/06/obvi-us.html"><span style='color:black'>Self evident</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com/2008/06/lutheran-surrealism-assessment.html"><span style='color:black'>Lutheran Surrealism</span></a>: summing up<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2285427,00.html"><span style='color:black'>J.G. Ballard&#8217;s</span></a> surrealism of the suburbs<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-pattismith22-2008jun22,0,847557.story"><span style='color:black'>Patti Smith&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Auguries of Innocence<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
</i>expanded &amp; reissued<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15532"><span style='color:black'>Wanda Coleman</span></a> reads &#8220;American Sonnet (35)&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A correspondence with <a href="http://www.simondinnerstein.com/blog/?p=5"><span style='color:black'>Guy Davenport</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bk-bsjohnson22-2008jun22,0,389925.story"><span style='color:black'>B.S. Johnson&#8217;s</span></a> novel in a <span class=GramE>box</span><br>
(some assembly required)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-06/20/content_15862830.htm"><span style='color:black'>Poetry &amp; society</span></a><br>
in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/pride_of_the_state_1.html"><span style='color:black'>Linh Dinh</span></a> on sports nationalism in poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>How <a href="http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=68841&amp;section=homepage&amp;freebie_check&amp;CFID=49096129&amp;CFTOKEN=34146415&amp;jsessionid=8830f84a2e737f3339f6"><span style='color:black'>Louis Jenkins&#8217; &#8220;Back Country&#8221;</span></a><br>
got recited at the Tony Awards<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2008/06/watch-by-eamon-grennan-only-impatience.html"><span style='color:black'>a poet trying to have an experience</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/new_bat_city.html#more"><span style='color:black'>D.A. Powell</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New </i></span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bat</span> </i></st1:PlaceName><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></i><st1:PlaceType><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>City</span></i></st1:PlaceType> </st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>21<sup>st</sup> century <a href="http://www.lakelandecho.co.uk/whats-on/Poets-offer-a-taste-of.4191648.jp"><span style='color:black'>medievalists</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/display.var.2346738.0.blackburn_poet_back_to_his_roots.php"><span style='color:black'>Blackburn-born poet</span></a> returns to roots<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002679.html"><span style='color:black'>Jay <span class=SpellE>Parini</span></span></a> on the punishing poetry<br>
of Robert Frost<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062002094.html"><span style='color:black'>Out, Out</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.worldclasspoetryblog.com/are-you-a-member-of-the-school-of-quietude /06/22/2008/#comment-2460"><span style='color:black'>Are you a member of the School of Quietude?</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/books/19smith.html"><span style='color:black'>Naguib Mahfouz&#8217;</span></a> </span><st1:City><st1:place><i   style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Cairo</span></i></st1:place></st1:City><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Modern<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>52 countries will be represented<br>
at this <a href="http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/1938/2/"><span style='color:black'>Macedonian poetry conference</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;an <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/banal_probe_1.html"><span style='color:black'>exaggerated sense</span></a> of importance&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/arts/2008/jun/17/arts-17-06-2008-002.htm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ladi</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Soyode</span>,</span></a> lawyer, poet &amp; politician<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A transcript of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/12/DI2008061202499.html"><span style='color:black'>Mary Karr</span></a><br>
doing Q&amp;A online<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Karr on <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903289.html"><span style='color:black'>Keats</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08169/890355-42.stm"><span style='color:black'>Mark Doty</span></a> bemoans<br>
&#8221;<span class=SpellE>conservativism</span> that holds on in the literary world&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New book from &#8220;<a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/books/news/article_1411091.php/New_book_from_very_old_dead_dull_poet"><span style='color:black'>old, dead, dull poet</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Adam Kirsch, rereading <a href="http://www.nysun.com/arts/reconsiderations-life-studies-by-robert-lowell/80182/"><span style='color:black'>Robert Lowell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6q4uax"><span style='color:black'>What about Charles Williams</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
asks the Archbishop of Canterbury<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A novelist&#8217;s take on <br>
the <a href="http://metaxucafe.com/cafe/article/the_iowa_writers_workshop/"><span style='color:black'>Iowa Writers Workshop</span></a><br>
of the 1980s<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>More people who lost &#8220;<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5rh6un"><span style='color:black'>their voice</span> </a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june08/prisonpoetry_06-16.html"><span style='color:black'>Richard Shelton</span></a><br>
&amp; poetry in prison<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The question of politics<br>
in <a href="http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/ENTERTAIN/806190304"><span style='color:black'>Anglophone Cameroon poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/poster_poems_the_rhymes_of_war.html"><span style='color:black'>The rhymes of war</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Carlin Romano on <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books /20080622_The_trip_is_as_lively_as_the_destination.html"><span style='color:black'>Salman Rushdie</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080617TDY13003.htm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Pamuk</span></span><span style='color:black'> &amp; <span class=SpellE>Oe</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/popper"><span style='color:black'>The novelist</span></a> and the murderers<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2286721,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Dylan Thomas</span></a>: propagandist<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/06/nice_hair_shame_about_the_poem.html"><span style='color:black'>A poet for people who really don&#8217;t like poetry</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/06/2008061801c.htm"><span style='color:black'>Getting paid</span></a> for writing well<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Covering the poems of <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91757715&amp;sc=emaf"><span style='color:black'>James Joyce</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>An &#8220;antidote to the image<br>
of <a href="http://www.madison.com/tct/entertainment/292195"><span style='color:black'>poet as princess</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Edwin-Morgan-A-very-modest.4209009.jp"><span style='color:black'>Edwin Morgan</span></a>: modest magus<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/444383"><span style='color:black'>Changing &#169; in Canada</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=31&amp;a=348543"><span style='color:black'>Alex Lemon</span></a>, a poet of white space<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080621/LIFE03/806210306/1005/LIFE"><span style='color:black'>Poughkeepsie teen</span></a><br>
wins a top award<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=763961"><span style='color:black'>Susan Firer &amp; Kevin <span class=SpellE>Prufer</span></span> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2008/06/19/poetry-winner-s-grief-gave-her-emotion-to-become-winner-116451-21106052/"><span style='color:black'>grief-driven poetics</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Rereading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://metaxucafe.com/cafe/article/metaxucafe_looking_back_on_lolita/"><span style='color:black'>Lolita</span></a></i><br>
from the girl&#8217;s point of view<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902991.html"><span style='color:black'>The Lolita Effect</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Imagining <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4ygjr9"><span style='color:black'>Sylvia Plath</span> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/200815.htm"><span style='color:black'>MLA</span></a> added to <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>WorldCat</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'> <st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Canada</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> terrorizes <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080616.wsingh16/BNStory/Entertainment/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20080616.wsingh16"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Jaspreet</span></span><span style='color:black'> Singh</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Think of it as a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3n6zm4"><span style='color:black'>sales opportunity</span> </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Or a good <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/arts/design/22spea.html?_r=1& mp;oref=slogin"><span style='color:black'>career move</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>There&#8217;s more to <a href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/17/institute"><span style='color:black'>research</span></a> than Google<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>AUTO / PALSY / PLAZA<br>
&amp; other &#8220;<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUySWCALYUw"><span style='color:black'>rubber haiku</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Reading <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/avantgarde_and_modern_part_thr.html"><span style='color:black'>Peter Bürger</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Barry Schwabsky on <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/schwabsky"><span style='color:black'>Peter Schjeldahl</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Monday at <span class=SpellE>MoMA</span><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=8933&amp;ocam=nyb_061708"><span style='color:black'>Writing Dalí</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/613/turf/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Campaign+Monitor&amp;utm_content=337676391&amp;utm_campaign=Guernica's+June+Newsletter&amp;utm_term=Turf"><span style='color:black'>Luc <span class=SpellE>Sante</span></span></a> on graffiti vs. advertising<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Would </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Australia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> ban <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/06/would_australias_pm_ban_bottic.html"><span style='color:black'>Botticelli</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23861133-16947,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Censorship</span></a> isn&#8217;t the answer<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987610.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2562"><span style='color:black'>Why critics suck</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>When <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jun/17/1"><span style='color:black'>art &amp; sports critics</span></a><br>
trade jobs<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://tinyurl.com/4suw77"><span style='color:black'>Jeff Koons</span></a> retrospective<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8022"><span style='color:black'>Frank Stella,</span></a> campaigning<br>
against the &#8220;orphan &#169;&#8221; law<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The joy of dumbed-down <a href="http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=b24ee3a8-6d78-478f-9b95-a5b031d003c5"><span style='color:black'>trophy art</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Hirst</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2008/06/hirst_first_directtosothebys_s.html"><span style='color:black'>bypassing galleries</span></a> altogether<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The ultimate <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6lf4pd"><span style='color:black'>elitist</span></a> object<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/06/philip_guston_and_the_poets.html"><span style='color:black'>Philip Guston</span></a> &amp; the poets<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Brother from <a href="http://www.broadstreetreview.com/article.php?idc=2&amp;ida=968"><span style='color:black'>another planet</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2008/spring/weschler-robert-irwin/"><span style='color:black'>Robert Irwin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Suing the <a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8055"><span style='color:black'>Basquiat authentication committee</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2285994,00.html"><span style='color:black'>Twombly</span></a> at the Tate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The most expensive painting<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bye-bye <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24carlin.html?hp"><span style='color:black'>George Carlin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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