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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://scantilycladpress.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Scantily Clad Press</span></a><br>
is building a list of <br>
first-rate e-books, <br>
including<br>
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/full/2459569?access_key=key-2jxdu2h86jftja39me2b"><span style='color:black'>Andrew <span class=SpellE>Lundwall</span></span></a>, <a href="http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/curtisharnack?mode=embed& amp;documentId=081123040824-2f47dfb4cd5b40b0ab94b16b4c92e851&amp;layout=grey"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Tomaz</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Salamun</span></span></a>,<br>
<a href="http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/brian_henry_hit_and_run?mode=embed&amp;documentId=081123230027-0c483d4bebf84c70b0565ac44132fdd5&amp;layout=grey"><span style='color:black'>Brian Henry</span></a>, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/full/3016818?access_key=key-1u0ytczo3u7p36i4tmhs"><span style='color:black'>Adam <span class=SpellE>Fieled</span></span></a>,<br>
<a href="http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/julietcook_projectilevomit?mode=embed&amp;documentId=081125231628-bf7eb1e54f464ca19fab878e71eb748a&amp;layout=grey"><span style='color:black'>Juliet Cook</span></a>, <a href="http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/kenrumble_presidentletters?mode=embed&amp;documentId=081125234314-f22f73418a5341979ab1ca88211b4c68&amp;layout=grey"><span style='color:black'>Ken Rumble</span></a>,<br>
<a href="http://issuu.com/andrewlundwall/docs/chrismccreary_theblackbook?mode=embed&amp;documentId=081130072742-e08d229e487842558ca7c3126fa74ff0&amp;layout=grey"><span style='color:black'>Chris McCreary</span></a> &amp; more<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Two poems by<br>
<a href="http://realpoetik.blogspot.com/2008/12/thanh-tam-tuyen.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Thanh</span></span><span style='color:black'> Tam <span class=SpellE>Tuyen</span></span></a><br>
translated by <span class=SpellE>Linh</span> <span class=SpellE>Dinh</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'>Tim Davis&#8217;<br>
&#8220;<a href="http://canopycanopycanopy.com/4/original_ideas_in_magic"><span style='color:black'>Original Ideas in Magic</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://vonlintel.com/index2.html"><span style='color:black'>The <span class=SpellE>Innerworld</span> of the <span class=SpellE>Outerworld</span> of the <span class=SpellE>Innerworld</span></span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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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'>Translating <a href="http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=3351&amp;cat=5"><span style='color:black'>Stein</span></a> into 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>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The 21<sup>st</sup><br>
<a href="http://www.nycip.org/bookfair/"><span style='color:black'>Indie &amp; Small Press <span class=SpellE>Bookfair</span></span></a><br>
is this weekend in NYC<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-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'><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'><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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</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>the e-zine of the Filipino Diaspora,<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/books/28artbw.html?_r=1"><span style='color:black'>Frank <span class=GramE>O&#8217;Hara</span></span></a><br>
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makes it to the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>NY Times<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://raygonne.livejournal.com/80166.html"><span style='color:black'>Talking to ourselves</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.marathonthemovie.com/"><span style='color:black'>Marathon</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>a film on the life of William Meredith<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://modampo.blogspot.com/2008/12/proposition-future-vagueness-of.html"><span style='color:black'>Rodney <span class=SpellE>Koeneke</span></span></a> on poetry &amp; the future<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/6kceor"><span style='color:black'>Books on language</span></a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.literature-map.com/"><span style='color:black'>Literature  maps</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'><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'><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'><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'><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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<span class=GramE>all</span> of <a href="http://quarterlyconversation.com/contest-bolano-issue-14"><span style='color:black'>Robert Bolaño&#8217;s</span></a> works in English<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family: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'><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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1002263"><span style='color:black'>One Yellow Rabbit&#8217;s</span></a> <span class=SpellE>homages</span> to poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/11/q-as-with-seamu.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Eminem</span></span><span style='color:black'> of Irish 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'>Poetry, ethics &amp; <a href="http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=89399"><span style='color:black'>Kent Johnson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In which &#8220;I&#8221; <br>
finally get a poem<br>
in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081215/schwabsky"><span style='color:black'>The Nation</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'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/dec/01/1"><span style='color:black'>Improvisation</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_335225210.html"><span style='color:black'>Josh Bell</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.newstatesman.com/books/2008/11/wallace-fiction-mccain"><span style='color:black'>Remembering</span></a> <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15835&amp;R=13D3383DD"><span style='color:black'>David 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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A new look at <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/11/30/gargantuan/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:black'>Samuel Johnson</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://quarterlyconversation.com/souls-of-the-labadie-tract-by-susan-howe-review"><span style='color:black'>Susan Howe&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Souls of the Labadie Tract<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.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2008/12/01/opinion/columns/columns01.txt"><span style='color:black'>Lowell Jaeger&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Suddenly, Out of a Long Sleep<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.redroom.com/publishedreviews/the-dark-abode-an-indian-novel-sarojini-sahoo"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Sarojini</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Sahoo&#8217;s</span></span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Dark Abode<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'>Kenneth Sherwood&#8217;s<br>
notes for a class on <a href="http://blog.iup.edu/blogs/course/fall2008/sherwood/muhi102/2008/12/bebop-beats-jack-kerouac.html"><span style='color:black'>Jack Kerouac</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.zacharychartkoff.com/2008/12/03/dry-storm-tempestad-en-seco/"><span style='color:black'>Kerouac, Freddie <span class=SpellE>Redd</span> &amp; Frank O&#8217;Hara</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Remembering <a href="http://eleventhstack.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/william-wharton-an-appreciation/"><span style='color:black'>William <span class=GramE>Wharton</span></span></a><br>
(or Albert <span class=SpellE>du</span> <span class=SpellE>Aime</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.northfloridanewsdaily.com/News/2008/1201/movies/190.HTML"><span style='color:black'>David Hinton&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Classical Chinese Poetry<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://quarterlyconversation.com/sagacircus-by-lyn-hejinian-review"><span style='color:black'>Lyn Hejinian&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Saga / Circus<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://ndgwriting.blogspot.com/2008/11/lyn-hejinians-distance.html"><span style='color:black'>Andy <span class=SpellE>Gricevich</span></span></a> on Hejinian&#8217;s &#8220;The Distance&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/fishbowlla_makeawish_rallies_behind_teen_poet_102370.asp"><span style='color:black'>Make-a-Wish</span></a> supports a teen 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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://quarterlyconversation.com/post-office-by-charles-bukowski"><span style='color:black'>Charles <span class=GramE>Bukowski&#8217;s</span></span></a><span class=GramE> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Post Office<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.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20081128_Changing_Skyline__For_real_this_time.html"><span style='color:black'>Robert <span class=SpellE>Venturi&#8217;s</span></span></a> masterpiece<br>
just down the road<br>
from my house<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7758512.stm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Leckey</span></span></a> gets lucky<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
wins Turner Prize<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/music/68374/anthony-braxton"><span style='color:black'>The Complete <span class=SpellE>Arista</span> Recordings</span></a> of <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/musicreviews/081127/"><span style='color:black'>Anthony Braxton</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/29/paul-mccartney-the-fireman-interview"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>The</span></span><span style='color:black'> Fireman</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://tinyurl.com/6earpl"><span style='color:black'>Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight</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'>Singing <a href="http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=127"><span style='color:black'>Emily D</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'>Globalization&#8217;s front lines<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
a <a href="http://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2008/11/rap-around-world-dj-besho-afghanistan.html"><span style='color:black'>world tour of rap</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'>Baghdad</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> &#8220;sticky bomb&#8221; targets <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97618965"><span style='color:black'>NPR team</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/article/?id=1010&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>Outliers</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&amp; class advantage<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So you <span class=GramE>wants</span> to be a <a href="http://cryingwhilemasturbating.blogspot.com/2008/12/so-you-wants-to-be-hipster.html"><span style='color:black'>hipster</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://onthemessiersideofneat.blogspot.com/2008/11/when-you-turn-into-animal-you-make.html"><span style='color:black'>Which book of philosophy was most transformative?</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;What would <a href="http://samizdatblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/bang-on-drum-adorno-and-free-time.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Adorno</span></span></a> say?&#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'>&#8220;&amp; if my <a href="http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i15/15b00501.htm?utm_source=cr&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:black'>thought dreams could be seen</span></a><br>
they&#8217;d probably put my head in a guillotine<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
but it&#8217;s alright, Ma, it&#8217;s life &amp; life only&#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://tsutpen.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Tom <span class=SpellE>Sutpen&#8217;s</span></span></a> mostly hardboiled photo site:<br>
&#8221;If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
There&#8217;d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>How many post-avant poets are there?<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.shampoopoetry.com/"><span style='color:black'>Shampoo</span></a> </i>has published<br>
<a href="http://www.shampoopoetry.com/shampoostars.html"><span style='color:black'>888 poets</span></a> in its first 34 issues<br>
&amp; only three of the ten <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.thegrandpiano.org/"><span style='color:black'>Grand Piano</span></a>
</i>authors<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160;</span>(Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, myself<span class=GramE>)</span><br>
are included<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03odetta.html?_r=1&amp;hp"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Odetta</span></span></a> is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20081203_odetta.html?hp"><span style='color:black'>gone</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i  style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5ono6l"><span style='color:black'>Washington Post</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>obit<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-odetta3-2008dec03,0,380651.story"><span style='color:black'>LA Times</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>obit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/index.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border="0" height="371" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/V-lXzVpT2mvXGPa5O1xVXze-msEFHnj682wEPDLY3y6g8sTfmxuMy0HhBJPqUf9Ggn76bvaTJ-7Ge-mOlkvZyv1BXO-zVJC_2mDat5Mn5CPe_oya3ZwR7bU%3Ds0-d" width="250"></span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mary &amp; George Oppen at Swarthmore, 1979<br>
photo by Robert S. DuPlessis<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
courtesy of Jacket<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<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 <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/index.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Jacket</span></a> </i>feature on George Oppen<br>
is now complete, having added<br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-clifford-bose.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Pat Clifford</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-cope.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Stephen Cope</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-finch.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Zach Finch</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-k-fraser.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Kathleen Fraser</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-perelman.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Bob Perelman</span></a><br>
&amp;<br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-pritchett.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Patrick Pritchett</span></a><br>
to the works of <br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-duplessis.shtml"><span style='color:black'>DuPlessis</span></a>, <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-evans-george.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Evans</span></a>, <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-filreis.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Filreis</span></a>,<br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-hawkins.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Hawkins</span></a>, <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-heller.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Heller</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-obrien-g.shtml"><span style='color:black'>O&#8217;Brien</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Collected Poems of <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/11/an_emphasis_falls_on_reality.html"><span style='color:black'>Barbara Guest</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'>First newspaper review of <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/35214729.html"><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:black'>The Alphabet</span></i></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&amp; a review from <a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html"><span style='color:black'>CA Conrad</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/nov/27/women-poetry-anthology"><span style='color:black'>Gender bias</span></a> in anthologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.thestar.com/entertainment/article/542771"><span style='color:black'>Canada Council</span></a> denies<br>
an <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6xhng9"><span style='color:black'>obvious</span></a> conflict of interest<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/11/poetry-only-thanksgiving.html"><span style='color:black'>Anne <span class=SpellE>Gorrick&#8217;s</span></span></a> <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Kyotologic</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=16312"><span style='color:black'>Dave Church</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'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081208/mlinko"><span style='color:black'>Ange Mlinko</span></a> on Emily Dickinson<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Will Harvard ditch <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/11/english-literat.html"><span style='color:black'>Brit lit</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://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/specials/article5247093.ece"><span style='color:black'>Paul Muldoon</span></a> finds it &#8220;difficult&#8221; to <a href="http://stars-sliding.blogspot.com/2008/11/mulberry-muldoon.html"><span style='color:black'>make <span class=GramE>sense</span></span></a><br>
(Scroll down in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Times </i>article under &#8220;Comedy&#8221;)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Times&#8217; </i>&#8220;<a href="http://thoughtsfromerynlasgallen.blogspot.com/2008/11/london-times-poetry-holiday.html"><span style='color:black'>Poetry Holiday</span></a>&#8221; recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:City><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>,</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
the closing of <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20081129_Philadelphia_s_Robin_s_Bookstore_is_closing_its_doors.html"><span style='color:black'>Robin&#8217;s Bookstore</span></a> <br>
is page one news<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://nymag.com/arts/all/indie/52572/"><span style='color:black'>New York indie bookstores</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'>How to sell <span class=GramE>poetry</span><br>
(<a href="http://whitepantiesanddeadfriends.blogspot.com/2008/11/pobiz-rosa-alcal-dos-press.html"><span style='color:black'>Barnes &amp; Noble</span></a> edition) <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'>How to sell poetry<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
the view from <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6nt94w"><span style='color:black'>Wales</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/business/26borders.html?ref=books"><span style='color:black'>Borders</span></a> is struggling<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://litoteentete.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>bookstore&#8217;s blog</span></a> in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Paris</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/opinion/30gleick.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion"><span style='color:black'>Publishing without perishing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/opinion/30dowd.html?ref=opinion"><span style='color:black'>Journalism&#8217;s</span></a> one-way ticket<br>
to </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Bangalore</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>French cops <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5vbqp5"><span style='color:black'>terrorize</span></a> journalist<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>CFP<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
Advancing <a href="http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=123"><span style='color:black'>Feminist Poetics</span></a><br>
&amp; Activism<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-poet1-2008dec01,0,744076.story"><span style='color:black'>Imam <span class=SpellE>Bakry</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://adamfieled.blogspot.com/2008/11/hannah-weiner-worth-it.html"><span style='color:black'>Hannah Weiner</span></a> is worth it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://revistamododeusar.blogspot.com/2008/11/lyn-hejinian.html"><span style='color:black'>Lyn Hejinian</span></a> in Portuguese <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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/2008/11/2008_pen_oakland_josephine_mil.html"><span style='color:black'>The 2008 PEN Oakland Jo Miles<br>
National Literary Awards</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.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/50socialist/full/"><span style='color:black'>50 sci-fi &amp; fantasy works</span></a><br>
socialists should read<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22182"><span style='color:black'>Orhan Pamuk</span></a>: &#8220;My Turkish Library&#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://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/11/29/libraries-we-need-them-now-more-than-ever/"><span style='color:black'>Libraries</span></a> &#8211; now more than ever<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/kaisa-ullsvik-miller-on-unspoiled-air.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Kaisa</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Ullsvik</span> Miller</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/1481863.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Airpoets</span></span></a> of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Indianapolis</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/11/what_is_ecopoetry_1.html"><span style='color:black'>Forrest Gander<span class=GramE>:</span></span></a><br>
What is eco-poetry?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The triumph of <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22171"><span style='color:black'>Roberto Bolaño</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=182491"><span style='color:black'>Bolaño&#8217;s poetry, Bolaño&#8217;s 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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22083"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Zadie</span></span><span style='color:black'> Smith</span></a>: two paths for the novel<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://feminine-fragrance.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Ed Baker &amp; <span class=SpellE>Sarojini</span> <span class=SpellE>Sahoo</span></span></a>, talking<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.thenation.com/doc/20081201/davis?rel=hp_books"><span style='color:black'>Jordan Davis</span></a> on the poetics of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Slovenia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.rabbitlightmovies.com/"><span style='color:black'>Rabbit Light Movies&#8217;</span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>latest gathering of poetry reading <span class=SpellE>YouTubes</span><br>
includes <span class=SpellE>Eleni</span> <span class=SpellE>Sikelianos</span>, Ed Roberson<br>
Dan <span class=SpellE>Beachy</span>-Quick, Tim Yu, <br>
Nathalie Stephens &amp; many more<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_04/2979"><span style='color:black'>Erik Davis</span></a> on the new Spicer collected<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'>Steve <span class=SpellE>Fama&#8217;s</span> review of the new<br>
<a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2008/11/very-unfortunate-howler-in-wesleyan.html"><span style='color:black'>Spicer collected poetry</span></a><br>
focuses on a single mini-detail<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Charles <span class=SpellE>Laughton</span> reads <a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2008/11/charles-laughton-reads-jack-kerouac.html"><span style='color:black'>Jack Kerouac</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.truthout.org/112908Y"><span style='color:black'>David <span class=GramE>Smith-<span class=SpellE>Ferri&#8217;s</span></span></span></a><span class=GramE> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.battlefieldwithoutborders.org/"><span style='color:black'>Battlefield Without</span></a></i></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:black'> Borders</span></i></span></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/6jhjbv"><span style='color:black'>Banjo Paterson</span></a>: poetry for blokes</span></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>The <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/11/a_poets_life_in_the_palestinia.html"><span style='color:black'>first biography</span></a> of a Palestinian writer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081208/sherman?rel=hp_books"><span style='color:black'>V.S. Naipaul&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;authorized&#8221; <a href="http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_04/2974"><span style='color:black'>biography</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>James Wood on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/12/01/081201crbo_books_wood"><span style='color:black'>V.S. Naipaul</span></a></span></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081208/deresiewicz?rel=hp_books"><span style='color:black'>James Wood</span></a> &amp; criticism today<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Cavafy + Schuyler = <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-bk_poetry_1130gd.ART.State.Edition1.4a2d96e.html"><span style='color:black'>Mark Doty</span></a>?</span></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='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'><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>&#167;</span></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>2 anthologies of <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/11/europe_dont_look_away_16_new_g.html"><span style='color:black'>new European poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/28/cervantesprize-fiction"><span style='color:black'>Juan <span class=SpellE>Marsé</span></span></a> wins the Cervantes<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 35,000 questions of<br>
<a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\12\01\story_1-12-2008_pg12_10"><span style='color:black'>Josh <span class=SpellE>Malehabadi</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://bourgeoisburglars.blogspot.com/2008/11/sunlit-silence.html"><span style='color:black'>Wendell Berry</span></a>: &#8220;idea poet, sight poet&#8221;</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Poetry &amp; <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/11/uruguay_dont_look_away_1.html"><span style='color:black'>Uruguay</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://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>The Armenian Poetry Project</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.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/28498.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Jaki</span></span><span style='color:black'> Shelton Green</span> </a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the poet laureate of </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>North Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s </span><st1:place><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Piedmont</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'>A biography of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/30/gabriel-garcia-marquez-biography"><span style='color:black'>Márquez</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.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=182511"><span style='color:black'>Milosz</span></a> and the priest</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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

<p 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.mankatofreepress.com/features/local_story_334235403.html?keyword=topstory"><span style='color:black'>Minnesota</span></a> anthology</span><span style='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://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/11/mcgonagalls_all.html"><span style='color:black'>More bad poetry</span></a>, please<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://thephoenix.com/Providence/News/72730-Medicine-men/"><span style='color:black'>Rafael Campo &amp; Franz Wright</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mary Karr on <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/26/AR2008112603430.html"><span style='color:black'>Marie Howe</span></a></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Journals co-edited by Kyle Schlesinger<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://mimeomimeo.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Mimeo <span class=SpellE>Mimeo</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://oncontemporaries.wordpress.com/"><span style='color:black'>On</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jab.lib.uchicago.edu/current/index.php"><span style='color:black'>Journal of Artists Books</span></a></i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>How to save (maybe) <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802250.html"><span style='color:black'>The Washington Post</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html"><span style='color:black'>Google</span></a> as censor<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.europeana.eu/portal/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Europeana</span></span></a> is proving <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5c3a9w"><span style='color:black'>too popular</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'>Mailmen who <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2204823/"><span style='color:black'>horde mail</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'>Language, Truth &amp; <a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/681/full"><span style='color:black'>Logos</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'>Word of the Year: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6xp47t"><span style='color:black'>Obama</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://glassbottomblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/googlisms.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Spankle</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.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-11-30-textbooks_N.htm?csp=34"><span style='color:black'>The Trouble with Textbooks</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.wps1.org/new_site/content/view/2282/"><span style='color:black'>The Eroticism of Pedagogy</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://carolrhoda.blogspot.com/2008/11/poetry-friday.html"><span style='color:black'>David Berman</span></a>, poet &amp; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Jews"><span style='color:black'>Silver Jew</span></a></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/arts/design/30utzon.html?ref=obituaries"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Jorn</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Utzon</span></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'><a href="http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/the-mostly-true-story-of-helvetica-and-the-new-york-city-subway"><span style='color:black'>Helvetica</span></a> underground<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38819"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Peignot</span></span></a> noir</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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.532gallery.com/upcoming.html"><span style='color:black'>Ripped &amp; Torn<span class=GramE>:</span></span></a><br>
collage, assemblage<br>
&amp; a healthy dose of poets<br>
at 532 Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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://wnywp.blogspot.com/2008/11/ub-anderson-gallery-michael-goldberg.html"><span style='color:black'>Selected Thievery</span></a><br>
&amp; the Practice of Looking</span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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

<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.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/whatever-happened-to-the-turner-prize-1041644.html"><span style='color:black'>Turner</span></a> prize is &#8220;dead in the water&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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director of the new </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Frost</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Art Museum</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <br>
at </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Florida</span></st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>International</span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>University</span> </st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></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://alsolikelife.com/shooting/?p=469"><span style='color:black'>Stan <span class=SpellE>Brakhage&#8217;s</span></span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Scenes From Under Childhood</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></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'>Four reviews of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Milk<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
</i><a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081124/REVIEWS/811240297"><span style='color:black'>Roger Ebert</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/movies/26milk.html"><span style='color:black'>New York Times</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/12/01/081201crci_cinema_denby"><span style='color:black'>New Yorker</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/25/DDJ91489PF.DTL&amp;type=movies"><span style='color:black'>San Francisco Chronicle</span></a></i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Why no <a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5186909.ece"><span style='color:black'>art for the nose</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/books/29levi.html?_r=2&amp;8dpc"><span style='color:black'>Claude <span class=SpellE>Lévi</span>-Strauss</span></a> at 100<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'>Adam Kirsch on <a href="http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=097a31f3-c440-4b10-8894-14197d7a6eef"><span style='color:black'>Slavoj Žižek</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://authorscoop.com/2008/11/19/afternoon-viewing-harryette-mullen-on-bob-kaufman/"><span style='color:black'>Harryette Mullen</span></a> on Bob Kaufman<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/index.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Jacket</span></a> </i>George Oppen feature is emerging, with<br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-duplessis.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Rachel Blau DuPlessis</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-evans-george.shtml"><span style='color:black'>George Evans</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-filreis.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Al Filreis</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-hawkins.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Bobbie Louise Hawkins</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-heller.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Michael Heller</span></a><br>
<a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-obrien-g.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Geoffrey O&#8217;Brien</span></a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Robin Tremblay-McGaw <br>
on the Modernist Studies Conference<br>
(<a href="http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/11/modernist-studies-association-annual.html"><span style='color:black'>Part 1</span></a>, <a href="http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/11/part-2-modernist-studies-association.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'><a href="http://tinfishpress.com/charlotte.html"><span style='color:black'>Norman Fischer&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Charlotte&#8217;s Way<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'>Reading <a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2008/11/ryan-fitzpatrick-reads-katie-degentesh.html"><span style='color:black'>Katie Degentesh</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://heatstrings.blogspot.com/2008/11/ends-of-alphabets.html"><span style='color:black'>Aldon Nielson</span></a> on the end of alphabets<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.epoetry.org/issues/spring01/text/prose/bromige.html"><span style='color:black'>David Bromige</span></a> on poetry in the &#8216;60s &amp; &#8216;70s<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Yet <a href="http://www.forgodot.com/2008/10/answers-to-sillimans-sunset-debris.html"><span style='color:black'>another set of answers</span></a> to<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_sunset.html"><span style='color:black'>Sunset Debris</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'>When they were young:<br>
the <a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/images/Poetry-Project-1984.jpg"><span style='color:black'>Poetry Project</span></a> staff of 1984-85<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'>When they were younger:<br>
at <a href="http://reneemarie.vox.com/library/post/at-frank-oharas-loft.html"><span style='color:black'>Frank O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s loft</span></a>, 1964<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>John Timpane on <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20081123_Astonishing_triumph_of_a_novel.html"><span style='color:black'>Roberto Bolaño&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/14/RV8I140AFM.DTL&amp;type=books"><span style='color:black'>2666</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2008/11/gaddis-mopping-up.html"><span style='color:black'>William Gaddis &amp; Roberto Bolaño</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081208/valdes"><span style='color:black'>Marcela Valdes</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>2666<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/11/24/081124fi_fiction_danticat"><span style='color:black'>Edwidge Danticat&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Ghosts&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6d9ors"><span style='color:black'>Emily Dickinson</span></a> Deluxe <br>
Baby-Doll T Shirt<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A president who has read<br>
<a href="http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7b984BC401-0F78-456B-946B-C8DAE12D0362%7d)&amp;language=EN"><span style='color:black'>Borges &amp; Cortázar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://belz.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/whispered-jokes-analyzed/"><span style='color:black'>weirdo school</span></a> of poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://exoskeleton-johannes.blogspot.com/2008/11/find-us-with-lemurs-soft-surrealism.html"><span style='color:black'>Fatso poetry, lemur 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'>Close-reading  (misreading?)<br>
<a href="http://presenteverywhere.blogspot.com/2008/11/rae-armantrouts-prayers.html"><span style='color:black'>Rae Armantrout&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Prayers&#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'>Who&#8217;s <a href="//www.google.com/insights/search/#q=poetry&amp;cmpt=q"><span style='color:black'>looking for poetry</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'>Or a <a href="//www.google.com/insights/search/#q=poem&amp;cmpt=q"><span style='color:black'>poem</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Just add <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/nov/21/poster-poems-water-billy-mills"><span style='color:black'>water</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In </span><st1:Street> <st1:address><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Harvard Square</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>,<br>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/11/20/plan_to_shutter_newsstand_pierces_heart_of_harvard_sq/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:black'>Out of Town News</span></a><br>
is set to close<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A bookstore in <a href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/anne-on-the-move-bookish-in-berlin/"><span style='color:black'>Berlin</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://josephharrington.blogspot.com/2008/11/history-and-poetics.html"><span style='color:black'>Joseph Harrington</span></a> on poetry &amp; history<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://henrycorbinproject.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html#7788349108319855908"><span style='color:black'>Henry Corbin</span></a> &amp; American poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://slowmuse.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/dorothea-tanning-with-our-souls-in-our-laps/"><span style='color:black'>Dorothea Tanning</span></a> &amp; the poets<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p 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.dosmadres.com/news-reviews/eric-hoffmans-of-burt-kimmelmans-there-are-words/"><span style='color:black'>Burt Kimmelman&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>There Are Words<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.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Literature/Poetry/Robert-Creeley-Lecture-on-Poetry-in-Motion/22102"><span style='color:black'>Robert Creeley</span></a> on poetry in motion<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>3 poems by <a href="http://artrecess.blogspot.com/2008/11/eileen-tabios-california-usa-three.html"><span style='color:black'>Eileen Tabios</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.thenation.com/doc/20081208/smallwood2"><span style='color:black'>Toni Morrison</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/entertainment/books/story/48d6cccb01e216e286257508007a251e?OpenDocument"><span style='color:black'>Joe Benevento</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://heatstrings.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-wagoner-at-penn-state.html"><span style='color:black'>David Wagoner</span></a> in Happy Valley<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.hindu.com/2008/11/11/stories/2008111153830300.htm"><span style='color:black'>Real Indian literature</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'>Native American identity poetics on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec08/nmpoetry_11-19.html"><span style='color:black'>The News Hour</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://catskillcottageseed.com/?p=914"><span style='color:black'>Negative capability</span></a> &amp; the 10,000-hour investment<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'>Reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/18/digested-read-john-crace-outliers"><span style='color:black'>Outliers</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://mog.com/Reckon/blog/244276"><span style='color:black'>First thought, best thought</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The New York Times </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>obit for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/books/21finkel.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:black'>Donald Finkel</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'>An appreciation in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.stlbeacon.org/issues_politics/region/don_finkel_brought_grace_and_passion_to_his_poety_and_his_teaching"><span style='color:black'>St. Louis Beacon</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'>Reviews of the <a href="http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/national-book-awards-valupak-version-09.html"><span style='color:black'>NBA poetry finalists</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 never-dull-enough<br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/20/bad-sex-award-fiction"><span style='color:black'>Bad Sex Award</span></a><br>
is back<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 only writer to receive<br>
a National Medal of Art this year is<br>
<a href="http://www.nea.gov/news/news08/Medals.html"><span style='color:black'>Stan Lee</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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112002821.html"><span style='color:black'>Mary Karr</span></a> is &#8220;a crank&#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'>Many <a href="//www.youtube.com/grdodge"><span style='color:black'>Dodge Poetry Festival</span></a> videos on YouTube<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A home for (mostly) Quietism in <a href="http://www.lmcc.net/art/programs/2008/poemsandpints/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Lower Manhattan</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'>Lynn Neary talks with <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97052253&amp;sc=emaf"><span style='color:black'>Salvatore Scibona</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://mhcyoung.blogspot.com/2008/11/millions-billions-trillions-zillions.html"><span style='color:black'>Mark Young</span></a> has my number<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 so (in a different way) has <a href="http://estherpress.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-again-i-dont-know-what-it-is-about.html"><span style='color:black'>James Wagner</span></a>&#185;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But this site has <a href="http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html"><span style='color:black'>yours</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/23/BUKF146T3V.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Booksellers, publishers</span></a> feel pinch<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A belated <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>New York Times obit<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>An appreciation from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112003689.html"><span style='color:black'>Washington Post</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/o2/grace-hartigan-new-york-painter-who-broke-glass-ceiling-dead-86"><span style='color:black'>The NY Observer</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>wonders if Hartigan&#8217;s name<br>
is secretly engraved on <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/10/pixohara/ohara-grave.jpg"><span style='color:black'>Frank O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s tombstone</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'>Through the lens of <a href="http://www.theenterprisebulletin.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1303176"><span style='color:black'>Coach House Press</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'>Susan Bee &#8211; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Bee-Susan_Not.html"><span style='color:black'>Not</span></a> </i>vispo<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Street art with tape &#8211; <a href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/now-showing-aakash-nihalani/"><span style='color:black'>Aakash Nihalani</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/22/DDIC14999R.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Obama</span></a> &amp; the arts<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'>Has <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-nov21-08.html#saved"><span style='color:black'>Obama</span></a> saved the internet?<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'>Will <a href="http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews11-20-08.asp"><span style='color:black'>MoCA LA</span></a> survive?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/11/eli-broad-offer.html"><span style='color:black'>Broad</span></a> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-oe-broad-2008nov22,0,2108831.story"><span style='color:black'>proposal</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/17/elephants-zoos-classical-music-elgar"><span style='color:black'>Prozac for pachyderms</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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#185; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Paris Review </i>feature, which is indeed decades old, was part of an attempt (unsuccessful to my eye) to defibrillate the journal in hopes that a spark of life would get the blood pumping again. The 39-year-old appearance in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry </i><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160;</span>is part of my own quietist past, of which I have written more than once. See also publications in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>TriQuarterly, Southern Review, Poetry Northwest </i>and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The </i></span><st1:City><st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></i></st1:place></st1:City><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Review </span></i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>from that same general period. Ironically, Henry Rago, who took the work for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry, </i>passed over many truly quietist pieces of mine and ended up using an imitation of Robert Kelly&#8217;s poetry &#8211; I was already transitioning away from that world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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