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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://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/its_always_a_bad_time_for_poet_1.html"><span style='color:black'>Kenny Goldsmith</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'>Close reading <a href="http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com/2009/01/cant-stop-cars-poemtalk-13.html"><span style='color:black'>Kathleen Fraser</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://tinyurl.com/8vss36"><span style='color:black'>Israeli poets</span></a> protest </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Gaza</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> war<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.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june09/inaug_poet_01-13.html"><span style='color:black'>Elizabeth Alexander</span></a> on the inaugural poem<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 AP asks 10 poets for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="//www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibsOGtci-YQKFFi8qnh424NuxZ9wD95MDHQ80"><span style='color:black'>their </span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>inaugural poems</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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="https://narrativemagazine.com/node/7876/"><span style='color:black'>First words</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Five ways to practice poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;New Lit Boy&#8221; <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/all-new/53358/"><span style='color:black'>Tao Lin</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'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New York Times </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>obit<br>
for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/arts/15snodgrass.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:black'>W.D. Snodgrass</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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telltale heart really belongs<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.paradigme.com/sources/SOURCES-PDF/Sources20-1-02.pdf"><span style='color:black'>Marjorie Perloff</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 rest of <span class=SpellE>Linh</span> <span class=SpellE>Dinh&#8217;s</span> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Seven Contemporary Italian Poets:<br>
</i><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/seven_contemporary_italian_poe_3.html"><span style='color:black'>Marina <span class=SpellE>Pizzi</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/seven_contemporary_italian_poe_2.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Vanni</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Santoni</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/seven_contemporary_italian_poe_4.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Florinda</span></span><span style='color:black'> Fusco</span></a><br>
<a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/seven_contemporary_italian_poe_6.html"><span style='color:black'>Michele <span class=SpellE>Zaffarano</span></span></a><br>
<a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/seven_contemporary_italian_poe_7.html"><span style='color:black'>Alessandro <span class=SpellE>Broggi</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.whimsyspeaks.com/2009/01/mesmerized.html"><span style='color:black'>Mesmerized</span></a> by flarf<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Is <a href="http://www.poegles.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Poegles</span></span></a> flarf?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Three (inter)views of <a href="http://fivebranchtree.blogspot.com/2009/01/when-trying-to-explain-to-someone-why.html"><span style='color:black'>John Ashbery</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://omnidawnblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/hank-lazer-photo-videocast.html"><span style='color:black'>Hank <span class=SpellE>Lazer</span></span></a> <br>
photo &amp; <span class=SpellE>videocast</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.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw"><span style='color:black'>Michael <span class=SpellE>Silverblatt&#8217;s</span></span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Bookworm </i><span class=GramE>archives</span><br>
(over 900 MP3s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 Bernstein&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.necessetics.com/charles.html"><span style='color:black'>The 
Subject</span></a><br>
<br>
</i><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Yarmolinsky.html"><span style='color:black'>Sound files</span></a> of Charles Bernstein-Ben <span class=SpellE>Yarmolinsky</span> operas<br>
including two versions of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Subject</i>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Remembering <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/magazine/28lives-t.html?emc=eta1"><span style='color:black'>Jason <span class=SpellE>Shinder</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'>Liam <span class=SpellE>Agrani</span> lives in the margins (<a href="http://www.beardofbees.com/pubs/Volume_One.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://thenounthatverbsyourworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/ravishing-nonsense-of-poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>Nostalgia &amp; quietism</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/2009/01/12/AR2009011203146.html"><span style='color:black'>Catharsis vs. epiphany</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://areyououtsidethelines.blogspot.com/2009/01/marilyn-hacker-among-new-chancellors.html"><span style='color:black'>Edward Hirsch &amp; Marilyn Hacker</span></a><br>
have been named<br>
Chancellors of the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Academy</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>American Poets</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/books/12reading.html"><span style='color:black'>Literary reading perks back up</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/2009/01/15/BALP15AD5O.DTL"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Booksmith</span></span></a> beats the odds<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=3389"><span style='color:black'>Book Thug&#8217;s</span></a> very big subscription deal<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2009/01/mla-and-question-of-politics-mla.html"><span style='color:black'>Politics &amp; the MLA</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'>WCW meets the MLA (<a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Bernstein-Charles_Academy-in-Peril._1983.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The poetry of <a href="http://www.thepoetryblog.net/2009/01/13/austers-poems/"><span style='color:black'>Paul <span class=SpellE>Auster</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://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5464773.ece"><span style='color:black'>Shakespeare</span></a> &amp; deep </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>England</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'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/677/roll_deep/"><span style='color:black'>Luc <span class=SpellE>Sante</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'>The antiwar poetry of <a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/01/robinson-jeffers-antiwar-poems.html"><span style='color:black'>Robinson Jeffers</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.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/arts/design/16cong.html?_r=1"><span style='color:black'>library</span></a> </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jefferson</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> built<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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/8nrsqw"><span style='color:black'>library of secrets</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 note on the <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/treasures_new_york_city_indie_bookstore_donated_library"><span style='color:black'>Gotham Book Mart &#8211; Penn</span></a> deal<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.observer.com/mobile/article/81184"><span style='color:black'>An agent</span></a> in the making<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 will be the <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/09_03/b4116064966329.htm"><span style='color:black'>last media giant</span></a> standing?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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/2009/01/13/business/media/13book.html"><span style='color:black'>Borders</span></a> hedges it board<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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/2009/01/14/DDBC1599EU.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Arts orgs</span></a> at risk<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family: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://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/01/battlestar-the.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Battlestar</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Galactica&#8217;s</span></span></a> </span> </i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>final season<br>
starts tonight!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family: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://tinyurl.com/8vjo2k"><span style='color:black'>The Chicago Tribune</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
on<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Where Does It or You Begin?</span></a><br>
(Memory as Innovation)<br>
Writing, Performance &amp; Video Festival<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'>The graying of the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/14/DD76157U6N.DTL"><span style='color:black'>jazz world</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.niwo.com/steve/music/songbook.html"><span style='color:black'>The Steve Layton <span class=GramE>songbook</span></span></a><br>
(with lyrics <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>and vocals </i>from everyone 
from<br>
Ezra Pound to Edmond <span class=SpellE>Jabès</span> to Leroy Jenkins)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/found-sound-city.html"><span style='color:black'>Slow music &#8211; found sound</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.braunsteinquay.com/voulkos/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Peter <span class=SpellE>Voulkos</span></span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the godfather of ceramics<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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/2009/01/13/arts/13vanbruggen.html?ref=obituaries"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Coosje</span></span><span style='color:black'> van <span class=SpellE>Bruggen</span></span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>As Captain <span class=SpellE>Harold Dobey</span> in <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Starsky</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> &amp; Hutch</i> in the 1970s, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/02/arts/AP-Obit-Hamilton.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:black'>Bernie Hamilton</span></a> was one of the very first African-American authority figures on American television. He passed away last week at the age of 80. I got to know </span><st1:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:black'>Hamilton</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> a little back then while he was dating one of my roommates in a large collective household on </span><st1:Street><st1:address><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>California Street</span> <st1:address></st1:Street><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'>San Francisco</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>. </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Hamilton</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> was smart, kind, funny, generous, spontaneous &#8211; &#8220;Hey, Lizzie, let&#8217;s go to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> for the weekend!&#8221; &#8211; a little sensitive that his brother, jazzman Chico Hamilton, was more famous &amp; successful than he was, and totally frustrated at whites who didn&#8217;t think African-Americans could excel at whatever they set their sights on. He&#8217;d been a volunteer driver for Paul Robeson during the 1948 Henry Wallace presidential campaign &amp; revered Robeson. As the son of a cop, I remember being surprised at how progressive Hamilton was.<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="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=E85iFHTKrAI"><span style='color:black'>Charles Olson</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/Issue2/Text/PoemLittle.html"><span style='color:black'>Billy</span></a> <a href="http://www.2river.org/2RView/2_4/bios/little.html"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>Little</span></span></a> <a href="http://www.bigbridge.org/issue7/poetblittle.htm"><span style='color:black'>died</span></a> of cancer this morning<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/2008/12/on-spicer-thinking-out-loud.html"><span style='color:black'>Jack Spicer</span></a> &amp; the law<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://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-vocabulary-did-this-to-me-collected.html"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>rob</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>mclennan&#8217;s</span></span></a> review<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://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/january-2009-jack-spicer/"><span style='color:black'>Jack Spicer&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>My Vocabulary Did This to Me<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'>Investigating <a href="http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2009/1/Books/All-Projects-NOW"><span style='color:black'>Ed Sanders</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.ministryofok.com/archives/255"><span style='color:black'>Joe Safdie and Rae Armantrout</span></a><br>
at Beyond Baroque<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-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.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/12/my-derisive-res.html"><span style='color:black'>George Packer</span></a> of <span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> New Yorker<br>
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Elizabeth Alexander<br>
as the inaugural poet<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'>Why do <span class=SpellE>pols</span> gravitate<br>
to <a href="http://scottweaver.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/why-do-public-figures-keep-citing-that-crappy-kipling-poem/"><span style='color:black'>crappy poetry</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The books &amp; poetry of <br>
<a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/12/littlestest.html"><span style='color:black'>John <span class=SpellE>Martone</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.doublechange.com/dcblog/?p=56"><span style='color:black'>2 new sets of DVDs of readings</span></a><br>
in France<br>
(includes Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, <br>
<span class=SpellE>Rosmarie</span> Waldrop, Jacques <span class=SpellE>Roubaud</span>, Keith Waldrop, <br>
Norma Cole, Bill <span class=SpellE>Berkson</span>, Emanuel <span class=SpellE>Hocquard</span>,<br>
Robert Grenier, Kristin <span class=SpellE>Prevallet</span>,<br>
Jerry Rothenberg, Tom <span class=SpellE>Raworth</span><br>
&amp; many more)<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.dailymotion.com/Espace_Maurice_Blanchot"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Blanchot</span></span><span style='color:black'> at 100</span></a><br>
(15 YouTube videos<br>
of the conference at Bard)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://learningmetonymy.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/metonymy-and-encoding/"><span style='color:black'>Metonymy &amp; encoding</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'>Elisa <span class=SpellE>Gabbert</span> on <a href="http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/january-2009-stephanie-young/"><span style='color:black'>Stephanie Young</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://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/12/ruminations-on-mla-and-other-things.html"><span style='color:black'>Robin Tremblay-<span class=SpellE>McGaw</span></span></a> at the MLA<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2009/01/random-bay-area-notes.html"><span style='color:black'>MLA</span></a> notes<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://rateyourstudents.blogspot.com/2008/12/does-anyone-know-how-to-interview-ten.html"><span style='color:black'>How <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>not </i>to interview</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'>From the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=5728"><span style='color:black'>Chronicle of Higher Medication</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 <a href="http://chronicle.com/news/article/5720/mla-2008-a-buyers-market"><span style='color:black'>buyer&#8217;s market</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://chronicle.com/news/article/5718/mla-2008-fear-and-interviewing"><span style='color:black'>Fear &amp; interviews</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'>On the <a href="http://rateyourstudents.blogspot.com/2008/12/strangers-on-plane-overheard-post-mla.html"><span style='color:black'>plane ride</span></a> home<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/30/horowitz"><span style='color:black'>David Horowitz</span></a> at the MLA<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'>And <a href="http://chronicle.com/news/article/5721/mla-2008-david-horowitz-meets-his-critics"><span style='color:black'>here</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'>And <a href="http://tinyurl.com/8kbbn7"><span style='color:black'>here</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.ourownvoice.com/essays/essay2008c-6a.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Aileen <span class=SpellE>Ibardaloza</span></span></a><br>
on her mother reading <br>
Eileen Tabios<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://dbrookshire.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-do-i-write-didi-menendez.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Didi</span></span><span style='color:black'> Menendez<span class=GramE>:</span></span></a><br>
Why I write<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.memorious.org/?id=263"><span style='color:black'>Larissa 
Szporluk</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'>Carolyn <span class=SpellE>Cassady</span> speaks of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7760000/7760097.stm"><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'>Three-day-old <a href="http://chronicle.com/news/article/5716/politics-in-the-classroom-stanley-fish-style"><span style='color:black'>Fish</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://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/january-2009-john-taggart/"><span style='color:black'>John Taggart&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>There are Birds<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'>On first seeing <a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/a_broader_question.html"><span style='color:black'>Iceland</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 left bank of <a href="http://www.djelloulmarbrook.com/2008/12/31/the-left-bank-of-new-england/"><span style='color:black'>New England</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://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2008/12/review-of-liar-by-mike-amnasan.html"><span style='color:black'>Michael <span class=SpellE>Amnasan&#8217;s</span></span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Liar<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'>Farewell to <br>
<a href="http://nancysimpson.blogspot.com/2008/12/farewell-to-three-poets-named-john.html"><span style='color:black'>3 poets named John</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/books/31sali.html"><span style='color:black'>J.D. Salinger</span></a> at 90<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 wisdom of <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/01/NS97150A1F.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Holden <span class=SpellE>Caufield</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://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/what_i_usually_say_to_my_stude.html"><span style='color:black'>Eleven things</span></a> writers should know<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/january-2009-patricia-smith/"><span style='color:black'>Patricia Smith&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Blood Dazzler<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://omnidawnblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/laura-moriarty-video-and-links.html"><span style='color:black'>Laura Moriarty</span></a><br>
reading from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A <span  class=GramE>Semblance</span><br>
</i></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(YouTube) </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://exoskeleton-johannes.blogspot.com/2009/01/quietism-response-to-seths-response-to.html"><span style='color:black'>Quietism</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'>Positioning contemporary </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> poetry by<br>
<a href="http://www.milenio.com/node/139499"><span style='color:black'>reading Rae Armantrout <br>
in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The New <span class=GramE>Yorker</span> </i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br>
</i>(in Spanish)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/29/DD421506IO.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Carey Perloff on Harold Pinter</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.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/note.asp?NOTE=20750834"><span style='color:black'>The Letters of Allen Ginsberg</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://omnidawnblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/video-feature-2-donald-revell-plus-new.html"><span style='color:black'>Donald <span class=SpellE>Revell</span></span></a> reading <span class=GramE>Rimbaud</span><br>
</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(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 href="http://farfallapress.blogspot.com/2008/12/ahsahta-press-in-nyc.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ahsahta</span></span><span style='color:black'> comes to NYC</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://calquezine.blogspot.com/2008/06/interview-with-dmitry-golynko.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Dmitry</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Golynko</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2008/12/anyhow.html"><span style='color:black'>Anyhow</span></a>&#8221; &#8211;<br>
summing up an amazing year<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.uclastore.com/em_imgs/uclaauthors/200704.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Harryette</span></span><span style='color:black'> Mullen</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'>Form <br> 
is / is not <br>
<a href="http://myshkin2.typepad.com/mysh/2008/12/it-may-be-bad-form-but.html"><span style='color:black'>an extension of content</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;8 Found Poems from<br>
<span class=SpellE>Schaum&#8217;s</span> <a href="http://thenewermetaphysicals.blogspot.com/2008/12/8-found-poems-from-schaums-german.html"><span style='color:black'>German Grammar</span></a>&#8221;<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'>The <a href="http://www.longhousepoetry.com/bibliography3b.html"><span style='color:black'>Longhouse photo album</span></a><br>
is a visual history<br>
of poetry in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Vermont</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
over the last 30 years<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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/6srk6p"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Gotham</span></span><span style='color:black'> Book Mart</span></a> arrives at Penn<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Saving <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/36966754.html"><span style='color:black'>Philly libraries</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/Library_victory_Score_one_for_Mom.html"><span style='color:black'>Score one for Mom</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'>Interviews with <a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/12/28/seeing_things/"><span style='color:black'>Seamus Heaney</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://listverse.com/literature/10-books-that-screwed-up-the-world/"><span style='color:black'>10 books</span></a> that screwed up the world<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://omnidawnblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/and-explosions-forced-away-hummingbirds.html"><span style='color:black'>Christopher <span class=SpellE>Arigo</span></span></a> <br>
reading from<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>In the <span class=GramE>Archives</span><br>
</i></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>(YouTube) </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;The </span><st1:place><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dry Tortugas</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8221; (<a href="http://www.broadsidedpress.org/bsides/2009/47-Tortugas.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Talking with <a href="http://www.broadsidedpress.org/qa/2009/09jan.shtml"><span style='color:black'>Molly Fisk &amp; Yuko Adachi</span></a> <br>
about their collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/dec/28/major-literary-journal-moves-uca-20081228/"><span style='color:black'>The Corpse</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>walks<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.theday.com/re.aspx?re=9cc72772-5efe-4b84-981f-8d062b22a9d8"><span style='color:black'>Mark Doty</span></a>: feeling validated<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Preparing to be <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/books/01eder.html"><span style='color:black'>Susan <span class=SpellE>Sontag</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 note on <a href="http://issuu.com/didimenendez/docs/shwa19"><span style='color:black'>Hugh Fox</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'>Village Voice </span></i><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>lays</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> off <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/business/media/31voice.html?scp=1&amp;sq=hentoff&amp;st=cse"><span style='color:black'>Nat <span class=SpellE>Hentoff</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://abandonyourtimidnotion.blogspot.com/2008/12/review-of-year-categories-in-order-that.html"><span style='color:black'>Some bests</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/8muvd8"><span style='color:black'>Top 10 language stories of 2008</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'>Misogynist <span class=SpellE>tagger</span><br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/02/felt-tip-pens-asbo"><span style='color:black'>banned from carrying pens</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'>12 cross-sections of the <br>
<a href="http://greylodge.org/gpc/?p=1603"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ubuweb</span></span><span style='color:black'> archive</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'>Guerrilla Girls on Tour<br>
New Year&#8217;s <span class=GramE>Resolutions</span><br>
(<a href="http://ggontour.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-years-resolutions.html"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>, <a href="http://ggontour.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-new-years-resolutions.html"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://ggontour.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-year-2009.html"><span style='color:black'>here</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://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/12/moca-advice.html"><span style='color:black'>LA MOCA</span></a> should<br>
&#8221;show <span class=GramE>its own</span>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A profile of <a href="http://stevied1.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/jasper-johns/"><span style='color:black'>Jasper Johns</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://yourinstructions.org/"><span style='color:black'>Instruction</span></a> art<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family: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.badlit.com/?p=1995"><span style='color:black'>Naked Lens: Beat Cinema</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-me-lopez28-2008dec28,0,5679866.column"><span style='color:black'>Nathaniel Anthony Ayers</span></a><br>
&amp; the Disciples of Beethoven<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.villagevoice.com/2008-12-31/music/2008-voice-jazz-poll-winners"><span style='color:black'>2008 <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Village Voice </i>Jazz Poll Winners</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://experimentalfictionpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/world-premiere-opera-version-of-steins.html"><span style='color:black'>The Making of Americans</span></a> &#8211;</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> the opera<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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/arts/critics/musical/2009/01/05/090105crmu_music_ross"><span style='color:black'>The Century Club</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801274.html"><span style='color:black'>No bailout for the arts</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20081230_Philosophers_at_work__and_hoping_for_it.html"><span style='color:black'>Philosophers at work</span></a> <br>
&amp; looking for 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901896.html"><span style='color:black'>The reader</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://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB123025595706634689.html"><span style='color:black'>And here</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 lurid <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>NY Times </i>&#8220;review&#8221; of<br>
Jack Spicer&#8217;s<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/books/24garn.html?_r=1&amp;8dpc"><span style='color:black'>My Vocabulary Did This to Me</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'>And another in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book23-2008dec23,0,7648141.story"><span style='color:black'>LA Times</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'>Was <a href="http://thisislikesogay.blogspot.com/2008/12/if-helen-keller-could-get-through-life.html"><span style='color:black'>Jack Spicer</span></a> sexy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 detailed<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
multi-part look at<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.whimsyspeaks.com/"><span style='color:black'>The Best American Poetry 2008</span></a><br>
</i>answers <br>
my <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-i-linked-to-h.html"><span style='color:black'>20<sup>th</sup> question</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'>My list of upcoming marathons missed<br>
</span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s<br>
&#8221;<a href="http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml"><span style='color:black'>When Does It or You Begin (Memory as Innovation)</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
Writing, Performance &amp; Video&#8221;<br>
from Jan. 9 to Feb. 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Wishing it was<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet.html"><span style='color:black'>Will </span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>Alexander</span></a></i><br>
at <span class=SpellE>Obama&#8217;s</span> inaugural<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Oops, somebody&#8217;s read <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTgwMjZkZTkxYmQwYmYzYTZlOTJiNjk2ZGUwODE5YWU="><span style='color:black'>Venus <span class=SpellE>Hottentot</span></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://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=314410111996091"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>An X-rated inaugural</span></span></a><span class=GramE>?</span><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.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/books/25poet.html"><span style='color:black'>The NY Times</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>weighs in<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://ydr.inyork.com/ci_11320625"><span style='color:black'>Gerry <span class=SpellE>Meisenhelder</span></span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
poet laureate of </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>York</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>PA</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>,<br>
<span class=SpellE>has</span> 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://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/archive/EBB-school.html"><span style='color:black'>Emma Bee Bernstein</span></a>:<br>
&#8221;What I Learned in School Today&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <span class=SpellE>Flickr</span> memorial website <br>
for <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/930403@N25/"><span style='color:black'>Emma Bee Bernstein</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://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/archive/emma-bee-bernstein.html"><span style='color:black'>Charles Bernstein&#8217;s</span></a> website<br>
with memorial service information<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://girldrive.blogspot.com/2008/12/emma-1985-2008.html"><span style='color:black'>Nona <span class=SpellE>Aronowitz</span></span></a> on Bernstein<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'>Remembering <a href="http://eye4ever.blogspot.com/2008/12/emma-bee-bernstein.html"><span style='color:black'>Bernstein</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New York Times </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>obit <br>
of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/books/23mitchell.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:black'>Adrian Mitchell</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'>Remembering <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/77669/I-walk-across-High-Holborn-and-think-of-you-with-nothing-on"><span style='color:black'>Mitchell</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'>And <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/22/adrian-mitchell-poetry"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A <a href="http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=16758"><span style='color:black'>Socialist Workers obit</span></a><br>
with links to videos<br>
from <a href="http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=16759"><span style='color:black'>1965</span></a> &amp; <a href="http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=16760"><span style='color:black'>2008</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/culture/2008/dec/26/harold-pinter-death-tributes"><span style='color:black'>Tributes</span></a> to Harold Pinter<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20081226_Nobel_dramatist_Harold_Pinter_dies.html"><span style='color:black'>Carlin Romano on Pinter</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://bestlittleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/luminous-echoes-from-2005-creeley.html"><span style='color:black'>Pinter &amp; Creeley</span></a> on war<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.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/dec/26/harold-pinter-final-interview"><span style='color:black'>Pinter&#8217;s last interview</span></a>:<br>
&#8221;Cricket is better than sex&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090112/spillane"><span  style='color:black'>Citizen Pinter</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.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/dec/26/pinter-poetry"><span style='color:black'>Pinter the poet</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.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/dec/25/pinter-theatre"><span style='color:black'>Pinter&#8217;s drama</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Remembering <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5397644.ece"><span style='color:black'>Dorothy Porter</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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> &#8220;<a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2008/12/poetry-books-published-in-2008.html"><span style='color:black'>20 Great Poetry Books of 2008</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-made-08-great-as-well-as-what-i.html"><span style='color:black'>Gary Sullivan&#8217;s</span></a> 2008 in review<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://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2008/12/look-back-on-2008-part-2-our-selves.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://you-can-take-it-with-you.blogspot.com/2008/12/finding-my-way-through-2008.html"><span style='color:black'>A year&#8217;s worth of reading</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Close reading<br>
one sentence<br>
from <a href="http://theenk.blogspot.com/2008/12/bob-greniers-sentences.html"><span style='color:black'>Robert Grenier</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:City> <st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Holland</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>
<a href="http://jjpollet.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/bruinja/"><span style='color:black'>an actual campaign</span></a><br>
for Poet Laureate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I&#8217;m Dreaming of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/burroughs-junkys-christmas.html"><span class=GramE><span style='color:black'>A</span></span><span style='color:black'><span class=SpellE>Junky&#8217;s</span> Christmas</span></a></i><br>
just like the one Bill Burroughs used to know<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20081228_For_2_Beats__a_beginning.html"><span style='color:black'>A prehistory of the Beats</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'>Genealogy of the <a href="http://afilreis.blogspot.com/2008/12/school-of-quietude-geneaology.html"><span style='color:black'>School of Q</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'>Seattle</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Poetry Chain<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
<a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/12/19/seattle_poetry_chain_4_robert"><span style='color:black'>Robert <span class=SpellE>Mittenthal</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/12/26/seattle_poetry_chain_5_nico_v"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Nico</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Vassilakis</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://rikfiles.blogspot.com/2008/12/without-invitation-rik-answers-some.html"><span style='color:black'>Being interviewed</span></a><br>
without being asked<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://aaronapps.blogspot.com/2008/12/questionnaire.html"><span style='color:black'>Ditto</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>3 questions for <a href="http://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.com/2008/12/ed-baker-three-questions.html"><span style='color:black'>Ed Baker</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/26/DDVM14QP7L.DTL&amp;type=books"><span style='color:black'>Gary Snyder</span></a> <br>
on corresponding with Allen Ginsberg<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.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/washington/24kissinger.html?_r=1"><span style='color:black'>Henry Kissinger &amp; Allen Ginsberg</span></a><br>
naked together on <span class=GramE>TV</span><br>
(scroll down)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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/2008/12/from-tears-in-fence-48.html"><span style='color:black'>Reading the journals you&#8217;re already in</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://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com/2008/12/revolutionary-proposal-invisible.html"><span style='color:black'>Alexander <span class=SpellE>Trocchi</span></span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
Seize the world!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.norwichbulletin.com/lifestyles/x1737133209/Maulucci-On-Poetry-Poets-have-long-credited-wine-for-inspiration-comfort"><span style='color:black'>Under the influence</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'>Flarf + <span class=GramE>conceptualism</span><br>
(<a href="http://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2008/12/conspiracy-left-to-right-k.html"><span style='color:black'>conspiracy theory</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://perpetualbird.blogspot.com/2008/12/dissenting-from-debate.html"><span style='color:black'>Quietism pretending not to take sides</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/a26s8a"><span style='color:black'>Spun Puns (&amp; Anagrams<span class=GramE>)</span></span></a><br>
in the work of <span class=SpellE>Harryette</span> Mullen<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/science_fiction_poetry.html"><span style='color:black'>Poetry &amp;/as sci-fi</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'>Waiting for <a href="http://kulturindustrie.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-beckett.html"><span style='color:black'>Sam Beckett</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.capeannhistoricalmuseum.org/special/exhibits.htm"><span style='color:black'>Polis is <span class=GramE>What</span>?</span></a><br>
Finding one&#8217;s way in <br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Maximus Poems,&#8221;<br>
</i>a talk Jan. 3 in </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Gloucester</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Mass.</span></st1:State></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
(scroll down)<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.charlotteobserver.com/274/story/423008.html"><span style='color:black'>Black Mountain</span></a> spirit lingers<br>
in </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Hickory</span></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>NC</span></st1:State></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'>Dirk Johnson is posting<br>
sections of <a href="http://dirk-johnson.com/wpblog/"><span style='color:black'>Ronald Johnson&#8217;s</span></a><br>
out-of-print masterwork<br>
</span><st1:State><st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ark</span></i></st1:place></st1:State><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>online<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/jack-kerouac-pull-my-daisy-and-jazz-and.html"><span style='color:black'>Jack Kerouac&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Pull My <span class=GramE>Daisy</span><br>
</i>(or maybe<br>
Robert Frank&#8217;s &amp; Alfred Leslie&#8217;s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-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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where in 1960<br>
Ron Padgett gave his first public reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-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://slimwindows.blogspot.com/2008/12/love-letter-to-my-blog-roll-sequel.html"><span style='color:black'>Love letter to a <span class=SpellE>blogroll</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.flashpointmag.com/"><span style='color:black'>Ezra Pound &amp; Wall Street</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/12/23/publishing/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Literature after the death of trade publishing</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.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/12/22/081222ta_talk_surowiecki"><span style='color:black'>News after the death of newspapers</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://tinyurl.com/84ldms"><span style='color:black'>Washington Post, Baltimore Sun</span></a> &#8211;</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
something less than competitors<br>
in the same market<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/934rmoey.asp"><span style='color:black'>new <span class=SpellE>Luddism</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>

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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.theliberal.co.uk/issue_11/artsandculture/poetry_appleyard_11.html"><span style='color:black'>Poetry &amp; the British imagination</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://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/926/intrvw.htm"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Abdel-Rahmen</span></span><span style='color:black'> El-<span class=SpellE>Abnoudi</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'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://feminine-fragrance.blogspot.com/2008/12/kafkas-erotica-james-hawes-british.html"><span style='color:black'>Excavating Kafka</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2008/12/patti-smith-interview-reading-and-some.html"><span style='color:black'>Patti Smith</span></a>: <br>
An interview, a review<br>
&amp; videos of a reading &amp; song<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://naturespoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/wordplay-robert-bly.html"><span style='color:black'>Robert <span class=SpellE>Bly</span></span></a> turns 82<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Zadie</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Smith: race &amp; speech (<a href="http://media.nybooks.com/122208-smith.mp3"><span style='color:black'>MP3</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://ronslate.com.s6980.gridserver.com/satin_cash_poems_lisa_russ_spaar_persea_books"><span style='color:black'>Lisa Russ <span class=SpellE>Spaar&#8217;s</span></span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Satin Cash<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.eveningsun.com/ci_11271674?source=most_emailed"><span style='color:black'>Kate Brady gets to profile Kate Brady</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://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendID=206289768&amp;blogID=458485768"><span style='color:black'>Beyond Baroque</span></a><br>
finally has signed<br>
a 25-year lease on its facility<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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.cordite.org.au/editorial/stuart-cooke-pastoral"><span style='color:black'>Pastoral</span></a> now<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/27/nick-laird-poetry-nature"><span style='color:black'>Poetry &amp; the end of nature</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Remembering <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=154149"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Parveen</span></span><span style='color:black'> <span class=SpellE>Shakir</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'>The <a href="http://www.voynich.nu/s_intro.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Voynich</span></span><span style='color:black'> Manuscript</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.cortlandreview.com/features/08/winter/index.html?ref=nl1208"><span style='color:black'>Gerald Stern</span></a><span class=GramE>:</span><br>
5 poems &amp; a video<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Boot camp with <a href="http://agoratalk.com/2008/12/brenda-shaughnessys-human-dark-with-sugar/"><span style='color:black'>Brenda <span class=SpellE>Shaughnessy</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.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/wolc01_.html"><span style='color:black'>John Updike</span></a><span class=GramE>,</span><br>
having become<br>
&#8221;a David Levine caricature of himself&#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.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-vladimir-nabokov21-2008dec21,0,7022823.story"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Nabokov&#8217;s</span></span><span style='color:black'> choice</span></a><br>
of Russian 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://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081228-ENTERTAIN-812280310"><span style='color:black'>Rachel Forrest</span></a> <br>
returns to poetry<br>
with 30 poems in 30 days<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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/2008/12/28/books/review/Barber-t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bua2"><span style='color:black'>The bard of despond</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.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/23/teagle"><span style='color:black'>Coherence &amp; the undergraduate English major</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.slate.com/id/2207291/"><span style='color:black'>Fitzgerald&#8217;s characters</span></a> &amp; their schools<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-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>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Interviews from &#8220;<a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5388376.ece"><span style='color:black'>Seamus Famous</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Bellafante-t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bub1"><span style='color:black'>Phyllis McGinley</span></a> &amp; </span><st1:Street><st1:address><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Revolutionary Road</span></i></st1:address></st1:Street><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Setting <a href="http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/12_08/12_24_08/art_fr_main.html"><span style='color:black'>Kathryn Stripling <span class=SpellE>Byer</span></span></a> to music<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2008/12/ionized-laughter-fury-of-clock.html"><span style='color:black'>Olivier <span class=SpellE>Messiaen</span></span></a> at 100<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<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 <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/23/DDME14SN4R.DTL"><span style='color:black'>Waiting for <span class=SpellE>Godot</span></span></a><br>
</i>played at San Quentin<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family: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.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Isherwood-t.html?8bu&amp;emc=bua2"><span style='color:black'>Shakespeare &amp; Modern Culture</span></a><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'>A rare <a href="http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6090845"><span style='color:black'>Whitman edition</span></a> for auction<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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cans research<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
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