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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><a href="http://nyrb.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/auden1.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border="0" height="474" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/d7ROqkMFcW9wsdADge51OGctugZI_tKIMan7_2nM5zU_SR9KsOdsD13TDQMJ6yhpAZits_XuqGLcEQZWUedTFqd7Ccz2C83RJQnI%3Ds0-d" width="313"></span></a><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/nichols"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Auden&#8217;s &#8220;September 1, 1939&#8221;</span></a><br>
70 years later<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Auden on <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/13747"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Jones&#8217;</span></a> <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Anathemata<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Barbara Jane Reyes on<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/uL3Hv"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Raúl R. Salinas</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pierre Joris,<br>
promoting <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=1867"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Diasporic Avant-Gardes</span></a></i><br>
edited by Carrie Noland &amp; Barrett Watten<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>With <a href="http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/pdfs/diasporic%20avant-gardes.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>a 20% discount offer</span></a><br>
(an $18 savings!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=237498"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fernando Perez</span></a><br>
on poetry vs. baseball<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>But <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/tampa-bays-fernando-perez_b_277765.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>can he hit a curveball</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/09/07/090907po_poem_ashbery"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Please don&#8217;t apologize</span></a> for pissing me off&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/truman-capote-autographed-a-book-to-harry-potter.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>For Harry Potter with gratitude</span></a>.<br>
Truman Capote January 1978&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/JIndY"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>P. Inman,</span></a><br>
talking at the Other Room<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Yau on <a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/09/books/after-the-road"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Gizzi</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/3zVzIz"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>T&#8217;he American Avant-Pastoral:<br>
Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Ronald Johnson</span></a> &#8211;<br>
</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joshua Corey&#8217;s PhD dissertation, downloadable<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n17/jame02_.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jameson&#8217;s Atwood</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Pierre Joris&#8217; recording<br>
of KRCB&#8217;s <a href="http://pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=1849"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Bromige</span></a> tribute<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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for Latino/Chicano poetics<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/08/outsider-poems-mini-anthology-in_27.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Palindrome</span></a> poems<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A gallery of images of<br>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://nakedgirlsreading.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Naked Girls Reading</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/sex-windy-city/2009/09/sex-stories-naked-girls-reading.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>naked book club</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;tab-stops:center 3.25in left 328.5pt'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An <a href="http://extraneousness.blogspot.com/2009/09/these-are-few-of-my-favorite-things.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>article</span></a> thereon<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/26/literature-sexual-modesty"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>return to prudery</span></a> in the offing<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Judd Morrissey&#8217;s<br>
<a href="http://thelastperformance.org/title.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Last Performance</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thelastperformance.org/project_info_public.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Project information</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.goatislandperformance.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Goat Island Performance</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.judisdaid.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Morrissey&#8217;s</span></a> website<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.litfuse.us/litfuse_2009.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>LitFUSE 2009</span></a>:<br>
a poetry festival near Yakima, WA<br>
with George Bowering, Carolyne Wright, Charlie Potts<br>
&amp; much more<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/08/18/visual-poetry/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Vispo</span></a> on the road<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.belladonnaseries.org/adfemposchedule.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Advancing Feminist Poetics &amp; Activism</span></a>:<br>
September 24 &amp; 25 @ CUNY<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.belladonnaseries.org/adfempobios.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The participants</span></a><br>
(a stunningly all-star cast)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://michaelleong.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/nada-gordons-interests-scantily-clad-press-2009/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nada Gordon&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Interests<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/an-antiques-roadshow-for-books.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Antique Roadshow</span></a>&#8221; for books<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/01/in-praise-books-half-read"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The half-read book</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://meandmybigmouth.typepad.com/scottpack/2009/08/the-great-book-clearout-criteria.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How to prune</span></a> your book collection<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?issueID=76&amp;sectionID=4&amp;articleID=1322"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jane Satterfield</span></a> back in the UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/palmer"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Palmer</span></a>:<br>
&#8220;We must count in Babylon&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/09/express/a-modernist-temperament"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eliot Weinberger</span></a>, modernist<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/38/r-loden-rb-richards.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Loden&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Dick of the Dead<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/issue/book-review-rachel-lodens-dick-dead-kevin-prufers-national-anthem"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Loden &amp; Kevin Prufer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/redemption-song-ted-kenne_b_271692.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s</span></a> Ted Kennedy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/27/edward-kennedy-usa"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joyce Carol Oates</span></a> on Teddy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Phillysound focuses on <a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Garrett Caples</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>September 18 in Lawrence, KS,<br>
<a href="http://anactualkansas.blogspot.com/2009/08/szymaszek-kaminski.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stacy Szymaszek &amp; Megan Kaminski</span></a><br>
at the Wonder Fair<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/people/Stein-Ge.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gertrude Stein&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Tender Buttons<br>
</i>&amp; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Three Lives<br>
</i>online<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/books/03abroad.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who killed the bookstore</span></a> in Salisbury, UK?<br>
Oxfam!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A map of <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/maps/bookstores/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>indie bookstores</span></a><br>
in the Bay Area<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>In <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/22/RV5F17NAR8.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>list format</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Theune reignites the <a href="http://irasciblepoet.blogspot.com/2009/09/ron-silliman-must-have-lied-to-me-dr.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry wars</span></a><br>
using the old sucker punch<br>
of denying any SoQ/post-avant split<br>
to then attack the post-avant<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dean Young<br>
on the <a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2009/09/dean-young-responds-to-tony-hoagland.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tony Hoagland-effect</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Translating quietist poetry into <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/03/us-poetry-to-reach-arabic-audience"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Arabic</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/mlinko"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ange Mlinko</span></a>:<br>
&#8220;The flexibility of language is its greatest asset&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/09/editing-book-of-book-return-to-book.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jerome Rothenberg</span></a>:<br>
a return to the book<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;When I see books<br>
I see <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/04/a_library_without_the_books/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed2"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>an outdated technology</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A site just for <a href="http://www.booksalemanager.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>library book sales</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thetoleranceproject.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>MFA poems with barcode traces</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/27/unattractive-sell-books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How not to sell your novel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Introducing <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/kens-blog/introducing-botsotso"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Botsotso</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michel Foucault&#8217;s <br>
&#8220;<a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3698/speaking-and-seeing-raymond-roussel"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Speaking and Seeing in Raymond Roussel</span></a>&#8221;<br>
(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2009/08/at-ancient-pond-frog-plunges-into-sound.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Economy &amp; the haiku</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3742/poetry-self-exile"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry &amp; Self-Exile</span></a><br>
(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>September 12 in Baltimore:<br>
<a href="http://ieseries.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/doug-lang-tina-darragh/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Doug Lang &amp; Tina Darragh</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://revistamododeusar.blogspot.com/2009/09/lorine-niedecker-1903-1970.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lorine Niedecker</span></a> in Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://donshare.blogspot.com/2009/09/meaning-and-modern.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Meaning &amp; the modern</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ronslate.com/beg_borrow_steal_writer_s_life_short_essays_michael_greenberg_other_press"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Michael Greenberg&#8217;s</span></a> short essays<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/09sp-tl.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Little Fibonacci poems</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/death-of-a-ladies-man/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nick Cave</span></a>:<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Death of Bunny Munro<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/munro-removes-book-from-giller-contention/article1268444/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The other Munro</span></a><br>
removes book from Giller competition<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://remarksinaminorkey.blogspot.com/2009/09/literary-awards-in-atlantic-monthly-s.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Awards</span></a>, literary &amp; otherwise<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/aug/31/hugo-ball-gadji-beri-bimba"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hugo Ball &amp; language poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Bernstein talking with <a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Jacobs/Jacobs-Ken_Close-Listening_Conversation_8-4-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ken Jacobs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Jacobs/Jacobs-Ken_Day-Moon-Gave-Up-Ghost_Close-Listening_8-4-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Day the Moon Gave Up the Ghost</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ43/KenJacobs.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Painted Air</span></a>:<br>
The Joys and Sorrows of Evanescent Cinema&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Jacobs/Jacobs-Ken_Evanescent-Cinema_Close-Listening_8-4-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jacobs reading</span></a> &#8220;Painted Air&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Remembering <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2009/09/holy-barbarians-revisited.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Holy Barbarians</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Finnegan&#8217;s<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&amp;pid=3126"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ars Poetica Library 2009</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ursprache.blogspot.com/2009/08/ars-poetica-library-v2009_31.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>By way of explanation</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google offers <a href="http://www.pw.org/content/google_offers_one_million_epub_titles"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>1,000,000 ebooks</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-dear-times-waste-shakespeare-sonnet.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shakespeare&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Sonnet XXX<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082101928.html?hpid=features1&amp;hpv=national"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Waiting for William</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pepc/books/swedish-b2/gassilewski_02.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Close-reading of non-existing texts</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/enewsletter/september2009/enews0909_charles-alexander_bookstop.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Alexander</span></a>:<br>
The book stops here<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blog.al.com/entertainment-press-register/2009/08/southern_bound_jeanie_thompson.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jeanie Thompson&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Seasons Bear Us<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2009/09/interview-with-dick-jones.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dick Jones</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A blog on the <a href="http://soulofapeople.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>WPA Writers Project</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wanting to be <a href="http://remarksinaminorkey.blogspot.com/2009/08/temporary-art-back-in-2005-artists.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the Christo &amp; Jeanne-Claude</span></a><br>
of the written word<br>
(Isn&#8217;t that what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kenny G</span></a> does?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/books/31bowles.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gloompot</span></a> in Algiers<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/bowles-talk.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Bowles</span></a>, 1952<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/books/review/Orr-t.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A novel about poetry</span></a><br>
&#8220;that&#8217;s actually about poetry&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Inside Nicholson Baker<br>
you&#8217;ll find <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-nicholson-baker6-2009sep06,0,7426384.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nicholson Baker</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Can there be a &#8220;<a href="http://remarksinaminorkey.blogspot.com/2009/09/porous-borders-national-literature-in.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>national literature</span></a>&#8221;?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://pangrammaticon.blogspot.com/2009/09/kooks-and-poets.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kooks &amp; poets</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee256"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Discursive rules of the underworld</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Another <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/war-poet-edmund-blundens-works-go-online-1780160.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>WWI poet</span></a> goes online<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090402749_pf.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Patricia Smith&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Ethel&#8217;s Sestina&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.com/2009/09/fred-susan-chappell-reading-part-one.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fred &amp; Susan Chappell</span></a> reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ncpoetlaureate.blogspot.com/2009/08/shadow-box-fred-chappell.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fred Chappell&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;nested&#8221; poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/books/01kakutani.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Doctorow&#8217;s</span></a> pack rats<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203827.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>collectors</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/06/RVT018TS7C.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>blindness and insight</span></a>&#8221;<br>
<br>
</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com/2009/08/dissention-is-patriotic-fat-ulus-and.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fat Ulu &amp; Kumu Kahua&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Statehood Project<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/8WgUB"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Siegell&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>jambandbootleg<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Reconstructing <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-raymond-carver6-2009sep06,0,7938124.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carver</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A Swiss army knife of <a href="http://americanfiction.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/how-to-fight-loneliness/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>contemporary fiction</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112371750&amp;sc=emaf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Arts offer an easy target</span></a><br>
as states cut budgets<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Barry Schwabsky on <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/schwabsky"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dan Graham</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=6857"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Store</span></a>,<br>
by <a href="http://www.katewawa.com/production/store"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kate Watson-Wallace</span></a>/anonymous bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://spacesgallery.org/2009/exhibitions/main/academy/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Plum Academy</span></a>:<br>
An Institute for Situated Practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2009/08/george_brants_play_imagines_th.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Clare</span></a>:<br>
identity theft in Union, NJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/thomas-sutcliffe/tom-sutcliffe-must-we-vote-for-poets-1781187.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Must we vote for poets</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://eleventhstack.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/wendell-berry-the-peace-of-wild-things/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wendell Berry</span></a><br>
&amp; &#8220;The Peace of Wild Things&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>New star writer at<br>
the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-himi6-2009sep06,0,416021.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>House of Mouse</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The camera arts &amp; <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/gottlieb"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hollis Frampton</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ubu.com/film/frampton.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Frampton&#8217;s films</span></a> on Ubuweb<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What&#8217;s <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>not </i>inside<br>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/09/01/whats_inside_andy_warhols_time_capsules_you_name_it/?s_campaign=8315"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Warhol&#8217;s time capsules</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/57252912.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The appropriation show</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The curious success of<br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/02/not-booker-neverland-simon-crump"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Simon Crump&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Neverland<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2560/2277"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Motivations</span></a> for creating derivative works<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090302240.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Salinger &#8220;sequel&#8221;</span></a> sucks,<br>
says the judge<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bedribaykam.com/en/bulten_berkeley060809.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bedri Baykam</span></a><br>
at Alphonse Berber Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/06/photographer-annie-leibov_n_278275.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Annie Leibovitz&#8217;</span></a> $24M debt<br>
is due <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>today<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112389032"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Frank&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;elevator girl&#8221; comes forward<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/30/spotlight-to-shine-on-photographer-of-the-famous/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Guy Webster</span></a> retrospective<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.venturacountystar.com/photos/galleries/2009/aug/29/arts-group-will-focus-guy-webster-ojai/3789/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>gallery</span></a> of his work<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fighting over <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-kahlo6-2009sep06,0,7214852.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Frida</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A gallery of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-kahlo-pg,0,3638176.photogallery"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>attributed works</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/garden/27cape.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Saving modernist architecture</span></a>,<br>
one house at a time<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/mix-master-lola-schnabel/?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lola Schnabel&#8217;s</span></a> gypsy jamboree<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112602288"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Postmodern Bach</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.gonzalescantata.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Gonzales Cantata</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='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUWIbP0c6Y"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rachel Maddow</span></a>, music critic<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3691/accoustic-occupation-space"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fred Frith:</span></a><br>
The acoustic occupation of space<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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

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

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blog.mlive.com/citpat-pluggedin/2009/08/albums_of_the_aughts_no_35_boy.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literate rockers</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='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&amp;id=30512"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Putting Yeats to music</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='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/arts/music/30maneri.html?ref=obituaries"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joe Maneri</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Pierre Macherey&#8217;s selected essays<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3726/alien-theory-decline-materialism-name-matter"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ray Brassier:</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Alien Theory:<br>
The Decline of Materialism<br>
in the Name of Matter<br>
</i>(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>In 1973, the one prisoner with whom I worked whom I absolutely knew in my gut was railroaded was a North Carolina moonshiner by the name of Cecil Lovedahl. Part of a group of returning WW2 vets who had taken up the manufacture &amp; distribution of hootch, which was not only illegal, but horning in on what an older coterie of politically connected moonshiners thought was their monopoly, Lovedahl found himself at the wrong end of a plot to break up his goup. He had been riding in the back seat of a car that was involved in a fatal accident, killing the driver. The local pols saw it as an opportunity to break up the newcomers and charged Lovedahl with murder, though nobody could say why anyone in the back seat of a car would murder the driver while speeding on a dark mountain road. To escape a worse fate, his attorney (I forget whether he was a public defender or court-appointed) pled Lovedahl guilty over his own protestations in court, and he received a life sentence. Inside, Lovedahl deteriorated &amp; attempted suicide several times, up to &amp; including swallowing a box of straight pins. He would have been quietly released a couple of years later except for the fact that the prosecutor had risen quite high in state politics, with some thoughts of going even higher. </p>

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