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be of an intellectual nature&#8230;.<br>
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Yet nothing we know<br>
about writing <br>
and the part it has played <br>
in man&#8217;s evolution<br>
</span><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>justifies this view.&#8221;<br>
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&#8211; A Writing Lesson, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/tristestropiques000177mbp"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Tristes Tropiques</span></a></i></span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>C.A. Conrad &amp; Dale Smith</span></a><br>
discuss Ed Dorn, AIDS &amp; community<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-no-proof:yes'><a href="http://thedp.com/article/class-seeks-define-queer-voice-art"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kenny G</span></a>:<br>
seeking to define<br>
&#8220;queer voice&#8221; in art<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Armantrout/Armantrout-Rae_Complete-Reading_KWH-UPenn_10-22-09.mp3"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Rae Armantrout&#8217;s</span></a><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>reading at Kelly Writers House<br>
Oct. 22, 2009<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>5 translations of Rimbaud&#8217;s &#8220;Voyelles&#8221;<br>
all by <a href="http://www.wagsrevue.com/Issue_3/index_poetry.php#/46"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Christian Bök</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gaga for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.chbooks.com/reviews/publishers-weekly-gaga-eunoia"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eunoia</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=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>2 translations of <a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-know-man-brand-man.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Creeley&#8217;s &#8220;I Know a Man&#8221;</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://penumbrae.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/my-chapter-and-verse-recording/"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Jena Osman, Craig Watson, Michael Gizzi</span></a><br>
reading @ the Chapterhouse Café<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Robinson/10-27-09/Robinson-Kit_Complete-Reading_Xavier-Univ_10-27-09.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kit Robinson</span></a><br>
reading at Xavier University<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ampoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/major-heed/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ben Friedlander</span></a> responds<br>
to my post on his comments<br>
re Marianne Moore<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://renewablemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/forcefields-and-constellations.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A third perspective</span></a>,<br>
this one with reference to music<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>An account of<br>
the <a href="http://bigother.com/2009/10/21/now-conference-a-conference-of-innovate-writing-the-literary-arts/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp;Now Conference</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://irasciblepoet.blogspot.com/2009/10/our-response-to-great-recession-moment.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Relevance &amp; 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=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Barbara Jane Reyes<br>
on indie publishing<br>
(<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/indie-publishing-two-questions-and-several-answers/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>part one</span></a>)
(<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/indie-publishing-two-questions-and-more-answers/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>part two</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/poetry-marathon-at-the-serpentine-gallery-london/#more-5946"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry marathon</span></a> in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/24/nick-laird-poetry-author-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>London</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>6 translations of Hans Carl Artmann<br> 
all by <a href="http://www.wagsrevue.com/Issue_3/index_poetry.php#/60"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rosmarie Waldrop</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'><a href="http://www.joannafrueh.com/blog/2009/10/25/charles-alexanders-pushing-water-52"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Charles Alexander&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Pushing Water&#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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nonsitecollective.org/node/841"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jordan Scott</span></a><br>
on the <a href="http://www.nonsitecollective.org/system/files/NONSITE%20paper.doc"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetics of stammer</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Grenier/Grenier-Robert_Complete-Reading_Drawing-from-Nature_Naropa_7-9-92.mp3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Grenier</span></a><br>
talks at Naropa, 1992:<br>
&#8220;Drawing from Nature&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/14481250-chalk-editions"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chalk Editions</span></a>,<br>
publishing experimentalist e-books since July<br>
(12 to date, some fairly hefty)<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tony-trehy.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-jazz-or-comedy.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tony Trehy</span></a><br>
on the reading as<br>
a test installation<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238068"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>October is the cruelest month</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2009/09/postmodernism-in-poetry-and-stuff-what.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Deconstructing moi</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://textalyser.net/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Analyze your text</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Objections to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/technology/internet/31google.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google book scans</span></a><br>
from the Chinese Writers Association<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Johnson%20interview.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kent Johnson</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/5178"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>How Ashbery writes</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/john-ashbery/the-winemakers"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Winemakers</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2009/10/sound-poems.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Penn Kemp&#8217;s</span></a> ear<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://amyking.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/verse-broadens-the-mind-scientists-find/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Poetry is better for your brain</span></a><br>
than prose (duh!)<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://rauanklassnik.blogspot.com/2009/10/happiness-and-magic-interview-with.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Justin Marks</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A less rumpled version of Justin<br>
at the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www2.tusculum.edu/tusculumreview/2009/10/26/justin-marks-3/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tusculum Review</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=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A trick question for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/28/trick-raymond-carver"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Raymond 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=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nonsitecollective.org/node/852"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Buuck</span></a><br>
on EconVergence<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://bit.ly/3wJVsx"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Juliana Spahr</span></a><br>
at Temple,<br>
Thursday, November 5<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/books/28electric.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Literature by the tweet</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://thisrecording.com/today/2009/8/3/in-which-these-are-the-100-greatest-writers-of-all-time.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>100 &#8220;greatest&#8221; writers</span></a> of all 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=MsoNoSpacing 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","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2009/10/poetry-popular-culture-heroes-interview.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Granger&#8217;s</span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;font-style:normal'> </span><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Index to Poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cuba gives <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/kennedy-library-gets-hemingway-papers-from-cuba/?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hemingway&#8217;s papers</span></a><br>
to the JFK<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/02/stieg-larsson-partner-sweden-inheritance"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Yet another author&#8217;s heirs</span></a><br>
fight over the estate<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/10/comments-who-owns-comments.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Who owns the comments stream</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The PennSound Anthology<br>
of <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Restoration-18th-C-Verse.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Restoration &amp; 18<sup>th</sup>-Century Verse</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/classics.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>PennSound Classics</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'><I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/26/30-years-london-review-of-books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>LRB</span></a> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>turns 30<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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A ceiling collapse<br>
at <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/plaster-problems-in-emily-dickinsons-parlor/?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Emily Dickinson&#8217;s house</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'><I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Collected Stories of <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/01/RVKA1A80ME.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lydia Davis</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2009/10/oh-bp-what-youve-romantic-vaniteux-does.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Misappropriating</span></a> 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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://chptr1.com/2009/08/a-great-day-for-a-ballgame-a-conscious-love-story/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Fielding Dawson&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>A Great Day for a Ballgame<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>

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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>

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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=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>November 12 @<br>
Columbia School for the Arts:<br>
<a href="http://arts.columbia.edu/cwls/111209.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>C.D. Wright:</span></a><br>
</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>&#8220;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Concerning Why Poetry <br>
Offers A Better Deal <br>
Than The World's Biggest Retailer</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>&#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='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Why <a href="http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2009/10/brian-fawcetts-local-matters-poetry.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Brian Fawcett</span></a> quit writing poetry</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/10/28/MNBN1ABKB8.DTL&amp;o=0"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Arnie&#8217;s acrostic</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why save <a href="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/why-save-dying-languages/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>dying languages</span></a>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/2009%20-%20Fall/full-McWhorter-Fall-2009.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;universality&#8221; of English</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Why save <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/praveen-madan/evolve-or-die-why-reinven_b_337322.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>indie bookshops</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is this <a href="http://bit.ly/3WlP2o"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>literary history</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Where are <a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-are-all-poetical-prodigies.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry&#8217;s prodigies</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What is more &#8220;unwriterly&#8221;<br>
than <a href="http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/2009/11/close-writing-or-transcendental-of.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>a poet&#8217;s blog</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='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A &#8220;rebound series&#8221;<br>
for <a href="http://sevenkitchens.blogspot.com/2009/10/cfs-2010-rebound-series.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>out-of-print chapbooks</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:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>&#167;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Top 10 <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/books/famous-ghostwriters-authors-jfk/top-10-ghostwritten.shtml?cm_mmc=nl-_-nl-_-h00-ghostsX-_-01cta"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>ghost-written books</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/zombies-classics-and-you.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Zombies, the classics &amp; you</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Summer with <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/jonathan-raban/summer-with-empson"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Empson</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2007_12.php#012050"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Karen Lillis</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/10/1000-words-antique-white.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The white bookcase</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.writerscast.com/jayne-anne-phillips-lark-and-termite/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jayne Anne Phillips</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Howard-t.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Orhan Pamuk&#8217;s</span></a> Lolita<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902744.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Love as a relic, frozen in amber</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23381"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Secret love</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>FBI &#8220;kills&#8221; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/28/fbi-vs-naipaul-alive"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>VS Naipaul</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_302011539"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Duo Duo</span></a><br>
wins top Oklahoma prize<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/author-marie-ndiaye-first-black-woman-to-win-the-prix-goncourd.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>NDiaye</span></a> wins the Goncourt<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.gwawards.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Good Writing Awards</span></a> &#8211;<br>
categories for fiction, even instruction manuels,<br>
but none for poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What is &#8220;<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/10/what-is-good-writing-exactly.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>good writing</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Something&#8217;s amiss with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/28/martin-amis-katie-price-women"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Amis</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1319"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The book that changed your life</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;As prose,<br>
these lines are <a href="http://www.thepoetryblog.net/2009/10/29/meet-the-new-face-of-free-verse/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>awkward and squeamish</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='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6396346/The-Poetry-of-Birds-edited-by-Simon-Armitage-and-Tim-Dee-review.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Poetry of Birds</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/24/ten-best-moon-poems-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the moon</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-his-essay-business-and-poetry-dana.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Business &amp; 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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Adam Kirsch</span></a><br>
on the author of the book<br>
that, next to the Bible,<br>
has &#8220;<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/01/RVSR1AART9.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>most influenced&#8221; Americans</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Keats-Shelley Prize<br>
goes to<br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/28/keats-shelley-buddhist-poet"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>DH Maitreyabandhu</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=9761"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Roth steps up his Nobel campaign</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-vollmann1-2009nov01,0,3490865.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>William T. Vollmann</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The author was <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/11/vollmanns-pistolpacking-past.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>packing heat</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;It is startling to recall<br>
that <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=237912"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Larkin</span></a> died<br>
less than 25 years ago&#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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/alan-bennett/alan-bennett-writes-about-his-new-play"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alan Bennett</span></a>,<br>
on writing a play about Auden<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2009/10/james-wright-milkweed.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Wright&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;Milkweed&#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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/224034036/hopkins-the-odd-man-out"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hopkins</span></a>: the odd man out<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/frank-kermode/theophany"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Frank Kermode</span></a> on the authorized Golding bio<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Complaints about <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/29/misogynist-crime-fiction-val-mcdermid"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>women<br>
writing misogynist fiction</span></a><br>
are a &#8220;red herring&#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='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://zyzzyvaspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/11/southern-review-cuts-back.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Southern Review</span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>cuts back<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/colm-toibin/my-god-the-suburbs"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>My God, the Suburbs</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newspapers27-2009oct27,0,374885.story?track=rss"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Newspaper circulation</span></a> is crashing<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The news of our demise<br>
is premature,<br>
warns <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/toronto-paper-attacks-coverage-of-its-troubles/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The National Post</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Professors-Suspended-After-a/48942/?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Profs suspended at Southwestern</span></a><br>
may be charged<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x884486687/Hollywood-director-gets-mixed-welcome-from-Hope"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hopeless</span></a> at Hope College<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='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.elle.com/Entertainment/Movies-TV/Book-Release-Girldrive"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Elle Magazine</span></a> </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Girldrive<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://girlwpen.com/?p=1755"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Elline Lipkin</span></a> on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Girldrive<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The women of <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://bit.ly/185JWJ"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Girldrive</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/01/girl_drive/index.html?source=rss&amp;aim=/mwt/broadsheet/feature"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking</span></a> with <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/10/new_york_writer_nona_willis_ar.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nona Willis Aronowitiz</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/paradise_lost_GD6w8ONzPdAKTGlMLUI3tO"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paradise Lost</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shock &amp; Awe:<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/29nEC7"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Futurism goes to war</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/09-10/catts.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Oron Catts&#8217;</span></a> bio-artwork<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.woodlandpattern.org/workshops/adults.shtml#larson"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bio-Poetics workshop</span></a><br>
November 15<br>
@ Woodland Pattern<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blancpress.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Matthew Timmons&#8217;</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Credit<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dead29-2009oct29,0,71119.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Museum</span></a> of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dead-pictures,0,121979.photogallery"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Death</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.clevescene.com/reel-cleveland/archives/2009/10/26/a-qanda-with-one-false-move-or-im-gone-director-curt-worden"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Curt Worden</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://thisrecording.com/today/2009/10/29/in-which-our-upstairs-neighbor-is-a-major-painter.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Ashbery on Jane Freilicher</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/rhyme-scene-investigation-1810367.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hans Ulrich Obrist:</span></a><br>
more connections between painting &amp; 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=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.georgekrevskygallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_detail.asp?ExhibitID=102"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lawrence Ferlinghetti</span></a>,<br>
as fine at painting<br>
as he is at 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=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/01/david-hockney-interview-tim-adams"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>David Hockney</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>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>One market where <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125711558127621577.html#mod=todays_us_nonsub_money_and_investing"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lehman</span></a> is hot<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/design/css-techniques/25-experimental-typography-showcases.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Experimental typography showcases</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/01/canterbury-gloucester-cathedral-medieval-art"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The marvels of cathedrals</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<a href="http://icehousedetroit.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ice House Detroit</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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(great website!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/02/BA031ADOLJ.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Norton Buffalo</span></a> has died<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Update on <a href="http://www.pasenate.com/enews/Dinniman/09_10_22_cultural.htm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>state arts funding</span></a><br>
in Pennsylvania<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A need for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01friedman.html?ref=opinion"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>narrative</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/jul/03/research.science"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; thanks for all the fish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2009/10/rosmarie-waldrop-on-metaphor-metonymy.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rosmarie Waldrop</span></a><br>
on the two directions of American poetry,<br>
metaphor &amp; metonymy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nov. 12 in NYC:<br>
<a href="http://slought.org/content/11433/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wittgenstein&#8217;s Voice</span></a><br>
with Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Perloff,<br>
Tom Pepper, Sissi Tax,<br>
moderated by Jean-Michel Rabate<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Collected Short Stories of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-lydia-davis18-2009oct18,0,448555.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lydia Davis</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf0yGSos6bc"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charlotte Mandell</span></a>,<br>
reading her translation of<br>
Matias Énard&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Zone<br>
</i>(part 1 of 7)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Steven Fama:<br>
&#8220;I have seen the future of poetry on Blogger<br>
and it&#8217;s name is&#8221;<br>
<a href="http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-have-seen-future-of-poetry-on-blogger.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stephen Ratcliffe</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/13/bidisha-poetry-sexism-misogyny"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sexism in British culture</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://xpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/10/parting-nightgown-of-poem.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Parting the nightgown</span></a> of the poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2009/10/bindithoughts-18.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The impact of poetry on pea soup</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://a.aaaarg.org/text/4686/poetic-artifice"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Veronic Forrest-Thomson</span></a>:<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetic Artifice<br>
</i>(reg. req.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>NY Times </span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>obit for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/books/13federman.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Raymond Federman</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://9thstlab.blogspot.com/2009/10/carter-monroe-spicer-series.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Carter Monroe:</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Spicer Series<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://booksofpoetry.blogspot.com/2009/10/tiny-distinctions-appear-among.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Lynn Behrendt &amp; Ann Lauterbach</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.jamesjoyce.cz/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>James Joyce 2010</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-kurt-vonnegut18-2009oct18,0,4530239.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kurt Vonnegut</span></a>:<br>
&#8220;Look at the Birdie&#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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Philadelphia, Oct. 22:<br>
<a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1009.php#22"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Rae Armantrout</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Philadelphia, Oct. 24:<br>
<a href="http://chapterhousereadings.blogspot.com/2009/10/oct-24-osman-gizzi-watson.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jena Osman, Michael Gizzi, Craig Watson</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://digitallabor.org/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Internet as Playground &amp; Factory</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&amp; its <a href="http://academicpoetry.com/blog/2009/10/the-internet-as-playground-and-factory.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry panel</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Does <a href="http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/does-the-brain-like-e-books/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the brain like e-books</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Digitizing rare <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/books/12arts-RARECHINESEB_BRF.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chinese books</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/world/asia/19books.html?_r=1&amp;ref=global-home"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>China at the book fair</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;Not a book fair but <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702621.html?nid=2286&amp;rid="><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>a rights fair</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.z-site.net/copyright-notice-by-pz/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Zukofsky</span></a> re-invents &#8220;fair use&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Wikipedia on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>fair use</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>U.S. &#169; office</span></a> on fair use<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>U.S. &#169; law</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#167; 107</span></a>, the fair use statute<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://fairuse.stanford.edu/index.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stanford&#8217;s</span></a> &#169; &amp; fair use site<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/books/15libraries.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Libraries lend e-books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>So you want to <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/so-you-want-to-borrow-an-e-book/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>borrow an e-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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nov. 9 at the 92<sup>nd</sup> St. Y in NYC,<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/5qcUm"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Orhan Pamuk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nov. 16,<br>
reading <a href="http://bit.ly/CB6gy"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nabokov&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Laura</i></span></a><I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br>
</i>with Martin Amis et al<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nov. 30,<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly/3Au4J2"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Paul Auster &amp; Javier Marias</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-jonathan-lethem18-2009oct18,0,3998925.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jonathan Lethem</span></a> on the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/18/RV3C1A4IQL.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Upper East Side</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>&#8220;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/10/26/091026fi_fiction_lethem"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Procedure in Plain
Air</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.radioopensource.org/whose-words-these-are-4-joan-houlihan/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Joan Houlihan</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://tony-trehy.blogspot.com/2009/09/language-moment.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Language Moment</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/4686171.It___s_difficult_putting_it_all_into_words____Bradford_on_Avon_plinth_man/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Conceptual poetics in Britain</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>About Britain&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/19/favourite-poem-ts-eliot-waste-land"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>favourite poem</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A new edition of <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/alcala/story/2246724.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Gary Snyder&#8217;s</span></a> <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Riprap<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://ampoarchive.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/little-mind/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ben Friedlander</span></a>:<br>
&#8220;Marianne Moore is the center of modernism&#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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.onefastmove.com/see_the_film/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kerouac <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Big Sur </i>film</span></a><br>
is being shown in many cities this week,<br>
most often tonight<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A profile of &#8220;<a href="http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/arts/x2118273762/Holliston-resident-produces-film-about-Jack-Kerouac"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>little Jimmy Sampas</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bill Sherman on <a href="http://omoopart5.blogspot.com/2009/09/fw-louche-life-jean-rhys-blue-hour.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jean Rhys</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091102/deresiewicz"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Atwood&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Flood<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-sherman-alexie16-2009oct16,0,7173403.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sherman Alexie</span></a>:<br>
serious writer, funny guy<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/craig-raine-interview-wroe"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Craig Raine</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://haikuist.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/the-wordlessness-of-haiku/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>wordlessness of 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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Chimamanda Adichie</span></a>:<br>
the danger of the single story<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A discussion of<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Half of a Yellow Sun<br>
</i>(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/10/yellow-sun-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>part 1</span></a>) (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/bookclub-mullan-chimamanda-yellow-sun"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>part 2</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/article6870086.ece"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shakespeare&#8217;s collab</span></a><br>
with Thomas Kyd<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>UCLA gets $2M<br>
<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/10/shakespeare.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Shakespeare</span></a> 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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>That obscure object of<br>
<a href="http://trueslant.com/lauranathan/2009/10/14/and-the-2009-national-book-award-nominees-are/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the National Book Award</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Siglio Press&#8217; <a href="http://bit.ly/2aqzxR"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Keith Waldrop</span></a> page<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Co-author a story with <a href="http://bit.ly/lSY2D"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Neil Gaiman</span></a> on Twitter<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Clive James:<br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/oct/10/clive-james-life-in-books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>poetry + showbiz</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A poet in the Peace Corps in <a href="http://alicepettway.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Mozambique</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>50 years of <I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/10/11/panel-bares-all-naked-lunch-conference"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Naked Lunch</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://trueslant.com/lauranathan/2009/10/13/reading-a-book-a-day/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A book a day</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2009/sep/24/referenceandlanguages"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>word quiz</span></a> worth contemplating<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='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/byrneeditorsnote.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Valparaiso Poetry Review</span></a><br>
</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>turns 10<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://htmlgiant.com/?p=16509"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Padgett Powell&#8217;s</span></a><br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Interrogative Mood<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/poetry-leonard-batchelor-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Tom Leonard&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Outside the Narrative<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/the-currency-of-fashions/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Anselm Berrigan</span></a> favorites<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.astrodispatch.com/2009/10/14/astrology-chart-walt-whitman/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Walt Whitman&#8217;s</span></a><br>
astrology chart<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/events/ode-walt-whitman-lovesick-sea-play"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Walt Whitman</span></a> &#8211;<br>
the puppet show<br>
(with F. Garcia Lorca)<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ronslate.com/taste_cherry_poems_kara_candito_university_nebraska_press"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kara Candito&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Taste of Cherry<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Sheppard<br>
introduces <a href="http://robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-cliff-yates.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cliff Yates</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Electro-Plasmic Hyrdocephalic<br>
<a href="http://wondermark.com/554/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Genre-Fiction Generator</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What to do with <a href="http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/2009/08/wanted-home-for-used-poems.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>used 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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.bookride.com/2009/10/books-for-war-books-for-soldiers.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Books for soldiers</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6701399.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What will Kindle do</span></a> to territorial rights?<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/10/08/barnes-noble-ereader/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>color screen</span></a> for B&amp;N e-reader<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Meet <a href="http://www.springdesign.com/resource/jsp/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Alex</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Is Alex <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6702636.html?nid=2286&amp;rid="><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>the B&amp;N e-reader</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1929387,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Kindle killers</span></a>?<br>
The boom in e-readers<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701727.html?rssid=191"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google deal debated</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6701509.html?rssid=191"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Will Google sell ads</span></a> with each book?<br>
It&#8217;s not ruling it out<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/news/99964-google-plans-buy-anywhere-read-anywhere-offer.html.rss"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Google Editions</span></a>:<br>
&#8220;Buy anywhere, read anywhere&#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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/books/14fried.html?_r=1&amp;hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>electronic backlist</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Number 1<br>
<a href="http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2009/10/top-10-roadside-rhymes-number-1.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>roadside rhyme</span></a> in America is&#8230;.<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/17/robert-wells-poetry-review"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Wells&#8217;</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Collected Poems &amp; Translations<o:p></o:p></i></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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.rebelsatori.com/madder_love_intro.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Queer writing in surreal space</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bernstein-MoMA.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Charles Bernstein</span></a>:<br>
Futurist Manifestos<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/09/national-poetry-day-forward-prize"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A blast from the past</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://magicalnihilism.com/2009/10/14/icon-minds-tony-dunne-fiona-raby-bruce-sterling-on-design-fiction/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Bruce Sterling</span></a>:<br>
&#8220;design has more to offer fiction<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>at the moment <br>
than literature has to offer design&#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>

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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>

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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>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/20/history-of-english-poetry-audiobook"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The History of English Poetry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>4 reviews by<br>
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3 quietists<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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Nov. 7,<br>
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@ the 14<sup>th</sup> Annual<br>
Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.inberkeley.com/2009/09/14/stubborn-bookstore-hangs-on/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Stubborn bookstore</span></a> hangs on<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113795227"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Modern = not ugly</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/112940-girldrive-criss-crossing-america-redefining-feminism/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Aronowitz &amp; Bernstein&#8217;s</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Girldrive<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/12/DDG01A46V9.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Dylan&#8217;s</span></a> defiance<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/books/excerpt-man-of-constant-sorrow.html?ref=books"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>autobiography</span></a> of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/books/14stanley.html?hpw"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Ralph Stanley</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Pandora-t.html?em"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Decoding music</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Auggie Kleinzahler<br>
on the new <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/books/review/Kleinzahler-t.html?nl=books&amp;emc=booksupdateema3"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Monk</span></a> bio<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Corn flakes with <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-hilburn-lennon11-2009oct11,0,7359748.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>John Lennon</span></a><br>
(<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-hilburn2-lennon12-2009oct12,0,2444430.story"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Part 2</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/#10-16-09-x"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Willem Defoe is Richard Foreman&#8217;s<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Idiot Savant</i></span></a><I style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>If only they&#8217;d known<br>
<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/polanski-should-have-been-arrested-long-ago-swiss-justice-minister-admits.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Polanski owned<br>
a chalet</span></a> in Switzerland<br>
declare the Swiss&#8230;.<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/14/brooke-shields-tate-modern"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>The Tate caves</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/10/rip_suzanne_fio.php"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Suzanne Fiol</span></a> has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/music/08fiol.html?scp=1&amp;sq=suzanne%20fiol&amp;st=cse"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>passed</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Talking with <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=49362"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Maurice Sendak</span></a>,<br>
Dave Eggers &amp; Spike Jonze<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503738.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Eggers</span></a>, mucking up <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/18/RV1C1A56GH.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Sendak</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/willard_wigan_hold_your_breath_for_micro_sculpture.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Nothing doesn&#8217;t exist</span></a><br>
(micro-sculpture)<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What is an <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/12/DDBM1A3HHA.DTL"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Andy Warhol</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>What to see in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/arts/design/16vogel.html?_r=1"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>London</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/14/damien-hirst-paintings-wallace-collection"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Damien Hirst&#8217;s</span></a> latest work<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/13/damien-hirst-painting-exhibition-art"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Hirst&#8217;s</span></a> &#8220;blue period&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/oct/13/damien-hirst-art-wallace-collection"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>slide show</span></a> of the new paintings<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101504225.html?hpid=sec-artsliving"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Man Ray, African art</span></a> &amp; the modernist lens<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://globespotters.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/home-is-where-the-art-is/"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Jeanne Suspuglas&#8217;</span></a> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Home<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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202981.html?hpid=artslot"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Robert Bergman</span></a> at the National 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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_nazi_gnomes"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>1,250 Nazi garden gnomes</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>But what&#8217;s with the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/13/french-vogue-photographs-outrage"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>black face photo shoot</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='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Play <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/10/plutonium-production-site-host.html#more"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>this article</span></a> to the tune of<br>
Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIqYn_1IdZU"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>My Home Town</span></a>&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'><a href="http://www.hanford.gov/homepage/newsarticles/doe/0910NCMABrockman.pdf"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Cleaning up</span></a> is hard to do<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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