RFID
comes to bookstores
so that book clerks
will soon need to know
even less
than most do now

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Pete Doherty
of The Libertines
& Babyshambles
on the poets
who inspire him

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Laura Bush
on the books
that inspire her:

On top
is Hop on Pop

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George W,
on the other hand,
inspires us to
get jiggy with the arts

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Adrienne Rich
& why
Laura Bush
won’t invite her
to the White House

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Inside the Poetry Tent
at the National Book Festival

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On Words:
a conference on
Robert Creeley
at SUNY-Buffalo

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Oskar Pastior,
poet
& the lone German member
of Oulipo,
has died

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The death of
Omran Salahi,
Iranian poet & satirist

Some of Salahi’s work
can be found
here

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”This handbook identifies
more than 1300 poets
laureated within the Empire
and adjacent territories
between 1355 and 1804”

An interesting looking history
of Poets Laureate
in the
Holy Roman Empire
but I’d fire
the librarian
who bought this,
even at the pre-publication
”discount”
of
$537.30

This is exactly
the sort of project
that ought to be
on the web
for free.

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That new Robert Frost poem
is not
the rare find
the press suggests

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When the referent
gazes back

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October
Carrboro
Poetry
Report