Project Row Houses:
community as art,
art as community
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Heck of a job, Gracie!
Grace Shulman,
who made The Nation,
America’s oldest progressive journal,
a hotbed of neocon poetics
& the home room
of the School of Quietude,
has left her position
as poetry editor there
after 34 years
John Palattella
will replace her
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The Nation
on Hart Crane’s
The Bridge
(subscription required)
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In addition to
the Electronic Poetry Center,
& the British Electronic Poetry Center
as centers for gathering
links & data
about the poets of a given nation,
there is also the
Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library
(April)
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The supermarket in California
where Allen Ginsberg
once saw Walt Whitman
& penned
”A Supermarket in California”
will become the site
of a supermarket
once again,
complete with
“Two Buck Chuck”
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The
on language
§
Making the white space
in the language
visible
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Stopping violence
through grammar
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Not pleased
with
Jacques Roubaud
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American Oulipo?
3by3by3
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The best
(of many good)
response(s)
to my note yesterday
is this item
from the MailBucket
po-list,
but it’s truncated
& I have no idea
who wrote it!
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Orhan Pamuk’s
Nobel lecture
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A tale by
Nadine Gordimer
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“and, now, the wizened poet”
§
The Washington Times
on
Walter Benjamin
on
Charles Baudelaire
(complete
with Lemony Snicket jokes!)
§
“fifteen years after the death
of Earle Birney
in 1995 …”
Canadian math
put to the test
§
Reading Rushdie
in Kashmir
§
Interviewing
Alice Walker
§
A contemporary Indonesian poet
is translated into English
§
Review of a grim bio
of William Burroughs, Jr.
§
§
Carol Gilligan
goes to
YouTube
§
Pibgorn
is a strange little web comic
that has been retelling
Midsummer Night’s Dream
for some time now
§
Op-Art pioneer
Henry Pearson
has died
§
George Lakoff
on the
November elections
