August Kleinzahler
tries to deal with the
“precipitous,
rather mysterious,
falling off
in the quality”
of Ed Dorn’s poetry
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Yeats & the fiddler
of L’Enfant Plaza
§
Bruce Springsteen,
street musician
§
Alan Bernheimer’s photo of
yours truly,
reading all of Ketjak,
Powell & Market,
September 1978
§
Newspaper book reviewers
fight to survive…
while the
moves book reviews
to Saturday
(the newspaper nobody reads)
§
An interesting account
of the
British poetry wars
§
A newspaper piece
on
Poets on Painters,
the show,
which will be traveling
eventually to
the Queens Library Gallery in
and to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
§
4 Nancy Shaw sites
on the web
(thanks to Aaron Vidaver):
Obit from the Vancouver Sun
Interview (with Catriona Strang,
Jeff Derksen & Lisa Robertson)
Affordable Tedium (1987)
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“the face of poetry in America is a black face”
Nikki Giovanni
on the place of poetry
§
Reviewing
Nikki Giovanni
&
Charles Bukowski
§
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Moniru Ravanipur
& the risks she takes
§
Kazim Ali’s
tale of
recycling poetry
in the age of
homeland security
§
§
3 authors
introduce
their books
(including
the latest attempt
to connect the SoQ
to
§
Antonio Gamoneda
awarded
the Cervantes Prize
§
On the poetry
& life
of Sheikh Saadi,
Persian poet
of the 12th century
§
Will postal fees
kill
small presses?
§
Farewell
to the art of
browsing
§
Slam poetry
in
§
Poetry readings
in the
Klang Valley
§
“Tentative, greedy, by night they came,
drawn to the insects drawn to the light”
Not Vachel Lindsay,
not Rudyard Kipling,
but the tub-thumping
metrics of
William Logan
in the New Yorker
§
“The rusting, decomposing hulk of the United States
is moored across Columbus Boulevard from Ikea”
& other subtleties
from C.K. Williams
in the self-same publication
§
“To steal a glance and, anxious, see
Him slipping into transparency—“
Thus J.D. McClatchy
starts his sonnet
§
Reading
The Paris Review
Interviews
down under
§
A profile of
Natasha Trethewey
§
An “unlikely trinity”
–
poets connected
to
Dave
Smith
§
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The official State Poet
of Rhode Island
§
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Martin Duberman’s bio
of Lincoln Kirstein
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What is feminist art?
§
To the person who wrote
the unsigned review
of The Age of Huts (compleat)
in
Publisher’s Weekly,
calling it
”one of the few
must-have works
of American avant-garde poetry,”
Thank you!
