John Chamberlain
at 80
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Pianist
Andrew Hill
has died
§
All
of Ezra Pound’s
recorded poetry
downloadable
on MP3s
§
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Can this really be
the first anthology
devoted entirely
to poems
about
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Why literary awards can be useful
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But when they don’t work:
Of the 1,006 words
Washington Post writer
Bob Thompson
uses to discuss
the “non-journalism” Pulitzers
awarded last week,
exactly 9
are devoted to poetry
Scott Timberg
of the LA Times
devotes
even fewer –
8 out of 692,
the first of which is
and
Jeffrey Burke
of Bloomberg News
devotes 51 words
from his allotment of
679
§
And when prizes do work:
More on the Pulitzer
for Ornette Coleman
§
Knopf took away
three Pulitzers
§
On the process
& politics
of the
Pulitzer for drama
§
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The London Book Fair
&
the art of the deal
§
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel,
”the Okie poet,”
has died
§
§
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Anny Ballardini’s
extensive
Poet’s Corner
§
A profile of
James Weldon Johnson,
Paul Dunbar
&
Langston Hughes
§
Franz Douskey
is sometimes
the last to know
what he’s writing
§
Another article
on the potential demise
of
Women and Children First
§
At the
Atlanta Journal Constitution,
it’s the book review editor
that has been found
unnecessary
§
A profile of
Kathleen Peirce,
one of the
Guggenheim Nine
§
The writing of
Cho Seung-Hui
§
Using Cho’s videos
as an opportunity
to advertise
§
Trying to find
meaning
in
”axismael”
§
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Some retro-jazz
and Billy Collins
§
A literacy program
for
the Prime Minister
§
Plus Dana & Laura
at a museum
named for Mr. Barnum
§
As good a defense
of Geoffrey Hill
as I’ve ever read
§
No academic publisher
left behind
§
Anglophilia
goes North
§
Trying to pair up
John Lennon
&
Kate Smith
for a duet
§
Impressionism
& the aging eye
§
How to think
about visual art
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Return of the repressed:
abstraction is back
