Saturday, May 19, 2007

Profiling
Jim Behrle
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Language poetry
and the body
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Profiling
Molly Saccardo
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John Cage
has a secret
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Emily Lloyd
dives right in
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“The average life span
of a Web site

is only
44 to 75 days”
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Robert Creeley’s
birthplace
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Money’s poet
& the NEA
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Book reviews & bookstores –
another disconnect
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Designing
the neighborhood library…
underground
Or voting
to close them
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This week’s
death of a bookstore
piece
comes from upstate NY
The closure
of the only bookstore
in
Paoli, PA
(where I live)
a week ago
got no notice whatsoever

(silver lining:
I bought 7 bookcases
for $70)
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The other poet
from Virginia Tech
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“10,000 recordings
by over 200 writers” –
The AP piece
on PENNsound
turns up
in the
Chicago Trib

This compares to
the 501 recordings
that the
Poetry Archive
(which likes to call itself
” the world's premier
online collection
of recordings of poets
reading their work”)
had as of Friday

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Brits to
save
Paul McCartney
(or, more likely,
Michael Jackson,
who owns the Beatles song catalog)
from the poor house
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More on the poetics
of Jerry Hall
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Art & commerce
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Ike Taiga,
& Tokuyama Gyokuran,

illuminating not manuscripts
so much as
paintings with text
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