Merwin or McKuen,
you decide
And even more
(I always thought
Rod was better
than that)
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Ousmane Sembène,
the great African filmmaker
& novelist,
has died
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Outsourcing journalism:
the next fun fad?
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Why arts coverage
in daily papers
matters
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Nicholas Kristof’s
Iraq Poetry Contest
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Sheila E. Murphy
interviewing
Peter Ganick
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More on the laureate’s revolt
of
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Children’s laureate’s
radical idea –
books!
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This year’s
Pew Fellows
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Greg Djanikian’s
latest book
The “Armenian Reznikoff”
is that rarest of creatures,
a poet who went to my high school
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Things fall apart,
but the Booker Prize
goes to
Chinua Achebe
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“Our state's libraries'
greatest patron
since Andrew Carnegie.”
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Andrew Keen
wants to be the next
Hilton Kramer
but it won’t work
§
Lit bloggers
are generally pissed-off
(What is it Sartre says
about the political value
of resentment?)
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan.
executive director
of the
at
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Evicting small presses
from Richard Hugo House
§
The AA Independent Press Guide
(AA in this instance
refers to
Acid Angel)
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Talking with
Farideh Hassanzadeh
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Poetry &/or patriotism
in Iran
§
Concerning Martin Amis’
declaration
that poetry is in decline
(maybe he means
his kind of poetry)
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Discovering a new poet,
Wallace Stevens
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When bad things
happen to good people,
the Bureau of Prisons
bans books
§
The Rupert Brooke market
deflates
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Reviving Leonard Michaels
(one of the great
writers of short fiction)
§
Billy Collins’
editor
departs
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Truth, advertising,
art poop
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Dishing it out
but not taking it
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Monument
to
Sol Lewitt
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