photo © 2006 by Gordon Ball (Courtesy of Jacket)
A fabulous
photo essay
on Allen Ginsberg & Co.
by Gordon Ball
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50 years ago this week,
Howl
was busted
in Britain
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A history & exhibition
of
The Fugs
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The dog & pony show
is in
&
on line
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What’s your font?
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The number of titles
published each year
is nearing
300,000
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Gabriel García Márquez
goes home
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Magee’s Emerson
as the founding father
of flarf
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Talking with Jack Mapanje,
poet & one-time
political prisoner
of
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Asked
if they’d read any
good books lately,
Dave Eggers
lists C.D. Wright
&
Edwidge Danticat
lists Nikki Giovanni
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Talking with
George Bowering
§
William Meredith,
one of the quietest
of the School of Quietude,
has died
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Geoffrey G. O’Brien
on
John Ashbery’s “Clepsydra”
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The importance
of destroying a language
(your own)
§
Mark Harris
has died
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Talking with
Eleni Sikelianos
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On the Road
(Swiss version)
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Interfaces + Recursion
= Language?
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Talking with
Orhan Pamuk
§
Against
the idea
of poetry
§
Paul Portuges
on 2Pac
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Talking with
Allison Knowles
§
An oral history
of the
Subtext
reading series
§
More on the life
& death
of
Sarah Hannah
§
Talking with
Billy
Collins
§
Howard Zinn
on the end
of newspaper
book reviews
§
drops its critics
The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
defends
its arts coverage
while it’s laid-off
book reviewer
gets a job
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BEA
considers
the future (if any)
of book reviews
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Who controls
an author’s
estate?
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The close connection
between
business & poetry
§
The Poetry Foundation
wins a webby
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Novelists slum
in the New Gutter
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Dialog as critique:
on
Michael Rothenberg
§
PENNsound
makes it to
the leader’s quadrant
of
”Approval Matrix”
§
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Dada, Gary Snyder
& environmental action
§
A profile of
Nancy Botkin
§
Jim Behrle
on the website of Poetry:
”The Ex-Laureates”
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Getting wild & crazy
at Poetry
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Giving up poetry
for politics
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A profile of
David Malouf
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Where are the children’s books
denouncing gay rights,
affirmative action
& promoting gun ownership?
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Why Hal Meyerson
is the best
political columnist
in the
§
Yoshi’s
pulls
a commemorative
but not representative
CD
§
Talking with
Richard Serra
& a profile
of the retrospective
at MoMA
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A seriously
pre-digital
camera
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Joe Goode
in
Humansville
§
Yoko Ono
eats a corgi
