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Ken Rumble
is the latest addition
to Kate Greenstreet’s
first-book
interview blog
Cold Front review
of aforementioned
first book
& another
from Mathias Svalina
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A profile
(from the UK)
of Jonathan Lethem
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Your next
pen & paper?
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Techno tsunami
floods
Book Expo
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Laureate nixed
over peace poems
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Edwidge Danticat:
”Marie Micheline”
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The slam poet
whose day job
is working as
a school security guard
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Dan Chiasson
on Les Murray
in The New Yorker
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Robert Pinsky
on burning books
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23-year-old wins
the Urdd Eisteddfod,
a poetry slam
dating back to
1176
(not a typo)
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BS from abroad:
” the unmistakable heir
of the Emerson and Whitman
who so ecstatically
hymned flux”
(being of course
the least
Whitman-like author
alive)
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An assistant editor
for The American Conservative
reviews
a School of Quietude Poet
for Rev. Moon’s
Washington Times
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A review of
the most pompous
translator
of our time
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Poetry of
the Six-Day War
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Speed dating for book proposals
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More newspapers
have begun
laying off arts critics
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Caribbean poetry
published in Zimbabwe
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What Ray Bradbury
thought he wrote
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The Poetry Society of Oklahoma
hosts confab
of the like-minded
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Daniel Libeskind
& the building
as
”open sore”
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The
Philip Johnson
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Peter Schjeldahl
on
Richard Serra
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Barry Schwabsky
on
Gordon Matta-Clark
(subscription required)