Ruth Stone
succeeds
Grace Paley
as Vermont State Poet
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Talking with
Chinua Achebe
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An Irish poet
”at least as important as Heaney”
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Translating
Cathal O' Searcaigh
into Nepalese
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Mahmoud Darwish
returns to Haifa
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Librarians:
the next generation
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Plus
libraries
in the digital age
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Harry Northup & Holly Prado
among the poets on
The Moe Green Poetry Hour
Thursday, July
7 PM
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Clemente Padin
on Dick Higgins
(en español)
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Are blogs
killing
the newspaper critics?
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A history of
the late
Gotham Book Mart
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“Best poem
set in a southern
junkyard”
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The Avant Writing Collection
at
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Potentially,
a very important ruling by
the Supreme Court
that snuck by
without much public attention
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Robert Pinsky
on blank verse
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“Talkin’ ‘bout a revolution….”
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Michael Lally’s
promoting
the work of
a serious prose neglectorino,
Dale Herd
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Putting checklists
on book covers
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A profile of cowboy poet
Baxter Black
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Reading
Jimmy Santiago Baca
in Wichita
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Shelley
& the god-like power
of the imagination
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The Washington Post
gets around to reviewing
Günter Grass’
”confession”
as well as
running a
5-paragraph
excerpt
A more positive review
in the Chron
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Censorship
& “self-critiicism”
in Chinese fiction
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A profile
of Jeff Rath
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The New York Times
acknowledges
the passing
of Philip Booth
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More fawning
o’er
feeble Fables
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Talking with
Sean Thomas Dougherty
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Afaa Michael Weaver
in Taiwan
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A sober man
looks at a thistle
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Imaginary bands
for authors
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Belgian ISP
found legally responsible
for illegal filesharing
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Fonts
in music notation
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The mysterious music career
of Mingering Mike
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When Nessum Dorma
became
Messum Dorma
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Photography curator
John Szarkowski
has died
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The
as viewed from LA
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Creativity & madness,
the latest round
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