The limits
of a laureate
Poetry workshop
at Buckingham Palace
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The “alternate laureate”
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A profile of
Eleanor Wilner
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Doris Lessing
podcast
Roger Ebert
on meeting Lessing
at Stud Terkel’s
§
One book
I’ve been wanting
for 20 years
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Kenneth Koch’s
”small-scale canonization”
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Wendell Berry’s
Window Poems
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Sinan Antoon’s
Baghdad Blues
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Yevtushenko
reads once more
in a stadium
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On translation
&
English-as-a-second-language
as the lingua franca
of the world
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Kim Heung-sook
on gender
& Korean modernism
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A global archive
of recorded readings
(e.g. Michel Butor &
Jacques Roubaud
in French)
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A poetry festival
in a department store
in
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Sidney Nolan
& the problem of
the bad boy muse
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Of a tanka
by Akio Tanigawa
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Plus, a case study
(PDF)
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Talking with
Tracy K. Smith
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The world’s smallest
book tour
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Collecting Burroughs
& dealing rare books
in the age of the net
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The joy of
the Man Booker prize
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A review of
Robert Hass,
Margaret Atwood
&
Kenneth Koch
§
Jan Wolkers
has died
§
Daily life
with the Grass family
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Race,
Anatole Broyard
& the NY publishing scene
mid-century
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A profile of
Robert Hass
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Talking with
Marvin Bell
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“Prosody and its interfaces”
is the focus for
the 2008 Penn Linguistics Colloquium
(Call for papers in PDF format)
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The demise of
serious fiction
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100 poets
reading on 6 CDs
(priced to rip off
school libraries)
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The net is changing
how we read
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The entire Booker shortlist
will be available
free online
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Poe’s brain
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A profile of Jim Paul
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If only
Stalin
had been a poet
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Tales
of the
Chelsea Hotel
§
first laureate
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The poet laureate of
& more
silly assertions about poetry
than I’ve seen in one article
in a long time
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Sheep ranch
experimentalism
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The private
Ted Hughes
§
Martin Espada
returns to
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A short profile
of Sam Hamill
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Two new books from
Jackie Kay
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Poetry gets fractal
in Little Rock
§
Robert Pinsky
on
Mary Kinzie
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