Rumi
as the object
of cultural struggle
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A primer on
Afzaladin Khaghani Shervani
& Persian poetry
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Kurdish poet nominated
for UK Forward award
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“Terror trial poet”
compared to Owens
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Bookstores in Iran
ordered to stop
selling coffee
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The insider’s outsider
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Why the NEA
is like Jell-O
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20 poems by Bill Deemer
(plus new work by
Joanne Kyger)
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Of Jayne Cortez,
Ornette Coleman
& their son Denardo
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Umberto Eco’s
latest essays
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How to talk about books
you haven’t read
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Remembering
Richard Hugo
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The problem of pricing
Canadian books
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Dan Gerber:
”What is your work about?”
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A conservative look
at the state of poetry
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Translating Russian poets
into English and Bangla
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Eliot’s heirs
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Two new versions
of Dante’s
Paradiso
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A review of
Dog Medicine
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A memorial
for
Len Roberts
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More on
poet laureate
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Offbeat bookshops
in the
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Write what you
don’t know
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From blogger
to publisher
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Papers from
the Scholarly Publishing Conference
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A new bookstore chain
hits
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Profile of a
Malaysian poet
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A taste of
the Marathi Book Festival
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Poetry & nation
(& a very strange
idea of nation,
at that)
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Pinsky on Bridges
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The sage of
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Housman
as correspondent
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As fawning a review
as I’ve ever read
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Larry McMurtry
on
Diane Keaton
on
photography
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Hal Foster on
Baudelaire’s museum today
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Fisk must sell
stake in O’Keeffe
in order to survive
§
to distribute
Pluto Press
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The ballad of
Gram Parsons
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“The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide
to Capitalism and Socialism
with a Key to the Scriptures”
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Nightmare on Broad Street
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The right-wing
smear machine
in cyberspace
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