Charles Bernstein
on John Ashbery’s
Rivers and Mountains
& Bernstein
on speed
§
A.L.I.C.E.
is “not completely sure”
about her answers
to my questions in
Sunset Debris
§
interviews
two generations of leadership
at the Poetry Project
§
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A profile of
Robert Hass
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Douglas Manson
on
Robert Creeley’s
last books
Marjorie Perloff
on
Robert Creeley
& Douglas Barbour
on
Marjorie Perloff
§
Remembering
Gene Frumkin
§
Pound
and his enemies
§
The National Book Critics Circle
”best recommended” lists
for 2007
§
Domanski, Ondaatje
win
Governor General’s awards
§
Two Lives:
Gertrude and Janet
§
Wordsworth
and his ego
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Talking with
Jim Bertolino
§
What constitutes
a canon?
§
Why contemporary art
is not
left wing
§
Adalaide Morris
on
How to Think (with)
Thinkertoys
§
The further adventures
of the
tiny tour
§
Norman Mailer
vs.
Gore Vidal
& Dick Cavett:
Norman responds
Mailer wins
one last prize
§
The Oregon Book Awards
poetry finalists
§
Remembering
Hassib Mroue
§
Chris Funkhouser
reading
The Electronic Literature Collection
§
to would-be
poets laureate:
Show me!
§
A profile of
Natasha Trethewey
§
“The last great
Arab classical poet”
§
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Ted Hughes’
paper trail
Building the myth
of a substantial poet
§
“Miss Congeniality”
on the Governor General’s
shortlist
§
A reading series
in Qatar
§
“Poetry Days
in the Desert”
§
Saud Usmani
&
contemporary Urdu poetry
§
More on the Hollywood
writers’ strike
here
&
here & here
& the flip side here
§
Deadlines,
war & fiction
§
Censorship battle
in the Hamptons
§
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Tenure
as a form
of hazing
§
Gravestone poem
held as evidence
133 years
§
The most successful playwright
of all time
is not William Shakespeare
§
Proust was not really
a neuroscientist
§
Is the library
sustainable?
§
Carnegie Mellon
has scanned
1.5 million books,
only one quarter of them
in English
§
Here is the new
Shorter OED
§
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Modernism
for the masses
§
The first usable
e-book?
§
Poetry
as a healing art
§
19th annual
Cowboy Christmas
poetry reading
§
A reading
in
Malaysia
§
57,554
attend relaunch
of the
Detroit Institute of the Arts,
home of the
finest single painting
in the
§
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Politically correct
Beowulf?
§
Walter Benn Michaels
on the films of
Christopher Nolan
§
Julian Schnabel
blinks
§
All 19 essays
in the
electropoetics thread
of the
Electronic Book Review
edited by
Lori Emerson
(Check out
the other threads
as well!)
§
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Garrett Lisi:
why math?
§
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James Turrell’s
Roden Crater
§
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Ainu culture
plus hiphop?
§
Saving modernism
at Yale
§
Why are we
in
Vietnam?
§
A job
for an American Lit Specialist
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