Julian Brolaski
on
Stacy Szymaszek’s
queer poetics
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Reginald Shepherd
on John Ashbery’s
Some Trees
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But Amazon
tries to
invent a better book
Nonsense, say Forbes,
the real competition
for reading
is the web
§
GASP!
William Shakespeare’s works
were really written by…
William Shakespeare!
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Language Poetry & the Body:
the complete panel
(Maria Damon, Steve Benson,
Leslie Scalapino & Bruce Andrews,
moderated by Tim Peterson
& Erica Kaufman)
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I am “out of fashion”
(actually, he gets what I’m trying to do,
but mostly isn’t interested)
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The ghost-writer
of
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Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
in
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Auctioning
contemporary poetry archives
§
J.H. Prynne
on
Ken Edwards’ novel
Futures
Plus an excerpt
from Edwards’
latest novel
§
The Marin Independent Journal
on the suicide of
Landis Everson
§
Charles Alexander
reading
Creeley whole
§
A peek at
Beedle the Bard
§
Barrett Watten on
the radical particular:
critical regionalism
vs. globalization
§
Readers’ reports:
an assassin’s list
for contemporary books
§
How
War and Peace
works
§
A column on academic presses
in the daily paper?
The first one
§
Tenney Nathanson
on
the poetics of
Leslie Scalapino
§
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Covering Norman Mailer
or not
in
Rethinking his place
in
The LA Times
§
Matthew Sweeney
makes the test
§
A new
Aeneid
§
Michael Gottlieb
on
Proust
§
Contemporary poetics
for a whole new century
§
Even more dismal
than the Costa Book Award shortlist
is the roster of judges
who turn up year after year
An oft-rejected novel
makes the list
§
“Like playing tunes
out of your armpit”
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Robert Pinsky
celebrating
a fatty, artery clogging
slice of sentimentality
from Mark Strand
§
Angela Veronica Wong
in between
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A Queen’s Medal
for a noisy Quietist
& the Royal Society
honors
Peter Porter
§
The trouble with
Janet Malcolm’s
Stein & Toklas
§
A poet’s portrait
with a rare history
§
Alan Davies
on
Roberto Harrison
& on
Norman Fischer
§
Canadian book prices
start to fall
§
The lone poet
on
football team
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James Emanuel,
neglectorino
in his own time
§
A little Edith Wharton mystery
appears to solve itself
§
The dynamics
of web-based
social networks
§
Lawrence Weiner’s
word art
§
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Loving Picasso’s biography
§
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Surfer dude
stuns physics
An Exceptionally Simple
Theory of Everything
(PDF)
§
Gutting
The San Jose Mercury News
§
Do newspapers favor
the striking screenwriters?
§
The first film postponed by the strike
is Dan Brown’s
Da Vinci Code prequel
§
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Vaclav Havel
returns to theater
§
Stephen Paul Miller
on
Radiohead
§
The Bob Dylan
camouflage military hat
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Special thanks
to
E O A G H
for so much
wonderfulness
