Tuesday, November 06, 2007


Photo by Steve McNamara, courtesy of Jacket

Ange Mlinko
on
poetry & community

Numbers trouble” –
A.E. Stallings
on
women & publishing

Emily Warn
on
essentialism & gender

(Essays all in response
to Spahr & Young (PDF)
in the new
Chicago Review
on the subject of gender,
diversity, anthologies,
Jennifer Ashton (PDF)
& [sigh]
Silliman’s Blog)

”Poetry Magazines & Women Poets”
by the editors of
The Chicago Review
(PDF)

Further commentary by
Stephanie Young & Juliana Spahr
&
Dale Smith
&
K. Lorraine Graham
&
Simon DeDeo

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Mlinko’s blog archives
for the
Poetry Foundation

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A review of
Lydia Davis’
Varieties of Disturbances

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At a slam
in Kuala Lumpur
six of the seven contestants
are women

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Ruth Stone
isn’t slowing down

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A portrait of
Nikki Giovanni

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Saul Williams
&
NiggyTardust

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Jackson Mac Low
in conversation

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“Is the avant-garde
necessary?”

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Christian Bök’s blogs
for the
Poetry Foundation

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Bob Hass,
political poet

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Campus librarians
fight surveillance

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Bonnefoy
receives Czech prize

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Talking with
Franz Wright

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One Kansas Poet Laureate
looks at a predecessor

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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore article
comes from
Santa Barbara

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But the Irish
book market

is doing okay

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The bard
behind bars

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Robert Pinsky
on
Reed Whittemore

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“But is it poetry?
I can answer positively
in the negative.”

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The Nantucket
youth slam

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What parts of the bookstore
to kill next

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Visit to a rare book shop

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Remembering
Jaun Elia
& the witch of
Lahore

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The Marine poet
of YouTube

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Ted Hughes,
eco-warrior

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A review of
Galway Kinnell

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Subtleties
of global English

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Simon Armitage,
war poet
by proxy

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The T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist
is pure
School of Snoozy-tude

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Another review
of
Edmund Wilson

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Bad books
about Homer

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Kahlil Gibran,
from bad to verse

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Galway Kinnell,
raconteur

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Erica Jong
on
Fernando Botero

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Auctioning art
in a bad economy

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Michael Roth
on
John Brenkman
on
democracy post-9/11

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Is there anyone
who can report
on the reading
of Robert Grenier
& Aram Saroyan

at Beyond Baroque
November 2nd?