Poetry & depression:
Ken Rumble,
talking to CA Conrad
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Nate Mackey
in
The Nation
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John Ashbery
at the Folger Library
A great review
of Ashbery
by Ange Mlinko
Troy Jollimore’s
befuddled & quiet(ist) review
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A similar review of
The Collected Poems
of
Philip Whalen
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Thom Donovan
on
Hannah Weiner
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Sixty-second lecture:
Charles Bernstein
on
”what makes a poem a poem?”
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Talking with
Gary Snyder
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The poetics of attention
in the work of
Gabe Gudding
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Afaa Michael Weaver
wins
Lifetime Achievement Award
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20 Turkish poets
translated into English
Essays on
contemporary
Turkish poetry
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A poem-by-poem
review of the first
105 pages
of the Best American Poetry
2004
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Feds cancel request
to find out
what you’re reading
Talking with
Amazon’s lawyer
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The life and work of
Lee Min-yung
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Stupidest book review
of 2007
not about poetry
By comparison,
an intelligent report
of a student reading
in
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Chinh Huu
has died
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Andy Gricevich’s
favorite tidbits
from
The Grand Piano, 4
§
John Latta
reads The Grand Piano:
on class
in the work of
Kit Robinson
on Tom Mandel
& the explosion of
Robert Duncan
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Bangladeshi author
forced into hiding
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Cyril Wong,
a gay poet
in
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Jamie McKendrick’s
Crocodiles & Obelisks
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Jack Foley reviews
Bernstein’s Zukofsky
§
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Is editing
evil?
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The Washington Post
”gift guide”
to 2007 books
lists only
Zbignew Herbert
& Bob Hass
for poetry
§
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Remembering
Ingrid Jonker
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Don Domanski
on winning
the Governor General’s
Award for Poetry
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Search the MLA schedule
for interesting panels
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Juan Gelman
wins
Cervantes Prize
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Lessing unable
to travel
to
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Court voids
free-lance digital rights settlement
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Christmas with cowboys
& their poems
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Poetry helps man survive
46 years in a cave
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Landis Everson obit
in the
Los Angeles Times
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The mind
of
Mirza Ghalib
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Talking with
Le Hinton
§
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Writers
and/or
editors
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Ten years of
Electronic Poetry Network
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Sander Zulauf
loves
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Umberto Eco
on beauty
as a cultural
norm
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Book tours
are passé
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What to do
instead of book tours:
Tupperware parties!
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Talking with
B.H.Fairchild
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Mixed results
for booksellers
on Black Friday weekend
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Britney Spears
at
Barnes & Noble
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Robert Pinsky
on film
as a template for poetry
in the work of
A. Van Jordan
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An anthology of Irish poems
all about
§
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The limits of clear language
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The poet as chef:
Prartho Sereno
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Another British review
of Ted Hughes’
correspondence
§
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Is there any hope
for cultural reporting
in American
newspapers?
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Talking with
David Henry Hwang
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Vietnam War poetry
goes rococo
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Completing the vision
of Jeremy Blake
§
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Steve Reich
in the heartland
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For Einstein,
life’s still a Beach
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The work
of
John Work,
ethnomusicologist
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I’m Not There:
the soundtrack album
Plus
Bob Dylan, painter
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Sylvia Plath,
in drawing, song &
conference panel
(in
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Carey Young:
Body Techniques
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Graffiti
of the
philanthropic class
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What is the origin
of art?
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The global intelligence paradigm:
a CIA
theory of knowledge
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For that special
old book smell
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Somebody
clicked a link
on this blog
every 33 seconds
in the month of
November –
Thank you!