Bill Corbett
on
Phil Whalen
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12 or 20 Questions
is a great new interview site
from rob mclennan
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Boston Globe obit of Vincent Ferrini
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Every candidate for this year’s
National Book Critics’ Circle poetry award
published with a small or independent press!
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The new NEA creative writing fellowship guidelines
have been released
As always, the real question will be
who controls the screening process?
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Next-gen ebooks
will come with sound
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Coming in May to
a symposium on
“Conceptual Poetry and its Others”
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Angel Gonzalez has died
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25 years after Grzegorz Przemyk was beaten to death
at the age of 19 by the Polish Militia,
his poetry appears in book form
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Eliot Weinberger on the Book of Psalms
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Reginald Shepherd on translation
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Prevalence of the F word
in Chinese commercial translations
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Translating lit for the cops
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Damn the blasphemy laws!
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Coming to
Poetry, Art and the Book!
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Daisy Fried is crabby
But not compared to Stanley Fish!
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A profile of Poetic Speed
(that’s a person)
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“The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945”
manages not to include Bunting,
Raworth, Prynne, Fisher . . .
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Celebrating Allama Iqbal
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Profiling Nikos Engonopoulos
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One of the books on Major Jackson’s wish list
is his own
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Reading Shelley literally
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Rigoberto González on Jenny Browne
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Dave Wood’s book report
rambles a little
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And the T.S. Eliot Prize goes to…
Sean O’Brien
This make O’Brien
the most celebrated poet in all of
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Sam Gardiner’s Night Ships
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Frosty the prose man
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The natural landscapes of urban dwellers
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Mark Jarman’s prose poems
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Workshopping with Jean Sprackland
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The letters are falling!
in this year’s National Poetry Month campaign
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This year’s Caldecott Medal goes to . . .
a 544-page novel!
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Self-published novel makes$2,000,000
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In the
& 40 libraries have closed in the past 12 months
College libraries are merging with information technology organizations
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“The ten best bookstores in the world”
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore
piece comes from Palm Springs
Not to mention the fake bookseller
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Not that you need to read
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Guild program getting authors back into print
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Talking with Todd London
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Sasha Frere-Jones
on the balkanized ear
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Peter Schjeldahl
on Freud’s flesh
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Rents taking toll on
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Memories of
by Eric Hobsbawm
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Morals with Steven Pinker
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Thinking with your body
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Nixon handicaps the candidates
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Talking with Lewis Hyde
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A question re the New American poetry:
whatever became of Edward Marshall?
