Edward Field
is just one of two
”NY School poets”
from The New American Poetry
still alive
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“The most influential poet
you never heard of”
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John Perrault & Carolee Schneeman
on the performance work
of Hannah Weiner
(MP4)
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Richard Knight
on the art of Roberto Harrison
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The poet laureate of New Bedford, MA
currently is reading Phil Whalen,
Joanne Kyger & Afaa Michael Weaver
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Raves for The Four Horsemen Project
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Robert Pinsky on Jimmy Schuyler
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The new generation of poetry editors
suggests that the
can’t find qualified poets
who are U.S.-born
(anglophilia in the age of globalization?)
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Jamming with Charlie & Bob
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Simone de Beauvoir at 100
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The poet behind Star Trek & The Matrix
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Phil Levine is 80
Levine reading in Berkeley 1998
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Not the muse:
a profile of Dorothy Stafford
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Nigerian & Romanian poets
as seen from
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Abdullah Goran & Kurdish modernism
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Eight new members of the National Books Critics Circle
Plus Ron Padgett & Victor Hernandez Cruz
named as chancellors
of the
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Opening the fly of A.M. Klein
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About Brian Mornar
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Poetry, depression & suicide
in 1930s
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A roundup of some poets
& poetic prose
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115 new bookstores opened in 2007
(forgets to mention the roughly 250 that closed)
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore pieces
come from Ashland, Oregon & Ithaca, NY
but in Philly
it’s readers to the rescue
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Borders gets all poetical
with Mark Strand, Paul Muldoon, a contest,
a little slammin’ & a lot of quietude
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A blog devoted to the sound of language
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Striking writers
& the conundrum of publicity
Why aren’t more women writers
out on strike?
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Voice recognition & the language
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The art of bookcrossing
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Johnny can’t read – so what?
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When a member of the Forbes family
writes verse
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Save the art of correspondence!
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Listen to the Eliot shortlist
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Between the written & the visual
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When the classics are a snooze
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“You don’t need a weatherman
to know which way the wind blows”
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The films of Henry Hills
including my one cinematic credit
(MOV)
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Dvorak, “the negrophile”
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A visit with George Herms
George Herms & Allen Ginsberg,
interviewed by Charlie Rose
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Who gets Trafalgar Square?
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Raping Europa & The Barnes
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