Wednesday, January 02, 2008

John Ashbery
on the PBS Newshour

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Two views of the
MLA Offsite marathon

116MB MP3
of the event
(URL good for 14 days only)

Plus Al Nielsen’s slideshow

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Dale Smith
on the future of poetry

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137 proverbs & figures of speech
translated from the Vietnamese
by Linh Dinh

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Remembering Landis Everson

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The third best selling poet of all time

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Lorca’s bed is a popular destination

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An index
to 221 Poets & Writers articles
on individual writers

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Pound, Walcott & Homer

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The labors of love
vs.
the labor of adjuncts

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John Allman’s Lowcountry

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Morris Dickstein
on Mailer, Paley & Vonnegut

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Librarian to the stars

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On first seeing through the eyes
of North Andover’s poet laureate

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The poet laureate of Illinois

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Granta
a legend in its own mind

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The “urban poet” of Colorado Springs

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Moderation rules at the MLA

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Narendra Modi’spedestrian poetry

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Alice Quinn
on 20 years as poetry editor
of The New Yorker

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“The best new journals” –
School of Quietude edition

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New selecteds from the School of Q

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William Logan
on Murray, Pinsky, McPherson,
Wright, Jamie & Hass

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More in common with fiction writers” –
a look at the poetry of Matthea Harvey

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A truly weird look back
at poetry 2007

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Cowboy poet Roddy Nichols has died

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Estonian poet Jaan Kross has passed away

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Bush signs biggest dollar increase
to the NEA budget since 1979

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Screen writers losses exceed $150M

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Poetry book launch, Indian style

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Armenia honors Peter Balakian

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A New Jersey psychologist
engages Antiguan history in her poetry

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Curing an arts addiction

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Philosophy 2.0

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Invoking Marx in Chinese journalism

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