Grace Hartigan on Frank O’Hara
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Jeff Clark, book designer extraordinaire
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Geoff Huth on Bob Grumman
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Talking with Mairead Byrne
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Searching for Frank Stanford
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Chinua Achebe on the 50th anniversary of
Things Fall Apart
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Losing languages
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Arts Council pulls lit funding
Is the Arts Council out to kill literature?
Arts Council: we’re raising lit funding
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“Poetry doesn’t need much promotion”
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Mary Oliver sells out 2,500 seat auditoriums
in
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What freaks people out more?
Talking werewolf-dogs that bust up meth labs
or free verse?
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Robert Archambeau responds
to the plaints of Todd Swift
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore piece
is the only general new book indie shop in Vegas,
closed by
“toward the resort’s younger audience”
In
may go nonprofit
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A look at the Canadian retail book industry
A government study on the same topic
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The fate of Charles Hills,
writer, editor, would-be murderer
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Linh Dinh, Jessica Lowenthal & Randall Couch
discuss Adrienne Rich’s “Wait”
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Talking with Major Jackson
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Discussing dolls with David Trinidad
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Stephen Burt on new Russian poets
& on Jasper Bernes
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Six post-avant classics for the price of one
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Of Özdemir Ince,
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Poetry & voice
(yes, in 2008!)
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How not to write a sonnet
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Talking with Robert Hass
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A bio of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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3 funny poets
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Science, art & literary criticism
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Talking with Carlos Martinez
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Remembering Marcel Martinet
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A.E. Stallings on George Seferis
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“the childlike wit” of Simon Armitage
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The modern Byron
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Robert Pinsky on Campbell McGrath
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Dilip Chitre’s As Is, Where Is
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Reginald Shepherd,
back from the AWP, asks
”Can’t we get along?”
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When they really, really
don’t like the poetry
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The work of Luc Sante
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Talking with John Steffler
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Chain store pulls “Lolita bed”
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What the Poetry Foundation’s editors
liked of their websites publication in ‘07
and what their readers liked
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John Hollander’s imitation of Kenny Goldsmith
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Kenny Goldsmith on outsider art
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A short profile of Lee Sharkey
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Shakespeare’s pied-à-terre
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Jordan appeals court upholds sentence
of jihadist poet
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Writers’ strike nears settlement
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Two Guyanese poets,
read through the work of Derek Walcott
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Celebrating the birthday of Robert Burns
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“the terrifying democracy of illness”
Carlin Romano on David Rieff on Susan Sontag
Rieff’s first chapter
Folly & the will to live
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The many lives of Lee Miller
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Jasper Johns in grey
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The Philly jazz scene
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The Pound problem in music
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One way to counter a bad review
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Michael Chabon on Barack Obama
Erica Jong on Hillary Clinton