Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe:
a short anthology in support of jailed Burmese poet Saw Wai
(PDF)
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One year probation for aiding bio-art
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Ismail Gulgee has been murdered
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John Ashbery, collagiste
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Yevtushenko at 74
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Who’s in & who’s out
& what does that mean anymore?
Paul Hoover’s original post
and follow-up
Christian Bök: Why I am not “post-avant”
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Reginald Shepherd is shocked, shocked
by the responses he got
Shepherd on becoming a blogger
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Call for proposals: Poetry of the 1970s
Reassessing the ‘70s
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Is book blogging legit crit?
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Zadie Smith: lit prizes are B.S.
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Ron Padgett’s translation of Reverdy’s Prose Poems
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Talking with Amy King
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Reading Heather Thomas
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Daisy Fried reading Rexroth
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The art of deciphering manuscripts
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Mark Scroggins takes the 100 book challenge
Jonathan Mayhew is doing the same, but with novels!
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Remembering Burt Hatlen:
Mark Scroggins and Norman Finkelstein
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The brat-like qualities of Arthur Rimbaud
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Talking with Samuel Menashe
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textsound, an audio ezine
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Rigoberto González on A Midsummer Night’s Press
& on Slapering Hol Press
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Les Murray’s Selected Poems
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Responses to Reed Whittemore’s memoir
Furioso archives at Yale
Whittemore’s first co-editor, James Angleton
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The 99-year-old bookstore
& the secret Bukowski book signings
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Zimbabwe poets tackle human rights
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Dub poet Guiding Star
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There are only 5 colleges in
that don’t offer a degree in creative writing
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Michael Wells on Jayne Pupek
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Talking with Gregory Betts
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A parish poet for Lickey & Blackwell
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Distribution & equilibration in Three Lives
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Talking with Mukoma Wa Ngugi
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Nikki Giovanni in
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Mike Burwell’s Cartography of Water
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Daniel Green: avoiding oblivion
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Bipolar poets
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Some wordy verse described as “precisely detailed”
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A profile of Walter Bargen,
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Talking with Jared Smith
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Nick Powell on Robert Hass
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The chanteuse, her poets & the French president
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Cate Marvin’s Fragment of the Head of a Queen
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Ted Kooser, “mass mail Casanova”
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A profile of John Hodge
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Helen Losse on Forrest Hamer
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Poems from the factory floor
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Matt Hart’s Simply Rocket
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Bedouin poet salutes Big Brother contestant
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Talking with Rita Donovan
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The poetry editor of Ladies Home Journal
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Steve McOrmond’s Primer on the Hereafter
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Stranger to the language
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J.G. Ballard’s last book?
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Short, flat poems that go on too long
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Devotional poetry, then & now
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Love poetry & Valentine’s Day
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The influence of Lee Sang-hwa
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A profile of Jeff Vande Zande
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The return of Alfred Kazin
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40 years later, A. Alvarez has a second collection of essays
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What are the limits of academic freedom?
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The right to distribute your work online
(But what about peer review & the impact on publishers?)
HarperCollins to post free books on the web
The net is more than just a copy machine –
it’s the basis for the world economy
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Who won the writers strike?
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Is Terry Eagleton “too old” to teach?
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Can New College survive?
Can liberal arts colleges survive?
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Not to Canada it would appear
The feds have their own idea
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Tolkien heirs sue for their share of The Ring
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Who qualifies as a public intellectual?
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If you’re in
check out the 2008 Persian Arts Festival
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A collaboration between a poet,
a filmmaker & a composer
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The Poetry Foundation survey applied to music
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What Pete Seeger wrought
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The Jewish roots of Bob Dylan
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Going to school on Opus 95
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The center of the jazz world?
Boeing begs to differ
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Individuals within a quartet
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Neil Young: Music changes nothing
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Eli Broad’s active critique of museums
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The most important art work of the 20th Century
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Barry Schwabsky on Lawrence Weiner
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The problems of shipping art in
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The price of fame
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Silence and Lee Friedlander
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The future of repertory cinema
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Where the candidates stand
on funding the arts