Ten questions for Reginald Shepherd
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Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
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The poets of Generation X
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“The Top Ten Lit Stars of 2008”
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Five rare books from the original found poet,
Bern Porter (all PDF)
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The German in Pierre Joris’
translations of Paul Celan
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stay hidden or leave
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Earliest recording of Howl
is found at
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“Iconic
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A statue for Al Purdy
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Charles Bernstein taking on Calvin Trillin
in the new issue of The Nation
(subscription required)
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Joel Bettridge on Bernstein’s Shadowtime
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PBS Newshour’s profile of Elizabeth Bishop
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Chris Tonelli of Ploughshares
weighs in on the post-avant debate
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The lasting impact of Chinese classical poetry
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A new collaboration between
Theodore A. Harris & Amiri Baraka
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A profile of Li-Young Lee
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The influence of Gwendolyn Brooks
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Peter Ciccariello’s The Remains of the Poet III
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Nikki Giovanni visits the school
where they named a bat in her honor
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On Don Paterson’s “Lyric Principle”
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News that stays new, 2008 political debate style:
at Woodland Pattern, candidates for alderman
were invited to discuss three poems each
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A little-known award, with some big payouts
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Tao Lin:
The Interns Strike Back
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Renee Marie on Joanne Kyger
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A profile of Naomi Shihab Nye
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IBé Kaba & questions of poetry & class
in
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A profile of Hiram Larew
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Two ways of looking at a border
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Performance poetry in
”Punk but no Guitar”
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Some poems for Black History Month
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So what makes it Jewish?
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David Orr on Matthea Harvey
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Another poet from Lawrence,
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A profile of Duane Poole
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Remembering Vi Gale
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Bringing music to the poetry of Kate Light
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A profile of Wendy Ronk
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A profile of Mike Donnan
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Elisabeth Workman’s Opolis
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“Nostalgic Western-theme poetry”
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The words & music of Creative Tradition
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Publishers are clueless re the web
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“Spatial and Linguistic Aspects of Visual Imagery
in Sentence Comprehension”
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Reviving the Whorf hypothesis
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Deafness, cognition & language
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Meaning in the palm of your hand (PDF)
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The letters of a chicken farmer
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Doc Humes & the other side of The Paris Review
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The latest death-of-a-bookshop piece
is from Venice, Florida
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One way to save a bookstore:
sell used books only
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The bookstores-vs-online debate
goes on in
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Borders tries out a “big box digital bookstore”
& gets okay to sell Australian stores
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A rant on PCs vs. print
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For bookstores, 2007 was pretty much a wash
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Looking at bookstores from a
completely different point of view
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The Thane of Cawdor in
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Shakespeare not for Valentine’s Day
Think of it as Boxing Day instead
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“Life after Mary Oliver” –
reading series stretches out
all the way from A to B
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Hungarian poetry for Hindi readers
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The role of craft, if any
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Talking with David Rieff about Susan Sontag
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Are Americans idiots?
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Putting politics out of sight
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Wikipedia & the new curriculum
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The potential (and limits) of blogging
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Global campus, global ambition
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Photography, materiality & the absence of film
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Oliver Sacks on migraines & art
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“Helen’s Odyssey” by Eleanor Antin
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Wayne Thiebaud takes the cake
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Missing Basquiat turns up in NY warehouse
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Cranach the Elder too sexy for the Tube?
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When does appropriation become plagiarism?
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Sculpture kills two – artist charged
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When in
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Danish papers republish “Muhammad” cartoons
to protest murder plot
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Steve Gerber has died
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