John Ashbery in Haverford
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Serge Gavronsky’s Andorthe
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Linton Kwesi Johnson, looking back
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Al Filreis on the politics
of the School of Quietude (MP3)
Filreis’ Modernism from Right to Left
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Remembering Vincent Ferrini
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Matthea Harvey, talking with Jeannine Hall Gailey
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The poems of Grace Paley
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Rigoberto Gonzáles on Juan Felipe Herrera
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A new view toward epigrams
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Official Verse Culture accepts Charles Bernstein
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A brief introduction to Louis Zukofsky
& an interesting discussion of Basil Bunting
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New poems by Linh Dinh, Miles Champion,
Ange Mlinko & Arlo Quint
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Mark Ford’s Frank O’Hara
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Poets on Painters
has made its way to
A review of the anthology here
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Ted Burke’s review of
The Age of Huts
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Daisy Fried’s favorite word
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Strand Books
now has web TV
in addition to
”18 miles of books”
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TitlePage debuts
not with a bang, but …
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Mary Jo Bang has won the 2007
National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry
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Mary Jo Salter,
”part of the niggling history of taste”
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Ray Davies, rock poet
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Reginald Shepherd on why
disco is better than punk
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Reading Ginsberg reading Blake
Bolcom’s Blake
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“Entertainment at its simplest”
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Auden in
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Norman Nicholson in
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Talking with Daniel Crowley
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The politics of laureateship
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The laureate composes a verse
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Poetry “comes from my heart”
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The unpublished works of Arthur Miller
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Indie bookstores in L.A.
& one in Beacon, NY
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LibraryThing
& Library Thing Local
(the makings of a good list
of readings & events)
Coffee & the fate of libraries
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Digital © rules stall in
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Serious readers have gone online
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Slamming in Harare
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Gemineye at St. Olaf’s
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Ted Kooser’s valentines
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One more non-diary
Fact-checking isn’t that hard
How to fake an autobiography
Kafka’s problem
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Talking with Orante Churm
complete with flash fiction contest
(deadline: Mon., March 10)
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The Amis family’s problems with race
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A cult figure in Kashmiri verse
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A profile of Narrative Magazine
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Stan Brakhage’s last interview
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Talking with Henry Hills
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The Creativity Project of Oklahoma
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Using the arts to “reseed” Dumbo
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The best art in Houston
(& I include the Rothko Chapel)
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Who owns art?
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A profile of Alden Mason
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Talking with Michael Rovner
& with Daniel Joseph Martinez
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NPR director out
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Access to web & world in Cuba
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Tang Wei (but not Tony Leung)
banned for Lust, Caution
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