Monday, March 31, 2008

Rod Smith on Ceptuetics (MP3)

Plus Kenny Goldsmith (MP3)

& Bruce Andrews (MP3) & Kim Rosenfield (MP3)

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New York Times obit for Jonathan Williams

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Indiana cancels Constitution

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Talking with Blas Falconer

Emily Pérez on Falconer

Falconer on the experience & aesthetics of
the Other Rican

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Joshua Marie Wilkinson
reading at Stephanie Young’s house
(MP3)

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Rae Armantrout’s Next Life

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Javier Huerta in conversation with Miguel Murphy

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The poems of Vaan Nguyen

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Poems from an attic

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Robert Fagles has died

A test of translation

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Gordon Brown’s favorite poem

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Textsound, accent on the sound

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Beth Ann Fennelly’s Unmentionables

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The oldest bookstore in Canada is kaput!

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Humans were not built for reading

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From John Lowther’s long poem Stoppages

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A Rotary Club takes note of Robert Creeley & John Ashbery

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Muggles enrolling in Potter studies

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Have books about books
replaced books?

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Patricia Smith’s Teahouse of the Almighty

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Talking with Mark Strand

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Talking with Alfred Arteaga

Craig Santos Perez on Arteaga

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Hugo Claus has died

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Bill Brown’s Late Winter

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A new e-book on iPaper from Tomaž Šalamun

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On finding one’s name in The Constructivist Moment

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Ruth Dallas has died

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The poet as rock star – Mary Oliver

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Amazon goes after Lulu

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Lorenzen’s, the last used bookstore in Little Rock,
is shutting down

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Indie bookstores in Austin

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Brits don’t read the classics

What British teens
do & do not read

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The vanishing newspaper

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Joyelle McSweeney on Mónica de la Torre

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Six new poems from John Wilkinson

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Oe & Okinawa

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Why plagiarism in books gets by

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Rich Villar’sArs Poetica in Progress”

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A profile of Kevin Higgins

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April is the cruelest month
& getting crueler every year

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Poetry Everywhere in Milwaukee

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A reading series in Salem, MA

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The most successful Indian novelist

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A profile of Robin Robertson

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Touring Longfellow’s home

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Form, formalism & literary memory

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The poetry scene in Northern Nevada

And Central Michigan

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Robert Crawford, “agog at technology”

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Mary Karr on Louise Gluck

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Byron’s editor

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The Polish journalist’s posthumous poems

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A new collection from Young Smith

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Locating the book review section

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The worst Henry James title ever

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The love poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner

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When writing fiction shuts down the poetry

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The end of customer service

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Why is El Greco worth less than a Koons?

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Art & race

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Enrique Chagoya at the Berkeley Art Museum

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Art vs. history in San Francisco

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The latest chapter in the old
Is graffiti art?” debate

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A Governor General’s Award
to a performance artist

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Alvin Ailey gets both a street
& a Barbie Doll

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The chimp who thought he was a boy

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A big tip of the hat to
The Latino Poetry Review
from whose big first issue
we’ve taken just a few choice links