PBS does Walt Whitman
Ending “poetry-lite”
(and using Billy Collins to do so)
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Today is the day
for Tayari Jones’
on eBay
with “items” from Jones, Sarah Schulman,
George Saunders, D. Nurske, Natasha Trethewey
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Carleen Brice & more
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A great interview:
Stacy Szymaszek talking with Sina Queyras
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“How to trivialize women’s poetry”
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The Washington Post obit of Jonathan Williams
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MP3s of
are now online
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Celebrating Siv Cedering
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Cutting and “creative writing”
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The sexual politics of
The New York Times Book Review
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An obit for Andrew Crozier
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The Griffin Poetry Prize shortlists
are full of good poets
But old ones
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Sridala Swami
on conceptual poetry in
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“Flarf, like Soylent Green,
is people”
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dedicated to vispo
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You can interview Allen Fisher
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Daisy Fried on Joe Torra
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Sentences in experimental fiction
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Find the gals at the Chicago Poetry Symposium
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One Young wins the Fred Cody award,
two others are nominated for poetrty
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Talking with Bob Hass
Talking with Philip Schultz
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MP3s of the “lost lectures” of Jorge Luis Borges (in English!)
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Seeing Bunting in Adam Fould’s The Broken World
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The poetry of Heather Thomas & Doug Arnold
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Joanna Scott on Donald Barthelme
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W.D. Snodgrass on confessional poetry
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Talking with Valerie Martínez
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Dan Beachy-Quick on Philip Jenks
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Poetry & emotion
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Some bumps in the death of the hardback
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The end is nigh at Rapture
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The scene in Madison
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April 17th is
Poem in Your Pocket Day
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The worldwide Shakespeare marathon
“more about fantasies than the real world”
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Queen’s Poet wins competition
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Reviews of Nate Mackey, Hilton Obenzinger & Louis Masur
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Two Welsh poets,
one the daughter of Dylan Thomas
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The International Dictionary of Neologisms
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“Poetry is not dead”
tho you might not know it from this
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Everything you ever needed to know about
poetry at Knopf
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Jerry Rothenberg picks Clayton Eshleman for translation award
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Grace Paley’s posthumous poems
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Ballard’s memoir
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On the journal Sixty-six
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The “SLO (every pun intended) poet laureate” speaks
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East of the asterisk
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The authorized biography of a not-nice guy
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A profile of Grace Maycock
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One shoe I’ve been waiting to hear drop
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A profile of Marilyn Lerch
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Kyle Schlesinger’s “good ol’ days”
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Madison’s poet laureate sets an agenda
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In Duluth, a laureate looks back
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Talking with Kevin Stein
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Talking with Ted Kooser
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Talking with Elise Partridge
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Mark Bauerlein on the history of deconstruction in the U.S.
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Dyslexia impacts the brain
differently for different languages
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On symmetry
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The future of book nostalgia
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Spam gets literary
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Are we sure we need a tour
of Bukowski’s L.A.
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Ahsan Saleem, an impressionist poet in Urdu
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A profile of Mark Strand
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Talking with Tobias Wolff
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An evening of Quietude
for one of its favorite novelists
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The future of newspapers
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Against tenure
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Salman Rushdie on Islam
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Adam Kirsch’s Adorno
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Selling Sonnabend
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The physical problems of
contemporary public art
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The galleries of Vegas
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Eugenia Butler has died
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Roger Ebert leaves TV
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Al Gore’s new slide show
