photo by Chip Cooper
A terrific interview of
Cornelius Eady on Fresh Air
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Dale Smith on Jonathan Williams’
contributions to small press culture
An belated obit from The Times of London
A Jonathan Williams celebration in
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Louis Zukofsky as a “body without organs”
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Tony Tost’s “System Says”
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Adrienne Rich returns
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Close reading (aloud) a sound poem by Jaap Blonk
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Getting rid of book returns
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A musical setting for Creeley’s “Sufi Sam Christian”
The Creeley-Steve Swallow version
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The Nuyorican Poets Café
turns 35
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Hating contemporary poetry
from Allen Ginsberg to Nada Gordon
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Can POD save the back-list?
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The impossible task of being
Alice Walker’s daughter
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Poetry Roundup:
Lewis Warsh, Cristina Perri Rossi, Auggie Kleinzhaler
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Julie Patton & Charles Bernstein on the Bowery
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Brian Cassidy on a collection of early photos & collages
by & about William S. Burroughs
The photos & collages can be linked from the left
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A short history of Korean poetry
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Back to Plath
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An anthology of Greek-American poetry
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Stride exits on its own terms
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A profile of Woeser
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The Palestine Festival of Literature
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Kashmiri poets in Middle Eastern anthology
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Banned Saudi novel available in English
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Jeanette Winterson on
Shakespeare & Co.
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore pieces
comes from Seattle
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The poet with too many heads
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Noise in the library
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Web reviews are selling books (duh)
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Fatwas can make you a better person
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A profile of Vivimarie Vanderpoorten
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Joyce Carol Oates, taking shots at the canon
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Ilyas Malayev has died
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Poetry & pain
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What future for “foreign” languages?
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Bemoaning contemporary fiction
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Talking with David Yezzi
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Just the whole idea of
a Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical …
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Talking with Dana Gioia
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Talking about Richard Rorty
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Marketing contemporary Chinese art
under questionable circumstances
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John Yau talks to Simon Frost
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The perfect image of
”being British”?
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Getting vertical with Richard Serra
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The “Michelangelo of graffiti”
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Talking with Jeff Koons
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Mourning the death of Polaroid
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Phong Bui talks to Tom Doyle
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A profile of Alanna Heiss
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A profile of Anselm Kiefer
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Art school as a place to
stop making sense
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Art writing beyond criticism
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Dance & anorexia
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The “Top 100” public intellectuals
are 92 percent male
What else is wrong with this list?