Aggression:
the conference blog
(many, many presentations & readings)
“Oh my god, it was like the best conference ever”
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John Ashbery & Robin Blaser
win the Griffin Prize
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“young emerging writers…don’t get a lot of exposure or coverage”
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Talking with Ish Klein
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A reading of Legend:
Andrews, Bernstein, DiPalma, Silliman
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The “patriarchs of flarf”
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Lora Moriarty on “Women of the 70s”
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Blazing tongues at Calabash
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“Poetry Question Stumps McCain”
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Michael McClure on the influence
of the Six Gallery reading
today
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Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract
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Saving American languages
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Yusef Juma, Uzbeki poet & political prisoner
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A tribute to Ed Baker
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Roberto Bolaño:
The
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Henny Youngman with a Powerpoint:
Charles Bernstein at the
Conceptual Poetry Symposium (PPT)
Charles Alexander’s report on the Symposium
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Belinda Subraman’s
podcasts with poets
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Uncle Milty at 400
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Trying not to disturb Willie’s bones
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Close-reading (aloud)
Jerry Rothenberg’s “Paradise of Poets”
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Hanif Kureishi:
creative writing departments are
”the new mental hospitals”
Plus reviving liberal humanism
Martín Espada confesses
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“obscure figures like Lew Welch”
The Poetry Bookshop of Hay-on-Wye
The literary festival from hell
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A wonderful profile of Jonathan Williams
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The Jane Austen Hair Club
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Hemingway, the poet
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Derek Walcott doing the dozens
on V.S. Naipaul
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The “Indian Shakespeare”
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Emily Dickinson after 9/11
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David McFadden on why he hates prizes
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Frank Wilson retires
as book review editor of the Inky
& this is the thanks he gets (PDF)
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Ten years of editing a book review section
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Have e-books reached the tipping point?
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On-demand books fuel the increase
in overall titles
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A computer model of how
the brain makes meaning
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Talking with Eva Salzman
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Remembering Jason Shinder
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Shann Palmer pulls together links
in memory of George Garrett
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Talking with Gore Vidal
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A “new” Nabokov story from 1924
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Amy King’s Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country
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Check out IndieBound
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Jay Parini on Edwin Muir
Parini: why poetry matters
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The “lyrical correlative”:
talking with Katie Ford
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Elaine Feinstein’s
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William Stafford, false witness
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A profile of Gulzar
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The book collection that devoured my life
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The bookstore with a secret address
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Underground poet’s post at minimum wage?
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Major Jackson on poets & their birthdays
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Michael Cirelli’s Lobster with Ol’ Dirty Bastard
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Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American
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Ron Padgett among some quietists
coming to
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Talking collaboration with
Leah Browning & Ira Joel Haber
“Under Construction” (PDF)
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A bibliography for famous Seamus
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Bill Knott pleads of FSG to
”Let my poems go!”
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What is a “failed poet”?
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“I read poetry about as often –
and with about as much enthusiasm –
as I jab sharp sticks into my eyes”
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Poetry: read it when you’re drunk
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Calling Mary Jo Salter
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The threat of reader-supplied content
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Microsoft’s exit
won’t slow book digitization
Libraries ponder the future
Research libraries opting for e-books
What else they spend money on
(registration may be required)
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Amazon bulking up
on e-book stock
& on Kindle
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The Digitalist:
Macmillan’s blog on all things e-
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Bye-bye backlist
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All Things Considered on
kill all bookstores
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Talking with David Foster Wallace
about his book on John McCain
(may require subscription)
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A profile of Wendy Cope
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What about Clive James?
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A novel of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Talking with Timothy Gager
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Mick Imlah’s The Lost Leader
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In the
of “age ranges” for kids’ books
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Talking with Roger Lloyd Pack
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Poet & painter in Luminous Mud
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Restoring the farm of
Byron Herbert Reece
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Edward Hirsch’s Special Orders
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Talking with Andrew Motion
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Plumly’s Keats
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The John Stuart Mill of Brazil
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Will blogging replace newspapers?
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Adorno, genius & nationalism
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How to control randomness
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Why economists should not rule the world
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Remembering U. Utah Phillips
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Talking with
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Trying to parody John Cage
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Talking with Billy Bragg
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Close-reading Amy Winehouse
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Two artists of the Harlem Renaissance
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Nan Goldin at the Tate Modern
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The problem with art criticism
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Street art at the Tate sans Banksy
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The fate of the Barnes
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Armed guards for Hirst’s lamb
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“the greatest painter you never heard of”
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Alton Kelly, a founder of the Family Dog,
has passed away
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