Alan Gilbert on the King Kong
of summer writing conferences
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Close reading Rae Armantrout
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Minimal man, Aram Saroyan
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Kyle Schlesinger on the books of Ted Greenwald
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Leon Lewis & William Bradley
on why the know-nothing approach to Zukofsky
knows less than it thinks
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Dale Smith on Andrew Schelling’s Orono talk
about the Zen Cowboy / Wounded Buffalo school(s)
Slow Poetry & temporary autonomous zones
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Mark Scroggins on Graham Foust
& the risk of short poems
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Reginald Shepherd on the New American Poetry
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Books by Lewis Warsh, Geoffrey Young & Edmund Berrigan
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Amanda Stewart reading (MP3)
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MP3s from the Aggression conference
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The last interview of Thomas Disch (MP3)
An obit from The Telegraph
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Movie City Indie obit of Bruce Conner
with lots of film clips
NY Times obit
Artforum obit
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Lawrence Joseph,
in conversation with Charles Bernstein (MP3)
Joseph reading (MP3)
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Neruda’s love poems
to his wife’s niece
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Experiment,
but like you vote conservative
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Reviews of Phil Whalen, Hannah Weiner,
Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics
& much more in ABR’s
LineOnLine (PDF)
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Indiana judge opts for the First Amendment (PDF)
How predictable was this?
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Salman Rushdie in
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Taking it to the street
in New Zealand
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Of 1,000 journalism jobs that were lost last year,
121 belonged to critics
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Garrick Davis’ love song for New Criticism
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Books by & about Mahmoud Darwish
Darwish: sarcasm & hope
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Travis Nichols’
tracks the blogs responding
to William Logan’s
trashing of Frank O’Hara
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A love that begins
at Beyond Baroque
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Peter Gizzi,
narrating his bewilderment
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Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
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Reading Zukofsky without much context
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When bad books happen to good writers
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“the quiet labor of refinement”
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Talking with Kevin Goodan
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The sexiest poets (living)
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The Green Lake Poet is back!
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APR’s latest all-Philly supplement
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A bookstore in Nairobi
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On Martha’s Vineyard,
A Bunch of Grapes burns
(a 2003 profile of the store)
Grapes plans to rebuild
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Karuta,
the Japanese poetry card game
travels to
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CFP:
Naked Lunch @ 50
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Grammar trouble, gender trouble
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A Nepali poetry fest
in
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Shetland poets in
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Ron Hansen’s Exiles
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Slammin’ in Atlanta
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Robert Minhinnick explains himself
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Davis McCombs’ Dismal Rock
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A profile of Jacob Erin-Cilberto
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Mark Ward’s Thunder Alley
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4 poems by Dana Gioia
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Billy Mills on poetry & memory
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A mild-mannered accountant by day
& a psychopath at night
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A profile of Vivian Bogardus
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Do pizzas need poetry?
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Adobe lets PDF go open source
& become an ISO standard
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Mondegreen is now a word
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Memoir of widowhood
wins for Abse
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Tung-Hui Hu
in
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The peculiar institution
on the honorary degree
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An “ATM for books”
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Digital Imaging Best Practices 2.0 (PDF)
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NPR expands its book coverage
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Maxwell Corydon Wheat’s
still not pulling punches
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A profile of Kafayat Abdul-Quadri
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God’s Red Poet:
The Life of Kenneth Leslie
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A Zimbabwean poet
in Che in Verse
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The Times’ original (1922) review
of the poems of Isaac Rosenberg
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A poet of the Congo
writing in English
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Aim for the omnivore
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An Allan Bloom for Generation Next
(blame it on technology)
And a Chong
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Jay Parini:
why poetry matters
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The only First World War poet
with surviving children
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Million’s Poet
ups the ante
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JoAnn Balingit,
Sam Green,
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Restoring
Poe’s home in the
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Reading Surender Bhutani
in
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A Brazilian bookfest
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Perfectionism:
crime against humanity
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The end of theory
scientific method
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Is the future of English already here?
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The impact of censorship
on search engines
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The death of Antioch
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The “burden of the humanities”
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Technologically,
the best promo for a literary / art mag
I’ve yet seen
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Why no good films
about great writers?
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Language, acting, “professionalism”
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Movie critics do matter
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S l o w music
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Too old to be hip?
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When you’re glad it’s a Strad
& when you’re not
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The music of Harry Hewitt
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Indie film:
the sky really is falling
Can it be stopped?
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At Mass MoCA,
creating Sol Lewitt
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Talking with Frank Gehry
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“There’s never been a great woman artist”
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Koons at
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Chairman Mao & Chinese (post)modern art
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Charles Bernstein’s one-word review
of J.M.W. Turner at the Met
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At the Barnes,
blaming the woman
Just who are the Barnes’
true friends ?
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The Louvre’s deal in Abu Dhabi
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Goya the plagiarist?
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The “Long Tail” isn’t
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The best-seller nobody wants to review
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