Fairfield Porter & John Ashbery
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Tracie Morris reading
at the
Conceptual Poetry & Its Others
conference (video)
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Walter Benjamin’s last
report on French lit
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Positions Colloquium:
6 days of poetry & panels
next month in
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“intensity may be
what matters most”
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Terror poems
are terrible poems
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Frank O’Hara on TV
in Emmy-nominated drama
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Charles Guenther has died
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Doris Lessing’s “last book”
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The great gay hope
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“what’s so interesting
about being a lout?”
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The poetry of Radovan Karadzic
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Jon Goode
& the rise of spoken word
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76 teams compete
in this year’s
National Slam
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Is the net the enemy of reading?
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Even writers get it
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Larry McMurtry’s Books
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e-books
and the creation of a new art form
While cleaving us from the old
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Pandora:
something
every national library
should have
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The 25 most modern
libraries in the world
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The Living Library
is coming to
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Emily Dickinson on stage
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Mimi White’s The Last Island
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Talking with Norbert Krapf
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Commemorating the death of
Theodore Roethke
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Mary Karr on Allen Grossman
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The poetry of Rowan Williams,
Archbishop of Canterbury
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Megawords goes storefront
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Kyle Schlesinger
on artists’ books
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A (very much) pre-feminist
claim for
the solidarity of poets
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The communal solitude
of radio poetry
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The “how to” book on fiction
that barely mentions plot
“the great virtuoso of exceptionalism”
James Wood on Aleksandar Hemon
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Forgetting Bernard Malamud
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Rhymes against the state
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A profile of David Brooks
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Calling for Clerihews
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Which great books did you forget to read?
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Books by Mick Imlah, Bernard O’Donoghue & Adam Foulds
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“how can five words about thoughts
NOT be a poem?”
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“America’s greatest living poet”
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The art of collecting stories
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Reassessing Raymond Williams
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The professional integrity of Paul de Man
(ignoring, of course, a few other things)
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Memoir of a literary forger
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Richard Diebenkorn & Carey Stanton
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Bansky unmasked
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The origin of the site visit
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Mike Davis on the Democrats
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The end of the Black American narrative?
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