William Logan on Frank O’Hara
Sharing a coke with Frank O’Hara
Is Kent Johnson the new Frank O’Hara?
Tony Towle & Andrew Epstein
debate issues
of authorship & attribution
on John Latta’s blog
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Becoming Bernadette
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Interviews with 42 poet-songwriters
including
Jake Berry, Adam Fieled, Jack Foley,
Jennifer John, Grace Read,
Michael Rothenberg, Kate Rusby,
Chris Stroffolino, Linda Thompson,
Richard Thompson, Andy Gricevich
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The 1970s Conference
marathon report
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Rereading the Allen anthology
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Elizabeth Bartlett has died
As has G.E. Murray
&, in Chicago, Mark Perlberg
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DC authors’ houses
from Sterling A. Brown to Tim Dlugos
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Tom Beckett reading The Grand Piano
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A profile of Open Books
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Flood damage at
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The latest death-of-a-bookstore tale
comes from Grayslake,
The Strand is closing its
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In DC, Olsson’s files Chapter 11
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Ray Bradbury fights to save
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In
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Saving De Lauer’s
(because I too worked for a real estate title firm
in downtown
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Greenblatt’s Macbeth
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In praise of soft surrealism
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Remembering Ann Darr
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Lytle Shaw on Baraka’s Newark
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Krushcheva’s Nabokov
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Revell’s Rimaud (the video)
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Joaquin Miller
& the DC poetry scene of the 1880s
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Flarf vs. conceptual:
are you accessible?
“an easy retreat into the academic bosom”
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An annotated reading list:
Berkson, Durand, Friedlander, Oppen, Powys
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Jim Morrison & beatnik poets
in
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Robert Creeley on Wordplay
Sound shapes in a Creeley poem
But surely is heard the discouraging word
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Giving up poetry
(maybe it’s because Harvard & Yale
have such dreadful literature programs)
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Nerys Williams’ Reading Error
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Remembering Owen Dodson
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Billy Collins lists his influences
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What is a failed poet ?
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Talking with Neil Rollinson
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Jack Foley on Frank Samperi
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Donne scholar down under
combines children’s fiction & poetry
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The Guardian goes Oulipo
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Arielle Greenberg on the “Gurlesque”
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Is Lev Rubenstein
the Russian Bob Grenier?
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A profile of Gwendolyn Bennett
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Mark Wallace on metapoetics
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Rupture & the avant-garde
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Excerpts from Jim Liddy’s autobiography
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Talking with Suy Vansak
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Remembering John “Gunboat” Pauker
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If only Supreme Court justices could read
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Bob Dylan & rock ‘n’ roll
as legal precedent
Germaine Greer
despising Dylan
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In Seattle,
arts grants for 38
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Recalling Gabrielle Edgcomb
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Atwood wins
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In Cardiff,
announcing contest winners
with a certain nautical flair
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An introduction to language poetry
(in Dutch)
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goes to Mahmoud Darwish
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You can save $25
by registering for
the NYC Poets Forum now
(it’ll be the first big event
after we actually know
who will be the next president)
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The obsessive John Keats
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In New Zealand,
celebrate “Montana Poetry Day”
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Mary Karr on Miroslav Holub
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An “explosion of poetry” in
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On
Neil Ray runs the open mic
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“between the beauty of math
& the beauty of poetry”
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Talking with Children’s Laureate
Ifor ap Glyn
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Norbert Krapf
is the new
Indiana State Laureate
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Assessing Ambrose Bierce
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Cowboy poetry “in the classic tradition
of Louis L’Amour”
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Poetry & nationalism in Yemen
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Fingering digital humanities
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Pablo Neruda’s The Hands of Day
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Rushdie’s “stew”
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Reclaiming
Leon-Gontran Damas
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J.K. Rowling at Harvard
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Visualizing Big Data
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Why have we forgotten Edward Thomas?
(hint: it’s the writing)
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Ellen Doré Watson comes to Haverford
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The first woman
to have her play performed
on the main stage
of the National Theatre
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The future of publishing:
mulch
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Mary Beard, laughing
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E.L. Doctorow’s “The White Whale”
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Switching languages can change
your personality
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CrossCheck
seeks to catch academic plagiarizers
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A defense of elitism
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Which way feminism?
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Tiny (& predictable) ideas on Big Think
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Why journalists need
to understand blogging
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Who owns downloaded music ?
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Fuel costs killing indie band tours
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Georgia O’Keefe onstage
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Another Jackson Pollock mess
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Olafur Eliasson’s NYC waterfalls
Temporary Niagra
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A brutalism renaissance?
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Cinema’s art houses are empty
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Music critics start to disappear
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And the most exciting rock lyricist is….
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“We’re the party of the arts,”
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In
a progressive candidate
who actually understands
the arts
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& a tip of the hat
to the Beltway Poetry Quarterly
for so many excellent links
from its “DC forebears” issue
