Portrait by / from J’s Theater
CAConrad interviews
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
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Artists’ Books Online
(a tremendous resource
from Johanna Drucker)
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Rae Armantrout’s
Collected Prose
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Periodizing Robert Creeley
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Lyn Hejinian’s
The Beginner
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Aesthetics & ethics in
the
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Robert Pinsky
on
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Geof Huth
on his work
on the cover of The Alphabet
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Is Radovan Karadzic’s poetry
evidence?
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Close reading
John Ashbery
John Ashbery on autobiography & language
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The PLO’s obit of Mahmoud Darwish
A man of many homes
Honoring Darwish’s translator,
Fady Joudah
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Coney Island of the Mind
at 50
(note that the Guardian
actually tries to get the lines right)
City Lights at 55
Al Filreis on Ferlinghetti’s
”Baseball Canto”
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Louise Glück
looking for the perfect (German) word
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How many types of poetry are there?
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Linh Dinh on
poetry & Stalin
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Should books be rated
for age appropriateness?
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Bloggers blog on bloggers:
21 reviews of each others’ work
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Q&A with Kay Ryan
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Talking with Kamla Kapur
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A profile of Jan Steckel
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How should poets help one another?
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Kenneth Fearing & the future of journalism
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“Language is about ambiguity”
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Sex and the semi-colon
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“50 Near-Perfect Books of
German Poetry”
The prose of Heinrich Heine
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Do you buy poetry?
(analysis) (raw data)
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On buying poetry &
on Landis Everson
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In
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What should you do with all those books?
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Anthony Hecht:
Auden’s advice
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Coleman Barks in
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Not so Scruffy after all
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A profile of John Toledo
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Paul Siegell’s Poemergency Room
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Poems etched in glass
Christopher Fritton’s My Fingernails are Fresnel Lenses
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The “digital” (free) textbook debate
But hard copy book costs just go up
& price fixing is back
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The Kindle controversy
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& then there’s Kapil Sibal,
writing books on his Blackberry
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6,311 jobs lost
in the nation’s 100 largest papers
in just the last year
(PDF)
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Kristi Maxwell’s Realm Sixty-Four
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W.S. Merwin:
meeting Ezra Pound
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The letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
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The “most beloved” author ever
in the
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A thumbnail tour
of ancient Chinese classics
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Audio of “faculty readings”
from this year’s
West Chester Poetry Conference
& from 2007
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Cowboy poets
come to Stony Plain
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A poet’s path
from Sierra Leone to Minnesota
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Poetry at the Big Chill
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Talking with D.C. Chambial
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Talking with Jackie Kay
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First Edwin Morgan Prize awarded
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A profile of Allison McVety
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What if Harvard’s English Department
had the same attitude
as its new theater director?
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What college freshmen do & don’t know
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Movies ruin novels --
here come Watchmen & On the Road
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A boxing movie
based on a poem
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Shakespeare & music
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Finishing Kubla Khan
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Podcast on
music & the brain
(MP3)
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Solzhenitsyn & music
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Sampling & intellectual property
in
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Louis Zukofsky
& the Silver Jews?
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Archiving art & poetry online:
a panel discussion
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Post-literate:
asemic writing
One dozen asemic books
in PDF format
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Extreme collecting:
the Cone sisters of Baltimore
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CAPTCHA paintings
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Richard Serra:
Thinking on Your Feet
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LACMA lands Keinholz’
The Illegal Operation
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Photography in the age
of total surveillance
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Nic & Sloy:
life = art = poetry
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Donald Baechler on style
in
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Dance & the problem of genre
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Count this
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11 issues for the future
according to the
RAND Corporation
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Jerry Wexler has died
As has Manny Farber
