The Positions Colloquium schedule
Mark Wallace on the significance
of the conference
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Remembering Lawrence Braithwaite
Family obit
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Talking with Lydia Davis
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An underground classic of conceptual writing
finally is available to all:
Mark Peters’ Men (PDF)
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Haim Gouri remembers Mahmoud Darwish
The place of Mahmoud Darwish
(includes a last poem)
A second perspective
An award in Darwish’s name
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Seedi Mohammed Weld Bamba
is the Prince of Poets
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John Ashbery:
”Attabled with the Spinning Years”
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Belonging:
New Poetry by Iranians
Around the World
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Rodney Koeneke checks in
on poetry & technology
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“When did I start to ignore my elders?”
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Andy Gricevich on Michael Palmer’s Active Boundaries
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The BlazeVOX
raffle & bake sale!
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The value of a compact edition
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Listening to poems from PENNsound
whilst trekking thru France
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Jeffrey Beam
talking about & reading from
The Beautiful Tendons
(MP3)
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Martin Burke’s I Ching
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derek beaulieu on Jordon Scott’s blert
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Frank Ledwell has died
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Paul Martínez Pompa
is the winner of
the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
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Travis Nichols on SloPo
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White Heat –
Emily Dickinson & Thomas Higginson
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Polis is this:
writing & place
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Meetings with Improbable Danglers
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Remembering Gerald Burns
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Penchant –
a poetry collective
in
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Parks & poetry
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New pages at the
for
Donato Mancini
rob mclennan
Gustave Morin
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A library of (mostly) unread books
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A list of newsletters & blogs
focused on publishing
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Indexing as a form of visual art
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© & the problem of
private property
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Appeals court rules against family
in Steinbeck rights case
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“a fungus that’s seep into the marrow of
the Body Poetic”
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Steve McCaffery, Bob Perelman, Charles Bernstein:
What’s the Word?
(MP3)
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Howard Junker to retire
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Reginald Shepherd on Poetry & Criticism
(part 2) (part 3)
Plus a poem in this week’s Nation
(sub may be required)
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Bob Dylan’s book of poems
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Dylan Thomas’ wife’s diary
is for sale
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Dannie Abse:
writing through grief
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Cynthia Anderson
leaves
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Talking with Sebastian Matthews
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Some eyebrow-raising quotations
from John Gardner’s
On Moral Fiction
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A salute to Ted Solotaroff
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Banjo Paterson poems
found in 109-year-old diary
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Matthew Cheney’s list of lists
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Mary Biddinger’s
“unwritten rules” for writing poetry
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The “worst writing of 2008” is …
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“a place in the line of distinguished
light-verse practitioners”
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Mary Karr on Philip Larkin
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Defending Robert Burns
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Robert Lowell
& the summer of too many poets
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A profile of Francis Wyndham
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Cyril Goffe –
the poet at 100
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Shklovsky, Barthes, James Wood?
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Barnes & Noble
will pass
on buying Borders
(sub required for full article)
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The uselessness
of the literary agent
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Should
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How romantic
are today’s authors?
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Byron’s fan mail
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“kind of like
a beauty pageant”
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Alan Sokal
continues to harvest
his little mischief
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4 questions for arts education?
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Coming soon to Black Rock
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Theodore A Harris’ Our Flesh of Flames
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The governor thinks not
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Losing money on Richard Serra
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Why are movies about
Andy Warhol
always so bad?
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