A “state funeral” for
Mahmoud Darwish
in the
Palestinians mourn national poet
Should Darwish be taught in Israeli schools?
(see the article on
Darwish article in Al-Ahram Weekly
New York Times obit
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51 years after publication,
Mad Men hype provokes a run on
O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency
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Kristin Prevallet’s I, Afterlife
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George Oppen & the value
of a well-edited Collected
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Hearing Creeley read
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Talking with Michelle Naka Pierce
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Stephen Burt on Juan Felipe Herrera
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“I have seen the future…
and it is Hermitage Books”
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“I remember Al Purdy”
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Gina Myers on Justin Sirois
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Defining fine press categories
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August 8, 1876 –
the start of the mimeo revolution
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Kindle sales reach 240,000
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From slams to marriage
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Ten things to do
at the 2008 National Poetry Slam
Day one of the National Slam
The Wednesday night competition
The Thursday night quarter finals
Plus the Nerd Slam
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Slams across the border
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An actual poetry-in-the-Olympics story!
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Brent Cunningham in Publisher’s Weekly:
why small press publishing
is like baseball
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Talking with Sun Yung Shin
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John Ashbery on Elizabeth Bishop (MP3)
Ashbery reading from Chinese Whispers (MP3)
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“Picking winners” & the “true avant-garde”
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Kazem Al Saher
to perform on
Prince of Poets
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Ten propositions on flarf
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A survey on purchasing poetry
Geof Huth’s answers
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A profile of Fady Joudah
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A Kurdish bestseller
about poetry
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Celebrating Jonathan Williams
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Publishing & literary culture
in the shadow of
The Birds’ Nest
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In India,
a pol publishes a book
of poems written
on his cellphone
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“I thought language poetry was…”
(scroll down)
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When cowboys come to Prescott
Marge Tucker, cowboy poet
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Solzhenitsyn obits & articles:
The Stratfor intelligence group
Philadelphia Inquirer
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
NY Times again
The Guardian
LA Times
Reuters
Pravda
BBC
NPR
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As entertaining as C-SPAN2 ever gets
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Ted Greenwald at the EPC
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Some Iowa City press releases
never change
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One topic on which
Reginald Shepherd & I
agree 100%
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A year of reading alphabetically
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Where to sit
when writing poetry or prose
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A response to a reading by
Michael Cross & Rob Halpern
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Los Angeles, Detroit &
critical regionalism within PoMo theory
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Ray Bradbury:
Long Beach is at war
with books
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Dodie Bellamy’s
bedtime reading
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Doris Lessing’s parents
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A report on the Pigeon Poetry Cup
with a great photo
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Amazon has agreed to buy Abebooks.com
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Talking of Dickinson & Higginson
with Brenda Wineapple
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A profile of Susanne Dubroff
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The LA Times is backfilling
some old literary pieces online,
including this assessment of Charles Bukowski
by Aram Saroyan
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Ron Slate on Warren Woessner
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Heidi Williamson,
poet-in-residence
at the
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Stanley Plumly’s Posthumous Keats
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Reading Philip Larkin in
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Mick Imlah, master of verse
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The future of Hebrew
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Zilka Joseph between two worlds
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Tagore in the rain
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On the Road – a radio tribute
(available until 8/15)
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Getting Guyana’s national poet
into the schools
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Pentti Saarikoski’s The Edge of
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The francophone poetry
of the
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New writing in South Africa
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A novel too dangerous to publish?
Random House thinks so
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The impact of the market on
(mostly) School of Quietude
recording archives
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James Tate reading (MP3)
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The art scene in Taos
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“100 Near Perfect Books of Poetry”
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Poetry invites introspection
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Mary Karr on Robert Hayden
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Saving the library
in Timbuktu
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A profile of the Book Barn
(one of 3 indies
still in my neck of the woods)
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One way to boost book revenues
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Floods in Montpelier
hit a bookstore
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Why McNally works
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Finnish PEN
protests Russian censorship
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Longing for Ye Olde New Criticism
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Who framed George Lakoff?
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More on Orwell’s diaries online
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Kayoko Hashimoto & Ban’ya Natsuishi
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Pearse Hutchinson’s At Least for Awhile
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Poet, goaltender, nut bar
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Talking with Gulzar
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What role for the Prime Minister in
the Prime Minister’s Awards
in Australia?
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Gift poetry & music
in Zimbabwe
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“Good bad
but not evil”
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Binding Charles Alexander (MP4)
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This is your brain
on Shakespeare
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Larry Lessig:
When art becomes crime
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Is the BBC
killing the writing?
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French publishing
looks forward to
a gloomy fall
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Film, translation, subtitles & dubs
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Paul Lansky unplugs
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Anthony Braxton:
Trans-idiomatic model building
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Music theory
in the academy vs.
music theory
in music
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David Byrne’s bike racks
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“What I call a sound”
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The dean of Indian painting
takes up poetry
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Visual culture’s number 1 subject
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Jim Murdoch on poetry & art
(part 1) (part 2)
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Who was Francis Bacon?
Damien Hirst on “dirty painters
who wrestle with the dark stuff”
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Shades of John Ashcroft!
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When the judge quits over the art
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Jackson Pollock & the Iowa City flood
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Tagging Keith Haring
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Anthropology – “’postmodern’ cesspool”
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Boredom as cultural resistance
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In praise of elitism
(a tale of Vegas & Chicago)
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How theory “damaged” the humanities
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But the East Bay Vivarium
is still my favorite store
for browsing!
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Farewell to Tony Russo
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