Thursday, August 14, 2008

Tens of thousands mourn Darwish

The laureate of all Arabs

Poet and Icon

Palestinians turn out for Darwish

Official ceremony

I begged him not to go

BBC

Agence France Press obit for
Mahmoud Darwish

A salute to Darwish
in Dar Al-Hayat

Al Jazeerah
(video)

Jidariyya

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Laura Carter reads Rae Armantrout

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Charles Olson:
Language as Physical Fact

(a conference in
Tucson)

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Khlebnikov Carnival

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Tonight in Philly --
Mina Loy celebration

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SlamCharlotte
repeats as National Slam Champion

A detailed account
of the final night

The week in review

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The day Robert Creeley met Franz Kline

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Close reading John Ashbery

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Remembering (reconjuring?)
Steve Abbbott

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Best summer reading list, 2008

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Stan Apps on how flarf differs
from previous avant tendencies

Kasey Mohammad on the value
of critical distance

Zizek / flarf  / Gurlesque

Dark Fantom’s
Breaking News

How to avoid fleeting poetry trends

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Mayakovsky’s Night Wraps the Sky

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Russians reverse themselves
on the censoring of
Sofi Oksanen

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The accidental Keats

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Six classic wordle poets

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Terry Teachout’s
unfortunate omissions

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Lisa Russ Spaar’s
Satin Cash

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Talking with Elizabeth Trew

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Crossing TV’s alps
with Charles Van Doren

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Kindle hype boosts Amazon stock

Can Kindle break the e-book curse?

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6 months of short reviews
from the librarians at
the University of Arizona
Poetry Center

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Lorna Page
takes care of her posse

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April Ossman’s
Anxious Music

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Odd’s odd

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Why yuck?

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Top 10 Literary Virgins

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Nate Pritts
Sensational Spectacular

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“The Englishness of English Poetry
(part 1) (part 2)

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Fady Joudah’s
The Earth in the Attic

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The short story wars
in
Canada

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This year’s Hugo Awards

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Susan Hutton’s
On the Vanishing of Large Creatures

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the finest of modernist poets…”

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Haiku’d” –
McCain & Obama ads
reduced to 17 syllabobbles

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Paige Ackerson-Kiely’s
In No One’s Land

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Caitlin Thomas’ diary is for sale

Her copy of Dylan Thomas’ first book
valued at £25,000

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Ted Solotaroff has died

Richard Stern on Solotaroff,
Dariwsh & the Olympics

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The new Photo-Eye
is devoted to the 50th anniversary
of Robert Frank’s Americans

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Is this your art?

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Saving Iowa City

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Dog turd runs amok

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John Cage
In a Landscape

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A chord sequence you’ve never heard before

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When tape was king –
The San Francisco Tape Music Center

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Where size is all

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What is the Singularity?

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Jürgen Habermas :
Europe at an impass

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Distinct moral systems

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Some 80 blogs
added to the roster
this past month,
thanks to Lynn Behrendt!

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