Monday, September 29, 2008

Radical Vernacular:
Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place

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The architecture of Hettie Jones

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Frank O’Hara in Italy

& at the Stork Club

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Talking with Tao Lin

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Poetry Bailout
Will Restore Confidence of Readers

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PEN audience is shocked, shocked (!)
to discover that Amiri Baraka
& Terry McMillan
won’t be voting for McCain

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Borders
has until Wednesday
to find a buyer

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Videos of
Etheridge Knight & Harryette Mullen

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John Ashbery’sThe Virgin King

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Behind the Lines:
War Resistance Poetry
on the American Homefront
Since 1941

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Technicians of the Sacred
40 th anniversary reading videos
(& audio)

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Is Bob Dylan a poet?

17” & “21

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Women poets
of Western North Carolina

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Remembering Ahmad Faraz

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In praise of Urban Dictionary

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Rusty Morrison wins the James Laughlin Prize

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60 Indian Poets

From Nissim Ezekiel to
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

a motley group of poets
formed in the 1980s”

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American Book Review’s
Line on Line
(PDF)

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Poetry & place
in the work of
Denja Abdullahi

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Lyn Hejinian: two talks

The Rejection of Closure

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The invention of Thomas James

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Jewel of Medina publisher’s home
set on fire

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Homer as history

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An alternate history of
performance & poetry

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Clive James, the dabbler

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Kay Ryan, Emily Dickinson & Carla Bruni

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Geof Huth reaches “Non
in his one-letter-per-day
reading of
The Alphabet

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Jo McDougall’s
Emerson County Shaping Dream

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Ben Okri: why teens are poets

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Dinkar’s centennial

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October 10th at the KGB
in New York City:
Jonathan Bumbauch, Harold Jaffe & Sheila E. Murphy

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Ten books
that turned K. Silem Mohammad
onto poetry

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Shakespeare on Toast

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Missy McEwen’s review & interview blog

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Tuesday at Writers House in Philly:
Ben Lerner

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Galway / café / wine / time / Shore / more

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More from Maya

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Paul Muldoon & Ciaran Carson

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Is e-lit dead already?

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The editor as personal monster

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Ann Beattie
on ambient sound in modern lit (MP3)

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Who killed David Foster Wallace?

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Milton, the exhibition,
Milton, the party

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Why Syracuse (NY) isn’t Paris

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When critics reach
the point of no return

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A theological argument for
(and from) Projective Verse

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More on bin Laden’s poetry

Streaming audio
of a bin Laden “reading

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The best School of Quietude event this year

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Doug Messerli
on the art of collaboration

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Talking with Samuel Green

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We missed
National Punctuation Day!

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Setting William Stafford to music

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Is Neal Stephenson the Tom Stoppard of sci-fi?

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The Utah Book Award short list

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That “mad, bad, dangerous” Byron

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Simic’s Roth

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Modeling & emulation
in writing

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How journalism differs

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Graphing theory’s decline

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Godzilla vs. King Kong
of theory

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Jaron Lanier & George Dyson on
Nasim Nicholas Taleb’s critique of statistics

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The “reader in chief

9 poets,
all School of Q

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Gagosian in Moscow

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The beliefs of Gerhard Richter

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Applause & the decline of
presidential rhetoric