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
& 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’s “The 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?
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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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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
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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
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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
Jonathan Bumbauch, Harold Jaffe & Sheila E. Murphy
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Ten books
that turned K. Silem Mohammad
onto poetry
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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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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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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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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
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Gagosian in
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The beliefs of Gerhard Richter
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Applause & the decline of
presidential rhetoric