Robin Blaser at 83
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Rae Armantrout reading
at Artifact
(MP3)
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Salt’s Earthworks book series
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“The
my first feature on what became langpo
is now online
& downloadable
Danny Snelson’s close reading
starts here
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Snelson’s my Dear coUntess
puts the trans
in translation
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Tom Beckett on The Difficulties
and its archive
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Scott Woods’ 24-hour reading
included a 47-minute performance of
The Chinese Notebook
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Close reading aloud
Gertrude Stein
(Al Filreis with Lee Ann Brown,
Jerry Rothenberg & Bob Perelman)
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Canadian additions
to the
Deanna Ferguson
Dan Farrell
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Ron Grant has passed away
As did Naranjan Mohanty
And also Robert Dunn
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Fully Awake:
The
trailer online
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WPVM Asheville’s audio files from Word Play
include everything from Bly, Kinnell & Coleman Barks
to Jonathan Williams, Ken Rumble & Jessica Smith
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Coming in October,
The Massachusetts Poetry Festival
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Bruce Covey introduces Lyn Hejinian
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Poetry on the john door
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How they chose the Booker
(all 40 years)
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Norman Fischer on Michael Krasny’s Forum
(MP3)
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Stealing books of poetry
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“The Big Read” –
Robinson Jeffers
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Claiming Poe’s bones
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One. Two. Three. Four.
Plump birds along the shore
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Sony e-book falls short
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The 104th (and last)
of Kate Greenstreet’s
”first book” interviews
is with
Kate Greenstreet
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A terrific issue of
Fox Chase Review
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Kendra Steiner
on why a non-blogger blogs
& reaches 10K visits!)
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Guy Davenport’s agrapha
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A “biography”
of Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey
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Hank Lazer’s selected essays
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Robert Giroux, the G in FSG, has died
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Rescuing Higginson
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Ted Kooser’s opera
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Perseus’ digital offering: Constellation
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The operas of Charles Bernstein & Ben Yarmolinsky
(sound & video files)
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Coming to
September 10
Robert Grenier
at
DIVA
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A tale of Verse & Wave
Talking with Beckman & Zapruder
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The Sixth Annual Australian Poetry Fest
(& a great photo of Alan Wearne)
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Chinese Poetry Festival
close by
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Another idea for Buffalo’s “Walk o’ Fame”
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In
Poems for a Small Park
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Sad end for Happy Bookseller
Ditto for
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Writing in San Luis Obispo
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20 years later,
Mick Imlah’s second book
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Praising poetry
as an art form in itself
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Remembering Nissam Ezekial
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Cynthia Ozick
pretending to be invisible
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Songbird slams
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A biography of Yehuda Amichai
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“so plain…intensely distinguished”
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Kapil Sibal –
the poet is a pol
(& vice versa)
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What’s needed is a philosopher
not a poet laureate
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The guerrilla poetics
of Kaia Sand & Jules Boykoff
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Tom Stoppard at 71
It’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll
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A profile of Robert Gray
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Sharon Olds anew
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African-American poet
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Gary Fincke’s
The Fire Landscape
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Suze Rotolo on life with Bobby
& in the Village
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Phil Levine listening to Sonny Rollins
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J.K. Rowling wins in court
over unauthorized
Potter dictionary
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The future of travel writing
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Jean-Michel Rabaté’s The Ethics of the Lie
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What works
to protect intellectual property
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When is ghost-writing a fraud & illegal
& when does it get you elected president?
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George Lakoff
on the metaphor of Sarah Palin
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Wordle goes
to the conventions
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Saving the Olympics from kulchur
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When the housing market
is topsy turvy
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Inside Francis Bacon’s studio
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Is Damien Hirst the art world’s Curt Flood?
Robert Hughes: Hirst is “tacky”
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Indian Supreme Court
exonerates
M.F. Husain
over nude imagery
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first family of theater
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Antioch dumps
Womyn’s Center Library
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Perry Anderson:
What is
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There are now
over 950 names on
the blogroll
Thanks again to
Lynn Behrendt
for keeping the blogroll
up to date