Five hours with “the famous Ed Baker”
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Burmese blogger
sentenced to 20 years of prison
for a poem
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Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me
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Women & mentorship:
Jena Osman & Sarah Dowling
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Bucky Fuller, poet
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Mullen, Gander, Harjo
join Henry Threadgill,
Muhal Richard Abrams,
Kara Walker & 44 more
as USA Fellows
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Katy Lederer’s reading tour
of the Bay Area
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The poems & poets of Ghana
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“Forty Acres” & a few clichés:
A Derek Walcott poem for Barack Obama
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Talking with Barry Gifford
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A quarrel with Ford’s O’Hara
The Frank O’Hara video page
Thursday night in Philly,
under a full moon,
a Frank O’Hara celebration
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The New Adventures of Walt Whitman
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The FBI vs. Norman Mailer
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One reader’s report of
The Academy of American Poets’
Poets’ Forum
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A profile of Auden
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John Latta on Kent Johnson
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Talking with Elise Paschen
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Craft vs. chance
(Ray Bianchi is being seriously irascible)
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The uses of Frost
in Tobias Wolff
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Geoffrey Gatza’s Not So Fast Robespierre
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A lot of student blogs track classroom reading –
CoPoBlog is one of the best
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“The community of the English language”
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On the origin & entanglements
of names
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The most irritating phrases
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Apex Art, the franchise
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The painting of Lari Pittman
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Leave It to Beaver & the Louvre
(not a combination you were expecting)
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David Larsen poetry videos
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The Troublesome Reign & Lamentable Death
of Edward II
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Unlikely hybrid, Dr. Atomic
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Sensuous Biped
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Psychology, torture, rhetoric