Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman
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The Jacket George Oppen feature is emerging, with
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
George Evans
Al Filreis
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Michael Heller
Geoffrey O’Brien
& more to come
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Robin Tremblay-McGaw
on the Modernist Studies Conference
(Part 1, Part 2)
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Norman Fischer’s Charlotte’s Way
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Reading Katie Degentesh
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Aldon Nielson on the end of alphabets
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David Bromige on poetry in the ‘60s & ‘70s
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Yet another set of answers to
Sunset Debris
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When they were young:
the Poetry Project staff of 1984-85
When they were younger:
at Frank O’Hara’s loft, 1964
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John Timpane on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
William Gaddis & Roberto Bolaño
Marcela Valdes on 2666
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Edwidge Danticat’s “Ghosts”
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The Emily Dickinson Deluxe
Baby-Doll T Shirt
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A president who has read
Borges & Cortázar
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The weirdo school of poetry
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Close-reading (misreading?)
Rae Armantrout’s “Prayers”
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Who’s looking for poetry
Or a poem
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Just add water
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In
Out of Town News
is set to close
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A bookstore in Berlin
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Joseph Harrington on poetry & history
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Henry Corbin & American poetry
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Dorothea Tanning & the poets
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Burt Kimmelman’s There Are Words
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Robert Creeley on poetry in motion
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3 poems by Eileen Tabios
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Talking with Toni Morrison
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A profile of Joe Benevento
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David Wagoner in Happy Valley
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Native American identity poetics on The News Hour
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Negative capability & the 10,000-hour investment
Reading Outliers
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The New York Times obit for Donald Finkel
An appreciation in the St. Louis Beacon
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Reviews of the NBA poetry finalists
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The never-dull-enough
Bad Sex Award
is back
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The only writer to receive
a National Medal of Art this year is
Stan Lee!
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Mary Karr is “a crank”
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Many Dodge Poetry Festival videos on YouTube
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A home for (mostly) Quietism in Lower Manhattan
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Lynn Neary talks with Salvatore Scibona
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Mark Young has my number
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And so (in a different way) has James Wagner¹
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But this site has yours
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Booksellers, publishers feel pinch
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Take a deep breath
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A belated New York Times obit
for Grace Hartigan
An appreciation from The Washington Post
Another in The Baltimore Sun
And one in The L.A. Times
The NY Observer wonders if Hartigan’s name
is secretly engraved on Frank O’Hara’s tombstone
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Through the lens of Coach House Press
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Susan Bee – Not vispo
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Street art with tape – Aakash Nihalani
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Nancy Perloff on
book art of the Russian avant-garde
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Obama & the arts
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Has Obama saved the internet?
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Will MoCA LA survive?
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Dance & theater critic
Clive Barnes is dead
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¹ The Paris Review feature, which is indeed decades old, was part of an attempt (unsuccessful to my eye) to defibrillate the journal in hopes that a spark of life would get the blood pumping again. The 39-year-old appearance in Poetry is part of my own quietist past, of which I have written more than once. See also publications in TriQuarterly, Southern Review, Poetry Northwest and The
