Words take wing in North Beach
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This year’s BlazeVOX Thanksgiving Menu poem
honors Anne Waldman
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Chris Nagler’s intro
to Jocelyn Saidenberg’s reading
at Small Press Traffic
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A reading by Geof Huth & Crag Hill
Huth’s A Book of Poems So Small
I Cannot Taste Them
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The Chernoff-Hoover Hölderlin
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Robin’s ,
Philly’s oldest indie bookstore,
has announced it will close in January
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Mark Scroggins discusses
Louis Zukofsky’s development as a poet
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New PennSound Pages:
Louis Zukofsky
Stephen Ratcliffe
Hannah Weiner
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Puns will save the world
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The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
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Jascha Kessler on Auden, Ashbery
and “the fix” of the Yale Younger Poets
(scroll down)
“Ashbery was wheezing and coughing”
(scroll to no. 18)
How to read John Ashbery
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Adam Fieled: Am Not a “one-trick pony”
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Lots to like in
Otoliths 11
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Free blogs for laid-off journos
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Bruce Andrews: “Dang Me”
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Allen Ginsberg on William Carlos Williams
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Woodland Pattern’s 2008 Open House
features Charles Olson
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John Brenkman on Roberto Bolaño
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its poetry program was stolen
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French lit. of the 20th century
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Joe Cottonwood remembers Donald Finkel
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Michael Lally has a great list
of artists whom (or Who) it takes awhile
to completely “get”
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Bill Knott: Selected Sonnets
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Bob Arnold’s Back Road Chalkies
(PDF)
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Charles Bernstein:
”British poetry in the ‘90s”
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Cort Day on manifestos by
Olson, O’Hara & Bernstein
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The “overthrow of the book”
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
calls a moratorium
to buying new manuscripts
while Hachette
sends everyone bonuses
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Random House gets digital
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The practical case for academic freedom
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Use the web, go to jail
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Just 6 books of poetry among the NY Times’
100 Notable Books of 2008:
2 Norton, 2 Graywolf, 1 FSG,
1 Univ. of
(Juan Felipe Herrera!),
plus Nate Mackey’s Bass Cathedral
makes the roster of novels
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C.D. Wright:
”Like Hearing Your Name
Called in a Language
You Don’t Understand”
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An appreciation &profile of
James Wright
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Sarah Palin for . . . poet laureate?
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“total destruction…elemental creation”
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BookThug’s Moments Café
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Henry Corbin’s poetics
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mid)rib 2 is online
& worth a look-see
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Keith Montesano
has added several new
”first-book interviews”
to his site
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Cole Swensen is coming to
December 10
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San Francisco poetry happenings,
a report
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Looking for Aphrodite
in Olson’s Maximus
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Some interesting-if-curious
:”books that matter” lists
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John Updike:
a lifetime of bad sex
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Nick Piombino & Toni Simon:
collage & text
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The legacy of Danny Nicoletta
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The photos of Christopher Griffith:
tired, but not a retread
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Grace Hartigan: a short obit
with a grand painting
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A new Berkeley Art Museum?
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Susan Bee: 4 recent paintings
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Sir Paul: Why I experiment
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A short but very nice profile of the late
Virgil Thomson
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Sounds out of snowflakes
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The new Weather Underground
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The Middlebrow Research Network
