An inaugural poet
with a small press background
& Ivy League /
All Things Considered interviews Alexander
A dissent
& another
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Bruce Boone’s tribute to Bev Dahlen
Steve Vincent’s review of A
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A curious photo
I’d never seen before
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Barry Schwabsky on Jack Spicer
in The Nation
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A new story by a 19-year-old
Jack Kerouac
On the road
with Kerouac’s daughter, Jan
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Sina Queyras’ latest chapbook roundup
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John Olson:
Defining “experimental” poetry
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The Librarian of Congress is
” wrong. He’s so wrong. He’s so totally wrong.”
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Mark Twain, a new essay
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Jack Hirschman’s
75th birthday celebration
in
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RainTaxi’s online auction
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Craig Dworkin’s Parse
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Francisco Aragón:
5 books of Latino Poetry
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Michael Kelleher
is reviewing lots o’ books
in alphabetical order,
starting here
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Jerry Rothenberg
on 20 years of
Granary Press
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Eliot Weinberger’s What I Heard About
BBC adaptation
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NY Times obit for George Brecht
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I’m interviewed for Word Riot
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Zukofsky’s “A”-24 coming to
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Charles Bernstein’s Histórias da Guerra
(in Portuguese)
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Saving a bookstore
in Salisbury, NC
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Daniel Green
on the importance of context
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Duncan vs. Levertov –
the record of the letters
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A profile of Louis Dudek
from an online store that believes
in context
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A video interview with Vladimir Nabokov
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A profile of
Tomizawa Kakio
with translations by Hiroaki Sato
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Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman
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Bryan Thao Worra’s Winter Ink
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Extreme poetry
vs. flarf & conceptualism
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Thomas Basbøll’s flarf thesis
Two problems of flarf
(& all else)
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A profile of Raymond Roussel
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James Wright on
”the blindness of the magazines”
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Margaret Atwood
on the shadow side of wealth
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Library of obscure Chicago literature opens
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CS Perez takes wing
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Bruce Covey’s “Best Poetry Books 2008”
Dora Malech’s list
Michael Farrell’s list is very short
Kathleen Jesme’s list
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Thomas Pynchon’s next book
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A profile of Todd Boss
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Talking with “Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost”
host Rustin Larson
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Kostas Anagnopoulos & Allison Powers
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3 stars for Mariani’s Hopkins
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Sarton Prize recipients announced
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A short note against cretinism
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The return of some really bad poetry
It gets verse
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Seth Abramson dreams
of numbers & “relevance”
Seth Abramson thinks
Quietists
”make up 80% or more
of the national poetry community”
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The writers of history
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Rod Blagojevich & the death of journalism –
not an accidental relationship
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The end of the daily newspaper –
city to go
How long will it take
before every city follows suit?
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Turkish intellectuals
apologize to the Armenians
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Books by artists
at the
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A memoir of street art
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Avant-garde performer,
appellate judge
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Wayne Thiebaud:
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Picasso the historian
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Life models on strike
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Site-specific installation
or just institutional bric-a-brac
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Peter Schjeldahl on Marlene Dumas
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Sotheby looks at the contemporary art market
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Elliott Carter’s birthday weekend
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An evening of opera & dance
that includes an advance peek
at Anna Rabinowitz’
The Wanton Sublime
