The library as a form of porn
The libraries vs. Google
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John Ashbery fights back!
Kessler’s offending letter
Ashbery the flaneur
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Kathy Lou Schultz’ Biting Midge
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Anne Waldman / Akilah Oliver / Ambrose Bye CD
is the Sexiest Poem of the Year 2008
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Silence in Kenny Goldsmith’s Sports
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The bailout for poets
(seriously)
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Tackling the poetry patriarchy
Gender pay gap in the arts
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Meshwork Videos –
some of the best in British poetry
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There are several good videos
of readings of late
on Geof Huth’s blog,
include Geof, Anne Gorrick,
Truong Tran & Cassie Smith
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Defending Jacob Scheier
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Are poetry backlists “dead”?
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Scantily Clad Press
is building a list of
first-rate e-books,
including
Andrew Lundwall, Tomaz Salamun,
Brian Henry, Adam Fieled,
Juliet Cook, Ken Rumble,
Chris McCreary & more
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Two poems by
Thanh Tam Tuyen
translated by Linh Dinh
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Tim Davis’
“Original Ideas in Magic”
“The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld”
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Translating Milton into English
Translating Stein into English
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Reading The Making of Americans
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The 21st
Indie & Small Press Bookfair
is this weekend in NYC
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Dear Sir or Madam,
Your work sucks
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Coldest reading of the year?
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Poet’s Picturebook,
the e-zine of the Filipino Diaspora,
celebrates an anniversary
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Not “R.S. Gwynn, or the Absence of Genius”
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Frank O’Hara
(and Fairfield Porter)
makes it to the NY Times
art books gift guide
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Marathon,
a film on the life of William Meredith
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Rodney Koeneke on poetry & the future
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Books on language
in time for the holidays
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Two deaths at Robin’s Bookstore
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Gray Friday for bookstores
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Talking with Tim Gaze
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Remembering Dave Church
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How to win
all of Robert Bolaño’s works in English
11 articles on Bolaño & his work
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This Sunday, a slam in Mumbai
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Houghton Mifflin publisher ousted
Randomness at Random House
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Gina Myers on
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Reading aloud makes the difficult “easy”
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“Public poetry is almost always very bad.”
A séance for poetry?
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Lally’s library
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The Work (capital W) of William Gaddis
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One Yellow Rabbit’s homages to poetry
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Talking with the Eminem of Irish poetry
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Poetry, ethics & Kent Johnson
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In which “I”
finally get a poem
in The Nation
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Talking with Josh Bell
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A new look at Samuel Johnson
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Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract
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Lowell Jaeger’s Suddenly, Out of a Long Sleep
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Sarojini Sahoo’s Dark Abode
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Kenneth Sherwood’s
notes for a class on Jack Kerouac
Kerouac, Freddie Redd & Frank O’Hara
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Remembering William Wharton
(or Albert du Aime)
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David Hinton’s Classical Chinese Poetry
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Lyn Hejinian’s Saga / Circus
Andy Gricevich on Hejinian’s “The Distance”
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Make-a-Wish supports a teen poet
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Charles Bukowski’s The Post Office
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Robert Venturi’s masterpiece
just down the road
from my house
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Leckey gets lucky,
wins Turner Prize
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The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton
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Talking with The Fireman
“Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight”
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Singing Emily D
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Globalization’s front lines:
a world tour of rap
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Outliers & class advantage
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So you wants to be a hipster
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Which book of philosophy was most transformative?
“What would Adorno say?”
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“& if my thought dreams could be seen
they’d probably put my head in a guillotine,
but it’s alright, Ma, it’s life & life only”
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Tom Sutpen’s mostly hardboiled photo site:
”If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats”
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How many post-avant poets are there?
Shampoo has published
888 poets in its first 34 issues
& only three of the ten Grand Piano
authors
(Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, myself)
are included
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Washington Post obit
LA Times obit
