A lurid NY Times “review” of
Jack Spicer’s
My Vocabulary Did This to Me
And another in the LA Times
Was Jack Spicer sexy?
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A detailed,
multi-part look at
The Best American Poetry 2008
answers
my 20th question
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My list of upcoming marathons missed
”When Does It or You Begin (Memory as Innovation):
Writing, Performance & Video”
from Jan. 9 to Feb. 1
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Wishing it was
Will Alexander
at Obama’s inaugural
Oops, somebody’s read Venus Hottentot
The NY Times weighs in
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Gerry Meisenhelder,
poet laureate of
has died
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Emma Bee Bernstein:
”What I Learned in School Today”
A Flickr memorial website
for Emma Bee Bernstein
Charles Bernstein’s website
with memorial service information
Nona Aronowitz on Bernstein
Remembering Bernstein
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New York Times obit
of Adrian Mitchell
Remembering Mitchell
And here
A Socialist Workers obit
with links to videos
from 1965 & 2008
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Tributes to Harold Pinter
Pinter & Creeley on war
Pinter’s last interview:
”Cricket is better than sex”
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Remembering Dorothy Porter
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Steve Fama’s “20 Great Poetry Books of 2008”
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Gary Sullivan’s 2008 in review
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Close reading
one sentence
from Robert Grenier
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In
an actual campaign
for Poet Laureate
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I’m Dreaming of AJunky’s Christmas
just like the one Bill Burroughs used to know
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Genealogy of the School of Q
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Robert Mittenthal
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Being interviewed
without being asked
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3 questions for Ed Baker
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Gary Snyder
on corresponding with Allen Ginsberg
Henry Kissinger & Allen Ginsberg
naked together on TV
(scroll down)
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Reading the journals you’re already in
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Alexander Trocchi:
Seize the world!
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Flarf + conceptualism
(conspiracy theory)
Quietism pretending not to take sides
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Spun Puns (& Anagrams)
in the work of Harryette Mullen
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Waiting for Sam Beckett
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“Polis is What?
Finding one’s way in
The Maximus Poems,”
a talk Jan. 3 in
(scroll down)
Black Mountain spirit lingers
in
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Dirk Johnson is posting
sections of Ronald Johnson’s
out-of-print masterwork
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Jack Kerouac’s Pull My Daisy
(or maybe
Robert Frank’s & Alfred Leslie’s)
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Remembering the Rubiot in Tulsa
where in 1960
Ron Padgett gave his first public reading
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The poetics of Frank Samperi
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Literature after the death of trade publishing
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News after the death of newspapers
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Washington Post, Baltimore Sun –
something less than competitors
in the same market
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The new Luddism
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Poetry & the British imagination
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Talking with Abdel-Rahmen El-Abnoudi
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And here also
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Patti Smith:
An interview, a review
& videos of a reading & song
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Robert Bly turns 82
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Zadie Smith: race & speech (MP3)
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Lisa Russ Spaar’s Satin Cash
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Kate Brady gets to profile Kate Brady
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Beyond Baroque
finally has signed
a 25-year lease on its facility
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Pastoral now
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Remembering Parveen Shakir
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Gerald Stern:
5 poems & a video
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Boot camp with Brenda Shaughnessy
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John Updike,
having become
”a David Levine caricature of himself”
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Nabokov’s choice
of Russian poetry
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Rachel Forrest
returns to poetry
with 30 poems in 30 days
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Coherence & the undergraduate English major
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Fitzgerald’s characters & their schools
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Giving voice to William Stafford
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Young Susan Sontag
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Interviews from “Seamus Famous”
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Phyllis McGinley &
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Setting Kathryn Stripling Byer to music
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Olivier Messiaen at 100
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When Waiting for Godot
played at San Quentin
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Whitman’s Lincoln
coming to Philly
A rare Whitman edition for auction
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Wallace Berman & Richard Prince
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Remembering Grace Hartigan
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Michael Goldberg et al in
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Considering James Castle
from a great distance
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A new work from Yoko Ono
in The NY Times
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A shake-up at Christie’s
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Learning from Venturi
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The return of Bruno S.
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Penn Museum
cans research,
goes pop to survive
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An alternate history of
Deep Throat
from inside
the intelligence community
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In case nobody’s noticed,
this war ain’t over!
