Poetry readings in the White House?
A new Federal Writers’ Project?
Top 10 “to dos” for Obama on culture
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But the best responses seem to be on
Lime Tree
Thomas Basbøll’s treatise on how to write flarf
Part 6
Jordan Davis reads Drew Gardner
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“The most dangerous man in publishing”
(It was true 50 years ago)
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Le Clézio:
The book is the best tool
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John Ashbery on Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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The Best Canadian Poetry in English
is launched
One place where reading is rising
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December 13 at
a celebration of the life of
Bill Griffith
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Notes on Mandelstam
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Woeser’s selected poems
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David Foster Wallace’s last book
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Nathaniel Tarn’s Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers
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The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
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Milton’s shadow
We need another Milton
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Remembering Thomas Merton
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Brandi Homan’s Hard Reds
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Roberta Beary’s one-minute reading
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Top 10 reasons to go to poetry readings
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Reviewing The Capilano Review
(Are literary mags obsolete?)
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Lucille Clifton’s Voices
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Walt the plumber?
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Talking with “failed poet” Charlie Plymell
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William Logan
gives whining a bad name
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Lisa Jarnot’s Black Dog Songs
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Information architecture for digital libraries
Case study:
the State Library of Victoria, Australia
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Talking with Arielle Greenberg
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Shurin & O’Hara
on one of the better short lists
of the “year’s best”
Reading Meditations in an Emergency
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“Best poetry books of 2008” –
The
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Mark Scroggins reads The Age of Huts (compleat)
And The Grand Piano, part 4
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Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic
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Who’s ever heard Virginia Woolf?
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Neoliberal poetry rant (PDF)
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Larry Eigner
in the American cleave
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A bookstore closes in Maine
As do 3 in the South
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Reviewing a bookstore
by the quality of
its food
about its bookstore’s cafés
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Abraham Smith’s Whim Man Mammon
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Remembering Kersey Katrak
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New Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
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How to edit a children’s dictionary
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Audio interview with Jaap Blonk
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The problem with book clubs
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John Kinsella’s Divine Comedy
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Prepping for the MLA meat market
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Harvard stops hiring
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Fishing is not dying in Gloucester
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Heather Banks’ Still Life Without Pomegranate
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Talking with
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Celebrating Donald Finkel & Constance Urdang
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Sylvia & Ted – the reality TV show
(keep scrolling!)
Saving Sylvia
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Rochelle Ratner’s Ben Casey Days
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A.D. Winans remembers Jack Micheline
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Talking with Hugh Fox
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The “writing crisis”
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H.L. Hix asks 20 questions
Answers from
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Alex Stein
Christopher Davis
Charlotte Innis
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Larissa Szporluk’s Embryos & Idiots
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40 years ago this week
Doug Engelbart & friends
changed the world
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A memorial service for Studs Terkel
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Todd Gitlin on Bernard Henri-Lévy
(free registration required)
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News of the newspaper business
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“What’s black & white & completely over?”
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Farewell to the contemporary art bubble
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Merce Cunningham at Dia Beacon
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When the choreography includes Anne Carson
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Carter’s sixties
& his seventies
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Robert Ashley:
Three Operas
coming to La Mama
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Baltimore Opera cancels season,
files for bankruptcy
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The museum behind an “invisibility cloak”
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Life after Galactica
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10 stories you missed this year
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LOTS to read in the new
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