Stuart Z. Perkoff –
a great profile by John Macker
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2009 NEA Fellowships announced –
only Quietists need apply
Two books of poetry
(Linda Gregg & Alan Shapiro, no kidding!)
in the
”Favorite Books 2008”
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The San Francisco Chronicle
review of
My Vocabulary Did This to Me:
The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
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Dale Smith on Philip Whalen’s Collected Poems
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Talking with Ryan Murphy (MP3)
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Kerouac’s scroll arrives in the islands
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Aram Saroyan on
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
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Uncle Milty turns 400 on December 9
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The Write Stuff –
a reality TV show
about writers
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The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets
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Reading Ange Mlinko’s “Securitization”
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Geof Huth reading
Robert Grenier’s Dusk Road Games
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Reader’s report with a little YouTube:
Oscar Bermeo, DeWayne Dickerson & Camille Dungy
at Books & Bookshelves in
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Martial the modernist
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Haim Gouri’s civil war
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A biography of Yehuda Amichai
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A Kurdish poet in exile
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Memories of Beirut
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Marjorie Perloff on William Logan’s Hart Crane
Neil Hampton on the same
Logan fires back
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Obama vs.
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Kay Ryan’s “Believe or Not” poems re-emerge
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The guessing game intensifies
“The laureate’s poetry is irrelevant”
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An old dispute among laureates
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The California laureate in the
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Talking with Greg Mbajiorgu (Wota Na Wota)
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Fanny Howe’s “My Father was White But Not Quite”
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Mark DuCharme’s The Sensory Cabinet
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Sally Doyle on Poetry in the Schools
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Flarf plus –
the conspiracy revealed
Thomas Basbøll’s epic examination
of how to write flarf
(Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
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A profile of Joe Stroud
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Whitman & his brothers
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Yolanda Coulaz,
tomboy poet
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Trade publishers cut back
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The Book Bench:
A New Yorker blog
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Mini-reviews in the NY Times
for Orhan Pamuk, John Ashbery et al
Norman Weinstein on Ashbery’s Collected Poems
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“Poetry and poverty make lovely music”
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Talking with C.P. Aboobacker
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Mary Karr on Thomas Lux
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Trying to recall why
anyone thought
Lionel Trilling
was important
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A Creeley lyric
Tom Waits should sing
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Talking with Kenneth Hart
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Where does “the best” come from?
(Oz version)
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Margaret Hasse’s Milk and Tides
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Mariani’s
(maybe it’s better than his WCW)
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The lack of debt in fiction
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Two readings by cowboy poets
A profile of 92-year-old cowboy poet
Clarence Carnal
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Rudy Wurlitzer’s The Drop Edge of Yonder
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Reversing the manuscript to published text process
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Artists’ books in New Jersey
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Andrew Topel’s collabs
with Reed Altemus
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Resurrecting Plath’s play
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Art Lange on Anthony Braxton’s
Complete Arista Recordings
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Collab of the year:
Sonic Youth, Led Zep’s John Paul Jones &
M e r c e C u n n i n g h a m
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Talking with Eliot Carter
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Bob Dylan & Billy Collins
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The anxiety of being Paul
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Ignoring the blues
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Waves of music
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Chronicling the decline of the Gannett newspaper group
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You’re a better man than I,
Philo T. Farnsworth
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Roger Ebert:
Death to film critics!
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Real end-of-the-year lists,
2007 edition
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Illiteracy in high places
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The T.S. Eliot quiz
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The three New Yorks
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The “dumbest generation”
