Charles Olson,
who would have been 99 on Dec. 27,
reading ”The Librarian”
(YouTube)
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Billy Little died of cancer this morning
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Jack Spicer & the law
rob mclennan’s review
Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me
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Investigating Ed Sanders
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Joe Safdie and Rae Armantrout
at Beyond Baroque
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Post-avant is here to stay!
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George Packer of The New Yorker
gets some mail
about his reservations about
Elizabeth Alexander
as the inaugural poet
Why do pols gravitate
to crappy poetry?
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The books & poetry of
John Martone
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2 new sets of DVDs of readings
in France
(includes Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein,
Rosmarie Waldrop, Jacques Roubaud, Keith Waldrop,
Norma Cole, Bill Berkson, Emanuel Hocquard,
Robert Grenier, Kristin Prevallet,
Jerry Rothenberg, Tom Raworth
& many more)
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Blanchot at 100
(15 YouTube videos
of the conference at Bard)
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Elisa Gabbert on Stephanie Young
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Robin Tremblay-McGaw at the MLA
MLA notes
From the Chronicle of Higher Medication
On the plane ride home
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David Horowitz at the MLA
And here
And here
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Aileen Ibardaloza
on her mother reading
Eileen Tabios
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Didi Menendez:
Why I write
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Talking with Larissa
Szporluk
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Carolyn Cassady speaks of Jack Kerouac
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Three-day-old Fish
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John Taggart’s There are Birds
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On first seeing Iceland
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The left bank of New England
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Michael Amnasan’s Liar
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Farewell to
3 poets named John
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J.D. Salinger at 90
The wisdom of Holden Caufield
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Eleven things writers should know
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Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler
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Laura Moriarty
reading from A Semblance
(YouTube)
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Positioning contemporary
reading Rae Armantrout
in The New Yorker
(in Spanish)
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Carey Perloff on Harold Pinter
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Donald Revell reading Rimbaud
(YouTube)
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Talking with Dmitry Golynko
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“Anyhow” –
summing up an amazing year
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Talking with Harryette Mullen
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Form
is / is not
an extension of content
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“8 Found Poems from
Schaum’s German Grammar”
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The Longhouse photo album
is a visual history
of poetry in
over the last 30 years
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Gotham Book Mart arrives at Penn
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Saving Philly libraries
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Interviews with Seamus Heaney
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10 books that screwed up the world
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Christopher Arigo
reading from
In the Archives
(YouTube)
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“The
Talking with Molly Fisk & Yuko Adachi
about their collaboration
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The Corpse walks
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Mark Doty: feeling validated
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Preparing to be Susan Sontag
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A note on Hugh Fox
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Village Voice lays off Nat Hentoff
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Top 10 language stories of 2008
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Misogynist tagger
banned from carrying pens
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12 cross-sections of the
Ubuweb archive
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Guerrilla Girls on Tour
New Year’s Resolutions
(here, here & here)
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LA MOCA should
”show its own”
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A profile of Jasper Johns
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Instruction art
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Nathaniel Anthony Ayers
& the Disciples of Beethoven
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2008 Village Voice Jazz Poll Winners
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The Making of Americans – the opera
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Philosophers at work
& looking for more
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