Monday, January 05, 2009

Robert Grenier on Carol Watts

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The program for Emma Bee Bernstein’s funeral

Charles Bernstein’s
”Eulogy for Emma”

A note from Felix Bernstein

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From the Angels of Light to New Narrative

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A terrific anthology of New York City poetry:
The Portable Boog Reader 3
(PDF)

Last year’s equally stunning collection (PDF)

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The poetry of C.D. Wright

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How to write language poetry

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Poetry & relevance
(a good collection of all the links)

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Framing Gabe Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook

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Cities vie over celebrating Poe

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Mark Scroggins on John Taggart

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Bruce Sterling:
State of the World, 2009

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Talking with Dan Chiasson
about editing
poetry for the Paris Review

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26 instant reviews

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Jack Kerouac’s
”Belief & Technique for Modern Prose”

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Sex at the MLA

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Nobel secretary
who told the truth
steps down

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Taxonomies

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Beloafism

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Eileen Tabios’ Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole

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Teaching & satisfaction

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Some work by Crystal Curry
with a comments stream
that has broken out into warfare

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Writers who practice medicine

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Joshua Clover on Michèle Bernstein

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W.S. Merwin on PBS Newshour

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Hemingway as a poet

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In the basement of the ivory tower

200 applications for every job

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With whom is Stanley Fish speaking with?

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Reading Frank O’Hara on the Blue Line
and a Few Words About Disappointment”

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Poesy for the kids

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Adam Kirsch on a new translation of
Kafka’s Amerika

& on Burton Raffael’s new translation of
The Canterbury Tales

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Prison poetry in India

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Man Booker prize funds
were invested with
Bernie Madoff

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What is “non-commercial”?

How far should
© exemptions extend?

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Hitler’s Private Library

The Man Who Burned Books

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A more intimate memoir from
Azar Nafisi

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A profile of Jay Ruzesky

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Paperback Dreams

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Charity bookshops

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Glenn Goldman has died

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New York’s French bookshop
bids adieu

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The MLA & the Middle East

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Susan Sontag’s early diaries

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Denis O’Leary on poetry
& other stuff

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Poetry as “divine therapy

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Mary Karr on Tryfon Tolides

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The poet of money who saw it coming

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Best translations of 2008

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Recalling the first inaugural poet

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National Reading 2666 Month

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Poets of New York’s suburbs

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Buffalo’s experimental past

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Todd Boss’ Yellowrocket

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Saving (maybe) the foreign language major

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Anne Carson
reading with sculpture & dancers

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Andrew Motion on a bio of
Robert Burns

Burns as an analgesic

& as a democrat

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Little machines made out of words”

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The impact of trees on poetry

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Sylvia Townsend Warner & Valentine Ackland

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Paul Guest’s
My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

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Richard Tillinghast finds Ireland

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Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman

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Tale of Genji at 1,000

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Edward FitzGerald’s “unfaithful translation”

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Mainstream media is dead (sorta)

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Portraits of America poets

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Painting books

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Oranges & Sardines at the Hammer

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Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes

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Jackson Pollock crosses the street

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S. Clay Wilson today

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The day the music died

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Thelonius Monk’s advice to Steve Lacy

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Putting Charles Olson (literally)
to music (10MB MP3)