Sean Cole brings the story of flarf
to Studio 360 on NPR
(MP3)
Questions for flarf
The bicycle view
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Talking with Carrie Etter
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The logic of the linebreak
in the work
of Rae Armantrout
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Don’t forget Woodland Pattern!!
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Poets, baseball &
a rediscovered Jack Spicer poem
that’s not in
My Vocabulary Did This to Me
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Charles Bernstein debating Frank Bidart (MP3)
After a glitch, that ends that MP3,
the rest of the discussion (MP3)
Franz Wright vs. William Logan
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A.B. Spellman on
Becoming Billie Holiday
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A National Book Critics Circle
poetry award shortlist
with no true Quietists on it
(plus Roberto Bolaño, Reginald Shepherd
& Brenda Wineapple in other categories)
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Pierre Alferi in Berkeley & SF
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Talking with Missy McEwen
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Things to do off-site at the AWP
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Andrei Codrescu:
”Who’s your Dada
in the classroom?”
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Lyn Hejinian, translation & barbarism
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The politics of modernism &
Nazi Literature in the Americas
by Roberto Bolaño
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Talking with José Díaz Cuyás
(in Spanish)
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The poetry festival at Qinghai
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Tagore singing
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Aaron Apps
can’t tell the difference
between doing your home work
& “Great Books”
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The Segue Reading Series schedule,
February thru May
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The new Bookforum
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Against Canadian Cute-ism
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A poem-sculpture collab project
by Nick Carbo & Eileen Tabios
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Curtis Faville on Ronald Johnson
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How does a day
”percolate into writing”?
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Tim Dlugos at the Ear Inn, 1978
Jim Brodey at the Ear Inn, 1986
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The selected poems of Cid Corman
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Publisher’s Weekly
fiction & poetry reviews
(starred reviews for
Mónica de la Torre,
Clayton Eshleman,
An American Hybrid
& others)
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On polemic
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Against dialectics
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Sharon Mesmer’s memoir
of coming to NY to write
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Talking with Paul Siegell
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An eidolon of poetic terms
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Michael Kelleher appears to be
reading his entire library
in alphabetical order
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Ann Lauterbach
on wealth, fame & power
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Donald Hall
thinking with muscle & tongue
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Niedecker’s men
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Carolyn Cassady,
Off the Road
& coming to Neal’s birthday bash
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Barbara Goldberg’s The Royal Baker’s Daughter
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Talking with Jericho Brown
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Researching & applying metaphor
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Stanley Fish on
Barack Obama’s prose style
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“Praise Song for the Day”
N + 44 remix
A correct version of the original text
Jeff Stumpo’s view
Reb Livingston
comes to the defense of
Elizabeth Alexander
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A poem for Obama
from the
National Poet of Wales
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Andrena Zawinski’s
Taking the Road Where It Leads
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A “labette” for narrative
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Charlotte Bronte’s dollhouse
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Didi Menendez’ For Love of an Armadillo
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An attempt to ban Harper Lee,
Mark Twain, John Steinbeck
& other purveyors of the N-word
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Talking with Tony Mancus
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Jacqueline Turner
walking with the dictionary
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Lucille Clifton’s Voices
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The Poe Show
Edgar Allen Poe
on James Russell Lowell
The New York Times
on Poe at 100 in 1909
(PDF)
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Mary Karr:
”Digging” Seamus Heaney
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Looking for mystery
among the
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Talking with Miriam Sagan
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Stanley Kunitz
reads Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Robert Pinsky’s “Last Robot Song”
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Every night can be Burns Night
Robert Burns at 250
Toasting Burns
“Wee, mallow, rounded, choccy biccy”
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Inventory, by Cicely Angleton,
Elaine Magarrell & Reed Whittemore
(tho it fails to note that Cicely
is the widow of James Angleton,
editor of Furioso & founder of the CIA)
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Reinventing the daily paper
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They take library fines seriously
in
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Google & the future of books
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A bailout for trade publishers?
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69 indie bookstores
opened in 2008
(tho they neglect to mention
the 200 or so that closed)
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Telling a book by its web site
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Ted Solotaroff’s “Adventures in Editing”
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The importance of preserving web sites forever
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Talking with Michael Robbins
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Open vs. closed –
the case of Phil Levine
Two examples from
the late work of
Adrienne Rich
(hint, try something from
A Change of World
or
The Diamond Cutters)
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Sum, by Yonat Hafftka
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Leonard Cohen: poem or song?
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Anthony Braxton videos
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A century of Elliott Carter
in just 5 days
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Carlin Romano:
Everyone’s an artist
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A revival of Poets Theater in SF
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The Nonsense Company’s
Great Hymn of Thanksgiving
and
Conversation Storm
do a final run in Philly & NYC
before (hopefully)
the Obama administration
renders anti-war work obsolete
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Siddhartha,
the play
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Talking with Lynn Johnston
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Meanwhile, on Caprica…
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Adam Kirsch on Hannah Arendt
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Michael Dirda
Searching for Cioran
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Talking with David Denby about Snark
