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Kent Johnson,
who knows something about “fake shit,”
to Nada Gordon re flarf
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Nada Gordon
on gender, flarf & aging
And here
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Is flarf’s use of Google an endorsement?
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Aiee Poetry –
the first “post-flarf” movment
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Wig call … and response
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Was Adrian Mitchell right?
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Poetry as testimony
in Derrida & Celan
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John Ashbery, Pierre Matory & Jackson Pollock
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Talking with Clayton Eshleman
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Slow writing – another perspective
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Nine reviews of recent books
including ones by
Johannes Göransson, Eileen Tabios
& Reginald Shephered
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Three new “Beat” books,
including one by Jack Kerouac
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Michiko Kakutani on John Updike
The Washington Post appreciation
Another interview
Carlin Romano
in the Inky:
“A son of Pennsylvania”
A portrait of Shillington,
Stalking Updike
Boston Globe obit
A taste of the oeuvre
Another audio interview
Updike the golfer (video)
Once an aspiring cartoonist
Updike on Ted Williams
Updike as sportswriter
The Red Sox react
LA Times obit
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30 years of Poltroonery
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Editorial review rears its head at Wikipedia
Britannica to try reader-generated content
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Rodney Koeneke on “poetry voice”
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Mathias Svalina on Rochelle Owens’
I am the Babe of Joseph Stalin’s Daughter
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What is it about Democrats & bad verse?
Everybody’s dissin’ “Praise Song for the Day”
Jack Foley asks why
An $8 mass-market chapbook?
Alexander was always
”inauthentic, bureaucratic, rhetorical”
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A poem a day for the first 100 days
Omens from the Flight of Birds,
Stephen Vincent’s identical anthology
from the first 101 days
of Jimmy Carter’s presidency
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Ernesto Cardenal’s Pluriverse
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Blackburn / Oppenheimer / Ginsberg
Blackburn’s “Statement”
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Andy Fitch “recovers”
Joltin’ Joe Brainard
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Belladonna’s Elder Series for Ought Nine
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Katie Degentesh’s The Anger Scale (PDF)
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Exploring Lafcadio Hearn
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The music of
Arabic poetry of Sicily
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Do post-avants have serious boundary issues?
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Stain Bar schedule
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Remembering Mick Imlah
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Thom Donovan
introduces
Stephanie Gray
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Worst headline
with which to announce
the National Book Critics Circle shortlist
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Talking with Mari-Lou Rowley
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When the aim is famous Seamus
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A laureate for Silicon Valley
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Will Motion be the last to write a royal ode?
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A profile of Blagojevich’s pick
as
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In
to make Darrell Bourque the laureate
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New women writers
of the late nineteenth century
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Burns Night … in
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Donald Revell’s A Thief of Strings
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Jon Geltner on Auggie Kleinzahler (PDF)
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Nikki Giovanni’s rap for Obama
Giovanni talking on NPR’s Tell Me More
Reading from Bicycles (MP3)
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Small press collection for sale
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“Stephen Rodefer’s Position” (PDF)
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Talking with Abraham Smith
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A profile of Pascale Petit
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Behind Catherine Sasanov’s Tara
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A profile of Nick Virgilio
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Henri Cole moves to
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William Butler Yeats is to poetry as . . .
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A roster of mostly conservative online litmags
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Andrew Duncan on John Wilkinson & Peter Riley (PDF)
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Resurrecting bookstores where a small chain tanked
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Washington Post
ends Book World as
an independent section
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Layoffs even at Publishers Weekly
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College newspapers
start to feel the pinch
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While trade presses struggle,
self-publishers flourish
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Media’s Age of Irony
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Stephen Vincent: Haptics for Obama
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A Grace Hartigan retrospective
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Not so fast, say protestors
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Kapital, the movie
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Darwin’s metaphor of the tree
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Interviewing General Laurent Nkunda
(thinking of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Creeley)
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The Silliman Bump:
Amazon’s sales rank of Rae Armantrout’s Versed
went from 460,000 to 69,000 on Tuesday
