Reading report:
Kaia Sand, Yedda Morrison
& Kim Rosenfield
at Small Press Traffic
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AWP events at Links Hall
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Infection in the Sentence
Festival
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J.H. Prynne & Pierre Alferi
at the Pompidou
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M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
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Inger Christensen’s Alphabet
Remembering Christensen
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Searching for Lorine Niedecker
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Stephen Vincent’s Beverly Dahlen Haptic
Charles Alexander on Beverly Dahlen
Kathleen Fraser & Jocelyn Saidenberg
on Dahlen, her work & her impact
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Jack Collom’s Exchanges of Earth and Sky
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Talking with John Ashbery
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A chat with Ron Silliman
A memento of conferences past
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The Segue series
at the Bowery Poetry Club
for Spring (PDF)
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Is
to The Grand Piano?
(scroll down a bit)
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Elizabeth Bishop & Neal Cassady
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A serious gourmand
reads Harry Mathews
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Plumbline poetry
Joseph Duemer on the plumbers
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Beth Joselow:
from In the Green Zone
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The arts = jobs (PDF)
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Gerald Stern sings Jimmy Durante
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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Talking with Peter Porter
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Christopher Funkhouser on digital poetry
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Talking with Elizabeth Alexander
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Oscar Wilde is set to close
So is the last indie bookstore in
Henderson, Nevada
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The fading world of
Charing Cross Road
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The importance of indie bookshops
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The first SPD catalog?
I’m in the second one
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Adding up
The NY Times Book Review
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BookExpo Canada cancelled
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The NY Times’ plan
to survive
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Amazon by the numbers
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The Bards in the Bog
in Shetland
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Valentine poetry from
by way of Ezra Pound
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Searching for Nicu Lutan
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A profile of Walter Mosley
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Mick O’Brien:
King of the Ode
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A profile of Richard Howard
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What Jack Micheline & Mary Oliver
have in common
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Jordan Davis:
Are you better off than you were
13,000 years ago?
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Scenes from the poetry wars
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Dale Smith on Jordan Davis
on Kevin Davies in The Nation
& on Gary Sullivan
on Sharon Mesmer in
The Poetry Project Newsletter
& on “symbolic efficiency”
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K. Silem Mohammad
on Dale Smith’s “tough love”
These are your instructions
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Temple’s Spring reading series
starts Thursday
with Anselm Berrigan
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Richard Kostelanetz
gets around
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Falmouth, Massachusetts –
where everyone is reading poetry
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Katy Lederer’s
The Heaven-Sent Leaf
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A haptic a day
for Barack Obama
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Santa Clara searches
for its laureate
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Much good stuff
in the exceedingly well-dressed
Scantily Clad Press
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The same is true for
Little Red Leaves
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& the new mark(s)
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You can download LRL editions
or buy them hard copy
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A note on Hugh Fox
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Monday was
National Poetry Day
in
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Matthea Harvey
wins the Kingsley Tufts award
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Celebrating chapbooks
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Aracelis Girmay’s Teeth
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Philip Metres on Kent Johnson
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Larkin could read aloud
but what about others?
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Philippe Soupault
on Breton, automatic writing, suicide
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11,000 out-of-print
Yiddish books
have gone online
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Sally Van Doren’s
Sex at Noon Taxes
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Editing Updike
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A profile of Carol Niederlander
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Cost, space & time –
the problems of collecting
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Book dealer jailed over library thefts
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The amazing Donald Barthelme
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Tim Bowling & Oana Avasilichioaei
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names J.D. McClatchy president
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Zadie Smith:
A clear & unified voice
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What is the place of poetry
on a blog?
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A profile of Kathleen Graber
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Heading to read
at the Library of Congress
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Some writing resources
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Nikki Giovanni’s Bycycles
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The LA Times review
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Talking with Kenton Robinson
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A literary publishing roundtable
sans the literary
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Japanese Young Artists’ Book Fair
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Access Restricted:
nomadic lectures in prohibited space
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Phong Bui
on art & development
in brooklyn
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Harvard adds art
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Laura Moriarty
talking to Mai-Thu Perret
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Cops to Shepard Fairey:
Tag, you’re it
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Remembering art’s first superstar
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Siddhartha at Brandeis
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A nose for verse drama
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Daily performances of
John Cage’s 4’33”
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Fresh Air reviews
Anthony Braxton’s
Complete Arista
Recordings
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Max Neuhaus has died
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My KPFA,
an oral history in MP3s
of alternative culture’s most influential station
(includes everyone from Robin Blaser
to Charles Amirkhanian,
Larry Bensky to William Mandel,
Charles Shere to Phil Elwood)
[note also the ratio of genders!!]
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Michael Wood on
Slumdog Millionaire
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The W-word, back again
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Jared Diamond:
why societies collapse
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