Steve Fama on
Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony
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Mary Ann Caws: “Poetry
Can Be Any Damn Thing It Wants”
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Brian Teare on
The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
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Ange Mlinko’s “The Eighties, Glory of”
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Talking with Charlotte Mandell
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Anne Boyer’s “Provisional Avant-Garde”
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A New York Times obit
for George Schneeman
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The illuminated poetry of Tony Fitzpatrick
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The last speaker of Eyak has died
A map of disappearing languages
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Obama’s accent
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Marjorie Perloff on Frank O’Hara
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Charles Bernstein’s “Manifest Aversions,
Conceptual Condundrums, &
Implausibly Deniable Links”
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Robert Creeley’s The Charm
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Celan, Kafka & the glottal stop
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D.A. Powell’s “Annie
Get Your Gun”
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Lies they tell you
in creative writing workshops
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Michael Robbins’
“Alien vs. Predator”
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Thomas Sayers Ellis’
“Perform-A-Form:
A Page vs. Stage
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“desire
thwarted by the interference
of an other”
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Masculinist aggressor speaks
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Michael Hofmann’s
“Manifesto of the Flying Mallet”
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Presses that don’t charge reading fees
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Videos of
long dead poets
“reading” their poems
(e.g., William Blake,
Whitman, Baudelaire)
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The “pure” Chris McCabe
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Juliana Spahr & Joshua Clover:
“Leave the Manifesto Alone!”
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Epictetus, Wittgenstein, O’Hara, Blake
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The NBCC poetry finalists,
with samples
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A.E. Stallings’
“Presto Manifesto”
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Barry Gifford in The New Yorker
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Against the arts czar
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I love this visual poem by
Spencer Selby
It’s from the new
Otoliths
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An embryonic vispo library
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Jack Spicer’s
“A Red Wheelbarrow,”
the movie
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Poetryvlog
has videos of much more
than just
the usual suspects
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“Bookbinding Makes Paul
a Changed Man”
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Joshua Mehigan’s
“The Final Manifesto”
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More fun with Franz & William
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Art, poetry & community
in
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Wendy Cope:
An end to the nonsense of laureates
Wendy Cope is wrong!
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Allusion in Frank Bidart’s
“Advice to the Players”
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The institutionalization of flarf
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Calling Kent Johnson
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A “scribe of Allah”
looks at flarf & AIEE!
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Grey Cowrie’s Third Day
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Mary Karr reads Gwendolyn Brooks
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“sheer, bloody-minded pleasure”
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Nikki Giovanni’s Bicycles
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Textimage poetry by Ed Baker
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Graywolf responds to inaugural poem demand
All praise the platitudes
Elizabeth Alexander on the event & its reaction
What did you think of the inaugural poem?
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Composure in Mookie Katigbak’s The Proxy Eros
Also on The Proxy Eros,
plus Joel Toledo’s Chiarascuro
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Updike the poet
How good was Updike?
Carlin Romano on Updike
Martin Amis on Updike
“The incomparable”
“The heavyweight”
Remembering Updike
John Carroll on John Updike
An appreciation
Ian McEwan on Updike
The “golden age” of the mainstream novel
Updike’s life in pictures
The Comical is reduced to running
the AP obit
“For better or worse…
an endless stream”
LRB links
to 21 reviews of his work
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Luc Sante on Susan Sontag
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Close reading
“the skull is a banjo”
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Is it time to dump hard cover books?
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Here comes Kindle 2.0
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“Black hole” in the digital record
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Is there a future for
Book Soup?
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Mourning even the loss of Borders
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The 42nd California International
Antiquarian Bookfair
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Newspaper chain furloughs workers
to avoid layoffs
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“It ain’t over till it’s over”
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Further adventures in editing
(see Jan. 26 links
for part I)
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A “Top 20” list
of online lit-zines
that somehow omits
most of the good ones
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Diatribe as an art form
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French intelligentsia, 21st century style
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My Dada
(The
& the art of paste-up)
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Astronome:
A Night at the Opera,
by Richard Foreman & John Zorn
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More on the devolution of
Penn’s Museum of Archeology
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Jane Dickson – Night Driving
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Advertising from
Mayakovsky & Rodchenko
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In Tikrit, a sculpture
celebrates a shoe
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Nick Cave – recent sound suits
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Art therapy for jihadists
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Postmodern architecture – an MP3 archive
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An account of the global recession
even Ezra Pound could understand
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The January stats:
31% increase year-over-year
in visits to the blog,
34% increase in page views
