A visit with Tom Meyer
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John Ashbery
& David Orr’s lament
that it’s all over
for the School of Q
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Hybrid, not as in car
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Flarf 101
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Your mission,
should you choose to accept it
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K. Silem Mohammad’s
Breathalyzer
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On docu-poetry
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Crisis, Contradiction, Contestation,
the conference
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Gay sheikh’s desert storm
Atwood now regrets
Atwood’s comments
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In which Joseph Hutchison
declines to be a plumber
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The Unabomber theory of poetry
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Close reading
0 to 9,
but not the content
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“the scariest poet
since Emily Dickinson”
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Olson’s bicycle,
so to speak
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Here comes Kerouac’s 1942 “sea novel”
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A taste of Prairie Style
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Videos of
Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein
& Myung Mi Kim
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Jack Spicer’s
My Vocabulary Did This to Me
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After Winter:
The Art & Life of
Sterling A. Brown
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Allen Bramhall on Eileen Tabios
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Christopher Nolan has died
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George Szirtes’
New & Collected Poems
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Italo Calvino in The New Yorker
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199 of the world’s languages
have 10 or fewer speakers left
A major problem is
urbanization
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It was Robert Redford
who got art funds
into the bailout package
Or maybe not
We think it’s because
Joan Specter,
Arlen’s wife,
seriously cares about art
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Not a best seller –
Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem
has sold just 6,000 copies
of the 100K printed
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Recent poems from Miller Williams
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Tori Amos’ Slam Forward
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Ancient Japanese poetry manuscripts
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The whole library in a “wafer”
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The Indies Choice Book Award
poetry short list is …
nonexistent?!?
(If indie bookstores
don’t support indie literature,
why do they even exist?)
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Brandon Brown’s Kidnapped
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Nico Vassilakis’ Avoid
A review of Text Loses Time
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Doug Messerli’s
Project for Innovative Poetry
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Kathleen Halme & Brigette Byrd
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3 profiles of Mary Swander,
Iowa’s new laureate
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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
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An upbeat assessment of AWP
And a rogue panel
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Al-Tayeb Saleh has died
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Meg Hamill’s Death Notices
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Remembering Michael Hartnett
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Howard Norman at Duke
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Poems of Joe Bruchac
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A post-Valentine
anti-love song from
Alan Dugan
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Zach Houston’s poetry on demand
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The shortlist for
oddest book of the year
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Addicted to addicted aesthetics
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Saul Williams’ “NGH WHT”
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A profile of Stanley Banks
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Wallace who at 100
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The Irish Times’
Poetry Now shortlist
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What became of Roger Fogelman
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The end of publishing,
one job at a time
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A farewell to newspapers
Mainstream media: RIP
Local TV news
& the cult of personality
How Japanese papers are trying
to save themselves
How to survive a journalism career
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Another newspaper chain
files for bankruptcy
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Watching the death of
The NY Times Book Review
up close
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A national organization of adjuncts?
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Meeting Robert Bly
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Women writers,
from Anne Bradstreet onward
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Ruminating with Coleman Barks
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Check out Wood Coin
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Reading Homer at
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Cambridge,
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Chatter at Belladonna
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Rob Mackenzie
on “Alien vs. Predator”
An interview with
Michael Robbins
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Ruth Padel
is the frontrunner
for
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New York Times obit of
Edward Upward
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Linda Bierds in
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Helen Vendler on
Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. the Corduroy Kid
Two works from Simon Armitage’s book
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D.A. Powell’s Chronic
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Britain’s lack of free speech protections
needs to be addressed here
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Top artists battle UK visa clampdown
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Julian Barnes on George Orwell
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Remembering Maurice Bowra
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Dennis Barone
on Hurricane Katrina, Charles
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Is art genetic?
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The poetics of Mad Men
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Pinter’s legacy
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The tin man
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Monk’s advice
to Steve Lacy
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Peter Schjeldahl on Shepard Fairey
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Picasso & the allure of language
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One cheer for hucksterism
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Hilton Als on Milk
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Project Runway’s
“invisible” finale
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Paterson’s Great Falls
is now a national park
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