Hate crimes in
the victims include Mark Doty
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Obama names
disability aide
to head up
White House Arts & Culture post
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Flarf vs. conceptual writing at the Whitney
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Ange Mlinko on the origin of language
3rd Language Creation Conference
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A holograph poem from Elvis
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Cynthia Sailers’ introduction
to Stacy Szymaszek
A reading report
on Szymaszek & C.S. Perez
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Charles Bernstein on Rae Armantrout
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Reading report: Francois Luong
on Laura Sims & Rae Armantrout
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Peter Davis on Kent Johnson
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Guilty of high modernism once again
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The best poet of the first half
of the 20th Century?
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Eleni Sikelianos’ Body Clock
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John Ashbery: “Longing of the Accords”
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This
is Allen Ginsberg?
Corso & Ginsberg
interviewing William Burroughs
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An innovative approach
to writing workshops
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Ron Padgett’s How to be Perfect
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Susan Howe: “That This”
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Alan Loney,
reading & talking
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Shaikh Mohammad opens
“Reflect the region’s character”
Festival ends
with an organization & three prizes
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Brandon Shimoda on
Kim Hyesoon’s
Mommy Must be a Mountain of Feathers
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Annie Finch
on listening to poetry
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Bertran de Born
in The Nation
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Beckett’s letters
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Carlin Romano
on feminist role models
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Sonia Sanchez on the Creeley prize
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Kundera’s crime
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Preserving languages
is about more than words
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PEN’s online translation slam
Change comes to PEN
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The future of philology?
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“scholarly book output
in literary studies
has outpaced growth of the professoriate
by a magnitude of three”
(but no one reads them!)
Professors on the Production Line (PDF)
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Rae Desmond Jones’ Blow Out
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Lilliput Review is 20
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Talking with Susan Meyers
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On negative reviews
& one in particular
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When poetry “became blurry” –
another lament on the demise
of the
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“Poetry was never meant to be quiet”
(a quiz)
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Levertov the avant,
Levertov the activist
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The poet Edsel Ford
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Tao Lin in
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Roberta Warren
on Frank Bidart & Louise Glück
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A defense of Andrew Motion
Fiona Sampson on Motion as laureate
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The Cohen Prize to Seamus Heaney
Two poems
that “sum up”
Heaney’s career
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Let’s get jiggy with
Fulke Greville
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Talking with Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The Tucson Citizen shuts down,
having survived
the gunfight at the OK Corral
but not the web
Impact of the closure of
The Cincinnati Post (PDF)
As the P-I abandons print,
can the Seattle Times survive?
Pelosi tries to save
SF Chronicle
Rocky Mountain News vets
plan web news site
$25M to reinvent journalism
Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable
Newspapers can’t be saved,
but the news can
Looking more like nonprofits all the time
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Writers Guild cuts staff
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Indie bookstores in
count on the politics of
“Buy Local” campaign
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Maya Lin at the Corcoran
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Das Kapital,
the musical
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August 9th at Tanglewood:
Elliot Carter’s
The Poems of Louis Zukofsky
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The third sex
from Plato to punk rock
