Jonathan Mayhew’s
Apocryphal Lorca
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Modernism is 100 years old
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Language poets
are not superheroes,
we just seem that way
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Geof Huth is ironic
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Geof & I
will both be part
of this year’s
Text Festival,
in
in May
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Journal of British
& Irish
Innovative Poetry
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Aram Saroyan’s
uncollected
minimal poems
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Cole Swensen’s Ours
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Sunday, April 5:
SPD’s 40th Anniversary
Poetry Blow-Out!
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Sean Bonney, Redell
Olsen
& many more
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A tribute to Jack Gilbert
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PBS to air
Polis is This:
Charles Olson
& the Persistence of Place
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Palestinian poetry:
“The
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The Fab Five:
Dodie Bellamy, Roberto Bedoya,
Blossom Dearie & Dusty Springfield,
plus of course
Dario Robleto
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Kay Ryan on PBS NewsHour
It’s not all “unicorns and flowers” with Kay
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Remembering Lisa Ratcliffe
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Dodie Bellamy has
archive fever
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Reading report:
a festival of contemporary immigration writing
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The Consumer Products Safety Commission
bans all books
published before 1984
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Reading report:
K. Silem Mohammad & Paul Stephens
at Bard
with lots of video samples
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Flarf & the poetics
of the Goon Show
LOL: a flarfy word
“Flarf should not exist”
Flarf: “a secret handshake”
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Frank O’Hara
turned 83 last week
O’Hara didn’t know
his birthday was March 27
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Sina Queyras
on Emily Carr
on Mary Ruefle
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What do you look for
in poetry?
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The Bedford Poets
of Minneapolis-St. Paul
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Seth Abramson
is more concerned
with the characterization of Quiet
than with a pragmatic history
of the phenomenon
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Talking with Howard Junker
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A new kind of poetry
demands a new kind of critic
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Habib Tengour
at SUNY
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Happy 90th, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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A profile of Dunya Mikhail
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There goes Small Press Book Month
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Anne Charnock, “Uncertainty Series, no. 10” (PDF)
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Books on the Nightstand podcast:
Michael Schiavo
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Rupert Loydell’s
“A Few Thoughts About Blogging”
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Michelle Naka Pierce’s
10 Good Reads
10 good books by people she knows
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Rattle e.6 (PDF)
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“the smell of formaldehyde in the morning”
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The Benedictine monk
who counted
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & William Burroughs
among his correspondents
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Jeff Hansen’s
series on Nate Mackey’s
Songs of the Andoumboulou
is a wonderful examination
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Walter Mosley:
from Easy to Leonid
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Menachem Begin & the poet
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Once a pun a time
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Poetry & inspiration
(in Italian)
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Neruda’s World’s End
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Cecile Franking Wu has died
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Going after that old left-winger,
John Ashbery
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Remembering Michael Donaghy
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Seamus Heaney: the early years
An extended (and annotated)
version of
“The Dissembling Poet:
Seamus Heaney and the Avant-Garde”
Check out all the responses thus far
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from a laureate than it got from
Andrew Motion
Motion appears to have
hated the job
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Christopher James
wins the “
of UK Quietude
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Charlotte Currier’s “poem-box”
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A rare far-from-Shepherdstown W. VA
reading for Georgia Lee McElhaney
April 1 in
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Avi Sharon
wins the Harold Morton Landon
Translation Award
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PEN
World Voices
Festival of International Literature
NYC, April 27 – May 3
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Obama quotes the poet Saadi
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Leonard Schwartz:
“The New
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Fady Joudah’s
The Earth in the Attic
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Updike’s
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Brad Leithauser on Anne Carson’s
An Orestia
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Cheever’s bio
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A bio of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The New Yorker reviews
Beckett’s life in letters
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Talking with Orhan Pamuk’s translator
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Jill Bialosky’s Intruder
& an interview
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Northern California Book Award
short lists
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What blurbs don’t tell you
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42 of the “20 books”
that caused Michael Lally
to fall for poetry
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“the real language of men”
& other fictions
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Frederick Seidel’s Poems: 1959-2009
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Fiction thrives when times are bad
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Joyce Carol Oates
on Flannery O’Connor
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Fictioning Frost
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Did Sylvia Plath
kill her son?
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The next fiction class I teach
will require students
to work only in forms
of 140 characters or less
Ben Okri
is using Twitter
for his poetry
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Five things to look for
in a Quietist poem
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Horrors!
Poets writing in prose
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Michael Collier on his poem
“An Individual History”
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“Holler Poets don’t shout”
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A profile of Mary Jo Bang
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A little travel
to get through a writer’s block
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Stephen Berlin Johnson:
“Old Growth Media
& the Future of News”
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The single best news source
on the collapse of traditional media
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Ann Arbor’s daily dies
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Ads in the NY Times Book Review dwindle
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How Kindle changes the world
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Transforming the “UX” of libraries
A blog for public libraries
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Court orders
stolen book returned
60 years later
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore
lies in Chappaqua, NY
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The last defense against
political corruption
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Kindle & the problems
of ownership vs. access
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Impact of the recession
on the most successful
retail bookstore in the USA
How the indies are faring
in
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“Somewhere up in poet heaven,
Roque Dalton is a happy man”
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Christian Book Expo flops
An insider’s view of why
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The fate of the humanities article
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The artist as critic,
the critic as artist
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Watching Ian McKellen
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Don’t blame the recession
for an arts crisis
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Could street art rescue the world?
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Among Bernie Madoff’s victims:
Arakawa & Madeline Gins
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The Bernie Madoff of art dealers
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Zoe Strauss’
annual I-95 show
will be May 3rd
Front & Mifflin Streets
right here in
Phil-EYE-delphia
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An alternative Turner shortlist
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Mira Schor at Momenta
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Jackson Pollock’s
family’s Depression letters
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Lawrence Weschler’s conversations
with Robert Irwin & David Hockney
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‘Tis it a crime
to paint the Taoiseach naked?
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Picasso, old
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Galaxy in
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The future of the true Barnes Foundation
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“New York is surface”
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Architects take up Lego challenge
(Legos do poetry too)
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Julie Dill
blogs the SLSO
at Carnegie Hall
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ARG’s Animali –
an Ashbery for the ear?
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Yet another genre
for Wynton Marsalis to muck up
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The Decembrists’ Hazards of Love
is here
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SF Dance Award
goes to trapeze artist
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New York Times
on Sally Silvers
And another
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The brouhaha over
Battlestar Galactica
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Are computer games literature?
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Archie Green,
one of the giants of folklore,
has died
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“The humanities have no purpose”
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As has
John Hope Franklin
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“The Black Studies Intelligentsia Crowd”
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