Rae Armantrout’s poetry
Entertainment Weekly
on the National Book Award
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Eileen Myles talks with CA Conrad
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Rachel Zolf:
the MFA as an institution
within larger state apparatuses
Tendencies begins
Oct. 29 @ CUNY
with Zolf, Robert Glück & Trish Salah
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Paul Vangelisti talks with Mary de Rachelwiltz
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Federal Trade Commission
identifies a threat:
book bloggers
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Ray DiPalma:
The Ancient Use of Stone
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Digging Lorca
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SF Chronicle’s obit
of Lenore Kandel
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Philip Lamantia’s impact
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Close reading aloud:
Barbara Guest
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A great interview with Harry Northup
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Walt Whitman
& the “most offensive”
commercial ever produced
Sinatra beats out
Whitman
– also Einstein –
for dorm at Montclair State
(good thing Tony Soprano wasn’t eligible)
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The Noun Game
& the clash of civilizations
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The Eaters of the Living
have eaten the prize
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Barnes & Noble
unveils “the nook”
e-book fans keep format
in spotlight
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Rob Halpern
on Baudelaire’s prose poems
as social hieroglyphs
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Michael O’Keefe’s
Swimming from Under My Father
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George Oppen
on the Great Recession of ’08 & ‘09
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Nick Piombino on David Bromige
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Talking with Reb Livingston
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Magical Puppy
on hybrid poetics
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Jeanette Winterson:
In praise of the crack-up
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Tom Devaney
on Poe’s madmen
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Using poetry to preserve culture
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A small press store online
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Bookfair fires official
for approach to Chinese
China complains
Google violates ©
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Cape Ann Museum
is looking for Olson’s letters
(scroll down)
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Talking with Richard Wilbur
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Erica Jong:
Big News: Women can Write!
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Book reviewer quits over
“increasing sexist violence”
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
under surveillance
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Régis Bonvicino
talking with Charles Bernstein
& reading (with translations)
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LA bookstores adopting Twitter
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Misremembering Jack Kerouac
Kerouac’s attempt
to escape the hype
is now a deluxe box set
Kerouac’s Big Sur
Beat Tangiers today
Meanwhile, on Desolation Peak
Saint Pete, Florida –
“a good place
to come to die”
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James Wright, Jack Kerouac, John Keats
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Kate Durbin’s book launch for
The Ravenous Audience
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Mark Woods on Raymond Federman
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The menace of the public option
(libraries, that is)
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Crowdsourcing Coraline
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Emily Dickinson goes to war
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Poetry & gunfire in Cincinnati
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Saudi journalists sentenced
to the lash
for discussing sex
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350 Poems
very quickly became
an extraordinary anthology
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ABA calls for Justice Dept. investigation
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What to do with
all these books?
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The New Sentence,
23 years in print,
turns up on a best-seller list
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The intro to How Words Mean
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Music in the work of Matthew Shenoda
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A challenge to Paul Zukofsky
& another
A sad prediction
All of “A” as a PDF
EZ PZ,
a movie translating Paul’s folly
& a play
“Paul Zukofsky
may have sex with reptiles”
Just add animals
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Sense and Sensibility
and Sea Monsters
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Reinventing Alice
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Galsworthy’s hot,
Joyce is not
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What celebrity novels tell us
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Tony Harrison:
my heroes
Tony Harrison, John Keats
& class resentment
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Any word on how
the &Now Conference went?
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Sherman Alexie without borders
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Cavafy fades in Alexandria
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Marie NDiaye
favored to capture Goncourt
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Lyrical/electric conceptualism
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Wikia + MagCloud =
the future of the magazine?
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Poet booted from J-Street
for comparing
Guantanamo to Auschwitz
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John Gallaher’s Guidebook poems
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Introducing
Christopher Nealon & Catherine Wagner
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Nabokov’s last twist
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The New Romantics –
panel & reading
for Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3
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The Poets’ Cookbook
in action
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Rewriting Moby Dick
in emoticons
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The Christian politics
of T.S. Eliot
The continuing popularity of
The Waste Land
Protecting Nayland Rock shelter
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2 Irish poets
on the Eliot Prize shortlist
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Gary Fitzgerald:
This I Believe
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Israel & Germany
fight over Kafka
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Roman Jakobson
on metaphor & metonymy
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3 new books
by or about
Rilke
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Poe’s balloon hoax
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Melissa Friedling is to poetry
what Jay Leno’s “Jaywalking”
is to civics & current events
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A panel on the Philadelphia
poetry scene
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Carol Ann Duffy:
“I write best in chaos”
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Project Censored’s
new top ten list
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Peter Ganick’s
Remove a Concept –
3 volumes (921 pp.)
available for purchase,
download or to be read online
(vol. 1) (vol. 2) (vol. 3)
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Australia’s
most prolific poet
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Charlie Simic
runs into students
smarter than he is
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Nicholson Baker,
the antagonist protagonist
“You can learn a lot
from a man’s shelves”
Blame it on poetry
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“Performance poetry is less obscure
and has a three-minute time limit”
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Dawn Lundy Martin
shuffling through her reading
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Talking with Jericho Brown
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Cal Bedient’s Days of Unwilling
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Seth Abramson’s MFA rankings:
predicated on bogus methodology?
Vanderbilt:
We’re # 18!
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Jean Rhys,
drunk & disorderly
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Is that a poem in your pocket?
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Knut Hamsun,
Hitler’s novelist
Nobel laureates in literature:
the good, the bad, the Nazi
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Orhan Pamuk’s
The Museum of Innocence
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Poetry & community colleges
The Community College Poetry Project
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Midwest Studies in Philosophy
devotes its current number to poetry
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Carl Sandburg’s school grades
(plus those for Bonzo co-star)
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Restoring Joaquin Miller’s “abbey”
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Patricia Carlin’s Quantum Jitters
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Harlan Ellison
reviewing Slaughterhouse Five
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Cathy Coleman’s
Beauty’s Tattoo
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Buying spree
leads to
big pile o’ books
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Frederick Seidel reading
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Printmaking + poetry
@ Wellesley
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When did “Brechtian”
become a dirty word?
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Girldrive:
starred review in Publisher’s Weekly
Launching the book
at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn,
Friday, Oct. 30
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Barry Schwabsky on Thomas Demand:
“RTFM!”
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Rocco Landesman speaks
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Nicola Calas:
nomad as surrealist
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The Intimacies Project,
live from
Port Authority
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Leonard Cohen:
Waiting for the Miracle
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Not quite the Traveling Wilburys
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The jazz photographs of W. Eugene Smith
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The meaning of music
(to be continued)
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The opera Handel
didn’t know he wrote
The yoke’s on him
(note the sign language)
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Wynton Marsalis to receive
French Legion of Honor
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Check out the feature on
Toni Simon
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The Barnes is dead,
long live the Barnes
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Ruth Duckworth has died
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& on Hans Bellmer
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Two cheers for socialist realism
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Not Indian art
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Irving Penn:
thoughts at the end
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The God of R. Crumb
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Ryan Trecartin
wins Wolgin Prize
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LAPD’s piggy public art
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PS 1 names new director
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London arts nominee vetoed
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5 short plays by Tony Kushner
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Jane Campion:
“I was terrified of poetry”
(it shows)
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Polanski:
the victim’s words
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Moving the Abbey Theatre
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The end of American architecture
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Every issue of LIFE magazine
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You too, Jonathan Greene
