Photo by Ben Friedlander
Pierre Joris on Ken Irby
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Annie Finch:
“Chaos in 14 Lines”
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Not a lot of laughs
in Carol Ann Duffy
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Herta Mueller’s Nobel address
What inspired Mueller
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Jerome Rothenberg
on poets in society
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New American Poets:
Joseph Massey
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Marjorie Perloff:
Reading from Vienna Paradiox;
Talking with Charles Bernstein;
Talking some more
with Bernstein
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What Bolaño read
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Enid Starkie on Paul Verlaine
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Once again,
The Best American Poetry
deserves to be called
The Geezers Guide
with contributors averaging 55 years of age
(there has not been a volume
with an average age under 50
since 1997)
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Remembering Lenore Kandel
“Romana Swartz,
a big Rumanian monster beauty”
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New American Poets:
Katie Degentesh
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Juliana Spahr
at Kelly Writers House,
November 2009
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The notebooks of William Blake
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Alan Golding:
“Charles Bernstein
and Professional Avant-Gardism”
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Jean Day in Portuguese
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Helen Vendler on
John Ashbery’s Planisphere
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Remembering Richard Brautigan
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Remembering Harold Norse
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New American Poets:
David Lau
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Elliot Bay Books is moving
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The 36th annual
New Years Day Marathon @ St. Marks
offers 133 of your fave poets,
with others TBA
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Lethem, Doctorow
& a new kind of apocalypse
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New American Poets:
Jennifer Chang
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Close reading Robert Grenier
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“I dream I met William Burroughs”
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A bridge for Beckett
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A bookstore where
On the Road
is the all-time best-selling title
(and it’s not City Lights)
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25 Important Poetry Books of the 00s
No Tell
is running multiple top poetry lists
2009 Award Winners & Critics’ Picks
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New American Poets:
Zach Savich
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The novelist
who screwed his lover
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When Lorca met Neruda
(reg. req.)
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Darwish’s revenants
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On the essays of John Olson
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FitzGerald’s Rubiyat is 150
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Talking with Vasyl Makhno
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Dan’s Sestina Self-Study:
The Pie Chart
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Rafael Zepeda’s Tao Driver
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William Gass’ “Splendid Idea”
“Success
is just another form of failure”
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David Foster Wallace:
“All That”
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Talking with Jimmy Santiago Baca
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The ultimate poetry slam:
William Shatner vs. Sarah Palin
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Alphabet updated
with 15 exciting new
replacement letters
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Gulliver, the jungle gym
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New American Poets:
Meghan O’Rourke
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Oxford Professor of Poetry
will be decided by
online voting
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Talking with Fred Marchant
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In the Lilly’s Rare Book Room
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Kim Jong-Gil’s Among the Flowering Reeds
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Talking with Thomas Lynch
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Spain honors
Haruki Murakami
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Sherman Alexie is taking some risks
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James Galvin’s As Is
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New American Poets:
Fred Moten
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John McPhee:
“unadulterate gin”
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At home with Frieda Hughes
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Great moments in typesetting
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40% discounts
on Alabama’s
newest poetics titles
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Inventing Literary Modernism
at the Outbreak
of the Great War
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Dead mules & southern lit
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New American Poets:
Anna Moschovakis
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Anis Shivani's
published his
“10 best books of the decade”
list on Huffington Post,
plus the list for 2009
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Salon’s best of ’09 list
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Faber & Faber’s
80th anniversary collection
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Getting editors to read poetry
in a recession
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Fighting ghosties
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New American Poets:
Jennifer Kronovet
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Talking with Emily Van Duyne
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DeLillo & Auster
turn up on
this “worst books of the decade” list
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New American Poets:
Aracelis Girmay
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“beautiful language
with a sense of loss and disappointment”
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Yeats in Ulysses
The Joyce Agenda:
Itō Sei & the Stream of Consciousness
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What inspires writers:
52 sets of suggestions
from hot tea & baths
to Lucinda Childs’ work
with Sol Lewitt & Philip Glass
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New American Poets:
Jericho Brown
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William H. Gass
on his favorite book of 2009
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Remembering J.G. Ballard
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Talking with Kristin Naca
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New American Poets:
Carmen Giménez Smith
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Proust, Woolf & Modern Fiction
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“Last Day on Planet Earth”
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Recordings from this year’s
Academy of American Poets
award recipients
(Jean Valentine, Harryette Mullen,
Linda Gregg, Jennifer K. Sweeney
& J. Michael Martinez),
plus a gateway to its audio archive
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New American Poets:
Chris Martin
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Why Richard Kostelanetz, Kenny Goldsmith,
Henri Peyre & T.S. Eliot
are really the same person
Genealogical Fantasies:
T.S. Eliot & the Limits
of Intellectual Biography
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New American Poets:
Arda Collins
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The haunts of Patricia Highsmith
Plus her “raging libido”
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New American Poets:
The Brothers Dickman,
Matthew & Michael
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The poetry of Henri Cole
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Talking with Orhan Pamuk
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Yusef Komunyukayaa
headlines in Trenton, NJ
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Kurdish poet Kajal Ahmad
A bi-lingual podcast
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Editor & Publisher
and
Kirkus Reviews
shut down!
TJ Sullivan
on the loss of E&P
The end of Kirkus
brings “anguish and relief”
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You wanted to work in a bookstore?
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Publishing conglomerates
develop alternative to Kindle
An audience of 144 million?
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The Nook:
“slower than an anesthetized slug in winter”
“The Nook needs some work”
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Legal battles over e-book rights
to older titles
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An iPhone app
with 2,222 short stories
with an introductory price of
99¢
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Publishers delay e-book releases
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Publishers protest
e-books for the blind
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The Not-Hulu of digital mags
20 Tweetable Truths about Magazines
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Scholarly writing & how to get it done!
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Talking with Per Petterson
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British laws on libel liable to change
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Activists are like poets, Heaney says
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A poem by Harold Monro
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Ron Hansen on Raymond Carver
Brad Gooch on Carver
Carver & the Captain
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Eamon Grennan’s Matter of Fact:
“an utter slog”
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Talking with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
“Sometimes a Small Redemption”
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Lit orgs that got NEA grants
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Ethnicity & young adult book jackets
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Poetry blogs that matter
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Larry McMurtry’s slipshod delight
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Scythe, the cutting edge
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“like having a degree in failure”
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Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son
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Over 14,700 jobs disappeared
in US newspapers in 2009
Half the journalists in jail
work online
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Cate Blanchett
as Blanche DuBois
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25 films by Akira Kurosawa
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Who sez
the art market’s dead?
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David Buuck’s
audio guide
for an art show in the dark
2nd version
performed by Cassandra Smith
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Arts bosses go back to school
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An inspired exhibition in Harlem
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Richard Wright wins the Turner Prize
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11 best museum shows of 2009
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Basquiat in Miami
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Elaine de Kooning on Mark Rothko
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Warhol – the musical
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Memoirs of Pop
Arthur Danto:
“The Window at Bonwit’s”
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Hockney’s return
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Bob Dylan, the comic
When Bob Dylan met John Lennon
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From
Time and Anthony Braxton
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Putting The Prelude to music
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“a definitive narrative biography
of the greatest jazz musician
of the 20th century”
“This is Louis, Dolly”
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Zach Barocas of Jawbox
quotes William Carlos Williams’ “Seafarer”
on Jimmy Fallon’s TV show
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Jack Rose has died
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The Jazz Loft project
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The Clancy Brothers,
together again
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Where digital music is heading
& why 2009 sucked
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The Patti Smith story
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Lady Gaga, feminist?
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Langston Hughes & jazz
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Best Jazz Albums of 2009
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Networking:
The Net as Artwork
(reg. req.)
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Militant Modernism
(reg. req.)
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A spectre is haunting remainder bins…
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Robert Service’s Trotsky
The school of historical falsification
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Philosophy & the leisure class
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Talking with Martha Nussbaum
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Time’s
top ten of everything lists
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The first,
& perhaps only,
sensible article on Tiger Woods
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The Future of the Human
(reg. req.)
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Amy King:
Gay may not be the new black, but…
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Tom Raworth’s Christmas card
