Preserve Micheline’s Wall
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Talking with Harryette Mullen
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Abraham Sutzkever,
the Yiddish poet & resistance fighter
whom some folks think
should have received the Nobel Prize,
has died at 96
Di Festung
(in Yiddish)
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Reznikoff reads Holocaust
A suite of Reznikoff photos
by Abraham Ravett
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Martin Amis:
writing the holocaust backwards
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Vancouver poet Brad Robinson
has died
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Talking with Katy Lederer
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Talking with Rae Armantrout
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Free Abbas Khalili Dermanaki!
More on Dermanaki
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Canada is set
to wipe out
its little magazines
Plus Duthie’s,
Vancouver’s top indie bookshop,
goes belly up
in time for the Olympics
The indie bookstore:
dead, dying or something else?
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Amazon offers writers 70%
of Kindle revenue
to cut publishers out of the deal
Kindle’s “best sellers” are free
20% of US readers
have already switched to e-books
[or at least tried it once or twice]
While Apple courts publishers,
Kindle adds apps
Penguin app tests the iPhone
Amazon opens the Kindle
How much does your e-reader weigh?
Compare with an Apple tablet?
Is the Apple tablet viable?
Fantasies of the tablet
Will “vooks” change your reading experience?
Xerox enters the on-demand book game
LeGuin’s revolt
against the Google book deal
Guthrie & Steinbeck families
are backing Google
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Haiti in ink & tears
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Camille Dungy’s Black Nature:
Four Centuries of African-American
Nature Poetry
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The finalists for this year’s
Nation Book Critics’ Circle Awards
include, for poetry,
Rae Armantrout, Louise Glück,
D.A. Powell, Rachel Zucker
& Eleanor Ross Taylor
Coldfront:
4 out of 5 finalists
made our
“best of 09” lists
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James Franco as Allen Ginsberg
(first clips,
including the Six Gallery reading)
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Next up for cinema treatment:
Infinite Jest?
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Rereading Roland Barthes’
“The Death of the Author”
“The Death of the Author”
(reg. req.)
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Gary Snyder’s digital muse
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One book that won’t be a movie
is Neil Gaiman’s
The Graveyard Book
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Susan M. Schultz:
The why of a reading list
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Amy King’s
Slaves To Do These Things
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Charlie Simic
on witnessing horror
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Chinua Achebe:
What Nigeria means to me
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A feature on David Wolach
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Racism & romance
on book covers
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The registration deadline for
In(ter)ventions:
Literary Practice at the Edge
in Banff next month
is January 29!
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A second evening of
Poets Theater
@ Small Press Traffic
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A feature on Frank Sherlock
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Looking at Harriet’s
“decade of poetry” feature
globally
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Poetry vs. poetry journalism:
looking at Kaia Sand & Lawson Fusao Inada
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Talking with Marjorie Perloff
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What writers risk
by refusing to repeat themselves
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A feature on Hailey Higdon
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Solzhenitsyn’s First Circle
de-bowdlerized
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Reporting vs. privacy in blogging
Susan M. Schultz’s
dementia blogging
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18 films of poetry,
including
Samuel Amadon, Julie Doxsee, Forrest Gander, Lara Glenum,
Kate Greenstreet, Brenda Hillman,
Jen Hofer, Bhanu Kapil, Karla Kelsey, Sueyeun Juliette Lee,
Fred Moten, Laura Mullen, Travis Nichols,
Broc Rossell, Rodrigo Toscano, Tony Tost,
Sara Veglahn, Andrew Zawacki
& Rachel Zucker
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A feature on Marion Bell
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Robert Kelly’s
Statement for
The Modern Poetry Conference
@ CUNY
(also his revamped website’s
new home page)
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Appreciating Lucas Bernhardt’s
“Infidelities of Coal”
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A feature on Laura Sims
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An eidetic contest
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The death of flarf
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You kept the Kafka archives where?
Kafka was “slightly strange”
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A feature on Thom Donovan
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A test of transliteration:
Catullus 1
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New Philadelphia Poets
@ the Bowery Poetry Club
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The 95¢ “Skool”
Summer Seminar in Social Poetics
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Talking with Harry Godwin
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Ed Sanders & John Gallaher on
careerism for poets
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Andrew Motion
on Philip Gross & the romantics:
it’s not quietism, it’s recycling!
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The paranoia around
Paranoia
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Censorship in 1960
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Calling Spicer’s Martians back
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One month to respond
to the call for work
for the Lancaster County
Poetry Path
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A feature on Julia Bloch
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Philip K. Dick:
paradox found
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The Molly’s Books
grand re-opening reading
(with links to the MP3s)
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A feature on CAConrad
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Eric Selland:
“The Modernist Tradition in Japan”
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Jay Thompson on torque
with a great video demo
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Impossible communities:
Poetry & the private sphere
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Slang & linguistic trends
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Talking with Maggie Ginestra
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Paul Pines’
Last Call at the Tin Palace
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Censoring the high school dictionary
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What is found poetry?
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Stevens across the pond
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Call it the Washington Past
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Diana Hamilton on
Dan Farrell’s
The Ink Blot Record
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Method is public,
poetry not so much so
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Where is the Rotten Tomatoes for poetry?
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Boston Globe articles on Robert B. Parker
Dennis Lehane on Robert Parker
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P.D. James
& the dark corners
of detective fiction
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The poems of Nicos Engonopoulos
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Kaplan Harris:
celebrating 20 years of
MLA Offsite readings
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Talking with Jessica Smith
about Foursquare Editions
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Chelsey Minnis in Poemland
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Self-styled American Tibetan,
Roberto Valenza has died
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Jim Benz on Zukofsky’s “A” - 9
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How metaphors work
in legal argumentation
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Pattie McCarthy
at the Chapterhouse Café
620 S. 9th St
Philly
Saturday, January 30
8:00 PM
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February 2 in Toronto:
Linh Dinh with a. rawlings & Angela Szczepaniak
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“Sleeping with John Updike”
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Kevin Hart’s
“The Experience of Poetry”
(reg. req.)
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A bio of Donald Barthelme
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Sandra Simonds’
Warsaw Bikini
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Coming to Penn:
Word / Image / Culture
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Talking with Marina Warner
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E.L. Doctorow on style
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Dana Gioia joins
Postmasters Stamp Selection Committee
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William Burroughs’ stuff
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Robert Mezey, war poet
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NEA Chair Rocco Landesman
on the Diane Rehm Show
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George Lakoff
on “freedom” vs. the public option
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Rachel Simon’s Marginal Road
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Sherlock Holmes, the property
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Will the real Jane Austen
please stand up
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Elizabeth Soto’s Eulogies
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Giving Emerson the boot
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Crystal William’s
Troubled Tongues
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Karma Tenzing Wangchuk’s
Stone Buddha
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The man who outsells
Stephen King, John Grisham & Dan Brown
combined
But is Tolstoy the greatest
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Bin Ramke’s Theory of Mind
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A literature festival in Jaipur
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Talking with Gregory Betts
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Christopher Hitchens
on J.G. Ballard
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The call for papers for
ESSE 10
(the European Society for the Study of English
conference in Turn in August)
has a robust set of panels planned
including one on Mina Loy
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Marco Giovenale, reading & talking
(in Italian)
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Thomas Lynch undertakes fiction
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Georges Perec:
“Approaches to What?”
(reg. req.)
“Notes Concerning the Objects
That Are on My Work-table”
(reg. req.)
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Was Shakespeare a woman & a Jew?
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Michael Hoffman on Stefan Zweig
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Knox Burger has died
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Beckett in Rome
(reg. req.)
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American poets
& the popular perception of
Japanese poetry
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Did Dashiell Hammet love poetry?
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Happy birthday, William Stafford
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The do-it-yourself book tour
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Patricia Highsmith & Flannery O’Connor
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Poe’s mystery visitor fails to show
(Was it David Franks?)
A Poe as cheery as David Franks
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The Fact-Simile poetry trading cards for 2010 –
a new one every month
The vispo calendar
is pretty nifty too
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Ode to the Poets’ Cookbook
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The Serious Writer & His Penis
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bell hooks:
Teaching Critical Thinking
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Writers Digest turns 90
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John Muir:
“A Wind-Storm in the Forests”
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Joan Houlihan reviews
Charlie Smith, Lawrence Raab, Bruce Bond
& Liz Waldner
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What do memoirs
tell us about ourselves?
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The master narrator
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Toward a theory of surprise
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The Privilege of Not Recognizing Privilege
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T.J. Clark on
Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project
(reg. req.)
The Arcades Project
(1) (2) (3) (4)
(reg. req.)
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Is this anything?
(David Letterman on critical thought)
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Michel de Certeau:
Analysing Culture
(reg. req.)
Michel de Certeau:
Cultural Theorist
(reg. req.)
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NT Times obit for Laura Hruska
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Theodor Fontane
feels your pain
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Don’t be a text-hole
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Serious wifi
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What was eating Wagner?
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You don’t want to be Patti Smith,
you want to be Lady Gaga
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The legacy of Melvin Van Peebles
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Getting the news from Citizen Kane
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Life with Eric Rohmer
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Kate & Anna on Fresh Air
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Portraits of authors
in Princeton
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The photography of Sha Fei
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SF MoMA turns 75
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Jed Perl
on Jack Tworkov & Mira Schor
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Scenes from a catastrophe
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Private Circulation’s
monthly PDF bulletin
well worth the free subscription
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LRB personals are now on Twitter
Sexually, I’m More of a Switzerland
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What are you smiling at?
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Badiou vs. Žižek:
Philosophy in the Present
(reg. req.)
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Mark Taylor’s crusade
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Tony Barnstone on the tragedy of war
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The bravest man in America
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Gary Kasparov
on Deep Blue
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Digital humanities & the case for the creative commons
