Showing posts with label Passings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passings. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Haydeé Rovirosa Gallery

The book as sculpture:
Brian Dettmer

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Draft 85: Hard Copy
may be the best
in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
great work
to date

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Talking with
CA Conrad

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What is
alternative poetry?

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Talking with
Sheila E. Murphy

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Best-selling books
of Korean poetry

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A profile of
Talking Leaves Books
in
Buffalo

Another of
Hue-Man Bookstore & Café
in
Harlem

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Four independent bookstores
in Sag Harbor

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Good books & bad art
in
Bend River, Oregon

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Documentary
on
Black Mountain
isn’t
Fully Awake

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After
The Last Intellectuals

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Words don’t mean
what they say

Unless it’s a parrot talking

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Reaganomics
& the future
of university presses

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PCs vs. books
in library budgets

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Some light by which to read
a hidden text

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Computer poetry
and the future
of reading

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Who won
the canon wars?

A right-wing
reading list

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John Hollander’s New York
(PDF)

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A profile of
Miyazawa Kenji

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The Millennial School

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A new translation of
Andrea Zanzotto

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Talking with
Kevin Young

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Tom Cuson,
poet, photographer,
for director of Intersection,
died in
Berlin

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Dasuram Majhi
who wrote in Kui
has died
of cholera

at 35

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Phil Frank,
who drew
what may have been
the only local
newspaper comic strip
in the country,
has died

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Sarah Lantz
has died

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More on the poetry
of Gitmo

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A Quietist memorial
of September 11

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Amy Lowell,
hiding eroticism
in plain site

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Kajal Bandyopadhyay,
Bengali poet & neo-Marxist

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Alan Boyd,
Australian “anti-poet”

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Poetry & public art
in
British Columbia

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Don’t get
all snitty
about what’s in
the dictionary

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Measuring
Sam Hamill

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Discrimination against men
in literary awards??

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Was Byron
the Britney Spears
of his day?

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Anthony Thwaite,
escaping Larkin’s shadow

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James Fenton
calls for a crackdown
on “unprofessional” readings

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A Quietist Paul Valéry

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Walter Benjamin
as muse

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Alan Moore
on porn
& its contradictions

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A debate over
crime & memoir
that recalls neither
OJ’s If I Did It
nor Arlo’s
Alice’s
Restaurant

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Faux memoirista
concocts
true novel

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The landscapes
of Raymond Carver

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The Mass MoCA mess

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Monday, September 03, 2007

John Ashbery,
poet laureate of MTV

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Blogging
and book promotion

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Kerouac, the author
vs.
Kerouac, the hype

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Robert Pinsky
ad Hoch

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Woody Guthrie’s
new music

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A memoir
of gay lit
in the Village

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While I was away,
both Grace Paley
&
Mary Rising Higgins
passed away

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

George Bowering:
This I Believe

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Robert Pinsky
on
C. Dale Young

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Eagle Pond Farm

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Remembering
Liam Rector

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Paul West’s
stroke book

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Ralph J. Mills Jr.
&
Maureen Glaude
&
cowboy poet Colen Sweeten
have all passed away

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A review of
Di Brandt & Robyn Sarah

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Bookstores
in Amish country

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Saying yes
to becoming laureate

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Greg Pape
becomes
Montana’s laureate

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In Portsmouth,
a reading with
two laureates

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Which leads to the old conundrum:
John Perrault
&/or
John Perreault

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Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crece
la palma
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma

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Hey, Mrs. Shakespeare,
Mrs. Shakespeare, please,
Hey, Mrs. Shakespeare,
Mrs. Shakespeare, please,
I’m down on my knees

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Hamlet.doc

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Yann Martel’s
book club of one

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Chinese novels
go online

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Percy Bysshe,
you may already be a whiner

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Remembering
Robert Frost

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Remembering a Brahmin
in denial
of her role

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poetry’s epicenter” –
Adam Kirsch
must have some
fantastic drugs

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Baseball haiku

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Jon Carroll
has discovered
wikkus

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When everyone’s
suddenly an expert
in your subject

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Unscrambled Eggs

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The ongoing saga
of the Barnes

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Habermas &
a theory of the coffee house

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The politics of opera,
a rightwing perspective

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The Terrorism Index

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Photo by Helen Adam

Better late than never:
a superb bio-page
for Jack Spicer
on the
Academy of American Poets
website

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The Lessons of
On the Road

Dozens of covers
for On the Road
including Kerouac’s own design

Review of The Scroll

1957 New York Times
reviews of
On the Road
(PDFs)

Why Kerouac matters

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Three articles
on
Liam Rector’s
suicide

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Bangladeshi writer
indicted
for criticizing
”honor killings”

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Pakistani poet
Khalid Alig
has died

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Vincent Katz
interviews
Jerome Sala

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The logo of
Metropolitan Market
in
Seattle
appears to have been
stolen
from
Aram Saroyan

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Poetry & Adolescence:
the introduction
to Stephen Burt’s
The Forms of Youth
(PDF)

Bob Dylan
&
the adolescent sublime
(by Charles Bernstein)

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Three Women
of the
Harlem Renaissance

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Robert Creeley
reviewed by
Arkadii Dragoshchenko

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Doug Lang
on
Michael Lally

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Talking with
Leevi Lehto

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An e-bookstore for poetry
that is decidedly
not
U.S.-centric

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A dozen new bookstores
opened last month

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In Australia, Angus & Robertson
has a new idea –
demand extra payments
from publishers

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Paintings & drawings
of
Sylvia Plath

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Marjorie Perloff
on
Guy Davenport

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More on Sally Crabtree,
poet of the trains

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Collage
& Alice Notley

Talking with Alice

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Michael Palmer:
Poetry & Contingency

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The final fiction
of
Edgar Allan Poe

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International Book City

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A theory of
book jackets
(note the bit about
distressing fonts)

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Les Murray & Ted Hughes

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Pentagon poetics

Plus
no authors’ tour
for
Guantanamo poets

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Phil Rizzuto,
inadvertent poet,
has passed on

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A new volume
from Geoffrey Hill

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The hidden cost
of newspaper cuts

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The gonzo legacy
of Hunter Thompson’s
widow

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Hands talking

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Albert Goldbarth:
The Poem as Prediction

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Alan Bennett
& Norman Mailer
in Edinburgh

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An introduction
to modern poetry
in Brazil

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Excerpts from
The Wall Street Inferno
by
Joaquim de Sousândrade
(a Brazilian epic
of the 1870s)

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Three books
highlighting the relation
between poetry
& the divine

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Verse:
the dark side

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Maxing out
on the minimalism
debate

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Max Roach,
the great drummer,
has died

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A New Yorker profile
of Mark Morris

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Theater
without actors

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The largest
arts festival
in the world

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Talking with
George Lakoff

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First bot, best bot
(Robbie, #16,
was robbed)

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The itinerant
poet-librarian

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Talking with
Eleni Sikelianos

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A profile of
Past Tents Press
(one of whose books
we recently reviewed
here)

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Author attacked in India
for writing about
“honor killings”

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A new font
means
a new idea

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Talking with
Catherine Wagner

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They’re big
in
Japan

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A New Yorker profile
of Philip K. Dick

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University of Arizona
Poetry Center
gets a new home

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Günter Grass
in America

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Talking with
Alison Knowles

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Lunch with
Paul Muldoon

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Robert Pinsky
on
Charles Simic

A Simic poem
in The New Yorker

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A home
for books

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Talking with
William Gibson

Even more talking
with William Gibson

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Fear of poetry

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Talking with Nick Laird

“better known for his marriage
than his writing

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A new Wilfred Owen

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A profile of
Peter Abbs

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Carol Ann Duffy
on Dannie Abse

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The “best writer of poetry in English
& other hallucinations

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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore announcement
comes from New Jersey

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New books from
the School of Quietude

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When Quietists
debunk awards

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The End of the Alphabet

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Landscape
& Anthony Hecht

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Elizabeth Murray
has passed away

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The why
of a new museum
for contemporary art

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And why
The New Criterion
hates contemporary art

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A profile
of the
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

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Minimal music,
maximum pushback

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Tom Johnson’s
The Voice of New Music
(PDF)

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The known unknowns

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The privilege
of the present

Tuesday, August 14, 2007


photo by Joan Eichner



Margaret Avison

1918 - 2007

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Absurdism’s apotheosis:
Daniil Kharms
in The New Yorker

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Clayton Eshleman
on translating
César Vallejo

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Saigon 1964
or
Baghdad 2007?

A poem by
Tran Da Tu,
translated by Linh Dinh

Plus,
from Tinfish,
Linh Dinh on translation

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Practical arithmetic
& the sport
of translation

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Barrett Watten’s
Plasma, Parallèles, “X”
back in print
in French

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Talking with
Stephen Vincent

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Charles Simic,
the people’s poet,”
also won
$100,000
the same day
he was named as Laureate –
not bad!

Politics
& the PLOTUS

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Levi Asher
has a scarier idea
for Poet Laureate

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In Seattle,
the Poet Populist
reads
for City Council
committee meetings

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Aura Estrada,
Columbia Ph.D. student
& critic of
Borges & Bolaño,
has died

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The police raid
Poetry Foundation
party

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A profile of
Amiri Baraka

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The origins
of language

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What’s in a word?

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A profile of
Musa Okwonga

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Conflict
in the
Cleveland slam scene

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The National Slam
Championship
has come to Austin

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A U.K. anthology
of
Soul poetry

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An interview with
Mary Ann Caws

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The Waste Land
and its impact on
Spring and All

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The world’s oldest
LGBT bookstore
turns 40

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A review of
the selected works of
Shin Yu Pai

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Aaron Douglas:
African-American Modernist

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Black Mountain now

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Jon Carroll
doesn’t think
Billy Collins
dumbs it down enough

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Finding the balance
in
Russian-American
poetics

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The Theresa Duncan-Jeremy Blake
suicides
get even stranger

Police seek help
identifying Blake’s body

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Dannie Abse
book
for his late wife

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Noah Eli Gordon
reviews
Joseph Lease

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Coming this fall:
a bpNichol reader,
The Alphabet Game

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Monkey Monkey Badger

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A contrary view
of Ed Dorn’s
Way More West

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Poetry:
you may already
be a
winner

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“Poetry is like a boat –
it has to float

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A profile of
Lee Konitz

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Close Radio:
111 works
in streaming sound
from visual, conceptual
& performance artists
of the 1970s

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Links to
3,687
visual poetry sites

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& raise a glass
to the memory
of
Tommy Makem!

& to double-bassist
Art Davis!