Thursday, November 01, 2007
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Plus
talking with
Cynthia Hogue
& Elizabeth Frost
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Adrienne Rich
reading
in
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30 years of
Anglo-Québec
poetry
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Orhan Pamuk:
Evoking the Other
is a
political act
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A review of
Grand Piano 3
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A poetry of muscle
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Reading
Eric Mottram
on Robert Duncan
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Robert Hass,
time traveler
§
Fear & loathing
& the
Poet Laureate
(No, not that one)
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Bush poets
(No, not that Bush)
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Curtis Faville
on
Robert Grenier
§
“Belles with Balls” –
Niama Leslie Williams
interviewed by
Tuck Self
§
Forrest
on
John Ashbery
§
Jon Anderson
has died
§
Fup,
the dean of bookstore cats,
has died
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Talking with
Bob Arnold
§
Rumi’s
ambiguous legacy
in the west
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Talking with
Shanxing Wang
§
Mark Strand,
alone at 73,
starting over
§
On Gael Turnbull’s
Collected Poems
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Another poet
back from Iraq
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Jennifer Moxley
on
John Wieners
& Arthur Rimbaud
Plus John Temple
on Wieners
§
The persistence of
the printed page
§
The
at 150 –
the senility
is complete
§
Save a magazine:
reverse
the postal rate hikes!
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On Ted Berrigan’s
Collected Poems
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Cut-Up
Poetry Scrabble
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Saving a bookstore
in Park Slope,
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Congressman Braley
opens
Pandora’s Box
§
A European
bookstore blog
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“Pissed-Off Zombies” –
Linh Dinh
on the state of the nation
§
Another poet
who died too young
§
Zuckerman’s
(Roth’s)
aesthetic:
George Plimpton
as literary giant
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A piece
on the letters
of Ted Hughes
with links
to large excerpts
§
More on
poetry & cricket
§
A.E. Stallings
here in
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P.B. Shelley,
the poet as stud
§
Performa 07
is under way!
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Schwabsky
on
Picabia
§
Schjeldahl
on
Frida Kahlo
§
The “new” Prado
§
Evaluating
Philip Glass
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Aesthetics
&
information
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Special thanks
to John Tranter
& Pam Brown
for making
Jacket
the best zine
on the web
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
You read it here first:
The Boston Red Sox
will win
the World Series
(The last thing
you want to give a team
that has been playing
way over its head
for a month
is a week off
to think….)
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Writing vs. editing vs. tenure
§
An account of the conference
on
Christopher Okigbo
§
Sargon Boulus,
Iraqi poet
& translator
of Pound, Williams, Shakespeare,
Duncan & Ginsberg,
has died
§
Doris Lessing:
9/11 was
”not that bad”
& offers
a reading list
§
The House of Anansi
celebrates
40 years
of independent publishing
§
§
§
The
”Why Indie Bookstores Matter”
Tour
§
This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore
tale
is of the last major indie
in the
§
The School of Quietude:
a literal perspective
§
The latest in library services:
Dance Dance Revolution
§
Libraries, content & copyright
§
A new Pound bio
§
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A profile of
Sam Hunt
§
The Governor General’s
shortlist
§
Why you should read poetry
§
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Stephen King:
why short stories suck
§
Reviewer stops writing
about himself
long enough
to notice
two new books
of Canadian poetry
§
Portrait
of a drop-in
writers’ workshop
§
This poetry contest
sounds mawkish
until you realize
how it’s promoting
Scottish nationalism
§
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The Christian right’s
”worst nightmare”:
Dumbledore & sex
§
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Inside manga
§
A reading group
in
devoted to
the poetry of
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Remembering
Kwesi Brew
§
The slam scene
at
Palo Alto High
§
A mixed review
of
Jean Sprackland
§
War over
War and Peace
§
Reading
Howard’s Baudelaire
§
Maya Angelou
on
The Early Show
§
Teacher faces charges
over reading list
§
The son also rises
§
is a hit
§
MassMOCA demonstrates
how not
to show contemporary art
§
Baryshnikov
facing foreclosure
§
NMFG?
(no money from the government)
§
TMI
(too much information)
§
Anita Allen
on
philosophy, law & race
§
A profile
of the great song writer
Lee Hays
§
Yesterday’s
number of visits
to this blog,
1,733,
surpassed
the previous record
by 74.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
The limits
of a laureate
Poetry workshop
at Buckingham Palace
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The “alternate laureate”
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A profile of
Eleanor Wilner
§
Doris Lessing
podcast
Roger Ebert
on meeting Lessing
at Stud Terkel’s
§
One book
I’ve been wanting
for 20 years
§
Kenneth Koch’s
”small-scale canonization”
§
Wendell Berry’s
Window Poems
§
Sinan Antoon’s
Baghdad Blues
§
Yevtushenko
reads once more
in a stadium
§
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On translation
&
English-as-a-second-language
as the lingua franca
of the world
§
Kim Heung-sook
on gender
& Korean modernism
§
A global archive
of recorded readings
(e.g. Michel Butor &
Jacques Roubaud
in French)
§
A poetry festival
in a department store
in
§
Sidney Nolan
& the problem of
the bad boy muse
§
Of a tanka
by Akio Tanigawa
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Plus, a case study
(PDF)
§
Talking with
Tracy K. Smith
§
The world’s smallest
book tour
§
Collecting Burroughs
& dealing rare books
in the age of the net
§
The joy of
the Man Booker prize
§
A review of
Robert Hass,
Margaret Atwood
&
Kenneth Koch
§
Jan Wolkers
has died
§
Daily life
with the Grass family
§
Race,
Anatole Broyard
& the NY publishing scene
mid-century
§
A profile of
Robert Hass
§
Talking with
Marvin Bell
§
“Prosody and its interfaces”
is the focus for
the 2008 Penn Linguistics Colloquium
(Call for papers in PDF format)
§
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The demise of
serious fiction
§
100 poets
reading on 6 CDs
(priced to rip off
school libraries)
§
The net is changing
how we read
§
The entire Booker shortlist
will be available
free online
§
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Poe’s brain
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A profile of Jim Paul
§
If only
Stalin
had been a poet
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Tales
of the
Chelsea Hotel
§
first laureate
§
The poet laureate of
& more
silly assertions about poetry
than I’ve seen in one article
in a long time
§
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Sheep ranch
experimentalism
§
The private
Ted Hughes
§
Martin Espada
returns to
§
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A short profile
of Sam Hamill
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Two new books from
Jackie Kay
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Poetry gets fractal
in Little Rock
§
Robert Pinsky
on
Mary Kinzie
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
It’s already a finalist for
the National Book Award*
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Doris Lessing
has won
the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Tonight at Writers House
in
Bob Cobbing’s
”Suddenly Everybody Began Reading Aloud”
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Video of
Rae Armantrout
reading in Berkeley
§
Talking film
with John Ashbery
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The autobiography
of
Christian
Bök
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Talking with
Geoffrey Gatza
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The Colbert suffix
§
Charles Simic
on PBS
Laureate relishes
new challenge
& begins by attacking
Robert Creeley
($3 fee)
Simic to teach
at Baruch College
Simic reads
with Jack Prelutsky
If you like Simic,
you will love
Vasko Popa
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“You don’t get
to be
poet laureate
for nothing”
§
Hounding Howl:
What the FCC?
(MP3)
Meanwhile,
at the Alberto Gonzales school
of pornography prosecution
§
Kerouac’s scroll
as Oulipo constraint
§
Speaking of Oulipo:
3by3by3
21 Stars Review
§
Debating
what poetry is
in
§
Jennifer Moxley
&
Maggie O’Sullivan
reading
at the Bowery Poetry Club
(MP3s)
§
Talking with
Jason Christie
§
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In
Indigo
is putting hotels
on Boardwalk & Park Place
While readers
come to the USA
to buy books
§
Random acts of poetry
in
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Writing poetry in the army
in
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A writers’ workshop
at
Homeboy Industries
§
The return
of
Easy Rawlins
§
Reading Catullus 64
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The only call for submissions
I know of
that quotes
Theodor Adorno,
seeking
”emergent poetry & prose”
§
More on the demise
of the hyphen
§
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Prizes for
the
& more
Plus
the same ole same ole
in the
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Writing like Sean O’Brien
is, he concedes,
“an affliction”
§
Fondly recalling
the poetry wars
of the 1960s
§
The bio of
” a skilful, harmless,
minor writer of light verse”
§
Joyce Carol Oates:
autobiography
against the grain
§
Adam Thorpe
doesn’t think
he’s easy reading
§
An anthology
of women’s poetry
from
§
The future of the book
may not include
bookstores
But in
a bookstore opens
§
One use for old books
§
A new opera,
Poet Li Bai,
debuts in
§
On the origins
of
The Life of Pi
§
The selected letters
of Ted Hughes
§
A profile
of Paul Durcan
§
High school students
producing
poetry on demand
§
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Comparing Don Share
to Robert Lowell
§
Talking with
Li-Young Lee
§
Troy Jollimore’s blog
for Powell’s Books
§
A poet laureate
for Winona, Minnesota
§
An anthology
of
New York poetry
§
Frank Wilson
likes the Sony e-Book,
sorta
§
The continuing relevance
of books
§
Poet Tree
in
§
Talking with
Greil Marcus
§
A personal history
of the
Writers Festival
§
Violet de Cristoforo,
poet imprisoned
in
during WW2,
has died
§
Interviewing
Janet Malcolm
§
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The best-selling suicide
of André & Dorine Gorsz
§
The Social and Political Views
of American Professors
(PDF)
§
Two serious views
on global warming:
pro & con
§
“one of the best new operas
in many years”
§
Billy Bragg
on the
power of music
§
§
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With art
comes injury
§
Do museums matter?
If not, why
are they spreading
like kudzu?
§
Renoir
&
why the Barnes matters
§
* Strictly a
The selection panel was chaired by
(surprise!) Charles Simic
