photo by Kaplan Harris
Andy Gricevich on the work of Barrett Watten
Watten’s talk on
”The Expanded Object of the Poetic Field;
or, What is a Poet / Critic?”
(PDF)
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Gricevich & Carrie Etter on
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is dead
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The house of John Ashbery
Ashbery in Italian
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Poetry and Public Language:
the book
“Poetry is slow politics”
No hope for the disappeared
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Terence Winch on Tim Dlugos
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My nightmare
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Mark Nowack on Bill Griffiths
“A working-class hero is something to be”
Alan Gilbert takes the bait
Gilbert on
art and/or propaganda
Freestyle or fakin’ it
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Sharon Mesmer on the “I” in flarf
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Alejandro Aura has died
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Defending O’Hara’s Collected
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Summer camp with Bernadette Mayer
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The growing world reputation of
José Garcia-Villa
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Marianne Moore & Magic Johnson
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Small Press Traffic
is looking for a leader
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Reading Hejinian Slowly
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Reginald Shepherd on Jack Spicer
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“the Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry”
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On difficulty, real or feigned
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Michael Palmer’s selected essays
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The Irish-American anthology that never was
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“World’s first poetry anthology…
by lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans
Christians”
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Third Word:
Post-Socialist Poetry
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Lucia Perillo on Kenneth Patchen
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Natasha Trethewey’s Canadian roots
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A poetry bookstore in Beacon, NY
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Pierre Berès has died
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Andrew Crozier & literary connection
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Poetry’s back in Baltimore
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Why D.A. Powell isn’t a critic
Catholic (big C) tastes in poetry
Powell on Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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Juvenilia for Spring & All
Ginsberg on Creeley & Williams
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Alvin Feinman has passed away
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The Epithalamium of Harry Matthews
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Rejecting Bill Knott
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A new reading of Emily Dickinson
Alberto Mancini’s ED-based paintings
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More poetry of Radovan Karadzic,
this time from
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Terence Winch on Doug Lang
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Mary Karr on Etheridge Knight
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Restarting the rep of Felicia Hemans
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Going back with Christopher Wiseman
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Two books by William Michaelian
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Roberto Bolaño’s “Clara”
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Kipling’s elegy for his son
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& more horsies!
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LA bids farewell to
Scott Wannberg
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What is literacy, anyway?
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Kay Ryan’s wild ride
Assessing Kay Ryan
“malnourished,
under muscled,
simply lifeless
and still as a rusty coin in a cushion crack”
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Al Young’s latest collection
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Dave P. Fisher has won
the Will Rogers Medallion
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Anne Stevenson’s latest foreword
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Aussie books want trade protection
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Scruffy is unamused
He’s the bookies’ favorite
in the Mann-Booker long list
Fatwa memoir forthcoming?
A Salman Rushdie podcast (MP3)
On writing Midnight’s Children
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The Forward Prize shortlists
India roots for one of its own
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Shakespeare in your brain
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20th century poetry,
from a Tamil point-of-view
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A visit with Sam Cornish
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Mary Ann O’Gorman’s Life in This House
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Pitching every woman’s book as “chick lit”
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Talking with Charmai Lai Chaman
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Talking with Doris Lessing
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Milwaukee’s team readies
for the National Slam
Madison readies for 76 teams
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Updating campus bookshops
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In
are set to disappear
tho the bookstores themselves will survive
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Poetry & the origins of fly fishing
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More regulations coming
on file sharing at school
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Poetry & the material world
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Murder at the book warehouse
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A literary renaissance in Point Reyes?
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Remembering Zbignew Herbert
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Henry Gould & All
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Pasternak & creativity
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Poetry vs. poetics
plus a game
plus a forthcoming conference
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Not George Bush’ poet laureate
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E.M. Forster, Middle Manager
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Poetry at the Calgary Fringe Fest
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Dear temperamental adjective
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A unique writing program in Arvon
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A television prop
comes to life
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Microsoft adds tools
for academic publishing
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Ishmael Reed’s “informed rant”
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Talking with Ray Bradbury
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The heritage of gout
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This is a break-even proposition
if & only if
Tao Lin’s novel makes $31,250
worth of royalties
(do the math here)
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Buildings have a short list too
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The films of Ish Klein
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Peter Schjeldahl on “After Nature”
at the New Museum
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Ad Reinhardt at the Guggie
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& the dysfunctional one in China
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Hirst’s first – a blow
to the gallery system?
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Henry Darger’s room
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Saving Pollock’s
Mural
in the
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Saving rock art
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Great art disasters
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Robert Irwin
on the
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The “Mr. Big” of indigenous art
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Dance + Visual Art = performance??
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Does post-genre music really exist?
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Gilberto Gil chooses
art over politics
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New Albion goes to Bard
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Don’t forget Comic-Con
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The comic art of Gary Sullivan
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Dissing anthropology
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Unfortunately, so does Main Core
