Photo by Stephanie Young
Dodie Bellamy
on class vs. gender
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Andrew Schelling on
“Post-Coyote” poetics
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Haight poet & one-time
Straight Theater impresario
Jim Wilson has died
So did Irish poet Davy Hammond
And Urdu poet Ahmed Faraz
Faraz prize announced
Tributes to Faraz
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Joshua Corey
maps the 4 tribes chart
to contemporary poetry
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Joseph Bednarik
on the changing ratio
of writers to readers
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A profile of
Afaa Michael Weaver
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Translating “Sidney West” into English
& other NEA translation awards
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Charles Bernstein’s
Poem Profiler
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Francis Ponge’s
Mute Objects of Expression
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Linh Dinh
looks at globalization
& at blogging
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Talking with Jorie Graham
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Ports for shorts
of sorts
W h i l e t i t l e s a r e g e t t i n g l o n g e r
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The 4th International
Nýhil Poetry Festival
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In Millay’s garden
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Amazon’s viral marketing
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Amazon buys Shelfari
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Next steps for E-texts
E-textbooks may not be cheaper
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Close reading a t-shirt
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Random House
blacklisted from lit prizes
over self-censorship
This charge is fishy
But censorship might be
”good” for you
Don’t crucify that frog!
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Alan Gilbert
on the lessons of blogging
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Just how bad was Wordsworth?
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An Indian view of Mahmoud Darwish
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Claudia Emerson,
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Walter Bargen,
inaugurates newspaper feature
focusing on state’s poets
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Looking at Charlotte Mew
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Machado’s world
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Adam Kirsch’s “bland doctrine”
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In the birthplace of Ted Hughes
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Larry Schug,
poet on campus
tho not in the English Department
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Aesthetics, philosophy & literature,
an international perspective
(downloadable)
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Ronald Johnson’s
The Book of the Green Man
from Johnson’s Radi Os
to this
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What a contemporary
craft of poetry syllabus
ought to look like
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The
Poets Forum 2008
does a much better job than the Dodge Fest
at including all types of verse
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Lawrence Durrell & his cities
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Singing Sandburg
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A profile of Amitabh Mitra,
poet, painter, M.D.
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In Chillicothe a bookstore burns
Two months later,
Martha’s Vineyard still struggles
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A glossary of publication
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The book market in Karachi
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Used bookstores in Tacoma
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Seattle bookstores struggle
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Poetry in motion
out loud
in the
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The latest on
Walk o’ Fame
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Billy Collins & Victoria’s Secret
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When a cowboy poet makes
”national TV”
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A new set of neologisms
from Neal Stephenson
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Libraries & noise
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Rocky Mountain News
will publish fiction
(beyond what’s on the news page)
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Dublin poetry videos
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Talking with Bernice Chauly
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Michael Jackson
originally planned musical
based on Robby Burns
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A profile of Kimmy Beach
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3 operas by Charles Bernstein
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Mary Karr remembers John Engman
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Should Philippine literature
”move on” from Jose Garcia Villa?
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Here comes Rebecca Foust
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Great heights of poetry
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Half a loaf
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Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark
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More on Joel Toledo
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Rhythms of the language poets
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Blogging with Orwell
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Rushdie’s most readable novel
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A profile of Abdulqader Al-Sabban
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The long search
of the Philly Orchestra
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Peter Plagens’
serial novel,
The Art Critics
(chapter 1) (chapter 2)
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The eyes have it
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Christine Wertheim’s
Plastic Exploding Inevitable
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Street art & politics
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Public art in the age of Koons
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The return of Paolo Soleri
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James Wagner sees The Dark Knight
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Getting around to Bruno
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In Berkeley tomorrow
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George Lakoff
on The Political Mind
& on Thursday
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a nifty reading by
UC Berkeley faculty
(Giscombe, Hejinian, Hass,
O’Brien & Shoptaw)
& then
Christian Bök & K. Silem Mohammad
at the de Young
on Friday
A great week to be
in the Bay Area
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“Look for the sign
Ted Berrigan is here!”
