Sharon Mesmer
on poetry after theory
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Kevin Davies’
The Golden Age of Paraphernalia
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Evie Shockley reads Ed Roberson
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414 photos
of the
Positions Colloquium
in
from Tom Orange
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Nada Gordon’s “Poem to My Enemies”
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Ted Berrigan’s
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Wanda Phipp’s
Field of Wanting
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Ian Jack has died
As has Edgardo Vega Yunqué
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Eileen Tabios on prose poetry
& decolonialism
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The collages of John Ashbery
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Lourdes Vázquez on the fine press tradition
in
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Michael Palmer’s Active Boundaries
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Rain Taxi reaches its 50th issue
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Talking with & of Adonis
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the 50th anniversary of
The Dharma Bums
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Brother Antoninus
& the Beat Generation
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Emily Warn
surround by beat poets
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Dana Gioia announces retirement
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A question for Donald Hall:
"Why a ‘life in poetry'
when almost nothing gets said
about composing a poem?"
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Close reading blurbs
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Poets on War & Peace
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Lisa Jarnot’s “For the Nation”
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“odds and ends”
from the
Positions Colloquium
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Geof Huth reading “Blue”
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John Godfrey’s City of Corners
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Talking with Gabeba Baderoon
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I saw the best minds of my generation
turned into a cheesy docudrama
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Wordplay welcomes Thomas Meyer
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Poetry audio,
a list of resources
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Alan Bernheimer’s Particle Arms,
a classic of
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The “Reading Through Modernism” site
has been redesigned
& files converted into MP3s
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Zen Monster
comes to
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One more argument for
slow poetry
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Wishing Auden were here
to put things right
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Mark Scroggins reads Lyn Hejinian’s The Beginner
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NJ Gov. John Corzine
with William Carlos Williams
& other surprises
of the forthcoming 125th birthday conference
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Michiko Kakutani on David Foster Wallace
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Philip Metres’ nominations
for Steve Evans’
”Attention Span” poll
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Indian poets writing in English
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The beats in
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More “nano thoughts for the nano phone”
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Linda Gregg’s All of It Singing
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Elizabeth Smither wins
the Prime Minister’s Award for poetry
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Mahmoud Darwish’ Hebrew translator
reflects on the late poet
A view from LiveMint.com,
The Wall Street Journal’s
web site for MBA students
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The memoir of Leland Bardwell
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One benefit of being laureate
Exactly how big his head has gotten
Fleur Adcock on Motion’s stillness
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A platypus in Edmonton
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Slammin’ in Westchester County
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Five questions for Tom Paulin
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In Grasmere
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A profile of Marianne Aweagon Broyles
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BBC Four to run series
on British poetry
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The pathology of “normal fiction”
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A profile of Charlie Pratt
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It’s because their
aren’t very good
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Nicholas Manning on Mark Young
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Celebrating Robert Dunn
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Machado rises
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“melodic ditties will be ringing”
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Talking with Bill Johnson
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“Only Facebook can save this country”
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The Yoda of typewriters has died
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What’s driving the resurgence of libraries
is not books
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Booker shortlist omits Rushdie
Masterpieces get away
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Searching for Troy
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Where’s Prospero?
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Where to buy from independent retailers
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Why indie bookstores matter
Why Borders doesn’t
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Independent Booksellers of NYC
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A 40th-birthday self-education project –
read 1,000 books
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A digital library free to the world
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Pirated digital versions boost sales
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The GOP as book buyers in
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E-book study at Penn State
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Battles over textbook piracy
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“The most dangerous book of poetry ever written”
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Cultivating demand for the arts (PDF)
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A great profile of Maurice Sendak
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A.I.R. Gallery has moved
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Why Diebenkorn isn’t famous
(minor error – the show opens
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The New Museum
buys a building
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Robert Hughes: Hirst is a hack
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The Met promotes
one of its own
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The war over Rothko
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A major art theft in broad daylight
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radiOM,
the best on-line archive
of avant-garde music
I’ve ever found,
e.g.
Rova
Nels Cline
Carla Kihlstedt
Oliver Lake
Fred Frith
Anthony Braxton
Miya Masaoka
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The advantages of facilitating theft
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The House of Wittgenstein
isn’t about Ludwig (mosty)
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Dancing for Israeli security
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American sadism
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The pathology of the Republican party
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The latest mode of adjunct abuse