Introducing Erica Hunt
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Untitled New York:
Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
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A large anthology of new Russian poetry
in the latest number of Jacket
A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
Introducing Erica Hunt
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Untitled New York:
Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
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A large anthology of new Russian poetry
in the latest number of Jacket
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Jack Spicer’s “Golem”
Spicer celebration at SF Main Library
Saturday, Jan. 10
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Richard Seaver has passed away
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So has Carol Adair, Kay Ryan’s partner
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Partial MLA offsite reading
(85MB, Gordon thru Rothenberg,
available only to Saturday)
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Jessa Crispin talking with Clayton Eshleman
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A profile of the most popular
poetry contest in the world
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Anti-war poetry then & now
Among Gaza’s atrocities
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Doug Messerli
on
Emma Bee Bernstein
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Francisco Goldman on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
Natasha Wimmer on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
Listening to Goldman & Wimmer
on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
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Nazim Hikmet gets his citizenship back
(too bad he’s been dead for 45 years)
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When Langpo & flarf are not enough
Is “embarrassment” more important than
”offensiveness” to flarf?
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Talking with Arielle Greenberg
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Bashō finds an abandoned infant
& leaves it to die
Response to the video
Bashō: The Complete Haiku
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Always on: libraries in a world
of permanent connectivity
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Where Tom Hanks gets his
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Remembering Glenn Goldman
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How to kill a bookstore:
raise the rent to $1 million
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After 85 years,
Stacey’s to close in SF
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The indie bookstores of
Montpelier, Vermont
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Making used books pay
A renaissance for used books?
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2008: the poetry year in review
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Roberta Beary: one-minute poetry reading
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Still answering H.L. Hix’ “20 Questions”
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Pervasive communication environments
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Every book ever published
will end up online
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Is captcha poetry hipper than flarf?
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Remembering Dave Church
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Mark Doty, making it real
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Remembering Jason Shinder
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Linh Dinh’s Seven Contemporary Italian Poets:
Marco Giovenale
Gherardo Bortolotti
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Shakespeare’s church is becoming unsafe
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Writing & fame –
the case of Mishima
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Frank Wilson’s likes & dislikes for 2008
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rob mclennan on Asher Ghaffar
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Why spell-check sucks
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Publishing: the new austerity
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The “G” in FSG
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Magazine ads are drying up
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Readings at rush hour
at the train station!
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Talking with Mark Irwin
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Work needed for Poet’s Pause
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The oldsters turn out for
Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3
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Donald Westlake has died
Terry Gross talks to Westlake
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Celebrating W.D. Snodgrass
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Talking with Mark Gwynne Jones
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A poem-a-day for a decade
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Talking with Peter Bennet
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David Lunde’s Breaking the
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Worst poetry book covers, 2008
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Stanley Fish goes to the movies
(he gets Vertigo right)
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The fiction lineup for ought nine
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Hating all the new Canadian anthologies
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The state of the humanities
Humanities Indicators Prototype (HIP)
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In this recession, who will support the arts
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What happens to the arts
when critics disappear
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David Denby gets all snarky
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Philosophy at (in) the movies
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Making MOCA work
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Foulds wins a Costa
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Matisse’s model speaks
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Terry Teachout’s top 25
classical recordings of all time
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Grateful Dead analysis:
the relationship between
concert & listening behavior
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Betty Freeman & the music she commissioned
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What we can learn from Guitar Hero
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Magic may be over for
the Magic Theater
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Another at risk
in Beverly, Mass
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What will change
E V E R Y T H I N G ?
Russian avant-garde books digitized
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Bob Holman & Pappa Susso on the Griot Trail
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Translating procedural poetry
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Erik Davis on the new Jack Spicer collected
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Close reading aloud
Ezra Pound
Ezuversity
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Downloadable archives of the
Joe Milford Poetry Show
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Minnie Bruce Pratt
in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry
(PDF)
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Didi Menendez’ new blog
shows a better way
to present PDF online
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Jonathan Lethem’s “Lostronaut”
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A film of John Giorno reading
that runs 10 hours & 6 minutes
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Jonathan Lethem on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
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Close reading Aaron Belz
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Peter Cole:
”Things on Which I’ve Stumbled”
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“Political poetry is back”
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Is anyone blogging
the Modernist Studies Association conference
in
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1956 recording of Gary Snyder found
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Two dozen full-length readings,
talks & discussions by
John Ashbery
Reading “The System,”
Ashbery’s most important poem
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Poetry & the “long haul”
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Michael Dirda on Paul Auster
Talking with Auster
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Farid Adil Mansuri,
Gujurati poet exiled in
has died
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James Merrill, poet of excess
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Reading Rae Armantrout
in Joe Brainard’s pyjamas
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A report of Rae Armantrout at the Folger
by someone who wasn’t there
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Philadelphia,
where the free library was invented
by Ben Franklin,
threatens to shut 11
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used bookstores fare better
A used bookshop in the mall
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I never metadata I didn’t like
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Welsh poet sets off
a tiff with the wing nuts
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Michiko Kakutani on Burroghs & Kerouac
The book Kerouac co-wrote
13 years before On the Road
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Talking with Emma Trelles
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David Orr on the letters of Ted Hughes
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Zadie Smith: realism or not?
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Translating Creeley into Spanish
(with a seriously out-of-date bio note)
(PDF)
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Jordan Davis on
Yusef Komunyakaa’s Warhorses
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War poetry by Isaac Rosenberg
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Jake Adam York’s A Murmuration of Starlings
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Talking with Renee Burton
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn & Edward Said
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Mary Karr on Bly’s Kabir
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The function of place
in teaching English
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A bookstore organized by geography
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Whitman & his brothers at war
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Jeanette Winterson on T.S. Eliot
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Slam narratives
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English-language work at the festival
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T.C. Boyle: advice to young writers
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Do book prizes discriminate against women?
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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
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Atiq Rahimi wins the Goncourt
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Man Booker Prize or not,
The White Tiger is a dud
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More on Mortimer’s folly
& more still
(Are we anxious yet?)
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Maurya Simon has a poem read
by Garrison Keillor
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Chaucer for dummies
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Carol Muske-Dukes
is California’s new poet laureate
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James Cushing is named
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Marilyn Taylor appointed to the post
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Living with Roald Dahl
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Kafka on the day job
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NPR coverage of the Miami Book Fair
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Neil Gaiman:
the “most famous” unknown author
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Camilla Paglia
on how she produced
Break, Blow, Burn
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Robert Kenney overcomes his introduction
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Rosetta Reitz has passed away
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George Lewis on new music & the academy
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Lost Beatles epic
or Paul wanking off
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A director is fired
for supporting the Calif. Hate Amendment
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Vispo in the Mad Hatters Review
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Graphic Novel Reporter starts now
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A.S. Maulucci on the eidetic
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Gehry’s new spin
on his hometown museum
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Schwabsky: the art world explained
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What is art for?
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Why a downturn in the art market matters
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A gallery tour by Charles Bernstein
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Talking with Vivienne Westwood
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When is advertising sexist?
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Editing the New York Times
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The Chicago Tribune lays off John Crewdson,
whom I’ve known since elementary school
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Outsourcing TV news anchors
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A 15th-century scroll
with a serious vispo sensibility
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Hitler’s library
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A do-it-yourself library
for women in
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Barack Obama on libraries
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Talking with Joan Halifax
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I, Susan Pollack, to
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Do public intellectuals still exist?
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Remembering John Leonard
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Why you suck as a teacher
(or maybe don’t)
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Žižek’s Obama
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The wild wordsmith of Wasilla
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A love letter to Fox News
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