Rae Armantrout’s poetry
Entertainment Weekly
on the National Book Award
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Eileen Myles talks with CA Conrad
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Rachel Zolf:
the MFA as an institution
within larger state apparatuses
Tendencies begins
Oct. 29 @ CUNY
with Zolf, Robert Glück & Trish Salah
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Paul Vangelisti talks with Mary de Rachelwiltz
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Federal Trade Commission
identifies a threat:
book bloggers
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Ray DiPalma:
The Ancient Use of Stone
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Digging Lorca
Robert Kelly
talks to Phong Bui,
David Levi Strauss & John Yau
An even longer interview
from The Modern Review
Reb Livingston offers an account of my talk
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Nada Gordon on Adfempo
(part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
Michelle Naka Pierce:
Adfempo constellations
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Nathalie Anderson on Teresa Leo
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Amiri Baraka turns 75
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Eunoia,
the upgrade
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Curtis Faville on
A Controversy of Poets
Brandon Brown:
describing traditions apophatically
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Harryette Mullen:
meaning & wordplay
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Talking with Celia Rabinovitch
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Sina Queyras on reading styles
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Close Listening with Aldon Lynn Nielsen:
Talking with Charles Bernstein
& reading his poetry
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3 classic texts by Peter Seaton:
Agreement
Crisis Intervention
The Son Master
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Ish Klein’s Union!
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Talking with Ilyas Tunς
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Jose Antonio Muñoz Rojas has died
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Sarah Wright has died
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Wayne Brown & Trevor Rhone
die on the same day
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Scene report:
the (New) Reading Series
at 21 Grand
in Oaklad
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Judith Butler’s
“Performative Acts & Gender Constitution”
(reg. req.)
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Jennifer Kamin & Bernadette Mayer
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Tao Lin
interviews
one of the two people
who showed up for his reading
in Petaluma
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Jordan Davis’ “Narragansett”
in The Nation
(sub may be required)
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Erasing Mallarmé:
Michalis Pichler’s
A Throw of the Dice,
the laser version
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Tuesday, October 6,
a huge benefit reading
at The Foundary in London
to benefit a playground
at the Aida Refugee Camp
in Palesine
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Talking with Mariela Griffor
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Charlie Potts reading
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Profits from fiction?
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What to do with an MFA?
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Talking with Kay Ryan
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What says Gandhi better than
a $23,000 fountain pen?
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Zombieland?
Dead authors, new books
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Talking with John M. Bennett
(just the first of 11!)
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Steve Evans’ Attention Span 2009
has reached the halfway mark
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William Burroughs & Brion Gysin
The Third Mind
(reg. req.)
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Matt Bell’s The Collectors
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Talking with E.L. Doctorow
Doctorow shills for a book machine
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The book thief
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Thursday is National Poetry Day
in the UK
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October 14 in Lyon,
Barrett Watten
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Talking with Carol Ann Duffy
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Atwood shows
that friends can be
the biggest critics
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Overthrowing the King-of-Hay
Ten best used bookshops in the UK
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In praise of Eliot Weinberger
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Giorgio Agamben:
“What is the Contemporary?”
(reg. req.)
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Philip Pullman’s distinction –
author most likely to be banned
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Banned in China =
best seller in Hong Kong
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Poetry in Times Square
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Charles Wright: “Ho hum”
(Can an eel poem
be a squirrel poem too?)
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Linda Gregg
wins the Lenore Marshall prize
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The German book prize shortlist
(with English translations)
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Gay penguin parents
top best-seller list
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Dionne Brand
is Toronto’s new poet laureate
In Maryland,
it’s Stanley Plumly
Beltway Poetry Quarterly:
the Laureate issue
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Talking with Ruth Brandon
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Robert Bly
bringing it all back home
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Relational aesthetics: relational form
(reg. req.)
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Before Kent Johnson thought to copy
Kenny Goldsmith’s Day
Charles Bernstein had published
all of Weathers on his blog
Kent’s response
to Charles the First
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Kent Johnson:
the trouble with flarf…
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Ye Chun’s Travel Over Water
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Wednesday, October 7, at St. Marks,
Naked Lunch @ 50
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PEN announces its literary awards
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Where book bans were attempted, 2008
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Between hardbacks & e-books
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Going to Cold Mountain
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Talking with Thomas Lux
Lux’s God Particles
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A guide to the Booker shortlist
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Can Google Wave transform journalism
Google & the history of ©
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Will books be “Napsterized”?
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Amazon clarifies
what it’s willing to delete
from your Kindle
Kindle comes to Europe
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Sony open eBook up
to self-publishers
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A Harvard Skirmish in the © wars
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Janet Sobel, Jackson Pollock
& the problems of ©
(reg. req.)
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The Future of Publishing Think Tank
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The state of the English Department
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A new Moby Dick
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Maxine Kumin’s Still to Mow
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Fighting over the Kafka archive
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Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Sympathy”
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Auden’s call to arms:
Spain & psychoanalysis
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Robert Pinsky
doesn’t plan his readings
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Drew Barrymore’s
“Ten Best Books” includes
Valley of the Dolls
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Marriage counseling from ghosts
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A memoir of Taiwan literature
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Love’s Labor Won
& other mysteries
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James Wood on A.S. Byatt
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The Poets’ House
opening bash
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The Massachusetts Poetry Festival,
October 15-18
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Dodge fest proposes 2010 resurrection
aimed at Newark
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Talking with Ted Kooser
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The sidewalk poet
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Bush aide tell-all:
no prize for Rowling
over witchcraft
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Keats in Omaha
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A quiz on Frederick Seidel & Susan Wheeler
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Adam Foulds @ 34
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Edmund White’s City Boy
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Ratmansky takes Manhattan
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Notes toward an embodied art
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Alain Badiou:
“Some Remarks on Marcel Duchamp”
(reg. req.)
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What is an Andy Warhol?
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The return of Berkeley Breathed
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David Hockney
drawing with an iPhone
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Henry Hopkins has died
Hopkins & the lost Ruscha
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Bridget Riley:
“Drawing is an inquiry”
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Willard Wigan’s nanosculpture
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SF MoMA
prepares to get big
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Kenneth Baker on Henry Hopkins
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Why Polanski now?
Should Polanski be above the law?
Steve Lopez
on the grand jury transcripts
Director faces weeks in jail
prior to extradition hearing
Cheers & jeers at belated bust
Polanski team adds a power player
Can the defense keep Polanski
out of prison?
A curious twist turns up
to an old tale
An international Rorschach test
“Genius and young flesh”
Polanski’s settlement was $500,000
Cokie Roberts:
“Just take him out and shoot him”
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Guy Laliberte reaches the space station
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Ridin’ the rails
with Dave Alvin & the Flatlanders
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Remembering Mike Seeger
The Beth Lomax Hawes
NEA National Heritage Fellowship
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Colin McPhee, the opera
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Celebrating Queen Ida
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The schedule for
the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
is awe inspiring
And looking for 50 pianists!
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5 questions for Tim Gunn
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In Paris,
a Guy Bourdin
retrospective
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Talking with NaOyuki Ogino
NaOyuki Ogino’s website
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Destroying La Ronda
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Architect David Adjaye:
“I always battle my clients”
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Manuel Castells essay collection
(reg. req.)
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Perry Anderson essay collection
(reg. req.)
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Capitalism’s wide reach
Naomi Klein talks with Michael Moore
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
