The making of E8
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Poetry written with an eraser
(My Podcast with Harriet)
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Edwidge Danticat:
Voicing Haiti
Pierre Joris on Haiti
On the death there of Georges Anglade
A note from Thomas Spear (in French)
Aimé Césaire: “Earthquake”
(translated by Paul Muldoon)
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Maurice Blanchot:
The Writing of Disaster
(reg. req.)
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41 popular “moves”
in contemporary poetry
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Female poets compete on
Millions Poet
San Diego State conference
on contemporary women’s writing
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5 poems by Rae Armantrout
“The Hang”
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A Veronica Forrest-Thomson retrospective
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Barrett Watten’s Plasma
Knocking the “Whig”
off John Wilkinson’s revisionist history
Rethinking Sylvia Plath
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Rachel Loden in the Washington Post
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Bill Deemer’s Last Poems
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Robert Duncan’s
“Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow”
discussed by
Charles Bernstein, Jerry Rothenberg,
Jeffrey Robinson & Al Filreis
Michael McClure & projective verse
Some essays on “organic” poetry
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Kit Robinson
on Carla Harryman’s Adorno’s Noise
Kass Fleisher on Harryman’s Noise
The “perform-a-text” examination
An interview with Harryman
can be found on page 3
of [Inter]sections
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Eric Mottram:
“Ta’wil and Henry Corbin”
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An exchange on the Google books deal
The Authors Guild Q&A
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Philip Gross
wins the T.S. Eliot Prize
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Close reading Mohammed Dib
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Linda Russo’s “Faiku”
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Dickinson vs. flarf
& the expansion of a poetic idea
Juliana Spahr:
“Some of We and the Land
That was Never Ours”
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A call to poets:
Stay alive!
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Coming in from the Cold:
Celebrating 20 Years of the
MLA Offsite Poetry Reading,
with
Elizabeth Willis, Tyrone Williams, Rodrigo Toscano,
Rod Smith, Evie Shockley, Jennifer Scappettone, Bob Perelman,
Aldon Nielsen, Laura Moriarty, Patrick Durgin & Charles Bernstein
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Complicities:
British Poetry 1945 – 2007
edited by Robin Purves & Sam Ladkin
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Fanny Howe on her father
“A Hymn”
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71 poems by Robert Grenier
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Somali poetry podcast
featuring Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac 'Gaarriye'
Gaarriye’s Maansooyin
in Somali & English
The Poetry Translation Centre:
poetry in 20 languages
from Indonesian to Zapotec
The “Translation Gap”
Why more foreign writers
aren’t published in America
Publishing models & translation:
a ten-part series
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Peggy Dunstan has died
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Baltimore Sun obit
for David Franks
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Remembering P.K. Page
The government of Canada
on the death of
P.K.Page
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Recalling Dennis Brutus
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5 poems from Cole Swensen
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Poets Theater at Small Press Traffic
Kevin Killian’s video of Life on Mars
(NSFW!)
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Death of a bookstore
in Marysville, CA
& another in LA just for Buddhists
NPR on the loss of Dalton’s
to Laredo
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Supporting indie bookstores
with small press books
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Left Bank Books
will move, not close
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This is what a feminist [poet] looks like:
Jennifer Bartlett
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One great category in Coldfront’s
ambitious 2009 year-in-review feature is
“Best New Book by a Canonical Figure”
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Rob Fitterman’s
Holocaust Museum
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Mary Ponsot & Naomi Shihab Nye
elected chancellors of
American Academy of Poets
Long tradition of Quietist domination continues
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How © extension
has banished millions of books
to the scrap heap of history
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Talking with Laura Sims
Laura Sims’ Stranger
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13 years
for group to read
Finnegans Wake
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New poems by Joseph Massey
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Carmine Starnino, lazy bastard
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Connie Deanovich’s “Requirements for a Saint”
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Fractals & the self
in the work of
Graham Foust, Sarah O’Brien
& Andrew Zawacki
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From Rusty Morrison’s Bataille
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Inside William Burroughs’ “bunker”
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Canada’s second-oldest magazine
is changing its name
because, well, because
it’s The Beaver
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Poetry & the prudes
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Hank Lazer’s Portions
& Andrea Cohen’s Long Division
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A reading
for the Emporer of Japan
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A poetry festival in Southern India
& another in the Northeast
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A poet from Minsk reads in Jamaica
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Anna gets all wiry on us
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Michael Leong’s e.s.p.
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The first of 4
Bolaño titles
due out in 2010
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3 poems by Andrew Joron
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Linda Rogers offers TMI
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A benefit for Tuli Kupferberg
Friday, January 22nd in NYC
with Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, John Zorn,
the Fugs & more
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Miguel Hernández on the moon
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Don Thompson,
poet of the San Joaquin
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Talking with Lewis Turco
about sci-fi poetics
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Jack Kerouac
on the runway
Forging Kerouac’s will
Yet another Kerouac memoir
tucked into this hodge-podge of books
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William Keckler notices
that Poltroon Press lives up to its name
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mark(s) e-zine, a complete archive
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$160 to hear Helen Vendler
opine on Walt Whitman
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Authorship & the collaborative poem
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The fisher poets
make annual migration
to Oregon waters
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We’re already into
the Delray Beach Poetry Fest
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T. Coraghessan Boyle:
“A Death in Kitchawank”
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Robinson Jeffers,
instinctive Buddhist
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Ǝ is not for e-books
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You can buy books
but you never really own an e-book
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It isn’t doomsday for books
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Take the One Book Pledge
& help save indie bookstores
The writing on the wall
for indie bookstores
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Lewiston poet runs a bookstore
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Using Espresso
(the machine, not the drink)
to combat Amazon
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Drew Gardner:
“Guys Like Terrorism”
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The biggest literary stories
of the past decade
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Neil Gaiman’s fantasies
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The critic’s task is to be
the taste maker
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“feed me to the black turkeys”
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Art that uses the book cover
as its stackable canvas
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Is William Blake
the best UK artist ever?
The notebook of William Blake
Rare Blake etchings found
in railway table
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Notes toward a history of
book selling
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A Digital Book World
Pecha Kucha
(look it up)
at the Bowery Poetry Club
Consumer attitudes toward
e-book reading
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Amy King’s
Slaves to do These Things
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Carl Sandburg:
Stop making sense
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Walter Bargen
on his term as Missouri laureate
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How maître d’ Stanley Pellicer
became poet Marcel Toussaint
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Talking with Evie Shockley
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Best short review
of the new O’Hara Selected
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A buyer’s guide to e-readers
Free Blio e-reader software
due out in February
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Marjorie Perloff on Susan Howe
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Joyce
reading from Finnegans Wake
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2 new poems by John Ashbery
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Between Robert Lowell & John Ashbery
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Longfellow’s Dante just for gamers
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Dan Beachy-Quick
introduces Broc Rossell
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Can e-books defeat piracy?
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C.D. Wright:
Poetry vs. Wal-Mart
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William Saroyan lives & breathes
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Styron’s choice
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That feminist, Philip Roth
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Remembering William Stafford
A Stafford celebration
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Sappho:
poet of the personal
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About.com’s
“Best poetry books of 2009”
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The hysteric moment
in contemporary fiction
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Against rhyme
& against rhyme 2
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Promoting literacy in a red state
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The 200th anniversary of the death of
Robert Tannahill
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Edmund White on Kermode’s Forster
Edmund White & the literary lottery
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The education of
Gabriel García Márquez
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Heroic moments in poetry
(onomatopoeia) (simile) (ellipsis)
(page-based vs. spoken word)
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James Reiss on
Wallace Stevens’ Selected Poems
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Hull turns Philip Larkin
into one big tourist attraction
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Bad books
are as instructive as good ones
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Translating bpNichol’s
“Translating Apollinaire”
into Klingon
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Tokyo libraries
reach out to readers
of other languages
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Daniel Simko’s The Arrival
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Ian Hamilton’s Collected Poems
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Talking with Owen Hill
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Camus’ diaries
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A Pakistan anthology of American Quietism
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Webcasting cowboy poetry
from St. Augustine, Texas
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Penguin promotes its backlist
Pricing the backlist
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The Image Theory:
Retail Price Maintenance
& the Allure of High Prices
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Beer cans
in literature & film
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Laura Hruska has died
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The student of Robert Lowell
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The Home Video Review of Books
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Ben Lerner:
Doppler Elegies
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Thomas McCarthy, 30 years on
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Christopher Hitchens on Gore Vidal
Vidal & Mailer feuding on TV
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Matthew Fleming’s The Kingdom of Ohio
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On Gerhard Richter & John Ashbery
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Post-Avant at the Winter Olympics
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Google apologizes
to Chinese authors
Google to stop censorship
but may bail on
world’s largest market
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Zadie Smith
& “the abstractions
of a posh postmodernism”
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The Collected Poems of
Dahlia Ravikovitch
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French retailers urge
national e-book hub
France proposes
digital book swap
with Google
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3 more colleges
strike deal
not to promote Kindle
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Remembering Rachel Wetzsteon
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Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “Luella Miller”
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A better poem than “Invictus”
by W.E. Henley
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The open mic poetry scene in Utah
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The contemporary Arabic novel
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How not to read
David Foster Wallace
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Darwin & poetry
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Baker’s The Anthologist:
“a number of gems strewn
in among the quotidian hum-drum”
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Rentable textbooks
taking off
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Critical Challenges
of the Very Contemporary:
Kaplan Harris reports
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City Lights’ best-sellers
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Reading English-language books
in Paris
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Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City
has everything but plot
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The birth of
the Oregon psychedelic novel
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French novelists battle
over “theft of dead baby”
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Punctuation saves lives!
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Woe is I:
6 books on the new rules of English
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Talking with cover designer
Doogie Horner
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Marc Sheehan’s
Vengeful Hymns
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David Lodge of Nabokov’s The Original of Laura
Joyce Carol Oates flirts with Lolita
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Daniel Pritchard on Snow’s Rilke
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Poet Lore reaches 120th anniversary
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Dom Moraes
on poetry & identity in India
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A photomosaic of Misuzu Kaneko sets a new record
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Two books with Bikol poetry
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At Eureka’s Booklegger Bookstore
after the 6.5 earthquake
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Orwell’s Diaries
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3 books by Jill Alexander Essbaum
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2 reviews of Matthew Dickman’s
All-American Poem
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In praise of Philip Marlowe
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Christopher Reid:
my media
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Gil Scott-Heron
& poetry set to music
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Authors jealous of their characters
Coetzee’s new character is himself
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One last “best of ‘09” list
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Which writers repeat themselves
& which recycle?
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A talk series on the art of the book
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Louise Glück’s A Village Life
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Michael Field’s “La Gioconda”
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Charles Chesnutt:
“The Bouquet”
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A “gravely ill” Harold Bloom
cancels his classes
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What is “good writing”?
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William H. Gass:
Emerson & the Essay
The Skewed Path:
Essaying as Unmethodical Method
Collage, Montage, Mosaic,
Vignette, Episode, Segment
(reg. req. for each of these)
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Arizona State settles suit
over Kindle’s lack of access
for the vision-impaired
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Why go to grad school?
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An arts foundation goes MIA
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Reviving Ophelia:
GirlDrive & Feminists for Obama
Nona Willis Aronowitz on Progressive Radio
One of the subjects responds
Emma Bee Bernstein
at the DOVA Temporary in Chicago
in February
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Allan Kaprow:
The Artist as a Man of the World
(reg. req.)
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When the NY scene was downtown
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Barry Schwabsky on Gerhard Richter
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Don Bachardy’s self-portraits
at the Craig Krull Gallery in LA
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Chris Ofili now
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Maira Kalman at the ICA
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Garry Wills remembers David Levine
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Unraveling the myth
of Van Gogh’s “tortured soul”
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Tino Sehgal embraces reference
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The parking garage
as a form of art
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Remembering Susan Klahr
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Dennis Stock has died
Remembering Stock
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Museums opting for business
over curatorial skills
for top posts
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Talking with Tony Kushner
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Life with Harold Pinter
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NYC’s progessive theater (or not)
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Advanced aesthetics:
creators & how to stage them
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Richard Schechner:
Performance Theory
(reg. req.)
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Bingo Gazingo has died
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Matt Lau on Brody’s Godard
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Eric Rohmer est mort
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Avatar
from a black perspective
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David Lau
on Jia Zhang-Ke
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An oral history of
Over the Edge
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The prosthetic imagination
of David Lynch
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A wee excerpt from a bio of
Thelonious Monk
The women who made Monk
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Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone
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“Write in a serious way
about a mindless pop-rock song” –
Daniel Nester on The Outfield’s Your Love
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Opera:
getting a handle on Handel
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Beckett working
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The fate of Pee-Wee Herman
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Frank Lloyd Wright
in Abu Dabhi
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Design fantasies
for an obsolete
Bay Bridge span
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Henri Lefebvre:
Everyday Life in the Modern World
(reg. req.)
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Is the internet changing how you think?
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak essay collection
(part 1) (part 2)
(reg. req.)
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Foucault & Chomsky, talking
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