Marilyn Monroe & Carl Sandburg
photos surface
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Whiteout at the Poetry Society
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Robert Grenier’s
Cambridge M’ASS
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The secret life of Emily Dickinson
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“the most underrated poet in America”
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Eleanor Antin: “Geography”
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Armantrout is to Ashbery
as to who is to who
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Tuesday, February 16
in New Haven:
The Wallace Stevens Anthology,
with Susan Howe, Richard Deming, Dennis Barone,
James Finnegan & Clare Rossini
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Geoffrey Hill:
“To William Cobbett: In Absentia”
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Rafael Millán has died
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Not Why poetry?
but Why language?
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Jean Daive,
walking with Paul Celan
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Graham Foust’s A Mouth in California
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Steve Fama on Mairéad Byrne’s State House Calendar
All 49 Dusie 9 PDF chapbooks!!!
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Talking with Michael Nicoloff
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A Kimberly Lyons extravaganza
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In which The Grand Piano Collective
competes with
Werner Herzog, Marilynne Robinson & the Yes Men
(among others),
& the prize goes to Mary Ruefle
The 10 Greatest Essays, Ever
(23 lists thereof)
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Robert Hass:
“September Notebook”
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Dana Ward on
Bruce Boone’s Century of Clouds
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The “greatest generation” of poets??
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Anne Tardos: “Nine”
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Talking with David Shapiro
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Women’s Innovative Poetry:
a huge London conference
coming up in July
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Billy Collins on
Trout Fishing in America
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Does a literature of the homeless exist?
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Achebe: “Africa is people”
Not scholarly,
but filled with wisdom & passion
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Flying from Australia to SF
just to visit Specs?
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Robert Kelly:
“A Simple Room”
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Thomas Lynch’s Apparitions
& Late Fictions
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Update on the e-book war
Kindle rivals please publishers
Anne Rice partners with Vook
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Poetry in New Media:
A User’s Guide
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Vanessa Place & 750910-2155:
Lorazepam and the Valley of Skin:
Extrapolations on Los Angeles
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Diabetes (& US healthcare)
renders a poet homeless
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SF gentrification
could kill Marcus Books
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2 conferences to celebrate
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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A universal translator
still has many
linguistic rivers to cross
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In praise of blurbs
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Sunday, February 21
in Portland, OR,
Bill Berkson is reading
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Erik Anderson on
Beverly Dahlen’s A Reading 18 – 20
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Michael Scharf:
“The Res Poetica”
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Not the Olympics:
The Galiano Island Literary Festival,
British Columbia, starting Feb. 19
Versions of Vancouver
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Remembering Millie Niss
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Meet Tina Chang – Brooklyn’s new laureate
Weaving poetry into the life of Brooklyn
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Wendell Berry’s
Imagination in Place
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CA Conrad’s
“Instructions for Sex with Trees”
CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock
real & imagined
The CA Conrad / Vladimir Zykov reading
(which got snowed out)
has been rescheduled for
Thursday, Feb. 18
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Take the Poetry Noir challenge!
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Reviving Harry Stephen Keeler
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Love poems
register in the blood
On love poems
& other one-horned beasts
The linguistic
peacock-tail of love
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Travis Nichols’ Iowa
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Paul Pines on
the death of posterity
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The Call:
An Anthology of Women’s Writing
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Art is competition for the real
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The inadvertent poetics of
Google Voice
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David Foster Wallace
imagining moral fiction
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Somalia:
where poetry is revered
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Insight into Faulkner’s ground
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James Baldwin on J.D. Salinger
11 Salinger letters surface
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Aase Berg’s With Deer
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Bin Ramke’s Theory of Mind
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Publishing giants
win a round
re pricing via Google
A new message from
John Sargent of Macmillan
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The Nook finally ships
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Elizabeth Marie Young’s
Aim Straight at the Fountain
and Press Vaporize
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Robert Creeley’s
library for sale
(D-L)
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Gary Snyder
writes a MacPoem
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Don DeLillo
& the curse of self-parody
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Lots of recordings available
from this year’s
Key West Literary Seminar
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Claudia Keelan’s Missing Her
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Carol Ann Duffy’s Love Poems
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Indiana Pacers’ owner
rescues Kirkus
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The Station Bookswap
(we have one
at the Paoli SEPTA/Amtrak stop)
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Dennis Maloney’s Just Enough
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The Guardian celebrates
cowboy poetry
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Eleanor Wilner:
“Encounter in the Local Pub”
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Remembering Dave Christy
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David Antin talks in Philly,
Tuesday, February 16:
Rethinking Freud – Taking Freud
Out of Psychoanalysis
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Rachel Zucker, Joan Houlihan & Brenda Hillman
viewed from afar
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Mathew Timmons’ Credit
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How many “great books”
go unfinished?
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Fuck yeah NYRB Classics!
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Beyond the Words:
a linguistics conference in Leipzig
in May
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M.L. Liebler,
promoting Detroit’s literary scene
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Talking with Kevin Sampsell
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Applying a calculus of writing
to a classic
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“Displaced agency in social space”
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Alfred Corn on
Borges’ Buenos Aires
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Anne Caston’s Judah’s Lion
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Talking with Vera Pavlova
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Remixing the Odyssey
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Poetry in medicine
(& vice versa)
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& how “creative writing” does likewise
The problem of endings
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Restoring books in Mumbai
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Lisa Olstein’s Lost Alphabet
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The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse
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Bob Hicock:
“i am the ventriloquist, dummy”
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9 poems by Steven Manuel
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Phony author signatures =
$120K in fines &
33 months in jail
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Sampling & Axolotl Roadkill
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Peter Handke’s
cerebral Don Juan
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PoetSpeak,
a DIY audio poetry site
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Tolstoy: the renunciation artist
Tolstoy on Lincoln
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TC Boyle’s “rollicking” Wild Child
Boyle, Jim Harrison & Amy Bloom
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Best books of the 21st century
(mostly Quietist perspectives)
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Talking with Wayne Miller
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Brooks Thomas,
who fought against “fair use” & won,
has died
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Split This Rock
poetry festival,
Washington, DC
March 10-13
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Talking with Papo
(Jesús Papoleto Meléndez)
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A capsule version of
A Clockwork Orange
Literature’s best drugs?
William Burroughs & the Rolling Stones
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How Stanley Elkin
predicted Rush Limbaugh
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In New York, February 24,
a tribute to Max Blecher (1909-1938)
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Listening to erotica
Martin Amis’
boring sexual revolution
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Book jacket of the year, already?
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Books banned by the Texas prisons
Iran blocks GoodReads
Watching anti-censorship
chase its own
tail
Use a flash card,
go to jail
Censorship &
Thomas Merton’s
Seven Storey Mountain
What to do with the N-word
in Huck Finn?
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The deadline for submissions to
Steampunk Reloaded
has passed
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Muldoon to give Turnbull lecture
at Johns Hopkins
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Norman Mailer & food
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Six digit print runs
for new graphic novels
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A photograph of Larry Leavis
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Nico Vassilakis:
towardS
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The New York Times’
“Nifty 50”
up-&-comers
mostly in the arts
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Yosi Sergant
& the art of
right-wing hysteria
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Donna Haraway on Avatar
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Talking with Natalie Merchant
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Eliot & music
in Starkville, Mississippi
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The return of Gil Scott-Heron
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Sam Shepard:
aiming to be less “clunky”
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Vonnegut as theater in Toronto
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Wes Anderson’s
Spiderman reboot
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The Istanbul Film Festival
offers several films free on-line
with English subtitle
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American Psycho,
the musical
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Ruslan & Ludmilla,
based on the poem by Pushkin,
with English subtitles
(in multiple parts on YouTube)
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Cross-dressing
& the new media avant-garde
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Chuck Close
joins Obama arts’ advisors
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A gallery of photographs by
Linh Dinh
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In Rome,
contemporary art in an old brewery
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Gorky comes to the Tate
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A painting by Gregory Corso
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Robert Smithson:
Learning from New Jersey
& Elsewhere
(reg. req.)
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Homage to JG Ballard
at the London Gagosian
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Using math
to detect art fakes
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The fate of the art work
of Haiti
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A symposium on
The Art of the Steal
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Up for auction:
the Polaroid collection
“Instant, but timeless” –
a slide show
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Alexander McQueen is dead
The dark star of internation fashion
NY Times video
What McQueen meant
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A profile of Jeff Beck
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Edmund White on Patti Smith
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Islamic women
who love rock & roll
Finding god in a rock guitar
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Zinn-ophobia at NPR
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Bernard Henri-Lévy’s “botulism” problem
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Arthur Koestler
(with a revealing aside
re Walter Benjamin)
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Philosophy Talk:
the radio program that questions everything,
but your intelligence…
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Who poisoned Descartes?
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Christopher Hitchens has no clothes
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New nouns
in the vocabulary of
atrocity
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On the Road – the real story
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