Showing posts with label Passings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passings. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Monday, March 22, 2010

Hissa Hilal defies death threats,
reaches finals of Million’s Poets
Robin Tremblay-McGaw
on The Truth About Ted
A blog for Marianne Moore
Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution
Talking with Charles Bernstein
Mahmoud Darwish: “To a Young Poet”
March 27 @ the Bowery Poetry Club:
Lynn Behrendt & Vanessa Place
Larry Eigner: “One of a Series”
John Taggart’s Pyramid Canon

Tuesday, March 16, 2010


L-R: Stephanie Young, Taylor Brady, Samantha Giles & Lasana M. Sekou
Lasana M. Sekou
at Mills & Small Press Traffic
Sekou’s collections of short stories
The Flashpoint David Jones issue is awesome!
Curtis Faville:
Editing Eigner’s Collected
(Part 1) (Part 2)
A gathering of responses to Larry Eigner
Steve Fama on the issue of margins
Melville at the margins
Barry Schwabsky on the Selected Poems of Samuel Beckett
Vincent Katz: Editing Vanitas
Talking with Tina Chang

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Tom Devaney:
On Bear’s Head
More where this came from
Leslie Scalapino:
The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom
The Poetry Center Book Award goes to
The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
(Guest is the first two-time winner of the award)
28 years of winners
David Nolan,
longtime poetry audio guru,
has passed away
Correcting 9,000 typos in
Finnegans Wake
Close reading aloud:
Rae Armanrout, Linh Dinh, Tom Devaney & Al Filreis
on the work of Kit Robinson

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

John Tranter.jpg

Talking with John Tranter

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Alli Warren & Suzanne Stein:
“A Poetics”

On ON:Contemporary Practice 2,
the event

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Nicole Brossard: Essays on Her Works

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Margaret Atwood & the end of the world

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Who are today’s innovative poets?

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Christian Bök & ALICE
read Sunset Debris

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The “Feminaissance” is upon us

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Some new poems by Jennifer Bartlett

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Charles Bernstein in Chicago

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A profile of Albert Huffstickler

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Maxine Chernoff:
“Embedded in the Language”

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Borges’ lost translations

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Humphrey Davies in Cairo

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The Best Translated Book Awards:
the poetry finalists

& for fiction

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Charyn’s Dickinson

Lives Like Loaded Guns

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Gerrymandering the canon

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Penguin’s series
of “new African writers
is anything but new

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Georgelle Hirliman,
the Writer in the Window,
has died

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NY Times obit for Lucille Clifton

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The Fred Wah Digital Archive

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Kenneth Rexroth’s columns
for the San Francisco Examiner
50 years to the day
of their original publication

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Exiled Bangladesh author
gets “last” Indian visa

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Quietude vs. quiet

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Zadie Smith’s rules for writers

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Just:
7 contributors, 100 words

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Dolly Freed & Radiohead Journalism

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Talking with Shauna Singh Baldwin

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2 anthologies
with completely different
approaches to the world

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Books, Inc.’s formula for success

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A new indie bookshop
pops up in Toronto

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How to invent a word

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Russian book obsessives

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Disintermediating writing

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The most exciting time ever
to be a writer?

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SF celebrates book- binding
(with a terrific gallery of images)

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Great Philip K. Dick covers

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The Windup Girl

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Typewriter sculpture robot woman

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iPad e-book prices
may be lower than expected

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Who’s afraid of digital book piracy?

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Print on demand instant bookstore

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Post-it notes like leaves of grass

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Criticism is not dying

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The Philadelphia Poetry Map

The cartographer’s p.o.v.

Nowhere Mag,
please listen….

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Real Poetry

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Writers helping writers. Or not.

Lazlo Toth” did it better

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The home of the Ancient Mariner

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Literary classics that
ought to be video games

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Self-revising textbooks?

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James Joyce,
anticipating the cell phone,
1922

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Great bookcases

Bibliophile porn
(I plead guilty!)

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Aaron Kunin’s The Mandarin

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Is Paul Guest invalid?

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Wallace Stevens & the dharma

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Laredo’s library to fill void
with no bookstores left
within 150 miles

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Nation’s libraries:
more use, less funding

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WSU Vancouver
takes on
Richard Brautigan’s
library of 400 unpublished books

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Writing that ought to offend you

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John Martone on squirrels

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Wilfred Owen in hell

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1984:
the Brazilian puppet show

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The world’s hardest writers

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Dr. Jeckyll & Ms. Highsmith

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Top 10 unreliable narrators

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Ellison’s editor

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The literature of passing

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Assassination fantasy poem
lands white supremacist in jail

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Visiting Slaughterhouse Five

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No museum
for Kipling’s Mumbai home

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Boston branch libraries at risk

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Shocking True Story

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A linguistics masters in
Language & cultural diversity

frothy carnage

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The poet as rest stop

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$9M for the librarian’s memoir

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Byron archive goes to Drew U.

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At the Brontë Parsonage Museum

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How the Irish (& Welsh) invented love

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Twinkling clichés by Samuel Menashe

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Newsonomics

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Random reading

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The big cringe:
Iris Murdoch’s teen diaries

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Life with the Brownings
goes onstage

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Socialist books in the Obama White House?

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David Ignatius on Don DeLillo

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The stories of von Kleist

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A ghost story from Lafcadio Hearn

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Poets & Writers awards
for 2010

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Did Rowling plagiarize Potter?

No she did not

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Thomas Lynch’s “heart of hearts”

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Sylvia Plath + Gary Snyder = D.A. Powell?

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Should Salinger have been allowed to retire?

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Separated at birth?
Salinger & Kerouac

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Jack Kerouac in polite society
& Lenny Bruce on Fox News
??

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Mornings with Mailer

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A found review of
Peter O’Leary’s Benedicite

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5 questions for
Nona Willis Aronowitz

Laura Hinton
on the strangeness of GirlDrive

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The Hong Kong Arts Festival

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Antecedents
to Jeff Wall’s The Mantid

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Talking with Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch

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Scorsese’s Hitchcock

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The Birth of a Nation at 95

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Roger Ebert now

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Responding to Mein Kampf

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For its new wing,
the MFA rolls out a masterpiece
(check out the video)

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Akimov’s posters

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Behind the scenes at Classical Comics

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The sculptures of Viola Frey

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Thiebaud’s humor

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David Levine:
an audio portrait

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Before she was Patti Smith

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Gordon Lightfoot is not dead

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Doug Fieger has died

Sherman Alexie’s “Ode to My Sharona”

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The Vatican’s Top 10 list

A conspicuous omission

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Rats

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Derrida’s post-deconstructive realism

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Bernard-Henri Lévy
caught quoting fiction philosopher

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The 7 Americas of Facebook

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