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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The poet is In

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The best discussion
of torque in poetry
I’ve ever read

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Linh Dinh
talking with
Barry Schwabsky

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Seymour Hersh
on Bush’s plan
to bomb Iran

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Who Won in Iraq?

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Try to imagine
the worst possible jury
for a major literary prize

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Good writers,
flawed humans

(What about Pound, Celine, Rimbaud,
Althusser, Grass?)

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Gandalf vs. the downloaders

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The Greatest Living Author
in the
British Isles is…

(& it does mention Tom Raworth!)

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A profile of Miles Champion

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When Bern Porter ran for governor
as a Republican

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Poetry & coal

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“Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers

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Censorship continues
to be an issue

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Jail for blogging

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A profile of
The Erotic Poetry Workshop
for Survivors
of Sexual Abuse

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More poetry from Gitmo

& this old link
still works

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J.M. Coetzzee
on
Hugo Claus

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Our western Thoreau

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In praise of
Rigoberto González

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Baroness Else von Freytag-Loringhoven,
Edith Sitwell
&
Mary-Kate Olsen

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Creeley fell under the spell of Williams early

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Searching for
the quintessential D.C. poet
but
missing the obvious

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Susan Sontag’s
last book

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A festschrift for the late May Swenson
every one of whose
own books are now out of print

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Longfellow vs. Seuss

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Count the clichés
in
The Fall of Rome

There are a few less
in “Atlantis

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This might explain
The New York Times Book Review

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The Blame the Reader
theory of literature

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Talking with
Gay Talese
of the non-fiction life

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How to write
nanotales

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The impact of the
Scrotum Hoohah?

Increased sales!

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“Free Press
Free Art
Free Love”

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A profile
of Thomas Chimes

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Not a big fan
of Mark McGowan

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Tom Devaney
on
Charles Bernstein

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A remembrance
of Emmett Williams

& an interview
with same

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Merilene Murphy
dead at 51

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Book sales are steady
but not in bookstores

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Can Poetry mutter?

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Who reads Auden?

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“It’s been a long time
since I met
a young fanatic
for Pound or Zukofsky”

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The PGW Bankruptcy Settlement

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George Lewis
on the
Association for the Advancement
of Creative Musicians

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A portrait
of John Ash

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A portrait
of Rodney Jones

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The Longfellow
bicentennial
gathers a little steam

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Langdon Hammer
on
Paul Muldoon

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Pinsky in Qatar

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Viggo the poet,
Viggo the photographer

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Spalding Gray’s
last work

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Reading Frost
as a rugged individualist

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Friedrich Nietzsche,
American idol

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Tennessee Williams,
drama queen

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James Michener,
writer or philanthropist

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A conference on
the late Yemeni poet
Hussein Abu Baker Al-Mehdar

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The center of the art world –
Liverpool

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Art and race

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When around paintings,
think $$$

I mean, seriously

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But ICA Boston
has its way
with CultureGrrl

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Dia begins to fill
some holes

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War against
the Albright-Knox

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Corporate funding
for the arts
declines

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O Alberta!

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A new ABCs
for the arts

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The scandal
o’er
scrotum

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The case of the
plagiarized pianist

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As languages dwindle

Saturday, February 17, 2007

A terrific anthology
of contemporary poetry
from
Taiwan
edited by Shin Yu Pai

7 poets
each with an interview,
& the poems
include a couple of sound files
and a video
realization
of Chen Li’s
War Symphony

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The rest of
Fascicle 3
is no slouch either

with an Eritrean portfolio
including translations from
Tigrinya, Tigre & Arabic

poetry from over 50 poets,
new work by Alexei Parshchikov
(gotta wonder about that
translation strategy
tho),
whole chapbooks
by Allyssa Wolf
&
Vicente Huidobro,
work by Harry Crosby
plus an essay on Crosby
by D.H. Lawrence,
plus
Roberto Tejada on Clayton Eshleman,
Kevin Killian on George Oppen
Graham Foust on Looking
Mark Wallace on P. Inman

& oodles more

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Also up online
with a ton of reviews
is the latest
Galatea Resurrects,
a magazine
done entirely in Blogger

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Noisiest home page
for a new mag
goes to
Mad Hatters’ Review

Where Joe Amato
has some new poetry
&
Lynda Schor
offers an interview
& a “whatnot
with tips on diapering

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Artie Gold
one of
Montreal’s
Vehicule poets

& a fine, fine fellow
died Wednesday

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A praise day
in memory of
Diane Burns

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The politics of slams

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What I like best
about this review
of the history of poets
at Harvard
is that the author
can’t spell
Charles Olson

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Looking at the Booker
from the vantage
of
India

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Vaclav Havel
in
America

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Rodney Jones
wins
$100K poetry prize

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The Stephen King of his day

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Trying to forget
the dreariness of Auden
"in his cups"
in order to celebrate
the centennial

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O Anna
Akhmatova!

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The blindness
of Borges

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Greg Tate
on
Bob Dylan
as the future of rap

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The Ashbery Bridge

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Viggo, reading

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If you thought Dan Brown
was dreadful,
wait till you read
the Dan Brown Wannabes

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Banksy gone bad

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Fluffing your aura
to make it
even more real

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The problems of conserving
contemporary painting

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Howard Hodgkin at the Yale

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Saving classical music

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And if,
on March 2nd,
you should find yourself
in
Atlanta
at the AWP,
check this out:

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Eric von Schmidt
one of the best
of the ‘60s folkies
has died

(2nd Row, 3rd Right
remains one of the great
albums of that decade)

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Moneyball
and
Poetry

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A view of the Nigerian poetry scene

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John Ashbery
at his best

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Yes, ‘Señor’ Fluffy

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Quincy Troupe
in Austin

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Before there was Neal & Jack,
there was Sam & Bill

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Marcel & James
just said no

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But did Bill
know Fletcher?

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Bidding
for Kim Addonizio’s
thong

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Interviewing Steve Swallow
about
Robert Creeley

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An interview with
Neil Gaiman

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Talking with
Nate Mackey

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Quoting
Louis Menand

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Talking with
Nikki Giovanni

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The Independent Press Association
has folded

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Modernism
comes to the Corcoran

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New music
and the blogosphere

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The ontology of
Second Life

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Writers in Turkey
have no choice
but to be
public intellectuals

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the voice of
British Asian poetry”

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Why are there no
great Braille poets?

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The best selling book
in
America
won’t be published
until July

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Stanley Fish
turns on the radio

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Jonathan Mayhew
gives
good snowclone

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Of Barbara Jane Reyes

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Amanda Nadelberg
on
Lisa Lubasch

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The last hurrah
of the Berkeley Renaissance

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O’Dowd against Chick Lit

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Or you could try this

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Free the Ulysses Two!

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Hoohaa!

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Edwin Morgan at 86

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Look at this article in its
”printable view”
and the example
doesn’t look like
”condensed language”
in the slightest,
just a pleonast’s
sloppy prose

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“Poetry
should be as well written
as prose
(Rebecca Brown
quoting Pound)

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Why theme-based
anthologies
are a joke

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The battle over aesthetics
sends in the clowns

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Yes,
conservatives
really are like that

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For example,
Al Alvarez

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The book as new tech,
ja?

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Jasper Johns
talking with
John Yau
about artists, O’Hara,
Sitwell & UFOs

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Digital text is different

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Why tags
are like poetry
(talking with Tom Mandel)

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This week’s
“death-of-indie-bookstores”
article
cites this blog
right down to Curtis
in the comments stream

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Tom King
made the 1,000,000th
visit here

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The first review
of David Shapiro’s
Selected Poems

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A portrait of
Steve Clay
of
Granary Books

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Talking with
Michael Gizzi

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This time
it’s not a net hoax:
Bush is trying
to gut funding
for NPR & PBS

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The Brutalists
&
the Offbeat

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Racism as criticism
at the
National Book Critics Circle

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Time to read

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Not for sale

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Wordsworth, Coleridge
& somehow
Van Morrison

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An oddball piece
on Zbignew Herbert

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Paul Muldoon
being in the moment

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Anne Fairbairn,
connecting Arab poetry
to Australian lit

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Frosty, the snow job

(what’s wrong with Irish poetry)

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Designing book covers

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“The only people writing
should be those who must write,
I scrawl in a notebook
as I sit on the side of the running bath
while my young son
makes duck noises
at me.”

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Quintessence

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Three Palestinian poets

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The ambiguous William Empson

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UC sues Derrida’s family
over archive

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Penguin’s novel novel
is a wiki

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

photo courtesy of Woollahra Library

What readings look like
down under –
the 2006
Valentine’s Day reading
on the shores of
Sydney Harbour
(but you can’t hear
the giant fruit bats
quarrelling in the trees
or the
MacDonnell Douglas DC3
as it flies overhead,
so says John Tranter)

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Tracking keywords
in George W’s
state of the onion
messages

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Does Boston
need
a poet laureate
when it already has
Bill Corbett?

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An anthology of the history
of Puerto Rican
poetries

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Poetry & public language

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ROVA
comes to Philadelphia

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From Corinthians
to Creeley

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First prize:
most clichés
in one interview

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The impact of PGW’s
bankruptcy
on small presses

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Meanwhile, the creditors
are in court

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And the blogs are dishing

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Talking with
Linton Kwesi Johnson

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Talking with
Danielle Legros Georges

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What 11 poets
are reading

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A review of
Pat Mora’s
Adobe Odes

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Translating Lorca

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The British Library
goes begging

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Torquato Tasso
hiding
in plain sight

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A misleading
but positive
story about new
indie bookstores

(yes, there have been
90 or so new bookshops
in each of the last two years,
but roughly 260 others
close each year)

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Righteous Babe
goes to church

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Auden’s executor

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Gilbert and George
go to the Tate

They talk, too

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“The library is on fire

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