Coming to the Bowery Poetry Club
Saturday, June 23
(also, Boston, Cambridge, Danbury,
Nyack
& back in NYC
over the next ten days),
the great folk ensemble
of Tuva,
Alash
I heard them jamming on Monday
with members of
the Sun Ra Arkestra,
& it was,
to quote
”mind blowing”
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A guide to
Chinua Achebe
Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
on Achebe
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Talking with
”Downriver Dan”
Featherston
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Pol tries to explain
his support for
the
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Is poetry “the news”?
the Poethics
of the Found Text
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Finally…
those Boots of Spanish Leather
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Writers who rock,
rockers who write
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Ti Jean’s scroll
goes home to Lowell
On the Road
as your summer travel guide
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American Poets in the 21st Century:
another POV
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Pierre Joris
responds to my footnote
re Poems for the Millennium
Vol 2
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Why the Pirahã
don’t have numbers
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The joy
of used books
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Celebrating the 100th birthday of
Antonio Delfini
by awarding
a lifetime achievement prize
to Tom Raworth
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“a poet as much as
(or even more than)
…a novelist”
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DieKu
is tombstone haiku
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Another nice obit
for
Richard Rorty
Rorty’s last interview
is in the new Progressive
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Three women poets
of the
Harlem Renaissance
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Lee Nagrin’s
last laugh
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A conference on
the history of
Tamil poetry
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Beowulf
the comic
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A podcast series
of Filipino poetry
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Celebrating the bicentennial
of John Greenleaf Whittier
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“At night Chinamen jump”
&
what really happens
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Robert Penn
fighting the Enlightenment
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Talking with
Marilyn Shelton
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Reading Akhmatova
in Tehran
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Translation wins
”best novel in English”
award
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A perfect prescription
for bad poetry:
”larger themes
with lyric intensity”
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A changing of the guard
in Pleasanton
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Talking with
Tony Hoagland
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A Calder breeds dragons
in the DC ‘burbs
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The street sculptures
of Mark Jenkins
mostly are made of
Scotch Tape
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This list of
the 5 most beautiful
museums in America
(exteriors only)
includes a former
box factory
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Merwin or McKuen,
you decide
And even more
(I always thought
Rod was better
than that)
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Ousmane Sembène,
the great African filmmaker
& novelist,
has died
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Outsourcing journalism:
the next fun fad?
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Why arts coverage
in daily papers
matters
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Nicholas Kristof’s
Iraq Poetry Contest
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Sheila E. Murphy
interviewing
Peter Ganick
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More on the laureate’s revolt
of
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Children’s laureate’s
radical idea –
books!
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This year’s
Pew Fellows
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Greg Djanikian’s
latest book
The “Armenian Reznikoff”
is that rarest of creatures,
a poet who went to my high school
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Things fall apart,
but the Booker Prize
goes to
Chinua Achebe
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“Our state's libraries'
greatest patron
since Andrew Carnegie.”
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Andrew Keen
wants to be the next
Hilton Kramer
but it won’t work
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Lit bloggers
are generally pissed-off
(What is it Sartre says
about the political value
of resentment?)
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan.
executive director
of the
at
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Evicting small presses
from Richard Hugo House
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The AA Independent Press Guide
(AA in this instance
refers to
Acid Angel)
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Talking with
Farideh Hassanzadeh
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Poetry &/or patriotism
in Iran
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Concerning Martin Amis’
declaration
that poetry is in decline
(maybe he means
his kind of poetry)
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Discovering a new poet,
Wallace Stevens
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When bad things
happen to good people,
the Bureau of Prisons
bans books
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The Rupert Brooke market
deflates
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Reviving Leonard Michaels
(one of the great
writers of short fiction)
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Billy Collins’
editor
departs
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Truth, advertising,
art poop
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Dishing it out
but not taking it
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Monument
to
Sol Lewitt
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Kenny Goldsmith’s Traffic
now available
as a book
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Tim Peterson’s
report
of the Gil Ott
memorial reading
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For $250,
you can walk across
the Brooklyn Bridge
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Google’s “Book Project”
(aka Pirates of Silicon Valley)
is joined by
the
& the 11 schools
in the
“Big Ten”
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Emory offers
a different model
for digitizing its library,
one that respects copyright
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And then
there is the other extreme,
Mr. Joyce
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Direct democracy
comes to
Nassau poets
take laureateship
into their own hands
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A profile of
Ken Babstock
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Poets & the chronicler
of Avenue A
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A profile of
Dan Waber
&
Jennifer Hill-Kaucher
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500 years of Hebrew poetry
from Spain
translated by Peter Cole
& reviewed by
Harold Bloom
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Slamming at
the House of Hunger
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The
Poetry Conference
is at it again
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The Poet Laureate
of
Alexandria, VA
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Leonard Nathan,
a poet who taught rhetoric at
has died
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The
No one under 65
need apply
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What’s new in the dictionary
over on the islands
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Remembering
Ponatshego Mokane
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Book Expo
for a small market
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Music critics
are getting the ax also
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A review of
Zoe Strauss’
first New York solo show
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Two photos by
Nick Ut
taken on the same day
35 years apart
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Ken Rumble
is the latest addition
to Kate Greenstreet’s
first-book
interview blog
Cold Front review
of aforementioned
first book
& another
from Mathias Svalina
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A profile
(from the UK)
of Jonathan Lethem
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Your next
pen & paper?
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Techno tsunami
floods
Book Expo
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Laureate nixed
over peace poems
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Edwidge Danticat:
”Marie Micheline”
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The slam poet
whose day job
is working as
a school security guard
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Dan Chiasson
on Les Murray
in The New Yorker
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Robert Pinsky
on burning books
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23-year-old wins
the Urdd Eisteddfod,
a poetry slam
dating back to
1176
(not a typo)
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BS from abroad:
” the unmistakable heir
of the Emerson and Whitman
who so ecstatically
hymned flux”
(being of course
the least
Whitman-like author
alive)
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An assistant editor
for The American Conservative
reviews
a School of Quietude Poet
for Rev. Moon’s
Washington Times
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A review of
the most pompous
translator
of our time
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Poetry of
the Six-Day War
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Speed dating for book proposals
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More newspapers
have begun
laying off arts critics
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Caribbean poetry
published in Zimbabwe
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What Ray Bradbury
thought he wrote
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The Poetry Society of Oklahoma
hosts confab
of the like-minded
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Daniel Libeskind
& the building
as
”open sore”
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The
Philip Johnson
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Peter Schjeldahl
on
Richard Serra
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Barry Schwabsky
on
Gordon Matta-Clark
(subscription required)
photo © 2006 by Gordon Ball (Courtesy of Jacket)
A fabulous
photo essay
on Allen Ginsberg & Co.
by Gordon Ball
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50 years ago this week,
Howl
was busted
in Britain
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A history & exhibition
of
The Fugs
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The dog & pony show
is in
&
on line
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What’s your font?
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The number of titles
published each year
is nearing
300,000
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Gabriel García Márquez
goes home
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Magee’s Emerson
as the founding father
of flarf
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Talking with Jack Mapanje,
poet & one-time
political prisoner
of
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Asked
if they’d read any
good books lately,
Dave Eggers
lists C.D. Wright
&
Edwidge Danticat
lists Nikki Giovanni
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Talking with
George Bowering
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William Meredith,
one of the quietest
of the School of Quietude,
has died
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Geoffrey G. O’Brien
on
John Ashbery’s “Clepsydra”
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The importance
of destroying a language
(your own)
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Mark Harris
has died
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Talking with
Eleni Sikelianos
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On the Road
(Swiss version)
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Interfaces + Recursion
= Language?
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Talking with
Orhan Pamuk
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Against
the idea
of poetry
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Paul Portuges
on 2Pac
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Talking with
Allison Knowles
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An oral history
of the
Subtext
reading series
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More on the life
& death
of
Sarah Hannah
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Talking with
Billy
Collins
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Howard Zinn
on the end
of newspaper
book reviews
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drops its critics
The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
defends
its arts coverage
while it’s laid-off
book reviewer
gets a job
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BEA
considers
the future (if any)
of book reviews
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Who controls
an author’s
estate?
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The close connection
between
business & poetry
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The Poetry Foundation
wins a webby
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Novelists slum
in the New Gutter
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Dialog as critique:
on
Michael Rothenberg
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PENNsound
makes it to
the leader’s quadrant
of
”Approval Matrix”
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Dada, Gary Snyder
& environmental action
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A profile of
Nancy Botkin
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Jim Behrle
on the website of Poetry:
”The Ex-Laureates”
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Getting wild & crazy
at Poetry
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Giving up poetry
for politics
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A profile of
David Malouf
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Where are the children’s books
denouncing gay rights,
affirmative action
& promoting gun ownership?
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Why Hal Meyerson
is the best
political columnist
in the
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Yoshi’s
pulls
a commemorative
but not representative
CD
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Talking with
Richard Serra
& a profile
of the retrospective
at MoMA
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A seriously
pre-digital
camera
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Joe Goode
in
Humansville
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Yoko Ono
eats a corgi
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.
