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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Gloria Helfgott,
one of the first great
contemporary book artists,
has died

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The Tom Phillips
fetishism project

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The UPI obit
for Mary Ellen Solt

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Barrett Watten
visits
Buchenwald

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100 years
of Gertrude & Alice

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Shanna Compton
deconstructs
Curtis Faville
over POD publishing

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Like a Prisoner of Soft Words

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Like Something Flying Backwards:
a big selected poems
for C.D. Wright
in the
U.K.

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The NYR of Books
on
Roberto Bolaño

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Is poetry
the new black?

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Accessibility
vs.
difficulty
in Nigerian poetry

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Endangered sound patterns

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The largest Federal literature program
since the WPA

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A collective book review
of Brenda Hillman

by Marjorie Welish, Graham Foust, Evie Shockley,
C.D. Wright, Forrest Gander, Carol Snow,
Robert Hass, Michael Davidson, Claudia Keelan,
Robert Kaufman, Norma Cole, Marjorie Perloff,
Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Juliana Spahr, Calvin Bedient,
Reginald Shepherd, Cole Swensen, Elizabeth Robinson,
Nathaniel Tarn, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell,
Patricia Dienstfrey & Michael Palmer

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Four feminist poets
from Tamil

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Poetry
at Juvenile Hall

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Channeling
Carol Muske-Dukes

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JT Leroy’s
real secret:
she can write

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Phillip K. Dick’s
canonization
continues

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A memoir of minimalism

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Another tribute
to
Lenny Michaels

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Writers workshops
for indigenous peoples

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Remembering
Ayyappa Paniker,
Malayalam modernist

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Talking with
David Ray

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The song collector

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To dream
the impossible dream

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The Publisher’s Weekly
review of

The Age of Huts (compleat)
uncut

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Poetry & Second Life

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Robert Pinsky
on
Carl Phillips

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Poetry as beach reading,
a conservative U.K. view

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Kermode on Housman

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Poetry
why bother?

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Publishing
why bother?

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Talking with
Jane Alberdeston Coralin

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Fractured fairy tales

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Closing Antioch:
Where goeth the archives?

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OSU Press
putting the backlist online

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Chase Twitchell
against the egg-heads

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Finish These Sentences

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The latest
Wikipedia vs. research nonsense

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Art
and/or
words

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The legacy of
Hélio Oitícica

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The importance now
of the London
art market

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Street art escapades
(there’s a reason
they call it
Dumbo)

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A ‘Nobel Prize”
for manga

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An Eames
centennial

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Dylan plays Woodstock

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A profile of
Ornette Coleman

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The Family Jewels

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My species,
my self

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Mary Ellen Solt,
a pioneer of vispo,
has died

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Some translations Ms. Solt
might have approved of:

Ron Padgett of Francis Picabia

Sean Bonney’s Baudelaire

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Literary bloggers
seen as a threat

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Of UbuWeb the Magnificent,
an interview

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A survey of British poetry
in the 1990s

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Scream on!

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Reviving
The Mersey Sound

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A NY Times obit
for Nazik al-Malaika

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Talking with
Ric Royer

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The 2007 Bay Area
Poetry Marathon

day 2
is today

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Some terrific readings coming up
at Moe’s Books, in
Berkeley:

Monday, July 2:
The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals

Monday, July 9:
Michael McClure & Diane DiPrima

Monday, July 23:
David Bromige & Richard Denner

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Nanoethics

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Ploughshares
has a blog

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One press
that is doing very well,
thank you

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Viewing Christa Wolf
from the right

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A profile of
QuickMuse

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Published is published!

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Fact & fiction
in Günter Grass’
confessions

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Problems of the midlist
black novelist

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Language anxiety

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Google & the news

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Fiction vs. fiction
in the trial of
JT Leroy

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Marine-Speak

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Sir Salman
in the Sea of Blasphemy

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Internationalizing graduate education
in
Europe
by teaching in English

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The anti-God market

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Found!

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Talking with
Mario Vargas Llosa

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Last-chance attempts
to save the Barnes

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77 Million Paintings

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The cost of “free admission

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1,000 films to see
before you die

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The book machine

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Poet Rahim al-Maliki
killed in Baghdad blast

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Coming to Rushdie’s defense
in Pakistan

but not in The West

The New York Times
speaks up
in Rushdie’s defense
sorta

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Two readings by Joe Ceravolo
(MP3s)

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Rediscovering
Egbert Martin

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Janine Pommy Vega –
not a delicate creature

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Jack Spicer
reading
Language
(MP3)

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Faculty Status at Antioch Campuses

Campus

Full-Time Tenured

Full-Time Tenure Track

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track

Part-Time

Antioch College

26

13

7

0

Los Angeles

0

0

18

5

McGregor (distance education)

0

0

27

57

New England

0

0

43

92

Santa Barbara

0

0

7

57

Seattle

0

0

36

79

Guess which campus is closing?

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JT Leroy
is busted

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Why so many archives
go to Austin

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Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr.
gets more attention
for having his
Nassau County
laureateship
nixed

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Creeley & Stein’s translator
brings Scottish poetry
to
Brazil

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What the collapse
of AMS/PGW
means to the large
independent publishers

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Two readings by
John Godfrey
(MP3s)

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A new poetry column
in the News & Observer
of
Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill, NC
tries to quiet down
all that
Lucipo-Desert City stuff

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Philip Lopate
on
Lenny Michaels

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The American Iliad

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Poets picking poets
(plus a book
from a working-class hero
who just happens
to be married
to Dorianne Laux)

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A U.S. obit
for
Nazek Al Malaika

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Jessica Fischer,
Yale Younger Poet
& the latest
protégé
of Milosz & Hass

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Concluding
online publication
of a book
on Oromo poetry

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Home of the Hoosier Poet

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Poems about
”byres, beds, bogs and bicycles,
weather, townlands,
candlesticks
and a council pump”

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The Gioia of reading
on CNN

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One of the stranger ideas
on how to fund poetry

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Librarians vs. the FBI

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Galway Kinnell
at 80

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This poet is earning
an MD

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David Harsent’s Selected Poems
dealt with
in under 200 words

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My place was always
left-center, a little to the rear

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Roberto Bolaño
as seen from the
U.K.

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Being Shelley

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Littlefoot:
a poem by Charles Wright

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A prize for poetry
in Ireland

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The Poetry Circle of the Air:
on Maxine Kumin

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True poetry is always noble and moral

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The letters of
A.E. Housman

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Maja Ratkje
live in Paris

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The ordinary reader

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Fighting to save
internet radio

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Summer o’ Love
redux

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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Juan Ramón Jiménez:
sex with the nuns

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Poetry from Guantanamo
(video,
may require subscription
to the Wall Street Journal)

An article about the book
in which these poems appear

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37 years in exile,
Iraqi poet
Nazek Al Malaika
dies in Cairo

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Juliana Spahr’s
The Transformation

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You do the math:
parataxis
in John Ashbery & Lyn Hejinian

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A review of Hettie Jones

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Rescuing Canadian neglectorinos

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Interviewing Charles Bernstein
from
Bengal

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Made Beautiful by Use

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Chris Stroffolino,
pro-Beatnik

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Why is Rushdie a knight?

Why he should be

Nominating committee
proves clueless

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JT Leroy
appears
at his/her trial

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Librarian fending off
the attack of
the Blog People

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Pimp my Bookcart!

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Remembering Michael Hamburger

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The teacher who slams

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Implications
of the decline
in newspaper critics

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According to HFN,
the Home Furnishing News
trade mag,
Barnes & Noble is testing
furniture sales

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Harvard Book Store
hits 75

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Translating Urdu poetry

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A Fringe Fest
for London’s Book Expo

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The Great British Novel:
a contradiction in terms?

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Flannery O’Connor,
Betty Hester
(& Brad Gooch!)

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Seeking the 19th century
for expats in Osaka

The real (19th century) deal
in Boston

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One free book
for each 11-year-old
in the country

(now about their parents…)

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Aiming to spoil
Harry Potter

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E-paper inches closer

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Gioia at Stanford:
art before celebrity

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The cult of the amateur 2.0

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The boy who would not speak

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Stephen Vincent’s
brief career
as an installation

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Art student
strikes gold

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Like Bambi
in a bloodbath

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Who’s at Documenta

& who
wishes they weren’t

The NY Times
takes it more seriously

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Peter Schjeldahl
on the
Venice Biennale

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Seeing red
on
Mount Blanc

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Form failing function
puts modernist architecture
at risk

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People in glass houses
dot dot dot

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The naked museum

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Learning to really hate
John Zorn