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Saturday, September 22, 2007

New Yorker promises
Paul Muldoon as poetry editor
does not represent
”some sort of radical
aesthetic or theoretical shift”

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Rae Armantrout
reading at
Writers House
last Thursday
(MP3)

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The fleas of Ulla Dydo

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A suite of poems
by
Terence Winch

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On Barbara Cole’s
Foxy Moron

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Sucking:
Ariana Reines & The Cow

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All about
Lorenzo Thomas

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Charles Simic
discusses his plans
as Poet Laureate

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Reading Whitman
in Oroville

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Bookstores in Kyiv
(a.k.a.
Kiev)

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The new Russian
pulp fiction

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Rushdie:
blogs are not the enemy

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The case of
the vanishing book review

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The case of
the vanishing hyphen

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Stephen Greenblatt
on critical writing
as an
ethically adequate object

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Poets & militarized cyberspace

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A poet from Cameroon

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Indie bookstores
in Pittsburgh

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A test of translation:
Miyazawa Kenji

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Talking with
Benjamin Zephaniah

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The most influential
novel
of the past
half century?

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The life & impact of
H.L. Mencken

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The global evolution
of
intellectual property rights

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Picabia’s poetry

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Talking with
Justin Vitiello

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More on dying languages

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A book of poems
from Palestinian filmmaker
Hind Shoufani

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A bookstore owner
in
Southern Spain

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Brain surgery
alters accent

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Joshua Corey
goes for
baroque

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School
as the enemy
of literature

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Imagining Heather McHugh
as not being a member of
the School that Dare Not
Speak its Name

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Religion in prison
imprisons religion

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The poet laureate
of
Takoma Park, MD

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Wittgenstein
& the limits
of radical poetics

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Imagining slams
as
performance art

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Double-speak
vs.
double meanings

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Agi Mishol,
a “major minor poet”
in
Israel

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“a horrible story
of the poet

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Four
poetry/poetics
jobs

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Meanwhile,
in an alternate universe

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A New York Times
profile of
François Truffaut

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Bilbao!

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Abstract expressionism
at the Met

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The artist known as
Richard Prince

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Stupid artist tricks

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A profile of
Frankie Valli,
the last great voice
of 50s doo-wop

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Tom Devaney’s review
of Charles North’s
Cadenza

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“Please welcome
John Ashbery

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Christian Bök
on Writing & Failure
(part 1, part 2, part 3)

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Perry Anderson
on
depicting Europe

Alice Kaplan’s Paris

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The collective work
of a single author

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This time
it’s Barnes & Noble
that closes

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Ange Mlinko
on
the materiality of language,
Modernism Concentrate
& what Romanticism lost

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Joseph Hutchison
takes me to task
for not picking
Larry Eigner’s
more ”luminous,
energetic” work
for my blog yesterday

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The Nobel Prize-winning poet
you never heard of

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That “tight-ass,”
Ron Padgett

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A weeklong poetry fest
in Edmonton

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Poetry
takes it to the station
in
Missoula

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Sawako Nakayasu
gets an NEA grant
to bring the poems of
Sagawa Chika
into English

e-books
in translation

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The New York Times
is now
free online

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The Prince of Poets

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Where was
Kerouac going?

On the road
on the web

Kerouac
in Queens

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The next generation
of Bukowski
wannabes

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Preserving
Philip K. Dick’s
legacy

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Can Shakespeare
save theater?

Can blogging
save theater criticism?

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Les Murray
in
The New Yorker

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Derrida vs. Jerry Lewis
(this is actually
a much better movie
than its reviews)

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Dying languages

One more goes
every two weeks

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The New York Art Book Fair

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Make your enemies
vanish

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A profile of
Tess Gallagher

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Time, Space & Motion
in the Age of
Shakespeare

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Beckett
for Babies

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Indie bookshops
in
Brooklyn

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Judging
the Man Booker Prize

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Poetry & duck noodles
in Hat Yai

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Joni Mitchell,
poet

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Poetry
is the Darfur
of twenty-first century
literature”

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With a little help from
Tyson Foods & Lucinda Williams,
the
U. of Arkansas Press
announces
The Miller Williams Poetry Prize

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Pinsky
on
poetry & the academy

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The poetics
of
dog training

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Zoe Brigley,
a feminist poet
in
Wales

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Remembering
Shahriar

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A review of
Sheri Benning
&
Glen Downie

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Gambling on
Eugene Gloria

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A young adult novel
from
Sherman Alexie

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The most hated
philosopher
writing in English

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Talking with
Big Poppa E

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Camille Paglia:
gauging gender studies
from books on sperm

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Wistful
about Wystan

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Famous Seamus

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Heidegger’s hut

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Whittier’s Hampton

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The legacy of
Allan Bloom

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Bird brains

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A story about
Coltrane’s work

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Ansel Adams
& technology

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Haydeé Rovirosa Gallery

The book as sculpture:
Brian Dettmer

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Draft 85: Hard Copy
may be the best
in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
great work
to date

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Talking with
CA Conrad

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What is
alternative poetry?

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Talking with
Sheila E. Murphy

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Best-selling books
of Korean poetry

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A profile of
Talking Leaves Books
in
Buffalo

Another of
Hue-Man Bookstore & Café
in
Harlem

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Four independent bookstores
in Sag Harbor

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Good books & bad art
in
Bend River, Oregon

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Documentary
on
Black Mountain
isn’t
Fully Awake

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After
The Last Intellectuals

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Words don’t mean
what they say

Unless it’s a parrot talking

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Reaganomics
& the future
of university presses

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PCs vs. books
in library budgets

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Some light by which to read
a hidden text

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Computer poetry
and the future
of reading

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Who won
the canon wars?

A right-wing
reading list

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John Hollander’s New York
(PDF)

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A profile of
Miyazawa Kenji

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The Millennial School

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A new translation of
Andrea Zanzotto

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Talking with
Kevin Young

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Tom Cuson,
poet, photographer,
for director of Intersection,
died in
Berlin

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Dasuram Majhi
who wrote in Kui
has died
of cholera

at 35

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Phil Frank,
who drew
what may have been
the only local
newspaper comic strip
in the country,
has died

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Sarah Lantz
has died

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More on the poetry
of Gitmo

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A Quietist memorial
of September 11

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Amy Lowell,
hiding eroticism
in plain site

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Kajal Bandyopadhyay,
Bengali poet & neo-Marxist

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Alan Boyd,
Australian “anti-poet”

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Poetry & public art
in
British Columbia

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Don’t get
all snitty
about what’s in
the dictionary

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Measuring
Sam Hamill

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Discrimination against men
in literary awards??

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Was Byron
the Britney Spears
of his day?

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Anthony Thwaite,
escaping Larkin’s shadow

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James Fenton
calls for a crackdown
on “unprofessional” readings

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A Quietist Paul Valéry

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Walter Benjamin
as muse

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Alan Moore
on porn
& its contradictions

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A debate over
crime & memoir
that recalls neither
OJ’s If I Did It
nor Arlo’s
Alice’s
Restaurant

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Faux memoirista
concocts
true novel

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The landscapes
of Raymond Carver

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The Mass MoCA mess

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Talking with
Nick Piombino

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Talking with
Charles Bernstein
(a Bengali interview)

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Talking with
Steve Vincent

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Reading books
in the digital age

Linking readers
via social networking

Google
& the end of
fair use

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A review of
Peter Gizzi’s
Outernationale

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Talking with
Mark Wallace
(a Bengali interview)

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Short reviews of
Stephen Paul Miller,
Eileen Tabios
&
Murat Nemet-Nejat

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A profile of
Lana Darkac

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New life
for Kerouac

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Talking with
Joseph Lease

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New York Post
cuts book reviews

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Robin Blaser
returns
to SF State

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Talking with
Joshua Marie Wilkinson

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Not being a poet

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Ireland anoints Longley
as
”Professor of Poetry”

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A review of
Peter O’Leary’s
Depth Theology

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The selected poems
of
José Kozer

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Trying to shut the door
on open access

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Talking with
Tracy K. Smith

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Poetry & podcasts

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Dylan as poet
one more time

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Keeping the Beats
in their box

A week of
mostly “not getting it”
at The Guardian

including
Bukowski as Beat

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Poetry &
September 11

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Where are the war poets
of today?

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Soft Geography

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Naipul on Walcott,
Walcott on Naipul

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Pinsky on Plumly

& Bielspiel too

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Age & gender
variations
in the blogosphere

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Cowboy poetics
and the oral tradition

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The killer
who turned it
into a novel

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Poetry & bats

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When the poet is a doctor

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The latest in the
Who Wrote Shakespeare
nonsense

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Plus what’s new in
fantasy theory

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Reading is
an unnatural act.”

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Melbourne Writers Festival
briefly described

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The Poetry Africa
International Festival

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8 easy steps
to understanding
bestsellers

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Hemingway as “Chick-Lit”

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CEO retires
at
Simon & Shoe Store

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First Carolyn Kennedy
& Garrison Keillor,
now Che

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Too Bad It’s Poetry

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Talking with
Billy Collins

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David Amram,
writing for the giants

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Documenta
on the ropes

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A profile of
Peter Young

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Last shot
to save the Barnes

Barnes picks architects
to complete the theft

Expanding
the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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A tribute to
Elizabeth Murray

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Hirst’s bling
goes boing

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What’s become of
Turner Prize winners

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Philosophy & sexism

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Ranking the philosophy schools