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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

PENNsound
has added pages of MP3 files
for the magic twins
of Philly poetry,
Frank Sherlock & CA Conrad

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CA Conrad’s account
of the
Bob Cobbing celebration
at Writers House

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Susan Howe
& the
”Joy of Sects”

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Poetry inBurma
in a time of crisis

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The future
of the past tense

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Laura Ulewicz,
who declined to be in
The New American Poetry,
has died

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Javanese poet & translator
Toto Sudarto Bachtiar
has also died

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Of Doris Lessing,
Nobel laureate

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The New York Times
calls Alice Notley
many names,
including
a Language poet

Alice
has won this year’s
Lenore Marshall Prize

(No word, tho,
on why this prize,
which was given for decades
by The Nation,
has shifted to
the Academy of American Poets)

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The day
J.K. Rowling
won the Nobel Prize

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Ange Mlinko
reviews
David Shapiro
in Poetry

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Is the Web
good for writers?

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An ezine
that focuses
on the review
of first books

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How far off the grid
is Joe Plum?

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Poez
returns

& so does
Dylan Thomas

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100 years
of
Korean modernism

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Reading Victor Segalen

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“Margaret Atwood
&
empty space

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The book market
in the
Czech Republic

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The Frankfurt Book Fair

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Oscar Wilde turns 40

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A portrait of Edmund Wilson,
the lion of Quietude

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Bringing Brodsky home

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A poet runs for mayor

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A tense interview with
Linton Kwesi Johnson

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Talking with
Margaret Gibson

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Talking with
Mitchell Kaplan,
bookstore owner
& head of
the ABA

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Poetry in the streets
is divisive
in
Jerusalem

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Reading Christian Wiman

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My Poet

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Waiting for the publisher

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A profile of
Richard Wilbur

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Robert Pinsky
on
Anne Bradstreet
&
Philip Freneau

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Wittgenstein’s Longfellow

Sudbury’s Longfellow

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“One ought really
to do philosophy
only as a form
of poetry.”

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Jimmy Santiago Baca
at The Big Read

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Growing old
with Anne Stevenson

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Slammin’ in Bahrain,
just slammin’ in
Bahrain,
what a wonderful feeling,
I’m happy again

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Talking with
Ishle Yi Park & Bob Holman

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Reading report:
Ada Limon &
Michael Cirelli

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Remembering
Archie Ammons

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Tampa’s
poet laureate

& the laureate
of
Warwick, Coventry

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More silliness
about
who wrote
Shakespeare

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An anthology of
Alabama poetry:
It’s not dense
and obscure

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Ned Snell,
Utah’s
Poet of the Year

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A history of
The New Left Review

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Kara Walker
at the
Whitney

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Peter Schjeldahl
on
Richard Prince

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A one-woman show
by
Jay DeFeo,
a painter
active among the Beats

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A profile of
Louise Bourgeois

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“the most popular
and most successful
American artist
who ever lived”

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Museums as
terror targets

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The fate of Dia Beacon

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Debating the future
of British art

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Collaborations from Hell Dept.:
Leonard Cohen & Philip Glass

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Dalí & Film

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This blog
had 1659 visits
on Monday,
the most ever

Thursday, October 11, 2007

A new book
from
Robert Hass

It’s already a finalist for
the National Book Award*

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Doris Lessing
has won
the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Tonight at Writers House
in
Philadelphia,
Bob Cobbing’s
Suddenly Everybody Began Reading Aloud

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Video of
Rae Armantrout
reading in Berkeley

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Talking film
with John Ashbery

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The autobiography
of
Christian Bök

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Talking with
Geoffrey Gatza

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The Colbert suffix

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Charles Simic
on PBS

Laureate relishes
new challenge

& begins by attacking
Robert Creeley
($3 fee)

Simic to teach
at Baruch College

Simic reads
with Jack Prelutsky

If you like Simic,
you will love
Vasko Popa

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“You don’t get
to be
poet laureate
for nothing

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Hounding Howl:
What the FCC?
(MP3)

Meanwhile,
at the Alberto Gonzales school
of pornography prosecution

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Kerouac’s scroll
as Oulipo constraint

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Speaking of Oulipo:
3by3by3
21 Stars Review

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Debating
what poetry is
in
Nairobi

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Jennifer Moxley
&
Maggie O’Sullivan
reading
at the Bowery Poetry Club
(MP3s)

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Talking with
Jason Christie

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A review of
Javier O. Huerta

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In Canada,
Indigo
is putting hotels
on Boardwalk & Park Place

While readers
come to the USA
to buy books

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Random acts of poetry
in
Sackville, New Brunswick

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Writing poetry in the army
in
Iraq

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A writers’ workshop
at
Homeboy Industries

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The return
of
Easy Rawlins

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Reading Catullus 64

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The only call for submissions
I know of
that quotes
Theodor Adorno,
seeking
”emergent poetry & prose”

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More on the demise
of the hyphen

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Putting Celan to music

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Prizes for
the
School of Quietude

& more

Plus
the same ole same ole
in the
U.K.

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Writing like Sean O’Brien
is, he concedes,
an affliction

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Fondly recalling
the poetry wars
of the 1960s

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The bio of
” a skilful, harmless,
minor writer of light verse”

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Joyce Carol Oates:
autobiography
against the grain

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Adam Thorpe
doesn’t think
he’s easy reading

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An anthology
of women’s poetry
from
Minnesota

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The future of the book
may not include
bookstores

But in Grand Rapids,
a bookstore opens

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One use for old books

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A new opera,
Poet Li Bai,
debuts in
Beijing

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On the origins
of
The Life of Pi

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The selected letters
of Ted Hughes

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A profile
of Paul Durcan

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High school students
producing
poetry on demand

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100 years of MacDowell

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Comparing Don Share
to Robert Lowell

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Talking with
Li-Young Lee

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Troy Jollimore’s blog
for Powell’s Books

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A poet laureate
for Winona, Minnesota

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An anthology
of
New York poetry

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Frank Wilson
likes the Sony e-Book,
sorta

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The continuing relevance
of books

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Poet Tree
in
Victoria, BC

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Talking with
Greil Marcus

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A personal history
of the
Somerville News
Writers Festival

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Violet de Cristoforo,
poet imprisoned
in
US concentration camp
during WW2,
has died

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Interviewing
Janet Malcolm

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The © Olympics

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The best-selling suicide
of André & Dorine Gorsz

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The Social and Political Views
of American Professors
(PDF)

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Two serious views
on global warming:
pro & con

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Appomattox

“one of the best new operas
in many years”

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Billy Bragg
on the
power of music

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She writes the words

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Mallrats run wild!

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With art
comes injury

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Do museums matter?

If not, why
are they spreading
like kudzu?

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Renoir
&
why the Barnes matters

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* Strictly a School of Quietude affair this year.
The selection panel was chaired by
(surprise!) Charles Simic

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Kay Rosen, Blurred

Transcendental
one-liners

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Talking with
Pattie McCarthy

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An obit of
Bill Griffiths

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A fractal reading
of
Spring and All

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Maurice Blanchot
at 100

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A profile of
Kay Ryan

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Alan Wald’s
proletarian modernism

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Talking with
Stuart Hall

Rivington Place

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An English view
of Muldoon’s ascent

& Condé Nast

(More Irish need apply,
indeed)

Muldoon
on writing songs

“Most of the Time”
sung by Muldoon’s band,
Rackett
(MP3)

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Books-by-the-foot

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Actor portrays
Bukowski
in solo show

What memorial
for Bukowski?

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A poet’s walk
already in
Los Angeles

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Lee Herrick
& the
SoQ tradition
of Valley Poets

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The social value
of writing

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Talking with
Staceyann Chin

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Poetry & film
in Bollywood

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Poets & perverts

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Remembering
Tamizh Oli

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Translating
Kamal Khujandi

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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore article
concerns Librería Lectorum

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Borders in the U.K.
is bought

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The British Library
fights for funding

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What Shakespeare
looked like
as a boy

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The Kenyon Review
launches
literary fest

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Two poets profile
their own work

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Learning English

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Which is the takata
& which the malooma?

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The home of
James Whitcomb Riley

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Comparing Cate Marvin
to Hopkins & Yeats

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In search
only of
uplifting arts

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Mark Strand
returns to
Salt Lake City

While
Richard Wilbur
reads at
Bryn Mawr

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The value
of an agent

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In the U.K., dismay
that a Pamela Anderson clone
outsells
the entire Man Booker shortlist

(Note the chart in that
first article in the Telegraph,
showing that five
of the six Booker finalists
have sold just 10,000 books
between them)

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Black women philosophers

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The designers hired for
the “new Barnes

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MassMoCA wins
right to show
disputed installation

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Nan Goldin
photo
(owned by Elton John)
busted as porn

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Germaine Greer
on
Jane Bown

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Mr. Freud
has a lady
on the couch

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Philip Glass’s epic
Appomattox
debuts in SF
October 5

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Sasha Frere-Jones
on
Miles Davis’
Complete On the Corner Sessions

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