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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Perfection & Ed Baker

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Post-avant women

Plus
talking with
Cynthia Hogue
& Elizabeth Frost

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Adrienne Rich
reading
in
Chile

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30 years of
Anglo-Québec
poetry

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Orhan Pamuk:
Evoking the Other
is a
political act

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A review of
Grand Piano 3

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A poetry of muscle

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Reading
Eric Mottram
on Robert Duncan

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Robert Hass,
time traveler

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Fear & loathing
& the
Poet Laureate
(No, not that one)

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Bush poets
(No, not that Bush)

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Curtis Faville
on
Aram Saroyan &
Robert Grenier

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Belles with Balls” –
Niama Leslie Williams
interviewed by
Tuck Self

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Forrest Gander
on
John Ashbery

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Jon Anderson
has died

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Fup,
the dean of bookstore cats,
has died

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Talking with
Bob Arnold

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Rumi’s
ambiguous legacy
in the west

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Talking with
Shanxing Wang

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Mark Strand,
alone at 73,
starting over

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On Gael Turnbull’s
Collected Poems

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Another poet
back from Iraq

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Jennifer Moxley
on
John Wieners
& Arthur Rimbaud

Plus John Temple
on Wieners

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The persistence of
the printed page

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The Atlantic
at 150 –
the senility
is complete

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Save a magazine:
reverse
the postal rate hikes!

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On Ted Berrigan’s
Collected Poems

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Cut-Up
Poetry Scrabble

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Saving a bookstore
in Park Slope,
Brooklyn

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Congressman Braley
opens
Pandora’s Box

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A European
bookstore blog

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Pissed-Off Zombies” –
Linh Dinh
on the state of the nation

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Another poet
who died too young

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Zuckerman’s
(Roth’s)
aesthetic:
George Plimpton
as literary giant

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A piece
on the letters
of Ted Hughes

with links
to large excerpts

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More on
poetry & cricket

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A.E. Stallings
here in
Chester County

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P.B. Shelley,
the poet as stud

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Performa 07
is under way!

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Banksy in action

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Schwabsky
on
Picabia

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Schjeldahl
on
Frida Kahlo

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The “newPrado

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Evaluating
Philip Glass

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Aesthetics
&
information

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Special thanks
to John Tranter
& Pam Brown
for making
Jacket
the best zine
on the web

Monday, October 29, 2007

Rumi
as the object
of cultural struggle

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A primer on
Afzaladin Khaghani Shervani
& Persian poetry

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Kurdish poet nominated
for UK Forward award

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Terror trial poet
compared to Owens

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Bookstores in Iran
ordered to stop
selling coffee

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The insider’s outsider

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Why the NEA
is like Jell-O

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20 poems by Bill Deemer
(plus new work by
Joanne Kyger)

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Of Jayne Cortez,
Ornette Coleman
& their son Denardo

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Passions like Cheap Jewelry

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Umberto Eco’s
latest essays

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How to talk about books
you haven’t read

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Remembering
Richard Hugo

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The problem of pricing
Canadian books

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Dan Gerber:
What is your work about?”

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A conservative look
at the state of poetry

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Translating Russian poets
into English and Bangla

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Eliot’s heirs

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Two new versions
of Dante’s
Paradiso

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A review of
Dog Medicine

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A memorial
for
Len Roberts

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More on
Winona’s
poet laureate

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Offbeat bookshops
in the
L.A. region

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Write what you
don’t know

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From blogger
to publisher

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Papers from
the Scholarly Publishing Conference

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A new bookstore chain
hits
New York

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Profile of a
Malaysian poet

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A taste of
the Marathi Book Festival

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Poetry & nation
(& a very strange
idea of nation,
at that)

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Pinsky on Bridges

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The sage of Sag Harbor

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Of Henry Reed
& John Burnside

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Housman
as correspondent

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As fawning a review
as I’ve ever read

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Larry McMurtry
on
Diane Keaton
on
photography

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Hal Foster on
Baudelaire’s museum today

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Fisk must sell
stake in O’Keeffe
in order to survive

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Michigan will continue
to distribute
Pluto Press

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The ballad of
Gram Parsons

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“The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide
to Capitalism and Socialism
with a Key to the Scriptures”

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Nightmare on Broad Street

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The right-wing
smear machine
in cyberspace

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

You read it here first:
The Boston Red Sox
will win
the World Series

(The last thing
you want to give a team
that has been playing
way over its head
for a month
is a week off
to think….)

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Writing vs. editing vs. tenure

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An account of the conference
on
Christopher Okigbo

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Sargon Boulus,
Iraqi poet
& translator
of Pound, Williams, Shakespeare,
Duncan & Ginsberg,
has died

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Doris Lessing:
9/11 was
not that bad

& offers
a reading list

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The House of Anansi
celebrates
40 years
of independent publishing

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The business of poetry

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The horror of cheap books

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The
”Why Indie Bookstores Matter”
Tour

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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore
tale
is of the last major indie
in the
Toledo metro

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The School of Quietude:
a literal perspective

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The latest in library services:
Dance Dance Revolution

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Libraries, content & copyright

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A new Pound bio

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The Fog Index

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A profile of
Sam Hunt

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The Governor General’s
shortlist

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Why you should read poetry

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Words To Be Looked At

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Stephen King:
why short stories suck

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Reviewer stops writing
about himself
long enough
to notice
two new books
of Canadian poetry

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Portrait
of a drop-in
writers’ workshop

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This poetry contest
sounds mawkish
until you realize
how it’s promoting
Scottish nationalism

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Poet of the Year

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The Christian right’s
”worst nightmare”:
Dumbledore & sex

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A Salmon Press
anthology

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Inside manga

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A reading group
in
Jackson Heights, NY
devoted to
the poetry of
India, Pakistan & Bangladesh

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Remembering
Kwesi Brew

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The slam scene
at
Palo Alto High

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A mixed review
of
Jean Sprackland

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War over
War and Peace

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Reading
Howard’s Baudelaire

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Maya Angelou
on
The Early Show

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Teacher faces charges
over reading list

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The son also rises

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Boston’s ICA
is a hit

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MassMOCA demonstrates
how not
to show contemporary art

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Baryshnikov
facing foreclosure

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NMFG?

(no money from the government)

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TMI
(too much information)

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Anita Allen
on
philosophy, law & race

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A profile
of the great song writer
Lee Hays

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Yesterday’s
number of visits
to this blog,
1,733,
surpassed
the previous record
by 74.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

The limits
of a laureate

Poetry workshop
at Buckingham Palace

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The “alternate laureate

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A profile of
Eleanor Wilner

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Doris Lessing
podcast

Roger Ebert
on meeting Lessing
at Stud Terkel’s

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One book
I’ve been wanting
for 20 years

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Kenneth Koch’s
small-scale canonization

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Wendell Berry’s
Window Poems

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Sinan Antoon’s
Baghdad Blues

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Yevtushenko
reads once more
in a stadium

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On the road, 2007

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On translation
&
English-as-a-second-language
as the lingua franca
of the world

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Kim Heung-sook
on gender
& Korean modernism

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A global archive
of recorded readings
(e.g. Michel Butor &
Jacques Roubaud
in French)

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A poetry festival
in a department store
in
Stockholm

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Sidney Nolan
& the problem of
the bad boy muse

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Of a tanka
by Akio Tanigawa

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Unabridging
Raymond Carver

Plus, a case study
(PDF)

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Talking with
Tracy K. Smith

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The world’s smallest
book tour

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Collecting Burroughs
& dealing rare books
in the age of the net

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The joy of
the Man Booker prize

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A review of
Robert Hass,
Margaret Atwood
&
Kenneth Koch

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Jan Wolkers
has died

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Daily life
with the Grass family

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Race,
Anatole Broyard
& the NY publishing scene
mid-century

(first chapter)

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A profile of
Robert Hass

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Talking with
Marvin Bell

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“Prosody and its interfaces”
is the focus for
the 2008 Penn Linguistics Colloquium
(Call for papers in PDF format)

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The end of poetry

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The demise of
serious fiction

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100 poets
reading on 6 CDs
(priced to rip off
school libraries)

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The net is changing
how we read

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The entire Booker shortlist
will be available
free online

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Veni, Vidi, Vicipaedia

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Poe’s brain

A Poached Poe?

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A profile of Jim Paul

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If only
Stalin
had been a poet

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Tales
of the
Chelsea Hotel

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Missouri to appoint
first laureate

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The poet laureate of Texas
& more
silly assertions about poetry
than I’ve seen in one article
in a long time

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Career Poet?

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Sheep ranch
experimentalism

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The private
Ted Hughes

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Martin Espada
returns to
Lawrence

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Poet in a park

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A short profile
of Sam Hamill

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Two new books from
Jackie Kay

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Poetry gets fractal
in Little Rock

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Robert Pinsky
on
Mary Kinzie

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