Books Galore, Festus, Missouri

Of books as a system

Pierre Bayard’s first chapter

Talking with
Pierre Bayard

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Supreme Court disses
Amiri Baraka

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Talking with
Aram Saroyan

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Adam Day’s
Roar Shock

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A profile of
Glenna Luschei

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Talking with
Robert Hass

Placing Bob Hass
& Mark Strand
on a spectrum
that stretches
all the way from
Robert Lowell
to
John Berryman

Completely flustered
by that old avant-gardist,
Robert Hass

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Big Brother
is reading your verse

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Poetry & terror

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Norman Mailer
reading
at the 92^nd Street Y

Mailer
on Bush & Iraq

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Talking with
David Amram

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The Poetry Farm

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“Secret librarian handshake”

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A profile of
Lawson Inada

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Remembering
Nima

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Philip Schultz’ Failure

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Leonard Cohen
with
Philip Glass

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Voicing Emily

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David Trinidad’s
”confection-laced”
Late Show

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Arab poets
at Jack Hirschman’s
International Poetry Fest

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A fall reading tour
that includes
20 separate colleges

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On the road movie

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Poets’ mugs
adorn
poets’ mug

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Jean Valentine
once again in
The New Yorker

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Pinsky wins
lifetime award

Pinsky on
Margaret Atwood

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A poet worthy
of the
Mütter Museum

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Anne Stevenson,
Paula Gunn Allen
&
Sineád Morrisey
receive
Lannan Literary Fellowships
for their poetry

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Canadian
bookstore rage

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When it comes to rereading,
The Bible
comes in behind
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

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History poems
from Canada

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$1 million demand
to ensure
a poetry reading
by cowboy poets?

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James Michie
has died

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A “cringe-making” book of poetry
by the Tory candidate
for mayor of London

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Vairamuthu
unplugged

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Jay Rogoff’s
Long Fault

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Robert Bly,
reduced to
parodying himself

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Six Minnesota
quietists

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A novel from
Ha Jin

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As Albee nears 80

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Re-launching
the real
DIA

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A defense of public art
in Philadelphia

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A new eye
in Houston

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The Radiohead “experiment”

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Žižek:
”Resistance is Surrender”

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Andrew Sullivan
reads this blog

Sensing
Rod Smith

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Woman convicted of terrorism
in part because of poetry

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CAConrad’s
Thanksgiving for Peace

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Celebrating
Hannah Weiner

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Recognizability
& identity
in Detroit

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Kenny Goldsmith:
Sucking on Words

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Remembering
Nadia Anjuman

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Talking with
Gil Scott-Heron

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”one of the most
shoplifted books
in the English-speaking
world”

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Black Diamond Golden Boy
Takes Bull by Horns

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Bob Hass’
impeccable poetics

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Eventually even
The New York Times
catches up
with Silliman’s blog:
Jane Cooper obit
Fred McDarrah obit

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Writers as artists

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Cornelius Eady’s
Brutal Imagination

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Deep Trance Behavior
in Potatoland
(PDF)

Richard Foreman’s
page at
the Electronic Poetry Center

Foreman
in coversation

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The dark vision
of
Margaret Atwood

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Ivor Gurney’s
Rewards of Wonder

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El Cógido Da Vinci
has sold 300,000 copies
in the US alone

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Academics like it
digital

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But Harper
(publisher of Ashbery, Pinsky,
Bukowski & Noah Eli Gordon)
is tanking

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Christine Wertheim’s
+│’me’S-pace

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Fighting to save
the language
Euskera

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Talking with
Marvin Bell

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Opening a rare book shop
with $8 million in inventory
mostly from your own
personal library

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Life in the rare book trade
in Virginia

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On the French book prize scene,
the Renaudot
goes to an author
not even on the shortlist

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Looking at Czech poets
in translation
from the vantage of Prague

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Mini-reviews of
Bill Kushner, Janine Pommy Vega
& Nate Pritts

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Remembering
an imagined
gay mafia

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Forgetting the taste
of madelines

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Ads
come to
library books

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Bad book?
Sue the author!

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The angel of distribution

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Larry Lessig
on
© vs. creativity

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Damien Flores,
Poet of the Year

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Maha Chakri Sirindhorn,
poet & Thai princess

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The poet laureate of the town
in which
Charles Olson was raised

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The poet laureate
of Bucks County, PA

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/r/
as a vowel

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Diversity
and the romance novel

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Walt Whitman’s
birthplace

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Poetry,
cattle &
Remembrance Day

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The most re-read books
in the U.K.

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The news anchor
who loves poetry

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Remembering
Francis Thompson

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Twain play debuts
a century late

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Reading report:
Tim Seibles

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Jessy Randall
on texts & gumballs

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Against
BookTV

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A neophobe looks
at Auden’s
Phi Beta Kappa poem

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Returning
looted books
126 years later

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Resurrecting neglectorinos
in the U.K.

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Kara Provost
&
Provincetown poets

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The poems of Jackie Kay

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You don’t even have to
ride the bus
to read
poetry in motion

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Success defined
as being read
by Garrison Keillor

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There once was a laureate
from Nantucket

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Yes,
you too
are an imposter

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Bravo,
Performa 07
(be sure to check out
the slide show)

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Yvonne Rainer’s
RoS Indexical

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“My name is
Albert Ayler”

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Sound art,
art sound

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John Carroll
by the numbers

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Picasso
at his peak

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At the Barnes,
the finger pointing
has begun

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“Dude,
you’re getting
a Dos Equis”

Photo by Steve McNamara, courtesy of Jacket

Ange Mlinko
on
poetry & community

“Numbers trouble” –
A.E. Stallings
on
women & publishing

Emily Warn
on
essentialism & gender

(Essays all in response
to Spahr & Young (PDF)
in the new
Chicago Review
on the subject of gender,
diversity, anthologies,
Jennifer Ashton (PDF)
& [sigh]
Silliman’s Blog)

”Poetry Magazines & Women Poets”
by the editors of
The Chicago Review
(PDF)

Further commentary by
Stephanie Young & Juliana Spahr
&
Dale Smith
&
K. Lorraine Graham
&
Simon DeDeo

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Mlinko’s blog archives
for the
Poetry Foundation

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A review of
Lydia Davis’
Varieties of Disturbances

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At a slam
in Kuala Lumpur
six of the seven contestants
are women

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Ruth Stone
isn’t slowing down

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A portrait of
Nikki Giovanni

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Saul Williams
&
NiggyTardust

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Jackson Mac Low
in conversation

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“Is the avant-garde
necessary?”

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Christian Bök’s blogs
for the
Poetry Foundation

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Bob Hass,
political poet

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Campus librarians
fight surveillance

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Bonnefoy
receives Czech prize

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Talking with
Franz Wright

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One Kansas Poet Laureate
looks at a predecessor

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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore article
comes from
Santa Barbara

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But the Irish
book market
is doing okay

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The bard
behind bars

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Robert Pinsky
on
Reed Whittemore

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“But is it poetry?
I can answer positively
in the negative.”

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The Nantucket
youth slam

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What parts of the bookstore
to kill next

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Visit to a rare book shop

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Remembering
Jaun Elia
& the witch of Lahore

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The Marine poet
of YouTube

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Ted Hughes,
”eco-warrior”

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A review of
Galway Kinnell

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Subtleties
of global English

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Simon Armitage,
war poet
by proxy

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The T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist
is pure
School of Snoozy-tude

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Another review
of
Edmund Wilson

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Bad books
about Homer

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Kahlil Gibran,
from bad to verse

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Galway Kinnell,
raconteur

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Erica Jong
on
Fernando Botero

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Auctioning art
in a bad economy

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Michael Roth
on
John Brenkman
on
democracy post-9/11

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Is there anyone
who can report
on the reading
of Robert Grenier
& Aram Saroyan
at Beyond Baroque
November 2^nd?

 

Jane M. Cooper
has died

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Gil Ott
interviews
Jackson Mac Low

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Three views
of
Joanne Kyger’s
About Now

Plus
Jacket’s
2000 feature
on Kyger

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Helen Adam
on
PENNsound

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12 poets
look at the impact
of their first books

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Thomas Fink
on
the poetics
of questions

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Did Kenneth Koch
really write
”A True Account
of Talking to the Sun
at Fire Island”?

& a dreadful review
of Koch’s
On the Edge:
Collected Longer Poems

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Maggie O’Sullivan
on
PENNsound

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Reading
On the Road
in Petaluma

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Lucas Klein
on Victor Segalen’s
Stèles / 古今碑錄,
stone prose poems
of a pre-modern
China

(Volume 2
&
the complete
original text
of
Stèles / 古今碑錄
are available online)

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Thomas Fink
interviews
Noah Eli Gordon

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English
as an
invention

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Is an MFA
or PhD
really necessary?

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Washoe,
the first chimp
to use sign language,
has died

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Rigoberto González
on online journals

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Digitalization
& its discontents

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Archiviste

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Academic blogging:
pro & con

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Talking with Philip Corbett,
the man in charge
of grammar & style
at The New York Times

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Tom Beckett
interviews
Alan Davies

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“33 Rules of Poetry
for Poets
23 and Under”
from old man
Kent Johnson

(one should be
”never use
poetry & poets
in the same sentence”)

Plus Kent’s
”I Once Met”
which includes
”I once met Ron Silliman”

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Rethinking
d.a. levy

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Amos Oz
on
literature vs. hate

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Harriet Monroe
&
Alice Corbin Henderson’s
1917
New Poetry anthology
digitized by Google Books

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Microsoft will scan
Yale library

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Mina Loy
& the myth
of
Arthur Cravan

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Tom Beckett
interviews
Stephen Vincent

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“Reading
Vilas Sarang
is like eating
blue cheese”

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Japan’s largest
language school
goes bankrupt

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Pinsky
on teaching English
at West Point

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Check out
Michael Ondaatje’s answers
to questions posed
of the Giller Prize shortlist

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A profile of
Carlos Piocos

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A review of
Janet Malcolm’s
Gertrude and Alice
almost as unsympathetic
to Stein’s work
as Malcolm herself

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Leigh Ann Couch
&
Andrew Kozma

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Rethinking
Wilfred Owen

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“How to Get Your Poetry Published”
(a panel
with the least appropriate
speakers imaginable)

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The Tales of
Beedle the Bard

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Mikhail Epstein’s
Cries in the New Wilderness

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Nathan Brown
blames his obscurity
on writers
who demand
more from readers

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Rafael Campo,
new formalist

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Graham Mort:
”consequences
cannot
be avoided”

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The slam world

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A profile of
Dave Schonfelder

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Where retro meets metro:
what’s new
with the Paris Review

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More about
what’s wrong with
The Atlantic

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Why Latin lives

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Women
& modernist architecture

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Robot nation

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