Photo by Ben Friedlander
A reading
of
Rob Fitterman’s
Metropolis
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kari edwards’ ashes
returned to the sea
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Rae Armantrout,
talking with
Francis Raven
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Some recent Drafts
by Rachel Blau DuPlessis:
Draft 83: Listings
(Three Drafts
translated into French
by Chris Tysh
& J-P Auxemery
here)
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A critical collaboration
in the mode of a wiki
on Robert Pinsky’s
praise of difficult poetry
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In the American Tree,
the radio show,
(includes broadcasts with
Ted Berrigan,
Alan Bernheimer,
Stephen Rodefer,
more)
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A story by
Roberto Bolaño
And
a poem
§
Charles Bernstein
shooting blanks
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Waiting for Godot
in
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Talking with
Alice Notley
§
Jill Magi
destroys
her book
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The secret poetry of
John Phillip Santos,
halfway betwixt
Laura (Riding) Jackson
&
Naomi Shihab Nye
§
Joyelle McSweeney
interviews
Carlos M. Luis
& Derek White
§
The plight of newspaper
book reviews
ignores the detail that
newspaper book reviews
mostly are crap
§
Conjunctions’
audio vault
is a great little resource
tho not in MP3s, alas
§
Almmiel Alcalay
on the limits
of translation
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Mario Hibert
talking with
Kent Johnson
Plus Bill Friend
on Johnson”s
Epigramititis
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A report on one of my readings,
or really the talk after a reading,
tho “invisible flan”
doesn’t say which one
(it’s
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In Boston tonight,
a benefit
for Melissa Green,
featuring
Fanny Howe, William Corbett,
Jennifer Moxley,
Frank Bidart, Derek Walcott,
Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren
& more
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Talking with
Kimiko Hahn
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Joe Ceravolo,
two readings
§
The politics
of the
Nobel Prize,
an African perspective
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Talking with
J.C. Todd
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Attila Jozsef’s poems
will return to the web
January 1,
the day © expires
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An unsigned review
of John Ashbery
that talks mostly about
Robert Lowell
§
C.D. Wright’s
use of
lists
§
Does
”creative nonfiction”
exist?
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Getting divorced,
Angela Ball
is a
”happy poet”
§
Mary Ann Samyn
talking with
Kelly Moffett
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Remembering
Jawdat Haidar,
a Lebanese poet
who wrote in English
§
19th Century
sound poetry
§
The roots of Saussure
& modern linguistics
§
e-books
start to catch on
§
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A tale of
two bookshops
§
Powell’s
faces challenges
§
Rare book fest
in
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Against
speed reading
§
What is reading
anyway?
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Googlization
& its enemies
§
Spectacle & aporia
in Ted Kooser
& John Ashbery
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Holly Green
is the Wirral’s
Young Poet Laureate
§
James Emanuel,
a formalist
for the simple people
§
Tom Paulin
on
Ted Hughes’
letters
§
Talking with
Stephen King
§
Kinds of Canadian
conservatives:
George Johnston
&
Peter Richardson
§
Taylor Mali,
rapping
in
§
Talking with
James Longenbach
§
Everybody
knows
Gertrude Stein
§
Hauling the fathers
through the trees
§
Stein
not as a playwright
but as a subject
for theater
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Talking with
Janet Malcolm
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Unauthorized
Stegner novel
published
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Can Beowulf
survive guilt?
§
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Abebe Payne
takes first
at
Writers Awards Dinner
§
Iranian-American
fiction
§
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How to reach
4,000,000
possible readers
in one day
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John Berger’s
”little book of hope”
§
100 years
of
Mills & Boon
§
Talking with
John Adams
§
Cecil Payne,
master of the baritone sax,
has died
§
The future of
post-classical
music
§
Is there a there there
in
I’m Not There?
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Nobody’s getting
CDs for Christmas
§
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Time capsules
from
Andy Warhol
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Mug shots
of the truly criminal
§
Banksy et al
find a use
for
”security wall”
Plus
Banksy in New York
§
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Peter Schjeldahl
on what’s great
about Chicago
§
Where is
”great art”?
§
In Julian Bell’s
new art history,
the avant-garde
came to an end
§
But Richard Serra
is back!
§
Mark Wallinger
wins
the Turner Prize
for
State Britain
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Damien Hirst:
the other white meat
§
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Why vandalize art?
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The Radiohead model
works
in
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Rethinking
performance space
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At stake in Hollywood:
the value of entertainment
&
the role of writing
§
The new Russian
culture wars
§
Culture, art
& the decline of
France
§
The inverse Orientalism
of Edward Said
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The gospel
according to
Terry Eagleton
§
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Why dance criticism
sucks
§
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The fate
of the essay
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Movies better than the books
from which they were begot
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Anthropologists return
to a world
of ethics
Or do they?
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Special thanks
to
Reconfigurations,
a nifty journal
in the form
of a blog
