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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Photo of Lewis MacAdams courtesy of Friends of the LA River

Lewis MacAdams
on the collected poems
of Philip Whalen & Joanne Kyger

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Giorno Poetry Systems:
the podcast

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Re (re)reading Queneau

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Audio selections from the Sackner Archive

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The Latin American Notebook
of William S. Burroughs

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Why was Marina Tsvetaeva
such a neglectorino?

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Neeli Cherkovski
on Phil Whalen

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Diane Middlebrook
has died

A final interview

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Laura Huxley
has died

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A portrait of Anne Stevenson

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Charles Bernstein’s
galleries of video miniportraits
of poets, artists, filmmakers, etc.

Series 1: Scalapino, Bergvall,
Lakoff, Gross, Bonvicino, Hills, Glazer

Series 2: Drucker, Grenier,
Joris, Lehto, Curnow, Sherry

Series 3: Lauterbach, Mac Cormack,
McCaffery, Berssenbrugge, Piombino, Tuttle

The latest
is of Rod Smith

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In bed with Lorca

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Hershman R. John,
swallowing turquoise

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Jenny Holzer at Mass MoCA

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The final issue of Origin,
Sixth Series
is ready for download
(PDF)

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Talking with Bob Hass
in the Wall Street Journal

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Lloyd Schwartz
talking about
Elizabeth Bishop
(PDF)

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Remembering Martin Carter

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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
in a bi-lingual edition,
translated from the Irish
by Paul Muldoon

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Performing Howl

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A profile of
Gwyneth Lewis

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A memoir of slammin
in
San Francisco

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Mochedisi,
becoming a household name
in African praise poetry

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Robert Pinsky
playing with Jill Rosser’s skull

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Drive-by poetry

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Sir Gawain
and his contemporaries today

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What is poetry for?

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Melville’s America

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Bruce Jackson:
The Story is True

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The Johnston County witch hunt

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Guantanamo poetics reach the U.K.

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When pols write poetry

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A profile of Bill Chene

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Ted Hughes
as translator & Shakespeare scholar

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Kenn Nesbitt,
zany poet

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An open mike
in Pahrump Valley

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Three poets laureate
in close proximity

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From web to book

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Go ask Alice

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Uploading the hidden archive

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Against writers’ archives

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The highest-selling
contemporary manuscript ever
is Beedle the Bard

The buyer
was
Amazon!

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Bookstore sales are up
only 0.3%
for the first ten months of 2007

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In France,
”free” is verboten

While indies here push governors
to collect e-taxes

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Knol thyself

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A contestable history of Latin

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Poetics of the dictionary

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Changes loom
at the moribund NYRB

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The studios aren’t budging
in the writers’ strike

So the writers guild
tries a different strategy

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SymbioticA
has its ear to the ground

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Underground art in Chelsea

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Poop art

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Dead flies & pickled cows
to the Tate

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Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib

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Lost art

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Deal making to steal the Barnes

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Kenneth Baker
on the life of Picasso

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The etchings of Lucien Freud

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Bob Dylan & electricity

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A memory of Stockhausen

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National identity
in postmodern Japanese dance

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What bad music do you listen to?

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A profile of Terry Eagleton

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Lost in Translation no more

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This year’s MLA offsite reading
with over 50 poets
will be
Friday, December 28
from
7:00 to 9:30pm
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Avenue, in the Ballroom

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Ocho 12
is the first poetry mag
available on Kindle

Ocho 13

Ocho 14

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But
Kindle is a total loser
argues Cory Doctorow

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Homeophonic Celan
by Robert Kelly

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Grammar and neuroplasticity

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W00t
is the “word of the year
sayeth Merriam-Webster

Elsewhere,
locavores
garner publicity
for a dictionary

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Sean Duffy, DJ Hi-Res & Tom Devaney
in The Grove
at
Arcadia U

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Clayton Eshleman’s
Juniper Fuse

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Talking with
Wilson Orhiunu

Sam Twenti Tiri

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Transcript of a web chat
with Robert Pinsky

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Michele Leggott
is the first Poet Laureate
of
New Zealand

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Jordan Davis
on
Richard Garcia

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An in-depth interview
with Jim Bertolino

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Thom Donovan
on Kyle Schlesinger’s
Hello Helicopter

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A profile of
Afaa Michael Weaver

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He’s ba-ack!
Ed Dorn Live

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Talking with
Dorianne Laux

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At La MaMa in New York,
Monday, December 17,
Gangs of the New York School

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Nation Book Critics Circle members
think linking reviews & ads
is ethical

The actual survey

The same survey in 1987
(PDF)

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Philip M. Parker
is the most prolific author
in history!
(scroll down)

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Joyelle McSweeney
on Hsia Yü’s Pink Noise

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A gathering of
Indian & Pakistani poets
in
Oman

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Vèvè Amasasa Clark
has died

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The Arab world
begins to open
to Western lit

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Paul Zarzyski,
the Kerouac of cowboy poets

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Orgies in Towson?

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Translating William Carlos Williams
into Chinese

A profile of PoetrySky

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e.e. cummings
in the
Soviet Union

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“You say you want a revolution…,”
how about Yusef Komunyakaa instead?

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Ibrahim Al-Hadrani
has died

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“The quiet moral authority”
of Robert Hass

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Tony Harrison
&
Anthony Thwaite

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Remembering
Martin Carter,
”national poet” of
Guyana

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Hyam Plutzik,
obscure poet

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A. Van Jordan
on poetry and film

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The problem of “classics
in the school curriculum

Dumbing down poetry

Imagine judging school districts
by how they teach poetry

Report reveals all poetry is rubbish

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The literary genius
of Karl Rove

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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore article
is about a leading institution
in
Dallas’ gay community

Perhaps even more alarming,
Bookstore Tourism
has shut down

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A study of the Iraqi poet
Sa’di Yûsuf

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A librarian’s
worst nightmare

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Jay Parini
on Umberto Eco

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Philip Larkin,
rock god

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The Hollywood writers’ strike
is heading for disaster

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Canada puts off © update

& the changes may fail

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Talking with
Ashley Capps

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Living your script
can be deadly

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Papers from the Lancaster
Postgraduate Conference
on Language & Linguistics

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Grim stat:
dropouts & reading

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A Nordic-Bangla poetry fest

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Japanese weeklies
have begun to decline

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Time to buy a Warhol

or the Magna Carta

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The works of Sigmund Laufer

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The NY Times goes to
Art Basel Miami Beach

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Dia has sold its Chelsea building
for $38.55 million
& what that really means

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The strange deaths
of Jeremy Blake & Theresa Duncan

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Judging art

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Cinema is music

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Remembering Stockhausen

The San Francisco Chronicle
finally runs a reprint
of the LA Times’
Stockhausen obit

(and has yet to run one
for Landis Everson,
tho he lived in
Mill Valley)

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Elliott Carter:
What Next?

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Talking with
John Seely Brown

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Empirical philosophy?

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Workers of the world, unite!”

Monday, December 10, 2007

Photo by Leslie Poirier

In The Nation,
Joshua Clover
on Rod Smith

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Doris Lessing’s
Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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Barbara Henning
on
Brenda Coultas

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Film’s relationship
to literature

Barrett Watten
on
I’m Not There

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A haven for writers
in the Ivy League

Some local reaction

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Susan Bee & Jerry Rothenberg:
The Burning Babe (PDF)

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On the Road
on the bus

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Relational poetics

Plus a replica
of Ketjak

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I’m out, but Philly is in
& Reginald Shepherd’s blog
is both in & out
in Major Jackson’s
Poetry blog

(my favorite –
Gertrude Stein is out
Gertrude Schnackenberg is in
– pretty much says it all)

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Individual
National Book Critics Circle
recommendations:

Daisy Fried

Robert Pinsky

Scott Esposito

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Eric Banks

Phil Keoghan

David Ulin

Kevin Prufer

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Nine months suspended sentence
for “terror poetry” in the
U.K.

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Turkish publisher on trial
for “insulting
Turkey

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Ghulam Farid
& the idea that poetry
”teaches spiritual democracy”

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What winning the Nobel has meant
for Orhan Pamuk

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Worth attending in NYC
December 11,
The Medead
by Fiona Templeton

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Worth noting in NYC
December 19,
Shab-e She’r Poetry Night
at the Bowery Poetry Club

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Tony Tost’s
Complex Sleep

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Charles Simic
on his own poetry

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In The New York Times,
David Orr
on Michael O’Brien

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A striking
Battlestar Gallactica
writer

starts a blog

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A good place
to meet writers
in
L.A.
is on the picket line

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The “godmother
of Canadian slam”

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Ivan Blatný’s
Drug of Art

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Paperspine:
Netflix for books?

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The limits of Kindle

Cynthia Ozick &
Sam Lipsyte

consider Amazon’s ebook

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Finding the measure

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The U.S. boom
in Spanish-language books

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Life, death, art
on the border

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The Butterfly’s Burden
by Mahmoud Darwish

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Bukowski
in
Tehran

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Reading
Forugh Farrokhzad

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Alan Brownjohn
reviews 4 books
in 5 paragraphs

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Theodore Roethke
as a poet for children

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Postmodern Bourgeois
Poetaster Blues

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Is policy killing poetry
in the U.K.?

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Publishers
to kiss up
to critics

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Terry Teachout,
deeply confused
by the
two modernisms

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Of two marriages:
Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore,
Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas

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Knowing
what not to read

And what to read twice

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Shakespeare on the brain

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Beyond celebrity poetry
with Ethan Coen

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Considering
Daniil Kharms

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Vu Cao
& Pham Tien Duat

have died

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The Brits & science fiction

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“Like being in the presence
of a couple of great
surrealists….”

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Not liking Denis Johnson

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Wendy Cope
wants to be
the RIAA
of bad poets

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George Bacovia’s house

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Talking with Kirsten Dierking

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An echo
of Olson’s plaint
in Northumbria

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This week’s
death-of-a-bookstore piece
comes from
Washington, DC

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Bookstore readings
flourish in Marin

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Unable to prevent
the implosion
of a
Berkeley institution,
Cody’s Andy Ross
finally quits

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A gift of books

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A life of poetry
in
Central Indiana

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Trethewey to receive
honorary doctorate

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False starts and fragments

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If reading
were the same
as writing

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The Cracker Poemer

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In praise of bathos

Larkin’s “The Explosion

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African fractals

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All about SoHo’s
New Museum

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Paul Brach has died

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The “real” Richard Prince

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Art skateboards
at Printed Matter

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India’s booming
art market

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Paul McCarthy’s
latest sculpture

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Art Basel Miami Beach:
Fashion as high art

Design Miami 07 Catalog (PDF)

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Santa’s Ghetto

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Godard stole to make films

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New work from
Margie Jenkins

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Talking with
Radiohead

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A profile of Peter Gay

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Where blogging really counts