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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

John Ashbery
on the PBS Newshour

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Two views of the
MLA Offsite marathon

116MB MP3
of the event
(URL good for 14 days only)

Plus Al Nielsen’s slideshow

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Dale Smith
on the future of poetry

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137 proverbs & figures of speech
translated from the Vietnamese
by Linh Dinh

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Remembering Landis Everson

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The third best selling poet of all time

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Lorca’s bed is a popular destination

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An index
to 221 Poets & Writers articles
on individual writers

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Pound, Walcott & Homer

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The labors of love
vs.
the labor of adjuncts

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John Allman’s Lowcountry

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Morris Dickstein
on Mailer, Paley & Vonnegut

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Librarian to the stars

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On first seeing through the eyes
of North Andover’s poet laureate

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The poet laureate of Illinois

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Granta
a legend in its own mind

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The “urban poet” of Colorado Springs

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Moderation rules at the MLA

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Narendra Modi’spedestrian poetry

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Alice Quinn
on 20 years as poetry editor
of The New Yorker

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“The best new journals” –
School of Quietude edition

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New selecteds from the School of Q

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William Logan
on Murray, Pinsky, McPherson,
Wright, Jamie & Hass

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More in common with fiction writers” –
a look at the poetry of Matthea Harvey

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A truly weird look back
at poetry 2007

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Cowboy poet Roddy Nichols has died

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Estonian poet Jaan Kross has passed away

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Bush signs biggest dollar increase
to the NEA budget since 1979

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Screen writers losses exceed $150M

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Poetry book launch, Indian style

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Armenia honors Peter Balakian

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A New Jersey psychologist
engages Antiguan history in her poetry

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Curing an arts addiction

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Philosophy 2.0

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Invoking Marx in Chinese journalism

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This blog received
448,218
visits in 2007

Sunday, December 30, 2007

The conscience of Gloucester

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Two readings by Philip Whalen
(over 2 hours total)

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Big-time notice for Dorthea Lasky’s Tiny Tour

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Hannah Weiner’s Open House
live at St. Marks

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New poems by Adrienne Rich

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Vincent Dussol on paths to iDEATH
in the work of Eleni Sikelianos & Ray DiPalma
(PDF)

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Kurt Schwitters live

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Hélène Aji on
poetry & autobiography
(PDF)

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Remembering Sandy Taylor

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Edward Byrne’s Poet of the Year

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s
Poetry as Insurgent Art

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Property, poverty & poetry
in the life of Lorine Niedecker
(PDF)

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NY Times poetry chronicles:
Kate Northrop, David Trinidad,
W.G. Sebald, Cathy Song, Paul Guest

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Seth Abramson on the School of Q

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The master of nonsense
(3 guesses who that is)

Autobiography & erasure in John Ashbery
(PDF)

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Doug Holder on
poetry, community & the small press

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Forthcoming British books
of & about poetry

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Virgil now

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Metaphor in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red
(PDF)

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Eliza Jane Poitevent,
a 19th century
Mississippi poet

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Sonja James on Jean Valentine

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A short profile of Michael O’Brien

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Iraqi poet Mohammed Madlum

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Peter Klappert on the love poetry of
Richard Harteis

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The poet-maker of Rishi Valley

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The Bible on the head of a pin

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Five academic publishers band together
to streamline production costs

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Do writing programs work?

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Story vs. literature
in the work of Philip Pullman

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Around the World in 80 Poems

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Whitney Smith on Katherine Young

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Rumi in Virginia

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Peter Schmitt treated
as a 19th century bauble

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The first great Saudi novel?

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Derek Walcott on Elizabeth Hardwick

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Comics & literacy

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A blundering review of Gay’s Modernism

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Fiction in song

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The Society for Minimalist Music

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An assessment of Oscar Peterson

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MP3s and the quality of sound

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George Quasha’s Axial Stones

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Jacob Lawrence at the Whitney

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Jenny Holzer’s other paintings

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350 PPM

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Special props
to Erea:
reveue d’études anglophones

Friday, December 28, 2007

The brand new image of
Melvin B.
Tolson

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Marjorie Perloff on John Ashbery

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Carol Bly has died

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Siv Cedering has passed away

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Merry Christmas:
Chicago Sun-Times
slashes book section

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Jenny Holzer opts for
other, better poets

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Amy Goodman
talks with
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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New reading videos
by Paul Hoover & Mark Young

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A prize that should go
to Joanne Kyger
by acclimation

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Time to start thinking
about your campaign for
Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere

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Didi Menendez’
portraits of American poets

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A new poetry web site
from Cuba

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Credit crisis goes
from bad to verse

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Sunken Garden
covers the world of poetry
all the way from A to B

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Granta publishes its 100th number
& includes some poetry

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Sir Gawain
keeping his cool

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Simon DeDeo
polls his readers

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The Maltese poet Dun Karm
finally makes it into Italian

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blah blah blah purple monkey dishwasher

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Looking back at 2007

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Magda Szabó has died

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Art jargon

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18th century moving pictures

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Michael Dirda on Peter Gay’s Modernism

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Baryshnikov’s Beckett

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Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has died

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A different model
for a poetry marathon,
this one in Chennai

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Plus a January 1st marathon
in Baltimore!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Thom Donovan’s
epic review
of Hannah Weiner’s Open House

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Rod Smith’s Deed

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Philadelphia vs. Ho Chi Minh City:
a 2000 interview with Linh Dinh

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Jalal Toufic’s
Undeserving Lebanon
(PDF)

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Talking with Steve McCaffery

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Wall Street Inferno
from the 19th Century Brazilian epic
Wandering Guesa

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585 reviews
indexed
from the ezine
Jacket

Number of my solo books
that Jacket has reviewed
over its entire history:
zero

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Sandy Taylor,
founder of Curbstone Press,
has died

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Iranian poet
Jaleh Esfahani
has died

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Emory Sekaquaptewa,
who documented the Hopi language,

has died

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Mary Jo Bang’s Elegy

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The two sides of Robert Pinsky

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One-line poems
on the cusp of the 17th century

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The ten books
of the T.S. Eliot shortlist

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a very great poet
incomparably the greatest we have
on this side of the
Atlantic

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The two poetries:
Lowell vs. Ashbery

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“modernist poetry in English was launched
by a pair of Americans living in
London
who had little but contempt
for the complacent, hide-bound literary scene”

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Using your own name
in your poems

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Doug Messerli
on Inger Christensen

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Social networking
& Punjabi poetry

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Kaya Oakes’ Telegraph

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Drive, he said

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TV brings poet brothers back together

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A Yiddish poet
in
Elkins Park

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Ted Hughes:
better off dead?

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How many poets use
performance enhancing drugs?

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Jonathan Lethem:
The King of Sentences

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A profile of Paul Portugés

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Bones of our wild forefathers

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Gordon Lish as Freddy Kreuger?
The Cutting of Raymond Carver

“Beginners”:
Raymond Carver’s draft
Gordon Lish’s edit

Letters from Carver to Lish

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A review of
Balikbayang Mahal: Passages from Exile

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Pudding & trifles
with the
Mann Booker Prize jury

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The anti-social Mr. Naipaul

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When Oulipo goes bad

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This year’s buzzwords

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Jamaican love poetry

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The selected poems
of Breyten Breytenbach

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From poetry to Slanguage
to theater

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The poetry paintings of Barry Spacks

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The first-ever translation
of Hungarian poetry into Punjabi

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David Byrne
talks with Thom Yorke
about the theory of distribution

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Charles Shere on
Stockhausen

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The LA Times obit for saxman
Frank Morgan

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A history of history

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Peter Schjeldahl on
junk art at the
New Museum

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Pipilotti Rist
among the butoh dancers of
Japan

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Survival strategies
for emerging artists

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The third marathon
of the winter season
is of course
the granddaddy (& grandmother)
of them all,
January 1
from 2:00 PM until the cows come home
down 2nd Ave
at the Poetry Project
at St Marks Church, New York


(
Two questions:
is there anyone who will be reading
at the MLA offsite,
the Woodland Pattern January Marathon
& at St Marks?

And
are there any other poetry marathons
taking place between
Christmas & February 1?)

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Bob Perelman
4 early books:

Braille

a.k.a.

Primer

To the Reader

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Liam O’Gallagher
has died

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Peter O’Leary
on Robert Duncan’s
Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow

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Talking with
Kenneth Goldsmith

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4,000-year-old text
pulled from Ebay

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The “All Girl Poetry Slam

Girl?

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Beat Girl

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William Burroughs
& the crying of lot 22

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Close reading,
but “not too close”

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Talking with
Christian Bök

Bök
on Steve McCaffery

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John Ashbery,
two poems in tiny print

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Ange Mlinko
on
art, class & taste

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Alice Walker’s archives
go to Emory

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Not hiring
Yevtushenko at Oxford

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The “caveman” writes verse

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Troy Jollimore
calls the criticism of Robert Hass
beach reading

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Full-page ad,
New York Times,
June 20 2007

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Maybe the only document on the web
that calls me Ronald

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Lisa Robertson:
Draft of a Voice-Over
for a Split-Screen Video
Loop

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Year-end lists of best books of ‘07
by Charles Bernstein, Rae Armantrout,
Afaa Michael Weaver, Cate Marvin & Patricia Smith

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Avant-garde poetics radio blog

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Transliteracy

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Censoring Robinson Jeffers

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Moscow bookseller Boris Kupriyanov
faces 2 years in prison
for selling “pornography

(
Baise Moi, Lydia Lunch, etc.)

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Dub poets look to Africa

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Remembering
Ezenwa Ohaeto

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Brainless macho trash
but with pretty pictures

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“What we owe the New Critics”
& what we owe their publishers

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A translation of The Táin

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& an alternative Gawain,
one that’s fun to read aloud

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A feminist bookstore
in
Istanbul

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The cost models of academic journals

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It’s a mistake
to edit the self-indulgence
out of Berryman’s work

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The NY Times obit of Diane Middlebrook

A British obit of Diane Middlebrook

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Miles Champion:
3 poems
that make very different use
of the space of the page

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A noisy interview
with Umberto Eco

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Reading, that unpunished vice

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A grand buildup
to a sloppy, sentimental poem

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An “index of joy
(PDF)

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Where the Writers Guild of America
got its new radical core

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Donald Revell’s
elegy
for Barbara Guest

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Gerald Stern
on Muriel Rukeyser

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The life & verse of
Edward Arlington Robinson

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Poet populist Peter Payack

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Ted Kooser
on Linda Gregg

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Another article
celebrating the life & writing
of
South America’s most important
English-language poet

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A review of Alison Pelegrin

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Freaked by the atheism
of Philip Pullman

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A dismal year for books?

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A world without reading

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Winsome Duncan / Lyrical Healer

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John Greenleaf Whittier
at 200

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A profile of John Mahoney

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Talking with W.D. Snodgrass

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Delaware’s annual
John Milton Memorial
poetry celebration

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Using YouTube
to combat
Canadian © revisions


Does poetry even need ©?

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Shopping for books
with Michael Jackson

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An art house
in my home town

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Wrapping up
Art Basel Miami

Looking at it
from the far end
of the country

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Fight to save the Barnes
collapsing?

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Trying to talk with
Daniel Libeskind

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Two members
of the Mark Morris Dance Company

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The year in dance

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The year in (geriatric) jazz

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Enforcing the laws of nature

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Ramin Jahanbegloo
& the “crimes” of philosophy

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Ibn Warraq,
”Enlightenment fundamentalist”

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Surreal state

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This year’s quotables

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January 26
10:00 AM to 1:00 AM
(not a typo)
2008 Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon
Milwaukee