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Saturday, January 26, 2008

A profile of Lilya Brik

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Ton van ‘t Hof’s brilliant link list

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The sexiest poem of the year (2007)
is The Big Melt

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Maya Angelou’s pro-Hillary poem

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Talking with Amadou Lamine Sall

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First US obit of Hone Tuwhare

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Gabe Gudding’s
fifteen minute poem for ron silliman

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Frank Wilson on Christian Wiman

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Roberto Bolaño’s “Max Mirabalais…”

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Jennifer Bartlett’s Derivative
of the Moving Image

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Cell phone fiction

Confessions of a cell phone fictioneer

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England’s France:
On David Gascoyne’s translations of Pierre Jean Jouve
& Alan Simpson’s Drunken Boats

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York’s voice

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Is art bad for you?

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Misreading Frost

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The new Pound bio
reviewed in the Moonie newspaper
by a prof from
Amherst

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Sam Cornish
is Boston’s first poet laureate

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A trio
of Canadian poets laureate

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The poet laureate of
Lancaster County, PA

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“Grammar Nazi” slam poet

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The persistence of bad poetry

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A profile of JG Ballard

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Publishers’ Weekly profiles Bookslut

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Poetry & marathons: the beginning

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Cathy Wagner @ Satchel’s Grill

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The future of Quietude:
Who reads George Sterling now?

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Slammin’ @ Brandeis

& in Duluth

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An enigma to Heidegger,
”simple” and “happy” to Billy Collins

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Blog comments vs. peer review

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Charles Wright is well equipped to evoke nostalgia”

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Poe’s “toaster” strikes again

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A profile of Steve Kessler

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Little to smile at
in Brian Turner’s poetry from
Iraq

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Rod Jellema’s A Slender Grace

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Poetry at Rose
turns 20

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New bio of Milton
skips the poetry

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The best indie bookstores in the UK

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The latest death-of-a-bookstore piece
comes from Tahoe

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Is too much writing killing writing?

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The decline of literacy, the rise of books

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The kids can’t help it

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Eloquence vs. rhetoric

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Mary Beard
on the persistence of Greek Myth
(note the links)

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Launching The Relationship

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Talking with filmmaker Ernie Gehr
(MP3)

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Wal-Mart supports contemporary dance

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What it takes to develop an opera in the US today

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The dream of anonymity

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Particle art

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The garage as art

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Diebenkorn in New Mexico

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What you notice

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Coming soon: the smell of fear

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Always a good career move

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Against independent voters

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Stonewalling Jefferson’s (& others’) archives

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Alpha poet

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Talking with Laynie Browne

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Laura Moriarty reads from A Semblance

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89 interviews with major authors
all in the journal Jacket

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Talking with Mary Rising Higgins

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Remembering Hone Tuwhare

Tuwhare’s roots in the north

The AP obit

& the Otago Daily Times

Even the pols pay their respects

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Charles Bernstein reading in the seventies
(MP3)

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The Continental Review
focuses on video poetics

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Materials for Jeremy Prynne’s
Poetry in Translation seminar

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Horsemen stretch the boundaries

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Memoirs from Stan Persky
& Don Coles

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Mallarmé in Arabic

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Talking with Mary Jo Bang

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Gary Geddes & the Canadian long poem

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Nikki Giovanni goes to Boise

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The cheerleader
who won the Pulitzer

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Autonauts of the Cosmoroute
(a pedestrian’s dissent)

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Materials for Robert Budde’s
Transparency Machine Event on Ecopoetics

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Talking with Simone Beaubien

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The most prolific writer in the world
is Ryoki Inoue

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A profile of David Rowbotham

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William Logan
fawns o’er Geoffrey Hill

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How to write poems
from a guy who
can’t read Macbeth

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Les technicians du sacré

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A literature as large as China

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Yo!
A gender-neutral pronoun emerges

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The CIA as patron

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Burning Nabokov’s Laura

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A month of poetry

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A profile of Edmund Wilson

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William Kennedy @ 80

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The 22nd most popular poet in the world
was born in 1990

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Alfred Corn on ekphrasis

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Enamored of Robert Burns

The largest existing Burns archive
may just be
in
Provo, Utah

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Sean O’Brien thinks
it’s a great time for poetry

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A journal with a regional focus

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Do prizes matter?

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Ted Hughes’ letters
make their way south

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© vs. the commons

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This death-of-a-bookstore-piece
has a new twist – the fire department

While this one
points to the more common problems
of the big chains plus the net

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Where have all the bookstores gone?

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Book scavengers

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Has the decline in the number
of bookstores in the
UK
finally come to an end?

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Open access book publishing

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Raise high the roof beam, carpenter,
store your books

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Are free newspapers
the death of literacy?

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A long
and not entirely accurate
consideration of the NEA

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Libraries are not dead yet

Toronto libraries thrive

When the library is rated X

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In archives we trust

Archive Fever

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The “most beautiful language?”

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Outsourcing journalism

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Against happiness

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What Searle forgets

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The Ezra Pound of chess

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Homeward Bound (Oh yes I am…)

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The art scene in Baghdad

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Van Gogh’s sketchbook?

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Art as an end vs. art as a means

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Bill Corbett
on
Phil Whalen

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12 or 20 Questions
is a great new interview site
from rob mclennan

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Boston Globe obit of Vincent Ferrini

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Every candidate for this year’s
National Book Critics’ Circle poetry award
published with a small or independent press!

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The new NEA creative writing fellowship guidelines
have been released

As always, the real question will be
who controls the screening process?

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Next-gen ebooks
will come with sound

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Coming in May to Tucson,
a symposium on
Conceptual Poetry and its Others

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Hone Tuwhare has passed away

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John O’Donohue is dead

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Angel Gonzalez has died

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25 years after Grzegorz Przemyk was beaten to death
at the age of 19 by the Polish Militia,
his poetry appears in book form

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Eliot Weinberger on the Book of Psalms

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Reginald Shepherd on translation

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Prevalence of the F word
in Chinese commercial translations

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Translating lit for the cops

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Damn the blasphemy laws!

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Coming to New Haven in March:
Poetry, Art and the Book!

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Daisy Fried is crabby

But not compared to Stanley Fish!

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A profile of Poetic Speed
(that’s a person)

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The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945
manages not to include Bunting,
Raworth, Prynne, Fisher . . .

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Celebrating Allama Iqbal

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I, Anonymous

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Designer poetry

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Profiling Nikos Engonopoulos

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One of the books on Major Jackson’s wish list
is his own

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Reading Shelley literally

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Rigoberto González on Jenny Browne

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The plagiarized bodice

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Dave Wood’s book report
rambles a little

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Longing for correspondence

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And the T.S. Eliot Prize goes to…
Sean O’Brien

This make O’Brien
the most celebrated poet in all of England

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Sam Gardiner’s Night Ships

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Trumpeting Adam Kirsch

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Frosty the prose man

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The natural landscapes of urban dwellers

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Unerasing Scotland

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Mark Jarman’s prose poems

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Workshopping with Jean Sprackland

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The letters are falling!
in this year’s National Poetry Month campaign

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This year’s Caldecott Medal goes to . . .
a 544-page novel!

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Self-published novel makes$2,000,000

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In the UK, library use is down 34% in the past decade
& 40 libraries have closed in the past 12 months

College libraries are merging with information technology organizations

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The ten best bookstores in the world

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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore
piece comes from Palm Springs

Against this whole damn genre

Not to mention the fake bookseller

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Not that you need to read

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Guild program getting authors back into print

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© the Pyramids?

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To die in Boston

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Talking with Todd London

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Sasha Frere-Jones
on the balkanized ear

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The Met rediscovers Africa

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Peter Schjeldahl
on Freud’s flesh

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Airport as censor

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Banksy wall sells for $400K

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Rents taking toll on Chelsea galleries

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Memories of Weimar
by Eric Hobsbawm

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Morals with Steven Pinker

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Thinking with your body

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Nixon handicaps the candidates

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Talking with Lewis Hyde

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A question re the New American poetry:
whatever became of Edward Marshall?