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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Talking with John Ashbery

Poetry that is never “about

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Lyn Hejinian & the Tampa Bay Devil Rays

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Using Jennifer Moxley’s Middle Room
as a “biblical text”

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Remembering Raul Salinas

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Charles Bernstein’s Objectivist Blues

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Pierre Joris:
3 poems & an interview

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A profile of Geoffrey Gatza

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Joseph Massey’s Out of Light

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Gregory Corso: The Last Beat

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Ghostwriting Gabriel García Márquez

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Gary Sullivan on “Numbers Troubles”
& an early”anthology” of mine

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Evie Shockley, Rudyard Fearon
& the rise of Barack Obama

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The Quietist as collector

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A profile of Le Hinton

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Committing Poetry in a Time of War

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Where poetry is more popular than soccer

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To Thomas De Quincy, Dorothy Wordsworth was
”the very wildest …person I have ever known”

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First Person:
New Media as Story, Performance & Game

Second Person:
Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media

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Roald Hoffmann, Nobel chemist & poet
on the art’s relation to science

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Eavan Boland & Charlotte Mew

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Talking with Bob Hass

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To Milton for the politics

“By far the most intelligent and serious of English poets”

Musicality is central to the poet’s works”

Milton, the podcast (MP3)

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The Year of Zbignew Herbert

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Remembering Robbe-Grillet

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How did you start writing?

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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore pieces
involve the last indie
in the western half of
Westchester County, NY
& a Brentwood indie
with deep ties to the
Hollywood scene

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Looking for Theodore Roethke’s Saginaw

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Slammin against hip-hop

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Slammin’” on the Northern Mariana Islands

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A biography of Wallace Stegner

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Talking with Ursula Le Guin

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Postcolonial poetry in English & the web (PDF)

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Poetry & the trace

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A profile of Eric “Bear Dance” Breland

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P.E.I. poet laureate
launches website

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The use of poetry

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Poetry in the schools, Jakarta style

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Fear No Fear Shakespeare

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A book fair in Bangladesh

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A biography of Audre Lorde

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Robert Frost unplugged

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Try a different hat

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He’s ba-ack:
BBC to broadcast lost Larkin poems

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Kashmiri poets document conflict

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A profile of Con Hilberry

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The oddest book titles shortlist

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Why open-source publishing is like
anti-slavery abolitionism

Some comments thereon

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Litfest ends amid recriminations

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The end of a bad idea

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Writing & Hollywood:
take the money & run

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Pierrot le Fou

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When shock & awe belonged to the arts

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Why should you suffer?

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Time to say goodbye
to your Polaroids

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The saxophone in South Indian music

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Basketball & philosophy

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When the net takes over

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The myth of democracy on the web

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Pure hype

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Farimani

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A generational revolution in Bay theater

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Images, metaphors & “movies” in the brain

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A nation where all university jobs
are temporary

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The 1,500,000th visit
came at
7:46 PM Eastern last night
from somebody at
the City University of New York
who appears to have been searching
for something in the October 2004
archive

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Les Murray: Publish my wife
& I’ll give you a blurb

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Auggie Kleinzahler on Creeley’s Selected Poems

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Bill Manhire: “bump into meaning”

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The poetry of Berkeley in the sixties

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Nate Mackey’s Bass Cathedral

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Five new poems by Rae Armantrout

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The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry

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Edna St. Vincent Millay: hustler with a lyric voice

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“Substitute, say, ‘language poetry’ for ‘fascism’…. “

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Ron Loewinsohn’s memoir of mimeo days

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Three poems by Jean Day

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Coldfront’s 2007 in Review

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Alan Davies’ “Stone

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Langston Hughes in Austin

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Walt Nygard, war poet

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Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s poems
to remain in curriculum for two more years

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A profile of the Tipton Poetry Journal

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In Delhi, “Poetry Capital of the World,”
100 poets read, one minute each

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Slapshot poetry

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Shin Gyeong-lim’s The Camel

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Slam poet Boris “Bluz” Rogers

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Brigit Pegeen Kelly, typical “distinguished American poet”

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God’s gift to poetry

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Richard Kenney’s The One-Strand River

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The first anthology of Macau poetry in English

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Helen Dunmore: Catullus as cliché

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Cody’s to move & shrink again

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A YouTube for documents?

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Who reads

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Unwriting

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Why newspapers are dying

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Print-on-demand & the bookstore of the future

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Cultural obesity & the web

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The university in 2026

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Theory & the blues

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Meanwhile,
at the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium

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Photography, the instant art

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Animal Merger Products: The Early Years

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John Currin’s high art porn at the Gagosian

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John Chamberlain’s heavy metal

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Latin American performance art

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The art of Ghada Amer

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Structure and Paint

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Trisha Brown after dancing

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Alain Robbe-Grillet has died at 85

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Rae Armantrout in The New Yorker

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Talking with Peter Gizzi

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The New York poetry scene

A new translation of Poet in New York

Michael Dirda on NYC & AWP

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The sound poems of bpNichol

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Conceptual poetry in Arizona

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Hugh MacDiarmid
& the Stone of
Scone

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Pound’s moody genius

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468CThyFuture:
video as book, book as video

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The Frost medal for Michael Harper

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Project: to read 200 books
in 2008 & blog it all

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The world’s most widely read
living poet

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If Robert Creeley
were a character in Peanuts,
would he be Linus?

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Christian Bök on Dennis Lee

& on chance in writing

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WorldCat:
find books in a library near you

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One more reason
to go to the library

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Almodovar to film Marcos Ana biopic

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Rachel Zucker’s Bad Wife Handbook

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Sharon Mesmer’s Annoying Diabetic Bitch

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Major Jackson’s Hoops

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Trevor Joyce’s What’s in Store

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The two sides of Paul Muldoon

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Jen Hadfield’s Nigh-No Place

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A memorial for Landis Everson at St. Marks

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The first e-book to reach one million downloads?

Percentage of students
who have bought e-textbooks: 18
(PDF)

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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore tales
come from Pittsburgh and Washington, DC

The role of supermarkets
in the decline of bookstores

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Where textbook dollars go (PDF)

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How to save money on books

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Talking with Philip Roth

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Irvan Perez has died, & with him
some of the last links to Ileños

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Talking with Hiram Larew
(part two)

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Lee Sharkey & the war on words

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A profile of Miguel Barnet

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Edward Byrne on
Patricia Fargnoli & B.H. Fairchild

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Anne Waldman chants the plight of manatees

John Flynn sings of their snot

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Ashraf Hossain’s On Behula’s Raft

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Getting a reading series going in Malaysia

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Videos of a youth slam
at Richard Hugo House

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The poetry of Roger Clemens

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Should Cathal Ó Searcaigh
stay in the curriculum?

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Robert Pinsky on Alan Shapiro

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How dumb are we?

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Is reading doomed?

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Writers as drunks

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The wit of Rye, NY

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Roberto Bolaño’s imaginary monsters

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£15,000 to imitate BART in Russia

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Vendler’s Yeats

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A profile of Henri Cole

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Is © foe heading for Congress?

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Talking with Carl Phillips

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The Library of America’s 979-page edition
of a poet who published just 90 poems

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Talking with Simon Armitage

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A portrait of the poet

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Charlie Simic in Delaware

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Theater and the suspicion of language

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The resurrection of Richard Yates

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James Wood: lost in translation

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Make Me a Supercritic

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(Art) journalism vs. blogging

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Julian Schnabel’s journey

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Dorothy Podber has died

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Frida Kahlo in Philadelphia

“with eyes half open”

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Art and the feminist revolution

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Philip Guston’s Poor Richard

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A renaissance in public art in the UK?

(Slideshow here)

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Illicit cultural property

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Japanese supreme court
overturns Mapplethorpe obscenity ruling

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Julian Bell on Lucian Freud

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Roscoe Mitchell, scientist of sound

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The problem of importantitis

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The alleged importance of publishers
in music

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Is listening gendered?

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You call this an arts policy?

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“How one interprets Modernism
depends on what one includes”