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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

An obituary for Jonathan Williams

& another from The Asheville Citizen-Times

Alex Gildzen, Mark Scroggins, Jeff Davis,
CA Conrad, Don Share, Laurie Duggan
Gulayihi” & John Latta remember

Two great photos

Charles Shere on Magpie’s Bagpipe

An exhibit of Williams’ collection of
American vernacular art

Williams talking with Jeffrey Beam

A profile of Jonathan Williams

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Arthur C. Clarke has died

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The C.D. Wright page at PennSound

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A reader’s companion to
Annie Finch’s Calendars
(PDF)

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A history of the Cleveland poetry scene

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Rosmarie Waldrop in The Nation

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Eight books by Basil King

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Monstrous women of the avant-garde

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On Bottom: On Shakespeare

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Nine books by John Yau

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Robert Duncan & Eric Mottram:
a dialog

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Charles North & Hettie Jones

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On Tom Devaney & Peter Krok

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Shanna Compton on Cathy Park Hong

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Tom Raworth & British humor

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Eileen Tabios on Bob Marcacci

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Tim Peterson on Charles Bernstein

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Talking with Ed Sanders

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Nico Vassilakis on (sorta) Morton Feldman

Nico’s Text Loses Time

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Mary Jo Bang:
big star, small sky

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Poets die young

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MP3s of The Line reading series
are starting to come online

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Talking with Washington laureate
Sam Green

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Charles Simic on Kosovo

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Lisa Lubasch’s Twenty-One After Days

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Two poems by Bill Berkson

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Stephen Vincent on Trevor Joyce

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The problem of storing your cash in books

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Sheila Murphy’s Skinny Buddha

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Taking Eliot seriously

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Amiri Baraka on Ed Dorn

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Noah Eli Gordon’s Noise Pictorial Noise

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The poetry brothel

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Selected poems of Eric Pankey

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Lila Zemborain’s Mauve Sea-Orchids

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Vincent Katz in English & Portuguese

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Reducing your book’s carbon footprint

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The laureate at Mr. Burger

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Some identity poetics for Irish Americans

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Two veterans of the St. Louis scene
return for a reading

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Cathleen Calbert’s Sleeping With A Famous Poet

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A bookstore struggles to survive

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37 booksellers give publishers feedback

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A “bluffer’s guide” to poetry

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Singing in a dark time

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Alan Shapiro’s Old War

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Jean Venuga’s Prau

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Amir Sulaiman at Brown

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Teaching & security

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A legend in his own mind

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What Heather McHugh doesn’t know about Star Wars

“Space Bar” (plus Q&A)

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Thomas Fink on David Lehman

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How anti-intellectual is the U.S.?

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A poet for “the simplest hearts

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Jorie Graham, centerfold

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Maggie Nelson, Julie Cook & David Foster

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Mathew Takwi’s Fire on the Mountain

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The “greatness” of Ted Hughes

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The future of literature programs, if any

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Business Week on literacy

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Gargoyle & the limits of audio

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Corrine Fitzpatrick’s Zamboanguena

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Feminist artists across generations

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New play opens in the toilets

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The “most poetic” Biennial

Failure is an option

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Twombly goes to Rome

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Jasper Johns, fifty years later

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From tag writer on the streets
to the National Gallery

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Color at MoMA

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Are you getting your fiber

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Why not nationalism?

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What role for expertise?

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What the FCC?

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Are Republicans objectively fascist?
Just ask

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Chapeaus off to Galatea Resurrects
from whom the many links here
represent just a fraction
of its terrific new number 9

Sunday, March 16, 2008


Bob Grenier at Beyond Baroque

Robert Grenier & Charles Bernstein:
a conversation

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Lyn Hejinian & Billy Joe Harris:
a conversation
on pastiche & poetic form

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Scroggins’ Zukofsky

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The winner of this year’s
Robert Creeley Award
is John Ashbery

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Patrick Durgin on Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Torques

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The epic poetry of Kenmore, NY

The Poem Unlimited

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Forrest Gander on Roberto Bolaño

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The 91-year-old gay beat poet

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In Austin,
along with Kerouac’s scroll,
a marathon reading of
On the Road

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“Drive, he sd” – Not

(I once heard this same tale from Bob)

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Drowning in Robert Creeley

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The trajectory of Basil Bunting

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Reading Nick Piombino’s Ocho 14

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Sarah Lawrence article on Jean Valentine
being named NY State Poet

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Coming in April to Poets House in NYC:
The George Oppen Centennial Symposium
(scroll down)

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Jane Griffith’s Another Country

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Embracing Babel

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Teaching The New York Times how to read

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Poetry in motion in Melbourne

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The mother of maternal poetics – Sylvia Plath

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Just how conservative
is the British mainstream?

The Telegraph’s series on great poets:
Chaucer
Milton
Shelley
Rossetti

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Will, no! We won’t go!

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School director resigns
over poetry on the web

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Duncan McNaughton’s Bounce

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The Cathal O’Searchaigh film mess

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Telling a book by its cover

K. Silem Mohammad joins the book cover discussion

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Cid Corman’s The Next One Thousand Years

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A reading of The Grand Piano

James Sherry on Grand Piano 4

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A limp collection from David Lehman

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Another review of Thomas Lux God Particles

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A bookstore closes in Milwaukee
after just 33 months

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Kooser reads at Emory & Henry University,
fighting his “hick” image

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Restaurants harness poetry craze
in
Nairobi

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“The 100 best last lines from novels” (PDF)

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Clinton wins “the poets’ primary” (PDF)

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about the space between words

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Dangerous (comic) books

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Blook” publisher bites dust

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An NPR profile of Edward Albee

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On measuring language complexity (PDF)

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Cultural studies as academic suicide

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The romance of online mobs

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Terry Pratchett gives $1 million
to fight Alzheimer’s

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Smithsonian to put 13 million photos online

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Jeff Koons in Chicago

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A theory of names

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A map of the brain

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The irrational being

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The upside-down pyramid
of Peter Gay’s Modernism

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“The best critics

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The bitter vowels of
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Music as film criticism

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Comparing Linda Thompson to Robert Creeley

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Censoring video game art

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Brain scientist
Jane Bolte Taylor
had a stroke
of insight

Thursday, March 13, 2008

The haiku of Phil Whalen

Alice Notley on Whalen

Letter to Tom Raworth on “Phil” vs. “Philip”

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Margaret Atwood’s new opera

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Reading Donald Justice

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Mark Ford on Frank O’Hara

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Chris Torrance’s Magic Door

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Girl Talk:
a women’s poetry reading,
Saturday in
West Caldwell, NJ

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The first ten years of Poetry
is now online

Plus both issues of Blast

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Consequences of
displaying the books face out

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Rita Wong & Magdalena Dorina Suciu

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Charles Bernstein:
a poem for Eliot Spitzer

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School director may lose his job
because of his poetry

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Network faces suit if it doesn’t remove
Cathal O Searcaigh’s poetry
from
Katmandu documentary

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Talking with Lisa Beatman

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Six microreviews from Hank Lazer

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Seven poems by Alan Davies

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Not so sure the Corpse is still Exquisite

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Howard Junker’s favorite play about litmags

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Julia Harwig’s In Praise of the Unfinished

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Todd Colby, talking with Jennifer L. Knox

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Publishers Weekly
Bookseller of the Year
has been in
Pasadena
since 1894
(not a typo)

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Allen Fisher’s marbles

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Edna Coyle-Greene’s Snow Negatives`

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The politics of William Burroughs

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The stairbookcase

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Seattle’s secret

But all is not perfect

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Unfinished reviews

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NPR & the culture of fakes

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Poems to skate or row by

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Mary Karr doesn’t know the difference
between Philip Larkin &
William Carlos Williams

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Emmanuel Moses goes to Georgia

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Alfred Corn against the term
New Formalism

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Civil service poetry

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Sean O’Brien pleads
for a return of the canon

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The poetry deficit

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The seven “great poets of the 20th century

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“Our greatest poet

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The humor of Leonard Cohen

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Finding Auden “satisfying”

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Alison Brackenbury’s Singing in the Dark

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Ekphrasis by any other name

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Reading in Iraq

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“reading books is healthier than making them”

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Another eulogy for Dutton’s

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Comrade Fatso & the poetics of Zimbabwe’s history

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The art of translation

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The “Arab Booker” prize

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Ten questions for Anne Rice

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Facts & writers

On a safari to the authentic

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The ghost of Wallace Stegner

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With poetry “under your feet

Berkeley already has such a walk

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Richard Wilbur to keynote
West Chester’s annual kitschfest

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Another list that leaves off Kent Johnson

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Adam Kirsch on Joseph Conrad

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Dedalus saved from extinction…for now

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Is that a poet in your pocket?

It is indeed

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A YouTube just for poetry

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Robert Frost’s Dartmouth lectures

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The value of an audio book

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The Lincoln Poems

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The well-earned modesty of Stephen Spender

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the clichéd figure of a self-absorbed poet

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Looking for beauty in the ordinary

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Write slowly argues the head of HUP

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What is critical thinking?

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Who was Roget?

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The Žižek game

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Where are the Derrideans now?

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Censorship & genre

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The politics of marginality

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David Mamet moves right

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Schwabsky’s Courbet

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How bad is the Biennial?

The Whitney “is a wasteland

But one with social networks

Who’s there

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Museums get an upgrade

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An update on the struggle
to save Richard Serra’s Shift

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A room with a hue

Reinventing color

My favorite “colorist
has a show next month
at the Cue Foundation in
Chelsea

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The joy of boredom

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Contempt

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Sonny Rollins

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onedit 10 is well worth reading