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Monday, March 31, 2008

Rod Smith on Ceptuetics (MP3)

Plus Kenny Goldsmith (MP3)

& Bruce Andrews (MP3) & Kim Rosenfield (MP3)

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New York Times obit for Jonathan Williams

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Indiana cancels Constitution

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Talking with Blas Falconer

Emily Pérez on Falconer

Falconer on the experience & aesthetics of
the Other Rican

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Joshua Marie Wilkinson
reading at Stephanie Young’s house
(MP3)

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Rae Armantrout’s Next Life

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Javier Huerta in conversation with Miguel Murphy

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The poems of Vaan Nguyen

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Poems from an attic

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Robert Fagles has died

A test of translation

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Gordon Brown’s favorite poem

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Textsound, accent on the sound

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Beth Ann Fennelly’s Unmentionables

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The oldest bookstore in Canada is kaput!

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Humans were not built for reading

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From John Lowther’s long poem Stoppages

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A Rotary Club takes note of Robert Creeley & John Ashbery

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Muggles enrolling in Potter studies

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Have books about books
replaced books?

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Patricia Smith’s Teahouse of the Almighty

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Talking with Mark Strand

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Talking with Alfred Arteaga

Craig Santos Perez on Arteaga

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Hugo Claus has died

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Bill Brown’s Late Winter

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A new e-book on iPaper from Tomaž Šalamun

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On finding one’s name in The Constructivist Moment

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Ruth Dallas has died

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The poet as rock star – Mary Oliver

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Amazon goes after Lulu

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Lorenzen’s, the last used bookstore in Little Rock,
is shutting down

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Indie bookstores in Austin

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Brits don’t read the classics

What British teens
do & do not read

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The vanishing newspaper

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Joyelle McSweeney on Mónica de la Torre

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Six new poems from John Wilkinson

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Oe & Okinawa

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Why plagiarism in books gets by

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Rich Villar’sArs Poetica in Progress”

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A profile of Kevin Higgins

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April is the cruelest month
& getting crueler every year

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Poetry Everywhere in Milwaukee

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A reading series in Salem, MA

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The most successful Indian novelist

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A profile of Robin Robertson

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Touring Longfellow’s home

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Form, formalism & literary memory

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The poetry scene in Northern Nevada

And Central Michigan

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Robert Crawford, “agog at technology”

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Mary Karr on Louise Gluck

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Byron’s editor

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The Polish journalist’s posthumous poems

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A new collection from Young Smith

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Locating the book review section

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The worst Henry James title ever

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The love poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner

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When writing fiction shuts down the poetry

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The end of customer service

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Why is El Greco worth less than a Koons?

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Art & race

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Enrique Chagoya at the Berkeley Art Museum

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Art vs. history in San Francisco

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The latest chapter in the old
Is graffiti art?” debate

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A Governor General’s Award
to a performance artist

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Alvin Ailey gets both a street
& a Barbie Doll

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The chimp who thought he was a boy

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A big tip of the hat to
The Latino Poetry Review
from whose big first issue
we’ve taken just a few choice links

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Ange Mlinko on Helen Adam

Helen Adam sound files

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Jonathan Williams & Guy Davenport

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Jordan Davis on Philip Whalen

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The 2008 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere
is now open for nominations
(past laureates include Jilly Dybka, Amy King & me)

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Rae Armantrout reads at Wesleyan

Armantrout in the new Nation
(subscription required)

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Reginald Shepherd
reading Bruns reading Stevens

on being “difficult

& on passion in Robert Duncan

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St. Petersburg marks the 70th anniversary of
the death of Osip Mandelstam

The Anna Akhmatova Museum
at Fountain House

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Bunting’s language

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Bookshelves of the dead

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Elizabeth Bishop’s Poems, Prose and Letters

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The George Oppen Centennial Symposium
(click & scroll down)

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Paul Siegell’s latest review

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Thesaurus Rx

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Did Coleridge translate Faust?

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David Orr on Mary Jo Bang

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time to start reading again

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Shakespeare’s quarto editions
to go digital

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A rambling meditation
that eventually gets
to Mary Oliver

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Lynne Sharon Schwartz & Al Filreis
discuss a feminist response to
Robert Creeley’s guy talk road poem

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Allen Taylor’s favorite blogs
(+ how to make me feel really old)

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When tongues collide

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Armageddon in Retrospect

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Defamation suit against
Kenzaburo Oe dropped

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10 questions for Edward Byrnes
& not one mention of
77 Sunset Strip

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Adam Kirsch on Martin Amis

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Anti-plagiarism tools
don’t violate ©

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John Latta on Chris Martin

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The Ron Paul graphics revolution

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Recorded voice, 20 years before Edison

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David Hockney on the power of images

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Rem Koolhaas in Dubai

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Students for a Free Tibet

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Red George’s moment of socialism?
(Doing for Wall Street
what he wouldn’t do for
New Orleans)

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Woeser’s Tibetan blog

An analysis of “the Woeser incident

Woeser’s review of Dreaming Lhasa

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Alice Notley wins the Lenore Marshall prize

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The Great Compromise

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Cole Swensen’s Ours

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The Counter-Revolution will not be televised:
Al Filreis on the politics of the
School of Quietude

Filreis discussing the book (MP3)

Filreis reading excerpts (MP3)

Charles Bernstein’s intro at the launch party (MP3)

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“The truffle-hound of American poetry”

Jonathan Williams on the air
(MP3 available until March 30)

A bibliography for Jonathan Williams

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Alan Gilbert on C.D. Wright

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A dissertation on micropoetics

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Reginald Shepherd on Joanna link & Geoffry G. O’Brien

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Hank Lazer reviews
Jake Berry, Dave Brinks, Duriel Harris,
Tom Mandel, Glenn Mott & Stephen Vincent

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Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust

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A eulogy for Vincent Ferrini

& one for Hone Tuwhare

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Elena Rivera & Jennifer Moxley read in Bangor

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Grace Paley’s Fidelity

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A new ebook from Nico Vassilakis
(PDF)

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Life at Slam U

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Stephen Burt on Laura Kasischke

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Remembering Otieno Amisi

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Writing Japanese poetry in Korea

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Frost’s argument for his work

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The Litblog Coop goes belly up

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Thinking about which texts to assign

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Zbignew Herbert’s Mr. Cogito

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Toledo’s laureate has office hours & plans

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A monument to Quietude

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

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Britain’s indie publishers

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Resuscitating Kent Johnson

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Ignoring Dickens’ last wish

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Our Mauberly’s monument

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Pols & their poetry

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What to do with your dissertation

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The San Francisco WritersCorps

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The Block Island Poetry Project

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Talking with Mark Doty

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A profile of Robert Farnsworth

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Elizabeth Bishop’s complete works

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Bookcases in war

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“Poets Bearing Witness” in Beirut

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Iron John” comes to Black Mountain

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A reading report on Alicia Ostriker

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A Nova Scotia poet of the 19th century

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an oracle of the ordinary

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Poetry, music & dance in Sedona

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In Gilbert, Arizona, a cowboy poet
reads to fund a museum

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The Great Plains Writers Conference

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Tarting up digital fiction

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Superbooks

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Larry Woiwode’s A Step from Death

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Thom Yorke & Ken Livingston

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The “Iranian Bob Dylan” & other moderates

The loneliness of an Iranian rapper

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No bel amour for Mr Bellamy
as Sir Paul anaqrams his divorce

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Alan Gilbert on Peter Schjeldahl’s art criticism

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Still trying to save the Barnes

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Jasper Johns & color charts

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Joe Brainard’s The Nancy Book

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A Lot of Things Like This

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Stan Brakhage films in Boston, March 26

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A profile of Lydia Lopokova

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Progressives for Obama

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Shanna Compton recaps the “book cover” meme

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A Jonathan Williams page at the EPC

The bard of Scaly Mountain

Michael Lally on Jonathan Williams,
Ivan
Dixon & Anthony Minghella

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A page for Helen Adam at the EPC

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The Robert Duncan page at PennSound

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Questions for Ishmael Reed

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Poetry as a topological model for political thought –
the case of Rod Smith

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Reading Rachel Loden

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Who is the secret poet in the UK government?

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Talking with Paul Siegell

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5 stories by Barbara Henning

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The Missoula scene

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Kent Johnson presents Jaime Saenz

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Justin Sirois Secondary Sound

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Tsering Woeser & Wang Lixiong
are under arrest in
Beijing

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Making Gertrude accessible

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A Puerto Rican poet with Alzheimer’s

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John Ashbery accepts the Robert Creeley award

The roots of the Creeley award

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Charles Bernstein & the authentic self

What makes a poem a poem?
(60 second lecture)

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“The world’s longest poem”??

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Barry MacSweeney & the Bunting influence

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Donald Richie on 100 waka

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Guy Davenport as cartoonist

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Alan Davies on Emanuel Carnevali

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Garrison Keillor reads Cid Corman

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Simic vs. Creeley

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Jayne Cortez in Bed-Stuy

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The Most Dangerous Art
poetry in 20th century
Russia

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Bad-boy memoirist denied entry to US

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A new translation of Cavafy

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Bookshelf etiquette

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A jazzman’s plans
for libraries in New Orleans

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Adam Fieled on Jordan Stempleman

Jeffrey Side on Adam Fieled

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A profile of Travis Watkins

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Todd Swift on different directions
for Canadian poetry

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Borders is for sale

But is the damage already done?

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The resurrection of Franz Wright

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Poetry Everywhere is heavily skewed
towards the
School of Quietude

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Thomas Lux on Ilya Kaminsky

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Josh Corey on the new sentence
& the “red meat” of narrative

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The greatest poets of my generation are women

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King Lear of the Taxi

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Poets with a shoe fetish

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Creative writing programs without poetry
are quite normal down under

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March 19 was World Poetry Day

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A profile of Jack Wiler

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Edward Byrne on the start
of Bob Dylan’s career

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The Longfellow tour

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A novel about Robert Frost

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Recalling Bill McLaughlin

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Preparing for the NEA

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clichéd…and sentimental” –
Michael Hofmann’s Selected Poems

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Profile of a workshop in Lacey, WA

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The death-haunted poetics of Alan Shapiro

Andrew Hudgins on Shapiro & Michael Chitwood

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A snoozer from Mark Strand

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A collaborative film betwixt
Alasdair Gray & Liz Lochhead
that never quite happened

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Eavan Boland & Edward Hirsch on
The Making of a Sonnet

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Translation slams

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Newspapers on campus

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School of Quietude: prose division

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Do schools kill creativity?

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Nicholson Baker’s inconvenient truths

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Wikipedia syndrome

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Vito Acconci at Slought

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After Frida Kahlo

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One way to replace critical thinking

Do art critics matter?

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Peep Show 2

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Allan Kaprow happenings at the Tate Modern

He is not Allan Kaprow

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Art fraud on EBay busted

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The patron is a Prada

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Wright country

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The last of the rightwing modernists

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The price of free expression

Agit-prop or sterotypes?

Umberto Eco on the freedom to write

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