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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Mark Wallace on poetry readings.

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Ed Mycue’s ten favorite books

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Remembering Rochelle Ratner

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Aaron McCollough on
Barrett Watten & textsound,
manufactured landscapes in China &
Linh Dinh’s attempt to align me
along side Kenny Goldsmith

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Joyelle McSweeney on Hannah Wiener

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Dale Smith on the prose
of Forrest Gander

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Robert Kelly on Jonathan Williams

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Robert Hass (Ecco Press) & Philip Schultz (Harcourt) share
this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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Geof Huth’s long & winding blog

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A Lee-Ann-thology of concrete poetry (MOV)

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Walt Whitman as spiritual leader

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Gillian Ferguson’s 1000-page
online epic

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What If I Am a Literary Gangster?

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Alistair McCartney’s The End of the World Book

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The new Mipoesias can be downloaded (PDF)
or eaten straight from the can

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Frances Richey’s war poetry

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Would you trust Stanley Fish’s
account of deconstruction?
Me neither

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Poetry it is not a genre.”

“I Heard the Google Gong

“I Heard It is One of Many Possibilities

Further Thoughts

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A profile of Virago

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Poetry & psychoanalysis

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Outdoing Kent Johnson even

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The several lives of Joseph Conrad

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A profile of Tracy K. Smith

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Are professorships doomed?

The thesaurus is dying

And what about bookstores?

Among the newly doomed:
Acres of Books in LA

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So, are ebooks starting to catch on?

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Alice Fogel’s passion for nature

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The commodification of poetry

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Emory opens the Danowski Poetry Library

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Sartre’s harem & Simone de Beauvoir

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North Andover’s laureate is finishing his term

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Talking with Brian Hall

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Poets of the Kitsap Peninsula

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Talking with Billy Collins

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Simon Armitage:
My life with air guitar

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Naipaul the monster

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Simon Michael Bessie, the last person
to build a major trade publishing firm
from scratch, has died

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The success of Jodi Picoult

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Roseanne Cash:
Returning to writing

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Just who benefits from
giving a Pulitzer to Dylan?

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Nobody sounds like Messiaen

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Pavarotti lip-synched his last performance

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Gabriel Gomez’ The Outer Bands

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Recreating Dan Flavin’s ’64 show

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The art of Doris Lee

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The work of Ralph Rapson

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Fisk to appeal order protecting O’Keefe collection

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Remembering Anne Spencer
in Lynchburg,
VA

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What do we want
digital poetry to be?

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What Reginald Shepherd & Rae Armantrout
& Bill Zavatsky & Forrest Gander

all have in common

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Squaring Kenneth Goldsmith & Reginald Shepherd
on the poetics of identity

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Talking with Suzanne Vega

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John Tranter, in conversation with Charles Bernstein (MP3)

Tranter, reading from Urban Myths (MP3)

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d.a. levy and the mimeo-graph revolution

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Voice of America on Langston Hughes

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Falling for the charms
of Daniil Kharms

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Linh Dinh on poetry & technology

Reginald Shepherd on the same

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Dihn on the war poetry of Tran Da Tu

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Of all the books in the history of the world,
the one I most desire
is Robert Grenier’s Cambridge M’Ass

Barring that, I would love to get my hands
on the individual
who stole the copy off my office door
at SF State in 1981

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Fou is an excellent new e-journal

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Honoring Donald Finkel

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Jean Valentine, Li-Young Lee and Gary Snyder
at a poetry conference
spittin’ distance from the Bush estate in
Crawford, TX

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Jorie Graham’s Sea Change

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A profile of Thomas Sayers Ellis

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Shakespeare in court

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slam Poetry

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“the slithering syntax of John Kinsella

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Aaron Anstett, a laureate for Pike’s Peak

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Karla Van Vliet reads to the door

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Why good poets work in pickle factories

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Using the web to build demand

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“I should note, as a bookseller, I hate everyone”

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The LA Times on national poetry month

Elsewhere in Los Angeles

Meanwhile in the Hamptons

Around Washington, DC

Atlanta chooses the Quietist route

What it all means

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Reed Whittemore at 88

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The largest poetry festival in Maine
is not in Orono

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10 Questions for Rachel Bunting

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Being interviewed posthumously by Robert Creeley

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Book buying in Boise

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Are boomers the last book-centered generation?

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Malayalam poetry and its mass connection

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A profile of Cheryl Lachowski

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A good look at the Allen anthology
hidden away among some bad HTML

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Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American

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Frost in fiction

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Virginia Gillespie’s Taoist Inner Tube Rider

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Ekphrastic in Uganda

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Bei Dao in Oklahoma

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Why Richard Kenney is not a language poet

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Naipaul the sexist

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The war poems of Brian Turner

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Gillian Clarke is named Wales National Poet

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Talking with Linda Pastan

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$50,000 for one of the least risky poets
in
North America

But Daisy Fried likes him too

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Fried on Janet Malcolm

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How do you review a book like
Guy Gavriel Kay’s Beyond This Dark House?

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Kwame Dawes on
life & HIV in
Jamaica

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Chatting with Cherkovski

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The Impac Prize shortlist

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A profile of Salman Rushdie
that’s not fatwa-centric

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Rupert Smith
on his life in porn

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Mary Karr on Heather McHugh

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Teaching by formula

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“no official diagnosis of
death by blogging

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Symptomatic Reading & Its Aftermath

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The narcissism of small differences

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When time stood still in Grand Central Station

Friday, April 04, 2008

The bpNichol website has gone live

Life on bpNichol Lane

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What an interview should be:
CA Conrad interviewing Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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Frank O’Hara in The New Yorker

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Bruce Andrews turned 60 on Tuesday,
making him one day younger than Al Gore

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Jack Kimball on Joe Dunn

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Reginald Shepherd, Rachel Zolf & C. Dale Young
all are on the Lambda Poetry shortlist

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Ed Sanders in New Orleans

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The first Pericles in Philadelphia
in 150 years

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Some questions about conceptual poetry

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Alfred Corn on Jonathan Williams

The Winston-Salem Journal’s obit

The Highlander’s obit

Another North Carolina obit

A reading in Cambridge (the real one) in 1973

James Jaffe’s eulogy

Bookseller David Lovely’s comments

Those of Hermeneutic Circle

Having dinner with Jonathan 31 years ago

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Rae Armantrout in The New Yorker

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Long poems coming to Sussex

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Maya Angelou at 80

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Bob Creeley died three years ago this week

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The Whalen tribute reading in Portland

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Didi Menendez’ When I Said Goodbye

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The banana of God

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Is the web destroying your living?

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Hart Crane

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The number of words in the English language

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An Oppen Centennial salute in San Francisco

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Talking with Jorie Graham

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Is there onne Earthe a Manne more trewe
Thanne Willy Shakspeare is toe you”

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Talking with Grace Paley

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20 favorite poets for National Poetry Month

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PEN protests Horsley’s ban

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Somehow I missed the cringe event of the season

With “the perfect accessory

& even ringtones

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The “darling of the NPR set”

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Silliman for dummies

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Flarf: not dead yet

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The “science of literature

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The “national epic” of Britain is…

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Great expectations?

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Another elegy for The Bookroom

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12 statements about reading

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A Welsh poet in Italy

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Mabel Todd & Emily Dickinson

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Beckett’s taste in poetry

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The best travel bookstore ever?

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The best New Zealand poems of 2007
isn’t 30 pages long

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Buying what he thinks is
Lyn Hejinian’s first book

(He obviously has not seen
The Grreat Adventure!
)

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Love me, love my books

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A poet living “off-the-grid

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Poet Populist & local laureate collaborate

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The last reader of Julian Barnes

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More fun with ©

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A profile of Margaret Gibson

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The Wharton estate struggles

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Poetry on the radio in Zimbabwe

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Poets & thieves

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The last newspaper

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Between criticism & intolerance

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Questioning the politics of tenure

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In search of “Tom Thumb’s Blues

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Angus Fairhurst is dead

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From Bauhaus to Black Mountain

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An exhibition of fierce pussy

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Faint praise for Jasper Johns

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Art Institute cowers at threats from animal activists

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The world’s oldest adolescent

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Publications are dumping movie critics