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Monday, April 21, 2008


Barack Obama & Bob Casey right here in Paoli on Saturday     (Photo by Sleeping Cat Beads)

Alice Walker on Barack Obama

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Jeffrey Side interviews Marjorie Perloff

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Tom Clark needs your help

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Lyn Hejinian at Woodland Pattern

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Michael Dirda on Scroggins' Zukofsky

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Wikipedia discriminates against small press poets

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Elizabeth Willis talking with Charles Bernstein

Elizabeth Willis reading

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Women Poets on Mentorship

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In Tibet, Jamyang Kyi arrested

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Talking with Al Young

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Contemporary poetry from the Middle East, Asia & beyond

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Thomas Braichet has died of cancer at 30

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NY Times obit for Aimé Césaire

The Associated Press obit

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Langdon Hammer on John Ashbery

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Community & post-colonial poetics

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An excellent obit of Andrew Crozier

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On the question of the line

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Stephen Burt against argument

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Talking with Robert Creeley

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Yet another appreciation of Jonathan Williams

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Walt Whitman reads aloud

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Craig Perez on Aram Saroyan & the “ethnic-avant”

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What went on at the
Chicago Poetry Symposium

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A free verse novel about werewolves

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A poem by Gustaf Sobin

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North Carolina’s contributions to Beat culture

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Jack Hirschman remembers the Beats

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Talking with Jorie Graham

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The globalized fictioneer

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Sam Cornish in Jamaica Plain

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Plumly’s Keats

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Robert Pinsky’s poetry FAQs

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Axel Pinpin, poet & political prisoner

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Bernard O’Donoghue’s Selected Poems

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Letters from Stephen Burt, Slavoy Žižek, Frank Kermode et al

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Vendler’s Yeats

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The history of poetry in 362 words

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Talking with Anne Stevenson (PDF)

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10 questions for Ivy Alvarez

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Rereading The Morning of the Poem

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The failures of Philip Schultz

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Imagining Akhmatova

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Cavafy vs. Dylan & Catullus

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A profile of Darrell Kinsey

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The national poets of Wales

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New Brazilian anthology seems bland

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James Winn on The Poetry of War

Poems Against War

And in the hands of the troops

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Writing at V Tech

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“A professor, a poet, and a nun all walk into a bar . . . “

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In Australia, a “national poetry festival

& in Canada, a “national poetry face-off

Face-off challenger Sandra Dunn

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The poem in your pocket

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A profile of Beth Ann Fennelly

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Frost’s prose

& Frost as fiction

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Poetry Live(s)

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Galway Kinnell & David Wojahn

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Dylan Thomas’ daughter

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John Betjeman’s “muse”

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Charlie Simic goes to Choate

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A profile of George Barker

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With Ted Kooser, WYSIWYG

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A panel on the art of translation

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Slammin’ for “Greek Week

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Ed Hirsch on what poetry is

Hirsch’s “Cotton Candy”

A profile of Hirsch

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Jazzmouth & Billy Collins

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The gender gap in contest panels

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Snippets of quietude

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Amsterdam:
World Book Capital 2008

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Libraries now

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Recent Library of Congress readings:
Philip Nikolayev (MP3)
Naomi Shihab Nye (RAM)

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The new Parnassus

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Poetry for the young

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LSU & two small presses
make up the SIBA poetry shortlist

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Mishima on stage

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Rescuing Steinbeck

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Joyce Carol Oates on the last days
of famous writers

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Family vs. writing in the fiction of
Erica Jong

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Creating Slaughterhouse Five

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Talking with Lewis Turco

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Studying the smell of old books

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Favorite bookstores

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Bruce Sterling at Innovationsforum

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Sit shiva for narrative

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Is Georgia State the new Kinko’s?

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Free, online, open source textbooks

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French Theory is not “just another Fish story”

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Against critics as “neuroscience groupies

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Darwin online

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The “100 most powerful people” in British culture

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Happy birthday, John Chamberlain

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Remembering Pippa Bacca

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Abortion as art

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Benefits Supervisor Sleeping

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The photographs of Walter Crump

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Kitaj’s last works

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Amy Sillman – the ultimate New York artist

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The Beijing art market

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Rodchenko at the Hayward

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Postcards from Warren

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Film revisits the case of Roman Polanski

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The heritage of being Wagner

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Battlestar Galactica’s composer
blogs the show

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A YouTube blues tour

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Felicity, California,
the center of the world

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Photo courtesy of Jacket

Henry Gould’s In RI

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Stephen Burt on John Ashbery

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Ron Padgett on A Prairie Home Companion

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Michael Lally on Joe Brainard’s Nancy

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The Patrick Herron publishing renaissance

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Oppen in Buffalo

Robert Creeley on George Oppen

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School of Q:
the empire strikes back

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PEN award to jailed Chinese writer

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Fady Joudah is the new Yale Younger Poet

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E.A. “Archie” Markham
(who sometimes published as Valerie Goodman)
has died

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Halvard Johnson reports that
Rebecca Kavaler has died

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Ulster poet Robert Greacen has died

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Death row poet executed in Japan

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A profile of Elliott Levin

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Bookstores brace for the next chapter

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Oni Buchanan’s The Mandrake Vehicles

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Why is Charles Bernstein on this agenda?

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A profile of M.H. Abrams

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What people like,
Madison version

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A Rae Armantrout page
(tho it calls me, more than once,
”Ron Stillman”)

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A Situationist & his ©

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Is the Arabic world ready
for a literary revolution?

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A survey for readers of books

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“The most published author
in the history of the planet”

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Talking with Sam Green

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How Boston’s poets are coping with
National Poetry Month

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Shakespeare in contemporary cinema

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Why poets sound like that

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“Why should everything be easy?”

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The emotions in Jan Beatty’s poetry

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Poetry can be your friend

Or poetry can be your salvation

& it can entertain the kids

You can put it in your pocket

But Don’t Call It a Comeback

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A new bio of Isaac Rosenberg

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Mary Oliver & Mark Doty

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Are human brains unique?

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Can pols be curators?

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The town saved by quilting

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Tan Dun, Philip Glass
& how much you can get away with

Sunday, April 13, 2008

PBS does Walt Whitman

Ending “poetry-lite
(and using Billy Collins to do so)

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Today is the day
for Tayari Jones’
Dunbar Village Fundraiser
on eBay
with “items” from Jones, Sarah Schulman,
George Saunders, D. Nurske, Natasha Trethewey
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Carleen Brice & more

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A great interview:
Stacy Szymaszek talking with Sina Queyras

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How to trivialize women’s poetry

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The Washington Post obit of Jonathan Williams

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MP3s of Philadelphia’s Oppen Centennial Celebration
are now online

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Celebrating Siv Cedering

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The Hank Lazer contest

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Cutting and “creative writing”

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The sexual politics of
The New York Times Book Review

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An obit for Andrew Crozier

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Jordan Davis on Michael Morse

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The Griffin Poetry Prize shortlists
are full of good poets

But old ones

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Sridala Swami
on conceptual poetry in
India

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Flarf, like Soylent Green,
is people”

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Turkey’s only journal
dedicated to vispo

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You can interview Allen Fisher

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Daisy Fried on Joe Torra

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Sentences in experimental fiction

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Find the gals at the Chicago Poetry Symposium

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One Young wins the Fred Cody award,
two others are nominated for poetrty

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Talking with Bob Hass

Talking with Philip Schultz

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MP3s of the “lost lectures” of Jorge Luis Borges (in English!)

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Seeing Bunting in Adam Fould’s The Broken World

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The poetry of Heather Thomas & Doug Arnold

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Joanna Scott on Donald Barthelme

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W.D. Snodgrass on confessional poetry

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Talking with Valerie Martínez

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Dan Beachy-Quick on Philip Jenks

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Poetry & emotion

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de Beauvoir in love

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The $300,000 word

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Some bumps in the death of the hardback

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The end is nigh at Rapture

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The scene in Madison

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April 17th is
Poem in Your Pocket Day

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The worldwide Shakespeare marathon

“more about fantasies than the real world”

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Queen’s Poet wins competition

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Reviews of Nate Mackey, Hilton Obenzinger & Louis Masur

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Two Welsh poets,
one the daughter of Dylan Thomas

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The International Dictionary of Neologisms

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Poetry is not dead
tho you might not know it from this

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Everything you ever needed to know about
poetry at Knopf

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Jerry Rothenberg picks Clayton Eshleman for translation award

Rothenberg’s Triptych

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Grace Paley’s posthumous poems

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Ballard’s memoir

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On the journal Sixty-six

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The “SLO (every pun intended) poet laureate” speaks

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East of the asterisk

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Oni Buchanan & kinetic poetry

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2000 attend Mailer’s memorial

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The authorized biography of a not-nice guy

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A profile of Grace Maycock

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One shoe I’ve been waiting to hear drop

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a difference in tone

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A profile of Marilyn Lerch

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Kyle Schlesinger’s “good ol’ days”

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Madison’s poet laureate sets an agenda

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In Duluth, a laureate looks back

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Talking with Kevin Stein

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Talking with Ted Kooser

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Talking with Elise Partridge

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Nicanor Parra’s antipoetics

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Mark Bauerlein on the history of deconstruction in the U.S.

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Dyslexia impacts the brain
differently for different languages

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On symmetry

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The future of book nostalgia

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Spam gets literary

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Are we sure we need a tour
of Bukowski’s L.A.

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Ahsan Saleem, an impressionist poet in Urdu

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A profile of Mark Strand

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Talking with Tobias Wolff

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An evening of Quietude
for one of its favorite novelists

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The future of newspapers

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Against tenure

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Salman Rushdie on Islam

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Adam Kirsch’s Adorno

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Selling Sonnabend

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The physical problems of
contemporary public art

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The galleries of Vegas

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Schjeldahl’s Murakami

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Eugenia Butler has died

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Roger Ebert leaves TV

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Al Gore’s new slide show