Ezra Pound’s birthplace
is open to the public
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POGsound
puts MP3s of
nearly three dozen readings
online
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Paul Zukofsky on
”4 Other Countries”
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Didi Menendez
on Belinda Subraman Presents
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Geoffrey Gatza
on the Joe Milford Poetry Show
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The state of British poetry
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Nobuo Ayukawa’s American and Other Poems
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Salman Rushdie now
Joyce Carol Oates on Rushdie’s new novel
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Charles Bernstein’s Girly Man
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Chinua Achebe
& the Great African Novel
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What if Bob Cobbing
had been the British poet laureate?
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Queen urged to appoint a woman
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“If poets are jackals…”
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Poetry & political murders
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David Antin will be pleased to learn
that he has become a language poet,
so says this conference in France
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Jeff Harrison & Allen Bramhall
have been interviewing one another
for nearly three years
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Maggie O’Sullivan
reading her text “Windows”
with help from Charles Bernstein
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Zadie Smith on George Eliot
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Anne Boyer & flarf
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“women are few among poets in every country”
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Russia’s “Poet” award goes to
Timur Kibirov
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“Quintessential rebel wins establishment prize”
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A profile of John Burnside
(a long ways from Scotland)
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Re-imperializing American lit
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Rimbaud’s new work
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Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble
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Coming to Chicago, June 1:
”The Modernist Poet as Jew”
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Talking with Jason Camlot, David McGimpsey & Stuart Ross
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The ethical problems of criticism
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Will criticism as gate-keeping survive?
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The library in the new age
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Historic library’s collection
at risk after fire
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In Canada, the danger is flooding
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Microsoft shuts down book search
While Google expands its reach
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England braces for the latest
German literary phenom,
Wetlands
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The language experiment
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Judging a book by its cover
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1001 Books
You Must Read
Before You Die
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Naipaul’s India
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A poem by Samih al-Qasim
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Alison Pick & Kevin Connolly
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Selling surrealism
& getting a good price
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Honor Moore’s memoir
of her father on the down-low,
The Bishop’s Daughter
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The New Yorker
adds a book blog
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Baseball haiku
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Adam Zagajewski in Israel
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Anti-Appalachian bigotry
still isn’t politically incorrect
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Saginaw celebrates Roethke
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James’ names
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A profile of Jeff Stumpo
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Auden in New York
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Claude McKay and Langston Hughes
both died on a May 22
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A profile of Michael Ryan
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A profile of Hussein Abu Bakr Al-Mihdhar
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Summer poetry
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Alfred Kazin’s bio
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Poetry, religion & gender studies
in the work of Theodora Ranelli
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“Chatterbox” Derek Walcott
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Introducing the 2008 Madison slam team
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The National Poet
of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
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McGonagall gets revenge
Why we like bad art
Maybe McGonagall was just misunderstood
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The little tough guy
Little tough guy beaten by “a bowl of fruit”
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“None of that free-verse stuff”
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Poetry Out Loud as a response to rap
& “complicated poetry”
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A profile of Michael Hoffman
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An email interview with Floyd Skloot
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Cynthia Ozick on Lionel Trilling
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In Taiwan, an honorary Ph.D. for
Yu Kuang-chung
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Book prizes & bookies
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The right can’t tell a story
But neither can the left
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Who gets to write the title?
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O Heraclitus!
Can you give the same paper twice?
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The academy & work
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A biography of Raymond Williams
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The anti-journalism of Karl Kraus
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The influence of Robotech
on Battlestar Galactica
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The paintings of Stephen Rodefer
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Didi Menendez’ portrait of me
Her portraits of (mostly) American poets
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Rauschenberg’s contribution
Gagging on Rauschenberg worship
P.S., he was gay
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Peter Schjeldahl on the abstract expressionists
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Cornell Capa has died
A slide show of his photos
More images by, of & about Capa
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This season’s big art money
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SF MoMA picks up Hammer head curator
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Who owns antiquity?
Talking with James Cuno
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The only library with three Gutenbergs
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Decoding Charlie Parker
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Ono & John Lennon’s sons
fight to keep Imagine
out of “intelligent design” movie
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A restaurant unequaled
