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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Conceptual Poetry Armor

Videos, audio & papers from
Conceptual Poetry & Its Others

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Retyping On the Road
to get inside
Kerouac’s head

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Rare event in NY:
Joanne Kyger reads
Sunday at
4:00 pm at BPC

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The librarian of Baghdad

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A poem by Roy Fisher

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Aaron Shurin’s King of Shadows

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Founder of the Scottish Poetry Library,
Angus Calder has died

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Readings from Ceptuetics Radio:
Rodrigo Toscano, Marie Buck, Barbara Cole, Rod Smith,
Bruce Andrews, Kenny Goldsmith, Anselm Berrigan,
Judith Goldman, Anne Tardos, Laura Elrick, more.
(maybe 9 hours of MP3s)

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Talking with Frances Sjoberg

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Videos of readings from London’s Openned series
include Maggie O’Sullivan, Charles Bernstein, Sean Bonney

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William Burroughs’ 3-CD set:
Real English Tea Made Here

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Events this week at MoCA D
(
Museum of Contemporary ArtDetroit)
include a talk by Bill Berkson Thursday PM
followed immediately by a reading
in memory of Jim Gustafson

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How we read

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“Best online language tools
for word nerds”

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7,000 poets apply
for
Abu Dhabi
”Prince of Poets” competition

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Books in Arabic & cultural isolation

Using the internet to pose choices

The Swedish Writers Union’s forthcoming congress
on literacy, digitalization & international dialog

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At Pasternak’s dacha

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A primer on langpo that thinks This
was a “NY magazine
(issues 1 & 2 were
Iowa City & Franconia, NH,
then later moved to
Oakland, SF & Oakland again)

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Kwame Dawes
on the poster girl
who was cut out of the picture

Using poetry to combat HIV/AIDS in Jamaica

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It’s like the game of telephone:
I say X, and you report it as X¹,
which then gets repeated as X²
& repeated again as X³,
which no longer
bears any resemblance to X

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Should poets lament
the decline of literature

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Is Kindle the iPod of ebooks?

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The Google Book Search Bibliography

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Encyclopedia Britannica goes Wiki

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Literary tattoos

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One decisive advantage old books
have over ebooks

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Pataphysics & negative capability

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Joan Houlihan on theories of meaning

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What I’ve always suspected:
we’re older than DiRT

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An epic purse
for scribes of verse

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Talking with Jay Parini

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The “torn poet,” Heinrich Heine

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Frank Bidart, Gabriela Juaregui
& a Vietnamese anthology from Nguyen Do & Paul
Hoover
reviewed by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

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More U.K. women
reject laureate’s post

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Berwyn Moore’s literary compost

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The writer as brand

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Talking, by email, with B.T. Shaw

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A book of poetry in English
by an Austrian-born American
published in Beirut

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Frieda Hughes: how to write

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A tribute to Tharabharathy

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Tenure-track professors
don’t have a place
in this new higher education universe”

On academic labor
(with a great comments screen)

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Paul Piccone: public intellectual

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The richest book prize in the world

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Talking with the founders of
Rose Metal Press

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Linking libraries
& the big trade publishers
ever closer together

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The internet & its discontents

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Are blogs good for books?

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Is Google making you stupid?

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The state of literary theory

Nostalgia for theory
is running high these days

Why we like the French

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The rise of fan fiction & comix culture

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One way to promote reading

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Measuring productivity in print

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How to destroy the LA Times

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Carlin Romano dissing Baudrillard

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New ways to promote books

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The future of free speech

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In Canada, hate speech laws
used to silence debate

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Dangerous Ideas
& why China objected
to the religious thinking
of atheists

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Censorship in San Mateo

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Paul Chan’s 7 Lights

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Japanese women thriving
in the Bay arts scene

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Diebenkorn’s greatness

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Mexican & Mexican-American artists
in the SF Bay Area

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Wynn Kramarsky talks to Bill Corbett

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A new home for the UC Art Museum

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Licthenstein’s “Girls”

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Judging the Barnes case

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Sometimes Joe Goode
really is Joe Great

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Tharp attacks dance

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A review of this blog

Monday, June 09, 2008

Talking with Tao Lin

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A profile of Caroline Bergvall

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Flarf vs. conceptualism
the war begins

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In Moscow, two exhibits celebrate
the “inventor” of conceptual poetry,
Dmitri Prigov

Citizens Please Mind Yourselves

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More comments on
the Conceptual Poetry Symposium
from Charles Alexander

And even more from Vanessa Place

Vispo at the symposium

Tracie Morris on black code

Cole Swensen’s negative ekphrasis

Kenny G seeks to get a last word

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Lyn Hejinian’s A Border Comedy

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Octogenarians rule

Blaser wins the Griffin

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Joan Houlihan dissing
Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life

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Poetry in the 1970s

Conference schedule

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Talking with Liz Mariani

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Mary Oliver’s 12th collection

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In the U.K., a woman poet laureate
would mean progress

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When you conflate high modernism & the avant-garde

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Bringing together Chinese & British poetries

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Jack Foley on Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Lamantia & Hoffman together again

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LA Times obit for Paula Gunn Allen

UCLA Newsroom obit

Talking with Paula Gunn Allen

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This just in:
Guardian runs obit of Jonathan Williams

An appreciation from Mitzel in Fag Rag

Another by Norbert Blei in Poetry Dispatch

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The importance of Jeffrey Beam

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“the most successful publisher of poetry in history
stops

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Dale Smith on lyric strategies

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Reading Beth Bachmann

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Remembering Josephine Jacobsen

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A profile of Maxine Kumin

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Youg Shu Hoong readings in London

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The latest on Walcott vs. Naipaul

David Rieff on Naipaul

The first chapter of Naipaul’s latest

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A blog on the social function of diaries

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George Eliot & Louis Zukofsky

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3 poems by Charles Bernstein

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What we hear in readings

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Mark Nowak asks the age-old question
about poetry in a post- (and anti-) literate society

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Elizabeth Bradfield’s Interpretive Work

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Nam Le & “ethnic lit”

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Major Jackson on voicemail poetics

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Poetry & Hollywood

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Violence & verse

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MP3s from the Twin Cities’ slamfest

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Re-envisioning Djuna Barnes’
Book of Repulsive Women

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Mary Karr on William Matthews

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The Edgar Lee Masters poetry reading
& tractor show

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The anti-Williams

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Death of a bookstore on
Martha’s Vineyard

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Black Oak Books’
SF branch has closed

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One place where reading is rising – Spain

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A profile of Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

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The to-do over Wetlands

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Charles Murray’s attempt
to re-edit his past

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The fate of Ford Maddox Ford

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The writers’ strike cost $2.1B
& 37,000 jobs

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The poets of Greenville, Ohio

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30 poets on film

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IT failure haiku poems

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Talking with Mary Lou Sanelli

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His own best fan

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Talking with Charles Nevsimal

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21 promising writers

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Talking with William Jay Smith

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Nampa, Idaho
where ignorance is not only bliss
but policy

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Talking with Paul Siegell

Not quite a profile of Siegell

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Talking with Monica Youn (MP3)

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Rushdie’s Florence

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A sonnet by Billy Collins

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In the end, we’re all the Grateful Dead

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Why major in painting?

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Tracy Emin: My life in a column

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Barry Schwabsky on Jess
(subscription required)

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Master photographers at the Met

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Aussie cops drop Henson prosecution

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A school for scoundrels

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GIRLdrive

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Something to look forward to

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Aggression:
the conference blog
(many, many presentations & readings)

“Oh my god, it was like the best conference ever

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John Ashbery & Robin Blaser
win the Griffin Prize

What inspired the finalists?

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They all write alike

young emerging writers…don’t get a lot of exposure or coverage”

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Talking with Ish Klein

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A reading of Legend:
Andrews, Bernstein, DiPalma, Silliman

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The “patriarchs of flarf

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Lora Moriarty on “Women of the 70s

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Blazing tongues at Calabash

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Poets’ Theatre

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Poetry Question Stumps McCain

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Michael McClure on the influence
of the Six Gallery reading
today

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Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract

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Saving American languages

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Yusef Juma, Uzbeki poet & political prisoner

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A tribute to Ed Baker

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Roberto Bolaño:
The
Caracas Speech

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Henny Youngman with a Powerpoint:
Charles Bernstein at the
Conceptual Poetry Symposium (PPT)

Charles Alexander’s report on the Symposium

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Belinda Subraman’s
podcasts with poets

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Uncle Milty at 400

& compared with Shakespeare

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Trying not to disturb Willie’s bones

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Close-reading (aloud)
Jerry Rothenberg’s “Paradise of Poets”

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Hanif Kureishi:
creative writing departments are
the new mental hospitals

Plus reviving liberal humanism

Martín Espada confesses

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obscure figures like Lew Welch

The Poetry Bookshop of Hay-on-Wye

The literary festival from hell

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A wonderful profile of Jonathan Williams

Williams the photographer

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Robert Creeley & Twitter

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The Jane Austen Hair Club

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The Pound Error

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Hemingway, the poet

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Derek Walcott doing the dozens
on V.S. Naipaul

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The “Indian Shakespeare

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Emily Dickinson after 9/11

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David McFadden on why he hates prizes

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Frank Wilson retires
as book review editor of the Inky
& this is the thanks he gets (PDF)

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Ten years of editing a book review section

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Have e-books reached the tipping point?

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On-demand books fuel the increase
in overall titles

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A computer model of how
the brain makes meaning

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Talking with Eva Salzman

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Remembering Jason Shinder

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Shann Palmer pulls together links
in memory of George Garrett

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Talking with Gore Vidal

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A “new” Nabokov story from 1924

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Amy King’s Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country

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Check out IndieBound

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Jay Parini on Edwin Muir

The Parini Punishment

Parini: why poetry matters

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The “lyrical correlative”:
talking with Katie Ford

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Luis Omar Salinas has died

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Elaine Feinstein’s Russia

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American war poetry

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William Stafford, false witness

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A profile of Gulzar

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Hearing Kerouac read

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The book collection that devoured my life

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The virtual bookshelf

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The bookstore with a secret address

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Dickens’ desk

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Underground poet’s post at minimum wage?

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Major Jackson on poets & their birthdays

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Michael Cirelli’s Lobster with Ol’ Dirty Bastard

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Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American

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Ron Padgett among some quietists
coming to
Pittsburgh

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Talking collaboration with
Leah Browning & Ira Joel Haber

Under Construction” (PDF)

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A bibliography for famous Seamus

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Bill Knott pleads of FSG to
”Let my poems go!”

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What is a “failed poet”?

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“I read poetry about as often –
and with about as much enthusiasm –
as I jab sharp sticks into my eyes

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Poetry: read it when you’re drunk

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Calling Mary Jo Salter

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The threat of reader-supplied content

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Looking for change at BEA

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The price of free art

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Microsoft’s exit
won’t slow book digitization

Libraries ponder the future

Research libraries opting for e-books

What else they spend money on
(registration may be required)

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Amazon bulking up
on e-book stock

& on Kindle

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The Digitalist:
Macmillan’s blog on all things e-

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Bye-bye backlist

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All Things Considered on Indiana’s attempt to
kill all bookstores

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Talking with David Foster Wallace
about his book on John McCain
(may require subscription)

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It’s not easy being green

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Which way the memoir?

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A profile of Wendy Cope

I don’t want to be laureate

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What about Clive James?

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A novel of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Saginaw celebrates Roethke

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The Enchantress of Florence

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Talking with Timothy Gager

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Ethnographic titillation

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Mick Imlah’s The Lost Leader

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The importance of blurbs

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In the U.K. authors puke on the idea
of “age ranges” for kids’ books

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History found in poems

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Boswell’s Johnson

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Talking with Roger Lloyd Pack

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Poet & painter in Luminous Mud

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Restoring the farm of
Byron Herbert Reece

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Edward Hirsch’s Special Orders

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Talking with Andrew Motion

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Plumly’s Keats

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The John Stuart Mill of Brazil

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Will blogging replace newspapers?

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But blogging is good for you

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Adorno, genius & nationalism

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How to control randomness

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Why economists should not rule the world

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The actor is a poet

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Remembering U. Utah Phillips

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Talking with Ravi Shankar (MP3)

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Trying to parody John Cage

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The Soloist

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Talking with Billy Bragg

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Close-reading Amy Winehouse

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Two artists of the Harlem Renaissance

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A room in yellow light

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Defending Bill Henson

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Nan Goldin at the Tate Modern

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The problem with art criticism

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Twombly vs. Banksy

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Street art at the Tate sans Banksy

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The fate of the Barnes

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Armed guards for Hirst’s lamb

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“the greatest painter you never heard of”

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Alton Kelly, a founder of the Family Dog,
has passed away

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Commercials by Errol Morris