Abusing Laura Riding
Monday, July 07, 2008
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
William Logan on Frank O’Hara
Sharing a coke with Frank O’Hara
Is Kent Johnson the new Frank O’Hara?
Tony Towle & Andrew Epstein
debate issues
of authorship & attribution
on John Latta’s blog
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Becoming Bernadette
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Interviews with 42 poet-songwriters
including
Jake Berry, Adam Fieled, Jack Foley,
Jennifer John, Grace Read,
Michael Rothenberg, Kate Rusby,
Chris Stroffolino, Linda Thompson,
Richard Thompson, Andy Gricevich
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The 1970s Conference
marathon report
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Rereading the Allen anthology
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Elizabeth Bartlett has died
As has G.E. Murray
&, in Chicago, Mark Perlberg
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DC authors’ houses
from Sterling A. Brown to Tim Dlugos
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Tom Beckett reading The Grand Piano
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A profile of Open Books
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Flood damage at
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The latest death-of-a-bookstore tale
comes from Grayslake,
The Strand is closing its
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In DC, Olsson’s files Chapter 11
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Ray Bradbury fights to save
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In
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Saving De Lauer’s
(because I too worked for a real estate title firm
in downtown
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Greenblatt’s Macbeth
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In praise of soft surrealism
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Remembering Ann Darr
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Lytle Shaw on Baraka’s Newark
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Krushcheva’s Nabokov
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Revell’s Rimaud (the video)
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Joaquin Miller
& the DC poetry scene of the 1880s
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Flarf vs. conceptual:
are you accessible?
“an easy retreat into the academic bosom”
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An annotated reading list:
Berkson, Durand, Friedlander, Oppen, Powys
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Jim Morrison & beatnik poets
in
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Robert Creeley on Wordplay
Sound shapes in a Creeley poem
But surely is heard the discouraging word
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Giving up poetry
(maybe it’s because Harvard & Yale
have such dreadful literature programs)
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Nerys Williams’ Reading Error
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Remembering Owen Dodson
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Billy Collins lists his influences
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What is a failed poet ?
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Talking with Neil Rollinson
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Jack Foley on Frank Samperi
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Donne scholar down under
combines children’s fiction & poetry
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The Guardian goes Oulipo
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Arielle Greenberg on the “Gurlesque”
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Is Lev Rubenstein
the Russian Bob Grenier?
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A profile of Gwendolyn Bennett
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Mark Wallace on metapoetics
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Rupture & the avant-garde
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Excerpts from Jim Liddy’s autobiography
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Talking with Suy Vansak
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Remembering John “Gunboat” Pauker
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If only Supreme Court justices could read
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Bob Dylan & rock ‘n’ roll
as legal precedent
Germaine Greer
despising Dylan
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In Seattle,
arts grants for 38
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Recalling Gabrielle Edgcomb
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Atwood wins
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In Cardiff,
announcing contest winners
with a certain nautical flair
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An introduction to language poetry
(in Dutch)
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goes to Mahmoud Darwish
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You can save $25
by registering for
the NYC Poets Forum now
(it’ll be the first big event
after we actually know
who will be the next president)
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The obsessive John Keats
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In New Zealand,
celebrate “Montana Poetry Day”
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Mary Karr on Miroslav Holub
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An “explosion of poetry” in
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On
Neil Ray runs the open mic
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“between the beauty of math
& the beauty of poetry”
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Talking with Children’s Laureate
Ifor ap Glyn
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Norbert Krapf
is the new
Indiana State Laureate
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Assessing Ambrose Bierce
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Cowboy poetry “in the classic tradition
of Louis L’Amour”
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Poetry & nationalism in Yemen
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Fingering digital humanities
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Pablo Neruda’s The Hands of Day
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Rushdie’s “stew”
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Reclaiming
Leon-Gontran Damas
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J.K. Rowling at Harvard
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Visualizing Big Data
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Why have we forgotten Edward Thomas?
(hint: it’s the writing)
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Ellen Doré Watson comes to Haverford
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The first woman
to have her play performed
on the main stage
of the National Theatre
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The future of publishing:
mulch
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Mary Beard, laughing
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E.L. Doctorow’s “The White Whale”
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Switching languages can change
your personality
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CrossCheck
seeks to catch academic plagiarizers
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A defense of elitism
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Which way feminism?
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Tiny (& predictable) ideas on Big Think
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Why journalists need
to understand blogging
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Who owns downloaded music ?
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Fuel costs killing indie band tours
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Georgia O’Keefe onstage
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Another Jackson Pollock mess
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Olafur Eliasson’s NYC waterfalls
Temporary Niagra
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A brutalism renaissance?
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Cinema’s art houses are empty
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Music critics start to disappear
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And the most exciting rock lyricist is….
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“We’re the party of the arts,”
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In
a progressive candidate
who actually understands
the arts
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& a tip of the hat
to the Beltway Poetry Quarterly
for so many excellent links
from its “DC forebears” issue
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Kit Robinson (photo by Tom Orange)
Writing as event:
reading The Grand Piano
at Orono
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In the Un-American Tree:
why langpo is a
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The PhillySound comes to Fanzine
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The editor strikes back!
Mark Scroggins on Charles Bernstein on Auggie Kleinzahler
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Bruce Andrews:
Meaning, Method, Motive
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Analyzing this blog’s secret sauce
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The uncollected Clark Coolidge
Language, memory & masculinity
in Coolidge’s work
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Talking with Lytton Smith
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“Non-imperial art is necessarily abstract art”
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The dark labyrinth of conceptual poetries
A Euro-conceptualist conception
of the perfect day
Beyond conceptualism & flarf:
toward a slow poetry!
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Anne Tardos, Kenny Goldsmith & Charles Bernstein
on Swedish radio (MP3)
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Hannah Weiner & Basic English
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The “Objectivist” issue of Poetry
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Bernadette Mayer & the Capitalization of everyday life
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Jay Wright’s Polynomials and Pollen
Wright’s The Presentable Art of Reading Absence
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Talking with Jared White & Farrah Field
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Clarity in Oppen & Pound
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Talking with Vincent Quatroche
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Patrick Durgin:
bringing Hannah Weiner to the fore
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Poem predicated on Progress
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John Ashbery’s optional apocalypse
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Talking with Renee Angle
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Jackson Mac Low
& the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E of intermedia
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Aleda Shirley has died
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Bricolage in Ronald Johnson’s ARK
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Video of Clayton Eshleman reading César Vallejo
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I think of this as the dancing alphabet
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“Spending actually declined” last year
in public college libraries
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What didn’t happen in the 1970s
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“On we” ennui
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Rachel Zolf wins Trillium
& Coach House wins the Premier’s Award
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Frank Kuenstler on PENNsound
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The power of poetry
over baseball
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Doubt & humor in Robert Creeley
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Mayakovsky & galoshes
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A piece on poets with disabilities
that makes no mention of
Larry Eigner, John Wieners,
Jimmy Schuyler, Hannah Weiner,
Lynn Strongin, Michael Cuddihy or Scott Bentley
One place you could begin
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“All models are wrong,
but some are useful”
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What would the perfect
online bookstore look like?
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Tombstones for bookstores
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Is Amazon publishing’s
”hope for the future”?
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Videos (and some sound clips) of events
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Camus’ notebooks
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Talking with James Winn
about The Poetry of War
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University presses
start to sell via Kindle
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“Everything is poetic
about Times Square”
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The Other Voices International Project
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Archiving the submissions
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The world’s “top thinker”?
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Contemporary poetry of
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Does Google rule the world?
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Bye –bye indie cinema
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Flarf’s sonic cousin
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Alan Gilbert on Theodore A. Harris
& the art of collaboration
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On Jed Perl’s attack on the present
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Dia gets a new director
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Twyla Tharp & the imitation of self
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Special kudos to
the National Poetry Foundation
for putting up
so many of the abstracts & documents
from the 1970s conference