Robert Grenier
reading the wall
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When typographers scribble
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This Sunday, reading
An Ear in Bartram’s Tree
in Bartram’s garden
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Maxine Chernoff’s “World”
in English & Portuguese
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Tom Raworth, who just turned 70,
talking with Charles Bernstein (MP3)
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Nancy Galbraith has died
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Charles Bernstein’s “Hero of the Local:
Robert Creeley & the Persistence of American Poetry”
(scroll down,
but if you read Spanish,
check out Antonio Ochoa’s
”Autobiografía de Robert Creeley”
on the same page)
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Some new recordings by yours truly
on the Academy of American Poets website:
“Albany” from The Alphabet
“Quindecagon,” also from The Alphabet
“A Love Song” by William Carlos Williams
“from ‘What,’” from The Alphabet
Another passage “from ‘What’”
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Robert Kelly reads Coleridge’s “Kublai Khan”
Susan Howe reads “The Nonconformist’s Memorial”
Clayton Eshleman reads César Vallejo’s “XIII”
Wanda Coleman reads “American Sonnet (35)”
Christian Bök reads Hugo Ball’s “Karawane”
Jena Osman reads “Mercury Rising (A Visualization”
Allen Ginsberg reads “Howl”
Anne Waldman reads “Stereo”
Richard Howard reads Browning’s “My Last Duchess”
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Talking with Ravi Shankar
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Talking with Nick Piombino
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Appreciating Zukofsky
from the other side of poetics
Robert Leiter on Zukofsky’s sound & sense
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53 new book reviews at Galatea Resurrects
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Jeffrey Beam on
(sound link good only until the weekend)
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Mark Truscott:
“interventions in poetry”
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A monument to Nicola Vaptsarov
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Talking with Blake Butler
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Some recognition for Penn Kemp
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Remembering William Studebaker
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Gloucester’s laureate announces his program
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Brian Turner on Fresh Air
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A profile of John McNamee
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Salman Rushdie, a novelist again
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Talking with Ric Royer
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“We had to destroy the library
in order to save it”
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Next season at the Folger:
Rae Armantrout &
a whole bunch o’ quietude
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Talking with Francisco Aragon
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Peter Riley’s obit of Andrew Crozier
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“It is hard to turn away from running water”
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Opening ¶¶ for sale
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From flarf to barf
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Kay Ryan, Alice Notley & tarot
An excellent profile of Kay Ryan
How much of any outsider is Ryan?
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The Trial of Ezra Pound
(streaming audio available until the weekend)
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Rilke & the question of self-identity
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Kevin Killian on Tom Devaney
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Is any Amis any good?
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Poetry of the self-taught
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Message to Poetry:
more quietude please
(& quoting Zukofsky to justify it!)
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The Dylan Thomas walking tour
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What’s in a name?
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Tale of the Genji mss.
turns up after 68 years
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Amazon’s impact on small publishers
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How to speak Shakespeare
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Sending in full professors
to teach comp.
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The death of Harry Potter?
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A bookstore closes in Bakersfield
& in North Andover,
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Newspapers are dying
The impact on “minority” journalists
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Grim news
in the war on criticism
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Wikipedia goes into print
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French resistance to Google Book Search crumbling
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In
How to store data digitally
for a century or more
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Paul Hoover
on the decadence of the
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Did Google make Nicholas Carr stupid?
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Talking with Rem Koolhaas
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Everything is Godard
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Ebert says goodbye to TV
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Blogging & theater criticism
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Beckett’s novels on stage
Beckett’s voice
(a video!)
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Martin E.P. Seligman & the big Oops
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