50 days of poetry & politics
up to & including
Muriel Rukeyser’s FBI file (PDF)
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Joan Retallack & Juliana Spahr’s
Poetry and Pedagogy:
The Challenge of the Contemporary
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U.C. Press has made
Ketjak
available in PDF format
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Talking with Barry McKinnon
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Can Harry Potter save the Labor Party?
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Bob Perelman:
Poetry & Discipline
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Reginald Shepherd
& the art of the poetry blog
A long remembrance
of Reginald Shepherd
Joan Houlihan:
”Genius Doesn’t Die”
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Christina Davis
moves from Poets House
to the Poetry Room
at Harvard’s Lamont Library
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Talking with Naomi Shihab Nye
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Next Thursday,
flarf comes to Minneapolis
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The mystery of Kay Ryan
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David Foster Wallace’s
LA Times appreciation of
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace’s
”Good People”
“Asset”
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Whose dreams emerge
in Darwish’s poems?
Cinemas hold events
to memorialize
Mahmoud Darwish
Darwish waited 3 months
to come to the
for surgery
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Geof Huth continues
his reading of
The Alphabet
with “
Geof Huth’s reading of “Hidden”
mimics its form
Looking for the soul of “Jones”
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Unburying Lorca
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Jen Currin & Meredith Quartermain
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The poetry of Osama bin Laden
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New York Art Book Fair
Oct. 25 – 26
NY Artists’ Book Conference
Oct. 23 – 26
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The copy of
Meditations in an Emergency
used in Mad Men
sure doesn’t look like the one
I used to own
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Carmine Starnino:
not an “enfant” & not “terrible”
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A Norton anthology
for the rest of the world
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11 years dead,
Tran Dan
receives a life achievement award
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Remebering Kenji Miyazawa
75 years after his death
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New American Writing, no. 26
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Reading report:
Anselm Berrigan & D.S. Marriott
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A reading in Wuhan
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George Bernard Shaw’s typewriter
is for sale
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Houston bookstores & hurricane Ike
College bookstores get hit as well
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Jerry Rothenberg’s
”12 essential books”
for Peter Davis’
The Poets Bookshelf, vol. II
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Donald Hall at 80
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Does teaching writing
do more harm than good?
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Morgan dropped from Scots exam
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Lifting Belly’s Anglo focus
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How to find a good pen name
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The best poets read widely
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Louis McKee’s Still Life
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“How I can be more like Robert Creeley”
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Sharon Mesmer’s The Virgin Formica
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Why write in the “colonial language”?
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Salman Rushdie &
the culture of the hijra
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5 ways to create
a more productive workspace
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75 books every MAN should read
(a testosterone-poisoned view
of great books)
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Ten books NOT to read
before you die
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How The Times has viewed Ulysses
o’er the years
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The fiscal perils of
Mark Twain’s house
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Poetry & politics mix in Angola
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Talking with Sayed Hegab
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Frieda Hughes on John Betjeman
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Peter Klappert’s Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors
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Talking with Trevor Reeves
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Young writers compete
for the Dylan Thomas Prize,
worth $120K
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The value of editors
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Paul Auster in the dark
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David Wagoner loses his way
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Ugandan poet Kiguli to read in
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4 unpublished poems by Shahriar
given to library in
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The most successful writer alive
ain’t J.K. Rowling
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I didn’t know about
The Boog City Festival
till it was too late
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“the madrigals…were more experimental”
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The role of the islands
in Irish lit
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Poems of, but not by,
Georg Trakl
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Katrina haunts
Katie Ford’s new book
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Poetry roundup from Publishers Weekly
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Steven Schroeder’s
calendar
of when presses are open
to read your work
has the potential
to turn into
another
Selby’s List
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A biography of Leonard Cohen
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Simon Armitage’s
latest book
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Four books from Finishing Line Press
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Gloomy Samuel Johnson
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In
Poets 11
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Poetry Northwest’s
Week of the Odes
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No thanks for the recycled fish
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Typography for lawyers
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Computers are beginning
to understand
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The Poetry Library of
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It’s the end of the (book) world as we know it
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Living off reprints
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The eros of the book itself
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Can intelligent literature survive
the digital age?
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But online literacy is a lesser kind
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The man they call Slow Motion
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Talking with Fred Andrle
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Talking with Richard Wilbur
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Japanese epic retold in English
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Selling Quebec’s history
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Mike Kelleher talks with Joe Milford
on the Jane Crown Radio Show
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The spineless world of hardback publishers
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One consequence of the market crash
may be fewer teaching jobs
as older faculty
delay their retirements
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The worst academic careers
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Antimetabole,
this campaign’s top rhetorical device (MP3)
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starts to get traction
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Vaclev Havel’s return to theater
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Philly’s Fringe
in a wordle
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DVDs are not dead (yet)
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Jonathan Lethem reviews The Dark Knight
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The death spiral of the sitcom
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Hirst breaks art auction record
Hirst’s auction
does not demean arts world
But his unsold works
are quite a few
William Holman Hunt,
Hirst’s 19th century predecessor
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Wither public art in DC?
(not a typo)
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Painting over Sol Lewitt
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Morandi’s still-lifes
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The art detective retires (sort of)
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Who owns antiquity?
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Julian Schnabel & Placido Domingo
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Over 100 concerts & art exhibitions
over just five days
to mark the grand opening of
Kings Place
in
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Mauricio Kagel is dead
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Bankrupt composer
loses rights to his music
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How Sonny Rollins beat heroin
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Is music still a product?
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The Rest is Noise
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Two silences
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An alphabet of housing
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From the town with trolleys, cable cars &
(once upon a time) Ken Kesey’s Further
now comes the CultureBus
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Christopher Hitchens on Bernard-Henri Lévy
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Culture wars, anthropology & the “Palin effect”
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The new Russian history
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Benoit Mandlebrot:
How fractals explain
what’s wrong with Wall Street
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The limits of statistics
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Make it new
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Is Sarah Palin qualified
to be VP?
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McCain picked
the wrong Palin!
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