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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Joanne Kyger’s
Permission by the Horns

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Edward Mendelson
on Frank O’Hara’s Selected Poems

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Reading Alice Notley’s
”Radical Feminism”

In the Pines

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Kevin Killian:
”What I saw at Orono, Part II”

Parts 3, 4, 5, 6

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Konstantin Pavlov has died

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Nicholas Manning notices
that workshops suck

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Jeremy Prynne
lectures on
Maximus IV, V, VI

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Talking with Joshua Clover
(a.k.a. Jane Dark)

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Joseph Hutchison on Hayden Carruth

An appreciation from Ted Burke

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Nobel Lit chief:
U.S. writing “too insular”

But this doesn’t stop the bookies

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poets don’t buy books

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A poetry press
whose e-books
average 7,000
downloads each

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A remembrance of Jonathan Williams

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a…wobbly tower of
performance poetry
history

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Thrownnest,
a collaboratively written play
in progress

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The Academy of American Poets
announces that the 2008
Lenore Marshall Prize
has been awarded to
Henri Cole,
a former executive director
of
The Academy of American Poets

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Jonathan Lethem on Edward Dahlberg

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Geof Huth reads “Oz

Plus “Paradise
(I think this is my favorite
of his readings to date)

& mimics “Quindecagon

While EBay lists
The Alphabet
as
”Nonfiction … Literary Criticism”

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Recent reviews
of Omnidawn books
(Hejinian, plus
the Chernoff/Hoover
Hölderin)

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John Ashbery reads John Gallaher

Ashbery’s moment

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Gibson Square
stands by
Jewel of
Medina
in spite of fire bombing

But freedom of speech
is at risk

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Banned Book fest
at the Rosenbach

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Every book read by
Art Garfunkel
over the past 40 years

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Kristen Gallagher
on hanging with the GOP
in
St. Paul

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Exquisite Corpse
moves to Arkansas

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Talking with Djelloul Marbrook

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Going ballistic
with
Billy Collins

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Diann Blakely’s
Cities of Flesh & the Dead

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What kind of reviews do we need?

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Troy Lloyd
on
Nico Vassilakis

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Kashmiri cartoonist attempts
to mount exhibition
in
Delhi

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Michael Lally on
John Ashbery & Trevor Winkfield
at Tibor de Nagy

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Talking with Kenneth Baker
(Parts 1, 2 & 3)

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C. Wright Mills &
The Politics of Truth

Monday, September 29, 2008

Radical Vernacular:
Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place

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The architecture of Hettie Jones

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Frank O’Hara in Italy

& at the Stork Club

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Talking with Tao Lin

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Poetry Bailout
Will Restore Confidence of Readers

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PEN audience is shocked, shocked (!)
to discover that Amiri Baraka
& Terry McMillan
won’t be voting for McCain

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Borders
has until Wednesday
to find a buyer

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Videos of
Etheridge Knight & Harryette Mullen

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John Ashbery’sThe Virgin King

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Behind the Lines:
War Resistance Poetry
on the American Homefront
Since 1941

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Technicians of the Sacred
40 th anniversary reading videos
(& audio)

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Is Bob Dylan a poet?

17” & “21

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Women poets
of Western North Carolina

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Remembering Ahmad Faraz

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In praise of Urban Dictionary

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Rusty Morrison wins the James Laughlin Prize

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60 Indian Poets

From Nissim Ezekiel to
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

a motley group of poets
formed in the 1980s”

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American Book Review’s
Line on Line
(PDF)

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Poetry & place
in the work of
Denja Abdullahi

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Lyn Hejinian: two talks

The Rejection of Closure

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The invention of Thomas James

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Jewel of Medina publisher’s home
set on fire

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Homer as history

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An alternate history of
performance & poetry

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Clive James, the dabbler

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Kay Ryan, Emily Dickinson & Carla Bruni

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Geof Huth reaches “Non
in his one-letter-per-day
reading of
The Alphabet

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Jo McDougall’s
Emerson County Shaping Dream

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Ben Okri: why teens are poets

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Dinkar’s centennial

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October 10th at the KGB
in New York City:
Jonathan Bumbauch, Harold Jaffe & Sheila E. Murphy

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Ten books
that turned K. Silem Mohammad
onto poetry

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Shakespeare on Toast

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Missy McEwen’s review & interview blog

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Tuesday at Writers House in Philly:
Ben Lerner

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Galway / café / wine / time / Shore / more

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More from Maya

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Paul Muldoon & Ciaran Carson

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Is e-lit dead already?

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The editor as personal monster

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Ann Beattie
on ambient sound in modern lit (MP3)

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Who killed David Foster Wallace?

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Milton, the exhibition,
Milton, the party

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Why Syracuse (NY) isn’t Paris

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When critics reach
the point of no return

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A theological argument for
(and from) Projective Verse

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More on bin Laden’s poetry

Streaming audio
of a bin Laden “reading

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The best School of Quietude event this year

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Doug Messerli
on the art of collaboration

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Talking with Samuel Green

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We missed
National Punctuation Day!

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Setting William Stafford to music

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Is Neal Stephenson the Tom Stoppard of sci-fi?

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The Utah Book Award short list

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That “mad, bad, dangerous” Byron

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Simic’s Roth

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Modeling & emulation
in writing

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How journalism differs

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Graphing theory’s decline

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Godzilla vs. King Kong
of theory

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Jaron Lanier & George Dyson on
Nasim Nicholas Taleb’s critique of statistics

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The “reader in chief

9 poets,
all School of Q

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Gagosian in Moscow

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The beliefs of Gerhard Richter

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Applause & the decline of
presidential rhetoric

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Talking with Lisa Samuels
of Laura Riding
(Parts 1, 2 & 3)

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The Electronic Poetry Center
now has
a Canadian portal

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Barney Rosset:
Godfather of independent publishing

Evergreen Review online

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Black Mountain College
75th anniversary celebration
this week

Black Mountain’s legacy continues

The women of Black Mountain College

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Looking for
” emerging poets currently engaging specific elements
of [Charles] Olson’s poetics,
such as use, measure, breath, line, sound, and speech”

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Geof Huth attempts to swallow
Ketjak2: Caravan of Affect
in one big gulp

12 ways of reading “Lit

Manifest
gets Huth half the way there
or maybe just 28%

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Mark Morford on David Foster Wallace

A.O. Scott on Wallace

Every piece Wallace ever wrote
for Harper’s in PDF

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The troubled lives of the Comma Bombers

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Legacies

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Cleveland Poetics: the blog

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The end
not of publishing
but of BS

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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
33 years later

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Politics without the sermons

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Joyce Carol Oates’
”Gargoyle”

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Schedule for
The Frank Stanford Literary Festival
next month in
Fayetteville, Arkansas

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Fayetteville laureate
struggles with medical bills

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Lorca was everyone

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Nietzsche on the value of reading slowly

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Maghound,
the “Netflix of magazines

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Judith Rechter’s Wild West

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Why some writers should retire,
Mr Updike

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Mary Bonina’s Living Proof

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The Survey of English Usage

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Illinois professors lose freedom of speech

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Bowdlerizing fairy tales

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bin Laden the poet

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How to give good blurb

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The poet Amber Tamblyn

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The Canterbury Tales
are going digital

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A Malayalam translation of modern Swedish poetry

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Lee Sharkey’s A Darker, Sweeter String

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Slammin’ in Berlin

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Just north of Pittsburgh
social investing
saves a bookstore

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The books of Oscar Wilde

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Eilieen D’angeo on G. Emil Reutter

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Minority language poetry
in the Philippines

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Lillian Caesar
works in the tongues
of the
Caribbean

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Talking with Jason Kirkey

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When writer’s block is something more
than a strip of
St. Marks Place

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Talking with Pete Brown

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How to write poetrynot

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An exercise in
literary self-portraits

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Talking with Philip Pardi

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Buffalo’s Babel is sold out

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Philosophy at Auburn

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Teaching Philosophy 101

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That first non-academic job

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Humor gets no respect

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Gaffes with Gibson

Sarah Palindromes

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What we smell
we dream

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The 10 most expensive art books
sold on Abe Books
in 2008

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Art & human rights

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The Babar retrospective

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a theosophist of jazz

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Jazz & presidential politics

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Is Metallica too loud?

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Young adult fiction & presidential politics

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Shutting out negative criticism

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In Western Mass. ,
a Sol Lewitt retrospective
is emerging

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Should group sex be public art?

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The quilts of Gee’s Bend
come to Philly

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How Winston Churchill
save British art

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Logos gone wild

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The freedom “free-for-all”

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Ligorano/Reese
at the conventions

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Open studios at the
Brooklyn Naval Yard

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Francis Bacon, make your bed
It’s so much harder when you’re dead

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In Germany,
Baader Meinhof film
alienates all