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Monday, October 13, 2008

Robert Creeley’s library

The archive of Marshall Frady

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Great lesbian poets throughout history

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Where poetry has its largest audience

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Jordanian poet
threatened with
death penalty
for his poems

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A day for Darwish

A translation prize
for Fady Joudah

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Are you ready to compete for
Millions Poet?

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Talking with Talal Salem

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New at Pennsound:
readings by
David Bromige, Amy King,
Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman
& myself

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Saul Williams
& song vs. poem

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Renku master
Bill Higginson has died

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On the passing of
Ahmed Faraz

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K. Silem Mohammad’s
Breathalyzer

Mohammad:
I’m with Stupid

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Rosanna Warren
& the “poet of nothing”

Warren’s “Romanesque

Form & disruption
in the work of
Rosanna Warren

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Meg Hamil’s Death Notices

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Talking with Kenny Goldsmith

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Geof Huth reads “Under”
& part of “VOG
in his ongoing
review of The Alphabet

A real underground poet

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Dale Smith’s
homage to
Kent Johnson

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Kevin Killian & Dodie Bellamy
reading at
Dixon Place

Killian’s Oroniad:
Parts 20 & 21

Gary Sullivan on Dodie Bellamy

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Le Clézio & his prize

Carlin Romano on Le Clézio

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Is the problem no Americans
or really just no poets?

Nobels for an alternate universe

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Flarf tantrum

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What is the goal
for poetry?

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Dumb down to increase sales

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Richard Hell
on Edmund White’s Rimbaud

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The Marsh Hawk Review
is worth reading

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The fate of the
Tina Sharts Memorial Poetry Collection

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Barbara Barg’s Obeying the Chemicals

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Nico Vassilakis Text Loses Time

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Is radical poetry dead?

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“It’s true that Barack Obama
isn’t Shakespeare or Cervantes
or even John Ashbery”

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James Baldwin & Barack Obama

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Frank O’Hara
endorses
Barack Obama

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Poetry which liberates
certain forces of language”

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The Republican war on words

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Jillian Weise on Mike Jones & dirty rap

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The New Canon:
looks a lot like the old one

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To Morocco & back
with
Alfred Corn

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Why poets take trains

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Ed Sanders
in
New Orleans

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“Jack and the Aktuals
by Rudy Rucker

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Mary Karr on Bill Knott

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A book of prose
from Hwang Tong-kyu

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A profile of
Afaa Michael Weaver

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Multi-tasking:
a human delusion?

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David Hinton’s Classic Chinese Poetry

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Brandon Brown’s Kidnapped

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Firebombing delays
Jewel of Medina

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Sharif Elmusa’s Flawed Landscape

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Julianna Baggot’s therapist

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Reading report: Agnes Walsh

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Patrick Krup
on
X.J. Kennedy

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In awe
of Bruce Dawe

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The American Center
for Sarah Palin
Inspirational Limericks

Deconstructing
the bridge to nowhere

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No wonder
Poetry Daily’s website
looks like
it was designed for lawyers

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Jason Christie
on
Ryan Fitzpatrick

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The Kindle effect

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Olson, Ferrini
dominate
Gloucester art proposals

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The impact of poetry
on
Lowell,
Massachusetts

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Pinsky in Norwich
(note typo in the headline)

& in Lowell

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Robert Lowell’s portrait of
Randall Jarrell

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Poets House prepares to move

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What prizes do

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Mick Imlah looks Forward

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MySpace inspires “best poem”

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The Forward Prize in context

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Goldbarth & Hoberman win prizes

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What do libraries need?

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Libraries vs. IT departments

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What men read

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Joe Biden visits a bookstore
& what does he buy?

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Giovanni’s Room
turns 35

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Interviews with
Lucille Clifton, Galway Kinnell, Eavan Boland
in the new
Oranges & Sardines

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Talking with Charlie Simic

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What the poem “has in mind”

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Poets on poets

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A profile of Howard Schwartz

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Tips on teaching poetry

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William Logan
on the critics
of his criticism

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Play’s poetry
targets kids

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Steve McLaughlin
on his
non-anthology

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English professors
& video games

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Video games aligned with books

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Them Bourgeois blues

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Basque Health Dept HQ
in
Bilbao

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Thelonius Monk
& Yusef Komunyakaa

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John Adams
is the
voice of
America

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Paul Taylor loses lease

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Larry Lessig’s dedication

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Slavoy Žižek on the crash

& Margaret Atwood

Thursday, October 09, 2008

John Ashbery’s Pierre Martory

Jacques Debrot, John Ashbery
& “anarcho-flarf” interventionism

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Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Paavo Haavikko

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Haroldo de Campos:
3 poems & an essay

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Paul Zukofsky
on Bernstein’s poetry bailout

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Kevin Killian’s Orono-iad
parts 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

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Close-reading aloud
Erica Hunt

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Kate Greenstreet
interviews
Stephanie Strickland

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Don Share & Cole Swensen
come out for
hybrid poetics

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Donna Stonecipher’s Souvenir de Constantinople

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Laynie Browne on the
multiplicitous poetries of
Lee Ann Brown

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Ig-Nobel thoughts

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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
has won the Nobel Prize

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Frank O’Hara dream

But Frank is a candidate
in this year’s
Delete Key Awards

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Eshleman’s Vallejo

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Rae Armantrout at Harvard

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Eileen Tabios’ “dream tattoo”

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It’s Beckett Time

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Oct. 18 in Buffalo,
celebrating Raymond Federman
at 80

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Platt’s Mandelstam

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Jilly Dybka’s Trouble and Honey

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Archetypal Violence & the Feminine Heroic

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Gottfried Geist’s literary YouTubes

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That deadbeat Friedrich Schiller

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Kristin Bock’s Cloisters

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Tech, time & mimesis
in David Foster Wallace

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Kwame Davis
on PBS Newshour

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Maverick versification
for one heckuva nation,
you betcha

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Talking with Angela Ball

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Brandi Homan’s Hard Reds

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The traveling tapa

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Hegel & the Fate of Thinking (PDF)

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The novelist Charles Wright has died

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Collective aesthetics
& the “mere exposure effect”

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Talking with Mike Young

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J.K. Rowling earns £5 every second

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More verse from Sarah Palin

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Three ways of being pissed off
by Issue 1

just when you thought that America
couldn’t have more disdain
for poetry…”

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Virginia Woolf & Clarice Lispector

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When audio-book casting goes bad

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Liveliest of the dead languages

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Warhol’s politics

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What’s new in new music?
A round table with
Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson & Barre Phillips

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Naomi Klein
on disaster capitalism’s
big disaster

Monday, October 06, 2008


Photo by Kaplan Harris

Intercapillary Space
is building a constellation
of articles
responding to the poetry of
Alice Notley

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Rothenberg remembers Zukofsky

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Allen Mozek’s profile of Lorine Niedecker

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Europe’s “most important book

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Maria Damon, Steve Benson, Leslie Scalapino
Bruce Andrews, Erica Kaufman & Tim Peterson:
Language poetry & the body

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Amy King has some different addresses
for the perps of Issue 1

The actual author

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Kent Johnson & Naomi Shihab Nye:
writing in parallel

The king of the hoax

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Tenney Nathanson on Leslie Scalapino

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A profile of Woeser

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Eileen Tabios & Michelle Bautista
are running for office
(“I come from the mothership and I approve this message”)

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Pam Brown, Maggie Zurawski & Ron Silliman
reading in Philly Oct. 19

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Colin Dayan on Aimé Césaire

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How Yehuda Amichai got his name

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Julian Brolaski on Stacy Szymaszek

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Ashvaghosha’s Handsome Nanda

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Going back to Ed Dorn

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Thomas Disch’s Wall of America

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Alan Davies on Roberto Harrison

& on Norman Fischer

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Unpacking Donald Hall

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“Hughes interminable glosses on his poems”

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Kevin Killian’s Orono epic:
Part 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

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Terence Winch on Tim Dlugos

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The death of the “gay novel

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Queer zines exhibit
at NY Art Book Fair

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Are small & indie presses
being ripped off?

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Angela Veronica Wong
on cultural identity

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Poetry without borders
but lots of labels

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France has vomited on us
for too long

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Charles Olson in Tucson

Fighting to save Olson’s Gloucester

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Charles Alexander on Robert Creeley

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The next Thomas Pynchon novel

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Michael Gottlieb on Lydia Davis’ Proust

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The life of Derek Walcott

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William Logan vs. John Ashbery

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Raymond McDaniel on Frank Bidart

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The odd couple –
Lowell & Bishop

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Traveling with Mario Vargas Llosa

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In SF Tuesday,
a rare reading by
Beverly Dahlen
with Gloria Frym

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Reading report:
Geoffrey Olsen, Jess Mynes &
(to come) Kim Lyons

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New poetry by Olds, Giscombe, McLane

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Christina Strong on Jack Kimball

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Multimedia Yeats

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Sven Birkerts on John Barth

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Geof Huth reads “®

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On not writing
the Great American Poem

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On November 11,
Penn celebrates
its most famous literary graduate
on his 125th birthday,
William Carlos Williams

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The last days of
Czeslaw Milosz

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Anne Carson: “Tag”

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4 Hindi poets

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Harvard Bookstore has new owners

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A town where indie bookstores are blooming

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But in DC, Olsson’s gives up

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Bookstore as time capsule
in
Morristown, NJ

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In praise of Walden Pond
Books

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YouWriteOn.com
is publishing
5,000 books
(virtually all fiction)
at no cost
to the authors

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Canadian Oxford dictionary
fires entire staff

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Talking with Steve Fellner

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Karen Harryman’s Auto Mechanic’s Daughter

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Talking with Kasi Anandan

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Keith Montesano
takes on Kate Greenstreet’s
first book interviews,
starting with Matthew Guenette

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Stars for upcoming poetry biopics

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Talking with Fadumo Ali

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Mary Karr on Hayden Carruth

Carruth obit in The Independent

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Steven Fama on
baseball & poetry

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Beyonce, Žižek, dogs
& other essentials

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Kenneth Baker talking with Slavoy Žižek

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Louis Menand on Lionel Trilling

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A poet for haters of poetry

Clive James the polymath

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Seamus Heaney at Harvard

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Robert van Hallberg on anti-war poetry

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Lawson Fusao Inada on PBS Newshour

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Talking with Michael Ansara
about the
Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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Grace Cavalieri on Kay Ryan (MP3)

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John Gallaher on “why do you write?”

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Charles McGrath on
the Nobel lit chief’s putdown
of
U.S. writing

Adam Kirsch volunteers to be
the Sarah Palin
to Horace Engdahl’s Joe Biden
(Oh, we’re literary, you betcha)

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More about pen names

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Neil Gaiman’s Graveyard Book

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Katie Ford’s Colosseum

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Translation prizes
to Fady Joudah & others

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Pollock, O’Hara,
Lee Krasner, Patsy Southgate
&
What a Man Should Know

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A profile of Felix Dennis

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The letters of Norman Mailer

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Worse than being remaindered

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Charles Bernstein’s electoral placards

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Against self-knowledge

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Black swans on Wall Street

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A short course in behavioral economics

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Linguistic home movies

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The poetry of Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin’saccent

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Edward Klima has died

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Metaphors of the mind

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Why we seek patterns

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What professors (writers)
want from editors

& peer reviewers

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Reading by the numbers

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Experimental philosophy
number-crunching “truth”

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When does Bernard-Henri Levy’s
bubble burst?

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Grist for John Stuart Mill

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To boldly go . . .

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The Communist Manifesto is 160

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Pete Seeger & William Buckley, Jr.

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Stephen Paul Miller on Radiohead

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A profile of Reinbert De Leeuw

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Cleveland paper demotes
a critic
for being critical

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In New York, The Sun sets

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Lang Lang’s tale of
Daddy Dearest

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Philip Glass’ next opera
is a bio of Disney

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Is the audience aging?

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50 years of Merce Cunningham

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When the awards go to big names

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Dance director canned:
insufficiently black

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Suffering through the Mindset List

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Vispo by Nico Vasilakis

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Joe Brainard’s
”Imaginary Still-Lifes

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How to pick a Pollock

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East Village Afternoon

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Rothko with a smile

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Richard Serra,
”man of steel”

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Pitching the arts
to the corporate community

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Gilbert & George
go to
Brooklyn

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Banksy refuses to authenticate
street art for auction

Auction house massacre

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This year’s Turner Prize show has opened

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Which arts administrator
gets paid the most?

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In Pittsburgh, it’s 1958
& also it’s
Detroit

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Bad buildings

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Zeroed

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Yesterday’s note
set a record
for the number of visits,
2,376