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Tuesday, December 02, 2008


Mary & George Oppen at Swarthmore, 1979
photo by Robert S. DuPlessis,
courtesy of Jacket

The Jacket feature on George Oppen
is now complete, having added
Pat Clifford
Stephen Cope
Zach Finch
Kathleen Fraser
Bob Perelman
&
Patrick Pritchett
to the works of
DuPlessis, Evans, Filreis,
Hawkins, Heller & O’Brien

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The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

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First newspaper review of The Alphabet

& a review from CA Conrad

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Gender bias in anthologies

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Canada Council denies
an obvious conflict of interest

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Anne Gorrick’s Kyotologic

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Dave Church has died

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Ange Mlinko on Emily Dickinson

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Will Harvard ditch Brit lit?

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Paul Muldoon finds it “difficult” to make sense
(Scroll down in the Times article under “Comedy”)

The Times’ Poetry Holiday” recommendations

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In Philadelphia,
the closing of Robin’s Bookstore
is page one news

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New York indie bookstores

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How to sell poetry
(Barnes & Noble edition)

How to sell poetry:
the view from Wales

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Borders is struggling

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A bookstore’s blog in Paris

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Publishing without perishing

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Journalism’s one-way ticket
to
Bangalore

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French cops terrorize journalist

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CFP:
Advancing Feminist Poetics
& Activism

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A profile of Imam Bakry

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Hannah Weiner is worth it!

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Lyn Hejinian in Portuguese

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The 2008 PEN Oakland Jo Miles
National Literary Awards

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50 sci-fi & fantasy works
socialists should read

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Orhan Pamuk: “My Turkish Library”

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Libraries – now more than ever

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Talking with Kaisa Ullsvik Miller

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The Airpoets of Indianapolis

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Forrest Gander:
What is eco-poetry?

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The triumph of Roberto Bolaño

Bolaño’s poetry, Bolaño’s poets

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Zadie Smith: two paths for the novel

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Ed Baker & Sarojini Sahoo, talking

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Jordan Davis on the poetics of Slovenia

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Rabbit Light Movies’
latest gathering of poetry reading YouTubes
includes Eleni Sikelianos, Ed Roberson
Dan Beachy-Quick, Tim Yu,
Nathalie Stephens & many more

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Erik Davis on the new Spicer collected

Steve Fama’s review of the new
Spicer collected poetry
focuses on a single mini-detail

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Charles Laughton reads Jack Kerouac

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David Smith-Ferri’s Battlefield Without Borders

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Banjo Paterson: poetry for blokes

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The first biography of a Palestinian writer

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V.S. Naipaul’s “authorized” biography

James Wood on V.S. Naipaul

James Wood & criticism today

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Cavafy + Schuyler = Mark Doty?

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2 anthologies of new European poetry

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Juan Marsé wins the Cervantes

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The 35,000 questions of
Josh Malehabadi

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Wendell Berry: “idea poet, sight poet”

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Poetry & Uruguay

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The Armenian Poetry Project

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Jaki Shelton Green ,
the poet laureate of
North Carolina’s Piedmont

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A biography of Márquez

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Milosz and the priest

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A Minnesota anthology

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More bad poetry, please

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Rafael Campo & Franz Wright

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Mary Karr on Marie Howe

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Journals co-edited by Kyle Schlesinger:
Mimeo Mimeo
On
Journal of Artists Books

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How to save (maybe) The Washington Post

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Google as censor

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Europeana is proving too popular

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Mailmen who horde mail

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Language, Truth & Logos

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Word of the Year: Obama!

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Spankle

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The Trouble with Textbooks

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The Eroticism of Pedagogy

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David Berman, poet & Silver Jew

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Jorn Utzon has died

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Helvetica underground

Peignot noir

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Ripped & Torn:
collage, assemblage
& a healthy dose of poets
at 532 Gallery

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Selected Thievery
& the Practice of Looking

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The Turner prize is “dead in the water”

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A profile of Carol Damian,
director of the new
Frost Art Museum
at
Florida International University

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Stan Brakhage’s Scenes From Under Childhood

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Four reviews of Milk:
Roger Ebert
New York Times
New Yorker
San Francisco Chronicle

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Why no art for the nose?

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Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100

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Adam Kirsch on Slavoj Žižek

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The war in anthropology

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Words take wing in North Beach

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This year’s BlazeVOX Thanksgiving Menu poem
honors Anne Waldman

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Chris Nagler’s intro
to Jocelyn Saidenberg’s reading
at Small Press Traffic

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A reading by Geof Huth & Crag Hill

Huth’s A Book of Poems So Small
I Cannot Taste Them

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The Chernoff-Hoover Hölderlin

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Robin’s ,
Philly’s oldest indie bookstore,
has announced it will close in January

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Mark Scroggins discusses
Louis Zukofsky’s development as a poet

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New PennSound Pages:
Louis Zukofsky
Stephen Ratcliffe
Hannah Weiner

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Puns will save the world

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The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder

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Jascha Kessler on Auden, Ashbery
and “the fix” of the Yale Younger Poets
(scroll down)

Ashbery was wheezing and coughing
(scroll to no. 18)

How to read John Ashbery

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Adam Fieled: Am Not a “one-trick pony”

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Lots to like in
Otoliths 11

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Free blogs for laid-off journos

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Bruce Andrews: “Dang Me”

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Allen Ginsberg on William Carlos Williams

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Woodland Pattern’s 2008 Open House
Pearl Harbor Day
features Charles Olson

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John Brenkman on Roberto Bolaño

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New England College says
its poetry program was stolen

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French lit. of the 20th century

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Joe Cottonwood remembers Donald Finkel

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Michael Lally has a great list
of artists whom (or Who) it takes awhile
to completely “get”

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Two posts on
Larry Eigner

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Bill Knott: Selected Sonnets

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Bob Arnold’s Back Road Chalkies
(PDF)

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Charles Bernstein:
”British poetry in the ‘90s”

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Cort Day on manifestos by
Olson, O’Hara & Bernstein

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The “overthrow of the book

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
calls a moratorium
to buying new manuscripts

while Hachette
sends everyone bonuses

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Random House gets digital

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Reading the fine print

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The practical case for academic freedom

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Use the web, go to jail

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Just 6 books of poetry among the NY Times’
100 Notable Books of 2008:
2 Norton, 2 Graywolf, 1 FSG,
1 Univ. of
Arizona
(Juan Felipe Herrera!),
plus Nate Mackey’s Bass Cathedral
makes the roster of novels

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C.D. Wright:
”Like Hearing Your Name
Called in a Language
You Don’t Understand”

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An appreciation &profile of
James Wright

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Sarah Palin for . . . poet laureate?

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total destruction…elemental creation

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BookThug’s Moments Café

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Henry Corbin’s poetics

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mid)rib 2 is online
& worth a look-see

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Keith Montesano
has added several new
”first-book interviews”
to his site

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Cole Swensen is coming to London
December 10

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San Francisco poetry happenings,
a report

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Looking for Aphrodite
in Olson’s Maximus

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Some interesting-if-curious
:”books that matter” lists

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John Updike:
a lifetime of bad sex

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Nick Piombino & Toni Simon:
collage & text

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The legacy of Danny Nicoletta

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The photos of Christopher Griffith:
tired, but not a retread

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Grace Hartigan: a short obit
with a grand painting

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A new Berkeley Art Museum?

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Susan Bee: 4 recent paintings

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Sir Paul: Why I experiment

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A short but very nice profile of the late
Virgil Thomson

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America: A Prophecy

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Sounds out of snowflakes

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The new Weather Underground

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The Middlebrow Research Network

Monday, November 24, 2008

Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman

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The Jacket George Oppen feature is emerging, with
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
George Evans
Al Filreis
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Michael Heller
Geoffrey O’Brien
& more to come

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Robin Tremblay-McGaw
on the Modernist Studies Conference
(Part 1, Part 2)

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Norman Fischer’s Charlotte’s Way

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Reading Katie Degentesh

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Aldon Nielson on the end of alphabets

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David Bromige on poetry in the ‘60s & ‘70s

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Yet another set of answers to
Sunset Debris

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When they were young:
the Poetry Project staff of 1984-85

When they were younger:
at Frank O’Hara’s loft, 1964

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John Timpane on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

William Gaddis & Roberto Bolaño

Marcela Valdes on 2666

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Edwidge Danticat’s “Ghosts”

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The Emily Dickinson Deluxe
Baby-Doll T Shirt

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A president who has read
Borges & Cortázar

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The weirdo school of poetry

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Fatso poetry, lemur poetry

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Close-reading (misreading?)
Rae Armantrout’s “Prayers”

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Who’s looking for poetry

Or a poem

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Just add water

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In Harvard Square,
Out of Town News
is set to close

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A bookstore in Berlin

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Joseph Harrington on poetry & history

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Henry Corbin & American poetry

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Dorothea Tanning & the poets

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Burt Kimmelman’s There Are Words

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Robert Creeley on poetry in motion

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3 poems by Eileen Tabios

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Talking with Toni Morrison

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A profile of Joe Benevento

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David Wagoner in Happy Valley

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Real Indian literature

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Native American identity poetics on The News Hour

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Negative capability & the 10,000-hour investment

Reading Outliers

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First thought, best thought

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The New York Times obit for Donald Finkel

An appreciation in the St. Louis Beacon

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Reviews of the NBA poetry finalists

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The never-dull-enough
Bad Sex Award
is back

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The only writer to receive
a National Medal of Art this year is
Stan Lee!

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Mary Karr is “a crank”

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Many Dodge Poetry Festival videos on YouTube

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A home for (mostly) Quietism in Lower Manhattan

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Lynn Neary talks with Salvatore Scibona

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Mark Young has my number

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And so (in a different way) has James Wagner¹

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But this site has yours

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Booksellers, publishers feel pinch

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Take a deep breath

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A belated New York Times obit
for Grace Hartigan

An appreciation from The Washington Post

Another in The Baltimore Sun

And one in The L.A. Times

The Telegraph

The NY Observer wonders if Hartigan’s name
is secretly engraved on Frank O’Hara’s tombstone

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Through the lens of Coach House Press

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Susan Bee – Not vispo

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Street art with tape – Aakash Nihalani

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Nancy Perloff on
book art of the Russian avant-garde

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Obama & the arts

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Has Obama saved the internet?

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Will MoCA LA survive?

A Broad proposal

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Dance & theater critic
Clive Barnes is dead

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Prozac for pachyderms

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¹ The Paris Review feature, which is indeed decades old, was part of an attempt (unsuccessful to my eye) to defibrillate the journal in hopes that a spark of life would get the blood pumping again. The 39-year-old appearance in Poetry  is part of my own quietist past, of which I have written more than once. See also publications in TriQuarterly, Southern Review, Poetry Northwest and The Chicago Review from that same general period. Ironically, Henry Rago, who took the work for Poetry, passed over many truly quietist pieces of mine and ended up using an imitation of Robert Kelly’s poetry – I was already transitioning away from that world.