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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Poetry readings in the White House?

A new Federal Writers’ Project?

Top 10 “to dos” for Obama on culture

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Flarf vs. conceptual writing

But the best responses seem to be on
Lime Tree

Thomas Basbøll’s treatise on how to write flarf
Part 6

Jordan Davis reads Drew Gardner

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The most dangerous man in publishing
(It was true 50 years ago)

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Le Clézio:
The book is the best tool

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John Ashbery on Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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The Best Canadian Poetry in English
is launched

One place where reading is rising

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December 13 at Morden Tower
Newcastle, UK,
a celebration of the life of
Bill Griffith

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Notes on Mandelstam

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Woeser’s selected poems

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David Foster Wallace’s last book

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Nathaniel Tarn’s Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers

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The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

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3 Egyptian poets

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Milton’s shadow

We need another Milton

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Remembering Thomas Merton

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Brandi Homan’s Hard Reds

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Roberta Beary’s one-minute reading

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Top 10 reasons to go to poetry readings

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Reviewing The Capilano Review
(Are literary mags obsolete?)

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Lucille Clifton’s Voices

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Walt the plumber?

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Talking with “failed poet” Charlie Plymell

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William Logan
gives whining a bad name

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Lisa Jarnot’s Black Dog Songs

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Des Imagistes

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Information architecture for digital libraries

Case study:
the State Library of Victoria, Australia

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Talking with Arielle Greenberg

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Frank O’Hara & Stephen King

Shurin & O’Hara
on one of the better short lists
of the “year’s best”

Reading Meditations in an Emergency

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Best poetry books of 2008” –
The
St. Louis view

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Ron Silliman vs. Lyn Hejinian

Mark Scroggins reads The Age of Huts (compleat)

And The Grand Piano, part 4

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Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic

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Who’s ever heard Virginia Woolf?

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Neoliberal poetry rant (PDF)

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Larry Eigner
in the American cleave

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A bookstore closes in Maine

As do 3 in the South

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Reviewing a bookstore
by the quality of
its food

Seattle is serious
about its bookstore’s cafés

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Abraham Smith’s Whim Man Mammon

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Remembering Kersey Katrak

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New Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

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How to edit a children’s dictionary

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Audio interview with Jaap Blonk

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The problem with book clubs

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John Kinsella’s Divine Comedy

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Prepping for the MLA meat market

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Harvard stops hiring

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Fishing is not dying in Gloucester

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Heather Banks’ Still Life Without Pomegranate

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Talking with Washington laureate Samuel Green

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Celebrating Donald Finkel & Constance Urdang

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Sylvia & Ted – the reality TV show
(keep scrolling!)

Saving Sylvia

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Rochelle Ratner’s Ben Casey Days

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A.D. Winans remembers Jack Micheline

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Talking with Hugh Fox

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The “writing crisis

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H.L. Hix asks 20 questions

Answers from
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Alex Stein
Christopher Davis
Charlotte Innis

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Larissa Szporluk’s Embryos & Idiots

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40 years ago this week
Doug Engelbart & friends
changed the world

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A memorial service for Studs Terkel

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Todd Gitlin on Bernard Henri-Lévy
(free registration required)

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News of the newspaper business

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What’s black & white & completely over?”

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Farewell to the contemporary art bubble

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Merce Cunningham at Dia Beacon

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When the choreography includes Anne Carson

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Listening to Elliott Carter

Carter’s sixties

& his seventies

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Robert Ashley:
Three Operas
coming to La Mama

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Baltimore Opera cancels season,
files for bankruptcy

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Gaudi’s gaudy masterpiece

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The museum behind an “invisibility cloak”

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Life after Galactica

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10 stories you missed this year

10 worst predictions

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LOTS to read in the new
Reconfigurations 2

Monday, December 08, 2008

Stuart Z. Perkoff
a great profile by John Macker

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2009 NEA Fellowships announced –
only Quietists need apply

Two books of poetry
(Linda Gregg & Alan Shapiro, no kidding!)

in the
L.A. Times’
”Favorite Books 2008”

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No one listens to poetry.”

The San Francisco Chronicle
review of
My Vocabulary Did This to Me:
The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

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Dale Smith on Philip Whalen’s Collected Poems

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Talking with Ryan Murphy (MP3)

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Kerouac’s scroll arrives in the islands

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Aram Saroyan on
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan

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Uncle Milty turns 400 on December 9

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Poetry & terror

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The Write Stuff
a reality TV show
about writers

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The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets

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Reading Ange Mlinko’sSecuritization

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Geof Huth reading
Robert Grenier’s Dusk Road Games

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Reader’s report with a little YouTube:
Oscar Bermeo, DeWayne Dickerson & Camille Dungy
at Books & Bookshelves in
San Francisco

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Martial the modernist

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Haim Gouri’s civil war

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A biography of Yehuda Amichai

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Two Egyptian poets

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A Kurdish poet in exile

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Memories of Beirut

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Marjorie Perloff on William Logan’s Hart Crane

Neil Hampton on the same

Logan fires back

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Obama vs. Lincoln as poets

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Kay Ryan’s “Believe or Not” poems re-emerge

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The guessing game intensifies

“The laureate’s poetry is irrelevant”

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Louisiana laureate Pinkie Gordon Lane has died

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An old dispute among laureates

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The California laureate in the Hamptons

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Talking with Greg Mbajiorgu (Wota Na Wota)

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Fanny Howe’s “My Father was White But Not Quite”

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Mark DuCharme’s The Sensory Cabinet

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Sally Doyle on Poetry in the Schools

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Flarf plus
the conspiracy revealed

Thomas Basbøll’s epic examination
of how to write flarf
(Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)

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A profile of Joe Stroud

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Whitman & his brothers

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Crisis Sonnet

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Yolanda Coulaz,
tomboy poet

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Trade publishers cut back

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The Book Bench:
A New Yorker blog

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Mini-reviews in the NY Times
for Orhan Pamuk, John Ashbery et al

Norman Weinstein on Ashbery’s Collected Poems

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Poetry and poverty make lovely music”

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Three-word titles

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Talking with C.P. Aboobacker

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Mary Karr on Thomas Lux

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Trying to recall why
anyone thought
Lionel Trilling
was important

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A Creeley lyric
Tom Waits should sing

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Talking with Kenneth Hart

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Where does “the best” come from?
(Oz version)

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Margaret Hasse’s Milk and Tides

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Mariani’s Hopkins
(maybe it’s better than his WCW)

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The lack of debt in fiction

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Two readings by cowboy poets

A profile of 92-year-old cowboy poet
Clarence Carnal

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Rudy Wurlitzer’s The Drop Edge of Yonder

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Reversing the manuscript to published text process

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Artists’ books in New Jersey

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Andrew Topel’s collabs
with Reed Altemus

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Museums crush sporting events

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Resurrecting Plath’s play

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Art Lange on Anthony Braxton’s
Complete Arista Recordings

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Collab of the year:
Sonic Youth, Led Zep’s John Paul Jones &
M e r c e   C u n n i n g h a m

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Talking with Eliot Carter

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Bob Dylan & Billy Collins

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The anxiety of being Paul

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Ignoring the blues

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Waves of music

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Chronicling the decline of the Gannett newspaper group

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You’re a better man than I,
Philo T. Farnsworth

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Roger Ebert:
Death to film critics!

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Real end-of-the-year lists,
2007 edition

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Illiteracy in high places

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The T.S. Eliot quiz

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The three New Yorks

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The “dumbest generation

Friday, December 05, 2008

The library as a form of porn

The libraries vs. Google

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John Ashbery fights back!

Kessler’s offending letter

Ashbery the flaneur

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Kathy Lou Schultz’ Biting Midge

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Anne Waldman / Akilah Oliver / Ambrose Bye CD
is the Sexiest Poem of the Year 2008

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Silence in Kenny Goldsmith’s Sports

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The bailout for poets
(seriously)

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Tackling the poetry patriarchy

Gender pay gap in the arts

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Meshwork Videos –
some of the best in British poetry

Podcasts are goodness.”

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There are several good videos
of readings of late
on Geof Huth’s blog,
include Geof, Anne Gorrick,
Truong Tran & Cassie Smith

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Defending Jacob Scheier

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Are poetry backlists “dead”?

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Scantily Clad Press
is building a list of
first-rate e-books,
including
Andrew Lundwall, Tomaz Salamun,
Brian Henry, Adam Fieled,
Juliet Cook, Ken Rumble,
Chris McCreary & more

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Two poems by
Thanh Tam Tuyen
translated by Linh Dinh

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Tim Davis’
Original Ideas in Magic

The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld

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Translating Milton into English

Translating Stein into English

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Reading The Making of Americans

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The 21st
Indie & Small Press Bookfair
is this weekend in NYC

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Dear Sir or Madam,
Your work sucks

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Coldest reading of the year?

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Poet’s Picturebook,
the e-zine of the Filipino Diaspora,
celebrates an anniversary

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Not R.S. Gwynn, or the Absence of Genius”

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Frank O’Hara
(and Fairfield Porter)
makes it to the NY Times
art books gift guide

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Glad to see someone’s noticed

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Talking to ourselves

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Marathon,
a film on the life of William Meredith

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Rodney Koeneke on poetry & the future

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Books on language
in time for the holidays

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Literature maps

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Two deaths at Robin’s Bookstore

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Gray Friday for bookstores

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Talking with Tim Gaze

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Remembering Dave Church

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How to win
all of Robert Bolaño’s works in English

11 articles on Bolaño & his work

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This Sunday, a slam in Mumbai

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Houghton Mifflin publisher ousted

Randomness at Random House

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Gina Myers on Saginaw, Michigan

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Reading aloud makes the difficult “easy”

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“Public poetry is almost always very bad.”

A séance for poetry?

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How to save $$ on books

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Lally’s library

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The Work (capital W) of William Gaddis

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One Yellow Rabbit’s homages to poetry

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Talking with the Eminem of Irish poetry

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Poetry, ethics & Kent Johnson

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In which “I”
finally get a poem
in The Nation

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Improvisation

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Talking with Josh Bell

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Remembering David Wallace

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A new look at Samuel Johnson

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Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract

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Lowell Jaeger’s Suddenly, Out of a Long Sleep

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Sarojini Sahoo’s Dark Abode

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Kenneth Sherwood’s
notes for a class on Jack Kerouac

Kerouac, Freddie Redd & Frank O’Hara

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Remembering William Wharton
(or Albert du Aime)

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David Hinton’s Classical Chinese Poetry

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Lyn Hejinian’s Saga / Circus

Andy Gricevich on Hejinian’s “The Distance”

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Make-a-Wish supports a teen poet

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Charles Bukowski’s The Post Office

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Robert Venturi’s masterpiece
just down the road
from my house

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Leckey gets lucky,
wins Turner Prize

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The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton

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Talking with The Fireman

Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight

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Singing Emily D

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Globalization’s front lines:
a world tour of rap

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Baghdad “sticky bomb” targets NPR team

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Outliers & class advantage

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So you wants to be a hipster

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Which book of philosophy was most transformative?

“What would Adorno say?”

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“& if my thought dreams could be seen
they’d probably put my head in a guillotine,
but it’s alright, Ma, it’s life & life only”

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Tom Sutpen’s mostly hardboiled photo site:
”If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats”

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How many post-avant poets are there?
Shampoo has published
888 poets in its first 34 issues
& only three of the ten Grand Piano authors
 (Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, myself)
are included

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Odetta is gone

Washington Post obit

LA Times obit