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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
An inaugural poet
with a small press background
& Ivy League /
All Things Considered interviews Alexander
A dissent
& another
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Bruce Boone’s tribute to Bev Dahlen
Steve Vincent’s review of A
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A curious photo
I’d never seen before
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Barry Schwabsky on Jack Spicer
in The Nation
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A new story by a 19-year-old
Jack Kerouac
On the road
with Kerouac’s daughter, Jan
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Sina Queyras’ latest chapbook roundup
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John Olson:
Defining “experimental” poetry
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The Librarian of Congress is
” wrong. He’s so wrong. He’s so totally wrong.”
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Mark Twain, a new essay
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Jack Hirschman’s
75th birthday celebration
in
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RainTaxi’s online auction
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Craig Dworkin’s Parse
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Francisco Aragón:
5 books of Latino Poetry
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Michael Kelleher
is reviewing lots o’ books
in alphabetical order,
starting here
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Jerry Rothenberg
on 20 years of
Granary Press
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Eliot Weinberger’s What I Heard About
BBC adaptation
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NY Times obit for George Brecht
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I’m interviewed for Word Riot
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Zukofsky’s “A”-24 coming to
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Charles Bernstein’s Histórias da Guerra
(in Portuguese)
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Saving a bookstore
in Salisbury, NC
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Daniel Green
on the importance of context
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Duncan vs. Levertov –
the record of the letters
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A profile of Louis Dudek
from an online store that believes
in context
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A video interview with Vladimir Nabokov
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A profile of
Tomizawa Kakio
with translations by Hiroaki Sato
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Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman
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Bryan Thao Worra’s Winter Ink
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Extreme poetry
vs. flarf & conceptualism
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Thomas Basbøll’s flarf thesis
Two problems of flarf
(& all else)
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A profile of Raymond Roussel
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James Wright on
”the blindness of the magazines”
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Margaret Atwood
on the shadow side of wealth
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Library of obscure Chicago literature opens
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CS Perez takes wing
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Bruce Covey’s “Best Poetry Books 2008”
Dora Malech’s list
Michael Farrell’s list is very short
Kathleen Jesme’s list
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Thomas Pynchon’s next book
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A profile of Todd Boss
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Talking with “Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost”
host Rustin Larson
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Kostas Anagnopoulos & Allison Powers
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3 stars for Mariani’s Hopkins
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Sarton Prize recipients announced
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A short note against cretinism
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The return of some really bad poetry
It gets verse
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Seth Abramson dreams
of numbers & “relevance”
Seth Abramson thinks
Quietists
”make up 80% or more
of the national poetry community”
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The writers of history
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Rod Blagojevich & the death of journalism –
not an accidental relationship
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The end of the daily newspaper –
city to go
How long will it take
before every city follows suit?
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Turkish intellectuals
apologize to the Armenians
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Books by artists
at the
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A memoir of street art
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Avant-garde performer,
appellate judge
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Wayne Thiebaud:
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Picasso the historian
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Life models on strike
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Site-specific installation
or just institutional bric-a-brac
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Peter Schjeldahl on Marlene Dumas
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Sotheby looks at the contemporary art market
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Elliott Carter’s birthday weekend
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An evening of opera & dance
that includes an advance peek
at Anna Rabinowitz’
The Wanton Sublime
Monday, December 15, 2008
Photo by Jonathan Williams 1957
Jacket’s new feature on
Denise Levertov
includes pieces by
Kevin Gallagher
Anne-Marie Cusac
Anne Dewey
John Felstiner
Sam Hamill
Donna Krokik Hollenberg
Rachelle K. Lerner
Dick Lourie
Mark Pawlak
José Rodríguez Herrera
Matino Villanueva
links to 2 Robert Bertholf pieces
& me
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Robin Tremblay-McGaw on
the Beverly Dahlen Fest
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Introducing Blake Butler
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Linton Kwesi Johnson:
”If I Woz a Tap Natch Poet”
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Lytle Shaw:
”Olson’s Archives: Fieldwork in New American Poetry”
(MP3)
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Juliana Spahr’s “The 90s”
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Lyn Hejinian’s Saga / Circus
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A profile of Mourid Barghouti
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Living at Shakespeare & Co.
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Quietists plan for inaugural
Maya’s got laureate-itus
What about the real laureate?
Could it be worse?
A vote for Patricia Smith
David Lehman on the BBC (MP3)
A do-it-yourself strategy
Or maybe not
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The Oakland Small Press & Zine Archive,
a part of Deep Oakland,
has PDFs of many works associated
with that city,
including books by Pat Parker & Bob Grenier,
the journal Work & my own zine Tottel’s
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Talking with Kevin Killian
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John Ashbery’s account
of the making of
A Nest of Ninnies
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Ashbery vs. Kessler,
NY Times blog is keeping score
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Svetlana Boym:
”Victor Shklovsky & Hannah Arendt”
(MP3)
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Five books from a “good book year”
Mark Scroggins’ “Notable Books”
“Best reads of 2008”
(from
Robert Archambeau’s list of everything he read
Anthologies make “the perfect present”
Seven of the NY Times’
”Ten Best Books of 2008”
were published by Knopf
(hint: less subtle than Blagojevich!)
No poetry, but several books
about authors
in the
”Best Books of 2008”
No poetry in the Inky’s list
of what staff have been reading
Scott Abels’ gift guide
Best books for luring women
Poet of the Year is
Mark Doty
Jack Powers is
New England Poet of the Year
“What we need is a list of lists”
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“Beach”
by Roberto Bolaño
Talking with Natasha Wimmer,
translator of 2666 & The Savage Dectectives
Ron Slate on The Romantic Dogs
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Martory, Bolaño, Lux,
Voisine & Holman
in Brooklyn Rail poetry roundup
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Carol Houck Smith,
Norton’s editor of poets,
has died
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After reading Jack Spicer
”you may feel that much American poetry is fake”
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40 years of correspondence
betwixt Allen Ginsberg & Gary Snyder
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Breyten Breytenbach at Kelly Writers House
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John Milton, freedom fighter
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Four readings by Lynne Dreyer
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Among the events coming up at the Poetry Project
is a 30th anniversary reading of
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day
plus, of course,
the New Year’s marathon
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K. Silem Mohammad gets relevant
A short history of flarf
Flarf vs. conceptualism, round 2
(in which we notice why
all the Conceptualists are male)
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On Commitment:
Joe Safdie & Mark Wallace correspond
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Don Share on the interview process
More answers to H.L. Hix’ 20 questions:
Cecilia Woloch
Christine Gelineau
Dan Beachy-Quick
George Witte
Philip Metres
Sara Maclay
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Gregory Dowling
Stacey Harwood
me
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Miles Champion reading at Jean Day’s house (MP3)
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The problem of Solzhenitsyn Street
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When Jim Morrison showed up
at Jack Kerouac’s door
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Protesters sing
to counter “blasphemous” poetry reading
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Bob Dylan & Thomas Hardy:
A simple twist of fate
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Greg Fuchs’
”from De la Bronx”
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The art of the self-destructing poem
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Joe Safdie replies to Mark Wallace
on commitment
(Note K. Lorraine Graham’s comment)
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Thomas Merton on PBS
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Robbie Burns’ hidden poems
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A first book prize for Holly Iglesias
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Using its laureate site
to promote
the literary history of Gloucester
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When languages die
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New trends in classic Chinese poetry
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Todd Swift’s minireviews of
Poetry Review, Paxamericana, The Wolf
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An act of prescience on the part of
Calvin Trillin?
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Claudia Emerson returns to
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Guardian review of the Lowell-Bishop letters
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“Poem Including History”
(sub required)
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Talking with Reginald Dwayne Betts
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David Baptiste Chirot on Félix Fénéon
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A new work by
Rodrigo Toscano
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Talking with Carole Maso
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Cutting down trees
just to publish a magazine
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Martial was no saint
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Linda Bierds, Susan Steward, Brendan Galvin
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Paul T. Hogan’s Points of Departure
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Just like Romeo & Juliet
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Carol Muske-Dukes on being
the
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Dmitry Golynko’s As It Turns Out
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The “most intellectually ambitious writer”?
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When does the writer’s nakedness just become TMI?
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A new collection of political poetry
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A profile of Moira Egan
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Stumping for John Gay
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Hopkins & the modern?
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Trying to save Philly’s libraries
But in
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Remembering Dorothy Porter
Talking with Porter
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Working out issues through poetry
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Reviewing The Paterson Literary Review
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Dennis O’Driscoll’s interviews with Seamus Heaney
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Mama, don’t let your kids go into journalism
Who cares if newspapers die?
My favorite crime reporter signs off
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Best article about Bill Ayers
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The two Malcolm Gladwells
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Arundhati Roy:
Mumbai is not our 9/11
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In re Žižek,
the joke’s on Kirsch
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The 2nd International Interdisciplinary
Bakhtin Conference
is announced for June
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William Stevens,
who changed the law
by invoking the infield fly rule,
has died
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George Crumb at Carnegie Hall,
Charles Wuorinen at the Guggenheim
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Elliott Carter’s century
Turning 100 at Carnegie Hall
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Pierre Boulez:
proud to be a bully
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The Construction of
Scott Wheeler’s opera
set to a work by Kenneth Koch
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Ousted critic sues orchestra
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A profile of Nathaniel Dorsky
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Das Kapital goes manga
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Phong Bui, David Levi Strauss
& Peter Lamborn Wilson
talk with Terry Winters
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The collaborators:
Merce Cunningham & his friends
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Battlestar Galactica
jumps back into our quadrant
for one last glorious season
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