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Monday, January 05, 2009

Robert Grenier on Carol Watts

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The program for Emma Bee Bernstein’s funeral

Charles Bernstein’s
”Eulogy for Emma”

A note from Felix Bernstein

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From the Angels of Light to New Narrative

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A terrific anthology of New York City poetry:
The Portable Boog Reader 3
(PDF)

Last year’s equally stunning collection (PDF)

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The poetry of C.D. Wright

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How to write language poetry

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Poetry & relevance
(a good collection of all the links)

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Framing Gabe Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook

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Cities vie over celebrating Poe

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Mark Scroggins on John Taggart

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Bruce Sterling:
State of the World, 2009

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Talking with Dan Chiasson
about editing
poetry for the Paris Review

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26 instant reviews

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Jack Kerouac’s
”Belief & Technique for Modern Prose”

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Sex at the MLA

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Nobel secretary
who told the truth
steps down

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Taxonomies

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Beloafism

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Eileen Tabios’ Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole

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Teaching & satisfaction

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Some work by Crystal Curry
with a comments stream
that has broken out into warfare

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Writers who practice medicine

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Joshua Clover on Michèle Bernstein

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W.S. Merwin on PBS Newshour

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Hemingway as a poet

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In the basement of the ivory tower

200 applications for every job

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With whom is Stanley Fish speaking with?

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Reading Frank O’Hara on the Blue Line
and a Few Words About Disappointment”

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Poesy for the kids

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Adam Kirsch on a new translation of
Kafka’s Amerika

& on Burton Raffael’s new translation of
The Canterbury Tales

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Prison poetry in India

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Man Booker prize funds
were invested with
Bernie Madoff

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What is “non-commercial”?

How far should
© exemptions extend?

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Hitler’s Private Library

The Man Who Burned Books

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A more intimate memoir from
Azar Nafisi

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A profile of Jay Ruzesky

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Paperback Dreams

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Charity bookshops

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Glenn Goldman has died

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New York’s French bookshop
bids adieu

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The MLA & the Middle East

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Susan Sontag’s early diaries

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Denis O’Leary on poetry
& other stuff

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Poetry as “divine therapy

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Mary Karr on Tryfon Tolides

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The poet of money who saw it coming

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Best translations of 2008

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Recalling the first inaugural poet

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National Reading 2666 Month

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Poets of New York’s suburbs

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Buffalo’s experimental past

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Todd Boss’ Yellowrocket

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Saving (maybe) the foreign language major

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Anne Carson
reading with sculpture & dancers

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Andrew Motion on a bio of
Robert Burns

Burns as an analgesic

& as a democrat

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Little machines made out of words”

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The impact of trees on poetry

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Sylvia Townsend Warner & Valentine Ackland

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Paul Guest’s
My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

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Richard Tillinghast finds Ireland

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Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman

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Tale of Genji at 1,000

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Edward FitzGerald’s “unfaithful translation”

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Mainstream media is dead (sorta)

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Portraits of America poets

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Painting books

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Oranges & Sardines at the Hammer

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Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes

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Jackson Pollock crosses the street

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S. Clay Wilson today

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The day the music died

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Thelonius Monk’s advice to Steve Lacy

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Putting Charles Olson (literally)
to music (10MB MP3)

Friday, January 02, 2009

Charles Olson today

Charles Olson,
who would have been 99 on Dec. 27,
reading ”The Librarian”
(YouTube)

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Billy Little died of cancer this morning

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Jack Spicer & the law

rob mclennan’s review

Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me

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Investigating Ed Sanders

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Joe Safdie and Rae Armantrout
at Beyond Baroque

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Post-avant is here to stay!

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George Packer of The New Yorker
gets some mail
about his reservations about
Elizabeth Alexander
as the inaugural poet

Why do pols gravitate
to crappy poetry?

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The books & poetry of
John Martone

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2 new sets of DVDs of readings
in France
(includes Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein,
Rosmarie Waldrop, Jacques Roubaud, Keith Waldrop,
Norma Cole, Bill Berkson, Emanuel Hocquard,
Robert Grenier, Kristin Prevallet,
Jerry Rothenberg, Tom Raworth
& many more)

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Blanchot at 100
(15 YouTube videos
of the conference at Bard)

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Metonymy & encoding

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Elisa Gabbert on Stephanie Young

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Robin Tremblay-McGaw at the MLA

MLA notes

How not to interview

From the Chronicle of Higher Medication

A buyer’s market

Fear & interviews

On the plane ride home

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David Horowitz at the MLA

And here

And here

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Aileen Ibardaloza
on her mother reading
Eileen Tabios

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Didi Menendez:
Why I write

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Talking with Larissa Szporluk

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Carolyn Cassady speaks of Jack Kerouac

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Three-day-old Fish

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John Taggart’s There are Birds

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On first seeing Iceland

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The left bank of New England

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Michael Amnasan’s Liar

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Farewell to
3 poets named John

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J.D. Salinger at 90

The wisdom of Holden Caufield

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Eleven things writers should know

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Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler

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Laura Moriarty
reading from A Semblance
(YouTube)

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Quietism

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Positioning contemporary U.S. poetry by
reading Rae Armantrout
in The New Yorker

(in Spanish)

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Carey Perloff on Harold Pinter

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The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

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Donald Revell reading Rimbaud
(YouTube)

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Ahsahta comes to NYC

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Talking with Dmitry Golynko

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Anyhow” –
summing up an amazing year

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Talking with Harryette Mullen

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Form
is / is not
an extension of content

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“8 Found Poems from
Schaum’s German Grammar

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The Longhouse photo album
is a visual history
of poetry in
Vermont
over the last 30 years

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Gotham Book Mart arrives at Penn

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Saving Philly libraries

Score one for Mom

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Interviews with Seamus Heaney

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10 books that screwed up the world

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Christopher Arigo
reading from
In the Archives
(YouTube)

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“The Dry Tortugas” (PDF)

Talking with Molly Fisk & Yuko Adachi
about their collaboration

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The Corpse walks

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Mark Doty: feeling validated

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Preparing to be Susan Sontag

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A note on Hugh Fox

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Village Voice lays off Nat Hentoff

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Some bests

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Top 10 language stories of 2008

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Misogynist tagger
banned from carrying pens

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12 cross-sections of the
Ubuweb archive

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Guerrilla Girls on Tour
New Year’s Resolutions
(here, here & here)

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LA MOCA should
”show its own

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A profile of Jasper Johns

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Instruction art

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Naked Lens: Beat Cinema

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Nathaniel Anthony Ayers
& the Disciples of Beethoven

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2008 Village Voice Jazz Poll Winners

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The Making of Americans the opera

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The Century Club

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No bailout for the arts

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Philosophers at work
& looking for more

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The reader

And here

Monday, December 29, 2008

A lurid NY Times “review” of
Jack Spicer’s
My Vocabulary Did This to Me

And another in the LA Times

Was Jack Spicer sexy?

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A detailed,
multi-part look at
The Best American Poetry 2008
answers
my 20th question

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My list of upcoming marathons missed
Chicago’s
When Does It or You Begin (Memory as Innovation):
Writing, Performance & Video”
from Jan. 9 to Feb. 1

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Wishing it was
Will Alexander
at Obama’s inaugural

Oops, somebody’s read Venus Hottentot

An X-rated inaugural?

The NY Times weighs in

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Gerry Meisenhelder,
poet laureate of
York, PA,
has died

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Emma Bee Bernstein:
”What I Learned in School Today”

A Flickr memorial website
for Emma Bee Bernstein

Charles Bernstein’s website
with memorial service information

Nona Aronowitz on Bernstein

Remembering Bernstein

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New York Times obit
of Adrian Mitchell

Remembering Mitchell

And here

A Socialist Workers obit
with links to videos
from 1965 & 2008

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Tributes to Harold Pinter

Carlin Romano on Pinter

Pinter & Creeley on war

Pinter’s last interview:
”Cricket is better than sex”

Citizen Pinter

Pinter the poet

Pinter’s drama

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Remembering Dorothy Porter

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Steve Fama’s20 Great Poetry Books of 2008

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Gary Sullivan’s 2008 in review

Part 2

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A year’s worth of reading

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Close reading
one sentence
from Robert Grenier

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In Holland,
an actual campaign
for Poet Laureate

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I’m Dreaming of AJunky’s Christmas
just like the one Bill Burroughs used to know

A prehistory of the Beats

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Genealogy of the School of Q

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Seattle Poetry Chain:
Robert Mittenthal

Nico Vassilakis

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Being interviewed
without being asked

Ditto

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3 questions for Ed Baker

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Gary Snyder
on corresponding with Allen Ginsberg

Henry Kissinger & Allen Ginsberg
naked together on TV
(scroll down)

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Reading the journals you’re already in

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Alexander Trocchi:
Seize the world!

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Under the influence

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Flarf + conceptualism
(conspiracy theory)

Quietism pretending not to take sides

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Spun Puns (& Anagrams)
in the work of Harryette Mullen

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Poetry &/as sci-fi

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Waiting for Sam Beckett

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Polis is What?
Finding one’s way in
The Maximus Poems,”
a talk Jan. 3 in
Gloucester, Mass.
(scroll down)

Black Mountain spirit lingers
in
Hickory, NC

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Dirk Johnson is posting
sections of Ronald Johnson’s
out-of-print masterwork
Ark online

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Jack Kerouac’s Pull My Daisy
(or maybe
Robert Frank’s & Alfred Leslie’s)

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Remembering the Rubiot in Tulsa
where in 1960
Ron Padgett gave his first public reading

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The poetics of Frank Samperi

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Love letter to a blogroll

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Ezra Pound & Wall Street

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Literature after the death of trade publishing

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News after the death of newspapers

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Washington Post, Baltimore Sun
something less than competitors
in the same market

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The new Luddism

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Books will survive!

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Poetry & the British imagination

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Talking with Abdel-Rahmen El-Abnoudi

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Excavating Kafka

And here also

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Patti Smith:
An interview, a review
& videos of a reading & song

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Robert Bly turns 82

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Zadie Smith: race & speech (MP3)

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Lisa Russ Spaar’s Satin Cash

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Kate Brady gets to profile Kate Brady

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Beyond Baroque
finally has signed
a 25-year lease on its facility

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Pastoral now

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Poetry & the end of nature

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Remembering Parveen Shakir

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The Voynich Manuscript

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Gerald Stern:
5 poems & a video

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Boot camp with Brenda Shaughnessy

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John Updike,
having become
”a David Levine caricature of himself”

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Nabokov’s choice
of Russian poetry

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Rachel Forrest
returns to poetry
with 30 poems in 30 days

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The bard of despond

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Coherence & the undergraduate English major

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Fitzgerald’s characters & their schools

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Giving voice to William Stafford

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Young Susan Sontag

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Interviews from “Seamus Famous

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Phyllis McGinley & Revolutionary Road

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Setting Kathryn Stripling Byer to music

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Olivier Messiaen at 100

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When Waiting for Godot
played at San Quentin

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Shakespeare & Modern Culture

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Whitman’s Lincoln
coming to Philly

A rare Whitman edition for auction

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Wallace Berman & Richard Prince

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Remembering Grace Hartigan

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Michael Goldberg et al in Buffalo

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Considering James Castle
from a great distance

Michael Andre on Castle

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A new work from Yoko Ono
in The NY Times

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A shake-up at Christie’s

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Learning from Venturi

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The return of Bruno S.

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Penn Museum
cans research,
goes pop to survive

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An alternate history of
Deep Throat
from inside
the intelligence community

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In case nobody’s noticed,
this war ain’t over!