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Kent Johnson,
who knows something about “fake shit,”
to Nada Gordon re flarf
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.
Sean Cole brings the story of flarf
to Studio 360 on NPR
(MP3)
Questions for flarf
The bicycle view
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Talking with Carrie Etter
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The logic of the linebreak
in the work
of Rae Armantrout
Introducing Erica Hunt
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Untitled New York:
Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
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A large anthology of new Russian poetry
in the latest number of Jacket
Yvor Winters,
gangsta of Quietude
Are the religious strongly drawn to Winters?
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Kenny Goldsmith:
”A bad time for poetry”
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Mark Wallace, K. Lorraine Graham & Joseph Mosconi
on new directions in writiing
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Close reading Kathleen Fraser
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Stephen Vincent at Braunstein / Quay
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Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater
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Israeli poets protest
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Last weekend of the Dmitri Prigov show at
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Elizabeth Alexander on the inaugural poem
The AP asks 10 poets for their inaugural poems
How to write an inaugural poem
How not to write an inaugural poem
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Ada Limón:
Five ways to practice poetry
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“New Lit Boy” Tao Lin
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New York Times obit
for W.D. Snodgrass
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This is so soothing
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Where po’ Poe’s
telltale heart really belongs
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Jerry Rothenberg
on translation & Celan
& on Langpo & the academy
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Talking with Marjorie Perloff
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The rest of Linh Dinh’s Seven Contemporary Italian Poets:
Marina Pizzi
Vanni Santoni
Florinda Fusco
Michele Zaffarano
Alessandro Broggi
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Mesmerized by flarf
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Is Poegles flarf?
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Three (inter)views of John Ashbery
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Hank Lazer
photo & videocast
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Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm archives
(over 900 MP3s)
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Charles Bernstein’s The
Subject
Sound files of Charles Bernstein-Ben Yarmolinsky operas
including two versions of The Subject
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Remembering Jason Shinder
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Liam Agrani lives in the margins (PDF)
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Edward Hirsch & Marilyn Hacker
have been named
Chancellors of the
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Literary reading perks back up
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Booksmith beats the odds
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Book Thug’s very big subscription deal
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WCW meets the MLA (PDF)
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The poetry of Paul Auster
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Shakespeare & deep
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Talking with Luc Sante
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The antiwar poetry of Robinson Jeffers
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The library
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A note on the Gotham Book Mart – Penn deal
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An agent in the making
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Who will be the last media giant standing?
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Borders hedges it board
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Arts orgs at risk
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Battlestar Galactica’s final season
starts tonight!
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The Chicago Tribune
on
Where Does It or You Begin?
(Memory as Innovation)
Writing, Performance & Video Festival
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The graying of the jazz world
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The Steve Layton songbook
(with lyrics and vocals from everyone
from
Ezra Pound to Edmond Jabès to Leroy Jenkins)
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Peter Voulkos,
the godfather of ceramics
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Coosje van Bruggen has died
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“Entropa” offends European sensibilities
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The History Show,
a retrospective of A.I.R.,
the first all-women’s gallery
has been extended to April 24
(PDF)
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The Critical Art Ensemble
at Printed Matter
The concrete poetry of Niikuni Seiichi
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Stephanie Young’s Picture Palace
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Thinking through the post-avant
Close reading the post-avant
Counter-reading the post-avant
& confusing cause & effect
re the SoQ
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K. Silem Mohammad on the politics of flarf
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A conceptual review of Eunoia
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Kenny Goldsmith is wrong!
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Garrett Caples on Barbara Guest
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Jerome Rothenberg’s poem for
Emma Bee Bernstein
Tom Beckett
on autobiography & death
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Tribute to Spicer!
The first edition of
My Vocabulary Did This to Me
has already sold out
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Inger Christensen’s Alphabet,
excerpted on a wall in
New York Times obit
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A member of the
offers a reading report on
”Polis is This”
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Remembering Billy Little
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The letters of Allen Ginsberg
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Cutting up (or down) Bill Burroughs
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Jack’s Last Call:
Say Good-Bye to Kerouac
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Pam Brown reads
Ross Chamber’s Loiterature
Laurence Porter’s review
A Google preview
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Jack Gilbert in APR
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Celebrating Poe’s 200th
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An Allen Fisher interview here
in several parts,
both video & PDF
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Cleave poetry, Langpo
& the problem of schools
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Rusty Morrison’s
The True Keeps Calm Biding Its Story
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Apollinaire’s Oeuvres poétiques
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What do you read in your sleep?
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Who can read, period?
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Sasha Steenson’s The Method
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Talking with Jayne Anne Phillips
Michiko Kakutani on Lark & Termite
A review in the Comical
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Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secret of Breath
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
must find a buyer
or go digital or defunct
in the next 60 days
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An editor is murdered in
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A history of the op-ed page
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Lo Galluccio’s Sarasota VII
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Which surrealism produces wonder
& which does not?
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More suggestions for inaugural poet
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Noah Cicero’s Treatise
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Sharon Mesmer’s Annoying Diabetic Bitch
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Bolaño’s masterpiece
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Umberto Saba’s Songbook
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Sarah Kennedy’s A Witch’s Dictionary
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Pinter’s rhythm
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Ted Berrigan’s Selected Poems
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Blagojevich counters with Tennyson
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John Barth’s Development
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Videos from the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival
(Kimiko Hahn, Richard Jeffrey Newman,
Jai Chakrabarti, Lynne Procope)
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20 years of Satanic Verses
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A profile of Emil Hakl
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Cruising with James Wright
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Richard Siken’s Crush
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Micheline’s manifesto
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Who you meet at Breadloaf
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Cannibalism among self-publishing exploiters
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Mark Levine’s Debt
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W.S. Merwin’s The Shadow of Sirius
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Mary Karr profiles one of her former students
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Petition for an arts czar
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Impossible Histories
– the avant-garde of the former
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Postwar abstraction in SF
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Where’s Walt?
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Theology & Lacan
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Who you callin’ anti-Semitic ?
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Jacques Derrida & Mustapha Chérif:
Islam & the West
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88 Constellations for Wittgenstein
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The recession hits arts groups
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An oral history of
the worst administration in
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William Zantzinger,
who killed poor Hattie Carroll,
has died
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Jack Spicer’s “Golem”
Spicer celebration at SF Main Library
Saturday, Jan. 10
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Richard Seaver has passed away
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So has Carol Adair, Kay Ryan’s partner
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Partial MLA offsite reading
(85MB, Gordon thru Rothenberg,
available only to Saturday)
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Jessa Crispin talking with Clayton Eshleman
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A profile of the most popular
poetry contest in the world
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Anti-war poetry then & now
Among Gaza’s atrocities
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Doug Messerli
on
Emma Bee Bernstein
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Francisco Goldman on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
Natasha Wimmer on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
Listening to Goldman & Wimmer
on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
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Nazim Hikmet gets his citizenship back
(too bad he’s been dead for 45 years)
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When Langpo & flarf are not enough
Is “embarrassment” more important than
”offensiveness” to flarf?
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Talking with Arielle Greenberg
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Bashō finds an abandoned infant
& leaves it to die
Response to the video
Bashō: The Complete Haiku
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Always on: libraries in a world
of permanent connectivity
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Where Tom Hanks gets his
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Remembering Glenn Goldman
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How to kill a bookstore:
raise the rent to $1 million
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After 85 years,
Stacey’s to close in SF
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The indie bookstores of
Montpelier, Vermont
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Making used books pay
A renaissance for used books?
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2008: the poetry year in review
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Roberta Beary: one-minute poetry reading
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Still answering H.L. Hix’ “20 Questions”
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Pervasive communication environments
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Every book ever published
will end up online
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Is captcha poetry hipper than flarf?
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Remembering Dave Church
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Mark Doty, making it real
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Remembering Jason Shinder
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Linh Dinh’s Seven Contemporary Italian Poets:
Marco Giovenale
Gherardo Bortolotti
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Shakespeare’s church is becoming unsafe
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Writing & fame –
the case of Mishima
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Frank Wilson’s likes & dislikes for 2008
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rob mclennan on Asher Ghaffar
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Why spell-check sucks
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Publishing: the new austerity
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The “G” in FSG
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Magazine ads are drying up
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Readings at rush hour
at the train station!
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Talking with Mark Irwin
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Work needed for Poet’s Pause
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The oldsters turn out for
Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3
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Donald Westlake has died
Terry Gross talks to Westlake
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Celebrating W.D. Snodgrass
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Talking with Mark Gwynne Jones
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A poem-a-day for a decade
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Talking with Peter Bennet
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David Lunde’s Breaking the
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Worst poetry book covers, 2008
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Stanley Fish goes to the movies
(he gets Vertigo right)
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The fiction lineup for ought nine
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Hating all the new Canadian anthologies
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The state of the humanities
Humanities Indicators Prototype (HIP)
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In this recession, who will support the arts
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What happens to the arts
when critics disappear
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David Denby gets all snarky
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Philosophy at (in) the movies
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Making MOCA work
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Foulds wins a Costa
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Matisse’s model speaks
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Terry Teachout’s top 25
classical recordings of all time
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Grateful Dead analysis:
the relationship between
concert & listening behavior
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Betty Freeman & the music she commissioned
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What we can learn from Guitar Hero
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Magic may be over for
the Magic Theater
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Another at risk
in Beverly, Mass
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What will change
E V E R Y T H I N G ?