Charlotte Mandell
on translating The Kindly Ones
From Mandell’s translation of
Abdelwahab Meddeb’s White Traverses
Is this novel worth all this attention?
“extravagantly blessed & hideously cursed”
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Jack Spicer & Allen Sherman:
Hello Muddah, Hello Lorca
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Jimmy Schuyler reads on PennSound!
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PennSound is on track to have
50,000,000 downloads in 2009
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Polis is This:
Charles Olson & the Persistence of Place
is coming to PBS in April
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Rae Armantrout at the AWP
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Medium & Margin 2009:
Multiplying Methodologies & Proliferating Poetics
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis:
“Draft 94: Mail Art”
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Frank Sherlock’s Over Here
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Real beat poets
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At 86, Will Inman keeps on truckin’
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Poetry in Iraq
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Ted Greenwald & Kit Robinson
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Edible books!
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Beverly Dahlen
on George Stanley’s Vancouver
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Grace Hartigan & Frank O’Hara
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More conceptual flarf
(talk about hybrid…)
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Talking at length (35 pp!!)
with David Shapiro
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Talking further with Michael Schiavo
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Marjorie Perloff on Elizabeth Alexander
& the downgrading of poetry
(note the other 3 videos linked)
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Books to look forward to
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Rita Dove,
taking over the Washington Post’s
“Poet’s Choice” column
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Pam Brown
on Philip Mead’s Networked Language:
Culture & History in Australian Poetry
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The web sends U.S. poetry everywhere
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Past Simple is anything but
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James Purdy has died
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Keira Knightley on Dylan Thomas
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Welsh poetry on the London tube
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C.M. Mayo & Francisco Aragón
at the Library of Congress (MP3)
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A tribute to Jack Gilbert
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Agha Shahid Ali’s The Veiled Suite
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Darwin’s life in poetry
written by a descendant
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A call for submissions
for very short poems
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A more complete description
of the SUNY Buffalo
audio archive project
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Connoisseur Shakespeare
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A Bakhtin conference
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Talking with Kay Ryan
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Huxley library to UCLA
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Photos
from the massive Milwaukee marathon
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Google talks books
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Towns without newspapers are on the horizon
Newspapers are dying
Preserve local news
Social networking as a solution
The incredible shrinking media
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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore tale
is a Christian store in Virginia
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The MLA Handbook
no longer privileges print
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The Great Links Curriculum
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A variation on the “20 books” meme
from Scotland
& more
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Pinecones podcasts
(say that fast 3 times)
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March (Poetry) Madness
Serious March madness
(the only basketball team I’ll ever make)
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The Academy of American Poets
annual monstrosity
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Transcranial Poetics
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Louise DeSalvo, Fanny Howe & Abdella Taia
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Robert Pinsky
singing the praises
of Jbooks.com
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
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Using Wikipedia to teach comp
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Michael Jackson:
“Children of the World, we’ll do it”
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Haiku consciousness
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Writer’s spaces
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Alicia Ostriker
on contemporary Hebrew poetry
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A Cheever bio
“a vast inert pudding of a book”
Over Cheevers
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A review of Elaine Showalter’s
history of women writers
Another by Katha Pollitt
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The “George Steiner problem”
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The shortlist for the Scottish
Mortgage Investment Trust
Poetry Awards
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Bolaño, Kleinzahler, Herrera
win National Book Critics Circle awards
No women received awards at all
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Ronald Johnson’s elegy for Princess Di
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Yet another review of
Gooch’s Flannery
& another
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Talking with the former JT LeRoy
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Angelic Dynamo,
the magazine you edit yourself
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Raymond Chandler vs. LA
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Remembering John Leonard
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If novels could read
It’s really about characters
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Talking with Christian Wiman
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The poetry of Shaikh Mohammad
An Irish poet at the festival in Dubai
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Academic Earth :
video lectures & courses from
Berkeley, Harvard, MIT,
Princeton, Stanford & Yale
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Libraries thrive in a down economy
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Impact of the recession
on the arts (PDF)
More “starving artists” now
Who defends the arts?
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Art in America
on Futurism
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The postcards of Walker Evans
A review in The New Yorker
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Robert Frank:
from “ignored” to “National Treasure”
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The Rest is Noise
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Felix Bernstein’s Mildred Pierce
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Sally Silvers’ Yessified!
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Frank Gehry’s library
Another look by the same author
My favorite library
is by Rem Koolhaas
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Spam architecture
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Finding Lincoln’s fingerprint
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Philosophy & body-building
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What Tim Berners-Lee
is inventing now
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A tip of the baseball cap
to the emerging
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