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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
70 years later

Auden on David Jones’ Anathemata

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Barbara Jane Reyes on
Raúl R. Salinas

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Pierre Joris,
promoting Diasporic Avant-Gardes
edited by Carrie Noland & Barrett Watten

With a 20% discount offer
(an $18 savings!)

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Fernando Perez
on poetry vs. baseball

But can he hit a curveball?

Perez’ career stats

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Please don’t apologize for pissing me off”

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For Harry Potter with gratitude.
Truman Capote January 1978”

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P. Inman,
talking at the Other Room

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John Yau on Michael Gizzi

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T’he American Avant-Pastoral:
Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Ronald Johnson

Joshua Corey’s PhD dissertation, downloadable

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Jameson’s Atwood

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Pierre Joris’ recording
of KRCB’s David Bromige tribute

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LaChiPo” – a listserv
for Latino/Chicano poetics

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Poems from Uche Nduka

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Palindrome poems

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Bookishly appy with your iPhone

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The 10 most-pirated e-books

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Bed bugs in your review copy?

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Book Cell

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A gallery of images of
Eliot the editor

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Joyce Johnson’s Door Wide Open

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Eileen Myles on Can Xue:
needing to go wild to survive

Myles on poetry, madness
& Jimmy Schuyler

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Orhan Pamuk’s “Distant Relations”

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Naked Girls Reading

The naked book club

An article thereon

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Is a return to prudery in the offing

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Judd Morrissey’s
The Last Performance

Project information

Goat Island Performance

Morrissey’s website

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LitFUSE 2009:
a poetry festival near Yakima, WA
with George Bowering, Carolyne Wright, Charlie Potts
& much more

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Vispo on the road

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Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism:
September 24 & 25 @ CUNY

The participants
(a stunningly all-star cast)

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Nada Gordon’s Interests

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Antique Roadshow” for books

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The half-read book

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How to prune your book collection

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Jane Satterfield back in the UK

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Michael Palmer:
“We must count in Babylon”

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Eliot Weinberger, modernist

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Rachel Loden’s Dick of the Dead

Rachel Loden & Kevin Prufer

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Allen Ginsberg’s Ted Kennedy

Joyce Carol Oates on Teddy

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Phillysound focuses on Garrett Caples

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September 18 in Lawrence, KS,
Stacy Szymaszek & Megan Kaminski
at the Wonder Fair

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Gertrude Stein’s
Tender Buttons
& Three Lives
online

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Who killed the bookstore in Salisbury, UK?
Oxfam!

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A map of indie bookstores
in the Bay Area

In list format

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Michael Theune reignites the poetry wars
using the old sucker punch
of denying any SoQ/post-avant split
to then attack the post-avant

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Dean Young
on the Tony Hoagland-effect

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Translating quietist poetry into Arabic

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Ange Mlinko:
“The flexibility of language is its greatest asset”

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Jerome Rothenberg:
a return to the book

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“When I see books
I see an outdated technology

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A site just for library book sales

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MFA poems with barcode traces?

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How not to sell your novel

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Introducing Botsotso

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Michel Foucault’s
Speaking and Seeing in Raymond Roussel
(reg. req.)

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Economy & the haiku

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Poetry & Self-Exile
(reg. req.)

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September 12 in Baltimore:
Doug Lang & Tina Darragh

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Lorine Niedecker in Brazil

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Meaning & the modern

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Michael Greenberg’s short essays

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Little Fibonacci poems

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Nick Cave:
The Death of Bunny Munro

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The other Munro
removes book from Giller competition

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Awards, literary & otherwise

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Hugo Ball & language poetry

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Charles Bernstein talking with Ken Jacobs

The Day the Moon Gave Up the Ghost

Painted Air:
The Joys and Sorrows of Evanescent Cinema”

Jacobs reading “Painted Air”

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Remembering The Holy Barbarians

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James Finnegan’s
Ars Poetica Library 2009

By way of explanation

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Google offers 1,000,000 ebooks

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Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXX

Waiting for William

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Close-reading of non-existing texts

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Charles Alexander:
The book stops here

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Jeanie Thompson’s
The Seasons Bear Us

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Talking with Dick Jones

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A blog on the WPA Writers Project

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Wanting to be the Christo & Jeanne-Claude
of the written word
(Isn’t that what Kenny G does?)

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Gloompot in Algiers

Talking with Paul Bowles, 1952

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A novel about poetry
“that’s actually about poetry”

Inside Nicholson Baker
you’ll find Nicholson Baker

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Can there be a “national literature”?

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Kooks & poets

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Discursive rules of the underworld

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Another WWI poet goes online

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Patricia Smith’s “Ethel’s Sestina”

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Fred & Susan Chappell reading

Fred Chappell’s “nested” poetry

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Doctorow’s pack rats

The collectors

blindness and insight

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Fat Ulu & Kumu Kahua’s
The Statehood Project

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Paul Siegell’s jambandbootleg

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Reconstructing Carver

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A Swiss army knife of contemporary fiction

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Arts offer an easy target
as states cut budgets

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Barry Schwabsky on Dan Graham

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Store,
by Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies

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The Plum Academy:
An Institute for Situated Practices

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John Clare:
identity theft in Union, NJ

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Must we vote for poets?

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Wendell Berry
& “The Peace of Wild Things”

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New star writer at
the House of Mouse

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The camera arts & Hollis Frampton

Frampton’s films on Ubuweb

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What’s not inside
Warhol’s time capsules?

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The appropriation show

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The curious success of
Simon Crump’s Neverland

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Motivations for creating derivative works

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Salinger “sequel” sucks,
says the judge

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Bedri Baykam
at Alphonse Berber Gallery

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Annie Leibovitz’ $24M debt
is due today

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Robert Frank’s “elevator girl” comes forward

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A Guy Webster retrospective

A gallery of his work

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Fighting over Frida

A gallery of attributed works

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Saving modernist architecture,
one house at a time

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Lola Schnabel’s gypsy jamboree

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Postmodern Bach

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The Gonzales Cantata

The trailer

Rachel Maddow, music critic

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Fred Frith:
The acoustic occupation of space

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Analyze you, categorize you

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Literate rockers

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Putting Yeats to music

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Joe Maneri has died

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Talking with Quentin Tarantino

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Top ten books about Lenin

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In a Materialist Way
Pierre Macherey’s selected essays
(reg. req.)

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Ray Brassier:
Alien Theory:
The Decline of Materialism
in the Name of Matter
(reg. req.)

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Corporate bulimia on Wall Street

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CLR James & African-American Liberation

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UC Faculty walkout – September 24

AAUP endorses walkout

Facebook page

Friday, August 07, 2009

Gloria Frym on Lorine Niedecker

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Discovering Landis Everson

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Robin Blaser’s continuous song

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The poetic monologs of
Frederick Seidel & Bernadette Mayer

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Ravi Shankar’s
night in the hoosegow

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Censorship in Iraq

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Gertrude Stein & Michael Farrell

Monday, March 30, 2009

Jonathan Mayhew’s
Apocryphal Lorca

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Modernism is 100 years old

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Language poets
are not superheroes,
we just seem that way

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Geof Huth is ironic

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Geof & I
will both be part
of this year’s
Text Festival,
in Bury & London, UK
in May

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Journal of British
& Irish
Innovative Poetry

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An Improvised Movie

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Aram Saroyan’s
uncollected
minimal poems

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Cole Swensen’s Ours

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Sunday, April 5:
SPD’s 40th Anniversary
Poetry Blow-Out
!

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Reading report:
Sean Bonney, Redell Olsen
& many more

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A tribute to Jack Gilbert

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PBS to air
Polis is This:
Charles Olson

& the Persistence of Place

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Palestinian poetry:
“The Waste Land

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The Fab Five:
Dodie Bellamy, Roberto Bedoya,
Blossom Dearie & Dusty Springfield
,
plus of course
Dario Robleto

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Kay Ryan on PBS NewsHour

It’s not all “unicorns and flowers” with Kay

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Remembering Lisa Ratcliffe

Ratcliffe’s “Las Cartas

Hesitant Scribe

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Dodie Bellamy has
archive fever

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Reading report:
a festival of contemporary immigration writing

The folks who read

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The Consumer Products Safety Commission
bans all books
published before 1984

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Reading report:
K. Silem Mohammad & Paul Stephens
at Bard
with lots of video samples

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Flarf = noise putty?

Flarf & the poetics
of the Goon Show

LOL: a flarfy word

Flarf should not exist”

Flarf: “a secret handshake”

Flarf & Spoetry

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Frank O’Hara
turned 83 last week

O’Hara didn’t know
his birthday was March 27

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Sina Queyras
on Emily Carr
on Mary Ruefle

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What do you look for
in poetry?

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Stan Apps on Rodney Koeneke

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Boundaries and the hybrid

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The Bedford Poets
of Minneapolis-St. Paul

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Seth Abramson
is more concerned
with the characterization of Quiet
than with a pragmatic history
of the phenomenon

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Talking with Howard Junker

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A new kind of poetry
demands a new kind of critic

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Maghrebi Surrealism

Habib Tengour
at SUNY Albany

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Spliced romantics

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Happy 90th, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Erin Mouré on Myung Mi Kim

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A profile of Dunya Mikhail

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There goes Small Press Book Month

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The Sarah Mook Poetry Prize

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Anne Charnock, “Uncertainty Series, no. 10” (PDF)

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April at Writers House

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Books on the Nightstand podcast:
Michael Schiavo

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Rupert Loydell’s
“A Few Thoughts About Blogging”

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Michelle Naka Pierce’s
10 Good Reads

10 good books by people she knows

10 good chapbooks

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Rattle e.6 (PDF)

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the smell of formaldehyde in the morning

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Oddest book title of the year

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The Benedictine monk
who counted
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac & William Burroughs
among his correspondents

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Jeff Hansen’s
series on Nate Mackey’s
Songs of the Andoumboulou
is a wonderful examination

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Walter Mosley:
from Easy to Leonid

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Menachem Begin & the poet

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Once a pun a time

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Poetry & inspiration
(in Italian)

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Haiku situations

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Neruda’s World’s End

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Cecile Franking Wu has died

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Going after that old left-winger,
John Ashbery

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Craig Raine’s Arsehole

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Remembering Michael Donaghy

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Seamus Heaney: the early years

An extended (and annotated)
version of
The Dissembling Poet:
Seamus Heaney and the Avant-Garde

Check out all the responses thus far

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Britain needs to get more for its money
from a laureate than it got from
Andrew Motion

Motion appears to have
hated the job

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Christopher James
wins the “Wimbledon
of UK Quietude

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Charlotte Currier’s “poem-box”

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A rare far-from-Shepherdstown W. VA
reading for Georgia Lee McElhaney
April 1 in Altoona, PA

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Avi Sharon
wins the Harold Morton Landon
Translation Award

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PEN
World Voices
Festival of International Literature

NYC, April 27 – May 3

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Obama quotes the poet Saadi

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Leonard Schwartz:
“The New Babel

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Fady Joudah’s
The Earth in the Attic

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Updike’s Pennsylvania

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Brad Leithauser on Anne Carson’s
An Orestia

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Cheever’s bio

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A bio of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The New Yorker reviews
Beckett’s life in letters

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Why metaphor?

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Talking with Orhan Pamuk’s translator

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Jill Bialosky’s Intruder
& an interview

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Northern California Book Award
short lists

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What blurbs don’t tell you

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Against difficulty

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Laureates of the lariat

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42 of the “20 books”
that caused Michael Lally
to fall for poetry

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Who reads Braille?

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the real language of men
& other fictions

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Frederick Seidel’s Poems: 1959-2009

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Dickens vs. America

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Fiction thrives when times are bad

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LOA’s wannabe canon

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Joyce Carol Oates
on Flannery O’Connor

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Fictioning Frost

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Did Sylvia Plath
kill her son?

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Fifty-two stories

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The next fiction class I teach
will require students
to work only in forms
of 140 characters or less

Ben Okri
is using Twitter
for his poetry

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Five things to look for
in a Quietist poem

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Horrors!
Poets writing in prose

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Michael Collier on his poem
“An Individual History”

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Holler Poets don’t shout”

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A profile of Mary Jo Bang

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Writers & their homes

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A little travel
to get through a writer’s block

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Stephen Berlin Johnson:
“Old Growth Media
& the Future of News

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The single best news source
on the collapse of traditional media

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Ann Arbor’s daily dies

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Ads in the NY Times Book Review dwindle

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How Kindle changes the world

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Are women better readers?

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How publishing really works

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Libraries or fire houses?

Transforming the “UX” of libraries

A blog for public libraries

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Court orders
stolen book returned
60 years later

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This week’s death-of-a-bookstore
lies in Chappaqua, NY

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The last defense against
political corruption

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Kindle & the problems
of ownership vs. access

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Impact of the recession
on the most successful
retail bookstore in the USA

How the indies are faring
in Amazon Town

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“Somewhere up in poet heaven,
Roque Dalton is a happy man”

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Christian Book Expo flops

An insider’s view of why

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The fate of the humanities article

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The artist as critic,
the critic as artist

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Watching Ian McKellen

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Don’t blame the recession
for an arts crisis

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Could street art rescue the world?

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Among Bernie Madoff’s victims:
Arakawa & Madeline Gins

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The Bernie Madoff of art dealers

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Zoe Strauss’
annual I-95 show
will be May 3rd
Front & Mifflin Streets
right here in
Phil-EYE-delphia

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An alternative Turner shortlist

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Mira Schor at Momenta

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Jackson Pollock’s
family’s Depression letters

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Lawrence Weschler’s conversations
with Robert Irwin & David Hockney

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Porn as art

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Tis it a crime
to paint the Taoiseach naked?

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Picasso, old

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Galaxy in Berkeley

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The future of the true Barnes Foundation

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New York is surface”

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Hidden City Philadelphia

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Architects take up Lego challenge

(Legos do poetry too)

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Boulez - Schoenberg

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Julie Dill
blogs the SLSO
at Carnegie Hall

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ARG’s Animali
an Ashbery for the ear?

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Yet another genre
for Wynton Marsalis to muck up

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The Decembrists’ Hazards of Love
is here

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SF Dance Award
goes to trapeze artist

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New York Times
on Sally Silvers

And another

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The brouhaha over
Battlestar Galactica

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Are computer games literature?

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Archie Green,
one of the giants of folklore,
has died

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The humanities have no purpose

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As has
John Hope Franklin

Remembering Franklin

Here also

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The Black Studies Intelligentsia Crowd

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What would you trade?

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The next you