Robert Grenier’s
introduction to
The Collected Poems
of Larry Eigner
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Larry Eigner, reading & talking
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Deep image
rises up from its pit of darkness
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Talking with Claudia Rankine
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Kris Hemensley on David Bromige
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Has flarf inspired mass media?
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Jim Carroll’s death
“leaves a void”
Farewell to “the snarl”
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Yoko Ono:
This much I know
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Close reading aloud
Louis Zukofsky
Zukofsky’s later short poems
Curtis Faville’s minimalism series
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CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock at Small Press Traffic
& September 26 in Philly
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Robert Kelly’s Cities
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In Pittsburgh, G-20 haiku
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Moe’s Books in Berkeley
turns 50
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The state of bookstores in Italy
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Brandon Brown & David Larsen
translating at Small Press Traffic
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Interviews with 8 Nigerian poets
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Abu Dhabi’s Millions’ Poet
prepares for 4th season
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13th Poetry Africa festival
set for October
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Tom Hibbard’s collection of
“Contemporary Political Poetry”
(which is 84% male!?!)
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Indian Women Poets,
1990 - 2007
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Reading Kafka makes you smarter
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Talking with C.S. Carrier
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The Booker prize judges
are “ignorant”
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Fidel & Che
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Takamori Saigo’s last song
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The first line of every
JG Ballard short story
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Henry Gould’s “Human Manifesto”
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Talking with Tao Lin
(be sure to count the silverware)
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Kit Robinson’s Messianic Trees
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James Wagner:
a peak reading experience
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UC Press is having a huge sale
that includes many poetry books,
such as
The Age of Huts
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“Culture is the preservation of memory”
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Talking with Anne Waldman
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A profile of Bob Kaufman
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Bernstein translates Baudelaire
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Vincent Katz on Bright Star
Talking with Jane Campion
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“for the last month of his life
Marcel Proust subsisted entirely on beer”
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Matthew Klane’s B Meditations
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Talking with David Meltzer
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Walter Benn Michaels’
“The Shape of the Signifier”
(reg. req.)
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Jean Valentine & Harryette Mullen
win top prizes from
Academy of American Poets
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Susana Nied & Daisy Fried
are among the winners at
Poetry
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Bukowski in love
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Walter Mosley
on the right to be happy
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Oprah picks Uwem Akpan
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September 29,
Charlie Plymell comes to Oswego
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Commemorating Elizabeth Gaskell
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“Ikea,
stop the Verdana madness!”
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Simon Singh & the cost of libel?
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Can The Lost Symbol save bookstores?
The first e-book to outsell hardcover?
The “fastest selling novel” in UK history
A journal of reading
The Lost Symbol
“you don’t have to be a Freemason
to enjoy it
(although it wouldn’t hurt)”
How The Symbol gets it wrong
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Asus announces cheapest ebook reader
and it has two screens
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Justice Dept. opposes Google
Behind closed doors, everyone’s talking
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Will Amazon be the Wal-Mart of online commerce?
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CoralHub seeks to be India’s Amazon
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A profile of Djelloul Marbrook
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Atwood’s Flood
Jeanette Winterson on The Flood
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Wonder Book
has lots of “interesting” variations
(e.g., academic paperbacks)¹
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Samuel Beckett in Vietnam
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Parenting with S.T. Coleridge
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Burying Yeats
(nearly 10 years late)
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Celebrating HG Wells
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The “best” Southern novels of all time
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The Washington Post
has dropped poetry
from its print edition
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Jane Hirshfield explains “Optimism”
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Talking with Rachel McKibbens
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Delaware professor’s other job:
Ohio poet of the year
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Doctorow’s latest:
“sad and miserable”
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The case for Nabokov’s Mary
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Is Joyce for “ordinary folk”?
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Franz Wright’s “dark glamour”
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Joyce Carol Oates’ 57th novel
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Darkness & the age of enlightenment
in Lorrie Moore’s
A Gate at the Stairs
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What to do in Banff in winter?
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The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard
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Rupert Murdoch:
the end of print
will mean the end of print unions
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Talking with Nicholson Baker
“Plums of poetry and the suspense of rhyme”
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The reading series at
the 92nd Street Y in NYC
Better readings at
the Segue series
at the Bowery Poetry Club
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Yale’s retreat
from free speech
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Samuel Johnson, Superstar
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Andrew Zawacki’s
Petals of Zero, Petals of One
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Matthew Zapruder on becoming a poet
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According to Ruskin,
the only comfort in life
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Just how many Quietists show up on
SPD’s August/September poetry bestsellers?
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In what way is Frederick Seidel NOT
the Paris Hilton of his generation?
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Talking with Billy Collins
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Ted Kooser’s
“elegy…for all of us”
A collaboration between
Kooser & Jim Harrison
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Glyn Maxwell on praise poetry
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Longer lines lead to new perspective
for Louise Glück
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The uses of erotic poetry
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Anushka Anastasia Solomon:
Why I’m a poet
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Dylan Thomas,
the tourist industry
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Why the West of Ireland
attracts the arts
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Morris Dickstein
on the one decade
in which he still feels comfortable
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Teodor Adorno’s
“The Essay as Form”
(reg. req.)
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Writing in teams
(code, that is)
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George Will takes aim at the NEA
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Hogwarts, the theme park
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Pedro Costa at the Tate
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Faith, hope & Philip Guston
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Bruce Nauman
somewhere between
Ed Ruscha & Roberto Bolaño
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Sol Lewitt
comes to 59th St. / Columbus Circle
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The photography of Linda Butler
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Bob Dylan & “Evil Flowers”
A show of Bob Dylan’s
large format acryllic paintings
scheduled in Denmark
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Rova’s
September – October newsletter
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September 27 @ the I-House in Philly:
The Oliver Lake Organ Quartet
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The last days of Dash Snow
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Art sprouts
in odd places
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David Byrne’s
Bicycle Diaries
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Ron Slate’s daughter, Jenny,
has gotten herself
into some serious trouble now
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Carl Jung’s Red Book
is finally to be published
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Fred Jameson’s “Future City”
(reg. req.)
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The night they re-read Minsky
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The name says it all:
Changing Universities
¹Thanks to Howard Junker
for such silliness!
