C.A. Conrad & Dale Smith
discuss Ed Dorn, AIDS & community
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Kenny G:
seeking to define
“queer voice” in art
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Rae Armantrout’s
reading at Kelly Writers House
Oct. 22, 2009
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5 translations of Rimbaud’s “Voyelles”
all by Christian Bök
Gaga for Eunoia
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2 translations of Creeley’s “I Know a Man”
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Jena Osman, Craig Watson, Michael Gizzi
reading @ the Chapterhouse Café
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Kit Robinson
reading at Xavier University
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Ben Friedlander responds
to my post on his comments
re Marianne Moore
A third perspective,
this one with reference to music
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An account of
the &Now Conference
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Barbara Jane Reyes
on indie publishing
(part one)
(part two)
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A poetry marathon in London
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6 translations of Hans Carl Artmann
all by Rosmarie Waldrop
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Charles Alexander’s “Pushing Water”
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Jordan Scott
on the poetics of stammer
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Robert Grenier
talks at Naropa, 1992:
“Drawing from Nature”
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Chalk Editions,
publishing experimentalist e-books since July
(12 to date, some fairly hefty)
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Tony Trehy
on the reading as
a test installation
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Objections to Google book scans
from the Chinese Writers Association
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Talking with Kent Johnson
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Penn Kemp’s ear
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Poetry is better for your brain
than prose (duh!)
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Talking with Justin Marks
A less rumpled version of Justin
at the Tusculum Review
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A trick question for Raymond Carver
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David Buuck
on EconVergence
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Juliana Spahr
at Temple,
Thursday, November 5
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The 100 “greatest” writers of all time
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Cuba gives Hemingway’s papers
to the JFK
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Yet another author’s heirs
fight over the estate
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The PennSound Anthology
of Restoration & 18th-Century Verse
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LRB turns 30
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A ceiling collapse
at Emily Dickinson’s house
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
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Misappropriating poetry
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Fielding Dawson’s
A Great Day for a Ballgame
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How to write language poetry
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Reading Aerial 8: Barrett Watten
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November 12 @
Columbia School for the Arts:
C.D. Wright:
“Concerning Why Poetry
Offers A Better Deal
Than The World's Biggest Retailer”
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Why Brian Fawcett quit writing poetry
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Why save dying languages?
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Why save indie bookshops?
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Is this literary history?
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Where are poetry’s prodigies?
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What is more “unwriterly”
than a poet’s blog?
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A “rebound series”
for out-of-print chapbooks
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Top 10 ghost-written books
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Summer with Empson
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Talking with Karen Lillis
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Talking with Jayne Anne Phillips
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Orhan Pamuk’s Lolita
Love as a relic, frozen in amber
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FBI “kills” VS Naipaul
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Duo Duo
wins top Oklahoma prize
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NDiaye wins the Goncourt
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The Good Writing Awards –
categories for fiction, even instruction manuels,
but none for poetry
What is “good writing”?
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Something’s amiss with Amis
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The book that changed your life
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“As prose,
these lines are awkward and squeamish”
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& of the moon
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Adam Kirsch
on the author of the book
that, next to the Bible,
has “most influenced” Americans
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Keats-Shelley Prize
goes to
DH Maitreyabandhu
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Roth steps up his Nobel campaign
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A profile of William T. Vollmann
The author was packing heat
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“It is startling to recall
that Larkin died
less than 25 years ago”
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Alan Bennett,
on writing a play about Auden
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James Wright’s “Milkweed”
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Hopkins: the odd man out
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Frank Kermode on the authorized Golding bio
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Complaints about women
writing misogynist fiction
are a “red herring”
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Southern Review
cuts back
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Newspaper circulation is crashing
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The news of our demise
is premature,
warns The National Post
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Profs suspended at Southwestern
may be charged
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Hopeless at Hope College
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Elle Magazine on Girldrive
Elline Lipkin on Girldrive
The women of Girldrive
Talking with Nona Willis Aronowitiz
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Shock & Awe:
Futurism goes to war
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Oron Catts’ bio-artwork
Bio-Poetics workshop
November 15
@ Woodland Pattern
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Matthew Timmons’
Credit
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Talking with Curt Worden
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John Ashbery on Jane Freilicher
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Hans Ulrich Obrist:
more connections between painting & poetry
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
as fine at painting
as he is at poetry
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Talking with David Hockney
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Rosenquist on Rosenquist
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Liu Bolin: the invisible man
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Art market bargains
One market where Lehman is hot
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Experimental typography showcases
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Here comes
Ice House Detroit
Art from abandoned housing
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van Gogh’s letters
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Lawrence Halprin has died
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NY Times obit for
Maryanne Amacher
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Litrock songs
(great website!)
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Bob Dylan’s secrets of aging
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Norton Buffalo has died
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Update on state arts funding
in Pennsylvania
from Andy Dinniman
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A need for narrative
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