Marianne Moore:
the gate-keeper
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Lorine Niedecker
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Chinese poet goes on trial
11 years for advocating freedom of speech
Poems of Liu Xiaobo
PEN’s Liu Xiaobo resource page
Freedom of expression in China
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Talking with Dick Higgins
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Remembering Dennis Brutus
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Talking with Rebecca Loudon
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews 2 books by Loudon
Loudon reviews Goransson’s Berg
Gabriel Lovatt on Aase Berg
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Le Guin quits Authors Guild
over Google deal
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Camille Martin
on Maxine Chernoff’s Todorov
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Renee Gladman, reading
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Stuart Z. Perkoff:
Love is the Silence
A collection of rare LA poetry publications
(Part 1) (Part 2)
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How to kill the e-book --
let people try to use them
Hackers crack Kindle © protection
e-book sales skyrocket,
book sales up generally
Here come the vooks
80% of publishers concede
that e-books should be cheaper
than hard copy
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David Highsmith’s Your Wilderness & Mine
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Talking with Kenward Elmslie
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Adam Schatz on Orhan Pamuk
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Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand’s
Landscapes of Dissent:
Guerilla Poetry & Public Space
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Lydia Davis
on the tragedy of Christmas
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Alberto Manguel’s
The Library at Night
(reg. req.)
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Jack Spicer’s Book of Magazine Verse:
imitation not intended as flattery
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Brad Flis reads
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Talking with Daisy Fried
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Cage match of Canadian poetry:
everybody loses
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Geoffrey Gatza’s Housecat Kung Fu:
Strange Poems for Wild Children
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Talking with Don Share
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Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater
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Talking with Stephen Burt
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Gertrude Stein 100th birthday concert (1974)
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Ellen Baxt’s
Analfabeto / An Alphabet
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Albert Mobilio reads
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Talking with Catherine Daly
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Charles Reznikoff reads “Children”
Carl Rakosi reading, 1971
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Tom Hibbard on Michael Rothenberg
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Talking with Brian Joseph Davis
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Talking with Steven Collis
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Talking with me
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Literature & philosophy as a way of life
Philadelphia, Dec. 29
(100 yards from the MLA Offsite)
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Soldier to poet:
an exchange
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Catherine Daly’s Identity Theft
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Christmas poems
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William Burroughs press conference
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Editing David Foster Wallace
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Talking with Michael Bryson
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50 of the “most inspiring” writers
in the world
Soyinka, Achebe make list
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Daniel Pritchard
sings the Quietist anthem: Standards!
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Pride & Prejudice
in emoticons
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TriQuarterly’s tough transition
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Artists & quietists in collaboration
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Literary fingerprinting reveals the obvious
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Vonnegut kids back memorial library
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Kevin Killian’s
Wow Wow Wow Wow
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Sherman Alexie’s War Dances
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China gets its first
low-res MFA
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“Prophylactic” quotes
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Microsoft loses right to sell Word
&, voila, rewrites the offending code!
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Joseph Donahue’s
Terra Lucida
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The weather report
via Tu Fu & Kenneth Rexroth
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Hooverized Christmas greetings
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Talking with Bernard Heidsieck
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Sobin’s Char
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SPD’s 50 best-selling poetry books
for the past decade
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I’m more honored that
The Other Room
would think to include me
in a prank like this
than I would have been
had this story been true
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The most viewed blog notes on Harriet
& articles on the Poetry Foundation website
in 2009
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Tony Trehy’s best of everything for 2009
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Best selling authors of the decade
in the United Kingdom
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Most collectible books of the noughties
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Books we’ll still be reading in 2110
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10 best books that are years
(also silliest list)
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Remembering Emma Bee Bernstein
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Required reading: GirlDrive
Nona Willis Aronowitz:
Do we still need the word feminism?
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Paris Review’s
party invite
includes an answer to Nona’s question
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Anselm Berrigan’s Have a Good One
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Loren Singer has died
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The 2009 Philippine National Artists Awards controversy
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Slide shows that sell books
based on their covers
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Talking with Andrew Motion
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Print magazine death toll tapers off in ‘09
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Learn to speak Na’vi
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Slavoj Žižek:
The Sublime Object of Ideology
(reg. req.)
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Keeping the knowledge of arts alive
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Talking with Jenny Holzer
A Holzer slide show
with none of her art
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Dominique Nabokov
on Robert Frank’s Americans
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Susan Sontag:
On Photography
(reg. req.)
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Barry Schwabsky
on the death of Polaroid
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Jack Hirschman talks with John Cage
Cage & Morton Feldman in conversation
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Charles Amirkhanian talks with Anthony Braxton
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Pradip Kumar Sengupta:
Foundations of Indian Musicology
(reg. req.)
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The Other Minds Archive is a great resource
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Tom Clark on The Messenger
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Cate Blanchett & Blanche Dubois
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Wilton’s Music Hall
turns 150
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Galatea Resurrection # 13
has 55 reviews & several features,
a few of which are highlighed here
