Peter Kaufman, real Mailman
Jim Leftwich’s Flickr archive
of vispo, mail art, etc.,
has over 31,000 images
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Geof Huth on Carlos Ruis’ Dilapidarium
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Nick Piombino on Nico Vassilakis (PDF)
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis:
Draft 88 and Draft 89
“Two more thoughts about deixis”
(PDF)
“New” poems by Jimmy Schuyler
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Talking with Tom Mandel
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Thing of Beauty book launch reading
(MP3)
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Shin Yu Pai & Rick Benjamin talking together
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Rita Wong’s Transparency Machine Event materials
can be downloaded here
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Stephen Burt on The Grand Piano,
translation, Catullus & Frank Bidart
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Orhan Pamuk assassination plot foiled
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Jackson Pollock & Frank O’Hara
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Bill Griffiths’
List of Little Press Publications
has risen from the grave
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Thomas Fink on Eileen R. Tabios
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Juan Felipe Herrera’s “undocuments”
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Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles
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Lunch Poems with Li-Young Lee
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Jay Wright’s The Guide Signs
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The idea of inherent form
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The electronic poet who studied with Robert Frost
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The poet laureate of Prince Edward Island
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Peter Ackroyd’s Poe bio
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Paul Muldoon & The Fifty-Minute Mermaid
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The state of Kiswahili poetry
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Talking with David Surette
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Lessing: after the Nobel
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What exactly are poems?
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Is the ruler of Dubai a poet?
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Book buying over the web surges
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Another African-American bookshop
shuts down
So does the oldest bookstore in
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The death of a book store
one year later
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Getting a grant
to open a bookstore in
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Where are the readers of tomorrow?
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Is the Kindle smokin’?
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Which books really sell fast
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"Literature on mobile phones is massive in China,"
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Here comes Titlepage
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Ah, the novella –
fiction for nonreaders
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A profile of Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish
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Adrienne Rich’s
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth
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Robert Pinsky’s Gulf Music
Confusing Tony Bennett for Bruce Springsteen
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Still more on Alfred Kazin
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A. Alvarez stacking the odds
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What is a character?
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In a too-familiar voice
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The politics of rhetoric & comp.
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The need for public art
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Patricia Corbett has “slept into eternity”
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Bruce Nauman, the Philly Art Museum
& the
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New work by Trevor Winkfield
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The future of Art in America
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From the School of Visual Quietude
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Koolhaas to update the Hermitage
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Welcome to Potatoland
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Beckett in Brooklyn
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Rebuilding Martha Graham
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Baryshnikov @ 60
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Joanna Newsom & the
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WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER
Frank O'Hara
I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,
For instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. "You have SARDINES in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."
"Oh." I go and the days go by
and I drop in again. The painting
is going on, and I go, and the days
go by. I drop in. The painting is
finished. "Where's SARDINES?"
All that's left is just
letters, "It was too much," Mike says.
But me? One day I am thinking of
a color; orange. I write a line
about orange. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of orange, of
words, of how terrible orange is
and life. Days go by. It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it
I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.
Remembering Sylvester Pollet
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The new poetry editor of The Nation
is Peter Gizzi
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42 years after Denise Levertov rejected
Jack Spicer’s
”Two Poems for The Nation”
they finally appear
in its pages
[subscription required]
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“The most important
American love poet in living memory,
and certainly one of the most important
American poets tout court” –
Susan Stewart on Robert Creeley
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Leslie Scalapino’s introduction to
The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen
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Susan Bee, Emma Bee Bernstein & Charles Bernstein
reading from Hannah Weiner’s Clairvoyant Journal
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Sardinian poet Peppino Marroto killed
in 50-year-old vendetta
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is an anthology
of
(PDF)
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The AWP convention is
sold out!
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Becoming fluent in Beckett
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Word!
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In
expands its book coverage
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Vandals trash Frost home
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A boost to Pangasinan literature
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Talking with Kaiser Haq
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A profile of Jessica Purdy
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Print-on-demand is expanding
the number of titles published
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The gloomiest poet in
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Young rhymer inspired by Dylan
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Are e-textbooks any closer to reality?
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World lit comes to Abu Dhabi
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“It has not been a good decade for poetry”
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Tom Wolfe leaves FSG
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The importance of knowing
what you haven’t read
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Do IRBs keep oral moral?
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Why travel writing sucks
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Talking with Roger Conover
about MIT Press
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It’s not how long you live
so much as it is
how you live, as such
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Weepin’ Willie Robinson has died
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Lee Friedlander,
walking through Olmstead’s world
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Tech & the humanities muddle along
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A bio of Alfred Kazin
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Morris Dickstein on the memoirs of Geoffrey Hartman
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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
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There goes the West Side
Bob Perelman
4 early books:
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Liam O’Gallagher
has died
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Peter O’Leary
on Robert Duncan’s
”Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow”
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Talking with
Kenneth Goldsmith
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4,000-year-old text
pulled from Ebay
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The “All Girl Poetry Slam”
Girl?
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William Burroughs
& the crying of lot 22
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Close reading,
but “not too close”
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Talking with
Christian Bök
Bök
on Steve McCaffery
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John Ashbery,
two poems in tiny print
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Ange Mlinko
on
art, class & taste
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Alice Walker’s archives
go to Emory
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Not hiring
Yevtushenko at Oxford
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The “caveman” writes verse
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Troy Jollimore
calls the criticism of Robert Hass
”beach reading”
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Full-page ad,
New York Times,
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Maybe the only document on the web
that calls me Ronald
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Lisa Robertson:
Draft of a Voice-Over
for a Split-Screen Video
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Year-end lists of best books of ‘07
by Charles Bernstein, Rae Armantrout,
Afaa Michael Weaver, Cate Marvin & Patricia Smith
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Avant-garde poetics radio blog
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Censoring Robinson Jeffers
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Moscow bookseller Boris Kupriyanov
faces 2 years in prison
for selling “pornography”
(
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Dub poets look to
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Remembering
Ezenwa Ohaeto
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“Brainless macho trash”
but with pretty pictures
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“What we owe the New Critics”
& what we owe their publishers
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A translation of The Táin
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& an alternative Gawain,
one that’s fun to read aloud
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A feminist bookstore
in
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The cost models of academic journals
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It’s a mistake
to edit the self-indulgence
out of Berryman’s work
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The NY Times obit of Diane Middlebrook
A British obit of Diane Middlebrook
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Miles Champion:
3 poems
that make very different use
of the space of the page
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A noisy interview
with Umberto Eco
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“Reading, that unpunished vice”
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A grand buildup
to a sloppy, sentimental poem
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An “index of joy”
(PDF)
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Where the Writers Guild of
got its new radical core
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Donald Revell’s
elegy
for Barbara Guest
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Gerald Stern
on Muriel Rukeyser
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The life & verse of
Edward Arlington Robinson
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Ted Kooser
on Linda Gregg
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Another article
celebrating the life & writing
of
English-language poet
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A review of Alison Pelegrin
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Freaked by the atheism
of Philip Pullman
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Winsome Duncan / Lyrical Healer
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John Greenleaf Whittier
at 200
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A profile of John Mahoney
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Talking with W.D. Snodgrass
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John Milton Memorial
poetry celebration
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Using YouTube
to combat
Canadian © revisions
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Shopping for books
with Michael Jackson
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An art house
in my home town
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Wrapping up
Art Basel Miami
Looking at it
from the far end
of the country
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Fight to save the Barnes
collapsing?
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Trying to talk with
Daniel Libeskind
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Two members
of the Mark Morris Dance Company
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The year in dance
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The year in (geriatric) jazz
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Enforcing the laws of nature
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Ramin Jahanbegloo
& the “crimes” of philosophy
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Ibn Warraq,
”Enlightenment fundamentalist”
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This year’s quotables
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January 26
(not a typo)
2008 Woodland Pattern Poetry Marathon
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
