Showing posts with label passing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label passing. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

An obituary for Jonathan Williams

& another from The Asheville Citizen-Times

Alex Gildzen, Mark Scroggins, Jeff Davis,
CA Conrad, Don Share, Laurie Duggan
Gulayihi” & John Latta remember

Two great photos

Charles Shere on Magpie’s Bagpipe

An exhibit of Williams’ collection of
American vernacular art

Williams talking with Jeffrey Beam

A profile of Jonathan Williams

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Arthur C. Clarke has died

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The C.D. Wright page at PennSound

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A reader’s companion to
Annie Finch’s Calendars
(PDF)

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A history of the Cleveland poetry scene

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Rosmarie Waldrop in The Nation

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Eight books by Basil King

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Monstrous women of the avant-garde

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On Bottom: On Shakespeare

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Nine books by John Yau

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Robert Duncan & Eric Mottram:
a dialog

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Charles North & Hettie Jones

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On Tom Devaney & Peter Krok

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Shanna Compton on Cathy Park Hong

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Tom Raworth & British humor

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Eileen Tabios on Bob Marcacci

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Tim Peterson on Charles Bernstein

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Talking with Ed Sanders

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Nico Vassilakis on (sorta) Morton Feldman

Nico’s Text Loses Time

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Mary Jo Bang:
big star, small sky

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Poets die young

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MP3s of The Line reading series
are starting to come online

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Talking with Washington laureate
Sam Green

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Charles Simic on Kosovo

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Lisa Lubasch’s Twenty-One After Days

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Two poems by Bill Berkson

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Stephen Vincent on Trevor Joyce

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The problem of storing your cash in books

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Sheila Murphy’s Skinny Buddha

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Taking Eliot seriously

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Amiri Baraka on Ed Dorn

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Noah Eli Gordon’s Noise Pictorial Noise

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The poetry brothel

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Selected poems of Eric Pankey

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Lila Zemborain’s Mauve Sea-Orchids

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Vincent Katz in English & Portuguese

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Reducing your book’s carbon footprint

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The laureate at Mr. Burger

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Some identity poetics for Irish Americans

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Two veterans of the St. Louis scene
return for a reading

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Cathleen Calbert’s Sleeping With A Famous Poet

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A bookstore struggles to survive

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37 booksellers give publishers feedback

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A “bluffer’s guide” to poetry

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Singing in a dark time

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Alan Shapiro’s Old War

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Jean Venuga’s Prau

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Amir Sulaiman at Brown

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Teaching & security

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A legend in his own mind

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What Heather McHugh doesn’t know about Star Wars

“Space Bar” (plus Q&A)

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Thomas Fink on David Lehman

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How anti-intellectual is the U.S.?

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A poet for “the simplest hearts

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Jorie Graham, centerfold

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Maggie Nelson, Julie Cook & David Foster

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Mathew Takwi’s Fire on the Mountain

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The “greatness” of Ted Hughes

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The future of literature programs, if any

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Business Week on literacy

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Gargoyle & the limits of audio

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Corrine Fitzpatrick’s Zamboanguena

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Feminist artists across generations

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New play opens in the toilets

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The “most poetic” Biennial

Failure is an option

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Twombly goes to Rome

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Jasper Johns, fifty years later

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From tag writer on the streets
to the National Gallery

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Color at MoMA

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Are you getting your fiber

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Why not nationalism?

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What role for expertise?

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What the FCC?

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Are Republicans objectively fascist?
Just ask

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Chapeaus off to Galatea Resurrects
from whom the many links here
represent just a fraction
of its terrific new number 9

Friday, February 22, 2008

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Ten questions for Reginald Shepherd

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Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley

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The poets of Generation X

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“The Top Ten Lit Stars of 2008”

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Five rare books from the original found poet,
Bern Porter (all PDF)

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The German in Pierre Joris
translations of Paul Celan

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India to writer under fatwa:
stay hidden or leave

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Earliest recording of Howl
is found at
Reed College

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“Iconic Ottawa poet rob mclennan

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A statue for Al Purdy

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Charles Bernstein taking on Calvin Trillin
in the new issue of The Nation
(subscription required)

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Joel Bettridge on Bernstein’s Shadowtime

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PBS Newshour’s profile of Elizabeth Bishop

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Chris Tonelli of Ploughshares
weighs in on the post-avant debate

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The lasting impact of Chinese classical poetry

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A new collaboration between
Theodore A. Harris & Amiri Baraka

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A profile of Li-Young Lee

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The influence of Gwendolyn Brooks

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Peter Ciccariello’s The Remains of the Poet III

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Nikki Giovanni visits the school
where they named a bat in her honor

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On Don Paterson’s “Lyric Principle

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News that stays new, 2008 political debate style:
at Woodland Pattern, candidates for alderman
were invited to discuss three poems each

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A little-known award, with some big payouts

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Tao Lin:
The Interns Strike Back

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Renee Marie on Joanne Kyger

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A profile of Naomi Shihab Nye

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IBé Kaba & questions of poetry & class
in
Guinea

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A profile of Hiram Larew

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Two ways of looking at a border

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Performance poetry in Scotland:
Punk but no Guitar

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Some poems for Black History Month

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So what makes it Jewish?

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David Orr on Matthea Harvey

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Another poet from Lawrence, MA

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A profile of Duane Poole

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Remembering Vi Gale

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Bringing music to the poetry of Kate Light

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A profile of Wendy Ronk

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A profile of Mike Donnan

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Elisabeth Workman’s Opolis

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Nostalgic Western-theme poetry

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The words & music of Creative Tradition

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Publishers are clueless re the web

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“Spatial and Linguistic Aspects of Visual Imagery
in Sentence Comprehension”

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Reviving the Whorf hypothesis

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Deafness, cognition & language

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Meaning in the palm of your hand (PDF)

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The letters of a chicken farmer

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Doc Humes & the other side of The Paris Review

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The latest death-of-a-bookshop piece
is from Venice, Florida

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One way to save a bookstore:
sell used books only

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The bookstores-vs-online debate
goes on in
Viet Nam

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Borders tries out a “big box digital bookstore

& gets okay to sell Australian stores

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A rant on PCs vs. print

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For bookstores, 2007 was pretty much a wash

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Looking at bookstores from a
completely different point of view

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The Thane of Cawdor in Brooklyn

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Shakespeare not for Valentine’s Day

Think of it as Boxing Day instead

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Life after Mary Oliver” –
reading series stretches out
all the way from A to B

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Hungarian poetry for Hindi readers

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The role of craft, if any

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Talking with David Rieff about Susan Sontag

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Are Americans idiots?

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Putting politics out of sight

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Wikipedia & the new curriculum

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The potential (and limits) of blogging

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Global campus, global ambition

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Photography, materiality & the absence of film

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Oliver Sacks on migraines & art

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Helen’s Odyssey” by Eleanor Antin

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Wayne Thiebaud takes the cake

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Missing Basquiat turns up in NY warehouse

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Cranach the Elder too sexy for the Tube?

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When does appropriation become plagiarism?

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Sculpture kills two – artist charged

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When in London, check out Rodchenko

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Danish papers republish “Muhammad” cartoons
to protest murder plot

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Steve Gerber has died

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Tutugate

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Power Crazy Senior General Than Shwe:
a short anthology in support of jailed Burmese poet Saw Wai
(PDF)

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One year probation for aiding bio-art

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Ismail Gulgee has been murdered

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John Ashbery, collagiste

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Yevtushenko at 74

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Who’s in & who’s out
& what does that mean anymore?

Paul Hoover’s original post
and follow-up

Christian Bök: Why I am not “post-avant”

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Reginald Shepherd is shocked, shocked
by the responses he got

Shepherd on becoming a blogger

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Call for proposals: Poetry of the 1970s

Reassessing the ‘70s

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Is book blogging legit crit?

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Zadie Smith: lit prizes are B.S.

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Ron Padgett’s translation of Reverdy’s Prose Poems

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Talking with Amy King

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Reading Heather Thomas

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Daisy Fried reading Rexroth

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The art of deciphering manuscripts

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Mark Scroggins takes the 100 book challenge

Jonathan Mayhew is doing the same, but with novels!

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Remembering Burt Hatlen:
Mark Scroggins and Norman Finkelstein

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The brat-like qualities of Arthur Rimbaud

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Talking with Samuel Menashe

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textsound, an audio ezine

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Rigoberto González on A Midsummer Night’s Press

& on Slapering Hol Press

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Les Murray’s Selected Poems

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Responses to Reed Whittemore’s memoir

Furioso archives at Yale

Whittemore’s first co-editor, James Angleton

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The 99-year-old bookstore
& the secret Bukowski book signings

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Zimbabwe poets tackle human rights

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Nigerian prison poems

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Dub poet Guiding Star

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There are only 5 colleges in Australia
that don’t offer a degree in creative writing

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Michael Wells on Jayne Pupek

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The poet plays hoops

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Talking with Gregory Betts

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A parish poet for Lickey & Blackwell

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Distribution & equilibration in Three Lives

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Talking with Mukoma Wa Ngugi

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Nikki Giovanni in Tulsa

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Mike Burwell’s Cartography of Water

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Daniel Green: avoiding oblivion

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Bipolar poets

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Some wordy verse described as “precisely detailed”

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A profile of Walter Bargen,
Missouri’s poet laureate

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Talking with Jared Smith

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Nick Powell on Robert Hass

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The chanteuse, her poets & the French president

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Cate Marvin’s Fragment of the Head of a Queen

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Ted Kooser, “mass mail Casanova

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Ectopia Cordis

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A profile of John Hodge

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Helen Losse on Forrest Hamer

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Poems from the factory floor

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Shut up & write

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Matt Hart’s Simply Rocket

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Vorticisms

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Bedouin poet salutes Big Brother contestant

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Talking with Rita Donovan

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The poetry editor of Ladies Home Journal

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Steve McOrmond’s Primer on the Hereafter

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Stranger to the language

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J.G. Ballard’s last book?

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Writing trash isn’t easy

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Short, flat poems that go on too long

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Rita Wong & Stuart Ross

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Devotional poetry, then & now

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Love poetry & Valentine’s Day

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The influence of Lee Sang-hwa

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A profile of Jeff Vande Zande

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The return of Alfred Kazin

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40 years later, A. Alvarez has a second collection of essays

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What are the limits of academic freedom?

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Online vs. print publication

The right to distribute your work online

(But what about peer review & the impact on publishers?)

HarperCollins to post free books on the web

The net is more than just a copy machine –
it’s the basis for the world economy

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Who won the writers strike?

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Is Terry Eagleton “too old” to teach?

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Can New College survive?

Can liberal arts colleges survive?

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Just how far does © extend?

Not to Canada it would appear

The feds have their own idea

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Tolkien heirs sue for their share of The Ring

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Who qualifies as a public intellectual?

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If you’re in New York,
check out the 2008 Persian Arts Festival

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A collaboration between a poet,
a filmmaker & a composer

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The Poetry Foundation survey applied to music

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What Pete Seeger wrought

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The Jewish roots of Bob Dylan

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Going to school on Opus 95

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Fifteen-minute operas

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The center of the jazz world?

Boeing begs to differ

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Individuals within a quartet

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Neil Young: Music changes nothing

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Eli Broad’s active critique of museums

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The most important art work of the 20th Century

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Barry Schwabsky on Lawrence Weiner

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The problems of shipping art in Canada

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The price of fame

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Silence and Lee Friedlander

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The future of repertory cinema

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Smash labs

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Where the candidates stand
on funding the arts