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

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tom Beckett
on three books
using the same cover photo

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Saving books from the flood
in Iowa City

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Blogging
the “Poetry of the 1970s” conference
from
Orono, Maine

Tom Orange’s photos (195 of them)

Ben Friedlander’s photos (75)

Kaplan Harris’s photos (37)

A 2-minute video of Clark Coolidge reading

Kit Robinson reading from Ted Greenwald’s You Bet

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The Nonconceptualist Manifesto

A note on boundaries

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Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein,
A.R. Ammons & Charlie Simic
in the new issue of Poetry

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Jerry Rothenberg’s blog

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Where bloggers face arrest

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Talking with Patricia Smith

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Iman Bakry,
an Egyptian poet
with a sense of politics & puns

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The end of the sentence

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If there are 2 million professional artists
in the
USA,
how many are poets?

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Craig Dworkin’s The Consequence of Innovation

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Robert Vasquez’ Braille for the Heart

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Talking with Li-Young Lee

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Patrick Lovelace
on the archaeology of
Bill Pearlman’s Inzorbital

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Stephen Vincent
tracing Charles Olson’s
Mayan footsteps

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Nearly 3 years after being destroyed
by Hurricane Katrina,
the Afro-American Book Stop is back

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Nashville’s one gay bookstore
is for sale

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Montpelier
looks past the closure of
Yankee Paperback
(just 3 dozen indies left
in the state of
Vermont)

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A profile of North Oakland’s
Book Zoo

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Beth Kanell
against prose on the MTA

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Robert Duncan in DailyKos

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Befriending stingrays
where poetry is a virus

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Kerouac’s typewriter

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Ihechukwu Madubuike,
a major African literary critic

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Ben Jonson’s elegies for his children

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Lucinda Williams & her dad

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The Jerry Seinfeld of American poetry

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David Trinidad’s The Late Show

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Verbal art & linguistic science:
building on an idea of Kent Johnson’s (PDF)

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John Godfrey in The Nation
(subscription required)

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Mary Rudge,
Poet Laureate of
Alameda

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Talking with Eva Salzman

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Johanna Skibsrud’s
Late Nights with Wild Cowboys

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Karen Houle, Allesandro Porco,
Jordan Scott & R.M. Vaughan

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What the UK) poet laureate needs

But women are baling right & left

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Joyce Brinkman’s tenure
as
Indiana’s poet laureate

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The Dylan Thomas trail

& Homer’s

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Blogging, public intellectuals
& the academy

Public intellectuals, 2.0 (DOC)

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William Logan’s “Valentine’s Day Massacre”

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Poets as crime novelists

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How much money does a writer need?

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Language is physical

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Omissions
in the “Complete Works”
of Shakespeare

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C.K. Williams on his father

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Djelloul Marbrook’s
Far from
Algiers

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A Village Award for the Poetry Project

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A discussion with Asa Boxer

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Rawi Hage beats the big names
for the Impac Award

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A profile of Punjabi poet, Surjit Patar

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Remembering Faiz Ahmed Faiz
in
Milpitas

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Talking with Bharathi Devi

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Talking with Lauren Best

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Talking with Gore Vidal

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Reconsidering R.S. Thomas

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Talking with Raymond McDaniel

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James Reaney has died

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Who cares about book reviews?

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The “golden age” of book ads

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Some books you could buy today
but only at Christie’s

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Mike Barnes, Mark Clement & Jenny Bryan

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Poetry & travel

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A profile of Billy Collins

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More on “the world’s worst poet

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The enduring influence of Edward Thomas

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Mary Karr on poems about fathers

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The bridge is down

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A profile of Bucky Fuller

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DIY fonts

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Variety teaches the Hollywood set
how to read a book

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They serve other purposes too:
Beautify with books

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Electronic records preservation

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Hell for Adorno

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Will the left ever learn
how to communicate
across generations?

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How the ‘60s
energized the right

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Staying smart in the new dark ages

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Singing Baudelaire

Gerard Souzay
singing Duparc’s
”La invitation au voyage
(MP3)

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The latest in
sub-vertising

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Blek le Rat
& the roots of Banksy

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The street art of Seyed Alavi

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How to control the art world

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Kenneth Baker on
Frida Kahlo at SF MoMA

My review of the same show
in
Philadelphia

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Jess at Tibor de Nagy

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Oops

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A collection of essays
that shows
why it’s been a disaster
for 30 film critics
to quit or lose their jobs

in the last two years

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Conceptual Poetry Armor

Videos, audio & papers from
Conceptual Poetry & Its Others

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Retyping On the Road
to get inside
Kerouac’s head

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Rare event in NY:
Joanne Kyger reads
Sunday at
4:00 pm at BPC

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The librarian of Baghdad

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A poem by Roy Fisher

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Aaron Shurin’s King of Shadows

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Founder of the Scottish Poetry Library,
Angus Calder has died

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Readings from Ceptuetics Radio:
Rodrigo Toscano, Marie Buck, Barbara Cole, Rod Smith,
Bruce Andrews, Kenny Goldsmith, Anselm Berrigan,
Judith Goldman, Anne Tardos, Laura Elrick, more.
(maybe 9 hours of MP3s)

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Talking with Frances Sjoberg

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Videos of readings from London’s Openned series
include Maggie O’Sullivan, Charles Bernstein, Sean Bonney

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William Burroughs’ 3-CD set:
Real English Tea Made Here

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Events this week at MoCA D
(
Museum of Contemporary ArtDetroit)
include a talk by Bill Berkson Thursday PM
followed immediately by a reading
in memory of Jim Gustafson

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How we read

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“Best online language tools
for word nerds”

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7,000 poets apply
for
Abu Dhabi
”Prince of Poets” competition

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Books in Arabic & cultural isolation

Using the internet to pose choices

The Swedish Writers Union’s forthcoming congress
on literacy, digitalization & international dialog

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At Pasternak’s dacha

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A primer on langpo that thinks This
was a “NY magazine
(issues 1 & 2 were
Iowa City & Franconia, NH,
then later moved to
Oakland, SF & Oakland again)

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Kwame Dawes
on the poster girl
who was cut out of the picture

Using poetry to combat HIV/AIDS in Jamaica

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It’s like the game of telephone:
I say X, and you report it as X¹,
which then gets repeated as X²
& repeated again as X³,
which no longer
bears any resemblance to X

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Should poets lament
the decline of literature

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Is Kindle the iPod of ebooks?

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The Google Book Search Bibliography

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Encyclopedia Britannica goes Wiki

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Literary tattoos

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One decisive advantage old books
have over ebooks

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Pataphysics & negative capability

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Joan Houlihan on theories of meaning

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What I’ve always suspected:
we’re older than DiRT

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An epic purse
for scribes of verse

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Talking with Jay Parini

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The “torn poet,” Heinrich Heine

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Frank Bidart, Gabriela Juaregui
& a Vietnamese anthology from Nguyen Do & Paul
Hoover
reviewed by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

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More U.K. women
reject laureate’s post

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Berwyn Moore’s literary compost

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The writer as brand

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Talking, by email, with B.T. Shaw

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A book of poetry in English
by an Austrian-born American
published in Beirut

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Frieda Hughes: how to write

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A tribute to Tharabharathy

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Tenure-track professors
don’t have a place
in this new higher education universe”

On academic labor
(with a great comments screen)

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Paul Piccone: public intellectual

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The richest book prize in the world

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Talking with the founders of
Rose Metal Press

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Linking libraries
& the big trade publishers
ever closer together

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The internet & its discontents

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Are blogs good for books?

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Is Google making you stupid?

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The state of literary theory

Nostalgia for theory
is running high these days

Why we like the French

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The rise of fan fiction & comix culture

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One way to promote reading

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Measuring productivity in print

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How to destroy the LA Times

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Carlin Romano dissing Baudrillard

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New ways to promote books

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The future of free speech

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In Canada, hate speech laws
used to silence debate

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Dangerous Ideas
& why China objected
to the religious thinking
of atheists

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Censorship in San Mateo

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Paul Chan’s 7 Lights

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Japanese women thriving
in the Bay arts scene

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Diebenkorn’s greatness

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Mexican & Mexican-American artists
in the SF Bay Area

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Wynn Kramarsky talks to Bill Corbett

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A new home for the UC Art Museum

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Licthenstein’s “Girls”

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Judging the Barnes case

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Sometimes Joe Goode
really is Joe Great

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Tharp attacks dance

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A review of this blog

Friday, May 30, 2008

Monday, May 26, 2008

Ezra Pound’s birthplace
is open to the public

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POGsound
puts MP3s of
nearly three dozen readings
online

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Paul Zukofsky on
”4 Other Countries”

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Didi Menendez
on Belinda Subraman Presents

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Geoffrey Gatza
on the Joe Milford Poetry Show

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The state of British poetry

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Nobuo Ayukawa’s American and Other Poems

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Salman Rushdie now

Joyce Carol Oates on Rushdie’s new novel

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Charles Bernstein’s Girly Man

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Chinua Achebe
& the Great African Novel

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What if Bob Cobbing
had been the British poet laureate?

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Queen urged to appoint a woman

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If poets are jackals…”

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Poetry & political murders

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David Antin will be pleased to learn
that he has become a language poet,
so says this conference in France

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Jeff Harrison & Allen Bramhall
have been interviewing one another
for nearly three years

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Maggie O’Sullivan
reading her text “Windows”
with help from Charles Bernstein

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Zadie Smith on George Eliot

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Anne Boyer & flarf

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women are few among poets in every country”

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Russia’s “Poet” award goes to
Timur Kibirov

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Quintessential rebel wins establishment prize

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A profile of John Burnside
(a long ways from
Scotland)

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Re-imperializing American lit

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Rimbaud’s new work

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Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble

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Coming to Chicago, June 1:
The Modernist Poet as Jew

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Talking with Jason Camlot, David McGimpsey & Stuart Ross

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The ethical problems of criticism

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Will criticism as gate-keeping survive?

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The library in the new age

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Historic library’s collection
at risk after fire

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In Canada, the danger is flooding

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Microsoft shuts down book search

While Google expands its reach

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England braces for the latest
German literary phenom,
Wetlands

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The language experiment

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Judging a book by its cover

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1001 Books
You Must Read
Before You Die

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Naipaul’s India

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A poem by Samih al-Qasim

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Alison Pick & Kevin Connolly

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Selling surrealism
& getting a good price

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Honor Moore’s memoir
of her father on the down-low,
The Bishop’s Daughter

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The New Yorker
adds a book blog

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Baseball haiku

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Adam Zagajewski in Israel

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Anti-Appalachian bigotry
still isn’t politically incorrect

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Saginaw celebrates Roethke

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James’ names

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A profile of Jeff Stumpo

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Auden in New York

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Claude McKay and Langston Hughes
both died on a May 22

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A profile of Michael Ryan

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A profile of Hussein Abu Bakr Al-Mihdhar

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Summer poetry

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Alfred Kazin’s bio

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Poetry, religion & gender studies
in the work of Theodora Ranelli

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“Chatterbox” Derek Walcott

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Introducing the 2008 Madison slam team

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The National Poet
of the People’s Republic of
Bangladesh

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McGonagall gets revenge

Why we like bad art

Maybe McGonagall was just misunderstood

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The little tough guy

Little tough guy beaten by “a bowl of fruit

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None of that free-verse stuff

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Poetry Out Loud as a response to rap
& “complicated poetry”

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A profile of Michael Hoffman

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An email interview with Floyd Skloot

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Cynthia Ozick on Lionel Trilling

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In Taiwan, an honorary Ph.D. for
Yu Kuang-chung

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Book prizes & bookies

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The right can’t tell a story

But neither can the left

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Who gets to write the title?

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O Heraclitus!
Can you give the same paper twice?

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The academy & work

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A biography of Raymond Williams

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The anti-journalism of Karl Kraus

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The influence of Robotech
on Battlestar Galactica

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The paintings of Stephen Rodefer

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Didi Menendez’ portrait of me

Her portraits of (mostly) American poets

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Rauschenberg’s contribution

Gagging on Rauschenberg worship

P.S., he was gay

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Peter Schjeldahl on the abstract expressionists

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Cornell Capa has died

A slide show of his photos

More images by, of & about Capa

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This season’s big art money

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SF MoMA picks up Hammer head curator

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Who owns antiquity?

Talking with James Cuno

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The only library with three Gutenbergs

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Decoding Charlie Parker

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Ono & John Lennon’s sons
fight to keep Imagine
out of “intelligent design” movie

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A restaurant unequaled