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
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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Talking with Patricia Smith
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Iman Bakry,
an Egyptian poet
with a sense of politics & puns
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If there are 2 million professional artists
in the
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
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A profile of
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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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
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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
But women are baling right & left
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Joyce Brinkman’s tenure
as
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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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How much money does a writer need?
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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
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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
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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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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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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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A profile of Bucky Fuller
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Variety teaches the
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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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
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Jess at Tibor de Nagy
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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
