A tribute to Keith Wilson
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Flood pictures
of the University of Iowa
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Context, misreading & aggression
at the Aggression Conference
Juliana Spahr on the distinction
between a poetics of difference
& one of indeterminacy
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A response to The Grand Piano
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Kristin Prevallet on The Age of Huts (compleat) (PDF)
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Joel Brouwer
on C.D. Wright
Angela Garbes on Rising, Falling, Hovering
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Talking with Mark Wallace
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Tracie Morris on PENNsound
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John Ashbery live
at the Griffin Prize
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A field guide to poetry in Cleveland
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Alan Gilbert on the Beats in India
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Philip Metres on Bruce Andrews
(with the Bill O’Reilly video)
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Jasper Bernes on the 1970s conference
Peter O’Leary on same (& day 2)
Rodney Koeneke’s An Alphabet for Orono (& part 2)
The Clark Coolidge experience
Thinking about (the Experimental Poetry) Community
Ben Friedlander’s photos now number 187
including this group shot
(click on the big version)
Patrick Pritchett’s photos
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For an Unoriginal Literature
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Reading Mac Low,
reading me reading Mac Low
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Langpo & New Narrative
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The Kabbalistic Flarfist
A planh one could have made
about the troubadours
Flarf is people…
Animal, human, flarf, conceptual
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Upper Limit Los Angeles
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Long live the Prince of Poets
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Eshleman reads Vallejo
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Talking with Honor Moore
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The blood of Sarah Manguso
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Leila Wilson on Eileen Myles (PDF)
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Howl & the paperback revolution
Allen Ginsberg reading Howl
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Four Jack Spicer poems in Portuguese
(plus “Thing Language” read by Jack)
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“a Human Rights Watch
labor report
refashioned in free verse”
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Susan Howe reading “The Nonconformist’s Memorial”
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Didi Menendez on the Joe Milford Poetry Show
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Mark Nowack on Fordism & poetics
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In which Scribbleskiff
discovers Jonathan Williams
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“performing a Robert Creeley”
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Jena Osman reading “Mercury: A Visualization”
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2 versions of a poem by Phil Whalen
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Fond of fonts
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Rise of the mini-lecture
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Jackson Mac Low reads “Stein 100: A Feather Likeness
of the Justice Chair”
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Who killed the semi-colon?
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A profile of “Crazzy” Dave Dessler,
Ottawa street poet
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A profile of Kanwal Bharti
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A.S. Byatt: from text to textile
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Travis Nichols: anthologies offer poetic diplomacy
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Travis Nichols on the problems of laureates
“we don’t need a poet laureate”
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John Ronan succeeds Ferrini
as Gloucester laureate
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A profile of Gloucester book dealer
Gregory Gibson
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In Berkeley, Cody’s closes
Olsson’s is closing
one of its DC stores
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In Minneapolis, Amazon has been saved
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Indies fight to stay afloat
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Blackwell’s to launch
print-on-demand
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In Portsmouth, NH, a move
to hold readings year round
The Portsmouth Laureate home page
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Anne Waldman reads “Stereo”
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Self evident
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Lutheran Surrealism: summing up
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J.G. Ballard’s surrealism of the suburbs
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Patti Smith’s Auguries of Innocence,
expanded & reissued
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Wanda Coleman reads “American Sonnet (35)”
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A correspondence with Guy Davenport
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B.S. Johnson’s novel in a box
(some assembly required)
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Poetry & society
in China
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Linh Dinh on sports nationalism in poetry
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How Louis Jenkins’ “Back Country”
got recited at the Tony Awards
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“a poet trying to have an experience”
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D.A. Powell on New Bat City
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21st century medievalists
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Blackburn-born poet returns to roots
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Jay Parini on the punishing poetry
of Robert Frost
“Out, Out”
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“Are you a member of the School of Quietude?”
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Naguib Mahfouz’ Cairo Modern
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52 countries will be represented
at this Macedonian poetry conference
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“an exaggerated sense of importance”
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Ladi Soyode, lawyer, poet & politician
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A transcript of Mary Karr
doing Q&A online
Karr on Keats
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Mark Doty bemoans
”conservativism that holds on in the literary world”
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New book from “old, dead, dull poet”
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Adam Kirsch, rereading Robert Lowell
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What about Charles Williams,
asks the Archbishop of Canterbury
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A novelist’s take on
the Iowa Writers Workshop
of the 1980s
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More people who lost “their voice ”
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Richard Shelton
& poetry in prison
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The question of politics
in Anglophone Cameroon poetry
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The rhymes of war
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Carlin Romano on Salman Rushdie
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Talking with Pamuk & Oe
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The novelist and the murderers
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Dylan Thomas: propagandist
“The Art of Conversation” (PDF)
“A poet for people who really don’t like poetry”
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Getting paid for writing well
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Covering the poems of James Joyce
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An “antidote to the image
of poet as princess”
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Edwin Morgan: modest magus
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Changing © in Canada
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Alex Lemon, a poet of white space
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Poughkeepsie teen
wins a top award
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Susan Firer & Kevin Prufer
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A grief-driven poetics
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Rereading Lolita
from the girl’s point of view
The Lolita Effect
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Imagining Sylvia Plath
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MLA added to WorldCat
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Canada terrorizes Jaspreet Singh
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Think of it as a sales opportunity
Or a good career move
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There’s more to research than Google
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AUTO / PALSY / PLAZA
& other “rubber haiku”
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Reading Peter Bürger
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Barry Schwabsky on Peter Schjeldahl
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Monday at MoMA:
Writing Dalí
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Luc Sante on graffiti vs. advertising
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Would Australia ban Botticelli?
Censorship isn’t the answer
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Why critics suck
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When art & sports critics
trade jobs
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A Jeff Koons retrospective
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Frank Stella, campaigning
against the “orphan ©” law
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The joy of dumbed-down trophy art
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Hirst bypassing galleries altogether
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The ultimate elitist object
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Philip Guston & the poets
Brother from another planet
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Talking with Robert Irwin
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Suing the Basquiat authentication committee
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Twombly at the Tate
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The most expensive painting
ever sold in Australia
is still a Picasso
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The Barnes is kaput!
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Big Bird turns 74
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A profile of Jean Eustache
A retrospective of his films
next month in Toronto
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Godard:
Everything is Cinema
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Transgender Turkish pop star
faces jail for anti-war message
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Deconstructing “Luka”
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Ho, ho, hey, hey
the old New Left is in the way
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Lakoff’s Obama
Lakoff’s brain
The neurobiology of meaning
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Which type are you?
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Bye-bye George Carlin
