Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Fairfield Porter & John Ashbery
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Tracie Morris reading
at the
Conceptual Poetry & Its Others
conference (video)
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Walter Benjamin’s last
report on French lit
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Positions Colloquium:
6 days of poetry & panels
next month in
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“intensity may be
what matters most”
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Terror poems
are terrible poems
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Frank O’Hara on TV
in Emmy-nominated drama
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Charles Guenther has died
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Doris Lessing’s “last book”
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The great gay hope
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“what’s so interesting
about being a lout?”
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The poetry of Radovan Karadzic
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Jon Goode
& the rise of spoken word
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76 teams compete
in this year’s
National Slam
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Is the net the enemy of reading?
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Even writers get it
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Larry McMurtry’s Books
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e-books
and the creation of a new art form
While cleaving us from the old
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Pandora:
something
every national library
should have
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The 25 most modern
libraries in the world
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The Living Library
is coming to
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Emily Dickinson on stage
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Mimi White’s The Last Island
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Talking with Norbert Krapf
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Commemorating the death of
Theodore Roethke
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Mary Karr on Allen Grossman
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The poetry of Rowan Williams,
Archbishop of Canterbury
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Megawords goes storefront
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Kyle Schlesinger
on artists’ books
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A (very much) pre-feminist
claim for
the solidarity of poets
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The communal solitude
of radio poetry
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The “how to” book on fiction
that barely mentions plot
“the great virtuoso of exceptionalism”
James Wood on Aleksandar Hemon
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Forgetting Bernard Malamud
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Rhymes against the state
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A profile of David Brooks
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Calling for Clerihews
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Which great books did you forget to read?
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Books by Mick Imlah, Bernard O’Donoghue & Adam Foulds
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“how can five words about thoughts
NOT be a poem?”
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“America’s greatest living poet”
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The art of collecting stories
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Reassessing Raymond Williams
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The professional integrity of Paul de Man
(ignoring, of course, a few other things)
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Memoir of a literary forger
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Richard Diebenkorn & Carey Stanton
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Bansky unmasked
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The origin of the site visit
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Mike Davis on the Democrats
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The end of the Black American narrative?
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Robert Grenier
reading the wall
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When typographers scribble
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This Sunday, reading
An Ear in Bartram’s Tree
in Bartram’s garden
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Maxine Chernoff’s “World”
in English & Portuguese
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Tom Raworth, who just turned 70,
talking with Charles Bernstein (MP3)
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Nancy Galbraith has died
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Charles Bernstein’s “Hero of the Local:
Robert Creeley & the Persistence of American Poetry”
(scroll down,
but if you read Spanish,
check out Antonio Ochoa’s
”Autobiografía de Robert Creeley”
on the same page)
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Some new recordings by yours truly
on the Academy of American Poets website:
“Albany” from The Alphabet
“Quindecagon,” also from The Alphabet
“A Love Song” by William Carlos Williams
“from ‘What,’” from The Alphabet
Another passage “from ‘What’”
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Robert Kelly reads Coleridge’s “Kublai Khan”
Susan Howe reads “The Nonconformist’s Memorial”
Clayton Eshleman reads César Vallejo’s “XIII”
Wanda Coleman reads “American Sonnet (35)”
Christian Bök reads Hugo Ball’s “Karawane”
Jena Osman reads “Mercury Rising (A Visualization”
Allen Ginsberg reads “Howl”
Anne Waldman reads “Stereo”
Richard Howard reads Browning’s “My Last Duchess”
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Talking with Ravi Shankar
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Talking with Nick Piombino
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Appreciating Zukofsky
from the other side of poetics
Robert Leiter on Zukofsky’s sound & sense
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53 new book reviews at Galatea Resurrects
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Jeffrey Beam on
(sound link good only until the weekend)
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Mark Truscott:
“interventions in poetry”
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A monument to Nicola Vaptsarov
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Talking with Blake Butler
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Some recognition for Penn Kemp
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Remembering William Studebaker
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Gloucester’s laureate announces his program
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Brian Turner on Fresh Air
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A profile of John McNamee
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Salman Rushdie, a novelist again
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Talking with Ric Royer
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“We had to destroy the library
in order to save it”
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Next season at the Folger:
Rae Armantrout &
a whole bunch o’ quietude
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Talking with Francisco Aragon
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Peter Riley’s obit of Andrew Crozier
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“It is hard to turn away from running water”
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Opening ¶¶ for sale
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From flarf to barf
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Kay Ryan, Alice Notley & tarot
An excellent profile of Kay Ryan
How much of any outsider is Ryan?
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The Trial of Ezra Pound
(streaming audio available until the weekend)
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Rilke & the question of self-identity
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Kevin Killian on Tom Devaney
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Is any Amis any good?
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Poetry of the self-taught
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Message to Poetry:
more quietude please
(& quoting Zukofsky to justify it!)
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The Dylan Thomas walking tour
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What’s in a name?
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Tale of the Genji mss.
turns up after 68 years
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Amazon’s impact on small publishers
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How to speak Shakespeare
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Sending in full professors
to teach comp.
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The death of Harry Potter?
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A bookstore closes in Bakersfield
& in North Andover,
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Newspapers are dying
The impact on “minority” journalists
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Grim news
in the war on criticism
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Wikipedia goes into print
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French resistance to Google Book Search crumbling
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In
How to store data digitally
for a century or more
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Paul Hoover
on the decadence of the
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Did Google make Nicholas Carr stupid?
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Talking with Rem Koolhaas
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Everything is Godard
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Ebert says goodbye to TV
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Blogging & theater criticism
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Beckett’s novels on stage
Beckett’s voice
(a video!)
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Martin E.P. Seligman & the big Oops
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Filreis & Bernstein in the PENNsound studio – photo by Mark Stehle
Charles Bernstein on Al Filreis’
Counter-Revolution of the Word:
The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960
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“an aversion to cooperative endeavors”
Edward Byrne on Kay Ryan
Adam Kirsch on Ryan
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Armantrout on Armantrout
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David Shapiro on the faux FOH controversy
Kent Johnson’s “reply”
Kirby Olson has an opinion
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The poetry collection with a six figure advance
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Patrick Oguejiofor’s Drums of Curfew
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Marjorie Perloff on an odd Mayakovsky medley
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Chingiz Aitmatov has died
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John Ashbery: readings from the 1960s & ‘70s
(also ‘80s, ‘90s & ‘00s)
Ashbery, talking for an hour with Al Filreis (MP3)
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Cognitive mapping, poetry & cluster bombs
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The relentlessness of Clayton Eshleman
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Sam Beckett in
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Reb Livingston’s Dream Poet Anthology
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The most redundant site on the web
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Yang Yi wins Akutagawa Prize
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Rabbit Light Movies:
a video zine of poets reading
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Karlo Mila’s A Well-Written Body
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The man who collects
Governor-General Award winners
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Larry McMurtry’s Books
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a print-on-demand program
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Jerry Rothenberg on Jean Pierre Faye
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Did Robert Browning murder Elizabeth Barrett?
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Who was Homer?
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A profile of J.M. Barrie
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“Library funding support
is only marginally related
to library visitation”
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“the plums
that were
in the icebox”
& so much more
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Is this the Shakespeare thief?
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Wendy Cope
writes of & for the BBC
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Talking with Tobias Wolff
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Noel Hodgson’s Dancing over Cheviot
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Rushdie claims really stupid record
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Talking with Doug Manson
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A promo piece for poetry
for
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An unexpurgated First Circle at last
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Tess Taylor on Kathleen Jamie
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Talking with Mary Jo Salter
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A short profile of Jordie Albiston
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Ian Blake & a benign ghost
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A Borders closes in upstate NY
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Poetry CDs an alternative to talk radio
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The poetry of Carlos Rivera
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Edward Thomas’ Annotated Collected Poems
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Mary Karr on Charlie Simic
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25 years of interactive fiction
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Leslie Anne Mcilroy, live & with music
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War of the Worlds – the cover
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Talking with Douglas McLennan
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Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst
& the art of the stunt
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Steve Lopez on the violin music of
Nathaniel Ayers
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More Gonzo
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Deconstructing
the right’s attack on theory
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40 years after
the Prague Spring
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The
& the narrative of decline
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The problem of comments stream bullies
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Making Richard Rorty
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The nerd / geek divide
