Talking with Marie Ponsot
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Jack Spicer’s bedside reading
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Lee Ann Brown
on WVPM’s Wordplay
(first link is to the MP3)
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Coming up at St. Mark’s:
Bob Grenier on Larry Eigner
&
a Helen Adam Halloween
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Hilda Morley at
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Emily Dickinson’s secret lover
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Bush signs law
creating © czar
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A profile of Anselm Berrigan
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Fazil Hüsnü Dağlarca
has died
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The life & afterlife of
Walter Benjamin
(sub req’d for full article)
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Free Verse:
The Flarf Collective
at the
in
Flarf
as a verb
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In L.A. at the REDCAT:
Untitled:
Speculations on the Expanded
Field of Writing,
with Johanna Drucker, Kenny Goldsmith,
Robert Grenier, Jessica Smith, Steve McCaffery,
Brian Kim Stefans, Shanxing Wang, Heriberto Yepez
& more
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Talking with Roberto Bedoya
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Secular Jewish Culture /
Radical Poetic Practice
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Persian poetry from Tajikistan
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Salvaging Jose Garcia Villa
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Screaming Monkeys
is mostly online
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Pushing back
against representation
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A fun online book
of short poems by
Jason Sanford Brown
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I meant to link to
Geof Huth’s reading of
”Skies” and “Toner”
last Thursday
Plus “VOG”
(parts II, part III, IV & V)
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Some answers for Raymond Federman
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Anne Waldman, Patricia Smith,
Carter Ratcliff, Valentina Saracini
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Kevin Killian’s Oroniad,
parts 22, 23 & 24
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Maulidi ya Homu,
Islamic praise poetry of
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Remembering Hima Raza
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Gary Snyder
in The New Yorker
Gary Snyder’s “last book”
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The other poet on
Lew Welch’s football team
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A maid of one’s own
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John Gallaher’s “last lecture”
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Steve Fama on
Jordan Scott & John Olson
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A profile of Jim Harrison
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Lolita at 50
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Sharon Dolin
adds a new sin
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The impact of Kundera’s past
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Samuel R. Delany’s
The Ballad of Beta-2
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The unbearable lightness of informing
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Dave Farrow reads a book
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The preface
& table of contents
to Jerry Rothenberg’s
Poetics & Polemics
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“If these images were not images,
but words,
what words would they BE,
and in what order?”
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Language-driven digital art at Brown
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Larry Lessig in defense of piracy
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British authors,
the emerging police state
& the number 42
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A Quietist attack on John Ashbery
that is as ignorant of linguistics
as it is of society
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Where is our Nobel poet?
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Toni Morrison, Nobel icon
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Aravind Adiga wins the Man Booker
The ten types of Booker
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German critic spurns prize
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National Book Award finalists:
Patricia Smith & 4 members
of the School of Quietude
(Judges: 5 members of the SoQ)
Talking with Patricia Smith
On the fiction side:
a novel released in the 1990s
is on the shortlist
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The oft-rejected William Stafford
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Best books that never existed
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The con of literature
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Prodigies vs. late bloomers
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Orhan Pamuk
denounces
of banning, jailing, killing & exiling writers
Pamuk’s new role
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Seeking literary talent
in the Arab world
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Reading Sherry Jones’
ostensibly incendiary
Jewel of Medina
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A celebration of Tagore
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Attempting to preserve
Gloucester, MA
On first seeing
through the eyes of
Charles Olson
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In
Stephanie Young & Bill Luoma
At Openned in
also on Tuesday,
a breath-taking lineup
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Booksellers look at staffing
to get through rececession
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Leonard Cohen’s
Book of Longing
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Kimi Eisele:
Why I write
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Gregory Corso
reading Bomb
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Jim Harrison’s
The English Major
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Talking with Wendy Cope
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In the vernacular
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Poetry, shame & Toi Derricotte
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A roundup of fall books
including 11 volumes of poetry
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Resuscitating Arapahoe
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Theological Dostoevsky
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Coleman Barks’ Winter Sky
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Nature & the Self:
Emily Dickinson & the
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British Library
acquires Ted Hughes’ archive
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Renting the home of
Dylan Thomas
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Annie Proulx
is up to here
with
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Granta
to bore in three languages
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An Arthur Vogelsang video
& a treasure trove
of SoQ videos
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Cody’s events
outlive demise of the book store
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Google Books vs. the Open Content Alliance
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Best account of Issue 1’s debacle
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New architecture in
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Shklovsky on film
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Rudy Burckhardt at the Met
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The paintings of Jane Freilicher
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The economy of the art world
is changing
“If the work is free,
is it art?”
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In Plain Sight:
1968 – 1971
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The success of Dr. Atomic
On John Adams
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Charles Bernstein’s Blind Witness News
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Poetry in the music of Elliott Carter
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Mad Men’s reading list
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Bukowski the icon
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“High” theory
& cultural new media activism
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John Cleese on
”the funniest Palin”
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How Sarah Palin
got on
the GOP ticket
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“Every Man a Derrida”
