Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Five hours with “the famous Ed Baker”
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Burmese blogger
sentenced to 20 years of prison
for a poem
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Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me
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Women & mentorship:
Jena Osman & Sarah Dowling
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Bucky Fuller, poet
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Mullen, Gander, Harjo
join Henry Threadgill,
Muhal Richard Abrams,
Kara Walker & 44 more
as USA Fellows
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Katy Lederer’s reading tour
of the Bay Area
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The poems & poets of Ghana
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“Forty Acres” & a few clichés:
A Derek Walcott poem for Barack Obama
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Talking with Barry Gifford
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A quarrel with Ford’s O’Hara
The Frank O’Hara video page
Thursday night in Philly,
under a full moon,
a Frank O’Hara celebration
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The New Adventures of Walt Whitman
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The FBI vs. Norman Mailer
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One reader’s report of
The Academy of American Poets’
Poets’ Forum
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A profile of Auden
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John Latta on Kent Johnson
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Talking with Elise Paschen
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Craft vs. chance
(Ray Bianchi is being seriously irascible)
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The uses of Frost
in Tobias Wolff
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Geoffrey Gatza’s Not So Fast Robespierre
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A lot of student blogs track classroom reading –
CoPoBlog is one of the best
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“The community of the English language”
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On the origin & entanglements
of names
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The most irritating phrases
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Apex Art, the franchise
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The painting of Lari Pittman
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Leave It to Beaver & the Louvre
(not a combination you were expecting)
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David Larsen poetry videos
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The Troublesome Reign & Lamentable Death
of Edward II
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Unlikely hybrid, Dr. Atomic
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Sensuous Biped
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Psychology, torture, rhetoric
Monday, November 10, 2008
Filipina poets at the Library of Congress
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In DC on Monday night,
Rae Armantrout with Frank Bidart
at the Folger Library
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Poets’ panels produce pithy pronouncements
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Talking with Camille Roy
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William Burroughs & Jack Kerouac:
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
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How Jack Kerouac saved
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Alexei Parshchikov’s “Oil”
(with a complex translation history)
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Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
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Ange Mlinko on Susan Stewart
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The death of flarf
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Tuesday @ Belladonna in NYC,
Tracy Grinnell hosts “elder” Leslie Scalapino
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A group of Cave Canem alums
are writing a poem-a-day for a month
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The LA Times on Lowell & Bishop
Helen Vendler (MP3)
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Process, Damn the Caesars,
& Delaware Memoranda
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Can libraries be saved?
Where German libraries got their books
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John Olson on aliteracy
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Not books vs. the net,
books and the net
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Writers group protests Jordanian poet’s arrest
The charges: atheism & blasphemy
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An empty chair for the Burmese poet
Censorship in Myanmar
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Talking with Dan Tobin
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Abe Lincoln:
the man who loved poetry
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Poems for President Obama
Ray Bianchi on poetry
in the Age of Obama
J.D. McClatchy reads “Election Day”
on PBS Newshour
Big news = Big type
Some recent language
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Talking with Anne Waldman § Reading Tender Buttons § Nothing but quietude among § § The latest reviews from Cold Front § Talking with Gary Metras § Remembering James Liddy § Using Eliot to defend Jack Gilbert § Talking with David Grubb § § Against overcontrolling language § Rilke the modernist § Donald Hall’s new memoir § Talking with Clare Cavanagh § Talking with Seamus Heaney § Scroll down to see the latest from § Talking with Kevin Prufer § § Ha Jin’s The Writer as Migrant § Blogging “is the new Romanticism” § The novelist least likely to blog § Critic John Leonard has died § Carlin Romano on Toni Morrison § There’s no such thing as a free book § Remembering Studs Terkel remembering Howard Zinn on Studs § A threat to Maqbool Fida Husain § “The Great American Songbook: § The whole issue of § Screwing up Scrabble § The films of Robert Frank § Here today, Guam tomorrow § From The New Yorker
Publisher’s Weekly
“five best” poetry books of the year
Ceptuetics Radio
A Poem in Four Essays”
Turntable & Blue Light
is pretty damn impressive
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Remember to Vote
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’
Draft 69
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Geof Huth’s
”Visual Poetry Today”
feature in
Poetry
(with links to all the work)
Huth’s reading of
”What,” “Xing” & “You”
from The Alphabet
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Jessica Smith
on the question of
female visual poets
with a linked list
of 50 examples
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Women playwrights
on & off Broadway
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The Golden Notebook:
a collaborative reading
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Tony Vaughan has died
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Talking with Roberto Bedoya
esp. about the NEA’s program
of branding sentimentality!
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Race & Poetry: a panel
with Tisa Bryant, Jennifer Firestone, Timothy Liu,
Mendi Obadike, Meghan Punschke,
Christopher Stackhouse & Mathias Svalina,
moderated & curated
by Amy King
(MP3)
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Ange Mlinko
finds Jack Spicer behind both
Devin Johnston & Linda Gregg
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Elaine Equi in Poetry:
”A Start” & “Antiquity Calling”
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Mark Scroggins
on The Grand Piano, no.2
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A Robert Creeley-Charles Bernstein
radio show that never aired
(MP3)
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Michael Ondaatje
on Williams vs. Eliot
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The mathematics of
”The Library of Babel”
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Fiction is a capitalist plot!
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An e-publishing platform
that is an eye opener
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Product placement poetry contest
sponsored by SPD
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The library of Orhan Pamuk
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textsound 2,
an online poetry zine with
Alice Notley, Kenny Goldsmith,
Carla Harryman, austin publicover,
Chris Martin, Rick Moody, Laura Elrick & more
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“The biggest book deal in
Google settles publisher suits for $125 million
4 to 5 million
of the 7 million books scanned
are out of print but still in ©
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This review of Christian Bök’s Eunoia
has a most creative comment stream
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20 new e-books
from BlazeVox
plus 34 others
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At Mills on Nov. 23, Professional Survival Day
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Watching newspapers die
The Christian Science Monitor abandons print
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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Magdalena Zurawski’s The Bruise
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Prepare for the World Series
by reading Ashbery, Creeley
sez Ray’s outfielder
The first Library of America volume
of a living poet
is
Collected Poems 1956 – 1987
by John Ashbery
Mark Scroggins
on the Ashbery LOA volume
Talking with John Ashbery (PDF)
Pierre Matory’s The Landscapist
trans. By John Ashbery
Ted Burke on
Ashbery & the Quietists
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Tony Hillerman is dead
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A collaboration betwixt
Anne Tardos & Lyn Hejinian
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The trailer for
Corso – The Last Beat
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Dodie Bellamy’s “Body Language”
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Kerouac’s scroll
is in
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Bill Knott on Mallarmé
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Frank O’Hara’s blog
Frank O’Hara & Harry Redl
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Mary Karr on Paul Guest
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Talking with Jed Rasula
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The Booker prize runner up
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Donald Hall’s
Memoir of a Life in Poetry
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A cook’s tour of collaboration
with an Aussie accent
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Recording of a Tom Pickard poem
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“Upholsterers’ Moon (Part 1)”
by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
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A new (unedited) poem by
Lisa Fishman
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Ronald Johnson’s Arc 55:
The ABC Spiral
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A profile of Ron Androla
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David Kirby on Brenda Shaughnessy
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Fondness for the typewriter
as punk nostalgia
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The graveyards of Long Island
& the poets, painters
& hoi polloi therein
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The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
mostly online
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Eliot Weinberger’s
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In
is set to close
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Sylvia Plath on her competitors
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Talking with Dorianne Laux
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Ryan Eckes
set to music
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Talking with Boyer Rickel
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A reading by Charlie Simic (MP3)
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Colette Labouff Atkinson’s Mean
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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
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Talking with John Updike
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Talking with Michael Robinson
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Jim Dine in
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Anthony Braxton:
”I am not a jazz musician”
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What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
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A tip of the cap
to Tony Tost’s
Supplement to
Imagining Language
