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Friday, December 05, 2008

The library as a form of porn

The libraries vs. Google

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John Ashbery fights back!

Kessler’s offending letter

Ashbery the flaneur

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Kathy Lou Schultz’ Biting Midge

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Anne Waldman / Akilah Oliver / Ambrose Bye CD
is the Sexiest Poem of the Year 2008

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Silence in Kenny Goldsmith’s Sports

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The bailout for poets
(seriously)

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Tackling the poetry patriarchy

Gender pay gap in the arts

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Meshwork Videos –
some of the best in British poetry

Podcasts are goodness.”

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There are several good videos
of readings of late
on Geof Huth’s blog,
include Geof, Anne Gorrick,
Truong Tran & Cassie Smith

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Defending Jacob Scheier

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Are poetry backlists “dead”?

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Scantily Clad Press
is building a list of
first-rate e-books,
including
Andrew Lundwall, Tomaz Salamun,
Brian Henry, Adam Fieled,
Juliet Cook, Ken Rumble,
Chris McCreary & more

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Two poems by
Thanh Tam Tuyen
translated by Linh Dinh

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Tim Davis’
Original Ideas in Magic

The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld

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Translating Milton into English

Translating Stein into English

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Reading The Making of Americans

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The 21st
Indie & Small Press Bookfair
is this weekend in NYC

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Dear Sir or Madam,
Your work sucks

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Coldest reading of the year?

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Poet’s Picturebook,
the e-zine of the Filipino Diaspora,
celebrates an anniversary

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Not R.S. Gwynn, or the Absence of Genius”

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Frank O’Hara
(and Fairfield Porter)
makes it to the NY Times
art books gift guide

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Glad to see someone’s noticed

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Talking to ourselves

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Marathon,
a film on the life of William Meredith

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Rodney Koeneke on poetry & the future

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Books on language
in time for the holidays

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Literature maps

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Two deaths at Robin’s Bookstore

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Gray Friday for bookstores

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Talking with Tim Gaze

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Remembering Dave Church

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How to win
all of Robert Bolaño’s works in English

11 articles on Bolaño & his work

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This Sunday, a slam in Mumbai

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Houghton Mifflin publisher ousted

Randomness at Random House

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Gina Myers on Saginaw, Michigan

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Reading aloud makes the difficult “easy”

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“Public poetry is almost always very bad.”

A séance for poetry?

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How to save $$ on books

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Lally’s library

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The Work (capital W) of William Gaddis

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One Yellow Rabbit’s homages to poetry

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Talking with the Eminem of Irish poetry

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Poetry, ethics & Kent Johnson

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In which “I”
finally get a poem
in The Nation

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Improvisation

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Talking with Josh Bell

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Remembering David Wallace

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A new look at Samuel Johnson

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Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract

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Lowell Jaeger’s Suddenly, Out of a Long Sleep

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Sarojini Sahoo’s Dark Abode

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Kenneth Sherwood’s
notes for a class on Jack Kerouac

Kerouac, Freddie Redd & Frank O’Hara

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Remembering William Wharton
(or Albert du Aime)

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David Hinton’s Classical Chinese Poetry

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Lyn Hejinian’s Saga / Circus

Andy Gricevich on Hejinian’s “The Distance”

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Make-a-Wish supports a teen poet

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Charles Bukowski’s The Post Office

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Robert Venturi’s masterpiece
just down the road
from my house

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Leckey gets lucky,
wins Turner Prize

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The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton

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Talking with The Fireman

Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight

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Singing Emily D

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Globalization’s front lines:
a world tour of rap

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Baghdad “sticky bomb” targets NPR team

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Outliers & class advantage

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So you wants to be a hipster

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Which book of philosophy was most transformative?

“What would Adorno say?”

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“& if my thought dreams could be seen
they’d probably put my head in a guillotine,
but it’s alright, Ma, it’s life & life only”

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Tom Sutpen’s mostly hardboiled photo site:
”If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats”

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How many post-avant poets are there?
Shampoo has published
888 poets in its first 34 issues
& only three of the ten Grand Piano authors
 (Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, myself)
are included

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Odetta is gone

Washington Post obit

LA Times obit

Tuesday, December 02, 2008


Mary & George Oppen at Swarthmore, 1979
photo by Robert S. DuPlessis,
courtesy of Jacket

The Jacket feature on George Oppen
is now complete, having added
Pat Clifford
Stephen Cope
Zach Finch
Kathleen Fraser
Bob Perelman
&
Patrick Pritchett
to the works of
DuPlessis, Evans, Filreis,
Hawkins, Heller & O’Brien

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The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

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First newspaper review of The Alphabet

& a review from CA Conrad

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Gender bias in anthologies

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Canada Council denies
an obvious conflict of interest

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Anne Gorrick’s Kyotologic

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Dave Church has died

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Ange Mlinko on Emily Dickinson

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Will Harvard ditch Brit lit?

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Paul Muldoon finds it “difficult” to make sense
(Scroll down in the Times article under “Comedy”)

The Times’ Poetry Holiday” recommendations

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In Philadelphia,
the closing of Robin’s Bookstore
is page one news

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New York indie bookstores

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How to sell poetry
(Barnes & Noble edition)

How to sell poetry:
the view from Wales

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Borders is struggling

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A bookstore’s blog in Paris

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Publishing without perishing

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Journalism’s one-way ticket
to
Bangalore

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French cops terrorize journalist

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CFP:
Advancing Feminist Poetics
& Activism

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A profile of Imam Bakry

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Hannah Weiner is worth it!

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Lyn Hejinian in Portuguese

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The 2008 PEN Oakland Jo Miles
National Literary Awards

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50 sci-fi & fantasy works
socialists should read

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Orhan Pamuk: “My Turkish Library”

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Libraries – now more than ever

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Talking with Kaisa Ullsvik Miller

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The Airpoets of Indianapolis

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Forrest Gander:
What is eco-poetry?

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The triumph of Roberto Bolaño

Bolaño’s poetry, Bolaño’s poets

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Zadie Smith: two paths for the novel

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Ed Baker & Sarojini Sahoo, talking

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Jordan Davis on the poetics of Slovenia

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Rabbit Light Movies’
latest gathering of poetry reading YouTubes
includes Eleni Sikelianos, Ed Roberson
Dan Beachy-Quick, Tim Yu,
Nathalie Stephens & many more

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Erik Davis on the new Spicer collected

Steve Fama’s review of the new
Spicer collected poetry
focuses on a single mini-detail

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Charles Laughton reads Jack Kerouac

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David Smith-Ferri’s Battlefield Without Borders

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Banjo Paterson: poetry for blokes

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The first biography of a Palestinian writer

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V.S. Naipaul’s “authorized” biography

James Wood on V.S. Naipaul

James Wood & criticism today

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Cavafy + Schuyler = Mark Doty?

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2 anthologies of new European poetry

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Juan Marsé wins the Cervantes

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The 35,000 questions of
Josh Malehabadi

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Wendell Berry: “idea poet, sight poet”

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Poetry & Uruguay

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The Armenian Poetry Project

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Jaki Shelton Green ,
the poet laureate of
North Carolina’s Piedmont

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A biography of Márquez

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Milosz and the priest

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A Minnesota anthology

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More bad poetry, please

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Rafael Campo & Franz Wright

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Mary Karr on Marie Howe

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Journals co-edited by Kyle Schlesinger:
Mimeo Mimeo
On
Journal of Artists Books

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How to save (maybe) The Washington Post

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Google as censor

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Europeana is proving too popular

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Mailmen who horde mail

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Language, Truth & Logos

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Word of the Year: Obama!

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Spankle

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The Trouble with Textbooks

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The Eroticism of Pedagogy

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David Berman, poet & Silver Jew

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Jorn Utzon has died

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Helvetica underground

Peignot noir

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Ripped & Torn:
collage, assemblage
& a healthy dose of poets
at 532 Gallery

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Selected Thievery
& the Practice of Looking

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The Turner prize is “dead in the water”

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A profile of Carol Damian,
director of the new
Frost Art Museum
at
Florida International University

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Stan Brakhage’s Scenes From Under Childhood

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Four reviews of Milk:
Roger Ebert
New York Times
New Yorker
San Francisco Chronicle

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Why no art for the nose?

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Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100

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Adam Kirsch on Slavoj Žižek

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The war in anthropology

Monday, November 24, 2008

Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman

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The Jacket George Oppen feature is emerging, with
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
George Evans
Al Filreis
Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Michael Heller
Geoffrey O’Brien
& more to come

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Robin Tremblay-McGaw
on the Modernist Studies Conference
(Part 1, Part 2)

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Norman Fischer’s Charlotte’s Way

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Reading Katie Degentesh

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Aldon Nielson on the end of alphabets

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David Bromige on poetry in the ‘60s & ‘70s

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Yet another set of answers to
Sunset Debris

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When they were young:
the Poetry Project staff of 1984-85

When they were younger:
at Frank O’Hara’s loft, 1964

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John Timpane on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

William Gaddis & Roberto Bolaño

Marcela Valdes on 2666

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Edwidge Danticat’s “Ghosts”

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The Emily Dickinson Deluxe
Baby-Doll T Shirt

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A president who has read
Borges & Cortázar

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The weirdo school of poetry

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Fatso poetry, lemur poetry

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Close-reading (misreading?)
Rae Armantrout’s “Prayers”

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Who’s looking for poetry

Or a poem

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Just add water

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In Harvard Square,
Out of Town News
is set to close

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A bookstore in Berlin

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Joseph Harrington on poetry & history

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Henry Corbin & American poetry

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Dorothea Tanning & the poets

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Burt Kimmelman’s There Are Words

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Robert Creeley on poetry in motion

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3 poems by Eileen Tabios

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Talking with Toni Morrison

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A profile of Joe Benevento

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David Wagoner in Happy Valley

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Real Indian literature

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Native American identity poetics on The News Hour

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Negative capability & the 10,000-hour investment

Reading Outliers

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First thought, best thought

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The New York Times obit for Donald Finkel

An appreciation in the St. Louis Beacon

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Reviews of the NBA poetry finalists

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The never-dull-enough
Bad Sex Award
is back

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The only writer to receive
a National Medal of Art this year is
Stan Lee!

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Mary Karr is “a crank”

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Many Dodge Poetry Festival videos on YouTube

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A home for (mostly) Quietism in Lower Manhattan

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Lynn Neary talks with Salvatore Scibona

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Mark Young has my number

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And so (in a different way) has James Wagner¹

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But this site has yours

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Booksellers, publishers feel pinch

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Take a deep breath

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A belated New York Times obit
for Grace Hartigan

An appreciation from The Washington Post

Another in The Baltimore Sun

And one in The L.A. Times

The Telegraph

The NY Observer wonders if Hartigan’s name
is secretly engraved on Frank O’Hara’s tombstone

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Through the lens of Coach House Press

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Susan Bee – Not vispo

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Street art with tape – Aakash Nihalani

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Nancy Perloff on
book art of the Russian avant-garde

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Obama & the arts

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Has Obama saved the internet?

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Will MoCA LA survive?

A Broad proposal

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Dance & theater critic
Clive Barnes is dead

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Prozac for pachyderms

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¹ The Paris Review feature, which is indeed decades old, was part of an attempt (unsuccessful to my eye) to defibrillate the journal in hopes that a spark of life would get the blood pumping again. The 39-year-old appearance in Poetry  is part of my own quietist past, of which I have written more than once. See also publications in TriQuarterly, Southern Review, Poetry Northwest and The Chicago Review from that same general period. Ironically, Henry Rago, who took the work for Poetry, passed over many truly quietist pieces of mine and ended up using an imitation of Robert Kelly’s poetry – I was already transitioning away from that world.