Monday, December 15, 2008
Photo by Jonathan Williams 1957
Jacket’s new feature on
Denise Levertov
includes pieces by
Kevin Gallagher
Anne-Marie Cusac
Anne Dewey
John Felstiner
Sam Hamill
Donna Krokik Hollenberg
Rachelle K. Lerner
Dick Lourie
Mark Pawlak
José Rodríguez Herrera
Matino Villanueva
links to 2 Robert Bertholf pieces
& me
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Robin Tremblay-McGaw on
the Beverly Dahlen Fest
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Introducing Blake Butler
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Linton Kwesi Johnson:
”If I Woz a Tap Natch Poet”
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Lytle Shaw:
”Olson’s Archives: Fieldwork in New American Poetry”
(MP3)
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Juliana Spahr’s “The 90s”
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Lyn Hejinian’s Saga / Circus
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A profile of Mourid Barghouti
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Living at Shakespeare & Co.
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Quietists plan for inaugural
Maya’s got laureate-itus
What about the real laureate?
Could it be worse?
A vote for Patricia Smith
David Lehman on the BBC (MP3)
A do-it-yourself strategy
Or maybe not
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The Oakland Small Press & Zine Archive,
a part of Deep Oakland,
has PDFs of many works associated
with that city,
including books by Pat Parker & Bob Grenier,
the journal Work & my own zine Tottel’s
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Talking with Kevin Killian
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John Ashbery’s account
of the making of
A Nest of Ninnies
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Ashbery vs. Kessler,
NY Times blog is keeping score
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Svetlana Boym:
”Victor Shklovsky & Hannah Arendt”
(MP3)
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Five books from a “good book year”
Mark Scroggins’ “Notable Books”
“Best reads of 2008”
(from
Robert Archambeau’s list of everything he read
Anthologies make “the perfect present”
Seven of the NY Times’
”Ten Best Books of 2008”
were published by Knopf
(hint: less subtle than Blagojevich!)
No poetry, but several books
about authors
in the
”Best Books of 2008”
No poetry in the Inky’s list
of what staff have been reading
Scott Abels’ gift guide
Best books for luring women
Poet of the Year is
Mark Doty
Jack Powers is
New England Poet of the Year
“What we need is a list of lists”
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“Beach”
by Roberto Bolaño
Talking with Natasha Wimmer,
translator of 2666 & The Savage Dectectives
Ron Slate on The Romantic Dogs
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Martory, Bolaño, Lux,
Voisine & Holman
in Brooklyn Rail poetry roundup
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Carol Houck Smith,
Norton’s editor of poets,
has died
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After reading Jack Spicer
”you may feel that much American poetry is fake”
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40 years of correspondence
betwixt Allen Ginsberg & Gary Snyder
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Breyten Breytenbach at Kelly Writers House
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John Milton, freedom fighter
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Four readings by Lynne Dreyer
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Among the events coming up at the Poetry Project
is a 30th anniversary reading of
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day
plus, of course,
the New Year’s marathon
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K. Silem Mohammad gets relevant
A short history of flarf
Flarf vs. conceptualism, round 2
(in which we notice why
all the Conceptualists are male)
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On Commitment:
Joe Safdie & Mark Wallace correspond
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Don Share on the interview process
More answers to H.L. Hix’ 20 questions:
Cecilia Woloch
Christine Gelineau
Dan Beachy-Quick
George Witte
Philip Metres
Sara Maclay
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Gregory Dowling
Stacey Harwood
me
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Miles Champion reading at Jean Day’s house (MP3)
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The problem of Solzhenitsyn Street
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When Jim Morrison showed up
at Jack Kerouac’s door
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Protesters sing
to counter “blasphemous” poetry reading
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Bob Dylan & Thomas Hardy:
A simple twist of fate
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Greg Fuchs’
”from De la Bronx”
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The art of the self-destructing poem
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Joe Safdie replies to Mark Wallace
on commitment
(Note K. Lorraine Graham’s comment)
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Thomas Merton on PBS
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Robbie Burns’ hidden poems
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A first book prize for Holly Iglesias
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Using its laureate site
to promote
the literary history of Gloucester
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When languages die
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New trends in classic Chinese poetry
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Todd Swift’s minireviews of
Poetry Review, Paxamericana, The Wolf
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An act of prescience on the part of
Calvin Trillin?
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Claudia Emerson returns to
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Guardian review of the Lowell-Bishop letters
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“Poem Including History”
(sub required)
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Talking with Reginald Dwayne Betts
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David Baptiste Chirot on Félix Fénéon
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A new work by
Rodrigo Toscano
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Talking with Carole Maso
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Cutting down trees
just to publish a magazine
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Martial was no saint
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Linda Bierds, Susan Steward, Brendan Galvin
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Paul T. Hogan’s Points of Departure
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Just like Romeo & Juliet
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Carol Muske-Dukes on being
the
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Dmitry Golynko’s As It Turns Out
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The “most intellectually ambitious writer”?
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When does the writer’s nakedness just become TMI?
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A new collection of political poetry
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A profile of Moira Egan
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Stumping for John Gay
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Hopkins & the modern?
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Trying to save Philly’s libraries
But in
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Remembering Dorothy Porter
Talking with Porter
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Working out issues through poetry
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Reviewing The Paterson Literary Review
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Dennis O’Driscoll’s interviews with Seamus Heaney
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Mama, don’t let your kids go into journalism
Who cares if newspapers die?
My favorite crime reporter signs off
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Best article about Bill Ayers
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The two Malcolm Gladwells
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Arundhati Roy:
Mumbai is not our 9/11
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In re Žižek,
the joke’s on Kirsch
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The 2nd International Interdisciplinary
Bakhtin Conference
is announced for June
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William Stevens,
who changed the law
by invoking the infield fly rule,
has died
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George Crumb at Carnegie Hall,
Charles Wuorinen at the Guggenheim
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Elliott Carter’s century
Turning 100 at Carnegie Hall
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Pierre Boulez:
proud to be a bully
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The Construction of
Scott Wheeler’s opera
set to a work by Kenneth Koch
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Ousted critic sues orchestra
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A profile of Nathaniel Dorsky
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Das Kapital goes manga
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Phong Bui, David Levi Strauss
& Peter Lamborn Wilson
talk with Terry Winters
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The collaborators:
Merce Cunningham & his friends
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Battlestar Galactica
jumps back into our quadrant
for one last glorious season
Monday, December 08, 2008
Stuart Z. Perkoff –
a great profile by John Macker
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2009 NEA Fellowships announced –
only Quietists need apply
Two books of poetry
(Linda Gregg & Alan Shapiro, no kidding!)
in the
”Favorite Books 2008”
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The San Francisco Chronicle
review of
My Vocabulary Did This to Me:
The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
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Dale Smith on Philip Whalen’s Collected Poems
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Talking with Ryan Murphy (MP3)
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Kerouac’s scroll arrives in the islands
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Aram Saroyan on
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan
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Uncle Milty turns 400 on December 9
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The Write Stuff –
a reality TV show
about writers
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The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets
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Reading Ange Mlinko’s “Securitization”
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Geof Huth reading
Robert Grenier’s Dusk Road Games
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Reader’s report with a little YouTube:
Oscar Bermeo, DeWayne Dickerson & Camille Dungy
at Books & Bookshelves in
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Martial the modernist
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Haim Gouri’s civil war
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A biography of Yehuda Amichai
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A Kurdish poet in exile
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Memories of Beirut
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Marjorie Perloff on William Logan’s Hart Crane
Neil Hampton on the same
Logan fires back
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Obama vs.
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Kay Ryan’s “Believe or Not” poems re-emerge
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The guessing game intensifies
“The laureate’s poetry is irrelevant”
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An old dispute among laureates
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The California laureate in the
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Talking with Greg Mbajiorgu (Wota Na Wota)
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Fanny Howe’s “My Father was White But Not Quite”
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Mark DuCharme’s The Sensory Cabinet
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Sally Doyle on Poetry in the Schools
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Flarf plus –
the conspiracy revealed
Thomas Basbøll’s epic examination
of how to write flarf
(Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
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A profile of Joe Stroud
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Whitman & his brothers
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Yolanda Coulaz,
tomboy poet
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Trade publishers cut back
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The Book Bench:
A New Yorker blog
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Mini-reviews in the NY Times
for Orhan Pamuk, John Ashbery et al
Norman Weinstein on Ashbery’s Collected Poems
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“Poetry and poverty make lovely music”
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Talking with C.P. Aboobacker
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Mary Karr on Thomas Lux
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Trying to recall why
anyone thought
Lionel Trilling
was important
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A Creeley lyric
Tom Waits should sing
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Talking with Kenneth Hart
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Where does “the best” come from?
(Oz version)
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Margaret Hasse’s Milk and Tides
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Mariani’s
(maybe it’s better than his WCW)
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The lack of debt in fiction
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Two readings by cowboy poets
A profile of 92-year-old cowboy poet
Clarence Carnal
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Rudy Wurlitzer’s The Drop Edge of Yonder
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Reversing the manuscript to published text process
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Artists’ books in New Jersey
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Andrew Topel’s collabs
with Reed Altemus
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Resurrecting Plath’s play
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Art Lange on Anthony Braxton’s
Complete Arista Recordings
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Collab of the year:
Sonic Youth, Led Zep’s John Paul Jones &
M e r c e C u n n i n g h a m
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Talking with Eliot Carter
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Bob Dylan & Billy Collins
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The anxiety of being Paul
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Ignoring the blues
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Waves of music
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Chronicling the decline of the Gannett newspaper group
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You’re a better man than I,
Philo T. Farnsworth
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Roger Ebert:
Death to film critics!
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Real end-of-the-year lists,
2007 edition
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Illiteracy in high places
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The T.S. Eliot quiz
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The three New Yorks
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The “dumbest generation”
